I was napping in math—as usual—with Seth and Lexii sitting on either side of me when I got poked in my ribs on both sides repeatedly. I jumped and looked up to see Lexii and Seth looking at me, amused.
"What? What happened?"
"She said 'I can see you behind that book, Miss. Hill'," Lexii explained, doing a perfect imitation of Mrs. Thomas's voice. I giggled under my breath.
"Would you mind telling me what negative 50 divided by x is, if x equals positive five, Miss. Hill?" Mrs. Thomas asked, giving me an easy 'were you paying attention' question.
"Negative ten," I answered her without hesitation. She looked slightly upset that I knew the answer and heard her question but moved on with the lesson. Usually Seth or Lexii told me what happened while I was sleeping. I tried to fix my messy hair but I got frustrated and turned to Lexii.
"Help?"
She grinned and nodded, fixing my side-part and tucked away a few fly-away pieces. Seth chuckled at our little routine and shook his head at my laziness. I just smiled at him. Now that I was fully awake, I was beyond bored so I just listened to the sounds of the classroom. There were pens clicking, pencils tapping, people whispering, people yawning, and the sound of Mrs. Thomas's irritating voice droning on and on. The usual rhythm of a high school math class. I stared at the clock every few minutes, waiting for the bell to ring. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. I swear the clock was mocking me. Lexii and Seth were trying to keep from laughing.
When the bell did ring, I gathered my books and sat on my desk, waiting for them to pack up. I sighed. Time to be separated again. I was about to hop down from the desk when I saw a black spider on the desk I was sitting on. I was terrified of spiders. My eyes widened and Seth followed my gaze and found the huge spider and picked me up and took me far away from it before I started hyperventilating. Lexii ran up to the teacher's desk and grabbed a tissue.
She handed it to Seth. "Kill it."
"Why do I have to?"
Lexii rolled her eyes and Seth laughed taking the tissue out of her hand. He went up to the spider and made a big show of squishing it. I was still frozen in my place until I felt a sharp pain in my arm. I jumped and shrieked. "Ouch!"
Lexii shrugged. "Sorry. You were out of it."
"You didn't have to pinch her," Seth pointed out.
We left the room and I was examining the red spot on my upper arm. I pouted at Lexii and then there was an announcement over the loudspeaker.
"Lexii Donnovan, please report to the main office for dismissal. She looked confused and a few people's eyes were on her.
"Lucky! You get to leave this prison of education!" I sighed, being overly dramatic. She shrugged and headed in the opposite direction, waving over her shoulder at us. The rest of the day went by as boring as usual. I got home and found a new message on my phone I had forgotten to bring like I usually do.
I picked up the phone and called my voicemail.
Hey, it's me. I recognized Lexii's voice. Come meet me at Forks hospital. It's an emergency.
At the mention of the hospital, I panicked. I looked around in the drawer for the notepad we left phone messages on. I grabbed a pen and ripped cap off with my teeth. Writing fast and messy, I left a message for whoever would be looking for me when they got home. After throwing the pen back I grabbed my phone and keys and rushed to the hospital. I burst through the door and bumped into Carlisle.
"Oh my God. I'm so sorry." He smiled at me but his smile faded into confusion.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, worriedly.
"I honestly don't know." I said in a rush.
"Lizzie!" I turned at the sound of my name and met Lexii's tear-filled gaze. I immediately ran over to her. Carlisle followed.
"What's the problem?" He wondered aloud.
"It's Dad." She replied and started sobbing. My eyebrows pulled together.
"What happened, Lex?" She just turned and walked away, beckoning me to follow. I peeked into the window of the room she stopped at and my heart stuttered at the sight before me. There lay Lexii's father on the hospital bed, covered in cuts, bruises and was wrapped in a bunch of bandaging, blood seeping through. Barely breathing as far as I could tell. He didn't look like he had much time left. The heart monitor stuttered. I looked over to Lexii who had tears flowing freely down her face now. I walked over to her and embraced her in my arms.
"What happened?"
