peaches • daniel gillies

xv

daniel's pov

"Daniel, stay with me! You gonna be okay!" I heard Gabriel talking to me, while my whole body was in pain similar to fire. I couldn't talk or move, I was just waiting if I die or not.

"We are in the hospital. You got shot. Your friends are on their way. Everything is going to be okay. I promise." He said again. Are we in the hospital? Yeah. Nice. So I hope I survive... I guess.

Later that day, or maybe it was another day I woke up and felt way better. Even my stomach hurt so much, this time it was a different kind of pain. The "good" one, like you felt you're not dying. I guess that's the best way I could describe it. I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was my beautiful India. Then Joseph, Charles, Ian, Paul, Nate, Nina, Leah, Danielle, Phoebe and Claire. I felt India's hand holding mine. I squeezed her hand as much as I could in that moment and smiled.

"Oh my God! Daniel!" she screamed, when she saw me wake up. She gave me a huge kiss on the cheek. "I am so mad at you! What were you thinking when you were coming home and you chose to go through the most dangerous neighborhood in Los Angeles?!"

"Bro. She almost killed us all." Charles said and they all laughed and agreed.

"I am sorry! But I was scared! And look, he almost died!" I could tell she is mad. She was literally screaming at Charles while explaining this.

"Yeah. But you okay now?" Charles asked me.

I nodded. I smiled at India again, hoping she is not going to be mad forever.

"But I love you too much. And when I say too much, I mean too, too much." India gave me a kiss again. This kiss was way better than the one she gave me a few minutes before. Everyone was standing there, looking at me and probably waiting for an explanation . I didn't want to tell them now, maybe later. I knew one day India will ask me for an explanation so I probably need to come up with something way more interesting that what actually happened.