Saving Grace

Chapter 16: Rescue

It had been a few weeks since my surgery and I was starting to feel better; I could even move around easily and do most things by myself; however that didn’t stop Zayn from being as helpful as he possibly could be. We were lying in bed and I was just about to fall into the abyss of peaceful uninterrupted sleep when I was rudely awoken by the shrill cry of my phone piercing the silence of the room. I groaned and reached for my phone as I checked the time, almost two in the morning.

“Elena?” the instant I heard the terror in the voice I was wide awake.

“Lacey what’s wrong?”

“I snuck out to go to this party and at first everything was fine. But then this guy started hitting on me and now he won’t leave me alone.” She cried hysterically into the phone.

“Are you OK? Where are you?”

“I locked myself in an empty bedroom but my friend that I came with ditched me and I don’t know what to do I didn’t know who else to call. Please come get me.”

“Where exactly are you? I’ll be there in ten!”

She gave me the address and we hung up after I told her to call me if anything else happened. I sprung out of bed to get Zayn’s keys and raced out of the apartment.

When I got there it looked like the party was ten minutes from being broken up by police.  I made my way into the house searching for where the bedrooms might be.  Eventually I found a hallway with a bunch of doors.  One door in particular had a boy in front of it begging to be let in and I figured I had found Lacey.  I walked over and pushed the boy out of the way to get to Lacey, it was way too early and I was way too cranky to care about being nice. 

“Look, I don’t know who you are, but I’ve got this under control, I don’t need your help.” The boy spat as he grabbed onto my arm. 

“If you had it under control you wouldn’t be locked out now would you? That’s my baby sister in there and we’ll be leaving now so you can go find someone else to harass.” I replied as I pried his hand off of me.

The boy muttered a “whatever” before walking away.

“Lacey, it’s me are you ok?”

“Elena?  Is that you?”

“Yeah can I come in?”

She slowly opened the door and let me in.  We spent another 20 minutes locked in there talking about what happened and what we were going to do.  We settled on taking her back to my flat and having her stay the night so that we wouldn’t wake up her parents. 

“Where have you been?  I have been worried sick!”  Zayn frantically shouted as soon as we walked in. 

“Ok, Imma need you to calm down.  We came here so that we wouldn’t have this confrontation.” I replied as calmly as possible as I allowed Lacey to walk into the flat as well. 

“What’s going on?”

“Lacey went to a party that got a little out of hand and there was a guy that didn’t quite understand the word no, so she called me to come pick her up.”

“Are you ok?” he asked Lacey to which she just nodded.

“C’mon, I’ll show you to the guest bedroom,” I directed to Lacey and guided her down the hall.  “There’s some sweats and stuff in the dresser if you want something to sleep in, the bathroom is just down the hall, and help yourself to anything in the kitchen if you get hungry or thirsty.”

“Thanks, for everything.” She said as I left the room.

“No problem, we’ve all been there.  Get some rest.”