"The car has been bad for a while. We were going to get a new one but my Dad needed a job first… Anyway, the car just started to break down and it spun out of control…"
She sobbed into my shoulder. Suddenly, the heart monitor stuttered again and went with a long beep. I gasped. Doctors ran into the room, including Carlisle. They were rushing around, screaming orders at each other. But I knew it. He was gone. I turned Lexii around and brought her to the waiting room where her mother sat. She had stopped sobbing and was currently staring blankly with an expressionless face. Her mother noticed.
"What's wrong? Is he…" She choked up at the end, not able to finish. Tears rolled down my cheeks and that was all she needed. She got up and ran to his room. Meanwhile, I tried to snap Lexii out of it. I waved my hand in front of her face, trying to get a reaction out of her. I knew one person who might be able to snap her out of it. I pulled out her phone and dialed Embry's number.
"Hello?" He answered on the third ring, sounding like he just woke up, though it was quarter to four.
"Hey, Em, it's me."
The sound of my voice instead of Lexii's woke him up to attention a little more.
"Lizzie? Where's Lexii?"
"She's right here but she needs you. We're at Forks Hospital."
"What? Why? Why are you at the hospital? Is she alright? What happened?"
"Em, calm down. She's fine…well physically, she's fine. I'll explain when you get here. Hurry."
I hung up and sat down next to Lexii. I shook her shoulders so hard her teeth rattled a little. Within five minutes of attempting to get her to snap out of it, Embry burst through the doors, looking frantic. I waved him over. He ran to us and took in Lexii's condition.
"Lexii? Lex? Are you okay?" He was panicking.
"Maybe we should slap her." (Hehehe. Thought that line was so funny from New Moon(: haha) He looked at me with an expression of worry and confusion.
"What happened?" I've heard that question a lot today. I recapped the whole thing for him with watery eyes and when I was finished, he sucked in a breath and exhaled sharply.
"I figured you would be the one to snap her out of it since I couldn't." I shrugged.He just nodded and tried again.
Lexii's POV (I didn't want to do her POV in this story but I kind of wanted to explain what she was thinking)
I heard their voices calling to me. They were distant but I heard them. I wanted to answer but I couldn't find my voice. It was like there was something lodged in my throat. My mouth was dry and my breathing was uneven. This could not be happening. It's not possible. But yet it did. I didn't cry. Crying seemed like the appropriate thing to do but I just didn't feel like it. Like I had run out of tears. Embry was here though. And that made it easier to speak. Though Lizzie probably couldn't hear my barely audible denial, I knew Embry had because he sighed in relief.
"Water," I rasped, in a low but louder voice. It was no more than a whisper. Embry stood up immediately and hurried off to get it for me. Lizzie moved slightly closer and by her side was Seth. I wondered for about a fraction of a second when he had gotten here but then my curiosity trailed off.
"Do you want to talk about it?" I didn't even want to think about it but as she said that, the images flowed freely. His beat up body, lying limp in the hospital bed. The monitors' colored lines. The doctors face when he saw him. No hope. The sound of the heart monitor going out with a long beep, making alarms sound. The doctors' voices, choked up with the sadness of losing a patient. My mother's face… My mother. Where is she?
"Where's my mother?" I whispered, ignoring her question. Embry was walking toward us with a water bottle in hand. He gave it to me and I gulped half of it down in two seconds. It helped me speak.
"She went to the bathroom," Lizzie answered, "You've been out of it for a while." I nodded just as my mom started walking toward us.
"Sweetie," she whispered. And then we were sobbing. Embry, Seth, and Lizzie let us have a moment. They claimed they were going to the cafeteria so I knew where to find him.
The funeral went by and I saved the tears for when I went to bed at night. That was when I took out my old blade and scraped it along my arm, until I stopped thinking. I went to sleep with a towel over it, praying my mom wouldn't check on me.
I know, I know! I'm mean. Don't hate me! And maybe I'll update Scars of Pain, eh?
:) So review! Thanks!
-madittude99
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