Comfort Me - Chapter Two
The five teenagers froze in there spots. All holding a piece of cake, getting ready to throw it.
"Val, may I see you."
This can't be happening! She thought, I know this is my parents. Why else would he be calling her in. No, it can't be. She convinced herself it was just work business. She nodded hesitently. The four others watched and they knew why he was calling her in. She followed him into the small office.
"Is everything okay?" She asked worried. He closed his eyes and they shot open again.
"I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this,"
She shook her head, "Noo.."
"Val, your parents were in a car accident. Your father.. was announced dead at the scene." She screamed and shook her head as she heard the words. She covered her ears. "No, Val. Your mothers in critical condition. You can't hide from the truth, Val. This is life." She let the tears wun down her cheeks. This couldn't be happening to HER. Her OWN family.
"Noo!" She got up from the desk and ran out of the office, and into Tyler's arms. She stayed there and cried.
She felt more comfortable there then anywhere else. "Val, are you okay?"
"My parents..." She said, quieter. Then her voice got louder, "Daddy's dead."
Tyler said, "I think you should go home."
Alex comes out and says, "Why don't you go home Val, Caitie can you take
her?"
Tyler talks Alex into letting him go too cause he says he can't work. Alex
calls in two extra people.
Caitie takes her home and Tyler follows behind them and once they get there
Caitie leaves since Tyler is there and knows Tyler could help Val more than
she could. Val says to Tyler, "I need to go see my mom."
Tyler says, "I'll take you."
So they get to the hospital and Val visits her mom, who is in a coma. Tyler
is also in the room with his arm around Val. Val starts crying hysticaly and
Tyler says, "I don't think you can take this anymore, why don't I take you
home?"
Just as Tyler and Val went to get up her mom's heartmoiter went flat
and Val screams and the nurse comes in and says, "Time of death, 11:17 pm."
After Val hears that she screams and goes back into Tyler's arms and starts
to cry and Tyler takes her out of the room, takes her down into the waiting
room and Val crys for about an hour until she falls asleep in Tyler's arms.
Tyler sees that she's sleep and takes her home and lays her down on her bed,
and Val wakes up and say, "Don't leave me alone."
Tyler takes a chair next to Val and holds her hand and they both end up
falling asleep. Val about an half hour later wakes up and sees that he's
sleeping sitting on the chair, somewhat forgetting what happened earlier.
Val wakes up and says, "You can lay down here if you'd like."
She thought he'd have a smiled but he had a frown, kinda sad looking method on his face. He sitd next to her on the bed, holds her hand, and begins, "Val I really think someone should call Brooke." He said is the most serious tone.
"I know... I just... I can't tell her." Val said. She took tiem to think. She couldn't believe that in just a day, she lost both parents. She couldn't believe it. She got a feeling in the pit of her stomach, and she somehow knew that things were going to get better.
"Val, you have to. What's she going to do? Come home to find no parents?" Tyler asked. He thought about what he said and his tone. "Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't hav-"
She cut him off, the tears were still coming down her face, since the moment Alex called her into his office, "No, you know what, you're right." She picked up the phone, looked at the number her mother had written down and sat next ot he phone for Brookes camp.
Val shuddered when she saw her mom's writing. "Mommy..." She whispered out. "Tyler! Am I ever going to get over this?"
"Val, it takes a while."
"I know, but when will the pain stop?!" She cried harder. "Everything's just crashing on me! Who's next?" Then she thought, it could be Tyler. She had to spend the most time with him and Brooke and Jamie and Caitie... and all these names were just falling into her mind. "Hold me.." He pulled her arms around her small body.
After awhile she calmed down and called Brooke. Once she got her on the
phone Brooke noticed that she's crying and Brooke says, "Val, what's wrong?"
"Um...Well...you see on the way back from drooping you off....um....they got
hit by a drink driver.....dad died instaly....mom died just a little bit ago
in a coma...."
