Cross My Heart

(10)

I fell onto the doorstep. After that, everything went black.

Crutchie's POV
Me and Race are the only ones home. Me because my legs gotten worse, and him because he feels bad. About what, I don't know. He probably misses Melody. I miss her too, but I'm silent about it. Race
always was dramatic.
Okay, fine. I miss her so much it drives me crazy. I've missed people before, but never like this. I missed my old friends from when I wasn't a newsie, but that was a different type of missing. I missed Melody like I missed the use of my other leg, it was like she was a part of me. It was like her love made me new again. I didn't feel like a crip with Melody, I felt like myself. Missing Melody was different because she was like my family. My chosen family. Just a few days since I last saw her, and I'm already losing my mind. She may only be a few blocks away, but it felt like I was thousands of miles from her. I ached for her smile, her embrace, just her.
I heard a loud noise from outside, and went to check it out. I hobbled to the door, and when I poked my head outside. I almost fell off my crutch. There was Melody, sprawled across the door step, completely passed out.
Time Skip (sorry I'm lazy...)
We laid her out on the bed in stunned silence, the kind of silence where it's not that there's nothing to say, but there's too much; so much stuff that you can't grasp one thought long enough to form a single word. I don't understand. I thought she'd be safe at Katherine's. I thought she was fine. I thought there would be no way he could find her there, no possibility of danger. Yet here she lay, unconscious, legs bleeding and missing a shoe.
Race ran to Jacks selling spot while I stayed with Melody. I checked her pulse five times, and she seems fine, but she won't wake up. I tried everything, shaking her, making loud noises, even the thing I did last time. That made a mess. Finally, I gave up, and decided to wait for Jack to get back. I kissed her forehead, and hobbled over to the door to wait. And wait.

Wasssup! Okay, so I know this is a really short chapter, so sorry, and it's been forever since I updated so double sorry. Please comment and don't forget to vote!