Chapter 7
Michelle was standing outside an extremely large building, almost like a movie set, but she was a little freaked out since there were no cars around and there was also no people around. "This has to be the place; I mean it says it on the text…" Michelle thought to herself as she looked at the text for the tenth time. Michelle opened doors which just lead her into a pitch black room.
"Shane?" Michelle getting a little scared that someone might kidnap her or something. As Michelle walked closer to the front she ran into a hard chair, or what she thought was a chair.
"Shane… This isn't funny! I just hurt myself!" Michelle said raising her voice. All of a sudden one spotlight hit the stage revealing Shane with a single red rose.
"What the..." Michelle said having an utterly confused expression on her face as all the lights in the studio turned on revealing a stage with two huge slides and some humongous screens.
"It's the stage for our concert," Shane said as he tried to hop of the stage but ended up tripping and falling on his face, but getting right back up and running towards Michelle who was still confused but had to smile a little as Shanes' clumsiness. "You're the second one to see it, I mean obviously, since I saw it first, well actually you wouldn't be the second because you had the guys who set it up see it, so you're like…I don't know where exactly you are in the viewing line, but your considered second because my family haven't seen it." All Michelle could do was just laugh at Shane. "So anyway, there was another reason why I brought you here," Shane pulled Michelle towards the stage, and lifted her up to sit on the edge; he hopped up next to her with there legs dangling.
"So you can kill me? Because there is like nobody here so it's basically the perfect spot," Michelle said with a completely serious face.
"You know me to well," They both laughed at each other "But I wanted to tell you that we are going for a drive today."
"Oh, so I don't even get a choice anymore," Michelle said fake appalled
"Yea, sorry about that," Shane said
"Well I would love to." Michelle said as she gave Shane a kiss.
"Okay, well let's go then!" Shane said hoping off the stage and led Michelle towards his little black convertible.
"Wait, one question, um do you even have your license, because I clearly remember in the living the dream episode, you couldn't not hit the cones, I would prefer not to end up in the ICU at the end of this date." Michelle said laughing a little
"I promise that you won't end up in the ICU." Shane said as he opened the passenger door for Michelle.
"Thanks"
"No problem for my girl"
"You are way too cheesy" Michelle said as she turned on the radio and Shane started to pull out of the parking lot.
"Do you have an Ipod adapter?" She said as she pulled her Ipod out of her bag.
"That was the first thing that I asked for" He said as he pointed to a chord sticking out of the dash and watched her plug it in. "You better put something good on"
"Oh, I have a feeling you will like this song" She said as she pressed play on her Ipod, and "Burning Up" filled the silence.
"Oh HA HA Michelle! Very Funny!"
"What? Sorry I can't hear you!" She yelled pretending not to hear him as she sang along to the music.
"Come on Shane!" He wasn't singing along "Fine! I will put on a song that you didn't personally sing!" She said as she found another song "You have to sing along to this song, and don't say you don't know the words, because everyone knows the words" "Oops I Did It Again" came on and this time Shane sang along. After a couple trips down memory lane, Michelle turned down the radio.
"So where exactly are you taking me?" Michelle said looking at his face for any type of clue.
"It's a surprise!" Shane said not even glancing at her face which was now in a pout.
"Just know, I read a lot of stories, and whenever the guy says it's a surprise, it's always amazing, so you have a pretty high bar to reach, just know that since you won't tell me or give me a small clue."
"Oh, I think I'll live." Shane said as he turned the radio back on to Z100
Win tickets to see Connect Three front row on there new sold out tour! Coming up next! The radio announcer said.
"OMG! I so have to win those!" Michelle said in a completely serious girly tone. Shane just gave her a completely weird look. "What! Have you ever heard JB sing? They are like angels! And that middle brother, damn is he hot!"
"Well! If the middle brother is so hot I can't stop you from winning those tickets. So what does this brother look like?"
