"Carter...." I hear and I turn my head and open my eyes and feel nothing but pain. Everything hurts. I blink a few times to clear my vision and I see Zachary sitting in a chair beside me. I look around and notice I'm in a hospital room.
The crash..... They said someone was dead.
Zachary smiles when he sees I'm awake and grabs my hand, I'm speechless. I look up from our hands and see his eyes are red and puffy, he looks terrible.
"How are you feeling?"
"I hurt" I say, my voice barely audible.
He frowns and calls the nurse in.
She tells Zachary to step out and she asks me a series of questions and helps me kinda bathe and gives me some pain killers.
I look in the mirror and gasp. I have cuts all over me. Some on my face, my eyes are kinda bluish purple, bruises all up and down my back and chest. Then I see it.... a big slash on my neck. They had stitched it up, but it's obvious how bad it is.
"Here, let me help you." The nurse says helping me change into some pjs instead of having to wear the paper thing hospital gown.
She pretty. She has light brown hair with blond highlights, cut into a bob. And she has hazel eyes and a good complexion and about my height.
I slip on my fluffy pink pajama pants and then carefully slip on my black long sleeve shirt with the help of the nurse. She smiles a warm smile and I return it and thank her after she helped me back in the bed.
Then, my mother comes busting through the door. I see the tears before she even gets to me.
"Oh hunny.." She begins to cry.
"Mom, I'm alright. Just a little banged up. Yeah I'll have some scars, but it could be worse."
She looks up and sits on the bed by me. "I'm sorry it took so long for me to get here. I didn't get a call until the day after and it took me a day to get here."
She wipes her face as she says this.
So I've been out for two days?
"Wait, mom. Who was the other person in the accident. Before I blanked out they said someone was dead."
"Oh.. I'm not sure hun. I'll go ask and see what's going on. There's an officer here waiting to speak with you anyways. Maybe he'll know and you can ask him."
I nod my head. She gets up kisses my forehead and walks out.
A tall man in a police uniform works in.
"Hello, Carter." he greets me in a deep voice, "Glad to you see up and talking."
"Hi, and thank you, officer" I reply back.
He sits on the chair next to me and says "Call me Cal, now I have a few questions that I'd like to ask you." I nod my head for him to go on.
" Where were you coming from when the accident happened?"
"I was heading to my friends house from my boy- ex boyfriend."
"That is, excuse me, was?"
"Colton. You should know him I seen him here. I saw you two speaking, as well as Zachary."
"Ah yes, they were fighting. Okay, so your blood test results show you wasn't on anything or drinking. "
I nod, "That's correct. But I don't remember what happened."
"The other driver, was drunk. You may know him, his name was Michael."
Michael?!
"Please....Don't say Eden."
Officer Cal looks down and sighs.
No no no no no no. Michael, one of the best guys I know. Zachary's best friend. That's why he looked so bad. He had been crying about Michael.
