Hospitalised

Erica had been rushed to the hospital, luckily for us, that was only a couple of minutes driving. Sarah sat in the ambulance with Erica, while I, panicky and worrying about Erica too much, decided to run to the hospital, though it took around five minutes just to do that and Ethan went on his push bike because his house was down that road. Sarah was out waiting for us just outside of Erica's room; Ethan had only just made it there before me. Sarah had been cleaned up and her bruises and cuts were barely noticeable.

"She's in this room; thought the doctor said it would be best if only one of us goes in at a time. I've already been on there so…" Her voice trailed off as looked from me to Ethan. I nodded to Ethan and he stood up.

"Are you sure? You know, you can go in first." He said to me. I shook my head and turned him around to face the door; he walked in but only stayed in there for a minute or two. He came out with a saddened look on his face. He was obviously upset at seeing the nice Erica being hurt so badly.

"She wants you to go in, Benny. You're the one she wants to see." I never thought I would hear anyone say Erica wanted to see me, especially the way I treated her all of that time. I walked in and saw Erica in her bed, her head facing the door; she smiled at me when I walked in.

"I didn't think you would have actually come in, I didn't think you would have come to the hospital at all." She said to me as she sat up in the bed while I sat down in the chair beside her.

"Why do you think I -?" I cut off in the middle of my sentence with my conscience answering the question for me. Oh, well, I don't know, maybe it was from the fact that I'd been pushing her around, literally, for who knows how long.

"I am really, really sorry for everything that I have done to you, you never deserved to be pushed around and ridiculed. I know you probably wouldn't do this, hell, I wouldn't either, but, umm, could maybe give me another chance?" I looked down at my feet and felt tears in my eyes but I felt her hand on my arm.

"So che sei ci dispiace, ma mi danno qualche tempo a perdonarti." (I don't know if that is how you say what she is trying to say but this is what the translator came up with) She said to me. I looked at her confused.

"It means 'I know you're sorry, but give me some time to forgive you' in Italian." I nodded slowly and smiled. Then I noticed what she had said and my smile faded.

"So-some time, but-but why, why can't you forgive me after I was the reason you had got to the hospital in the first place?" I snapped at Erica who then looked at me scared, like I had pushed her to the ground and was standing over her ready to beat her into the ground, sort of like what my teammates probably had done to her just a few hours ago, I think.

"Get out." Erica said simply, not even bothering to look at me anymore.

"W-what? What do you mean?" Then she looked up at my face, with a dark side I hadn't ever seen before.

"Get out of here, Benny!" I had never heard her voice have that tone before, so, as any normal person would do when faced with the crisis of a girl in a hospital bed looking as if she would kill you, I ran out of the room as fast as I could and past Ethan and Sarah, not looking back at either one of them. After running around for about ten minutes I sat down on a park bench and began to think.

Why is it whenever I try to be nice to Erica I somehow mess it up and she gets all scared, I mean I didn't always want to push her down, mostly my friends made me do that, and I never liked to tease her either, she's actually really nice and, well, beautiful behind the glasses. If only she knew what I am thinking now, maybe everything would be different.

I snapped out of my thoughts when I got a call from Ethan on my phone. I answered to Ethan's panic filled voice.

"Benny, we have got a huge problem. Jesse came in and…"

"Well, what did he do?"

"He took Erica from the hospital. All he did was just lift her up and soar out of the open window; he literally flew out of it with Erica in his arms like she was a doll." I hung up and went back to my house. Ethan and Sarah met me there. Ethan's eyes were wide with shock and Sarah was crying and eating a bag of chips at the same time, she always ate food like that when she got upset, everyone knew that.

"Where do you think Jesse took Erica?" I asked the two of them. They both just shook their heads and I looked down at my feet.

"Maybe we should split up and look around town." Sarah suggested with a mouthful of chips.

"Do you know how long it's going to take to find Erica, especially if Jesse is moving her around." Ethan interjected but not harshly towards Sarah.

"Well, we can't just do nothing, what if she's hurt more than before." I said nearly crying myself. Ethan sighed and Sarah put her hand on my shoulder. The only thing was I didn't know what to do or where Erica was. As I began to think the worst the tears escaped my eyes, I rubbed them away with my sleeve.

"Okay, um, does anyone know where Jesse would have most likely taken Erica?" I said trying to put on as brave a face as I could.

"I know that this seems like a scary suggestion but I'm thinking maybe the cemetery, after all, who would go chasing someone into a cemetery?" Sarah made a lot of sense with her point.

"Okay then, we start there but we should have some other back up places in case she isn't there." Somehow I had a bad feeling we were in for a shock. I drove to the cemetery, which was still just as scary during the day than at night; well it would be creepier at night.

"Erica, Erica! Can you hear me? Erica!" Sarah kept calling out till her voice grew hoarse.

"You should probably save your breath, if she's hurt; she probably wouldn't be able to answer loud enough, or at all." Ethan said, he seemed pretty, I don't know, ticked off. Sarah and I both stared at him with our mouths gaping open.

"Whoa, what's got into you? You seem so, not willing to be here." I said to him and Sarah glared at Ethan.

"What? These kinds of places give me the creeps, okay." He said looking at me and Sarah. Sarah rolled her eyes and I pushed Ethan along. We all kept calling out for Erica and looking everywhere. We then stopped at a huge grey brick building.

"Okay, the cemetery is just as creepy in daylight as night, just saying." Sarah said looking down at her feet and then at us. Ethan slowly reached out and gently pushed on the door, which fell off the hinges and collapsed to the ground with a very loud hollow thud. Sarah jumped when the door fell and Ethan was unfortunately in the way and Sarah had jumped onto his back. The light shone inside of the small dusty room and showed several small graves.

I walked inside after Ethan and Sarah. Sarah had got off of Ethan's back and began to look at all of the graves. She gasped and kneeled down to closer examine of one of the graves.

"Guys, come and see this." Sarah said looking towards Ethan and I. We both knelt down and looked at the gravestone. It read;

R.I.P.

Jesse,

1732-1749,

Dearly missed and loved by all.

And we saw a painting of Jesse in a frame leaning on the grave.

"What the hell?" I said quietly. We all remained silent after that. Well, till someone stepped in the doorway blocking the sunlight pouring in. It was Jesse standing in the doorway, blocking the light.

"Well, well, well, looks like you found something that should have stayed hidden. What are you going to do? Oh, by the way, you can have Erica back, I don't need her anymore." Jesse pulled out Erica from behind the front outside wall of the little tomb. He pushed her down and as she fell I dived down to catch her. I noticed that she was unconscious as I held her in my lap.

"What do you mean you 'don't need her anymore'?" Sarah said looking really mad at Jesse.

"You'll notice later on, trust me, you will." Jesse laughed and walked out leaving us all to look at one another. Erica slowly opened her eyes and groaned a little as she sat up on her own but I still held onto her.

"Oh, my neck, what happened, where are we?" She groaned again as she looked at me. I moved all of the hair from the left side of her neck and we noticed two bite marks on her neck, both of them bleeding. I wiped off the excess blood from her neck, pulled out my phone and asked my grandmother to pick us up and we all then went home.

"What a day!" Erica said to me. She kissed my cheek and thanked me before getting out of my car unsteadily and walking in the front door. I smiled and shook my head.

"Yeah, you are welcome." I said before driving off to my house.

A.N. I think I know where I want to go with this but I'm not sure. Suggestions would be nice. I'm loving the reviews, even if it was two, it gives me hope with this story. I need to write the next chapter so it will be longer. I hope you enjoyed this. Comment, fave, follow and love.