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"wheres ethan?" i ask. graysons face goes pale and i furrow my brows.

"what's the last thing you remember from that day?" grayson asks.

i replay the last moments i can remember and immediately my heart drops. i remember blaine pointing a gun and when my eyes closed i heard the shot.

"did blaine shoot him?" i ask as the beeping of the heart rate monitor increases quickly.

not. good. the speeding up of my heart rate, coupled with my shortage of blood and blood flow, could cause my heart to not pump enough blood through my body.

and with the amount of blood i'm trying to replace and replenish......this is very bad.

i started to to feel light headed and my eyes were fizzling in and out.

"her eyes are rolling back!" kingsman yells and grayson tries to calm me down. luckily, since i had severe anxiety in the past, i was efficient at slowing down my heart rate and controlling my breathing.

i may have just saved my own life.

once i had effectively calmed myself down, i engaged in the prior conversation again.

"are you okay?" grayson asks worriedly.

"yes i think so.....please just tell me what's going on with ethan." i practically beg.

"blaine shot him before he couldn't react. he was kneeling down beside you and your last action was warning ethan of blaine behind him. he turned his head just enough to where the bullet didn't pierce straight through his brain. you pretty much saved his life." grayson says. my heart rate slows down a tad, making the overall state of my body safer.

"where is he?" i ask.

"he's in the ICU." grayson says slowly. i worry even more because i know how this goes.

i've always been pretty educated in the crime and medical field. i watched shows, case studies, etc, because it was always interesting.

now, i know ICU means intensive care unit. patients here are in a critical condition that more often than not can't remain stable on their own.

meaning ethan is in critical condition.

"ICU?" i ask, my voice finally starting to return again. kinda.

"the bullet entered his skull. it slightly damaged a part of his brain, rendering him unconscious around the same time you were. he hasn't woken up and he's still in a coma." grayson explained.

"is he gonna survive?" i ask cautiously.

"the doctors say he should be fine but there will be setbacks. the region of the brain that was damaged was the hippocampus-" i cut grayson off on accident, not being able to stop the words from tumbling out of my mouth.

"his memory"

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A/N: short chapter but i needed to be able to separate this and the next chapter :)

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