It Started With a Rose

Chapter 9

An hour ago, Joseph had told me what happened to Tyler or at least what he knew. What Joseph told me was "I was on the phone with him and everything was good until I heard someone yelling in the background." Then he took a long pause and a deep breath as if was holding back tears before he then told me, "He hung up the phone as soon as that happened, I was already going over there so I got there about twenty minutes after the phone call ended. When I got to his front door it was already a crack open. I walked in the door and looked around, it smelled of booze and cigarettes. When I got to the kitchen I found Tyler knocked out on the floor, blood was dripping down his nose and his lower lip, and well now we're here." Then he looked away and we were silent for the next hour. 

Joseph and I watched the clock, waiting to hear any sort of news on Tyler. Joseph informed me that we need to wait for him to wake up before the doctors could decide if he is able to go home. My mind wandered, thinking about the day Tyler and I met, our kiss at the park, and when we danced two days ago. My heart dropped into my stomach the more the thoughts swarmed in my head.

I watched every nurse that went by or that walked out from behind the waiting room doors, hoping it would be about Tyler, but another hour passed and there was still nothing. I looked over at Joseph and I saw that he was getting up. "Where you going?" I said without even thinking. "O-oh I have to go check on my little sister, I'll be back a bit later." He said softly, almost in a whisper and reached for his pocket. He handed me a little piece of paper with his number on it. "Call me if you hear anything." he said as he turned around and walked away, and just like that I was alone again.

I tried to keep calm and breath as I felt my heart beat race with every hour going by, plus I have had no time to prepare for school tomorrow, I just hope Tyler is okay. I read one of those magazines, they are always so full of drama. Even though my eyes were looking and reading, I wasn't thinking about the drama on the page. My emotions were over flowing and I needed to cool down. I set the magazine out and started to walk out of the little room I was it, but then he was there.

"T-tyler" I said my voice breaking as tears rolled down my face. He was in a wheel chair with a nurse behind him. Tyler didn't speak, he seemed in a daze as he looked off into the room with a blank look. I looked down worried about why he wasn't talking, then I looked up at the nurse. She smiled at me and looked down at Tyler. "It's normal for this to happen on the pain killers we have him on. He got knocked out pretty good, the boy that brought him here didn't really say what happened, do you know miss?"

My face with pale white, and my heart began to bound. I froze, I didn't  know if I should answer. "N-no sorry." The nurse smiled and handed me the wheel chair. "It's okay, he should be okay to go home, but make sure he gets a lot of rest and takes at least two of the pills a day okay sweetie." I nodded anxiously and walked Tyler and I out of the hospital doors.

I stood outside the hospital and looked at the paper Joseph gave me, typing his number into my phone. I waited for him to pick up and looked down at Tyler, he seemed so empty, so lifeless. Tyler's arms were covered with black and purple bruises along with his cheek, I thought to myself what could he have done to deserve this.

Joseph answered the phone and I updated him on what was going on, he told me he would pick us up in a minute. As I waited for Joseph to pick us up I sat down next to Tyler and looked up at him, I grabbed his hand and whispered, "I won't leave you." I suddenly felt his hand softly squeezing mine back, and I believe that in his own way, he was telling me, "Thank you."