rain [2]

five

Julia:

3:00 am

I wake up to my phone ringing.

I groan and throw the blankets away from my now cold feet and pick up the phone without checking who was calling me, at this ungodly hour.

"hello?"

I rub the sleep away from my eyes and run my hands, through my thick brown hair.

"hey julia, do you think you could come to the hospital?" they say

I pull the phone away from my ear to see it was jack who was calling me.

"it's 3 in the morning, why would I need to come down to th-" I was cut off

"jonah is in the hospital" my head immediately shoots up.

"w-what happened?" my voice cracks

"he got into a car accident" he states.

I hang up the phone immediately and I look over and start to shake daniel awake. he pushes my hands away, multiple times.

"daniel!" I yell.

his head shoots up and he looks over at me panicked.

"jonah is in the hospital"

his eyes, widen and he throws the blankets from his body, and runs down to the kids room so we could drop them off at his sisters house.

I get into sweatpants, and a big sweater. I throw on some shoes and I see daniel at the front door with two sleepy babies in his arms.

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we dropped phoenix and deja off at anna's. we are now speeding our way to the hospital, which was fairly easy because no one is on the roads. what keeps going through my mind is if he's okay. I start to bite my finger nails, and bounce my leg up and down from being anxious.

"hey, he's gonna he okay" daniel stops my bouncing leg, as he continues driving.

I just don't want to lose him, like I lost myles.

•

we arrived at the hospital and I immediately run through the entrance, leaving daniel behind me. I go to run up to the front desk but then I hear someone call my name. my neck snaps over and I see everyone sitting there, with distraught looks upon their tired faces.

"he's in critical condition, we can't see him" jack says to me.

I immediately feel like someone is stepping on my chest. like someone is stabbing me in the gut, like I am being pushed down. I collapsed to the floor crying my eyes out, and I feel arms wrap around me trying to keep me calm.

"h-he can't die" I sob.

I look up and I see it's zach who was hugging me. I grab onto his shirt, like he would leave me at any second. I feel myself being picked up off the floor and into someone else's arms.

"it's okay baby" daniel whispers into my ear.

"it's not daniel, the last time I heard those words. that person died. that person was my brother. so don't tell me, it's okay or he's going to be fine. when you don't know at all. don't tell me he's strong. because so was my brother and now look, he's dead. don't give me false hope, when in the end. it screws us over" I say.

I run out of the hospital, and beyond the side of the building. falling to the floor, hugging my knees.

wondering.

why does the universe hate me?