Hold on

P H O N E C A L L

[incoming call from: Anthony Bleu]

I picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Michelle...? I... I need your.... help..." Anthony was wheezing on the other side. "He sent... people.... and im bleeding..."

"You're what?! Where are you? I'm leaving home right now!" I shouted and I stood up from my couch, I slipped on my white vans and darted out the door. "Anthony?!"

"The trail... in... Sunway p...plaza..." His voice sounded weaker.

"I'm coming, you idiot why didn't you call 911?!" I shouted even louder.

"Because If... if I do d-die... I wanted.... I want to... hear you... one last... T... t-Time..." He cried into the phone.

"Im coming. Stay on the phone with me okay?"

"Yes."

I ran to Sunway Plaza, the trail he talked about was the one I always took home from school. I reached the tail and while running through it I screamed his name.

"Where are you?! Anthony! Antho- OH MY GOSH-"

I saw him...Anthony Bleu, just...laying there. His hair a mess... face was beaten up, his left eye was swollen shut. There was blood dripping from his mouth and onto his green shirt that was now ripped, cuts on his arms and a stab wound on his stomach.

I screamed in terror. I ran faster towards him

"Anthony? Anthony! Stay with me!" I yelled as I checked his heartbeat, tears rolling down my eyes. Still there, but just barely.

His eyes half opened, I gently grabbed his face and turned it to me, he smiled weakly. "Hey Michelle..." His black brown eyes were losing their light...

I fumbled for my phone, and quickly dialed 911. "911, what's your emergency?"

"H-Hey, I need help. I found my bestfriend bleeding out on the side of the trail on my way home!"

"Okay, Miss, please calm down, we are sending an ambulance right away. Can you please tell me where you are and what your name is?"

"Sunway turn plaza, my name is Michelle. I can try and carry him more out in the open."

"I prefer you don't. We are on our way, hang on... Hello? Hell-"

"I'm carrying him."

I didn't end the call, I shoved my phone in my back pocket and turned to Anthony. I carefully placed his arm over my shoulder, "You need to get up, okay?"

He nodded, I slowly got up as he tried to as well, he winced in pain but kept trying, once we got up, I noticed that there was another stab on the side of his leg. I sobbed. He slipped a little and I grabbed on to him, his blood staining my yellow T shirt. We walked slowly, getting closer and colder out of the trail as people gasped and screamed at the sight of him, but I didn't care. I need to get him in plain sight where the ambulance can see him.

"Michelle... There..." He weakly said, he rose his hand, it was shaking and pointing at a bench. We walked there and I sat him down.

I took off the light blue zip-up hoodie I was wearing and tore off a sleeve and tore it open. "Im going to lift your leg. This is going to hurt, but we need to stop the bleeding."

"Damn... at... at least...  take me to... d-dinner first..." He smiled, I rolled my eyes, I lifted his leg and slipped the sleeve under him, I gently but tightly wrapped it on his leg, he groaned in pain. I took the string of my hoodie and tied it around as well. "Shit... ah..."

"What happened?" As I stared at his leg, the blood was already seeping through

"Your... sis...ter.... sent people... after me be...because... she found out... we're still... f-f... friends..."

I was lost for words.... I knew his would happen. Shit... "I have to do your stomach now..." I whispered.

"Fuck.... alright.." He groaned.

I ripped my hoodie once again, wrapped it, and tied. "There-" The ambulance. The sirens wailed loudly. I smiled. "Anthony! They're here!"

I turned to him and my heart sank, he was silent. His eyelids were closed.... "Anthony...? Anthony!"

"Are you Michelle?"

I couldn't move.

A paramedic shouted as ran toward us.

I was frozen

He looked at Anthony, quickly, he checked his heartbeat and checked if his eyes were dialing.

"He's still here." He said.

I turned to the other side and vomited.

"Help me." He told me, I nodded. They brought a gurney, I grabbed his head, the paramedic held his back, and other paramedics held the rest of him as we all picked him up and placed him on the gurney. They strapped him.

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"Michelle. We're going to strap you down now..."
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I doze back. I was in an ambulance with a woman sitting next to me. "Miss. It's going to be okay."

I tuned my head. Paramedics were all around him...

We need more blood. Dammit!

"Help... " My voice cracked. "H....help him! Please don't let him die! He's my bestfriend and I need him and he needs me!" I shouted, I was clinging on to the paramedic, my eyes starting to stream with tears again. The paramedic stroked my hair as she whispered to me. I stained her shirt with my tears and his blood.

defibrillator.... One... two.. three!

His blood. I'm all bloody because of him. All bloody because of my stupid sister... All bloody because I lied. This is my fault...

Come on, come on. Don't die on us! I need more gauze pads!

"I'm sorry... this is all my fault.." I said, I grabbed Anthony's hand that was hanging from the side. "If I had just stayed away from you... and if I had just listened to her... his would have never happened... I'm so sorry.... I'm sorry..."

He might not make it.

Im sorry...

We have to keep trying.

I'm so sorry...

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So uhh. This is the first chapter of this book. Hold on This actually came to me in a dream. It's based on my bestfriend. It was actually quite terrifying. I hope you guys enjoy!

- Maskie