"Oh, well he has straight black hair, wears extremely cute clothes which usually consists of tight pants and a t-shirt…" she continued on with the list as she leaned forward to kiss him, as he was millimeters away from her lips when she quickly pulled away, "Sorry, you wont tell me where we're going," Shane just glared at her in which Michelle just returned with a sweet smile. After about 20 minutes of talking about everything, school, music, anything really, Shane finally stopped the car on the side of the highway.
"This is your surprise? The side of the highway?"
"No! I just need to cover your eyes from here so you don't see the surprise when we pull up to it." He said as he tied his favorite zebra print tie around her eyes and turned up the radio as he started up the car.
"And why exactly are you turning up the radio?"
"So you don't hear the surprise,"
"What, you're not going to muzzle me so I don't taste the surprise either?"
"No, because then I couldn't do this." He said as he kissed her on the lips. Right as they were going to go into full make out mode Shane pulled away this time.
"Why did you stop?" Michelle fake whined.
"Because your surprise is waiting…"
"Fine! Drive on!" After about 20 minutes of driving, Shane finally pulled up to the surprise.
"Hi Mr. Grey! The gates are wide open so you can just park wherever and walk right in." A man said to Shane, in which Shane drove for a few seconds and parked the car.
"So that means I can take the blind fold off now, right?" Michelle said as she started to pull of the tie.
"Oh no you don't" Shane said as he pushed the tie back down. Shane got out of the car and went on the other side of the car to open her door for her. "Now just hold my hand and follow me." He said as he grabbed onto her hand and kissed it, which Michelle returned with a warm smile. After about 1 minutes of walking on concrete Michelle already ruled off; the beach since she heard no waves and felt no sand under her flip flops, and a park because she felt no grass, it was Shane who finally broke her train of thought. "Okay, we are here." He said as he untied the tie. Michelle was beyond speechless, and she knew that Brooke played a role in this.
"Brooke helped you, didn't she?" She said as she turned to Shane with the biggest smile on his face.
"She told me this has always been you're favorite place to come, so I wanted to bring my favorite person to her favorite place." Now this favorite place wasn't a private place, everyone in Connecticut knew about it, Lake Compounce. It was a small amusement park but had the best wooden rollercoaster, and was just an all around fun place to hang out. But you're probably wondering, what's so special about Shane bringing Michelle to an amusement park? Well, he actually got the park to be closed to the public today, and not just any day, a Friday which is always one of the busiest days.
"So what ride do you want to ride first?" Shane said
"Boulder Dash all the way!" Michelle said as she started to walk in which Shane caught up to her. "Try to keep up if you can, slow poke!" She said as her walk turned into a full on sprint. Michelle and Shane spent the whole day at Lake Compounce, munching on amusement park food, aka, pizza, cotton candy, ice cream, fudge, playing some games, chilling out at the water park and riding the coasters a million times, Shane and Michelle finally decided to leave when Brooke called them.
"Hello?" Shane answered Michelle's phone.
"Shane?" Brooke said completely confused, checking her phone to make sure she called Michelle and not Shane.
"Yea, I just answered for Michelle."
"Oh, so how is your date going? Did she like the surprise?"
"Yea, she really liked it, she rode boulder dash so much I am surprised she hasn't thrown up yet."
"Uh huh" There was a slight pause on the phone, mainly from Brooke's end.
"What's the real reason you are calling Brooke?"
"Well I was going to see if you or Michelle could drive me to a jewelry store to pick up Nate's gift."
"What about Kev?"
"Already tried, he is out some friends in the city, and I obviously can't ask Nate for two reasons, 1, it's his gift that I need to get, and 2, he doesn't drive since he just turned 16 like a few days ago."
"Um…Yea, I will be at your house in an hour, be ready!"
"Okay, thanks, and I will be outside waiting."
"You better because if you're not than I am leaving." Shane said as he hung up the phone.
"Brooke?" Michelle asked.
"Yea, we have to go pick her up to go take her to get Nates gift at a jewelry store. Sorry for having to cut our date short."
