Persistence

Chapter Eleven - Scared.

Your head felt like stone, you couldn't lift it. Your whole body felt paralyzed. As you were trying to move your curled up body on the floor you managed to open one eye. You saw two figures having sex on your bed. As you tried to speak you made a murmuring noise which caught both of the people on the bed attention. What you made out to be a male, jumped off the bed and was walking over to you. Defenceless, not being able to scream or move your body you lay still hoping for help. The male figure was approaching closer, unable to recognize a face you saw his leg lift higher and higher up into the air.

The naked male froze with his foot in the air as he was startled by the hotel door crashing open. From what you made out next you saw the male figure being taken down too the floor and beaten repeatedly. The second male figure was taller and slim, still dazed out you didn't know who it was. All you heard was "Call 911 NOW!". Seeing the taller man kick the other male on the floor made you feel physically sick. You heard people calling your name "Summer, Summer, Wake up, Please, Summer!". You couldn't respond, you couldn't even move your lips. Where you dead? At that moment you felt two long arms scoop you into there arms and you fell back into unconsciousness. 

*6 HOURS LATER*

You awoke to a continuous beeping noise. Opening your eyes slowly, you woke to a plain white room with a lot of wires attached to you. Fretting, you started to pull at the wires not knowing where you were. "Summer, Stop, they need to stay in you." Who on earth is that, you thought to yourself. As you looked over you saw Austin sat beside your bed in the chair looking intently at you. You were so relieved to see Austin but wanted to know why you were here. "Where am I?, Why am I here?". Austin looked at you with sad eyes and reached over to your hand full of wires and cupped it tightly in his and took a deep breath. "You were attacked and drugged". Your heart sank, who would possibly do this, Worst of all you couldn't remember a thing. You looked at Austin with tears in your eyes, "By who? Who would do this too me? I haven't done anything wrong". With Austin still holding your hand he started to stroke your hair "Your friend Lucy was the one that drugged you, and Matt and Lucy attacked you.". At that moment in time your whole world came crushing down. Lucy was your best friend why would she do that and especially with Matt. Needing to know answers you had to ask Austin more questions, "Why, Lucy is my best friend. How did Matt get here and who found me?". Austin held back a little bit and said. "I found you, I tried to get hold of you and with no email back and what you had previously told me, I was worried. So I went over to your hotel where the staff said they'd let me in because I was worried. And when I got into your room that Matt kid was naked over you with his foot in the air, he was going to stamp on your head, Summer and I pulled him off you and beat the fucking shit out of him and called the cops. That's when we called for an ambulance for you.". Hearing all this you broke down in tears, Austin was comforting you. All this processing in your head was too much. You knew deep down that Lucy and Matt were going to kill you. If it wasn't for Austin. You'd be dead.". You replied to Austin sobbing your heart out saying "Thank you for saving my life, Whats going to happen with them?" Austin looked into my eyes and said "Don't be worried, but they got away before the cops came, they're looking for them. But please don't be scared I will protect you." Just as Austin finished the nurse came round with a lot of paper work.

"Hi Summer, I'm nurse Ally. We have taken all the relevant scans and you will be pleased to know that there are no broken bones and nothing internally wrong with you after being drugged. We are going to observe you for a couple more hours than we will decide if you're ready to go home.". You nodded and said thank you. As the nurse walked out the room you said to Austin "I best be outta here in a couple of hours. The tour is in two days". Austin looked at you and raised one eyebrow, "You should focus on getting better not coming on tour". Although this was true this was one thing Matt and Lucy weren't going to take away from you.

*4 HOURS PASSED*

Walking out the hospital linking Austin's arm you felt lucky to be alive. As you stepped a foot outside you took a deep breath in and smiled. Looking down at you was Austin. Smiling he said "You're staying at mine tonight, there is no way you're going back to that hotel. You were almost relieved to hear, Austin say that because it was when you were with Austin, you felt safe. Smiling up at Austin, You smiled "Thank you so much for everything you've done, seriously I appreciate it". Austin rubbed your shoulder in reassurance "No need to thank me, what are friends for, right?" You nodded and agreed and realized there was one problem, "Will your girlfriend be okay with me staying the night?". Austin looked down at the floor and rubbed his hand against his face, "It's over between me and her, she was a waste of space". In some ways you were glad he wasn't with her because you didn't get along with her from the get go. As you got into Austin's car you strapped yourself in and let out a huge smile at him. He had helped you so much, and you had only known him for a short period of time. Austin smiled back and you drove back too his house.