Locker neighbors Past

Zach's POV *Chapter Eleven*

Zach's POV

"Ariel...wake up...please..."'I am sobbing yelling at the guys to call an ambulance. I really hope she doesn't die. It's all my fault.

It's all my fault.

It's all my fault.

"Shut up Zach! You shouldn't be focusing on yourself Ariel can die right now!" Matthew yelled.

I looked up at him confused. There is water at the brim of my eyes. "I love her..." I whisper as I look back down at Ariel laying in my arms. A tear slips out from my eye and drops onto her chin.

Before I know it, she's being pulled out of my arms and rushed out the door. "Don't go. please." I whisper again, I start balling on her floor and rocking back and forth, "it's all my fault. It's all my fault. It's all my fault..." I whisper those words over and over again. I can't say anything, I can only whisper.

I look down at my thighs, I'm wearing shorts so I slide them up, and look for anything sharp of hers. I see a bloody blade by her bed, I quickly run to it. I sniffle and start to sob again. "this is my fault, and I'm so sorry Ariel..." I whisper looking up, I look back down at my bare thigh and get up going to her bathroom. Once I'm inside I close the door and sit in the bathtub. No water. Just a dry bathtub. I roll up my shorts so I can see my bare thigh again. "I'm...sorry..." I whisper. I cut once, one year of her hurting, twice, the second year of her hurting, three times, for the pain I've caused her over all. They are all pretty deep, but the last cut was the deepest. I don't think it was as deep as Ariel's. But it was bleeding a whole lot. It hurt..but not as much as the sadness and hurt in my heart. It's just an empty hole in my chest without her.

I get up, blood dripping down my leg and thigh, and look for her bandages, I know she has them I just need to find them, I look through her things and find a big bandage that looks like it would cover my wounds, I wince as the bandage touches my cuts. It hurts. But Ariel is hurting more, I don't wanna live knowing how much I've hurt her. I don't want to live. As I'm putting the bandage on, I remember my sisters words.

Don't do anything you'll regret.

Too late.

~*

I sit in the waiting room of the hospital, her mom, brother, and those guys she calls her family are all here. There is four guys that haven't stopped crying, I haven't either. But they're sobbing really loud and crying to each other.

One I remember because it was a really awkward situation and he was scary. His name was Jack, but Ariel called him Teddy. And Shawn I remember of course. And Matt also. But there's this one kid who looks our age... He has ocean blue eyes, looks like another guy in that group of theirs but he just looks like a younger version. He has brown hair, like long where you do that hair flip. Those four guys are all sitting in the corner crying their eyes out, I don't blame them. I'm crying my eyes out too, but I have no one to help me through it.

I need to call my sister.

I get up and walk out the door to the outside. The air hits me like a train whizzing by.

(H=Hannah my sister, Zach=me)

H- hello? Zach?

Z- yeah! Ariel is I'm the hospital...

I try my best to hold in my tears and animal noises I make when I'm crying, but it's no use.

H-oh my God! What happened? You know what. Tell me when I get there are you at Condell?!

Z- yeah. Just get here fast. Please Hannah.

H- I'll be there in a few! Hang in there bro.

And she hung up. I walked back inside and the guys that were in the corner are gone. She must be awake, they must be visiting her! Yes! She's alive! She made it!

Hannah comes in and I tell her.

"She made it! She's alive! She's okay! Oh thank God!" I yell hugging my little sister, she has tears in her eyes, she and Ariel are very close.

"I'm so glad, we both would've been so depressed if she didn't make it..." She trails off at the last part.

I go to the front desk and ask the news on Ariel, to make sure.

What she tells me makes my face go blank and tears are coming out of my eyes.

~*

I'm sitting next to her hospital bed she was laying in before. I can't believe what's happening.

I never got to call her mine.

I never got to wake up with her next to me.

I never got to ask her on a date.

I never got to propose to her.

I'll never get any of that...

Because, she's gone..

"I'm sorry to inform you that Ariel Mendes has..." she paused, "died." it barely came out a whisper.

~*Flashback*~

-at school-

I see that beautiful face, she has sadness and hurt in her eyes. But she tries to play it off and smile at her friends, and her boyfriend. It hurts to say that. he doesn't even like her. at all. When he's done with her, she's gonna be left alone. She's gonna be even more hurt.

I play it off and act like I don't care, I flirt with other girls and don't even look at her. Occasionally we make eye contact but one of us looks away when we realize it. The whole day I just sat there. Sat in class and thought about her. Thought about what we'd be like if we were an item. I'd treat her like she's my Princess.

One day.

One day she'll be my Princess.

I hope.

~*

It is now the end of the day and I'm at practice for basketball. I check my phone and I have a text from---

Ariel! She texted me!

I open it and she asked if I knew about her and Charles, she's trying to make me mad. I reply with a 'ya he told me you guys are dating' and she texted back and said she had to go and I didn't text back.

I didn't know that we wouldn't talk for 2 months.

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A/N

Sooo...it is currently 9:42 PM and I'm texting Zach at the moment...

AND OMG.

ARIEL DIED.

bet you didn't see that one coming huh?😏

I know I know, you love me.

Okayyyy byeeeee.

Love you Boo Bearss✌️💕

~Celeste😘

{May 12, 2014. Monday}