Thank you everyone who reviewed the first chapter Xxx

Also for the sake of this story can you all pretend that Tom Marin was a good father who didn't cheat on Ashley or leave, it will make more sense next chapter.

Chapter 2

My eyes slowly drift open as I come around. I can see the blurry outline of a tree branch above me and grey clouds that cover the dull sky. The ground beneath me feels hard and cold and I reach down to feel what I think is concrete. My head spins slightly as my eyes adjust to the light and I close them. My hole body feels numb and cold and tingly and my head hurts.

Then the sound of an ambulance and flashing lights grab my attention and I instantly remember what happened.

The car crash.

I let out a gasp as I jolt forward and sit up to see two or three ambulances and a police car all parked on the road surrounding a wreck of metal.

I slowly stand up as two paramedics walk past and call out to them. "Hello," They don't seem to hear me so I step closer. "Can you help me?" Again, they ignore me and step into an ambulance to retrieve some supplies.

As I stumble closer I realise that the wreck of metal sat in the middle of the road is my Dads car. It's rolled over on its top and shattered into pieces of crushed metal and glass.

It doesn't even look like a car anymore.

I gasp again at the thought of my parents and look around, hoping to see them somewhere. "Mom?" I call. "Dad?"

There's no reply and I can't see them anywhere. A small group of medics are gathered in a circle and I make my way over to them to get help, hoping they will be able to tell me where my parents are and if they're okay. As I get closer though, I see they are working on someone and my breath gets caught in my throat when I realise...

It's me.

Theres an oxygen mask placed over my face and bleeding cuts all over my body. I force myself to look away as two more people come over, carrying a stretcher. They all mumble as they lift my body onto it and into the back of an ambulance.

"Prepare a trauma unit," A paramedic called. "Hanna Marin, seventeen," It's startles me when he says my name and it's a reminder it's me their talking about. "Serious head injury, punctured lung and possible right arm break."

"Trauma?" I ask. "What does that mean?" I run a hand through my hair nervously and look around. "This can't be happening." I whisper to myself. "This isn't happening." I spin around and look at the other drivers who have gathered around, simply staring in shock and horror. "Please," I almost scream to myself. "Please wake up."

But I don't.

My body remain still as the medics around me carry on with what they're doing. "Am I dead?" I ask myself. "Did I die?"

That was my first thought as I stood watching injured body lying in the cold hard ground and not being inside it. Maybe my soul is transferring from my body to wherever it goes when you die. But I can't be dead. If I was dead the paramedics wouldn't be still working on me; they would've given up and helped whoever was working on my parents.

"What's happening?" I scream as loud as I can. A few minutes ago I was on my way to school like any normal day. I was Hanna Marin; the girl who thought about clothes and fashion and Caleb and now... now I don't know what's happening to me, if I'm dead or alive or somewhere in between.

I'm pulled out of my thoughts when one of the doors on the ambulance my body is in is clicked shut. Quickly I step in through the other door and move towards the back before its closed and the ambulance starts to move.

I just stand at the back and watch as the medics carry on working on me all the way to the hospital. It doesn't take long for us to arrive and I follow them out of the ambulance and through the hospital to a ward.

There's a rush of people all coming at my body once the stretcher is pushed through the doors. "We're taking her straight through to surgery." A doctor calls and I have to jog to keep up with them.

The operating room is small with bright lights and lots of technical equipment. Another oxygen mask is placed over my mouth and a blood bag is hooked up to my arm. I stand back a little as they rip through my clothes to get to my injuries and begin to cut into my skin.

I don't really understand what's going on until a doctor moves to stand by my head and adjusts the mask. Her hands run through my blonde hair and it comforts me although I can't feel it. My mom used to run her hands through my hair just like that whenever I was upset or sick and somehow the doctor reminds me of her.

My mind flicks back to my Mom and my Dad. I need to find out where they are. If they're alive or...

A nurse opens the door quickly and hands another nurse a blood bag allowing me to slip through the door. I look around the pale, bleak hospital hoping that someone will see me and can help me find my parents. There's a woman behind the desk who looks friendly enough so I try asking her. "Excuse me, do you know anything about my parents, we were in a car crash?" She doesn't reply so I look down at the clip board of notes on top of the desk. The woman behind it pulls them away as she moves to talk to a doctor. "I was looking at that." I murmur.

Another stretcher is wheeled through the doors, surrounded by paramedics and I instantly recognise the auburn-red hair to be my Mother. Her hair is all I can see as she too has an oxygen mask covering her face but it's enough to recognise her.

Before I can get a proper look she's wheeled into an operating room and out of sight. A small sigh of relief leaves my lips, at least I know she's alive.

"That was Ashley Marin, her daughter Hanna was brought in a couple of minutes ago, they're both in surgery." I hear the woman behind the desk explain to the doctor. "The fathers still on his way in an ambulance," She explains and I take another sigh of relief. My Dads alive too. "It's not looking good."

Those four words suck that sigh of relief straight back through my lips. My eyes well with tears as I slide down the desk and bring my knees up to my chest.

I close my eyes and lean my forehead on my knees. My body is still cold and the plain hospital walls are lonely. I want to talk to my Mom and Dad, I want to hug them and and feel safe again. I want to know what's happening to me and why nobody can see me or hear me.

