And When He Is Here // hayes grier

Chapter 32

↠Hayes

I've been laying on the waiting room couch of the ICU for the last 3 days. I've been told by Ryan that B is off the ventilator. I'm not allowed to see her yet. Only family. Which is complete bullshit if you ask me. But I do think whoever the family agrees to gets to see her. I guess there is a whole reason behind the 'family only' rule, but I don't know what that is. Ryan tells me that she doesn't look very good. She has a broken arm and rib, stitches on her forehead and she has serious bruising. They say they don't know of she's going to have memory loss or not but because she's had concussions in the past she's at higher risk.

Ryan has been staying at my house for the last 3 days sense his mom is staying at the hospital. She says she doesn't want Ryan staying home alone over night. I guess it makes sense.

I've had one thought roaming around in my head the last 3 days. I remember when she first told me about her birth family. How she said she should have been the one to die and not them. And I told her that she survived because she has a story to play out. But it makes me wonder why this is her story. And maybe that's why she fell in love at such a young age. That she fell in love at 14 years old because she was meant to have a love in her life. Then once she completed that task. It's all over.

That theory has been taring away at my brain sense I first time sat down in this waiting room chair. And I'm not even sure why I think that. But some how it got planted into my brain. I love her I have to have hope for her. And I do. It's just this feeling I can't explain.

"I really don't know why you sit here everyday. She's still unconscious and you can't even see her." I looked over to see Ryan speaking to me but looking straight ahead of him at a blank white wall.

I sighed and I knew he had a point. "Yeah I know. But I just like knowing I'm here. And I can be here once she wakes up."

"It's the same old people everyday. No one comes unless she's awake. But good thing we're on spring break so we both don't get bombarded with questions." I guess it's a good thing we're in break. She doesn't miss school and like Ryan said we don't get asked a ton of questions. But people have already texted both of us over the three day course. Apparently the accident was on the news. And I know that's the last thing she'd want. "What the hell..." I heard Ryan say faintly. I looked at him to see his gaze on someone who just appeared in the waiting room.

"Is that..."

"Myles." He finished for me.

"What's he doing here? Doesn't he live on California?" I looked at Ryan almost worried. Actually concerned on why he was here.

"I know he was moving to Virginia sometime around here. But I don't understand why he's..." he didn't finish his sentence. We both watched Myles hug Jean and Myles' mom and older sister hug her too. They talked for a few minutes. I guess she was explaining what was going on with B. A few people straggled in after them. Three more boys. They appeared to be older. Jean looked over at me and Ryan and we looked at each other then back to them. She pointed at us and he started making his way over. I was beyond confused why he was head and why he wanted to talk to me. He wasn't even coming for Ryan. He was coming for me.

"So here's the famous Hayes I've heard so much about."

"Uh I hope all good things because me and B were in a fight then." I'm so awkward oh my god. He laughed a little but it wasn't meant to be funny. he reached his hand out for me to shake. I accepted but was wondering why he wanted to shake my hand in the first place.

"Don't worry all good things." He took a seat next to me. I gave him a weird look but he didn't seem to notice. "So," He began. I looked at him but he wasn't looking at me. "That's my sister Kendall," he pointed at his sister who had long strawberry blond loose curly hair. "she's 16. And that's my older brother Alec, he's 16 also. There twins. And..." he scanned through the room of crowded people. "Oh there's another one of my brothers Kyle, he's 15. And that's Joseph," he pointed at another brother who's 19. I feel kinda bad for Kendall. I mean she grew up with 4 brothers and she's the only girl. Well except her mom that Myles says isn't here. Just their dad.