Chapter 4
Kori's POV
'Only a week to go before the ball!' I think to myself as I wake up. The sunlight and my alarm clock were always the best things to wake up in the morning. I turn off my clock and get dressed, and then I walk outside to grab my mail and wait for Rachel to come get me for breakfast.
After breakfast I was supposed to spend the day with Xavier but he had been called into work again. It seems to happen more often now that Dick works for him. Dick always manages to mess something up whenever Xavier and I have something planned. So instead of spending my day at home I went to the park. I loved the park, even now in the winter months it's still full of life. People walking their dogs, children playing in the snow, it's just a wonderful place. I walk around the flower trails; too bad the flowers are full of life in the winter too. When its summer; the path is full of colors that range from the darkest blues to the whitest whites and every color in between. I remember the first time I walked down this path. I use to spend hours just sitting on a bench staring at the flowers. Before I can get too lost in my thoughts a group of kids about the age of seven came up to me wanting to know if I could help put the head of their snowman on. I agreed and went with them to where they had built their snowman.
It was amazing he was almost as tall as me and that was without his two foot head. I bent down and picked up his head and carefully placed it on top of his body. Once I finished the kids thanked me and ran off to show their parents what they had made. I walked back to the trails but decided to go because it was starting to get really cold. On my way home I stopped by café and ordered at hot chocolate. After sitting at a round table near the lime green walls for ten minutes I was finally called up to get my order.
When I got home I found that I had missed four calls one from Rachel telling me that she was all free next Saturday so we could get ready together, two were from Vic and Gar reminding me that I still have to bring muffins tomorrow for breakfast since Vic wasn't going to be home early enough to cook, and the last one was from Xavier he apologized for missing our day and promising to make it up to me. I decided to take a quick nap before I called any of them back. I crawled into bed and tried falling asleep but couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. I just shook it off and turned on some music falling asleep instantly.
Something went off; it must be time to wake up. I roll over moving the purple blanket on my bed over me as I do trying to keep the light off my face so I can pretend that it's still night outside. I reach for my clock to turn it off but after pressing the snooze button three times I realized that my clock isn't what woke me up; it was my phone. 'Who would be calling me this early?' I thought as I answered the phone.
"Hello?" I ask sounding slightly groggy.
"Hello, may I speak with Korina Anders?" answered a voice, but I was too tired to tell if it was a man or woman.
"You are speaking to her." I reply
"Well Miss Anders I am calling because your friend Garfield Logan has been in a car accident and has been seriously injured, you are at the top of his emergency contacts so I decided to call you first." 'Gar had been in an accident? How could that be? Is he okay? Where is he?'
"Miss Anders are you still there?" asked the voice.
"Sorry yes, I am. Can you tell me where Garfield is at?" I ask hoping that this person can.
"He is at the hospital on Twenty-Third Street."
"Thank you." I say before hanging up. I jump out of bed and call Victor. He answers on the third ring, I told him what happened and he started to freak out, crying saying that they had the wrong grass stain. After five minutes of calmly talking to Vic telling him that they have the right person I get him to agree the come pick me up before he heads over to the hospital. Once I was done talking to Vic I called Rachel.
"Kori, what are you doing calling me this early?" she demanded
"Rachel Gar's been in an accident and is in the hospital!" I exclaimed loudly.
"What? How? Oh my god this is all my fault." She said as she started crying.