surfacing

Chapter 8

"Shit Sami, fucking shit, I told you not to hook up with moms son, fuck I told you to pull up your top." I heard my brother lowly speaking as I woke up. When I opened my eyes I saw Cody throwing the pillows that were on top of Harry and I. By now Harry and I had both woken up and we were confused as hell. "What the hell Cody, I was sleeping." I said "YEA I NOTICED. You were sleeping with him." He pointed out that I was still laying next to Harry. Nothing happened last night, yeah we may have made out a little but I think it was just in the moment. I didn't like him like that, like of course was exteremly attractive like I don't get how you could not keep your hands off of him but at the moment, I just needed a friend. Nothing more, "Cody!" He didn't respond, "CODY" me shouting finally cought his attention, "We didn't do anything, Gosh your acting like I am a type of person to do that.. We just watched She's the Man and played a couple of board games!" "Then why the hell are you two laying together being all cuddly and shit with only these romantic lights?" Cody flicked the christmas lights and continued, "Also! where the hell is mom." "What i don't- We just fell asleep and what do you mean where is mom" "She didn't come home last night!" Harry cut in, "Do you have an Iphone 5 charger?" He caught me off gaurd, "Yea-yea it's over here." I walked and pointed to it, "Thanks" My brother and I were still arguing about my mom and Harry still being here when Harry spoke up. "NO NO NO" "What? Harry, what" "One sec" He said back and he called someone, "What happened, my phone died last night.. Gemma didn't pick me back up. Oh okay yeah are you sure. NO okay." He ended the call "D-do you guys have a car?" He automatically stumbled when he got off the phone "Yeah, why" "Harry! what do you know" Cody and I both answered, "We need to go, i'll tell you on the way there."

We were driving, "Okay Harry where are we going." my brother asked Harry

"Harry, your driving a bit fast, don't you think?"

"Yeah, yeah sorry" He slowed down a bit, "W-were going to the hospital."

"What happened."

Harry started to cry, "My dad and mom, and your mom.. got into a car accident on there way home. Umm ugh Gemma, Gemma said that your mom and my mom are okay but they are under the hospitals watch or something like that."

"What about your dad?"

He was crying harder now and I didn't even think he was able to drive at this point, "He's in a coma..He hasn't woken up yet."

"Harry."

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We made it into the hospital, we asked the woman at the front desk everything and she said that Harry's  dad woke up for about 10 minutes and then had a seizer so family couldn't see him right now. Cody left to go find our mom, Gemma, and Harry's mom so I stayed with Harry. "Come here." I looked straight into his teary eyes and held out my arms. He crashed into my arms sobbing repeating how he couldn't loose anyone else. He was so vulnerable. I was rubbing his back and asked him if he wanted to get somethng from the food court like coffee since it early in the morning and we stayed up till about 5 AM. Harry pulled back from my arms and held his hand out se we could go get something.

I grabbed a chocolate muffin and held it out for Harry asking if he wanted one but he showed me that he already had one in his hand. When was telling me about how much coffee or hot drinks in general seemed to calm him down. "Tea is my favorite of all time."  I told Harry, because it was true. "Really!?" wow most girls like spend there whole life savings on starbucks coffee." We both laughed and he finished his sentence, "But I can see that your not like the stereotypical girls.. those brown boos of yours give it away." "What's wrong with my boots!" I yelled at him, "Nothing- nothing" He laughed, "I just have never seen a girl wear them and look so damn good in them." "HA yeah right, but thank you very much."   "You, you like tea a lot." "I would marry tea if I could." "Well I know someone that makes the greatest of all time tea!" Harry said with a lot of enthusiasnm. "Does he go to our school?" "Yeah, you might know him. I think he is in our PE peirod. Louis Tomlinson, do you know him?" "Makes jokes all the time?" "That would be him." We walked back to where we were before and Cody was there with my mom, Harry's mom, and Gemma. He ran over to them not  caring if he spilt his coffee and Anne stood up and hugged him. They were all crying now and my mom kept asking if they needed anything and after a few  hours we left them. Later that night my mom went by the hospital to bring them some food because we doubted they would want to eat hospital food all day.

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It was two weeks later. Harry and I haven't talked since his dad got into the hospital. My mom has been giving me updates that she's been getting from work but they wern't very good. I just finished my homework and was about to take a nap because the last week was stressfull with pre-testing and all. I was laying in my bad and my phone rang I checked the caller ID and was suprised to see that Harry had called me. "Hey" I spoke, "He died Sami, he died" Harry was crying so hard I could barley understand what he was saying. I could hear him wispering things like 'how could this happen' 'not another person' 'please let this be a dream or something' over and over again underneath his breath so I wasn't suppose to hear, but I did. "Harry, where are you." "Outside of the bar on 7th street" "Harry your drunk. I'm coming to pick you up, stay exactly where you are and stay on the phone with me." "I'm not drunk! I stopped drinking like 20 minutes ago." "Harry, you can't still can't drive home." "I know"

I saw Harry sitting at the edge of the curb outside of the bar on 7th street right where he said he was. 'HARRY!" I yelled so he would notice that I was here but he didn't look up. I sat next to him and he rested his head on my shoulder. I started rubbing his shoulder with my hand and while he was crying he spoke up, "You know at first I though this wasn't real.. it was just my head messing with my or something." He let out a heartless laugh and was speaking real slowly, "but it's been three damn days, and my dad is still... my dad is still dead." He removed his head from my shoulder and brought his knees closer to his chest and cried more into the palms of his hands. "Harry, can I show you something."

We were driving for about 15 minutes now and it was silent the entire ride. It wasn't awkward at all really, I understood what he was going through. "Here." I got out of my car and grabbed a bag. We walked down a big hill that led down stones as stairs. It led to a pathway with vines covering the everything. "Woahh." I turned around, "What" "Look at the ground, it's painted.. it reminds me a bit of the mural you have inside your room." "Well good, because I painted it.. the ground I mean."He was silent once again but this time admiring my paintings on the ground. We walked across a flat bridge that led to more stone stairs. When we were half way down the line of stairs I heard Harry let out a big sigh and I giggle a bit. "Here" I stuck my hand out for Harry, "cover your eyes" "This is a little sketchy, Sami." "Just trust me on this. Please" "fine" He took one hand and covered both of his eyes. I never really noticed how big of hands he had and I took the other one of his hands and led him to the edge of my favorite cliff. You could see the whole city. All the happy people and the not so happy people. This spot was a big reality check for me a few years back so I was hoping Harry would get the same feeling as I did. "Were here." Harry took his hand off and his eyes widened. A big cheeky smile apreard on his face and he looked at me with a greatful face on.