Hey guys, it's sela! So, I haven't written for HOA in centuries...I've actually been working on a fanfic for Every Witch Way, but I'm not that far into writing. Only 2 chapters.

But I was inspired to write this. One, by the wonderful people on this site, and two being the fact that I needed an outlet...

Beware, it's unedited.

So I present my latest work:

July 18

I was woken up by the ringing of my cell phone. I was extremely tired, and the only light was coming from street lamps and headlights shining into my hotel room. I knew it was late...more likely really early.

I just had this gut feeling this wasn't going to be good. Who would be calling me at what, 3 AM? I had only been asleep for a couple of hours, but I knew no one would have a valid reason to call me at this time.

I groggily answered the phone. My heart was pounding, and the buzz of the city night was so calm I could hear my heartbeat, almost ringing in my ears.

"Hello?" I said, but it was more of a question: who was calling me?

"Patricia...I-I just don't know how to say this."

I knew who the voice belonged to, and by the sound of the voice, my heart dropped. Something was devastatingly wrong tonight.

"What? Oh my god, Ambs, I'm about have a heart attack, what the fuck is going on?" I spat at her. I shouldn't have been so harsh to her. She was obviously distraught, and I was, too, just thinking about whatever news she was about to deliver.

Who had been hurt? Who needed help?Who had died? What had happened? The conversation was so slow to the both of us, but in reality, happened within seconds.

"Something happened. It's Fabian. Patricia I just don't get it," she said, I could hear the tears she shed. I knew something like this was what the call had been about. I wanted to throw up.

"What happened?" I could hardly conjure up words. I just wanted to know if he was okay.

"Fabian, Jerome, Alfie, Joy, Mara, and I were all together tonight. We'd decided to meet up a day early and go out to dinner tonight...we knew everyone else couldn't make it to until tomorrow, so it was just us...um, we went out for dinner and drinks and we...we got cabs to a hotel. Fabian and Jerome rode in one together since a cab could only hold four passengers...and on the way there, I don't know, Jerome said someone was waving the cab down, like for ride, but when the driver stopped...the guy pulled out a gun and took the drivers seat. Then he threatened Jerome and Fabian, saying he needed to get away because police were chasing him...he robbed them and continued driving, but the guy was pretty dumb, I guess. Police caught up to him and stopped the cab...Jerome said that he grabbed Fabian, using him as a shield, and pointed the gun to his head. Police still tried to shoot him at the parts that weren't protected by Fabes, and he was shot in the arm...but it all happened so quickly...he shot Fabian, but it went in the stomach, I think...or maybe it was his back? I'm not sure...jerome was in shock and just...uh. Um, but immediately the guy was shot and killed by police. Turned out he was wanted for armed robberies or something...I just don't understand why this had to happen, and to Fabian?" Amber stopped, and she sobbed for a little. I could feel tears all over my cheeks, in my mouth, in my clothes. I was silent. It all seemed so stupid that Fabian was so hurt over something like this. Something almost pointless. It didn't make sense.

"Honestly, they don't know if he'll live. And that's so scary, Patricia. I don't want him to go. He shouldn't go because of this! It's so unfair! It's complete BULLSHIT."

Amber had a breakdown. I couldn't see her, but I knew exactly what was happening. I was terrified. I wondered what would happen, how it would effect everything. Tomorrow was supposed to be amazing. Anubis was getting back together after 5 years, we were going to get that magic of being together back.

This tragedy had ruined that. Tomorrow would be sorrowful...and what if Fabian doesn't make it? Would our 5 year reunion be mourning him? I couldn't even imagine this without forgetting how to breathe. Fabian was so different from me, but he was one of my closest friends.

I wasn't good with loss. I miss people too much. I get depressed and anxious, my life seemed to crumble during loss. When I graduated from high school, leaving Anubis. When Eddie and I broke up. I drove myself mad. I hated losses.

I asked Amber where they were. She said at the hospital, waiting to here about Fabian's surgery. The incident had happened only 2 hours ago, about the time I was falling asleep. She said the surgery was expected to take several hours.

I was only an hour away; I was traveling from my law school to get to the reunion. I was going by car, and was way too tired to keep driving. So I got a hotel, simple.

But it kept me from being with my friends when they needed me, when I needed them.

I got up of bed, sleep deprived but now wide awake from the startling news, and grabbed my car keys and room key. I'd come back for my things in the morning. I'd only left some over night little things; most of my stuff for the reunion was still in my car.

I drove for the hospital Amber mentioned. I didn't stop. Fabian was the only thing on my mind. I dreaded getting there...I would see it all, it would become intensely real. But this was what I needed to do.

