"RACHEL!!" Kory yelled, not even bothering to pull over before stopping the car and running over to the beat up car.
"Kory wait!" Richard yelled, watching as she ran across the street. Luckily, the car speeding towards her hit the breaks in time and didn't hit her.
"Rachel! Garfield!" Kory yelled, finally reached the car. She opened it to find Rachel hunched over with her head on the dashboard. Kory then looked next to Rachel to find Gar with his hand to his head, his face scrunched up in pain.
"Get up Garfield! We have to get Rachel to the hospital!" Kory screamed, but he didn't respond.
"Kory move out of the way!" Richard yelled, coming up from behind her. Since they were already on the way to the hospital, they were pretty close and an ambulance was already on its way.
"Rachel!" Kory yelled as Richard pulled her away from the car in time for the ambulance to pull up.
"Stop screaming," Richard said, trying to hold his girl friend back as the men pulled her bleeding friends out of the car.
"No!" Kory yelled before continuing to scream her friends' names.
"Kory shut up and calm the fuck down!" Richard yelled and she turned to look at him. Her eyes were tearing up and there were already trails of tears on her pale cheeks. In fact, all of her body seemed pale. It looked as if she had seen a ghost, which is probably the way she felt.
"How can I?! My best friend was in labor and then got in a car accident," she said, no longer yelling. Before Richard could respond, she hugged him closely, now sobbing.
"Richard I'm so scarred," she confessed, crying into his shirt.
"Things will get better Kory, it just takes some time. I mean look at us, we've gotten a lot better. It's just taken time," Richard said and Kory looked up at him.
"Not helping," she mumbled and Richard smiled weakly down at her. She smiled in return before looking back over at the now empty car.
"I'm fine! Just let me see Rachel damn it!" Gar yelled at the doctors surrounding him. He pushed through them and his eyes fell on Rachel. She was in a stretch bed and being rushed over to the ambulance. Her forehead had been quickly wrapped to stop some of the bleeding and her stomach stood out like a shore thumb.
"Rachel," Gar made out in a whisper, his eyes tearing up. His body felt numb and Gar soon collapsed to the ground. Kory went to run over to him, but Richard held her back, telling her to give him some room.
"Let go of me god damn it!" Kory screamed, but Richard wouldn't.
"He needs me Richard!" she yelled at him.
"What if I need you Kor?" Richard asked.
"Well you don't need me right now! All you're doing is being a complete bastard by holding me here!" Kory yelled and Richard looked as if he had just been slapped.
"Let me go," Kory hissed and Richard did. She quickly ran over to Garfield, not even bothering to look back at Richard as she did. Kory shoved past all the people surround her friend and kneeled down next to Gar. She looked at his hurt, scared face before hugging him. Gar quickly hugged her back before letting go and just crying.
"Move your car out of the fucking way!" an over weight man from the road yelled. Richard looked over at the man and then back at Kory before making his way over to the car. When he was done moving it, Richard came back to find the ambulance, Gar, Rachel, and Kory gone.
"Thanks for leaving me here," Richard thought to himself grimly before returning to the car he parked down the street. (It was hard to find anyplace to park on the side of a road where a crash just took place.) When Richard reached the waiting room of the hospital, he found Gar and Rachel gone, but Kory fighting with a nurse.
"I need to go see her!" Kory yelled.
"You can't do that right now Ms. Anders. She's under extreme care at the moment," the nurse said and Kory began to cuss her out. Richard rolled his eyes before walking over to Kory. He nodded at the nurse before taking Kory by the arm and leading her over to the chairs.
"When'd you get here?" Kory asked, sitting down next to Richard.
"When I got back to the scene of the accident and found you three gone. Then I walked back to the car and drove over here," Richard said and Kory bit her bottom lips.
"Sorry about that. I went in the ambulance with Rachel," she said.
"How is Rachel?" Richard asked, suddenly remembering why they were even there.
"I don't know. They rushed her into the emergency room right away and took Gar into a different room," Kory said and once again her eyes began to water.
"Please don't cry Kory," Richard begged, but it was too late for the water works had already begun.
"Richard I'm so scared," Kory said, crying into his chest.
"I wish I could tell you everything is going to be alright, but I don't want to tell you a lie. All we can do is hope for the best," Richard said before a nurse came out into the waiting room.
"I'm afraid I have some bad news," she said and Kory began to cry harder.
"But I also have some good news," the nurse said and Kory seemed to calm down a little.
"The good news is: Rachel is alright. She'll make a full recovery in terms of her injuries and only needs to stay here for a couple of days," the nurse said and Kory let out a sigh of relief.
"What's the bad news?" Richard asked and the nurse's lip began to quiver as her eyes watered.
"The bad news is: we weren't able to save the baby," the nurse said weakly and Kory let out a cry.
"What about Garfield?" Richard asked, nearing tears himself.
"He's with Rachel right now. You may go see them, but please keep quiet and make it quick. They both need their rest," the nurse said before guiding the couple towards their friends.
"I'll be back soon to escort you out," the nurse said before turning down another hall and leaving Kory and Richard in front of a door.
"You ready?" Richard asked and before he could make a move towards the door Kory had thrown it open and rushed inside. Richard followed her and closed the door silently behind him. He walked in to find Kory hugging Gar as she cried; Rachel was not yet awake.
"How are you holding up?" Kory asked as she held her friend.
"How do you think?" Gar asked and Kory only closed her eyes sorrowfully.
"Gar?" Rachel's weak voice called. Gar let go of Kory and ran over to his girl friend's side.
"Hey babe," he said, taking hold of her hand.
"What happened?" Rachel asked and Gar looked down at her sadly.
"We got into a crash on the way over to the hospital," he said.
"What happened to the baby?" Rachel asked and when Gar didn't answer but only shook his head, she broke out into tears.
"No!" Rachel yelled, pulling her hand from his.
"Rae please," Gar said, but she simply ignored him.
"No!" Rachel yelled again.
"Rachel, please, do not cry," Kory begged, crying as well.
"No," Rachel said again, but this time it was in a broken whimper.
"Come on Kor, let's leave them alone," Richard said, taking Kory's hand and leading her towards the door where the nurse stood. Once outside the room, Kory broke into tears and fell to her knees with her head in her hands.
"Want me to take you home?" Richard asked, holding his hand out for Kory to take. She looked up at him with teary eyes before nodding and taking hold of his hand. Richard then led her out of the hospital while holding her shaking body close to his own. The car ride home was uncomfortably silent and when they pulled up at Kory's parent's house, neither one of them moved. Finally Kory broke the silence when she unbuckled her seat belt and opened her door. Richard got out of the car quickly so that he was able to walk her to the door.
"Get some rest okay," Richard said, walking Kory into her house which seemed deadly silent. Kory merely nodded her head in reply and began her way to her room. Once inside, Richard pulled the sheets over Kory and kissed her forehead before turning towards the door.
"Richard?" Kory said in a hoarse voice. Richard turned and met her pleading eyes.
"Please don't leave me alone," Kory whispered and he nodded. Kory shifted in the bed to make room and he crawled in next to her.
"Not now, not ever," Richard whispered before kissing the top of his girlfriend's head and drifting off into a dreamless sleep.
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Hope you liked it!!! Please review! And sorry to those who were looking forward to the baby. I'm really am truly sorry.
Kattie