Wave after Wave

chapter 7

In the distance I heard voices.
The voices came closer and closer. Two people we're shouting at each other. Ouch! I twitched in pain. Then opened my eyes. Someone was calling me and gently tapping my cheek. "Hayley. Don't leave me!" I felt something wet dripping onto my face. Than I heard a big relieved sigh. "Michael! She's opening her eyes!" I did. I slowly opened my eyes. Then I saw Michael and mom hovering over me. They were crying. Could someone please tell me what in the world was going on and why I am in so much pain!?
My mom had her arm underneath my head and Michael was looking at me as if he would be waiting for something. I looked up at tried to say something. "Don't hun,"mom said. Keeping me from lifting my head. I was clearly to week to do anything. But I still wanted to know who was arguing and what was going on. I looked down and noticed that there were jackets lying on me to keep me warm. How thoughtful. Then I recognized the yelling voices. One of them belonged to Jaxon. "WHY DID YOU DO THIS!? DUDE, I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND! WHY WERE YOU APART FROM THIS!? WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS YOUR GUY'S PLAN!?" The person he was yelling at tried to deny everything he said. He was obviously a friend of Jaxon's. "AND YOU," Jaxon went on."WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE!?" I didn't understand the rest that was said. I was so tired and the pain did not stop!  Then I suddenly heard sirens. Two men in uniforms came rushing to me and lifted me onto a support bed which they then carried into the ambulance. Both mom and Michael came and sat beside me. All I still heard was mom asking Jaxon if he would be alright and than I passed out again.

As I opened up my eyes everything came into focus right away. Mom was sitting next to my bed and had waited for me to wake up. "Hi hun, how are you?" "Fine," I managed to say. I asked weakly "where's Michael?" "He went back to the hotel as soon as you were in safe hands. Are you hurting anywhere?" I looked around me. Tried to see if I was still hurting and was surprised. "No," I said. Mom gave a happy sigh. "Good. The doctors gave you some pain relievers."
I was lying in a hospital bed in a room only with my bed and a table. On the table stood a vase with white roses. My favorite. Mom noticed I was looking at them and added "the roses are from Michael and me. I hope you like them." "Thank you, mom. I love them. How long do I have to stay here?" "The doctors said that you may leave tomorrow. But only if your doing better until then. Hun, I was so scared why didn't you tell me!?" "I couldn't mom." Then I told her the whole story. In between mom had to cry. After I was finished she said "I'm so happy that your doing good. You don't know how scared we all were. Especially Jaxon. He apologized so many times. "Why?" I asked. Those were his friends. "What!?" I was shocked. All of them!? Oh my goodness!

Mom still stayed until the evening. Then she said she'll check up on Michael. Around 6pm I got some food and at 8pm the door opened and Jaxon walked in. He closed the door behind him, took the chair that was standing next to the table and sat down. Then he took my hand. "Hayley," he started. "I should have know. All of this! Those were my friends Hayley. This shouldn't have happened. I'm so, so sorry. I don't even know what to say. Can I somehow make this up to you?" I laid my hand on his. "Jaxon you didn't do anything. It wasn't your fault!" "Yes it was Hayley. I should have known Layla planned this." I lifted my head. "Wait you knew Layla?" "Yes." My head fell back down onto the pillow. "After she left I remembered. She went to the same class I did back in highschool. She had always liked me and never knew why I didn't like her back. Believe me, she tried everything to get me to like her. I think as she got to know you and saw how happy you were and how pretty you are she obviously panicked. I seriously have no idea how someone can be so mean and cruel and be able to do something like this to a person like you without any reason. That part I can't explain to myself. There is no explanation for that!" "Wait, you find me pretty?" He tried to overhear that question and went on. "Well, I had know idea my friends, also out of my old highschool class, were teaming up with her. All I know is that Sam, one of them is dating her and I think she manipulated him. Their all animals, believe me. What they did to you. I don't even want to think about it." "How do you know?" "One of them had a film camera and filmed everything. The police showed it to me later on." I looked out of the window and took a deep breath. Jaxon had let my hand go while he was talking and now had them far into his jacket pocket. The sun was about to go down and the sky was Rosey pink with white and orange spots in between.
"I'm so glad your doing better." I turned and looked at him. He was so cute and his hair was messier than ever. He was wearing black joggers and a tight, dark blue t-shirt with a v-neck. Over his t-shirt he was wearing a black jacket with white stripes on both of the sleeves. "Here," he got out a silver necklace with an 'H' as a pendant. I carefully took it and as I looked at it I smiled. "Maggy called, I'm still wondering how she got my number, and told me to look for this and give it to you. I hope you didn't mind that I looked through your bags. I think it's some kind of friendship necklace?" "Thanks," I said. "Yeah, she also has one. She always remembers me to put it on during hard times and when she's not there so that I don't forget that she's always there for me." "Nice. Should I help you put it on?" "Yeah I think that would be nice," I sat up and moved my upper body so that my back was facing him. He gently moved my hair to the side and laid the necklace around my neck. His hands were so soft and so warm. As he was finished I sat back down, that means my pillow was set up towards I was half sitting and half lying. "Okay, I think I'm gonna go now. I'm really glad that you're feeling better. Do you still need anything?" I smiled at him. "No, but thanks for asking and thank you for coming and checking up on me. I appreciate that." He said goodbye and left. It was now almost 10pm and I decided that I needed some rest. I was really truly exhausted after what had happened. I closed my eyes and soon was drifting off into Dreamland.