The car ride was torturous. I just wanted to get there, and my eyes kept getting blurred with tears. I felt so vulnerable, so uncomfortable with myself for crying like this. I should have let myself cry freely...holding myself back all the time for so long has held back a part of me, it's stripped me of something. It has made me feel like I need a barrier. Sometimes I'm just living in a second skin, being the girl people expect. Tough Patricia Williamson.

I let her go that night.

When I finally arrived at the hospital, I frantically shouted for Amber, who'd called me in the first place about this mess. Instead I found Jerome first, coming out of another room.

"Jerome?" I said, processing the blood all over his clothes, the stitched up cut on his face. It all sunk in. I was facing something horrific.

"Shit, Patricia, thank god you're here," he said. He sounded weak, and his voice had cracked. He sounded hopeless, and I teared up just looking at him. He looked at me like he was about the shatter. It was all his eyes. His appearance was disheveled and dirty, he'd obviously been under distress. I pulled him in for an embrace. He held me so tight, like a child holding on to his mother after a bad dream. This was a bad dream come true. I'd never seen him so broken. I grew up with him, and he had been through a lot...but this really affected him. Did Amber say he was there when Fabian...I couldn't think.

I wiped my eyes, "There's blood all over you..."

"It's Fabian's blood. I only got this cut on my face," he said, but his voice was failing him. "I'm fine," he said, barely able to get it out. He was in shock, his throat closed up like mine when I was taking to Amber. "No, you're not. I can tell," I said, not knowing why I had said it. We're silent for a few moments. we held each other, in a way we hadn't before. We both knew there was nothing we could but deal with pain. we pulled apart, and asked him a frightening question.

"Was it absolutely terrifying as it sounds?" But I desperately wanted to know. Even though I felt guilty and wrong for asking him. Why'd I have to make him relive this night again? Wasn't it bad enough?

"It was the scariest thing to ever happen to me. It was so real that I just thought...this can't be happening. And then when Fabian was taken by that guy...I just lost it. I knew it...just knew something was going to happen. I knew our lives were going to change, because shit was going down! Fuck, I wish I were wrong," he explained, the words somehow coming back.

"Let's go find everyone else. I desperately want to see them, and maybe find out what's up with Fabian's surgery." The words seemed so foreign in my mouth. They didn't belong there, I shouldn't had to talk about Fabian in a life or death situation.

The last few hours seemed to pass like seconds. I absorbed every detail.

Jerome and I arrived in the waiting room where all our awaiting friends were. Alfie, Mara, Joy, Amber, and Mick had also showed. Him and all the people Fabian was having an amazing night out with until that tragedy of a cab ride. I wanted to sob all over again. The faces of my closest friends looked like they'd been hit with a hurricane. Did mine look like that? I didn't think I'd been a total sobbing mess, but my cheeks were wet. A wreck had come through this waiting room. Things were pretty silent when I arrived. Everyone was just trying to comprehend the situation.

"Oh my god, Patricia," Joy said as she got up and embraced me.

"How could this happen," I whispered, but I already had known there wasn't an answer. There was no sense in any of this. Why'd Fabian have to get hurt? He didn't deserve this to happen to him. Hell, none of us did. But imagining Fabian in those moments...it made me weak. I hated it.

So for hours, we waited for news about Fabian. His parents and his sister had arrived a little earlier, but I couldn't bring myself to face them.

Nina showed up in a mess of hot tears and panic. She's said her flight was delayed and she got news about Fabian just as she was boarding the plane, saying it had been the most nerve-wracking, most terrible flight of her life. She was so worried, and I could tell. She didn't want him gone, none of us did, but he meant something more to her. Even though they had moved on from their love story, they still cared deeply about each other. They had the kind of the love that didn't just fade away. The kind of love that would stay engraved in their hearts forever.

Nina said she'd gotten a text from Eddie, saying him and KT, who only lived a little over an hour away from each other, we're on their flight right now, but they were still several hours from being here with us. Eddie was coming. I'd pondered over the thought of seeing him forever. I knew I'd see him at the reunion, but with what was going on, the reality of seeing him for the first time in a while was taking the breath out of me.

Eddie...I savored his name. I'd thought about him so much, missed him so much. I wasn't over him.

Silly thing was, I was hoping to get closure at the reunion. Bury me and Eddie's relationship for good, so I didn't have to feel the pain of wanting him any longer. Maybe I would kiss him one last time...but I couldn't think about that now. I needed to focus my attention of Fabian, and on the chaos unfolding in front of my eyes.

Suddenly, after what felt like hours of anticipated waiting, a white coat comes out through the doors. This was the moment we would hear the fate of Fabian.

So that was the first chapter! I originally published this story on my wattpad selaships , but now in posting it here! Sorry if the formatting is a little off, I wrote the whole thing on my phone. Review? Thanks for reading!