*Audrey's POV* (Point of view)
Something didn't feel right. I stand before this hospital bed, on my knees, puddles of tears that I've made for the past 5 hours, practically begging for him to wake up.
---------"FLASHBACK" ----------
"Do you like Ashton?"
I can see his face, he wasn't kidding. He was being serious. He needed an answer. But I was so pissed, why the hell would he punch Ashton? He was just a guy, and so was he. I thought he wouldn't of been that shallow. I guess guys change, you know. So I responded. But something I thought I would never, ever, say to him.
" SO WHAT IF I DID? WOULD YOU STILL PUNCH ASHTON? WOULD YOU STILL CALEB? WOULD YOU?!"
I told him alright. But I felt, guilty. He was crying.. I have never made him cry before. He was my best friend. Forget that, he was my brother. The one I should love no matter what he did. But why Ashton? I know it was foolish, but he probably did it for a reason.
Oh yea.. He was my superman.. Trying to save me from the people out there. The bad guys, the ones that would hurt me. Did he think Ashton would hurt me? How would he know that though? Sh*t... I try to find his pinky, to tell him yes, I did still remember that promise, but then he just avoided my hands. I still try to find them, and all the sudden he starts closing his eyes. The road is about to curve. Damn it.
The car flips right on its side. Sh*t. Caleb didn't have his seat belt on. He crashes right onto the front window, while I stay back, in my seat belt, feeling the impact of the Air Bag. I fight my way through the seats, and try to find Caleb. His face, bleeding. I see the big cut, and start to cry myself. Caleb's face, is all dirty, bloody, and wet from the tears he shed. What have I done. I try to wake him up.
"CALEB, WAKE UP. Wake up, Caleb, wake up! Please...." I begged and begged for minutes. It felt like hours. He's not waking up. I can hear the ambulance coming. I just collapse, right beside him, holding on to the only friend that understood me for years, the one that was just being protective. Being my superman, the way he promised he would...
-----END OF FLASHBACK-------
So I sit there. Still crying. Staring at his face. His yet beautiful face, the one I destroyed, by yelling at him. The cut is still there. What have I done...
The doctor comes in. He tells me that Caleb suffers from major brain damage, but he may forget a lot of things that has happened. I cry even harder. Caleb's mother gets here, and she starts crying with me too. She pats my back to try and calm me down.. But nothing seems to be helping me, because he was the only one that could.
His mother has to leave, for a business meeting. What a mother, huh.
I move the chair closer to the bed, and lie my head right on his stomach, remebering the the first day of school, when we we're eating that bowl of cereal. Would he forget that too... I start to curse so much, that I realize I've never sweared that much before. Those memories, those small moments, the ones that mattered to me. The ones that made us closer. Now, he's just drifting apart...
My family gets here. They hug me first, asking if I was alright, but I only suffered minor cuts and bruises. My father and mother look upset too, considering they knew how close me and Caleb we're... My brother just stands there in shock.. He leaves the room, to go find the cafeteria. Great. He asks me if I want anything, but hunger can't fill me up right now...
An hour later, they've got to get somewhere too, so they leave. They tell me to come home, when he wakes up. Maybe...
I hear his heart beating, so slow, that it almost matches mine. I can't stop crying. I entwine his pinky with mine, the way I was supposed to, the day of the crash, hoping that he would still remember this small promise. Though I only suffered minor, he left a big hole right in my heart. It hurts. But I guess this is what I get, for not realizing what was right in front of me..
I try to believe, what had just happen. But I just lie there. Tears, streaming down my face, getting all over his hospital dress. That skimpy, little thin thing. Haha. Did he know that this thing is only covering half of his body? He'll see when he wakes up. If he ever does.
Pinkies, still entwined, in hope. And he lies there. Just him. I look up at him, and get a glimpse of his happy, lit up face, just like in Year 2, when we were six.
He was always beside me, because our pinkies we're together. I see him making the promise we made, and me agreeing to it, because he just was a crazy boy, that I thought had cooties. Oh well. It made him happy that day. And so did it make me.
And he's made me happy, for the many years we've known each other. We we're the only two. Until yesterday...
I try to shut my eyes, to get some sleep. But I start to see something. His pinky is actually wrapping around mine now, getting tighter and tighter.
Finally, my eyes lock with those deep blue eyes, just like the ones on the morning of the first day of school. His eyes are wide open, looking almost afraid.
I expect him to say the words "You are mine, forever and always" just like he's always done after we haven't seen each other in a long time, which was like a day or two. The only words that escape from his lips are " Who are you?"
