Chapter Four
As he walked in to the room the first thing he noticed was the I.V. drip in her arm and the oxygen tank next to her bed. After staring for a few seconds at them he looks at her face and sees that her green eyes are open and looking at him with shock, confusion, and even a little apprehension he can also see that they're blood shot and puffy from crying. As he looks into her eyes he walks over to her and pulls as much of her as he can into a hug as he's standing there holding on to the most precious person in his life he can feel himself start to cry. He pulls back and kisses the top of her head "Hello Sweetie" He says with a little hitch in his voice as is throat constricts "Hi Daddy" she whispers back uncertain of how things are going to go she can see the fear and hurt in his eyes and the tears that he lets roll down his face. She knows that she is causing him pain she didn't mean to but here she was doing it anyway, she is sitting there waiting for him to say something anything or to even yell but all he does is stand there holding on to her. As the silence continues she can't help but wonder how she got here.
The last thing she remembers is laying on the bathroom floor thinking about her mom and Elli who was her surrogate mother that was more like an aunt thanks to her parents letting her stay in around and watch her grow up until that fateful day that they where both taken from her in one fell swoop. No body knew about Ellie, not even her best friend Brooke. Ellie died almost instantly while her mom died a few days later at this very hospital do to complications that the doctors just weren't able to fix. Then boom being pulled back in to reality with two tubes down her throat and puking out her guts.
As much as she didn't want to she had to ask her dad how she got here she couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive about what was going to come out of her father's mouth after they had started to talk but she really needed to know how she got here. All the nurse would say was that apparently her boyfriend had found her on the floor and called 911. After that she was confused her last boyfriend was Jake and she highly doubted that Jake and Jenny where back and even if they where she knew Jake would never trust her with Jenny after finding her on the bathroom floor. So she ask her dad "How did I get here?" And with those whispered words her father steps away and walks to the chair at the other end of the bed. "Lucas found you on the floor and called 911 when he saw that you weren't breathing" Lucas. Lucas was the one that had found her but that made no since she thought. "and after the paramedics came he called me and told me you where on the way to the hospital luckily I was passing through Lumberton when he called or I wouldn't still be on the road."
"Peyton why, why are you doing drugs I thought everything was going good for you?"
She could hear the confusion in his voice she could see his mind trying to understand how his little girl could have possibly done something so reckless as to take drugs but just not coming up with an answer.
She knew her answer wasn't going to bring him any understanding but she told him anyway "I've been having a rough time lately with everything Tric is going terrible I can't get anyone to come and play and the ones that I do flake out on me and leave me stranded my best friend is slipping away from me I've been suspended from school, been called a dyke and I really missed Jake and Jenny and all of it was just to much I couldn't burden Brooke cause she is having her own problems and I couldn't tell you cause I didn't want you to worry anymore than you already do and it was only my second time."
"Second time Peyton!" He just couldn't handle that information right now, "Peyton no matter what is going on you can always, always talk to me and I'm supposed to worry about you that's what a fathers does is worry about his daughter and getting a call from a boy in the middle of the night saying your on your way to the hospital damn near scared the life out of me." She can't help but smile at her father for everything they've been through it was nice to be able to sit with him even if it was in a hospital room. As he sees her smile he can't help but smile back at her "Oh and don't think your not grounded missy just cause I haven't yelled at you, from now till your twenty you are grounded which means coming straight home from school that means no more cheerleading, no more Tric and no more allowance." Even with being grounded she was just happy that he was home.
AN-I know all short chapters but bear with me I write as it comes to me I don't have it all mapped out it comes I type so it may take a couple of days sometimes to get something new out.
