Reagan POV
“Mrs. Tomlinson, we’re going to have to ask you to stop harassing our staff. They can’t get any work done.”
I was hysterical, and I didn’t care. It had been about 4 hours since Liz had been hit by that car, and I had not stopped crying once. Louis was sitting 2 chairs down from me, muttering curses to himself. He and I were both scared, him moreso because he had only been vaguely informed of what happened.
Kadin was sitting next to Liam, who had barely looked up because he was constantly on his phone. Harry was holding Trinity’s hand and trying to wipe her tears away. Zayn was asleep in the chair next to them, and Niall had just left after he volunteered to take all of the children to Liam’s in-laws’. No one had said a single word in an hour.
LJ had been the only child that I allowed to stay. He had refused to leave his sister’s side after jumping on one of the paramedics when they put her on a stretcher. If my heart hadn’t been broken before because of Louis, it broke at the sight of my son begging his unconscious sister to “please wake up so we can play.” He had finally cried himself to sleep in the seat next to Zayn’s.
I wish I could lie and say that Liz hadn’t been hit or that I had dreamt the whole thing. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. After I heard the heartbreaking crash, I turned around to find my precious little girl’s lower half of her body completely covered in blood and a black Escalade speeding off. I’m not quite sure what happened after that, but I do recall pulling LJ out of the street after he kept screaming her name and Bentley’s whimpering. I remember seeing Liz’s eyes roll into the back of her head and her body completely still, and what happened next between then and the drive to the hospital is a mystery to me.
No, she isn’t dead. I wouldn’t even be conscious right now if that were the case. But, her right leg is injured, and she hasn’t woken up since she got hit. So, aside from threatening every nurse and doctor in this building and literally pulling my hair out every time I was alone, I hadn’t done much at all.
“Reagan, she will be fine.”
“Don’t, Kadin.”
“Really, she will be f-.”
“Kay, I’m not even kidding when I say if you finish that sentence, neither of these boys will be able to pull me off of you.”
“She’s just trying to help-.”
“The same goes for you, Liam. Stop. Stop talking to me. Stop looking in my direction. Stop giving me sad glances. I know the severity of this situation, and pretending like everything is going to be okay is not going to help me. So, if you love me at all, you will stop talking to me unless your name has M.D. at the end of it.”
Realizing it was best to listen to my advice, both Kadin and Liam stopped talking. Trinity and Harry both had pity-filled look on their faces, but they kept their mouths shut too.
“It’s not your fault, Reagan.”
I heard Louis’s voice from right beside me and didn’t even bother looking at him. I would only break down if I did.
“Lou, if you honestly believed that, then why haven’t looked me in the eye in 4 hours?”
His silence made me choke down a sob as I tried to focus on anything other than him right now. They all thought I was guilty, and to be perfectly honest, they had a point. I wasn’t watching her when I was supposed to. I turned my head. I knew that she had a tendency to ignore what I told her to do, so why didn’t I know that after I told her to leave her ball in the street, she would go after it anyway? Did it really matter that I came to this revelation afterwards?
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Betrayal
Fanfic#2 Louis and Reagan have been through a lot, more than any couple should. After many breakups, many revealed secrets, and many gunshots, their life is peaceful. That is until one of them makes a mistake that could possibly end them for good. Someo...
