Written in the Stars (completed)

Chapter 8

    Alex stood at the sink, filling herself a glass of water from the tap. She was still wearing her pajamas, her flanal yellow, red, and black pj pants and her short sleeved grey shirt. Her house phone wrang and she walked to get it, she checked the caller ID, "Johnson" was printed on the phones small screen.
    Alex pressed the answer button and pressed the phone to her ear. "He-"
    Before Alex could even get her greeting out Jayden's mothers voice came through the phone, sounding strained and emotional.
    "Alex, it's Jayden." she said, her voice cracking as her emotion got the best of her. Alex knew something was horribly wrong instantly.
    "What happened?" Alex asked hurriedly. Fear creeping into her.
    "He got in a crash. He's in the hospital." Mrs Johnson gasped through the phone. "He's not going to-" Jayden's mother stopped, a sob of pure anguish interrupting her words.
    Although Mrs Johnson didn't finish Alex knew exactly what she was trying to say. 'He's not going to be alive much longer.' Alex dropped the glass of water in her fingers and it shattered on the floor sending glass and water everywhere, Alex starred out the window for a second, not knowing if this was a dream or if it was real, everything felt numb and disconnected like she was deep under water without even knowing. The air around her felt thick and it was hard to breath.
    She dropped the phone on the counter and grabbed the keys to her dad's truck, running out to the garage and backing out of the driveway.

    Jayden opened his eyes slowly, he felt nothing but pain, but it was numbed pain at least. He looked around at the familiar faces around him, his mother, father, older brother, and his two younger brothers. All of them were in tears. Jayden looked at each of their faces in turn,there was someone missing.
    "Alex." Jayden said through a dry throat, trying to sit up. His father put a hand on his shoulder,keeping him down.
    "She's coming son, she's on her way." He said. Jayden gave a weak nod. There was so much pain, but he had to see her again. He had to wait for her before he let go of the pain.

    Alex ran into the hospital, she hadn't bothered to put her shoes on or grab a coat. She was in too much of a hurry.
    The tears hadn't kicked in yet, Alex had to see for herself that Jayden was really as hurt as he was or she wouldn't believe it.
    She was lead to Jayden's room and she burst through the door immediately, her freezing feet hardly bothering her at all.
    As soon as she saw his face a strangled sob escaped her lips. He was hooked up with several IV's in his arms, he was covered in bruises and cuts. His steel blue eyes slowly looked her way and locked with hers. She was hardly able to stand as she pressed her hands to her mouth, not able to breath.
    Jayden gave a weak smile through his cut lips, his pale face clashing with his blue eyes.
    "Alex." Jayden whispered, his voice dry and weak. Alex gasped for breath through her tears. She couldn't breath as she shakily walked to Jayden's side.
    He smiled weakly. "Where's your shoes?" he asked, a glint of humor in his half open eyes. Alex couldn't accept this, she couldn't live without him.
    "Please don't go." Alex whispered through her tears, bearly able to say it. Alex took his hand. It was warm on her cold one.
    "I'm sorry." He said, his fingers entwining with hers weakly. "It hurts too much to stay." He said.
    Alex's heart was in a million tiny pieces on the floor. She nodded slowly. "I'll miss you. I'll miss you every day." she said as she knelt beside his bed, holding his hand, not caring that his family was there.
    His hand slid out of hers as it came up to her cheek, wiping the running tears from her face and tucking a stray hair behind her ear. "You look so beautiful when you cry." He said, smiling weakly at her, his eyes filled with pure love for her. He put his hand in hers again and squeezed it reassuringly.
    The pressure on her hand slowly lessened as Jayden's eyes closed and his face relaxed, the heart monitor beside his bed resounding with one continuous line, his heart had stopped.
    It took all she had not to scream in agony. She stepped back, gasping sobs escaping her lips as she cried uncontrollably, not taking her eyes off of Jayden's face. She let his family say goodbye and then they left back home to mourn and to give Alex time alone with him.
    She pulled a chair over to his hospital bed and laid on his legs, her legs curled and pulled to her chest as she held his hand, crying uncontrollably, strangled sobs filling the otherwise silent room. They had unplugged the heart monitor, if they hadn't Alex felt she would have gone insane. The flat line and the constant noise of it would have done nothing but remind her of how Jayden was really gone.
    Laying with him in the silence she could imagine that he was only asleep, his eyes closed and his hand in hers. But she knew that he was gone. She burried her face in the blanket over his legs and cried into it. She had just lost the only friend she ever had. And the only man she ever wanted to be with. As she huddled there she knew she had to leave him, this would be the hardest thing she would ever have to do and she knew that.
    She slowly sat up and then stood, looking at Jayden one last time as she let go of his hand. Her tears coming faster now. She knew she looked awful but she couldn't care less. She held one hand over her mouth to keep the sobs from escaping her again as she shook with the emotion she kept inside. She somehow found the strength to open the door and walk out of the room, glancing back at Jayden one last time.
    As she walked slowly to the elevator Alex felt someone take her hand, she turned to see who it was, but no one was there. She looked around, she could have sworn she felt someone take her hand. She turned back ahead and left the hospital, forgetting about the strange unexplained feeling.