~Chapter 30~

HELPLESS

~Soda P.O.V~

"SAMMY!"

I saw Sammy fall to the ground with blood coming from his side. I ran over to him, already almost crying. "Sammy?! Answer me Sam!" I yelled, and Sam shakily grabbed my hand and I leaned down to hear wha the was going to say. "Soda…do you love Ashlwey?" he asked, his voice fading. I nodded, the tears flowing out now. Sammy smiled faintly, "Good." His eyes rolled to the back of his head, and I picked him up in my arms. Ash was crying and all the guys sprinted in the room, stopping when they saw Sammy in my arms. "Darry, go get Ash, we have to get to the hospital!" I yelled and ran to the car Dally had. "Just stay awake Sammy, you'll be okay buddy." I said, getting in the passenger seat while Darry hopped in the drivers seat. Ash, Pony and Johnny were all in the back seat, the boys holding Ash while she cried. I couldn't stand to look at her, but I didn't want to look at Sammy either. I looked anyways and realized io had to stop the bleeding. I put my hand over the wound in his side, trying not to hurt him.

Sammy didn't even notice, he was almost passed out now. "Drive faster!" I yelled and Darry stepped on it. We finally got there and I sprinted in and yelled for someone to help us. "What happened?" a doctor asked me and a few nurses took him from me and set him on a stretcher. "Someone shot him." I managed to get out, and he nodded and they rushed him in the emergency room. The guys came in behind me, and Ashley rushed into my arms. "Shh…it'll be okay Ash…Sammy will be fine." That was a lie, I didn't know that he would be okay. Pony and Johnny had their heads down, and Two-Bit and Steve were looking anywhere but us. "Soda…" Ash tried to say, but she couldn't get the rest out. I sat us down in a chair and I held Ash in my arms for the next 5 hours while she sobbed her little heart out. I was crying to, for what had happened and because listening to Ashley cry would make anyone cry.

"Ms. Ashley?"

We looked up to see a doctor looking at us. Ashley almost stopped crying and was clinging to me as we walked over to the doctor. "How is he?" Johnny asked in a scared voice, and he looked at us sadly. Please God, don't let him be dead, I beg you. "He lost a lot of blood, but he didn't die." We all let out a breath we didn't know we were holding. But the doctor wasn't finished, "But he is in a coma." I could feel Ashley's heart break in two. She collapsed in my arms and I grabbed her tightly, wishing this could all be over. I let the tears fall from my face, and the doctor looked like he wanted to cry with us. "You can go see him if you'd like." Ashley almost ran to the door and burst it open and ran to Sammy's bedside. When I got in she was holding his hand talking to him.

"Sammy, Im so sorry Sammy…"

She leaned her head on the bed and started crying again. Seeing Sammy just laying there, so vunerable, I wanted to just kill myself. I swallowed back a sob and walked and wrapped my arms around Ashley. I didn't know what to say, and Ash wrapped her arms around me. "Its all my fault." She sobbed, and I shook my head. "No it wasn't Ash, it wasn't your fault." I said, trying to control my sobs. Ash just cried into my shoulder while everyone else just looked sadly down at Sammy.

I felt completely helpless.