I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
~Dream- Taylor's as Rey's Point of View (if that makes sense, in her dream she is dreaming as if she was her dad, it'll make better sense when you read the dream)~
I was driving down the road angry and pissed off, rain storming down like cats and dogs, not caring where I was driving. I didn't let off the gas thinking that I shouldn't and I was just so angry that I couldn't bring myself to do so, you know how you get so angry and you drive you just have to drive faster. I didn't see the headlights coming from the heavy fog and rain hitting my windshield, when I did see the headlights I didn't think they were in my lane, it wasn't until I heard a loud squeak and metal scraping against metal and my dashboard and steering wheel being pushed closer to my body getting the airbag to set off. My eyes not being able to see or remember what happened next, the next thing I remember is two people trying to ply open the door a male paramedic/EMT talking to me through the shattered drivers seat door.
'Sir are you okay? Can you hear me?'
'I can hear you, I'm not okay.' I whispered since that was all I could do.
'Where do you hurt?' He asked through the window.
'Everywhere.' I said, at least it seemed like everywhere. The two other people were able to get the door open.
'Do you remember what happened?' He asked as two other paramedics/EMTs came over with a stretcher and a neck brace putting it on me.
'Kind of.' I said as they helped move me onto the stretcher trying not to worsen any of my injuries that I might or do have.
'Tell me everything that you remember.' He said as he walked with me to the ambulance.
'I was at home with my wife and son, my daughter recently told me she was pregnant with her fiancé's baby, I am angry with her about that, tonight my wife and I got in an argument about it and I stormed out. I guess I was going too fast and stupid for not paying attention in this weather and went head first into the other car.' I said recollecting what I remembered.
'What is your wife's number so we could contact her?' He asked as I gave him the house number, they took me to the hospital doing tons of scans and tests on me and took me to a room, I laid there seeing my wife carrying Dominique, I saw her run up to the nurses station outside my room and the nurse point to my room and she ran in with tears rolling down her face.
'What is wrong with you? You almost gave me an heart attack, thank god your okay.' She said leaning over hugging me.
'Honey, I'm okay.' I said.
'I'm angry at you, you can be SO stubborn.'
'I know, I'm sorry.'
'I'm going to go call our babysitter to come get Dominique then I'm going to call Taylor.' She said leaving the room carrying Dominique.
Real Life-Taylor's Point of View-
"Taylor, wake up, it's okay, calm down." Matt said as he held me down trying to get me to stop rolling back and forth.
"MATT!" I said sitting up quickly throwing my arms around his neck tears rolling out of my eyes of what I just dreamt.
"Sh, it's okay Taylor." Matt said wrapping his arms around me rubbing my back.
"Matt, I NEED to go back to San Diego." I said as I broke from his arms to stare into his eyes, he then put his hands on my hips and the tips of my fingers barely touching behind his neck.
"Why do you need to go back to San Diego?" Matt asked.
"I just need to go."
"What happened?"
"I had a dream my dad was in a car accident, I just got to go and see if he's okay." I said still trying to get over the dream.
"Why don't you just call him?" Matt asked as he brought his one hand up gently rubbing his thumb against my cheeks to get tears off my face.
"He won't answer me, remember he hates me."
"Alright, we will go, let me just call the airline and get us two red eye tickets." Matt said.
"THANK YOU!" I said hugging him again, he helped me out of the bed, I wrote his parents a note thanking them for dinner and why we left.
"We got two tickets for a flight in two hours." Matt said.
"Sorry Matt, I just got to make sure he is okay." I said.
"It's okay, are you sure you want to go back to San Diego?"
"I just got to check Matt." I said, he nodded and was very understanding, for some odd reason I just had to go home and check for myself. When we landed in San Diego I pulled out my phone turning it on seeing if I missed any phone calls from my mom possibly. Matt wrapped his arm around me rubbing my bicep and kissed at the top of my head. I stared at my phone as it slowly turned on, we made our way downstairs to the baggage claim area. I felt horrible for making Matt come all the way out here for this, even though its probably nothing. We stood on the escalator looking down at the baggage claim area we were getting close to when I felt my phone vibrate from a voicemail. "I got a voicemail." I said somewhat excited, I listened to the machine telling me to enter my password which I did.
"Hey Taylor, it's your mom, your dad had an heart attack tonight. I'm going up to the hospital to be with him, Mrs. Auger from across the street is going to come over and watch Dominique, please call me back when you get this." My mom said as I could tell she was frightened and upset by her voice, I can't believe my dad of ALL people had a heart attack, you never expect that to happen to your parents. He is so healthy, he works out and how can someone like him suffer an heart attack. My heart dropped, shocked and suddenly sadden, I tried not to let it show. This could have been a lot worse, I mean he didn't die from this, that's good. I closed out of my voicemail shutting my phone taking a deep breath trying not to cry but I couldn't, a few tears escaped my eyes.
"Who was it?" Matt asked brushing a strand of hair off my face to behind my ear.
