Chapter 4: What I've Done

I was like thirty minutes late, great.

"Come on," Candy nudged me and I finally woke up.

"What?" I groaned

"Your late." Candy explained.

"What!" I jumped up. I hadn't made breakfast.

" I know Shane going to be here I ten!" she hollered.

"Ten minutes, great!" I complained as I went over and pulled a long sleeve t-shirt on and some sweatpants. I threw my hair into a messy ponytail and grabbed my hoodie before running down the steps, Candy got out. I wasn't so lucky.

George grabbed the hood of my jacket and slammed me to the ground practically almost ripping it off.

"Breakfast?" He asked, grabbing my shirt and pulling me up.

"I'm sorry, I was late this morning and,-"

"Shut-up," He said , his fist hit me right under the eye. I fell to the ground upon impact. I felt his steal toed boot collide with my stomach, twice. I cried in extreme pain as George snickered and left the room.

I crawled up and felt the pain in my stomach as I stood up. I opened the door and Shane, Nate and Candy were on the sidewalk.

"Car broke down, we've got to wal…why are you limping?"

" I fell down the steps," I grimaced.

"Hailey," Candy groaned.

"Candy!"

We all started walking , me limping, with Shane next to me.

"Okay really Hailey, you must of fell hard there is a giant bruise on your face. Wait what happened to your hood." Shane examined me.

"Hailey you have to tell him!"

"Tell me w-."

Before he could finish I grabbed my stomach and cried in pain.

"Hailey?" Shane asked. " Hailey what's wrong?". The pain was unbearable and I couldn't take it anyone then everything went black.

Shane's POV

I instantly dropped to the ground and caught her before she hit the sidewalk from passing out.

"Hailey! Hailey wake up!" I cried. "Candy," I dug into my pocket and threw her my phone. "Call the ambulance!" I ordered.

Nate crouched down next to us. "What happened to her?"

"I don't know." I snapped. " Nate go get Jason now!"

"Nate ran across the street and I could hear Candy on the phone.

"Please hurry, my sister just collapsed!" She cried as she gave them our address. She was going to die, die right in my arms. Should I do something, could I do something? CPR, I felt her wrist, she's still got a pulse.

I heard the ambulance coming and picked up Hailey. The ambulance stopped in front of me and yanked Hailey from me.

I climbed in with her in the ambulance. Candy and Nate road in the car with Jason to the hospital.

"Something ruptured her spleen," one doctor said to another.

"She said she fell down the steps this morning," I advised.

The doctors new something I didn't as they exchanged looks.

Hailey's POV

I woke up completely soar. Ouch. I sat up and saw Shane asleep in the chair. His eyes fluttered open and then he popped up.

"Oh my God your okay!" He said standing next to me.

"How long was I out, wait where am I?' I asked wiping my eyes.

"Hospital, you've been out for two days." He mumbled.

"What happened?" I yawned.

"When you fell down the steps um you ruptured your spleen, they had to go into surgery and remove your spleen," He sighed.

"Oh," I coughed, I lifted up the ends of my shirt to reveal a horizontal scar on the side of my stomach. "Wow, glad I was asleep during that."

"Yeah," He laughed awkwardly. "May I?" He asked.

I nodded. His hand gently schemed my scar.

George came into the hospital room. Shane backed up instantly.

"Out!" George ordered Shane.

" I'll be back in a couple mintu-"

"Out!" George ordered. Shane did as told and made his way out. "What did you say?"

"I fell down the steps," I sighed

"If you tell-."

"I won't."

* * * The Next Day * * *

"Your free to go," Dr. Bond said as Shane helped me out of the hospital bed. "You'll just have to stay on the bed rest for the next 4 days."

"What?" I gasped plunging to the ground. Thankfully Shane caught me before I hit and helped me stand up straight.

"Bed rest Hailey, no exceptions," Dr. Bond said then left the room.

"Well isn't this grand," I complained as I crawled into the passenger seat of the Range Rover.

"I'm on so very sorry I saved your life," Shane huffed from the drivers seat.

"Not that Shane, I'm very thankful that you didn't let me die on the side of the road," I chucked.

"You have no idea how much you scared me," he muttered.

"Next time I plan on randomly passing out, I'll warn you."

"I'm serious Hailey, those doctors pulled me away from you and I thought you were gone," His eyes were watery. "But I've got to know the truth, what really happened?"

"What?" I asked playing dumb.

"Falling down the steps? Please , I'm not stupid."

"I did I-."

" I don't believe you." he huffed.

" Fine you don-."

" I know you've got a problematic family and all but-." he was cut off my me.

"Whoa, my turn to interrupt, problematic family?"

"Duh, I mean your horrible step father, and your mother walked out on you all."

"Shane!" I snapped.

"Well it's true, I mean do you know where she is?"

"No but-."

" I don't want you hurting yourself cause of your family."

I was completely speechless. Me, he thought I did this to myself! " You think I did this to myself?"

"Tell me why I shouldn't ?"

"I…I, I just can't!" I cried.

"It's because I'm right!"

"I…" I turned and saw that we were outside my house. " You know what Shane, believe what you want, I've got to leave."

"This isn't done, I need to talk to you about this. I'm sure you could get help and -."

"Stop!" I yelled, getting out of the car. He got out as well. " Butt out of my life!!"