Esmarelda Lance: The girl you don't wanna mess with.

chapter 26.

PLAYLIST:
Dusk till dawn: Zayn & Sia
Someone like you: Adele.

I stay with Lucy while her parents leave Stace and I at the hospital.

" We've been here since yesterday. You don't mind us leaving right?" Effie says.

I shake my head before flashing a smile.

"The doctors say they found high dosage of sleeping pills in Lucy's system" Stace wipes away tears.

I suddenly feel bad. I'm sure Stace felt so bad and blamed herself for what happened to Luce. She must have hated herself so much.
That's the thing that bothers me so much... How death can change your life - it can make you really see life differently.

"Do you know how many times I wanted to sleep and never wake up? If I had just called her to say hello - just a phone call! Lucy won't be in this bed" she clenches her fist as she looks up to stop tears from falling.

"Stace trust me...I've blamed myself thousands of times too, but blaming ourselves wouldn't make Lucy heal any faster" I say on the verge of crying. "I should have been there- I know I should have" I whisper.

Stace is in a mess... her face is so pasty and her hair is in a right mess.

"Even though things aren't sooo great... you shouldn't look like you fell out of the sky. I'm sure you won't like the media to put a picture of you like this on the front pages" I tease.

I braid her hair into waterfall. I make her splash ice water on her face before moisturizing it and applying lip balm, mascara and eyeliner.

"Better- much better" I say.

"What's with you dressing like a homeless person" she mocks.

"Well do you expect me to dress like a glam model when I thought my friend was dead" I ask.

She doesn't reply.

Lucy's eyes flutter.
We rush to her side. "Lucy?"

"Hmm" she says softly.

"My God Lucy!" I say hugging her while trying not to disturb the tubes around her.

"Ouch! The f!" She says aggressively.

"Seriously... is that the best you could do for your first word" I say knocking her head very lightly.

I give her and Stace time to bond.

I step out and I try to call Xan. Just before i dial his number- he calls me.

"You okay?" He sounds worried.

"You worried about me?" I tease.

"Yeah... why won't I be?" He asks.

Shut the front door. Did he just say that?

"Ummm... no - I was just teasing" I reply lost for words.

"How you holding up? You know- with Lucy gone"

"She's alive - don't worry I'll explain later" I say grinning.

"Okay, that's good to hear - talk to you later" he says before ending the call.

I go back in just in time. Stace is done talking to Lucy and the doctor arrives to check on Lucy.

"I'm sure she'll be fine. The dosage of pills in her system made her unconscious and decreased her heart rate. There isn't any damage done that isn't correctable- a little bit of exercise, fresh air and medication will do" the doctor explains.

"So how come her system didn't fail completely?" I ask curiously.

"Let's just say she cheated death. She literally had few minutes separating her from a heart failure -or even worse" he explains. "However she can be discharged as soon as we perform a detailed check up to see if she's okay"