"WHAT NO WAY YOU'RE LYING."
" Brooke..."
" NO...."
Brooke hangs up the phone and Val hangs up hers and Tyler says, "Val, what
happened, what she say?"
"She hung up."
She started crying again and Tyler took he in his arms on her bed and kissed
her forehead and said, "It will be ok..."
**
They didn't fall asleep, it just didn't seem right. But they still lay in bed thinking about it... "Tyler..?"
"Hmm?" He asked, still holding her.
"Is everything going to be okay?" She asked, turning over to look at him.
"I hope so." He kissed her forehead.
"I should sleep on the couch." Tyler said. He'd already called his parents and said Val really needed him. It was now in the middle of the night, and they really needed some sleep.
Val was almost asleep so he just quietly stood up and grabbed a pillow and headed out of the room. Val wasn't asleep, she was acting, tears slid down her face. "Tyler's going to be next, I know it." She said quietly. What she didn't know was, he was just outside of the room and he heard her. It hurt him to hear her say that. He didn't want to be the cause of her being so sad, even though it was mostly her parents.
Val finally crys herself asleep and Tyler on the verg of falling asleep. Just
then Tyler hears a scream and goes into Val's room to see her tossing and
turning and screaming, "No daddy, no daddy, don't leave me."
Tyler comes by her and wakes her up. Val says, "Tyler,"
She throws her arms around him and he says, "Val are you ok?"
Val says, "Yes."
Tears in her eyes and she was barely able to get the words out. Val says,
"Tyler don't leave please."
Tyler says, "I won't."
Val says, "Don't let go."
Tyler says, "I won't."
"Stay here with me."
"I will."
"Will you always be here?"
"Always, always Val."
Tyler moves up on Val's bed and puts his arms around her and Val's arms
still tightly around his neck. Tyler says, "Val I will never leave you I
will always be here. Now please try and get some sleep."
"Don't leave me, stay here and talk to me."
Tyler talks for about an hour until he sees Vals fallen asleep. Tyler
holding Val says, "Val I will never leave."
A tear starting to form in his eyes but before it can fall Tyler shuts his
eyes and didn't wake up until he hears Val's alarm ring for school. He was
about to wake up Val when he thought 'she can't handle school today and no
one should expect her too. And I'm not going to leave her alone.' He turns
over and shuts off the alarm clock, puts his arm around Val and falls back
asleep.
AT SCHOOL
Caitie and Jamie meet in the hall after second and Caitie say, "Jamie, was
she in second hour?"
"No."
"Tyler wasn't either."
"So they skipped, maybe it's a good thing."
"I don't think so, neither of them would do that and I'm so worried about
Val."
"Where do you think she would be?"
"Can you take me?"
Forty-five minutes later Caitie says, "Stop."
"What?"
"Let's think, they were not at school, the hospital."
"Tyler's parents were not at there house and neither was Tyler."
"Not at the EMT station, I doubt it but lets check Val's place."
They knock on Val's door and after five minutes Caitie starts to panic so
Jamie says, "Calm down, I have a way to deal with these situation."
He some how, of course, breaks in and Caitie runs straight for Val's room
with Jamie right behind her. They open her door and Jamie says, "I guess
that means she was in safe hands all along."
"Guess so..." Caitie whispers, not wanted the pair to wake up.
"So, you want to go get a burger or something?" Jamie asks Caitie, before she opens her mouth, with her irritating 'I don't eat MEAT for the millionth time face' he puts his hand up, "Ohh! Sorry, forgot. Let's go get a salad or something." He said sarcastically. She rolled her eyes but when he turned and she shut the door, she couldn't help but to smile.
They were out of Val's house, and the afternoon air hit there faces. "Ugh, it's too hot out here." Caitie's long black pants were sticking to her. "Hey, why don't we drop by my house, I HAVE to get out of these PANTS." Jamie shrugged and turned the other way and began to walk.
