Disclaimers: I don't own the Host.
A/N: I'm typing this on a Friday night, I could go to the disco but... that's not really me. I haven't done Jared's P.O.V for awhile so here he is
Jared's P.O.V
There was something wrong with Mel and I was determined to find out what it was. She had been acting strange and nervous around absolutely everyone, jumping at the slightest thing, looking exhausted every day, getting sick and was either freezing cold or dead... I like the first one the best.
She'd tried to throw us off her scent by dancing, reapplying her make-up and acting as if everything was all right when it clearly wasn't. As far as I could tell nobody had noticed much apart from Wanda, Jamie and myself, but then again not much passed Wanda, I was constantly with Mel so it was hard not to notice and Jamie seemed like a pretty observant kid.
Right now, while Mel was dancing with Wanda and Jamie, and while Ian obeyed Wanda's commands and went sandwich hunting, I began to edge closer to her and all the while thinking of excuses to get her alone outside and how I was going to bring up the topic.
I was only half a metre away when she fell.
I heard Jamie scream her name, and sure enough when I turned around there she was, falling. She was falling so gracefully and the sight was reminding me of how beautiful she was until my brain snapped into action and sent urgent messages to my body: 'Catch her before she hits the ground and cracks her head!'
Even though this all happened in seconds, it was all in slow motion, so slow that seconds, minutes, hours, they didn't matter – they all melded into one single unit that seemed to last just about forever.
Nobody else reacted only I. I ran as fast as I could and reached her when she was only inches away from the dance floor. She fell into my arms, but she didn't open her eyes, she didn't make any sound, infact she didn't react at all.
Still, nobody else did anything useful, only stare. They had cleared a circle around me, silenced their murmurs and whispers, turned the music off. I couldn't help but be annoyed at their lack of usefulness. So I decided to enlighten them with instructions.
"Somebody call an ambulance!" I screamed at them, my voice rough. There was no reaction, people were apparently in deep shock or maybe they were just stupid. "Now!" I screeched.
...
That was still replaying in my head as they took her away in the ambulance. They wouldn't let me go in with her or Jaime or Jeb. Her parents went in with her but I don't think they deserved to, after kicking her out to Jeb's and all... Or maybe I was just biased since I didn't hear the full story because Mel wouldn't tell me it, and because I desperately wanted to be in that ambulance with her and making sure she was okay.
Jeb had quickly made his way to me though, boy that man could move. At first I didn't notice that he was standing there but when he gently touched my shoulder, I was instantly alerted to his presence.
"Jared, are you coming to the hospital? Wanda, Sarah, Jamie and Ian are coming." He told me.
"Like you have to actually ask," I muttered half heartedly under my breath.
"C'mon then," he came me a somewhat reassuring smile.
And so I followed him into the unknown.
Ian's P.O.V
One minute I was trying to hunt down the hard to find the finger food section that would hold the sandwiches, or else I'd get the head bitten off me by Wanda. I was literally centimetres away from the finger food stalls, when everything went quiet and I thought I heard that kid, Jamie, cry out Mel's name that made my blood freeze.
I quickly forgot about the food and rushed to the scene, because let's face it, Mel was the best friend I'd ever had. I had just reached the site as Jared had caught Mel in his arms. You can only imagine how I felt, my heart leapt in my throat. Where was Wanda? She would certainly be in worse shock than me right now.
Jared had just screamed out for someone to call an ambulance and I had just found Wanda. Everything seemed to blur by until Mel had been taken away, Wanda was crying hysterically in my shoulder and gone ultrasonic and only dogs could hear her. Jeb had told me to get into the car with Jamie while he searched for Jared and so I did.
I hope Mel will be okay...
