I can remember being carried down the stairs and into the break room and Doctor Albert Robbins walking over to me at the sofa, I can barely keep my eyes open or focus and everyone is talking at me at once, very confusing and irritating I might add!
"Hailey you ok?" Greg asks "God what happened?"
"It's my fault" Natalie sobs "I killed my little sister!"
I want to scream I'm not dead but feeling as if the world was crushing my skull and I was worried if I spoke it would fall from my mouth. I must have mumbled something as I can feel someone holding my shoulder it's either Sara or Catherine as I can here Nicky comforting Natalie. I then feel the bile rising and before I know it I cover someone's feet in sick, I would laugh if it wasn't for my increasing headache.
"Uh maybe we should get Hailey to Desert Palms?" Catherine asks "Sara you need some more shoes?"
"No just need to know if Hailey is ok" Sara replies "Oh shit! Have you seen the bruise on the side of her head?"
"Where the hell did that come from?" Nicky exclaims "It wasn't there five minutes ago"
"Well instead of standing around and debating where and how the bruise occurred, might I suggest you take Hailey to the hospital?" Dr Robbins remarked
"Yea come on guys" Greg said "Take my Denali it's the biggest and we all can get in, Natalie would you like to sit up front?"
"Uh huh" Natalie replies "Hailey isn't dead?"
"No concussed but not dead" Dr Robbins replied "She will be fine Greg make room for one more I'm coming with you"
"Ok, but why Albert?" Greg asked
"I may look at dead bodies all day, but I would like to make sure a living one is well cared for" Albert replied "but as we stand here having a general chit chat Hailey maybe getting worse!"
"Nick you look after Natalie, I'll carry Hailey" Michael remarks "Come on guys get it together"
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Two hours later and feeling as if a bus had run over my whole body I wake up to find Greg and Nick arguing, Natalie giggling and Sara and Catherine sat beside my bed sleeping.
"Hey!" I remark "I've only been out of it two hours or more and you're at each others throats"
"Oh my god Hailey your ok?" Natalie asks
"Air...Nat I need air!" I say struggling to breath
"Oh sorry" Natalie replies giggling "Oh don't worry about Nick and Greg they are arguing about who's the best at Grand Theft Auto"
"I am of course" I reply "Hey guys!"
"Hailey your awake?" Greg asks
"No I'm asleep, what do you think?" I reply grinning although it hurts "Yea I'm awake"
"Oh thank god for that" Greg replies "I thought well umm never mind"
"Hey don't say things like that and then stop" I moan "If it's gossip I want to know!"
"No you don't" Greg replies "Well not quite yet!"
"Greg you best tell her because even lying in bed she will still kick your ass!" Natalie replies shrugging her shoulders at me "It's true anyway I'm sorry for being a cow all our lives and basically umm that's it"
Not a long apology but when it comes to Natalie that after all is going to be the best you're going to get.
"You are forgiven" I reply "How's your nose?"
"Not broken" Natalie replies "Where did you learn to hit like that?"
How do you tell your twin sister that you learnt it from being with our grandparents for six months, anyway that's a different story.
"Nowhere!" I reply "Where is everyone else? Sara Catherine wake up"
"I don't want to wake up! The kids will make me eat bugs" Catherine groaned in her sleep "Mommy do we have to go? I don't want to see all those men looking at your body!"
"WHAT?" Natalie shouts "Ok that is something you don't hear everyday"
"For god sake Natalie don't shout!" Sara moans "Actually what are you shouting at?"
"Catherine!" I reply "She's dreaming very well vividly"
"Well as anyway thought of waking her up?" Sara asks getting guilty looks "Obviously not, Catherine wake up!"
"You're nice and soft!" Catherine groaned "Stay there baby!"
The look of horror on Sara's face was priceless being pulled into Catherine's chest and being squeezed at the same time Gil walked into the room to find four shocked people and me staring at Catherine. Gil calmly walked over to Sara and Catherine had pulled Sara away from the arms of Catherine.
"I apologise Sara Cath hasn't been sleeping very well recently" Gil remarks "It is my fault I've been keeping her up"
"Oh my god I didn't need to hear that!" Greg groaned "Great my boss and second in command getting down and dirty!"
"Actually you have it all wrong" Gil calmly replied "We have been discussing my retirement and Catherine taking over the position of supervisor and Catherine has been trying to persuade me to stay!"
"Ok, has it worked?" Greg asks "Sorry for thinking well you know!"
"It's quite all right Greg!" Gil replies "As I was saying I am still under sided"
"Gil? Why are you holding me?" Catherine asked "Oh hey guys"
"Hey Cath" Greg replies grinning "Enjoy your sleep?"
"Yea I did, why?" Catherine asks "Sara are you ok?"
"You felt me up!" Sara responds "You felt my chest!"
"Oh come off it Sara I did nothing of the sort" Catherine snorts "Why are you all staring at me?"
"Catherine dear you did in fact feel Sara's chest" Gil explained "I walked in to find you hugging her and then feeling her chest!"
"Oh!" Catherine gasped "Sorry Sara, I wasn't thinking correctly"
"It's ok, but if you ever do something like that again I'll knock your head off!" Sara replied
"Understood" Catherine replied "Hey you're awake"
"Yea I sure am" I reply "been awake for a while, seen your little scene with Sara"
"Ok can we stop going on about that now?" Catherine groaned
"No!" everyone replied
"Sorry Catherine the mob has spoken" I reply "Just think what blackmail we could use on you?"
"You're evil Hailey Jessica Stokes" Nick replies
"I know I learnt from the master" I remark pointing at Natalie
"I can't argue with that" Natalie replies pulling me into a hug
"Air...Air Natalie I need air!" I groan
"Sorry!" Natalie replies
"Are you trying to kill me?" I ask smiling
"No" Natalie replies "If I was I would try harder next time"
As me and Natalie debate and playfully argue we don't notice everyone walk out of my hospital room until the eerie silence finally registers in my mind.
"Natalie shut up!" I say
""I will not I was just saying how easy you are to wind up" Natalie replies
"If you would shut up for five minutes you may notice we are alone" I remark
"Yes your point is?" Natalie asks "Wait a minute where have they gone?"
"Oh honestly I swear you were born blond" I groan
"Well actually we were, mom says we were blond babies and then when we got older we started to go darker" Natalie reminds me not that I didn't know that already "So anyway the point is they left me I mean us"
"Well you can shut up hand me that brush and let me do your hair" I say
"Ok" Natalie replies "You know we haven't done this in about ten years before you went to Nana's and Papa's"
"Yea sorry that you weren't allowed to come" I sigh "I will eventually tell you and Nicky but for now let it be us, ok?"
"It will be always us" Natalie replies giving me a hug and sitting in front of me on the bed
I start to brush Natalie's hair and can't help thinking back to when we were fifteen years old and Mom and Dad sent me away to Nana's and Papa's, where I left Nat for a year and didn't go to school. My only fear is when I tell Natalie and Nicky what went off all those years ago is that they will freak and never speak to me again. I Hailey Jessica Stokes have been keeping a secret for ten years and one word I will leave you with is 'Caitlyn'.
Tbc
Who is Caitlyn? What dark secret has Hailey got to confess to Natalie and Nick? All will be revealed soon!
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