I guess I'm making this into a multi-chapter story since my friends yelled at me and made me make more chapter so umm here's chapter 2?
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail and its characters belong to Hiro Mashima, not me
Not for Long
Chapter 2: Scarlet Fear
The driver shoots out of the car. They shout and scream. What are they saying? I stare at the ground. These shoes are bloody. Rough hands clutch onto my shoulders. I look up to see woman shouting at me. Fear and guilt and horror are scattered in her hazel eyes.
"ARE YOU ALRIGHT?! IS THIS YOUR FRIEND? DARLING ARE YOU OKAY?! THE PARAMEDICS ARE ON THEIR WAY!" She screams. Her skin and chocolate hair look fuzzy. Everything does. Then I hear the screeching of a siren way too loud, and hands guide me towards the vehicle. An old-feeling blanket is tossed over my shoulders. I watch absentmindedly as my new friend is hauled into the truck on a stretcher. Do torsos normally look so dented? Do arms normally look so twisted? Are bodies normally so red? The rushing people ask me questions that I mindlessly respond to. Then we're in the back and Natsu's hooked up to all kinds of things. The woman is sobbing. I stare at him. I frown. Will he have flowers and presents sent to him? Will anyone be worried about him, other than his family? Does he have any friends here? Will he live?
Soon I'm in a waiting room, trying my best to comfort the sobbing woman, spouting about how horrible of a person she is and how she'll never forgive herself. I'm offered a cup of stale-tasting water when a man and a young girl hustle in through the glass doors. The man is probably somewhere in his late-thirties. His hair is messy and incredibly red. It's a brighter hue than Natsu's blood. His eyes look sharp and the stubble that lines his jaw seems a little too plentiful. His large hand is gripped tightly around the tiny hand of the young girl. Her skin is like porcelain; dainty and breakable. Gooey brown eyes reflect worry and fear and her indigo hair is tucked underneath her baby blue backpack, as if she threw it on in a matter of seconds. A man rushes over to them, asking something about family. The red-haired man looks angry, but he stomps towards the row of chairs and plops into one two chairs down from me. The indigo-haired girl sits gingerly in the seat beside him.
"E-Excuse me..?" I ask the man. His head snaps towards me, sharp eyes cold and all too familiar. I hardly notice how I shrink back the tiniest bit at the action, but he seems to catch it. His eyes soften the slightest.
"Yeah?" He inquires in a warm, rough voice.
"Are you, by any chance, Natsu's father?" His eyes widen at the name; I take it as a yes.
"Are you a friend of his?"
"Y-yeah. I showed him around school today."
"Would it be alright if you could...tell me what happened?"
"Y-yeah..." I explain to his father that Natsu had caught me before I fell. I told him about that look of determination in his eyes. I told him about how I hadn't realized I'd stopped in the middle of the road how the car slammed into him. Natsu's father thanked me.
"Oh, by the way, this is my daughter, Wendy."
"You're Natsu's sister?" Wendy nods her head shyly. Her eyes look glossy.
After talking to Natsu's family, I turn back to the woman who was driving the car. Her knees are drawn against her chest and her head is dug into her jean-clad legs.
"Hey...would you like something to drink? Something to eat?" I ask her. Her tear-stained face slowly picks itself up from her knees, and she looks at me. She shakes her head.
"No, thank you. But how are you so kind? I...I hit y-your fr-" her sentence is cut short when a sob erupts from her throat again and her hands fly over her face. I stand and help her up. I help her to the bathroom and wash her face and comfort her, telling her it wasn't her fault. It feels nice to be so kind to someone. When we sit back down, my phone vibrates in my right pocket. I retrieve it and read the text from Dad.
Where are you. Why aren't you home yet.
School ended two hours ago.
I'm at the hospital. My friend got in an accident.
I send the text. Not too long after, the same man who talked to Natsu's dad comes and tells them they can visit him in room 207. Want to go with them, but they only allow family members. As I lean back in my chair, the glass doors open again, revealing the tall figure of my father. I have to leave. I give one last reassuring smile to the woman, whose name is Kelsey before approaching my dad. He grabs me by the arm and we leave the building. He throws me into the back seat and I barely have time to buckle my seatbelt before he speeds off at a speed that scares me. The car is too fast, everything is too loud. I keep seeing someone in front of the speeding vehicle by there's no one there. My body is shaking. I don't like the dreadful feeling of fear.
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