Heartbreaker in Training

Chapter 9 - Move, You Lump!

A/N - Okay so this chapter is a little late to be updated, but I'm in New York right now and needed something to do so I figured I'd update. I'm writing Ch. 10 now but if you have any suggestions or correctios or anything, feel free to let me know. I'd love to hear.

Okay so I'll shut up and let you read :)

Walking down the white hospital halls knowing I’m not there for me is weird. I’ve been rushed here many times. Broken bones, crappy lungs, etc. But for Garyn? No way. I turned a corner near his room where I was quickly pushed away from.

“I need to see him.” I stated when the nurse dragged me off.

“Are you family?” she asked blatantly. I blinked for a minute.

“No, but-”

“Okay then you can’t be in there.” She was rude. I was going to say something back until I saw Lesley turning the same corner and I stopped her.

“We can’t go in yet.” I said. She huffed and sighed loudly, making heads turn, but I waved them off and mouthed a, “sorry.” We sat in big blue chairs somewhere farther down the hallway and started talking.

“What happened?” I asked quickly, noticing the guilty look on her face. “Les?” I asked.

“Adem.” was all she replied with. Just as she said his name, he showed up in front of us.

“What did you do?” I pretty much yelled in his face.

“What?” he asked, inching his face closer.

“You did this.” I said.

“I can explain.” he replied.

“I have time, start talking.”

“I ran into Garyn around his neighborhood. I was hanging out and he was just walking around. Next thing I know, he pushes me. I tried to back off but,”

“The truth.” I interveined.

“Okay, he accidentally ran into me but I really did try to back off, Lori. I did. But he started to yell at me, something I couldn’t understand. I don’t know why, but he just kept telling me to stay away from you. So I said I would. I don’t even know how, but we ended up fighting again. I can’t remember who threw the first punch,” he bit his lip and scratched the back of his neck, giving me the idea that he was the one who did it.

“but he drove off in a hurry. I’m guessing that’s when he wrecked. Then I saw it on the news. It was pretty bad, they had to care flight him here.” I felt the tears starting to spill over and I crumpled into myself. Seconds later I felt myself being lifted out of my seat, then set back down, this time on something more warm. I looked up and I was on Adem’s lap. I nestled in closer, being cold and just needing someone to hold me. I felt at home here, oddly enough. He started to rub circles in my back with his thumb while I stayed where I was and cried.

“Adem?” I asked,breaking a silence I hadn’t known was lingering.

“Yeah?” he answered. He just shrugged his shoulders and held onto me tighter. There’s definitely something more than a bitter hatred between these boys.

Suddenly the nurse popped her head out the door, right before I fell asleep.

“You kids should go home, he won’t be able to see anyone until tomorrow.”

I don’t know what it was, but I froze. I couldn’t move, couldn’t say anything. I was so in shock, it was all coming to me. I was finally comprehending what had happened tonight.

“I can’t.” I said out of nowhere, still frozen.

“What?” Adem said.

“I don’t know if I can go home. I can’t just leave him here.” I replied.

“I’ll stay with you. Not here, but your house. I’m not letting you be alone in this kind of shock.” I honestly didn’t know what to say about that either. I looked at him with pleading eyes, “Please. But, Les, what about you?” I asked her.

“I’m going home with you. I’ll just take your brother’s room. Just don’t tell him, I don’t feel like having a big college dude coming after me for stealing a night in his bed.” she giggled, but I could tell she was still upset about Garyn.

On the way back to my house, I rode with Adem in his black Camaro which is the way I got here, and Lesley rode in her little yellow Volkswagen Bugg. It was nearing 3 o’clock AM by the time we got back to the house. My mom jumped from the couch asking about Garyn when we walked in the door.

“Care flight, but he’ll be okay.” we told her. She stared at Adem for a minute then nodded, understandingly, before he and I sauntered up to my room, and Lesley to my brother Zach’s room across the hall. Zach has been in college for about two years now. He is studying to be an artist. He’s pretty good at it, too.We have some of his better works, oil paintings, watercolor, and acrylic, hung on most of our walls instead of buying “processed” art as mom likes to call it.

As soon as I opened my door, Adem was running to my bed and falling face-first into the mattress. He groaned and told me he loved my bed.

I grabbed a pair of dark blue Hollister pj shorts and a grey muscle shirt that said “Above the Negative and loving it” in cool fonts on it. I went to the bathroom to change since Adem looked like he wasn’t going to get up and when I got back I just pushed him over.

“Move, you lump.” I said, hooking up my nighttime oxygen “tank” so I could sleep without dying.

“No,” he replied. “I’m comfy.”

“Well I need that side. So move.”

“Oh.” He scooted over and fixed his sweatpants he was wearing. I left my white, fluffy comforter alone and slid under my huge black, white, and tan plaid blanket I got for Christmas a year ago. Adem pulled it over to his side, then slid himself over to me, snaking his arm around my waist. There was just something about that, that made me feel like nothing was going on. Like Garyn wasn’t on life support, and I didn’t have cancer, and Lesley’s parents didn’t treat her like shit, and my parents were fine. I felt like nothing else existed but that moment.

“Thank you.” I whispered to Adem who was so close I could feel his breathe atop my head. He didn’t even say anything, he just kissed my nose and bent my head down at my chin to kiss my forehead. It was a simple gesture, really, but I couldn’t help but feel butterflies and smile before falling asleep with Adem beside me.

Garyn had completely slipped my mind, not him in the hospital but everything between he and I before that. How I thought I loved him, and he backstabbed me. Or how whenever he spoke to me, he wasn’t focused on our conversation, but on something beside me.

Then I thought of Lesley. How she lingered near his room, inching closer and closer tonight to the doors, practically jumping out of her seat to see him. Or when she always seemed to stand a little too close to him in the hallways at school, or when she would sneak around sometimes.

I knew i didn’t love Garyn then, and I don’t love him now.

A/N - So I know this is a weird chapter and I figured I would start chap questions so yeah.

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Who do you ship? 

#Leslyn (Lesley and Garyn) , #Lorem (Lori and Adem) , or #Loryn (Lori and Garyn) ?

What do you think about Adem now?

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