"Don't be sorry, spending a day with you is equal to a week with your busy schedule." She said as she grabbed his tie out of his pocket and put it around her neck. When they finally reached the car, being the gentleman that he was, opened the door for her and closed it for her. Shane and Michelle drove home in silence, but it wasn't that awkward silence that everybody dreaded but secretly liked, it was a reminiscent silence, where the couple just though about the day. When they finally pulled up to Brookes house, to there surprise she was standing outside, just like she promise. She had no time to waste so she just hopped into the backseat, not even waiting for Michelle to open the door and push back her seat.
"In a rush?" Shane said turning around
"Um yes! The store closes soon!"
"Don't worry; when you have a type of status like me, they tend to be lenient with the hours. And which jewelry store are we going to?"
"Tiffany's in Greenwich. Just take the highway and get off at I think exit um, something, I don't know the exact number but I know what it looks like." Brooke said a little flustered. After a while, Shane got off at the right exit thanks to Michelle remembering the exact number, and pulled onto Greenwich Ave, which was lively with adults out to dinner. He found a parking spot right by Tiffany's. Brooke hopped out, again not waiting for Michelle to let her out, Shane and Michelle followed behind closely. The woman was just closing up, when she saw Shane Grey, in which opened the door. The woman was only about 20 or so, so she still knew what was in.
"Hi, my name is Brooke Davis, yes as in Brooke Davis from One Tree Hill, anyway, I came to pick up my boyfriends gift."
"Oh, yes, that was a very special gift, Brooke, we have it in the safe, let me go and get it." The woman left and went towards the back.
"So you never told me, what did you get Nate?" Michelle asked as the woman came back with a blue box.
"This..." Brooke said as she opened the box which made Michelle's mouth drop and Shane to tell her that Nate was going to love it. They were driving home, when Shane pulled off to Brooke's exit, number 13. It was around 10 pm, and even though it was dark out, it was bright at the same time due to the lights from the road work that was done previously. But it was at 10:01 when time seemed to slow down, Shane went to go make a left after the light turned green, but somehow didn't see the hummer going through the red light, going at least 50 mph, straight on, at least hitting Michelle and Brooke straight on. It all happened slowly, the hummer ramming the car pushing it a good 100 feet before stopping, Michelle and Brooke immobile, Shane pulling out his phone to call 911.
"Accident…exit 13… Darien/Norwalk border… 2 injured, my name is Shane Grey. Help…" Shane said in a hoarse voice. Shane was able to get out of the car, nothing seemed to be broken, but it was the last thing he could say about Brooke and Michelle. They were bleeding pretty badly due to the fact that they were on the side of impact, and there necks were hanging, almost like broken Marinette dolls. Two ambulances finally pulled up, which seemed like forever to Shane, he had no clue what just happened, it was like a bad dream he wanted to wake up from. As the paramedics pulled up and started loading up Brooke and Michelle, the injuries seemed worse than he thought. He rode in Michelle's ambulance, never letting go of her hand. As he sat there crying thinking about what just happened, the paramedic broke the silence with asking Shane some questions about Michelle for her medical forms. He never imagined this day in his life. When the ambulance pulled up the hospital, Shane followed closely behind Michelle's stretch, and not to far behind was Brooke's, he stopped in his tracks when he saw what was written on the two double doors that Brooke and Michelle's stretched just entered, ICU. The one promise he made to her, he couldn't keep. Shane broke down into full on sobs right in front of the door until he saw his family walk in, he stood up and ran right towards his mom and cried into her should until he could finally speak.
"Mom, where are Michelle and Brooke's parents?"
"Oh, um, Brooke's dad on a hunting trip in Montana, and her mom is in Wisconsin unpacking her older sisters' apartment. And Michelle's parents are on a trip in California. They are trying to get the next flight out."
"How is Nate doing?" He said looking at Nate who was silently crying in the corner.
"Hasn't said a word since the hospital called. Honey, what exactly happened? Did you run a red light?"
"No! I waited till it turn green, but some guy in a hummer hit the passenger side which happened to be Brooke and Michelle's' side. Mom…" Shane said but started crying again "What am I supposed to do if they don't make it, Nate will never be able to forgive me, and I will never be able to forgive myself!"
