Past Tense (editing)

Twenty four// Hopes

well we could call this the BOOM BOOM chapter #No3 pt 2 because it's more fun than calling it a normal chapter

Elaine woke up, her head throbbing. She wan't moving but she felt like the room was spinning. She opened her eyes, but she could see nothing but a blur.

She closed her eyes again and tried to focus. Then she opened them again and got up from the bed.

Big mistake. An excruciating pain shooted up her head and made her sit down again.

After some minutes she managed to stand up properly, still holding her head in pain.

She took in her surroundings, she was in Douglas' house. In Douglas' room to be exact.

All the last nights events flooded in  her brain, making her head throbbing even more.

She opened the door of the room and walked outside, in the living room. 

She saw no one there. Where's was he? What if Tim died?

She had to find them. Her head was still in pain and now that she was walking, a bruise on her ankle started slowing down her steps.

"Hello?" she said.

The door of another room opened and there was Jack. "Elaine?" he said "Why are you up? You should lie on your bed." he came closer to her and Elaine took a step back.

"Where is Tim?" she muttered.

Jack's face turned sad "He's in this room." he pointed at the door he had just walked out from.

Elaine, without saying an another word, walked there and opened the door. In there was Tim lying on a bed, unconscious.

His face was cleaned up, but there were still scratches and bruises all over his face and body. There was a bandage around his head and in the back it was covered in blood. 

"What did he do?" Elaine muttered. "Is he going to be ok?"

"I- I don't know." Jack responded. "I mean I'm not a doctor but his pulse is weak."

Elaine let out a cry and then tears started streaming down her eyes. 

"I brought some more bandages and the pills for Elaine but-" Douglas said coming in the room.

But he stopped when he saw Elaine crying over Tim's unconscious body.

Elaine didn't even look at him.

She just kept crying and praying that Tim would be alright.

"Elaine I-" he tried to say.

"What the hell did you do to him?" Elaine spoke "Are you crazy? He's just a 17 year old boy."

"I don't know if you remember, but he attacked me first." Douglas added "He was the one who came and ruined everything."

"He was trying to save me from you." Elaine said disgusted.

"There was nothing there for saving." he said "We were just doing things we were doing every day right?"

Elaine looked at him coldly, not saying a word. 

"Aren't we having fun, Elaine?" Douglas said. 

Jack grabbed the bandages from Douglas' hand. "Shut up." he told him.

He walked close to Tim and gently he took his head and started taking the stained bandage off. "Can you throw this away?" he asked Elaine and she took the bloody bandages and threw them in the garbage can. 

Jack took Tim's head again and started wrapping the new bandage around it, after cleaning the wound.

"How is he?"

"I don't know." Jack replied "But we can't take him to a hospital."

Elaine sighed. 

"I hope he's fine." Douglas spoke up "I mean, what am I going to do with a dead body?"

Both Elaine and Jack looked at him. Was he really that heartless?

"Yeah, because that would be the biggest problem."

"Douglas, you have to stop doing things like that all the damn time." Jack sneered "You have to started thinking about the consequences the things you do are going to have."

"What happened yesterday, let's call it an accident since the kid attacked first." he continued "But you really have to be more careful. What if someone saw you?"

Elaine then remembered something.

Mark was also there that night. He was there and he ran away.

He saw the whole scene. He knows everything.

"What would happen if someone saw Douglas?" Elaine asked.

"He could go to jail." Jack answered "Police is already looking for him, because he is a drug dealer."

Elaine still loved Douglas. Too much to let him be in jail. She was going to stay silent one more time. Like she was always doing.

"Elaine, you'll have to stay here from now on." Douglas said giving her no choice anyway "At least until we are done with this."

"Okay." she muttered. She didn't have a problem with all this, but she was also feeling weird about it.

Jack sighed and moved his head in disbelief. He was upset that Elaine was doing exactly what Douglas was telling her to do.

She was even doing drugs with him.

It was getting out of control.

"Why don't you Elaine, get some rest?" Jack suggested "Your head must be throbbing."

Her head was actually throbbing. But she was willing to suffer, for Tim. "I'm not leaving Tim."

"But you two, should go."

The boys left the room, leaving Elaine alone with Tim. 

Elaine started crying again. She was feeling heartbroken. And now that the boys couldn't listen to her cries, she was free to ball her eyes out.

But Jack was sleeping in the living room, and he was able to hear Elaine's painful cries. And his heart was torn apart just listening to her crying.

They all hoped, Tim was okay.

All of them for different reasons. 

Elaine wanted her friend back.

Jack wanted Elaine to be happy.

And Douglas just didn't want to get rid of a body.

But I guess in life, we don't always get what we want.

Hello luvs!

It's late at night again. And I am super tired. I probably have so many mistakes in this part because I'm too tired to edit it. But I'm going to edit the whole story soon.

I'm going straight asleep.

I hope you have an amazing day or night.

And let's pray Tim is still alive.

All the love! xxx