promise // matthew espinosa

Chapter 20

WARNING: This chapter is a bit graphic. If you aren't comfortable with (I don't wanna spoil anything) "violence" so to say, DO NOT READ

~ Brianna

I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't stand being alone. I locked the door to my room and ran into the bathroom. I threw my hair into a messy ponytail and scoured the bathroom cabinets, looking for a razer. I couldn't find anything. I grabbed a pair of scissors off the desk in the room. Tears spilled out of my eyes as I left scraggly cuts all over my wrists. The cuts began bleeding. I didn't care. I grabbed a bottle of aspirin and spilled the pills all over the floor. I could hear someone banging on the door. I shoved some of the pills in my mouth and attempted to swallow. Before I could, Shawn, Nash, and Matt knocked the door down and ran over to me.

"NOOOOO!" I screamed.

"BRIANNA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

Nash was on the phone, probably calling 911. The whole thing felt like a dream. My head was spinning. I swallowed four or five of the pills before they could stop me. I was screaming and crying. Shawn and Matt were trying to comfort me.

"I DON'T WANNA DIE!" I cried into Matt's chest.

I sobbed as the room got darker and darker. I was pulled onto a stretcher before I was completely passed out.

~ Matt

I was crying as I followed the stretcher Brianna was on into the back of the ambulance. They wrapped bandages around her wrists. I held her hand as the first-responder was getting ready to perform an immediate procedure to keep her stable until we got to the hospital. He pulled a curtain in between Brianna and me. I felt her twitching and little cries coming from behind it. It hurt to see her in pain. There wasn't a moment when I let go of her. When we arrived, I still ran alongside the stretcher, never breaking her from my site. She was pulled into a room. I tried to enter.

"HEY LET ME IN!" I cried.

I read the sign on the front of the door as it closed in my face.

ICU

Oh my God. How could I let this happen? I'm supposed to be protecting her. I trudged into the waiting room. I sat down with my head in hands. All of the guys joined me after a few minutes. We waited for four hours. I looked up at the clock. It was almost midnight. Shawn, Nash, Cameron, his new girlfriend Ally, Savannah, and Taylor were the only ones left. Savannah called Brianna's mom an hour ago. She's on her way. A doctor walked in with a clipboard a few minutes later.

"Brianna Foster's family?"

I stood up.

"I'm not her family. I'm the closest thing she has at the moment. Her mom is on her way." I said.

"Okay, who's the oldest one here?" she asked.

Cameron stood up, said something to Ally, and walked next to me.

"Follow me please, Gentlemen."

She started walking, then stopped in front of the room I couldn't get into before.

"You're very lucky you got to her in time. We got the pills out of her system, but she' s still in extreme pain. She lost a lot of blood. Also, are you aware she hasn't been eating?"

I shook my head.

"It looks as though she hasn't eaten in a week or two."

Cameron and I looked at each other, then back to the doctor.

"Please, do not stress her out and stay calm when you walk in. Like I said, she's in a lot of pain."

"Thank you doctor," I said.

The doctor opened the door and let us in. I hope she's ok

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