When they arrived, Caitie walked up into her bedroom, and left Jamie in the living room. He stood up and looked around, there, he spotted a picture of Caitie when she was a baby. When she walked downstairs with a pair of gray light weighed pants on and a white tank top, Jamie looked at her, 'She looks beautiful...' but what came out was, "Awww... look at Caitie's little baby picture!" He tickled her chin, "You need a bottle." He said in a baby voice. She smacked his hand away.
"Don't talk you little long curly hair baby!" She snickered. Then smiled. She grabbed his arm when he was about to tickle her chin, like a baby again and pushed him onto the couch and then found herself on top of him, holding his arms down. She blushed a little bit.
They were both silent. "Oh gez, I'll stop, just let my arms go!" He smiled. SO did she, she couldn't help it, she let his arms go and stood up, he was about to stand up when the doorbell rang. Caitie walked over and opened the door, "Hey guys." Val and Tyler walked in.
The four sat in her living room. It was pretty silent, "Hey, anyone hungry?" Jamie asked. He's been asking that all day.
"Me." All of them said, together.
"Guess so." Jamie smiled.
Caitie says, "So Val how are you feeling?"
"I guess better today, but I don't want to talk about it right now."
Jamie says, "So where should we go out to eat?"
Tyler, "Up to Val."
"How about pizza?"
Jamie, "Yeah, you know they have good salads there too."
Caitie playfully hits him. So they go to eat pizza and there talking for a little while, when all of sudden Val remembers that her and Brooke have no where to stay and she says, "Shit, I just remembered something."
Caitie, "Whats that?"
"I have no where to stay, and once Brooke comes she won't neither."
Caitie, "Well, my house is full enough as it is, but you know if it wasn't you would be more than welcome to stay."
"Yeah I know, this is just great."
Tyler, "Well I'm sure you and Brooke, once she comes back, could stay with us."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Thanks, can we go now?"
"Yeah."
They all say bye and Jamie and Caitie go out to a movie for a date and Val and Tyler go back to Val's and get somethings for Val and go to Tyler's. They walk in and his mom comes in and says, "How come you guys aren't in school, Val I heard what happened, I'm so sorry, do you and your sister have a place to stay, cause your welcome here as long as you need to be."
Tyler, "We are not in school cause I thought that she shouldn't be right now..."
Val cuts in and contiues, "I'm ok, now with Tyler here, yeah we kind of do, thanks um..."
Tyler, "I'll show you to your room."
"Thanks."
Tyler takes her to her room, witch is by his just down two doors. She puts her things down on the desk in there and sits on the bed. Tyler says, "Well um...do you need anything?"
"Yes."
"And what's that?"
"To stay with you."
"Ok."
He goes over to her and sits by her and says, "I'm not going anywhere. Don't worry."
He puts his arm around Val and she says, "Thanks Tyler...for everything."
"It's ok, I'm glad to help you in any way that I can."
Val rests on Tyler for awhile when both of them fall asleep. About an hour later the phone rings and Tyler wakes up and answers it, "Hello?"
"Hi, I'm Shae Spaulding, I'm one of the people who work at the camp, do you know a Brooke Lanier, this is the second emergency phone number?"
"Yes. What's going on?"
"Is Val around?"
"Yes, but she's sleeping right now, can I take a message?"
"This is very important." She said, she sounded worried and somewhat sad.
Tyler felt it was something terrible by the sound of her voice. "Okay, just a second." He shook Val's shoulder lightly, "Val, it's some Shae Spaulding from Brookes camp." Val had a confused look.
She took the phone from him and said "Hello.", grogily. Val shook her head and answered simple "Yes," and "No"s into to the phone until she said something that made her drop the phone and fall into Tyler's arms.
"Val, what's wrong?" Tyler demanded, he was worried. She was making choking sounds from crying. "Val?"
"Brooke... shot herself....." Val cried and screamed and at the time.
