Thirteen Years Old

Chapter 20 - Samantha

Her labored breathing, finding her, the rush to the hospital, Andia, crying, her again, wanting the pain to stop, screaming at the doctors to make the pain stop, crying, being kicked out of the room because of the surgery, waiting on the bench, falling asleep...

Waking up.

''Sweetie, sweetie, she's ready for visitors. She's alive.''

The night before, 11: 20, PM...

''I heard a moan! There's someone out there!''

The small group ran to the moan's source. As they got closer to it, they could hear that it was a word: Help. Someone was calling for help.

Samantha was looking for the body when she stumbled on something. She screamed. She stumbled on a hand! Then, she saw the hand was linked to a body, a human crying out for help.

The body was bloody. The wounds and bruises were almost all infected. There was dirt all over the person's body. Even if he or she was still alive, he or she needed help. Now. Connor called an ambulance. At least, they answered. Sam heard him mumbling something sounding like ''Finally, something going great today ''. She couldn't help but smile. It was a bitter smile. Nothing was going okay, these times.

After twenty awfully long minutes on trying to keep the wounded alive, an ambulance arrived. The paramedics took the body. Connor, Claire, Andia and the kids insisted on going in the ambulance.

During the road time, they had the time to look at the body. It was, with no doubts, a girl. Andia kneeled next to her face and gasped.

''Oh my gosh! She's alive! She's not dead!

-Yeah, Andia, don't you remenber our wait for the ambulance, keeping her alive? said Claire

-Yes, of course! How could I forget? I mean, that girl ! Oh, she frightened me!

-What? asked Sam. I'm lost!

-Don't you recognize her? It's her ! My life, my blood !''

Andia saw that everybody in the ambulance looked at her helplessly. She sighed, clearly disappointed.

''It's Lidia!''

Midnight...

Claire, Andia, Connor, Samantha, Ethan and Kayla were waiting on a bench. They got kicked out of the room. The surgeons were doing a surgery and nobody could be in the room. They had to do stitches on Lidia. She had been stabbed ten times, deeply. Less than an inch and she would have been dead. The knife the almost-killer used was too small to reach any vital organs. Lidia had been lucky.

After staying awake as long as she could, Samantha felt sleep drag her away.

The day after, 8 o'clock...

''Sweetie, sweetie, she's ready for visitors. She's alive.''

That's how Sam woke up. 

Apparently, they had feared for Lidia's life. At some point, between midnight and now, Lidia's heart even stopped beating. When the nurse told Sam this, the girl shot her a death glance. She didn't need to learn that the surgeons almost lost Lidia three times in the night! For her, Lidia was alive and it was all that mattered.

Then, she felt as if she had been stabbed in the heart. Her head spun. After the crazy night she had had, she completely forgot about Jem and Leo. A bitter feeling hit her. She was feeling extremely guilty, as if she was the one that killed them. At least, she assumed they were dead, after seeing what the bad guys did to Lidia.

She closed her eyes and cried. She felt bad crying, because she wasn't the one suffering, she didn't suffer. She just let her friends go at the station and risk their lives. She was a horrible friend!

At least Lidia was alive.

Sam, Ethan and Kayla went in Lidia's room. The cop smiled weakly at the kids. The nurse said to the children that Lidia wanted to tell them something. Apparently, Lidia had practiced at least an hour to be able to say a few sentences. Sam smiled. Lidia was a fighter.

''Well, kids, said Lidia, I believe it is time for you to know the first victim's name.''

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Hello again! I won't be posting another chapter today. The only reason why I posted chapter 20 is that I told you I would. No kidding. Anyways, please vote and comment, it really makes me happy! As usual, I want to thank you for reading, commenting and voting! You are awesome readers! There actually are 234 views for TYO, 21 votes and TYO is no 373 in Mystery/Thriller! Makes me smile everytime I see that more people read TYO!