Chapter 7: Ache in my Chest
Eli's POV
I can't move. How come I can't move? Ahhh my head hurts so much, I feel as though my brain just exploded. I felt a warm liquid drip down the side of my head, and I snapped my eyes open quickly. CLARE! Where is Clare? I blinked my eyes trying to focus them, everything was so blurry, I tried to lift myself up but I realized I was being held down by something very heavy. I tried to wiggle my way out but it was no use, at this point I was pretty sure a couple parts of leg must be broken cause I couldn't even feel my toes. But I need to know where Clare is! My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of sirens coming closer. NO, …NO ..Clare? …Tears streamed down my face as I opened my mouth to scream but nothing came out. This cannot be happening! NO! I felt like my heart was going to pop out my chest and splatter everywhere! I can't just sit here! GRRR! I just cant! With all the energy I could muster I tried to push the giant piece of crap that was pinning me down, off of me. It didn't move. I pushed it again and again and again and again and it did nothing. I laid there helplessly sobbing, until I saw a man dressed in blue, carrying what looked a like a medicine bag, he was talking to me but he sounded so far away. My eyes closed and everything went numb.
I felt something touching my hand softly, I wrinkled my nose and pinned my eyebrows together, trying to figure out what it was. I blinked my eyes open trying to focus them, everything was blurry. I looked around the room and saw my mother leaning over the bed, her eyes were swollen and bloodshot, she looked like she had been crying. What was wrong? Why was she crying? I looked around the unfamiliar room and realized I was at the hospital. The car accident!
"Clare?" I said in a low raspy voice.
"where is Clare?" I looked up at my mother urgently.
She squeezed my hand tighter and started to sob. Tears escaped my eyes.
"Mom Where is Clare? Tell me now!" I said more urgently.
Just then the doctor walked into the room. "ooh so your finally awake, good." The tall man in a white lab coat said as he held my wrist checking my pulse.
"Mr. and Mrs. Goldsworthy do you mind waiting outside a few minutes while I check on Eli's Vitals?"
"uuhh..yeah" my Dad spoke. "come on sweet pea, lets go get you some coffee" he said leading my sobbing mother outside.
The doctor continued. "Eli, how are you feeling? Dizzy? Nauseaus? Any pain?"
I looked up at him, "where is my girlfriend? Clare Edwards. She was in the car with me. Tell me where she is please I need to know!"
He ignored my question and continued to check my blood pressure. "no discomfort? Or tenderness?"
I gritted my teeth together in frustrating. "doctor please. I just want to know where my girlfriend is!"
He stopped to look at me. "Eli, we can discuss it later, right now we need to focus on getting you better!" he smiled encouragingly at me, and continued in checking my vitals.
My eyebrows pinned together and I started to sob. "Doc, please!"
He sighed and wrote something in his binder. "your vitals are fine, you just need some rest and you'll be out of here soon, I'll come in and check on you every few hours or so" he said and started walking toward the door.
The tears flowed from my eyes like a raging river. "please!" I screamed! "just tell me, please, I need..to know." I whispered.
He stopped just as he was reaching for the door knob. He sighed and turned around to face me. "Clare…is in critical condition. She is alive and we are doing what we can to keep her that way. That's all I know right now. I'm sorry."
I began to sob and I felt a huge lump in my throat and an ache in my chest the size of Texas, My Clare…she has to be okay! She just has too! The doctor interrupted my thoughts and spoke. "I'll tell your parents to give you a minute before coming back into the room" he nodded and left.
I couldn't stand it! This room! This bed! I need to get out! I NEED to see Clare! I need to see her now! When she wakes up, I need to be by her side! ….oh Clare! This is all my fault! If you were never with me, if you never even met me, this would have never happened! You be perfectly fine and healthy right now and now trying to fight for your life in a hospital bed! It's my fault…I bring bad luck with me wherever I go! It should be me in critical condition not you! I continued to sob as I my mother and father walked into the room.
"Eli?" my mother squeaked out.
I sobbed, "Mom? …Clare..she's in…." I trailed off.
"ooh I know baby boy" she said as she sat on my bed and held me close in her arms. The tears didn't stop coming like the ache in my chest and the lump in my throat wouldn't go away.
"Clare is strong baby boy…she's strong." My mother said as she ran her fingers through my hair.
"I can't lose her Mom, …she's my…Clare…my Life.."
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