I've had nightmares before. When I was younger I used to get them all the time from watching scary films. I always opened my eyes though and woken up in time to stop the horror movie that was playing in my head and I try that now.

My eyes open and I'm still stuck in the hospital. Still sat on the cold floor and trying not to cry. This nightmare won't end.

My eyes close again as I try one more time, hoping that when I wake up I'll be back inside the car, driving to school with my parents safe in the front seats and this will all be a dream. A sick twisted dream.

But it doesn't work. I'm still here.

..."Where were you this morning? I missed our catch up before first period." Mona Vanderwaal asked as her best friend approached.

"I got held up." Hanna replied, glancing quickly around the hall to see if he was here.

"You'll never guess what?" Mona looked at Hanna excitedly but didn't wait for her to guess before she answered. "Noel Khan invited me to his party on Friday night."

Hanna forced a smile onto her face. She was happy for Mona after having watched her flirt her ass off with Noel for most of the year but she couldn't really concentrate now.

"Sean's coming and Noel told me to bring you too." Mona carried on and Hanna just nodded in response as her eyes scanned the school hallway for any signs of him.

She had woken up this morning to an empty bed with Caleb no where to be seen. His bag was gone and the window of her room was cracked open. Her heart had dropped a little when she realised he was gone but soon picked up when she remembered he was starting at Rosewood High today.

She turned her head back to Mona just as Caleb rounded a corner and her head instantly shot back towards him as she watched him key in the code of his locker and open it.

"Hanna, are you even listening to me? I got you a date with Sean Ackard, you've been obsessed with him for years." Mona clicked her fingers in front of Hanna's face. "What are you staring at?" She followed Hanna's gaze to Caleb. "Oh, he's the new boy." She rolled her eyes. "I don't know his name but he needs a hair cut and a shower."

"Caleb." Hanna muttered.

"What?"

"He's called Caleb." She looked back at Mona. "Caleb Rivers."

"How do you know that? He's been here like an hour." Mona asked confused.

Hanna sighed and bit her lip. "He slept at my place last night." She confessed.

"What?!" Mona gasped her eyes darting between Hanna and the new guy. "Did you loose your v-card?"

"No!" Hanna shrieked. "Nothing happened. He didn't have anywhere to stay so I let him sleep at mine." She shrugged moving along to her own locker.

"Well, that was a waist." Mona rolled her eyes and stuffed a book in her bag. "I have English, I'll see you later."

Hanna watched her walk away before she looked around the hallway again. Caleb was still stood at his locker with a phone in his hand so she looked around making sure no one was paying attention to what she was doing and made her way over to him. "Hi."

Caleb lifted his head and raised an eyebrow, unashamedly looking her up and down. "What?"

"Are you okay?" She asked ignoring the way he looked at her.

"Why wouldn't I be?" He asked closing his locker and turning so he was facing her.

"You weren't there when I woke up this morning," She bit her lip again. "How did you get out?"

"Your window."

"Oh," She nodded and he watched her as she tried to subtly glance around again checking if anyone could see her talking to him. "Don't tell anyone that you slept with me- I- I mean in my bed." Her words all came out wrong as she stuttered and hoped her makeup concealed her blush.

He smirked at her and bit his lip knowingly. "And what if I did?"

"Just please don't." She said more confidently before she adjusted her bag on her shoulder ready to walk away. She looked at him again and their eyes met. A sudden flash of pity came over her as she looked deep into his dark eyes. It seemed that everyone had already decided he was trouble from what she had heard around school that morning. He had already been given a bad reputation and yet no one knew him. Even her parents had decided about him without knowing the truth about the car incident last night but she knew he wasn't going to steal it and after spending the night next to him, a part of her already trusted that he was a god person. "My parents have made up," She added. "So the spare room is still available if you need it."

Without another word exchanged Caleb watched as she strutted off to her next class, not giving him a second glance. That Hanna Marin was not the Hanna Marin that he had met last night.

Last night she had shown him more kindness that anyone had in a long time by giving him a place to stay but now she was parading around the school with her designer clothes and perfect hair and makeup and not batting an eyelid who anyone she deemed less important than herself. Which included himself.

Although he didn't miss the way her eyes searched for him as soon as she entered the corridor or how she made the effort to ask how he was and remind him that her offer of the spare room still stood. He hated the pity that had been all over her face as she looked at him though and as much as she was playing it cool and acting like it was no big deal, he could see though her front and knew she cared.

He had lay awake for most of the night watching her sleep- he knew it was creepy but he could help it. The way her perfect lips parted ever so slightly as she took slow, easy breaths made him want to watch her forever. And when he eventually gave into sleep himself knowing he was safe in her house, he had woken up as the sun had started to rise and looked down to find her hand resting on his bare chest and her head lying by his with her soft breaths tickling the skin on his neck.

He had wanted to close his eyes and stay like that forever- just lying there with her tucked up into his side but he knew he couldn't. He had to get out of there before her parents came in and found the criminal in their daughters bed.

He shook his head as he watched her disappear around a corner and sighed before heading to his next class.

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