The five teenagers froze in there spots. All holding a piece of cake, getting ready to throw it.
"Val, may I see you."
This can't be happening! She thought, I know this is my parents. Why else would he be calling her in. No, it can't be. She convinced herself it was just work business. She nodded hesitently. The four others watched and they knew why he was calling her in. She followed him into the small office.
"Is everything okay?" She asked worried. He closed his eyes and they shot open again.
"I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this,"
She shook her head, "Noo.."
"Val, your parents were in a car accident. Your father.. was announced dead at the scene." She screamed and shook her head as she heard the words. She covered her ears. "No, Val. Your mothers in critical condition. You can't hide from the truth, Val. This is life." She let the tears wun down her cheeks. This couldn't be happening to HER. Her OWN family.
"Noo!" She got up from the desk and ran out of the office, and into Tyler's arms. She stayed there and cried.
She felt more comfortable there then anywhere else. "Val, are you okay?"
"My parents..." She said, quieter. Then her voice got louder, "Daddy's dead."
Tyler said, "I think you should go home."
Alex comes out and says, "Why don't you go home Val, Caitie can you take
her?"
Tyler talks Alex into letting him go too cause he says he can't work. Alex
calls in two extra people.
Caitie takes her home and Tyler follows behind them and once they get there
Caitie leaves since Tyler is there and knows Tyler could help Val more than
she could. Val says to Tyler, "I need to go see my mom."
Tyler says, "I'll take you."
So they get to the hospital and Val visits her mom, who is in a coma. Tyler
is also in the room with his arm around Val. Val starts crying hysticaly and
Tyler says, "I don't think you can take this anymore, why don't I take you
home?"
Just as Tyler and Val went to get up her mom's heartmoiter went flat
and Val screams and the nurse comes in and says, "Time of death, 11:17 pm."
After Val hears that she screams and goes back into Tyler's arms and starts
to cry and Tyler takes her out of the room, takes her down into the waiting
room and Val crys for about an hour until she falls asleep in Tyler's arms.
Tyler sees that she's sleep and takes her home and lays her down on her bed,
and Val wakes up and say, "Don't leave me alone."
Tyler takes a chair next to Val and holds her hand and they both end up
falling asleep. Val about an half hour later wakes up and sees that he's
sleeping sitting on the chair, somewhat forgetting what happened earlier.
Val wakes up and says, "You can lay down here if you'd like."
She thought he'd have a smiled but he had a frown, kinda sad looking method on his face. He sitd next to her on the bed, holds her hand, and begins, "Val I really think someone should call Brooke." He said is the most serious tone.
"I know... I just... I can't tell her." Val said. She took tiem to think. She couldn't believe that in just a day, she lost both parents. She couldn't believe it. She got a feeling in the pit of her stomach, and she somehow knew that things were going to get better.
"Val, you have to. What's she going to do? Come home to find no parents?" Tyler asked. He thought about what he said and his tone. "Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't hav-"
She cut him off, the tears were still coming down her face, since the moment Alex called her into his office, "No, you know what, you're right." She picked up the phone, looked at the number her mother had written down and sat next ot he phone for Brookes camp.
Val shuddered when she saw her mom's writing. "Mommy..." She whispered out. "Tyler! Am I ever going to get over this?"
"Val, it takes a while."
"I know, but when will the pain stop?!" She cried harder. "Everything's just crashing on me! Who's next?" Then she thought, it could be Tyler. She had to spend the most time with him and Brooke and Jamie and Caitie... and all these names were just falling into her mind. "Hold me.." He pulled her arms around her small body.
After awhile she calmed down and called Brooke. Once she got her on the
phone Brooke noticed that she's crying and Brooke says, "Val, what's wrong?"
"Um...Well...you see on the way back from drooping you off....um....they got
hit by a drink driver.....dad died instaly....mom died just a little bit ago
in a coma...."