"My mom…." I said as strongly as I could without my voice cracking stepping off the escalator.
"What'd she say?"
"My dad had a heart attack last night, he's in the hospital." I said trying not to break down and cry.
"Oh my god is he okay?"
"I don't know." I said shrugging my shoulders in shock.
"Let's get you to the hospital." Matt said wrapping his arm around me holding me in his embrace as we got a cab to take us over to the hospital, I stayed as strong as I could in the cab ride, Matt held me as tight as he could trying to comfort me. When Matt and I got to the hospital, Matt paid the cab driver. "Are you sure he'll be here?" Matt asked as him and I walked into the hospital, Matt had his arm wrapped around me resting it in between my shoulder blades. We walked up to the nurse receptionist area ringing the bell for service and I nervously tapped my fingers against the counter waiting for the nurse.
"May I help you?" The nurse asked when she walked out and up to the desk setting the clipboard down.
"My father was brought in last night with an heart attack, Oscar Gutierrez." I said.
"Yeah, I need a photo ID to determine that you are in fact his daughter." She said.
"Do you mind staying out here?" I asked looking at Matt.
"I don't think he'll want to see me any way, he'll just have another heart attack." Matt said, I gave him a tight hug and a light kiss before I dug through my purse finding my wallet and pulling out my drivers license handing it to the nurse, she looked it over handing it back to me.
"I'll walk you back." She said, I followed her to the back as Matt went and sat down in an empty seat of the waiting room, I practically had to jog to keep up with her and she nodded to the room he was in, my mom looked up from where she was reading her book her eyes widening and jumping up from her chair setting her book down on the table. I nervously put my hands in the butt pockets of my pants shifting back and forth on my feet nervously trying to decide if I want to go in or not, my mom waved for me to come in. I walked in with my hands still in my pockets. My mom threw her hands around me and I slowly slid my hands out of my pockets wrapping them around her.
"Where's Matt?" My mom asked
"Out in the waiting room, they wouldn't let him back. How's papi doing?" I said looking over at him.
"He's doing okay, it was just a mild heart attack, he's going to survive and he's going to be on medications and have to cut back on his wrestling matches."
"May I have some alone time with him?" I asked.
"Sure, I'm going to go out and see Matt, call home and what not." My mom said patting my back a little before she walked past me to the door. I grabbed the seat she was sitting in pulling it up next to my dad's bed grabbing his hand not saying anything just letting him sleep. My mom came back about an half hour to an hour later carrying a cup of coffee sipping it. "He's still sleeping?" She said startling me.
"Yeah, I should get going before he wakes up, he was still pretty angry with me." I said standing up letting go of his hand sliding out between the chair and the bed towards my mom.
"You sure? He might have a change of mind." She said as my dad awoke.
"On what?" He mumbled.
"Your daughter Taylor came to see you, isn't that nice?" My mom said turning me around.
"I don't have a daughter." My dad said.
"Yes you do, she's standing right here Oscar."
"No, that person I disown, she's just another lost soul that I don't know anymore." My dad said venomously making sure he looked at me when he said it, the tears rolled out of my eyes for a different reason this time, I walked out of the room having the tears rolling off my face.
"OSCAR!" I heard my mom yell at my dad before she went on to yelling at him more, I stormed out into the waiting room not even looking for Matt, I just went outside and stood close to the curb crossing my arms over my chest leaning my head down letting my hair fall down to the sides of my face. I felt a strong presence stand behind me and they were quiet for a little while.
"How is he?" Matt asked.
"He's alive." I said in a soft manner trying to soak up my tears and trying to get what he said out of my mind.
"Why are you crying?"
"I'm not crying." I said raising my head to look out across the parking lot and the scenes behind it.
"I can tell by your voice." He said, I turned around to face him, he had a concerned expression on his face, tears flowing out my eyes more when I saw him, all I could do was fall into his embrace, I wrapped my arms around his waist crying into his shoulder, he wrapped his arms around my waist. I sniffed up some of my tears and I unwrapped my arms from his waist and leant back against his arms that were wrapped around my waist.
"I'm sorry, he just told me that he doesn't have a daughter and that he disowns me." I said.
"He might right now okay, but he's just angry right now. I'm sure you said you disown someone because you were SO angry and then you forgave them."
"Yeah, but this is my father Matt."
"I know it hurts, and I can't make it better, huh?"
"Nah, sorry." I said, he leant forward pressing his lips against mine for a light kiss.
"Do you want to go out get something to eat, go to the beach for a little while before we have to get on our flight to go back to Georgia?" Matt asked running one of his hands through my hair.
"Yeah, sounds great." I said smiling, I led him to a trolley that takes you straight down to the beach. We walked up and down the beach swinging our hands back and forth, we went to dinner at Panda Express since I was craving Chinese food. We flew back to Georgia to have another eight hour drive back to our apartment, the whole time I thought about what my dad said and why it was such a big deal to me.