Introduced (Reece Bibby fanfiction)

Chapter 18

Alice's POV

I woke up in a white room with a nurse messing with a monitor beside my bed. I guessed I was in the hospital but I didn't know how I got there. I remember Reece kissing someone but I can't remember who. I remember sitting in the bathroom and taking pills but nothing else. I started to panic.

"Hey it's okay, you're fine now, there's no need to panic" the nurse said to me kindly.

"Did I... Did I try and kill myself?" I asked her, looking up at her. Even her face was a kind face. She nodded.

"Yes, but you're okay now and we're going to help you through it. Do you want me to go and get the people that came in with you? They've all been worried sick" she replied, walking to the door. I nodded and she smiled and left the room. I lay back down and closed my eyes, trying to remember everything that happened. Rebecca, it was her. I felt anger rush through my body. How could he do that?

I could hear voices outside the door and realised it was James and Reece.

"James she's my girlfriend, I need to see her, I need to see that she's okay. I need to apologise to her for everything, please just let me see her" Reece was saying. I could see him through the window, he'd been crying. I felt bad for him but I was still so angry with him.

"Mate just wait a minute, she's probably going to be mad at you and might not want to see you. Just calm down okay." James said. The door opened and all of the boys except Reece walked in. They all came up and hugged me, smiling to see that I was okay. I could still see Reece through the window with his head in his hands. Tears stung my eyes but I blinked them away.

"Do you want to see him or leave it for a bit?" Casey said, taking hold of my hand.

"I don't know, I'm so mad at him for what happened but I feel bad because now I've put him through this. He seems so upset and I don't want him to be and I want to tell him that things will be fine but I don't even know that for myself and I'm scared that if he starts speaking to me I'll get really angry and that will be the end of everything for me and him." I said, sitting up again. I was so worried about what would happen to me and Reece but I couldn't get over what he had done.

"I know what he did was awful and he shouldn't have done it Alice and I'm in no way sticking up for him, but we aren't going to let you two fall apart that easily. We said we would make sure you're okay, you're like a little sister to all of us now and I'd hate to see what it did to you both if you broke up" Casey said.

"Okay he can come in but I'm not forgiving him easily" I replied as Charlie walked to the door to let Reece in. He literally ran through the door and over to my bed.

"Alice I'm so so sorry, I'm such a dick. I didn't mean it, you know I wouldn't do that. I was drunk and I, I'm just so sorry." He stumbled over his words, trying to get them out as fast as he can. My heart hurt and I felt tears running down my face.

"Don't even start with the excuse that you were drunk Reece, I don't give a shit. You were a huge asshole and it nearly fucking killed me watching it happen, as you can clearly see. I didn't think you were that type of person." I said, raising my voice. I was trying so hard to stay calm that I began shaking.

"I'm not that type of person Alice, you know I'm not. I'm so sorry, it shouldn't have happened. I should have realised what was going on and come after you. Then we wouldn't have ended up here." He was also crying. He really was sorry and had no idea it was happening at the time.

"You know who it was right? The girl you kissed" I asked him, wiping my eyes.

"Yes I do and I regret every second of it." He took hold of my hand and looked me dead in the eyes. "I love you so much Alice, you mean everything to me, you know that. Please realise that I'm sorry, I can't say it enough times." He sunk into a chair and I looked around at the other lads. They were all watching me, smiling weakly as I looked at them. I didn't know whether to forgive him or not, I know the boys wanted me to. I let go of Reece's hand to brush some hair out of my face.

"Can someone tell me what happened when I left the club? I don't remember most of it" I said, wanting to change the subject.

"Well" Casey said. "You ran out and had a panic attack on the bridge with me and Chris and was about to jump off. We stopped you and got in the car with Tom and Barcs. All the way home you just kept saying that you wanted to die and you couldn't take anymore shit. We were really worried about you but thought you would be better left on your own to calm down a bit when we got home. That was a big mistake on our part, sorry." It was all coming back to me now. Barclay took over speaking from Casey.

"We heard a crash and went upstairs to find that you had taken a load of sleeping tablets. Chris rang the ambulance and Casey rang Jake and it was all a bit manic really. Me and Tom were sat with you and trying to tell you that you would be okay but I don't think you were really listening. I remember you closed your eyes and my heart nearly stopped. We were all so worried and panicked and then the ambulance came and the other boys came back and Reece started shouting and everything seemed to be happening at once. I stayed with you in the ambulance but you were unconscious and then we got here and they took you in here and we were told to go in a room. We just sat there for hours and didn't hear anything worth knowing until now." Reece had his head in his hands again and I could hear him sniffing, like he was crying. I guess that would have been hard to hear for him aswell. I reached out my hand and took his. He looked up at me, his face stained with tears, and smiled.

"It's okay now, I'm okay, thanks to all of you's. I don't want you to feel bad because of the way I reacted. I shouldn't have done that but I couldn't help it. I'm sorry for that but please stop getting upset over it because you'll make me worse and I hate seeing you like this" I said to him. He smiled weakly and reached over to give me a hug. I buried my head into his shoulder, I felt a lot better for forgiving him.

"I love you so so much baby, you mean the world to me" he whispered so that no one else could hear.

"You too" I whispered back, hugging him even tighter.