Euphonious Memories {H.S}

22.

I opened my eyes. When I did cane pain. Pain that was indescribable. The worst pain that I had ever been in.

The pain was on the left side of my stomach. It was more towards my hip than my stomach.

I tried to remember how I got to the hospital, but the only thing I remembered was laying on the floor of The Limestone Cafe behind the bar.

I felt a hand resting on top of mine and heard soft snores coming from beside me.

I looked over and saw Harry asleep with his head resting sideways on the bed.

When I moved a little in the bed, it hurt my side. I couldn't sit up because of the pain from the bullet, so I lied back down.

The hospital bed must have shaken when I did that, because Harry suddenly sat up. He looked at me and saw his hand that was resting on mine. He quickly moved his hand and looked at me.

"Hey. How do you feel?" He asked

"Not good." I said, but it came out in a strained voice. I must have had been screaming.

"The doctors said you are going to be alright." He said.

"Where is Raine?" I asked as I noticed that she wasn't in the hospital room with us. Suddenly Harry's face went from serious to a look with pain in his eyes. "Harry? Where's Raine?!" I pressed. Then I saw something that I had never seen in his eyes before, tears. My heart sank to the ground.

"Sh-she" he sobbed into his hands. "She didn't make it." He cried.

"What do you mean she didn't make it? She was right next to me?!" I yelled with tears in my eyes.

"I know. She was safe where she was." He looked up at me and had tears streaming down his face. "But then she came and found me to tell me that you had been shot." He sobbed as he told me what had happened. "When she reached me, she had tears running down the sides of her cheeks and was saying something about you blacking out. I was in her hospital room and she was talking with me, she was fine. But then her monitor started going crazy and...and the doctors came rushing in."

"I thought I blacked out when you came over there?"

"You did, but you blacked out before that too. So raine came to get me. When we were trying to sneak our way back to you, she was shot. She told me she was fine and to find you, so I came to get you. When I got there, you were half awake. I tried to keep you awake, but you were too weak. I carried you to the hiding spot where Raine was. She was bleeding bad when I got there."

"Oh my God." I cried in disbelief. Who would do that? Who would shoot innocent people? How long have I been in here?" I asked after a while.

"Three Days." He Answered softly.

"Are any of my family here?" I asked him.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I didn't feel like speaking to Liam." I then remembered that Harry went to high school with my brother. Liam had moved to California after my mom died, so that he could live with our dad. Our dad had lived in California ever since he divorced our mom.

"So you just didn't let my parents know what happened to me?"I asked with an angry face.

"Look I'm sorry." He said wiping his tears. "It's just that Liam and I have a whole lot of bad history."

"But Niall told me that you two were friends." I said confused.

"Yeah, That's just it." He said, " We were."

I took a deep breath and looked into Harry's eyes that were filled with grief and sorrow.

"Look, I don't want to fight with you right now." I said to him.

"Me neither."

"Who would do a thing like this?" I asked crying again remembering that I would never see my friend again.

"Someone who had a heart full of hate." He said. And at that moment it hit me.

"Oh my God!" I whisper yelled to myself.

"What?" He asked me.

"Do you think the man with the mask was Niall?

"Niall is a terrible person for sure, but I mean he is locked up and there is no way he can escape from prison." At that moment, it dawned on me that I had totally forgotten to tell Harry the whole truth about the Gemma thing. It slipped my mind after everything that had been going on.

"Oh-uh" I said biting the skin off the bottom of my lip. "Harry I have to tell you something."

"Yeah?"

"Uh Well first of all don't hate me."

"Why would I hate you?"

"Well I kinda forgot to tell you about this a while back, but I promise I was going to tell you. I was just waiting for the right moment." I rambled on.

"Continue." He said looking worried.

"Okay. Well as you know, when Niall kidnapped me he told me the whole truth about your sister,Gemma." I looked up from my fingernails and saw his green eyes go wide.

"Yeah, and?"

"He told me that the whole story about her being kidnapped was a lie, which you already knew that, But then he told me what really happened." I paused to take a deep breath,and then continued. "When you two were in high school, did he ever seem jealous of you?" I asked.

"No not really. He always seemed like a nice guy."

"Well He was jealous. I mean he was really jealous of you. But it wasn't just you it was Liam too. He told me that the only reason that he dated Gemma was to get back at you, but when you were fine with it he took it way too far.

That night that Gemma supposedly got kidnapped, Niall buried her alive." I said with tears coming down my face.

Harry didn't say anything he just sat there and sobbed even more than he already was. I could literally see his world falling apart right in front of my face. After a while he finally spoke.

"Why didn't you tell me this that night you told me she isn't  alive? You know the night of the day that you had been kidnapped."

"Harry, please I swear I was going to tell you then, but when I looked into your eyes all I could see was relief and happiness that things  were finally...good and...I'm just...I'm so sorry." I broke down in ugly cries feeling terrible.

"Sky...I'm not mad." He chuckled lightly, standing up and walking over to me to give me a gentle hug.

"Really?" I asked and he gave me a slight nod. "But seriously what if Niall is behind all of this?" I asked in a low voice.

"I'll kill him" He said through his teeth. "He May have taken my sister away from me, but he sure as hell won't get to you."

"So you think it was him?"

"I can't be positive. I mean he's supposed to be in jail, but I do know that when the masked man came into the cafe, the first person he aimed at was me."