"WHAT NO WAY YOU'RE LYING."
" Brooke..."
" NO...."
Brooke hangs up the phone and Val hangs up hers and Tyler says, "Val, what
happened, what she say?"
"She hung up."
She started crying again and Tyler took he in his arms on her bed and kissed
her forehead and said, "It will be ok..."
**
They didn't fall asleep, it just didn't seem right. But they still lay in bed thinking about it... "Tyler..?"
"Hmm?" He asked, still holding her.
"Is everything going to be okay?" She asked, turning over to look at him.
"I hope so." He kissed her forehead.
"I should sleep on the couch." Tyler said. He'd already called his parents and said Val really needed him. It was now in the middle of the night, and they really needed some sleep.
Val was almost asleep so he just quietly stood up and grabbed a pillow and headed out of the room. Val wasn't asleep, she was acting, tears slid down her face. "Tyler's going to be next, I know it." She said quietly. What she didn't know was, he was just outside of the room and he heard her. It hurt him to hear her say that. He didn't want to be the cause of her being so sad, even though it was mostly her parents.
Val finally crys herself asleep and Tyler on the verg of falling asleep. Just
then Tyler hears a scream and goes into Val's room to see her tossing and
turning and screaming, "No daddy, no daddy, don't leave me."
Tyler comes by her and wakes her up. Val says, "Tyler,"
She throws her arms around him and he says, "Val are you ok?"
Val says, "Yes."
Tears in her eyes and she was barely able to get the words out. Val says,
"Tyler don't leave please."
Tyler says, "I won't."
Val says, "Don't let go."
Tyler says, "I won't."
"Stay here with me."
"I will."
"Will you always be here?"
"Always, always Val."
Tyler moves up on Val's bed and puts his arms around her and Val's arms
still tightly around his neck. Tyler says, "Val I will never leave you I
will always be here. Now please try and get some sleep."
"Don't leave me, stay here and talk to me."
Tyler talks for about an hour until he sees Vals fallen asleep. Tyler
holding Val says, "Val I will never leave."
A tear starting to form in his eyes but before it can fall Tyler shuts his
eyes and didn't wake up until he hears Val's alarm ring for school. He was
about to wake up Val when he thought 'she can't handle school today and no
one should expect her too. And I'm not going to leave her alone.' He turns
over and shuts off the alarm clock, puts his arm around Val and falls back
asleep.
AT SCHOOL
Caitie and Jamie meet in the hall after second and Caitie say, "Jamie, was
she in second hour?"
"No."
"Tyler wasn't either."
"So they skipped, maybe it's a good thing."
"I don't think so, neither of them would do that and I'm so worried about
Val."
"Where do you think she would be?"
"Can you take me?"
Forty-five minutes later Caitie says, "Stop."
"What?"
"Let's think, they were not at school, the hospital."
"Tyler's parents were not at there house and neither was Tyler."
"Not at the EMT station, I doubt it but lets check Val's place."
They knock on Val's door and after five minutes Caitie starts to panic so
Jamie says, "Calm down, I have a way to deal with these situation."
He some how, of course, breaks in and Caitie runs straight for Val's room
with Jamie right behind her. They open her door and Jamie says, "I guess
that means she was in safe hands all along."
"Guess so..." Caitie whispers, not wanted the pair to wake up.
"So, you want to go get a burger or something?" Jamie asks Caitie, before she opens her mouth, with her irritating 'I don't eat MEAT for the millionth time face' he puts his hand up, "Ohh! Sorry, forgot. Let's go get a salad or something." He said sarcastically. She rolled her eyes but when he turned and she shut the door, she couldn't help but to smile.
They were out of Val's house, and the afternoon air hit there faces. "Ugh, it's too hot out here." Caitie's long black pants were sticking to her. "Hey, why don't we drop by my house, I HAVE to get out of these PANTS." Jamie shrugged and turned the other way and began to walk.