"Honey, just go and try to talk to him, he could really use a brother." Shane nodded and walked over towards his brother. Nate knew it was Shane, but didn't bother looking up.
"Nate, I-I-I" Shane was trying to figure out the right words to say to his brother that he loved that the girl he loves is in critical condition.
"I can't believe…" Nate said thinking of what to say next as he stood up "What the hell was she even doing in your car?" As Shane was about to answer the question a police officer interrupted.
"Are you Nathan Grey?" The officer said looking down at a piece of paper.
"Yea" He said
"We recovered a few items from the accident and this had your name on it." The officer said as he handed Nate a brown paper bag. When he opened it, more tears fell from his eyes. It was a blue tiffany's box with a little tag hanging off of it reading, Nathan Lucas Grey, he knew that Brooke always liked to say his full name. He finally opened the box after staring at it for a few moments; Shane put his hand on his shoulder as he opened the box. When he opened the box he was speechless. It was a dog tag link to add to his medical dog tag; Brooke was always the one to joke about how his medical tag needed a second tag so it wouldn't be lonely. He flipped over the tag to see an inscription, Always and Forever Brooke Davis. Its like everything was a joke to Brooke, she always thought Nathan and Haley from One Tree Hill were the cutest couple and always wanted to be just like them, even though her character was screwed up in the show. She had made Nate sit through a full day of One Tree Hill, and even sent him home with her collection. He was just thinking about Brooke when a doctor finally entered the room.
"Brooke Davis and Michelle Smith?" The whole Grey family stood up, including Jason who was just walking through the door and ran over to his family.
"How are they?" Shane said walking closer to the doctor, with Nate following behind.
"Both Ms. Davis and Ms. Smith are in intensive care, they both have some broken bones, and it seems here that they have some skull fractures due to the fact that they were on the side of impact. You can go in, but they aren't awake, room 13, but please do keep it quiet." The doctor told them, and all Nate could do was just sigh and run his hands through his curly hair. He gave Shane a look that told him he was ready, and Shane nodded back, but when his family tried to follow, he stopped, and shook his head, and his family knew that it meant that Nate and Shane had to do this on their own. They walked into the room and saw the two girls wrapped up in a lot of bandage with cuts covering their bodies. The two boys sat right next to their respective girlfriends, but to them they were so much more. Shane pulled the chair right next to Michelle and held onto her hand. The two boys sat in silence holding onto their girlfriends hand, with only the sound of the machines hooked up to them making sounds, but every few minutes, you would hear the clank of metal; Nate holding onto his dog tag. After a few hours of the silence, a coughing sound was heard from Shane's side of the room. Michelle was waking up. Shane quickly grabbed a glass of water and put the straw near her lips for her to take a sip. After Michelle guzzled the whole glass, all Shane could do was just smile.
"Hey you" Michelle said in a hoarse voice. Nate wanted to feel happy, but his girlfriend wasn't awake yet, but he did turn around and smile at Shane, Shane knew it was a fake smile but he knew the pain he was feeling.
"Hey baby, how are you feeling?" Shane said stroking her hand.
"Oh you know…stuff" Shane could only just smile at his girlfriend. "Well, supposedly I am supposed to be hurting, but they make this stuff call morphine, and it feels amazing, I don't feel a thing!" She said with a huge smile plastered on her face. While Shane and Michelle talked to each other, him continually apologizing to her, Nate could only stare at Brooke.
"Come on Brooke, you gotta pull through this," Nate whispered. After about another hour, the doctor walked in a saw Michelle smiling, Nate stood up and walked towards the doctor.
"Excuse me, but why hasn't Brooke woken up yet? Michelle woke up" Nate said getting a little angry and worried.
"We reviewed her cat scans and MRI's and it seems to be that Brooke is in a coma, we don't know how long or when she will come out of it. But the best thing to do is talk to her. She can still hear voices; it might make her come out of the coma sooner." Nate didn't know what to do, but he walked out into the waiting room and walked right towards his mom who realized that he just got bad news, and let him cry into her shoulder.
