Blooming

Chapter 18: Blooming

Chapter 18

He looked at me so solemnly.

"H..harry! Why are you here?" I stuttered. His eyes were full of water and he was trying very hard not to cry.

"Im here for Blue." His voice cracked and a tear escaped an rolled down his cheek. I broke down then. Finally tears fell and fell and fell. My shoulders shook and my chest stung. Tears kept falling and falling rolling down my cheek every few seconds. Harry took me into his arms and we sobbed onto eachothers shoulders. I had never cried like this before they were tears of pain and destraught. We stood there for a long time Harry had stopped crying but I had been holding mine in for so long. He still held me. I felt like it was just me and him. Harry tensed and he broke away. He stared at me his eyes full of pain and disgust. I couldnt take it. He hated me. Why had I kissed Matthew that evening? It struck me. Harry was everything I wanted. But he hated my guts.

"Harry.." I started. He shook his head. He took the seat next to Blue so she was in the middle. She fluttered her eyelids and slowly woke up. She looked at Harry. He smiled down at her. I wished he would smile at me that way again. I felt discluded. They were talking and I just sat there with nothing to say.

"Bloom?" Blue looked at me. I saw a sincere look on her face.

"Thank you." Harry looked from Blue to me.

"You held my hand and comforted me when I needed it most."

What was she talking about?

"And thanks for the tea and toast I was starving!" She looked at me her eyes brimming. Wait, there had been no lady. I was the lady? I was confused. Blue hugged me. I shivered. I had been so traumatised I hadnt known I was comforting Blue, I had blurred out. Thats why the lady never came back. I felt a strange sensation and suddenly everything came rushing back to me the way it was. I saw myself sitting holding Blue's hand telling her everything was going to be all right. I had helped hold her back and had comforted her. I heard a clicking noise echo through the halls. It got closer and closer. Soon a lanky man with a white coat, and pointy shoes was towering over us. His nose was so long I couldnt see anything above it as I looked up at him. He spoke with a Swedish accent,

"Weetch von iz Blue?" He spoke with a strong confident voice for a non British doctor. Blue hesitantly raised her hand.

"Follow me." She got up and followed him. Harry ran up and touched her arm.

"Want me to come?"

Blue shook her head.

"I want to be alone." Harry came and took a seat. I wanted to tell him I loved him but now was neither the place nor the time. We sat in an uncomfortable, suspensful silence. Finally after twenty minutes Blue came back. She walked along the hall slowly and steadily her head facing the floor. She looked up quickly breathed in and then looked back down.

"She is alive." She said her voice breaking.

I didnt want to ask any questions but she told us her mother was sleeping and was on oxygen, not able to breath on her own. The doctor had told her she most likely wouldnt make it. I felt like going up to the doctor and punching him square in the nose.

She had just thought her mother had died then she was told she was alive and now she was going to die. It was messed up. She ran to me and embraced me with a hug full of suffering and despair. I sat with her for another half an hour. Then Harry told me to go home and rest that he would look after Blue. I reluctantly went but there was nothing I could do at this time. I would come back tomorrow. There was no way I was going to school when my best friend was going through so much. When I got home all I could think about was Harrys look of disgrace. I tried to sleep but I couldnt the flashbacks repeated constantly whenever I closed my eyes. I went downstairs and took a glass of milk. I decided I would go to the hospital. I wasnt going to sleep anyway. I threw on a pair of jeans and put a few things into a bag for entertainment and headed out. It was midnight so I called a taxi. This wasnt safe but I needed to be with Blue right now. The taxi drive seemed to take forever, everything was. Time was elapsing. It seemed to have stopped. Finally we reached the hospital. I paid my fair and ran to where we had been waiting earlier. The hospital was terrifying at night. The halls screamed gloom and death. I found Ward 3 and walked into the waiting room. Harry was still there. I saw the back of his head as he pulled out of a kiss. I backed to the door. They had been lying snuggled up on the chair. They had saw me. I ran, I couldnt deal with this anymore. Running away was the thing I did best. I heard Blue call my name but I kept running. I ran all the way through the hospital doors and I kept running. I didnt know where just somewhere I could clear my head.

I loved him, I was sure of it and now my heart was pierced. I sat in the tree, staring at my reflection in the lake. I had been through so much this weekend. Is that all it had been? A weekend? I was a totally different person now. I wasnt Emma Dexter or Bloom Rose I was an emotional wreck. My head was dizzy from the amount of tears I had cried. I watched as my tears dropped into the lake and formed ripples. I pulled out my phone I had five missed calls from Harry, two from Matty and six from my dad. Harry, his blue pools, his sandy hair that fell into his eyes when he laughed. I loved the way he flicked it out of his eyes. I loved the way when he kissed me he ran his fingers along my spine. And when he kissed me I feel safe and happy and out of this world. How had I ever thought I could be with Matty? When I had everything I wanted. How could I have beleived any of that crap! I shivered with the cold. I thought of all the amazing things that had happened since I had moved here. I heard the crack of a branch down below me. I looked down.

"Harry?" I asked.

I saw the silouette of a man look up at me. Who was it? I stayed still and queit.

"Bloom come down from there."

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