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chapter 32

Zach **

Keely Logan and Easton all called us in tears and Jonah put his phone on speaker. "Hey babe." Jonah said. "Why are you all crying?"

"Hailey got s-shot." Logan whimpered. 

"Yeah, w-we're in the hospital right now." Keely cried.

"She got shot in the stomach." Easton added weakly.

Everyone was in a dead silence. "What? Okay guys, we're going over there right now." I said grabbing the keys. I tossed them to Jonah and we drove to the hospital.

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When we arrived at the hospital we saw them in the lobby. "Have you seen her yet?!" I demanded.

"N-no." Easton stuttered. Logan was on the phone with Jake.

All of our eyes were all red and puffy and all we did was pray. "How come she got shot?" Daniel asked breaking the silence.

"This morning we heard gunshots outside our house. So then like twenty minutes later we decide it's safe to get out of Logan's bedroom. Then we went to jakes for a few hours to prank him. When we got back home someone shot Hailey when she stepped out of the car. So Easton immediately called 911 and we've been here since." Keely explained. I started crying even more. Why was it Hailey?

We all ate the hospital food in silence and it was already dark. Jake also came and rushed in, demanding to see Hailey. "How will we tell mom and dad?" Logan groaned.

Everyone was just picking at their food now because we all lost our appetites.

A few hours later we were still there and a nurse came down saying "Visitors may visit Hailey Paul. But only one at a time. But also note that she's still unconcious after losing a lot of blood."

We all rushed to the hallway outside her room and I went in first. I sat down in the chair next to her bed and held her hand. Her breathing was very heavy and I started to cry again.

"Hailey you never deserved this. But just hang on in there if you can hear me. I love, just please don't give up on us." I whispered tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. I gently kissed her cheek and left.

Logan was in there for a long time and so was Easton and Keely. Jake was in the phone with their mom and dad.

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When everyone finally was done we didn't feel like going home. So we grabbed some chairs and put it in her room, and we all fell asleep like that. I held her hand for the rest of the night.

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The doctors and nurses woke us up the next morning and kicked us out into the lobby. They were going to perform some tests on her. Christina and Corbyn were silently talking, while the rest of us just had our heads down.

"Remember the first day we met Hailey we were supposed to serenade her but we called Logan a fat ass?" Jack chuckled. We all laughed weakly.

"Still don't appreciate that guys." Logan groaned.

"Remember at the beach she was so good to Reese and they buried Zach in the sand?" Jonah said.

"I remember the day I cheated in her i wanted to make it up to her. But that's the first time I heard her amazing voice and talent." I said softly.

"She was the best thing that happened to all of us." Easton murmured. Everyone agreed quietly.

"Remember when I kissed your cheek in the plane even though you wanted Hailey to?" Daniel asked. We all laughed at that.

"I regret getting mad at her before she got shot." Jake said sadly.

"If she was here right now she'd say it's fine, don't worry about it." Christina said.

"Remember when she took Reese to go to the mall?" Corbyn said. We all nodded. "She's such a great person, she didn't deserve this."

"But most importantly, she loves us." Jack said softly. We all nodded and started to tear up again.

"I would spend as many nights as long as she's in here, with Hailey even if that means living off of shitty food and fast food." I said.

okay gtg now I wrote this early cuz I have an 8:00 game tmrw morning