Forever and Always

Chapter 15

Dani's POV

After I left Demi's room, I saw Dianna standing in front of the back door on the porch. She watched me with a sad expression on her face. I opened my mouth to say something but ended up just closing my mouth and shaking my head. When I walked up to go to the gate I tried to avoid her but she grabbed my arm before I could walk past her. I stopped walking and got ready to get chewed out by her for hurting her daughter. To my surprise, she pulled me into a hug.

"We all make stupid mistakes," Dianna said after she pulled away and looked at me.

"I hurt her. I don't deserve her," I stared down at the ground.

"Oh, honey, you are so far off."

I shook my head. "I made her cry. She told me I hurt her. I betrayed her trust and it wouldn't surprise me if she hates me now." I sniffed and a tear fell from my eyes and onto the ground. "I'm so sorry, I have to go." I didn't wait for Dianna to say anything else, I just ran away to the car.

As I drove I cried and the fact that I found my house with my eyes filled with tears and didn't get into a car accident was a miracle. I didn't even turn on the lights in my house before I went to the liquor cabinet in the kitchen. I picked the lock with a bobby pin I found in my pocket, grabbed a bottle of rum, and started drinking.

Demi's POV

I tried my best not to speed down the road but I had to get to her. Alyson called me at 1am, three hours after Dani left. I had fallen asleep in one of Dani's sweaters after crying and almost ignored her call.

Driving drunk...car accident...lots of blood...stitches...lucky to be alive...critical condition...

Those things kept running through my mind. Why did I make her leave? Why didn't I just listen to her? Why did I have to be such a bitch? The break lights lit up on the car in front of me and I slammed on the breaks, flinging my body foward and tugging myself against the seatbelt. Maybe Mom was right, I shouldn't be driving myself.

"You're in no condition." she had said, "You can barely focus on me right now, how can you focus on the road?"

I didn't want to wait on anyone so I just ignored her, threw on some pants, grabbed the car keys, and left.

How can this happen? It's only been three hours. Oh God, if she dies my last words to her would be "Get out". Not "I love you" or anything nice. I rested my forehead on the steering wheel, groaned, and started crying.

Someone honked and I looked up to see the light turned green and the car in front of me was already gone. I started driving but I couldn't stop my tears from falling.

Alyson told me to meet her in the waiting room in the ER so when I finally got to the hospital, I ran there. She was pacing back and forth in the middle of the room talking to, I assumed, her mom, who was sitting down.

"They should let me in there," she was saying. "We're her family, Mom. Whether or not we share the same blood. Her fucking parents aren't even in the state, that is NOT what families do! They should be on their way here, or better yet, actually here!"

"Alyson, calm down," her mom said. She looked over at me and smiled, although she looked tired and you could tell she had been crying. "Hey, Demi."

Alyson whipped around to me. She looked like she was ready to say something but just ran into my arms and started crying with me.

"They just stitched her up a half an hour ago," Mrs Paige said. "She need five on her forehead above her eyebrow and there was a pretty bad cut on her thigh that required around 26 stitches. Other than those, nothing was too serious. They didn't see any brain damage or internal bleeding."