i miss you

Charity Case

*Kaitlyn's POV*

Finally. I'm done. 

*Erika's POV*

I was sitting outside on a hill, looking out at the stars as the breeze was slightly moving my blonde hair off my shoulders. Everything was calm. Peaceful. Unmoving. The crickets songs were the only sound within miles and the moon's light was the only thing allowing me to see the person next to me. I move my head to the side to get a better look. The deep dimples that waited to me made my heart smile. 

"Hi." He said softly, his voice as happy as I felt. 

"Hello." I replied lightly before turning my gaze back to the stars. This was perfect. This scene, the drummer boy next to me, the happiness I felt... it was beyond perfect. But just as I was thinking how peaceful the quiet was, a song started screaming from out of the sky. 

Life's a tangled web of cell phone calls and hastag I don't know's...

My eyes shoot open and as they do, disapointment swallows me whole as I look around to see my bedroom. It was a dream. I wasn't really with Ashton sitting on a hill watching the stars. All of that happiness was a lie. 

Wait...No it wasn't. I don't feel any less happy than I did in the dream. Maybe a little disapointed, but I'm not sad...

But I've found my sweet escape when I'm alone with you...

I turn over with a sigh and look at my clock. 1:07 A.M. Who the hell would be calling me? I reach my arm out for my phone and look at the caller I.D. then answer it. 

"Kaitlyn, it's like passed midnight-" but the voice on the other side wasn't who I was expecting. The rest of the conversation was short. "I'll be right there." I said as I stared at the black wall, my eye's frozen while my heart beat as a deadly pace. 

The next few moments were a blurr. I ran down stairs into my parents room, told her I was leaving and ran to my car without another word. I turned the keys, put the car in drive and accelerated the car without stopping until I was in the busy parking lot of Baylor Medical Center. All at once, everything hit me. This could be it. I was frozen, I couldn't move. My mind knew I should race through the doors, push past any doctors in the way until I stood by her bed, but my legs refused to obey commands. I couldn't do it. What if things went wrong. What if she wouldn't be okay? What was going to happen if they couldn't fix it? I don't want to hear any of it. 

But I couldn't just sit here while I could be in there. 

I felt a faint tear roll down my cheek. Swipping it away, I pushed open my car door and ran through the halls, not watching where I was going. All of a sudden my vision was so filled with tears, I couldn't see past my own feet and the next thing I knew, I ran into a brick wall. Stumbling backwards, I would have fallen had two arms not steadied me. 

"Woah there," I heard a soft chuckle which told me the wall I ran into was in fact, not a wall, but a person. I knew I should apologize and laugh at my own clumsiness, but I didn't have time. I couldn't stop. I needed to see her. "You okay?" The person asked. I nodded, trying to make a quick escape. Taking one more step, I realized just how shaken up I was when I lost my footing and ended back up in the two arms I had just left. "No you're not. Where you going?" Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew that voice. I knew that caring, shy, happy voice. If I had time, I would stay and figure out who it was, but right now, I have to go. I tried taking another step, but it was useless as a hand wrapped around my arm holding me still. 

A memory popped up in the front of my mind. The only way to get rid of her was to answer her.

I turned to the familiar stranger. Woah.