Just Friends// h.g.

Chapter 8

Me and Hayes ended up playing outside for 20 minutes, until "mom" came out to get us. "Kids! You guys are gonna get sick! Get your butts in here now!"

We ran in and C.G. got us towels.

We heard a door open and Skylynn ran out of her room. "Eww why are you guys dripping water?" She called out.

"Because we got tuned into mermaids." Hayes said and Skylynn started to scream. Hayes leaned my way. "she had a dream last night. Apparently a mermaid ate her."

I looked over at Skylynn, who was still screaming. "Uh, yeah and we're gonna get you!" she started running but me and Hayes were faster and we tickled her until we heard another door opened. We didn't pay attention to it.

"NASH!? What happened to you?!" We heard and I immediately turned around.

What I saw was.....wow. Nash was standing there. Soaking wet, a bruise on his arm , his shirt was ripped and there was blood near his nose and around his hands.

"Oh my gosh! Nash!" I screamed and lead him to the couch.

"...........Cam......... " He managed to say. "Cam? Cam what? Did ya'll fight? What happened?" Hayes loaded Nash with questions.

".....Lucy......." He said in a hushed tone. That name concerned me. That's my sister's name.

Why would he mention my sister? "What about Lucy? What did she do? What did you do? Why do you have blood on your face and hands?! Answer me!" I screamed. My heart rate was going up by the second.

Nash just looked up at me, with bloodshot eyes. "Cam was with Lucy...At the Mall...Hes a traitor...." He said. Nothing was making sense.

"What? How is he a Traitor? And why do you have blood on your hands?!"

"Cam knows I like Lucy-" I cut him off. "You like Lucy?!" he just ignored me and continued. "He's trying to get me back. Its not fair. Me and him got into....... A bit of a disagreement. "

"What is he trying to get back to you about?" Hayes asked.

"During Magcon, Cam's ex said that she dumped him for me. She made up all these lies and Cam believed it all. And he decided to hit me where it hurts the most"

He looked at me and started crying. "Then theres Lucy.......Cam's ex came and she started arguing with Lucy.
Lucy tried to ignore her but then......... Cam's ex tackled her down. Lucy landed wrong........ She's in a coma.... I'm so sorry Michelle."

Those words hit me hard. In a matter of seconds every emotion known to man, filled me.

"What?! Where is she?!"

"Cam and I took her to the hospital until your parents showed up. Their phones died so they couldn't call you."

Without thinking about it I ran to the door and opened it. I ran outside and sprinted to my house. I didn't find any lights in the windows or a car in the driveway.

Every part of me crashed. Some people never wake up from comas! What if my sister doesn't?! She is the closest person to me!

I started screaming at the top of my lungs. I dropped to my knees and one of my knees landed on a rock and it hurt. I didn't care. My sister might be gone!

Suddenly two arms picked me up. I recognized the smell of Hayes' sweatshirt.

I just realized that it was still raining, actually pouring. I couldn't contain myself and I hugged Hayes to the point I felt like I could break him.

"What if she doesn't wake up? Hayes, what am I gonna do? She's my best friend, sister, and much more!"

"I don't know. I know how much you love her. But for right now, you need to come back inside." He lead me to the first step and my knee filled with shrieking pain.

"Ow!" I screamed loudly.

"What happened?!" asked Hayes.

"My knee. When I dropped to the floor I hit it with a rock or something and it hurts a lot!" All of the sudden, Hayes slides his arm under my knee and picks me up, bridal style, like what they do at weddings.

"What are you doing?" I asked taken by surprised. "Well you obviously can't walk." He carried me into his house and laid me down next to Nash.

Hayes told C.G. what had happened and he came over to take a look. "It looks like you dislocated your knee, Michelle." He said still looking at my knee. "How do you know?" I asked.

"Because, I coach Football. More people than you think, dislocate their knees. Hayes bring me the knee brace from the closet." Hayes ran upstairs and came back with a knee brace that looked right about my size.

"I need you to stay off this knee. And depending on the damage, you might need crutches. Can you walk at all?" He asked while focusing on knee.

"No. She almost fell down outside. I had to carry her in." Hayes responded for me. "thank you, MICHELLE." C.G. said and I started laughing.

"Yeah, you're probably gonna need crutches. Hayes could you please go get them from the garage?" Hayes ran and I just looked at my knee.

"C.G. , not to offend you or anything, but don't I need like professional help?" He looked up at me with this hilarious face. "Honey, I am a professional. I deal with this stuff like 4 games out of like the 12, or so, that we play."

That night, after I got the crutches and everything, my parents called. They finally had found someone with an iPhone charger. They thought I didn't know about the coma thing. My mom tried to convince me that everything was fine. That was, until I told her I already knew and she started breaking out through the phone.

Hearing her cry made me remember everything that I had forgotten for a short time. The part about the chances of my best friend never waking up. Of me, running outside to find that my biggest fear was true. How I was begging that what Nash said was a joke.

I started crying with my mom and I could hear my dad in the back also crying.

A second after they hung up, I saw how the door of Hayes' room opened and Nash peeked his head in. "Can I come in?" His eyes were still bloodshot and part of me was mad at him but the other knew that it wasn't his fault.

"I'm really sorry.... I am. You don't know how much your sister means to me..... Today, I was gonna ask her out.... But I guess that I was a little too late. It's all my fault.." I just looked at him. I started to feel bad. " What if she never wakes up?" is all that could come out of my mouth. He just looked at me and brought me into a hug. I hugged him back and started crying on his chest.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen." He said. We just sat in silence for a while until Hayes peeked his head through the door.

"We'll talk a little bit more throughly tomorrow." He said and got up. And Hayes took his place.

"Hey, so on the bright side, you're gonna sleep over!You haven't slept over in a while. Remember how fun that used to be?!" He said trying to cheer me up and I smiled at his effort.

"Yes, because I'm sure that we are gonna have tons of fun. Especially for the reason that I have a jacked up knee and a broken heart." I said looking down. I was trying to smile to show him not to worry, but a few little tears managed to escape.

"Well, I don't know about the knee part, but I know something that can glue all the pieces of your broken heart together." He said trying to get me to look at him.

"This."

With that he opened his arms and he dragged me into a very tight hug. "See, there one piece back... Oh theres another one.. And another one...." He continued saying that, while rubbing my back, until he got tired.

"Now, please stop crying and you can pick out all the movies that we watch. And to make you feel even more special, if you want you can pick 'twilight'. All 4 movies if you want."

I just laughed. And ran over and picked up, Grown Ups, the first and second movie. Honestly, I don't think I can make it to 3 movies but just in case, I chose Pitch Perfect. I knew Hayes secretly like it.

I went back to lay of the bed and just when I did, Hayes came in with the popcorn.