You Mean the World to Me [DISCONTINUED]

You Mean the World to Me (Immortalfox) Chap 10

Eddie POV

I felt a nudge on my shoulder and sun on my face as I started to wake up from my nap. Pain surged through my body, I found it difficult to move a muscle. I groaned loudly and turned over to the other side of my bed, ignoring the continued prodding on my shoulder.

"Dude, wake up, we're going to see Aleks," a person mumbled, that person was Ze. We didn't see him around too much, apparently I hadn't gotten the memo that he was taking online courses for college. And how he knew Aleks I have no idea.

I yawned loudly, stretched, and leaned foreword. He stared at me sympathetically for a while before leaving my room so I could get ready.

But I didn't want to move.

I still felt sore and bruised up from what happened, but it was more that just that.

I felt guilty. This guilt is dragging me down.

Those words that Kevin had said last night really hit me, but they weren't helping. It just made me feel worse...

I dragged myself out of my thoughts and stumbled out of bed, taking a breath of pain. I knelt down and rubbed my left leg, suddenly really feeling the recoil of last night.

I slowly shuffled downstairs, tugging my black sweater over my clothes that I have yet to change as I reached the last step. The guys were dispersing outside and into cars as I was walking out into the afternoon air. I opened the back door of the car nearest to me and hopped in, looking at the floor of the red car.

As we got onto the main road, I realized that Nick and James were the two in the car with me. They were making small jokes and little comments here and there, but they had completely ignored me and alienated me.

I started to doze off to sleep, before long we were in the parking lot of the hospital and waiting for the rest of the guys to make it here. My heart was beating like crazy, not ready to see what I had done to Aleks.

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Aleks POV

I sighed loudly, looking at the ceiling and tapping my fingers on the blankets. God, this is so boring. This might even top being worse than school.

My mother had come in early in the morning, crying and apologizing at what had happened. Yet this whole hospital thing has really just been anticlimactic. Although the sight of my entire leg being fully bound in a cast and having bandages wrapped around my throat and chest is anything from "anticlimactic", it's just the fact that I don't know enough people to fret about me is really small.

I sat peacefully, listening to the beeping of my heart monitor, until I heard a knock on the mainframe of the room and my head snapped to the door opening. I saw a bundle of people huddled outside the room, the mob being led by none other than Jordan. I even saw a small glimpse of a new face.

They started piling in the room, a couple of them were holding balloons, smiling brightly. There was nothing left to do but smile back.

James was the first to speak up, "Holy shit dude, your fuckin' leg! Are you going to get it, like, replaced with some robot leg or something?"

I smiled wider and chuckled, everyone following suit. I couldn't talk much, each time I managed to it stung the gash on my neck.

Everyone stayed for much longer than I expected them to. They stayed until ten at night, they were even pushing the visiting time by doing dumb things for me as "volunteer work". It was enjoyable to see everyone after the night I had of people prodding at me while I was comatose. Each person had brought me something, kind of like in those movies. Like books, knick-knacks and clothes. It made my room feel... Roomier.

Before everyone left, I caught the eye of Eddie, who was frowning the whole time and hadn't talked at all during the hours everyone spent with me. As Jordan "wrapped it up", everyone left the room but Eddie, who just stood there and looked at the ground. When he finally looked up, he walked towards my bed and put his hands in his sweater pocket. He just stared at me, examining my injuries with pure pain in his eyes. I knew what he was thinking, and I didn't want him to think like that.

I took his hand out of his sweater and held it tightly, not getting any emotion from Eddie. "Do... Do you believe in love at first sight?" My voice shook and sounded hoarse.

There was nothing but silence from him and I, until he finally spoke up.

"No. Not anymore." He let go of my hand and abruptly left.

I stayed in my position, shocked at what I just heard. I looked down at the IV in my arm and didn't move. I was still trying to process what I had heard. This wasn't the Eddie I knew. He's not the same person I knew.

It was as though he was the one that died and was in pain, not me.

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Wanted to do a two-parter before the last day of school yippe. This fic is starting to turn more into a switched personality AU whoopsie daisy

Aaaaaanyways sorry for the short gross chapter and be on the lookout for a new AUO chapter and an Outlast fic maybe uwo

-- Ross