The Music Next Door

Chapter 20

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Chapter 20

I ran down the corridor of the building as I passed by different numbers of doors and a bunch of nurses were glaring at me. I wasn't allowed to run, but my heart was beating so fast that my feet needed to move at the same pace as my heart. The color white was clearly everywhere; white walls, white tiles, white clothes, just like what I’d seen in the movies before.

I slowed down when I spotted my best friends' face. Her eyes were red and wet. I approached her and asked her what happened.

But before she could answer, my head snapped to two figures behind her.

It was Carter and Mickey. The two stepbrothers. A sigh of relief washed through me, but the tension wasn't gone yet. There must be a reason why they were all in the waiting room in the hospital.

Carter and I locked gazes, his eyes were dark and I could see a hint of hurt. His hands were clenched into white fists. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. I definitely didn't know what was happening. Mickey was sitting on one of the chairs with his head buried in his hands, crying.

It hit Mickey the most, so then it clicked in my head.

Fuck no.

"Angelica?" I asked in a low voice as I look at my best friend for confirmation.

She nodded her head repeatedly before tears started to run down her face again. I quickly embraced her as I patted her back. I know it wasn't easy for her to see her boyfriend in that state.

"What happened?" I asked as I slowly  pulled away.

"We-we uh." Stella tried.

"Breathe Stella, slowly."

She sucked in a big amount of breath before letting it out slowly.

"Okay uhm, long story, short. We, Mickey and I, went out for a while to buy uhm some stuff for dinner. And when we came ba-back," she paused to meet my eyes, "Mickey's mother was sleeping on the couch. Probably drugged or someone injected her with sleeping thingies, but we quickly went to look for Angelica. We searched everywhere possible. Couldn't find her. Bu-but then we found her in the fri-fridge! Locked! We were right on time to get her out, and now she's on edge. We don't know if she can make it."

"She will. I know she will." Mickey suddenly said through tears as he got up from his chair. 

"Oh Key, I'm sorry. It was all my fault, I shouldn't have told you to come buy the cheese with me."

"I told you, it's not your fault." He pulled Stella into a hug as they both stayed silent. 
I walked up to Carter as I placed my hand on both side of his face as I felt his breathe fanning my face. It hurt me to see him like that. Somehow my heart would only be calm when he smiles.

I know it wasn't the right time to be thinking about our proximity, but it still hit me that we were so close that I felt my breath hitched in my throat.

I looked him in the eyes as I try to give him the strongest encouraging smile ever, trying to mollify him.

He was shaking furiously as he said, "It must be one of my dad's people. It has to be. He called at our house not long ago, telling my mum something. I heard them talking, but I wasn't sure it was really him. After that day my mum was always grim and told me to watch out. That bitch. If I ever see him, I'm going to kill him."