Sight Singing

Chapter 24

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I had absolutely no idea what to do. Seb and Zach were taken back to the hospital by the caretaker and I was just lying in bed while Lex was still sleeping. I couldn't sleep without him. But he wasn't even talking to me.

What if I went and got caught? What if I went and he just kept ignoring me? What if I went and he said he didn't even want me there? What if I didn't go and couldn't sleep all night? What if I didn't go and he had nightmares again?

Ugh.

After about one hour of going through these scenarios, I gave up on thinking and tried to ignore everything to pretend I had never met Zach and it was just a normal night. I failed.

So I crept out and just prayed that the caretaker had fallen asleep. Unfortunately I had no such luck as I found out when I got to the hospital room.

"What happened to your face!?" The caretaker asked, presumably surprised at how fast he thought it had healed.

"I... Erm... You... You might have met my twin? She got some nasty bruises on her face recently," I lied.

"Ah. How is she?" He asked and I stared at him for a few seconds not quite sure how he believed me but pulled myself together.

"She's recovering quite well!  She just wanted me to get her some disinfecting wipes actually," I said with a smile.

"Of course, of course. I hope she gets better soon."

"Thanks," I said with a small smile, feeling bad for lying but I walked in quickly before I gave away my pathetic lies and saw Seb sleeping and Zach lying down faced away from me. 

They were both unbelievably still and I stood there for a minute wondering what to do.

I sighed and walked back to the door, deciding to just go make myself busy for a few hours before I heard Zach.

"Stop," he whispered.

I whipped around and walked around to see if he was talking to me but his eyes were still closed. I stood there for a minute, examining his features before he repeated himself, with his eyes tightly squeezed shut.

"Zach," I said, hoping he would reply but I realised he was dreaming again.

I felt my heart quicken as he flinched and decided to just wake him up before it turned into a nightmare. I knelt down and saw his hand clenching the bed sheets as his knuckles were going white so I took his hand and tried shaking him lightly to wake him up.

"They wouldn't," Zach whispered as I felt his hand coming onto mine even tighter. "They wouldn't," he said, louder this time.

 "Zach, come on. Wake up," I said as I shook him harder. But his grip kept on getting tighter and he started shaking his head as I saw him start struggling to breathe.

"They wouldn't leave," he said, louder still and I couldn't stand to know that not only was he in pain but right then, I shouldn't have been there and he would probably hate me for it. But he hate me anyway so I pulled his hand off me and ran to the tap, filling up a bucket of water and splashing it on his face.

I rushed towards the door as fast and quietly as I could.

"Stop," I heard him say and turned around to see if he was still talking in his sleep. But he was looking right at me and I found myself unable to move as I watched him state at me, emotionless.

"Zach I - "

"What are you doing here?" He asked harshly.

"Oh... Well erm... I couldn't sleep so I thought I'd come and see if you were awake and erm... Yeah," I managed, not knowing whether I should apologise or not or how angry he was or even whether I should have come or not.

"Listen Sophie, I - "

"Wait. I need to apologise as well. I didn't mean any of anything and I get why you're angry, and I probably shouldn't have done what I did but it all just came out at the time because there wasn't even any time to think about what it would sound like to you because I was too focused on trying to make sense that I didn't think about the fact that even if I was making sense it wasn't in a good way and I'm just really sorry Zach," I said before taking a few seconds to catch my breath back.

"Woah."

Ouch. If that's all he was going to say then I realised coming here was probably a mistake and it would be best if I just left.

"Well I'm sorry for waking you up but anyway I should probably go now so I'll see you tomorrow," I said, trying to keep what little dignity I had left although as I turned around and walked towards the door I was wishing that he would stop me the whole time.

But he didn't. I heard him sigh just as I reached the door and I hesitated before slowly opening the door, praying that he would tell me to go back but he didn't.

I walked back to my dorm and into bed and lay there staring at the ceiling. I replayed the stage audition over and over in my head and wished that I could go back and change what I had sung until my alarm rung and I realised I hadn't slept one wink.

Well, today would be interesting.

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Holaaaa! So this chapter is so late that I wouldn't be surprised if no one even read it but here it is anyway. If you're still reading then I'm reaaalllyyyy sorry about how long I've been away for and I'll try and be quicker but I can't make any promises.

This chapter is probably also really short but I just wanted to put up whatever I had. I'll change it soon I think.

Thank you so much if you're still reading, I really really appreciate it!

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