Alfie/Amber/Liliana LIII

Summary: Amber makes a bad call, Alfie's first aid training comes in handy and Lili is really sick of their B.S.

Evie's Notes: Hi everyone! Welcome back to ✨Tears of Gold ✨. I hope you enjoy the new chapter, let me know your favorite part in the comments!

Chapter Warning: Injury, emergency situations, and hospital scenes.

Alfie woke up early Sunday morning and quickly went about his routine. Getting dressed in his warmest workout clothes he quietly snuck out of his room making sure not to wake Jerome. Dropping his gym bag in the dining room, Alfie set the kettle to boil as he gathered a few breakfast supplies. After downing a cup of tea and filling up two other thermoses, he placed his supplies in his gym bag and headed for the front door.

Strangely though, Amber wasn't siting on the bottom step waiting for him like usual. Thinking that she must just be running late, Alfie took a seat on the steps himself and waited for Amber. It only took a couple of minutes for him to realize that she probably wasn't coming. Confused, he got up to go find her only to slip on an envelope.

"What?" he muttered picking it up. Flipping the envelope over he found his name inked on the front in Amber's familiar scrawl.

Alfred,
I'm leaving you this letter to let you know that I already left for practice this morning. I took a cab, and I will call one to get back home later. Go back to bed.

-Amber Lucille Millington.

Dropping the letter Alfie grabbed his bag and ran out the front door to the closest car park. Amber knew how dangerous it was for her to practice by herself. If she got injured no one would know to look for her for hours.

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'She was so stupid' thought Amber as she raced around the rink. 'Why did she ever think that she could be enough for someone. Everyone left her in the end, why did she ever believe that Alfie was any different?'.

Amber skated even faster as she neared the bend, of the rink trying to outrun the thoughts coursing through her mind.

"Amber watch out!" yelled Alfie's voice unexpectedly.

Looking up Amber noticed that she was approaching the bend far too fast. She frantically tried to slow down or change direction, but she only succeeded in spinning out and losing all control. The front of her skate caught the ice at a bad angle, and she was thrown harshly to ground hitting her head with a sickening crack.

She heard Alfie call out "Amby!" and the sound of thundering feet as she closed her eyes to take a little rest.

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Alfie felt his world stop as Amber fell to the ice. He could hear the crack of her head hitting the ice even from his place in the stands. Throwing open the gate he raced across the ice to his girlfriend's side. When he reached her his first aid training kicked in and he found that her eyes were closed but she seemed to be breathing normally.

Seeing that she didn't have any other injures he pulled out his phone and dialed 999 for the emergency responders. Alfie knew that head injuries could be extremely dangerous, so he followed the operator's instructions to treat it as a spinal injury and carefully aligned her head with the rest her body.

The operator assured him that the ambulance would be their soon, but the wait seemed to be eternal for the frightened boy. Finally, the doors to the rink burst open and two paramedics rushed in wheeling a stretcher.

Alfie stepped back to allow the paramedics space to help her and explained the incident to the third responder. Luckily, he knew Amber's medications and was able to inform them of her allergies. It didn't take long for them to transfer her to the stretcher and place her in the ambulance. The first responders informed Alfie that he wouldn't be able to ride to the hospital with her, so after calling Liliana and letting her know about the situation he hurriedly drove to meet her.

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Liliana and Nina ran through the halls of Metro General Emergency Room looking for room 506. Dodging a few nurses and patients the girls finally found Amber's room.

"Ambs!" shouted Nina running into the room, only to be shushed by the nurses surrounding the bed.

Alfie was seated in the chair by the beauty's bedside clutching her hand. Amber was looking rather affronted as one of the physicians was shining a light in her eyes.

"Hey buddy" greeted Lili sliding into the seat beside Alfie and passing him one of the Starbucks cups the girls had ordered. "How's she holding up".

Alfie took a sip his coffee as he looked at the beautiful blonde who was now happily chattering away at Nina. "The doctors are relieved that she wasn't out for too long. They are concerned since she lost consciousness, but she has been responding well to the various head trauma tests they have been giving her. Of course, I have to hear everything second hand since we're not blood, but apparently the hospital staff contacted Mr. Millington and he is flying out to see her as soon as possible".

"Well, that's good. I'm sure that seeing her dad will only speed up her recovery, especially since he wasn't able to make it for Christmas this year".

"Miss Millington, we have to take you back for a couple more tests now. If your friends want to wait here, we should be done in about half an hour or so".

"Of course. Thank you so much Nurse Johnson" acknowledged Alfie. "We'll see you in a bit love" he pressed a quick kiss to Amber's hand before letting go.

Liliana watched as the nurse rolled Amber's bed out of the room.

"I'm going to go check on my Gran" Nina informed them. "I'll be back after her tests".

Lili waved the girl out of the room before setting her sights on Alfie. "All right, now that we are alone, you mind filling me in on what the hell happened?".

"What exactly do you want to know" groaned Alfie dropping back in his chair and covering his face.

"How could this even happen? You always accompany her so that you can jump in and catch her if she falls".

"Yeah. Well, you can blame Amber for that. She left without me this morning. I have no clue how long she was there before I caught up. I had just come through the doors of the rink when she took a corner too fast and fell".

"Yikes. I get why she was pissed, but it was irresponsible of her not to take anyone. Thank the gods you were there to call for help. I can't even imagine how long she would have been left there if you didn't follow her".

"I don't even know what I did wrong!" protested Alfie.

"As if. You know exactly what you have been doing with Patricia the past few weeks".

"So? I'm allowed to date whoever I want".

"Only if you are single, which need I remind you, you both are not!".

"But we…"

"You and Amber agreed that you would take a break from dates, but that you both wouldn't date anyone else".

"Ok…"

"Do you seriously not see why she is upset? She literally saw you flirting with one of her best friends last night. If you truly want to break up with her you need to explicitly say so".

"I just don't know what's going on with me right now. I've been in love with Amber ever since I knew what love was, but with Patricia it's new and exciting. Obviously, I still love Amber and don't want to see her hurt, but I kind of want to see where this thing with Patricia goes".

"You do realize that she has a boyfriend?"

"Yeah, but it's not just me. She's attracted to me too. I can't help but feel that she wants to give this a shot as well".

"Look, obviously I am going to support you in whatever you choose to do here. You're my brother and I love you. I will say though that it is not fair to lead Amber on, or for Patricia to lead Eddie on".

"I know you're right; I will speak to both of them" relented Alfie.

"Great!" chirped Lili, "I'm going to go call Fabian and give him the update. Will you be ok here?".

"Yeah, I'll be fine. Go check in on the others" waved off Alfie.

Squeezing his hand tightly Lili promised to be back in a few minutes before stepping out into the hallway to make the call.

Evie's Notes 2: *Evie ducks in cover* I'm so sorry! I know I'm being far too mean to Amber, but trust me it will get better... eventually.

Next Week: Alfie figures out what's up with "Patricia" and Mr. Millington arrives with a guest!

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