When they arrived, Caitie walked up into her bedroom, and left Jamie in the living room. He stood up and looked around, there, he spotted a picture of Caitie when she was a baby. When she walked downstairs with a pair of gray light weighed pants on and a white tank top, Jamie looked at her, 'She looks beautiful...' but what came out was, "Awww... look at Caitie's little baby picture!" He tickled her chin, "You need a bottle." He said in a baby voice. She smacked his hand away.
"Don't talk you little long curly hair baby!" She snickered. Then smiled. She grabbed his arm when he was about to tickle her chin, like a baby again and pushed him onto the couch and then found herself on top of him, holding his arms down. She blushed a little bit.
They were both silent. "Oh gez, I'll stop, just let my arms go!" He smiled. SO did she, she couldn't help it, she let his arms go and stood up, he was about to stand up when the doorbell rang. Caitie walked over and opened the door, "Hey guys." Val and Tyler walked in.
The four sat in her living room. It was pretty silent, "Hey, anyone hungry?" Jamie asked. He's been asking that all day.
"Me." All of them said, together.
"Guess so." Jamie smiled.
Caitie says, "So Val how are you feeling?"
"I guess better today, but I don't want to talk about it right now."
Jamie says, "So where should we go out to eat?"
Tyler, "Up to Val."
"How about pizza?"
Jamie, "Yeah, you know they have good salads there too."
Caitie playfully hits him. So they go to eat pizza and there talking for a little while, when all of sudden Val remembers that her and Brooke have no where to stay and she says, "Shit, I just remembered something."
Caitie, "Whats that?"
"I have no where to stay, and once Brooke comes she won't neither."
Caitie, "Well, my house is full enough as it is, but you know if it wasn't you would be more than welcome to stay."
"Yeah I know, this is just great."
Tyler, "Well I'm sure you and Brooke, once she comes back, could stay with us."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Thanks, can we go now?"
"Yeah."
They all say bye and Jamie and Caitie go out to a movie for a date and Val and Tyler go back to Val's and get somethings for Val and go to Tyler's. They walk in and his mom comes in and says, "How come you guys aren't in school, Val I heard what happened, I'm so sorry, do you and your sister have a place to stay, cause your welcome here as long as you need to be."
Tyler, "We are not in school cause I thought that she shouldn't be right now..."
Val cuts in and contiues, "I'm ok, now with Tyler here, yeah we kind of do, thanks um..."
Tyler, "I'll show you to your room."
"Thanks."
Tyler takes her to her room, witch is by his just down two doors. She puts her things down on the desk in there and sits on the bed. Tyler says, "Well um...do you need anything?"
"Yes."
"And what's that?"
"To stay with you."
"Ok."
He goes over to her and sits by her and says, "I'm not going anywhere. Don't worry."
He puts his arm around Val and she says, "Thanks Tyler...for everything."
"It's ok, I'm glad to help you in any way that I can."
Val rests on Tyler for awhile when both of them fall asleep. About an hour later the phone rings and Tyler wakes up and answers it, "Hello?"
"Hi, I'm Shae Spaulding, I'm one of the people who work at the camp, do you know a Brooke Lanier, this is the second emergency phone number?"
"Yes. What's going on?"
"Is Val around?"
"Yes, but she's sleeping right now, can I take a message?"
"This is very important." She said, she sounded worried and somewhat sad.
Tyler felt it was something terrible by the sound of her voice. "Okay, just a second." He shook Val's shoulder lightly, "Val, it's some Shae Spaulding from Brookes camp." Val had a confused look.
She took the phone from him and said "Hello.", grogily. Val shook her head and answered simple "Yes," and "No"s into to the phone until she said something that made her drop the phone and fall into Tyler's arms.
"Val, what's wrong?" Tyler demanded, he was worried. She was making choking sounds from crying. "Val?"
"Brooke... shot herself....." Val cried and screamed and at the time.