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Chapter 3

My head was spinning and I was slightly regaining consciousness.
"Nikki... are you okay Hun?" Seth said worried. His voice automatically
sprung me out of my apparent 3 day a coma.
"Where...where am I?" I stuttered.
"You're in LaPush hospital and lucky you're alive" Sam said coldly.
I smiled from ear to ear I was so excited that I wasn't at that awful
house in Seattle and I ignored the harsh tone of Sam's voice. I didn't
know how I got here but hell, I didn't give a crap, I was with my boys
and that's all that mattered.
"So... what happened to me?" I didn't really want to know the answer.
"you got hit by a car and fractured your hip." embry said under his
breath.
"Oh" I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
I tried to sit up but a warm hand held mine.
"Whoa, whoa I don't think you should sit up yet, the doctor says you
should stay lying down for the next few days."
His voice was like the sweetest thing I had ever heard, and by this
point our hands were no longer just holding onto each other but they
were intertwined. I blushed but before I could get a glimpse at his
face a familiar voice was telling me to wake up.
"What are you talking about? I'm already up?"
"Nikki! Look honey she's opening her eyes." as I slowly opened my
eyes I saw the face of my mom.
Oh no, I repeated plenty of times in my head and gave a tiresome sigh. All of that was a dream,
I told myself. I must really miss everyone. And what was with
the whole hand holding thing. Whatever it was just a dream.
"I'll get a nurse." Dave said in his rough voice with the smell of
alcohol coming off of his breath. I bit my lip trying not to smell it.
"what were you thinking you dope?" my mother scowled.
"Excuse me? I was hit by a car, I didn't do anything."
"No you weren't hit by a car we found you in the forest all bloody and
motionless. You are never leaving the house again you drunken
bastard!" I was absolutely stunned at what she was accusing me of and
none of it even made sense.

Not only that but the fact that she might have been right, and the feeling that something pulled me

Into the woods and made me out to be the crazy one.

Great, she's drunk, I thought to myself. I was already
pissed enough and I didn't want to deal with her crap.

After about a month in the hospital I returned to my new home in
Seattle. I was kind of looking forward to the smell of pasta and
garlic but this time all it smelt like was whiskey and cigars. Dave
was having another one of his little "poker games". I held my breath
as I passed by the table with the smelly men. I had a boring life
there and did nothing but sleep, wake up, and get yelled at by my
parents for no reason because they were always drunk. On top of that I had no

friends here.
One night when they were completely hammered they came up to my room
and told me they were going out and would be back by ten. Little did
they know it was already 11:34?
"Okay bye." I said putting my earplugs from my headphones back in my
ears. I started listening to my Eminem and fell asleep soon enough.

I was woken up the next morning to the doorbell. I walked down the spiral
staircase almost tripping over my too long pajama pants. I opened the
door to a tall lanky tan man with a badge over his chest.
"Seattle P.D." He confirmed. "Are your parents Angelina and Dave?" said the cop
"Uhm, Yes they are sir. may I ask what this is about?" the cop
continued.
"We found the bodies of your parents mangled in the woods. They were
surrounded by bottles of beer and had high intoxication levels in
their systems. We assumed that they were drunk and were mauled by some
kind of animal."
"Hum I don't know what to say?" I muttered.
"Do you have anyone that you can call anywhere you can stay until the
investigations over"
"yes I do officer."
"Were going to need you to contact them so we can explain to them what
is happening."
"Yes sir." I recited Sam's number to the officer and sat down on the
couch and ran my fingers through my long black curly hair.
I was sad that my parents had been killed. As a matter of fact I was
trying to comprehend what the heck happening. On the other hand I
was most likely going back to Sam!
I ran up to my room and got changed and tried to process what was
happening. I figured Id better start packing. Before I had a chance to
open my suitcase, my phone rang and I looked at the caller ID. (Sam)
it said in big letters that stretched across my phone.
"Hey Sam. what sup?"
"nick are you okay are you safe are you alone?"
"I'm fine Sam there's an officer outside trying to sort things out for
me."
"we need to get you out of there nick" Sam said assertively.
"Make sure you start packing I'm sending Seth and Jared to come pick
you up they're already on their way there." he told me.
"Okay I'm starting now. And thanks Sam, for caring."
He hadn't known about the accident or that my hip was still messed up.
I gathered my crèches and started to pack. After about an hour caution
tape was already placed around my parents' cars. I was all packed and
sitting on the front porch with my crutches by my side wiping the tears
from my face, waiting for the boys to show up. The cops were
everywhere and asked me questions every now and than. It had been
about 3 hours since Sam called when I heard a truck turning the
corner. I knew that my ride was here. They pulled into the driveway and
both of the truck doors flew open. They both ran over and gave me bear
hugs.
"OWWW!" I screamed. My eyes started to water from the pain. Their
faces went blank and pale and their eyes automatically shifted to the
pair of crutches by my side.
"Oh my... oh my god!" Jared spoke.
"Nikki what happened to you?" he said in a piercing girl like
tone.
"Guys I'm fine I'll explain on the way home."
They carried me to the truck even though I was fine with my crutches.
Jared's hands were so hot. (Temperature wise) even though I was in
pain physically and mentally, it felt good to be in the warm embrace
of my best friends again.

A/N: hi guys... so sorry I haven't updated in a long time I've been extremely busy! I have so many more chapters to come AND it's gotten crazy intense! Let me know what you think! =)