You Can't Lie Anymore

Chapter-29

The next morning I woke up with the sensation still tingling on my lips, remembering the kiss.

I didn't kiss him back, and I wasn't sure if it was confusion, or resistance. I knew his image and it definitely wasn't any good when it came to girls. I was his friend rather best friend, he wouldn't try to play with me like that. We hadn't talked on the way home about anything, and Olivia didn't even had a clue of what had happened. I didn't wish to spoil the current amazing vibe that was going on in the group after such a long time.

As it was leaving me in a dilemma, I kept it aside for the moment. I picked up my phone from the bed side and saw multiple missed calls from Olivia as well as Adam.

I called them back but neither of them picked up. Sighing I called Carter next, thinking f avoiding the chances to talk to Ryan, at least for the moment.

"Lue, come to the hospital, quick", he said.

"Hello.... Ryan, what do you mean?"

"Just be quick, I'll explain everything", he said.

I changed my clothes and picked the keys, rushed out of the house and reached in 10 minutes. Ryan texted me the exact place I had to be at, and well it was the Emergency.
I rushed in to see blood all over Adam and Olivia standing outside in the corridor with Mrs. Johnson sitting on the bench, her head on Ryan's shoulder. Ryan was consoling her while Adam and Olivia had tears in her eyes.
The three of them looked at me as I reached near, and Olivia started crying.
"What happened to Carter?", I asked.
Ryan kept his eyes to the ground, while Olivia ran outside the corridor.
Adam looked at me, "He fell off the roof of the house", he said.
"Fell off?", and then it hit me, shit.
This can't be happening.
I couldn't hold back the tears now.
"He has lost a lot of blood", he said his voice breaking due to the tears.
I hugged him, as tight as it could be. I knew how close the two were, and yes, I was close to him as well, but Adam knew him like his own brother.
"Katana's been informed, she will be here by 2", said Ryan.
I broke off from the hug and went to sit on the other side of Carter's mom.
"He's gonna be fine", I looked her into the eye, assuring her everything will be good. She looked at me and cupped my hands into her placing it under her chin, almost on the verge of crying.
I saw Adam's mom and Olivia's parents rush in the hospital from the far end of the corridor. We made place for them and they handled Mrs. Johnson.
Adam's mom eyed us to get her some water. Ryan and I brought the bottles. A few minutes later my parents and Ryan's parents also came to the same spot.
They whispered us to take Adam home and get him changed off the clothes that were covered in blood. I looked for Olivia while Ryan took Adam to the car. I borrowed the car keys and home keys of my parents, and gave them the keys of my convertible.
Olivia was sitting on the staircase shook from the whole scene. After consoling her I took her to parking, where Ryan and Adam were waiting for us. I unlocked the car, and took the drivers seat as I was the only one a little emotionally stable at the moment as I hadn't seen the state in which Carter was brought in the hospital, but the three of them had.
Ryan sat on the passengers seat and the two on the back seat.
I took them to my place where the three of them showered in different rooms. I got Sam's clothes from his cupboard that he had left here before going to the university, and placed them for Adam and Ryan. I took out some comfortable clothes for Olivia and placed them outside her washroom.
I came down into the kitchen and made sandwiches, some for them and some that I could pack with me for the hospital.
Ryan was the one quick with the shower and cane down to the kitchen in a few minutes while I was still making the sandwiches.
I looked at him while he sat on the bar stool of the kitchen counter and placed a sandwich in front of him. He ate in silence.
"Did you see Carter when he was....", I was interrupted by him.
"No I came in late, Adam and Olivia came in with Mrs. Johnson", he said without looking at me, eating his sandwich.
"How hurt is he?", I asked.
"The doctor said.....", he looks at the staircase which Adam was descending and in an instant stopped talking and starting eating his sandwich like we weren't talking at all. I understood the situation and went to the other end of the kitchen to get Adam one as well.
I placed the plate in front of him but he refused to eat.
"Adam you can't starve yourself", I said to him politely and he looked at me with eyes full of tears. He was sitting in the couch and I was standing in front of him.
Before I knew what was happening he hugged, his head on my stomach. The cloth of my top became wet with due to his hair, which weren't dried properly, obviously due to the absent mindedness caused by the events in the morning.
We stood there in the same posture for a couple of minutes. I could feel his breathing become heavy, and I placed a hand on the back of his head, in the wet hair and rubbed his back.
Ryan looked at us but didn't say a word and kept eating his sandwich. I couldn't read the emotions on his face at that moment. I focused my attention on Adam and looked at him.
"He's gonna be fine",I said to Adam.
He nodded his head and broke the hug.
I handed over the plate to him and he took it without further argument.
We head Olivia descend the flight the stairs, she hasn't as well dried her hair.
Anyone looking at the three of them could tell they had a terrible mind state at the moment and to be honest I had it as well.
Nothing else mattered to any one of us anymore. All that mattered was Carter.
I made her sit on the couch opposite to Adam's and made her ear the sandwich that she was refusing to eat at every bite.
Ryan cleaned the kitchen while I feed Olivia and he packet the sandwiches that I had made for the hospital in a basket.
He got a sandwich for me and I knew he wouldn't take no for an answer. I was hungry and I took it and after I had finished eating it, we locked the house and I drove us back to the hospital.