What Happens When the Lights Go Out

PART TWO 1.What Happens When You Grow Up

**Don't get mad at me for just springing this on you. I just now thought of it. Bare with me.**

What Happens When You Grow Up

1

"Crap I forgot my wallet. I'll be right back Brooke. Do you want to go get the car?"

"Alright."

Ashton ran back inside and I made my way through the parking lot to find our car. We've been married five years today. We decided to out to a nice dinner for our fifth anniversary.

We graduated college last year and we both have good jobs. I work for a prominent magazine as a journalist and Ashton is an engineer. And a good one. He's always been pretty good at math.

I finally found our car and clicked the unlock button. I was startled when I heard something behind me and I turned around, and there were two men standing there. "Hello pretty lady."

I started walking faster to the car, I was only about ten feet away when I felt a pain, and everything went black.

*Ashton's POV*

I ran inside and the waiter that served us found me and gave me my wallet. He had taken off the table so no one would steal it. I thanked him and as I was walking away I made sure all the money was still there. He was telling the truth everything was in its place.

I made my way out into the cold night. Crap Brooke is going to get pissed if she has to wait. I was walking down the parking lot when I saw something that made lose my breath. I don't know if I can even tell you what I felt except pure fear. Brooke was lying on the ground and two men were running away from her. "Brooke!" I ran to her. She was in a pool of blood. She had been hit in the head. I quickly pulled out my cell phone. I started crying.

"911 what's your emergency?"

"My wife is unconscious in the parking lot of Marelli's. She's been hit in the head by someone and she's bleeding! Please hurry!"

"Sir calm down. I already sent them out there. Stay with her and make sure she's breathing."

My tears were coming faster. "Come on Brooke! Wake up! Please!"

No less than two minutes later I heard sirens. They sped into the parking lot and quickly unloaded the gurney and got her on. I stayed with her as they started fixing her in the ambulance.

"Please be okay. Please don't leave me. I love you." I kept whispering.

We got to the emergency room and they rushed her in. I had to stay out once they got into the sterile area.

They led me into the waiting room and I sat down and put my head in my hands. I finally decided to get my phone out and call Theresa then Anne.

"Hello?" My mother said in her happy tone.

"Mom its Ashton."

She noticed the tone of my voice. "What's wrong?!"

"Brooke's been hurt."

"Oh my god! What happened?"

"I'm not entirely sure." I relayed to her what happened.

"Oh my! I'll be there as soon as I can! Have you called Anne yet?"

"I was just about to."

"Go now!"

We hung up and I called Brooke's mom. "Hello?"

"Hey Anne."

"Oh Ashton is something wrong?"

"It's Brooke."

"What happened?!"

I told her the same thing I told my mom. She gasped and said she'd be here as soon as she could too.

Next I called Emily. I know she's away at college, but I have to call someone. "Hi ya! What's up big bro?"

I broke down crying. "Oh my god! What's the matter Ashton?!"

"It's Brooke." I explained to her what happened.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry I'm not there! This is awful! You haven't heard anything?"

"She just went in a couple minutes ago."

"Listen Ashton, she only got him in the head. She won't die-"

"What if she does?!"

"She won't! You can't think like that!"

"I can't help it Emily. I'm so scared."

"She'll be okay. I'm sure the worst that could happen is she has a head ache for a while and has a nasty bump."

"Okay."

"Now take a deep breath and think positive thoughts."

"Alright."

Then the nurse came in, "Mr. Patterson?"

I hung up the phone and stood up. "Yes."

"We patched up your wife, she's sleeping, but you can see her now."

I nodded and followed her in.

Brooke was asleep. She was breathing evenly. I could feel myself relax. The doctor was standing there adjusting things. "Ah, you must be her husband."

"Yes."

"I believe she'll be fine. A little confused. She had a nasty bump to the head, but that should heal up in a couple weeks."

"Thank you." I said graciously.

He nodded and walked out. I sat on the seat next to her. I had to kind of laugh to myself. In the past six years I've known her I've been in the hospital with her six times.

1) Cat fight: Broke a rib

2) Fell off monkey bars: Broke ankle

3) Fell off the stage graduation day: sprained ankle

4) Fell out of a tree: Broke arm

5) Fell down two flights of stairs: fell unconscious

6) Slipped on a piece of ice: Broke wrist

I chuckled. She's quite a handful, but I love her more than anything. I grabbed her hand and hoped with all my heart that she would be okay.

After a couple minutes my mom came bursting in with Anne. Then right behind her was my dad, and her dad. I guess Janet decided not to come.

"Hey you guys." I said. They came and hugged me. Then went around her and we all watched the heart monitor in silence.

It had been four hours and we all had eaten and talked about what happened when finally I saw her start to wake up. I quickly jumped up and ran over to her. "Brooke? Are you alright?"

**So I bet you can guess what's going to happen. But there's definitely a surprise in it for you. I'm sorry for just doing this randomly. I jsut got the idea to make book two. It's still in the same book, but just a different part. Hope you like it. I've had this chapter written for at least two months. lol I'm deeply sorry if some of you like it. I know there's always someone who won't like the idea, but i wanted to make things more interesting and this is the solution. Next chapter is going to be REALLY interesting. It is in my opinion anyways. =)**