Chapter 11:
Just A Scratch
(AN- by the time you read this I will be back from a one week trip to Nicaragua. No wifi, I'm gonna die! Although if you read this I'm not dead, and somehow I survived. Yeeeehaa, cheating death for a living! That's me. Seriously, I've fallen out of countless trees and managed to grab on a branch before I smashed against the ground. I'll try to keep from dying for you guys. I OWN MY PLOT! Sorry in advance for this extremely short chapter.)
Humphrey's POV:
I awake feeling numb. I groggily try to sit up, but something is forcing me downward. I take a look around and I am sitting in a hospital bed. "What happened this time?" I ask myself aloud.
"We got in a car accident." Lilly says, and I turn to look at her.
"Lilly! Your forehead!" I say, reaching out my hand.
"I'm fine." she grabs my hand, "You are the one who almost died!"
"What?"
"They had to shock your heart to regain it's beat."
"Mm-Hm."
"Mm-Hm?! You almost die and all you say Mm-Hm!" Lilly yells.
"Look, nevermind that. I'm alive now, that's what matters."
"Yeah." Lilly leans to where her face is right in front of mine. "Good thing too." she presses her lips onto mine and we share a passionate kiss, melting away all of the remains of the traumatic experience the two of us have been through. Though when we stop, the emotional pain returns, and makes it's home inside our young hearts.
"What happened to my legs?"
"I have to make a phonecall." Lilly abruptly changes the subject. She pulls out her phone and starts dialing.
Kate's POV:
"Do you know where Lilly and Humphrey are?" I ask each of my housemates. It is early in the morning and they haven't gotten back yet. Adam and Emily came home last night, looking somewhat different. They came home without a word and They didn't sleep in the same room last night like they normally do. Adam slept on the floor.
I feel a buzz against my leg and realize my phase is ringing. I pick it up. "Hello?"
"Kate? It's Lilly."
"Where are you?" I demand.
"At the hospital." she says.
"What are you doing there?" I ask, worried for the answer.
"We got in a car accident. Some idiot didn't have on their lights and went on our side of the street. Humphrey isn't in good condition."
"How is he?" I ask.
"He might not ever walk again."
"O my gosh! I'm on my way." I shove the phone back in my pocket and run to my car. As I drive I wonder how many times am I going to be going to this destination again. It is starting to become a routine drive. Passing the same statue that sits just one mile before the hospital each time. The terrain around the road becoming all familiar.
I pull into a parking spot and rush to the desk. The woman behind the counter asks for the name of the patient. 'She must be new here' I think. "Humphrey." she types it in and tells me the room number, which I hastily walk to. I step in and see Lilly and Humphrey talking, Humphrey is laying on the bed with metal contraptions everywhere around and in his legs.
"Hey Kate." Humphrey says. Cuts litter his skin, apparently where glass has lodged in from the windshield.
"Are you ok!" I exclaim.
"I'll be fine. Just a scratch." he says with a smile. Humphrey is so happy with life since we moved in. I can't imagine what he has already been through, and how he is still physically able to smile.
(AN- I apologize profusely for this extremely short chapter. I needed to put something out there. -SilverWolf1500)