A/N: I just have to post like four things today. And I have to wrap this up so I can get new stuff started, alright?
Disclaimer: own characters, but plot is Erin Hunter's.
I was quiet for a long time until an Asian song began coming from my pocket and I could only assume it to be my cell phone since the song was my ringtone and all. Sheepishly, I began to fish it out of my pocket as Cale's warm grip tightened around my slender waist, just making me feel like I was meant foe some greater purpose in the world, even though that itself was a lie.
"Hey," I answered, not bothering to check the caller ID.
Mia's voice came through loud and clear. "Cassidy's hurt," came the girl's scared voice. "She was helping me with something and she fell and hit her head really bad, Leah." Her voice was quivering like the last leaf on the trees in the middle of December. "They don't think she's going to make it."
My heart sank to my stomach, sitting there like a cold stone as Cale's hands ran across my body with his addictive and warm and enticing touch. Panic wrenched at my guts and I rose to my feet, pushing away my dark-haired lover abruptly. One hand quickly ran through my sandy blonde, almost brownish hair. My phone was pinned to my ear with using my shoulder and my other hand grabbed my bag as Cale stood from laying in the grass, the impressions of our bodies lasting in the foliage.
"Where are you?" I asked, voice anxious and fearful as I began to head out into the woods that surrounded the clearing we had been hiding in with the sunlight on our faces while my best friend in the entire universe lay dying.
She shot me off the name of a nearby hospital. Then there was a long sigh as I pushed my way through the lush undergrowth and the cool, dank air greeted me warmly as I pushed my way out from the brisk edges of the woods and into the side of the highway where we had come from. Mia continued, "She wants to know if you've got that picture done, Leah. She's only asking for you, no one else."
I felt the tears welling in my eyes as Cale caught up to me, always faster than I was, always on the move. I caught a worried glimmer in his dark eyes as I held a hand up to the base of my throat, swallowing back sobs as if they were bile.
And I started to run, my feet thundering across the pavement in the cold air that nipped at my exposed ankles, the only thing controlling me the thought of losing my best friend, my mentor, Cassidy.
A/N: R&R!
~Sky