Vanessa was standing there, staring at the unconcious Zac, who was lying at the top of the stairs.
"I should probably wake up the others, and get Zac to the hospital!" She thought, starting to panic.
She started to wake up the others. "Guys!! Wake up!!" she whispered, gently tapping each one of them to wake them up.
After a while, they all slowly woke up. Vanessa quickly explained what happened. Corbin called an ambulance, and Nessa tiptoed upstairs past Zac to wake Lily up.
"Lily, wake up!!" She called softly. "Somethings wrong with your cousin! We have to go!"
"Zaccy?" Lily asked, half-asleep. She slowly started to wake up.
"No, Lily. Its Vanessa!" Nessa said. Seeing that Lily was very tired, she picked her up and brought her downstairs. Shortly, the ambulance came and Vanessa said "Lily and I are gunna go with Zac. You guys follow behind."
After about a 3 minute ride to the hospital, Zac was inside the hospital room, and the 6 cast members plus Lily were waiting in the waiting room.
Later, the doctor came out of the room, and asked for Vanessa. "Yes, doctor?" She asked, nervously.
"Well, Zac is in a very unusual state. His body just seemed to shut down on him. He fainted, and he banged his head on the stairs as he was walking down. This is a very unusual and critical problem to deal with. He seems to be in a coma, and he has a severe concussion from when he banged his head. We dont know when hes going to recover, but our guess is that hes going to be fine.
"Thanks for the news doctor, but when will Zac be able to come home?" Vanessa asked.
The doctor thought for a moment, then replied. "Well, Miss. Hudgens, it really depends on when Zac wakes up. If he wakes up in the next couple of days and he seems to recover quickly. he will be able to come home in about a week or maybe even less. If he wakes up any later, then i'm really not sure when hes going to be able to come home."
Vanessa felt a tear appearing in her eyes. "Thanks, doctor." She silently went to go sit with the others.
She told them the news, and they were all silent and hardly talked at all for hours. They were all very tired, since they were woken up at around 3 in the morning. Shortly after, Lily started to move around in her sleep, and then started to mumble. She seemed very sad and scared. She started to whimper and moan. After a few minutes, she woke up and started to scream and cry. "Shhh!! Lily whats wrong?" Asked Vanessa, trying to calm her down. Everybody in the hospital started to come around, asking her if she was alright. Nobody knew what was going on, and after awhile Lily started to calm down, and Vanessa stroked her blonde hair gently. Lily sniffled and her eyes were red and puffy from crying.
"Lily, are you okay?? What happened??" Ashley asked, very concerned.
"I had a nightmare." Lily replied softly.
Vanessa kept stroking her hair and wiped Lily's tears with her hand.
"It was scary." She continued.
Corbin gave her a high-five and said "Your brave! You got through it! Right, kiddo?" happily, smiling at her. Lily started to smile a bit and she replied "Yeah!".
"Where are we?" Asked Lily suddenly, realizing she wasn't at Zac's house. "Where is Zaccy?" She started to seem very worried and scared.
The others tried to think of a way to tell Lily about Zac's injurys.
"Well, Lily, your cousin had a little accident. We're at the doctors! He's going to be all better, though." Monique said, trying to sound as cheery as she could.
"I dont like the doctors." Lily said, staring at the other people around her.
"Aww. Come here Lils." Corbin said, giving her a big hug.
Lily was very quiet.
The doctor came out from Zac's room again, and asked for Miss. Hudgens. Vanessa quickly got up out of her seat, and walked over to where the doctor was standing.
"We havent really gotten an improvement from Zac. We're hoping we can atleast get a movement from him in the next few hours."
Vanessa stood there quietly, listening to the doctors every word.
"Is that little girl over there related to Mr. Efron?" The doctor asked, pointing to Lily.
"Thats Lily Efron. She's Zac's little cousin." Vanessa replied, looking at Lily, who was very quiet and was looking like she was going to fall asleep again any minute.
"Where is she staying while Mr. Efron is in the hospital? Does she have parents?" The doctor wrote some things down on peices of paper.
"Um.. she is supposed to be staying with Zac for a few days. Her parents dropped her off at Zac's house last night. I dont know when her parents are supposed to be picking her up. I suppose maybe she could stay with me and my sister, untill I find out when her parents are coming to get her." Vanessa looked very uncomfortable as she stood, talking to the doctor.
"Okay. I'll let you get that sorted out. Thank you for the information, Miss. Hudgens." The doctor turned to go back into Zac's room.
"You're very welcome, doctor." Vanessa called over her shoulder, as she joined the others.
Everyone sat quiet for a very long time. Nobody had anything to say, and nobody really wanted to talk.
After a while, Vanessa's cellphone rang. "Hello?" She answered.
"Hello. Is this Vanessa Hudgens?" the caller asked.
"Yeah, I'm Vanessa." Vanessa replied.
"Okay. I'm Officer Laney." the caller said.
"Oh. Nice to talk to you, officer" Vanessa was very confused. "How did you get my number?"
"Well Zac's mother says that Zac hasnt been answering his phone. Do you have a Miss. Lily Efron with you? Zac's mother gave me your number and said that you were supposed to sleep over and you might be with her and Zac." The officer talked quickly.
"Well, I am with Lily, but Zac happens to be in the hospital. He fell down the stairs. Hes in a coma and got a severe concussion." Vanessa was very tired and all she wanted to do was get home and sleep.
"Oh. I hope he gets well soon! Anyways, may I talk to Lily?" the officer asked.
"Sure! Nice talking to you, officer." Vanessa handed the phone to Lily, who was almost asleep.
After a few minutes into Lily's phone call with the officer, she started to get a very worried look on her face. After another couple of minutes she started sniffling and tears started appearing in her eyes. After another couple of minutes, she was almost crying her eyes out.
"Bye, Officer." Lily said into the phone, through crying.
Lily looked very upset and sad, and she just wouldnt stop crying.
"Ohmigosh" Vanessa said. "Whats wrong Lily??"
Lily sniffled and cried. "My.. my.. pa.a.rents..." there was a long pause. "d..d.i..ed." she finished.
Everyone was silent and said nothing for the rest of the day.