Comfort Me - Chapter Five
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"Caitie, is not dying." Jamie yelled, holding her hand.
"Jamie.." Caitie spit out. She looked terrible, there was cuts and forming bruises.
"A person on the street called the ambulance..." Hank explained.
"What happened?" She asked, she tried sitting up, but her back hurt to much. "I can't move my back..." She cried along with Val.
"Val... she'll be fine." Tyler said holding her hand.
No sooner did they hear an ambulance whistle. "Thank, GOD." Jamie whispered.
"Am I going to be okay?" Caitie asked, her eyes barely opening.
"Yeah..." Jamie said. 'I hope so.' He thought. "Why weren't you wearing your seatbelt, wait you know what I'm not going to lecture you. Nevermind."
The men lifted the backboard onto the ambulance and Hank, Val, Jamie, and Tyler went into the ambulance with her and left the car for the tow truck.
Once they got to the hospital, Val was still crying uncontralably, Tyler was
trying to comfort her, and Jamie was trying to talk to the nurse and Hank
was just sitting there. The doctor came out and told everyone else they had
to be checked, so they all went into a room, finally everyone else was
checked, Hank just had some small cuts and bruises, Tyler and Val both
needed stitches and Tyler had a small concusion and Jamie just had a sprained
arm and a couple cuts.
After a while there were aloud back in the waiting room and was told that Caitie was in surgery and may be paralyzed. When Val heard that she ran out of the room. Tyler thought just to let her be and let her take care of this one. Jamie, being the smart one, went after her and found her with a knife at her wrist.
"Val.... put the knife down." Jamie went closer to her, slowly, and held up his hands, thinking if he made any quick moves, she might get overracted and cut herself right then and there. "Don't do this." The normally dark alley behind the hospital was slightly lightened by the mid-day sun.
Tyler walked out into the alley with his head down, "Hey.. are you.." He stopped as he looked up and saw Val, with the knife placed on her wrist, but not yet cut through.
"I'm going to do it, I have to. I have nothing. Besides... you... I mean, I have you and... Caitie... and Jamie... and Hank... but no family." She added pressure to her hand.
Jamie took a deep breath and looked over at Tyler, "Why, Val? Stop doing this. Don't you want to grow up and be a doctor, and have a family?" Jamie cringed when he heard Tyler say 'family' and was afraid of Val's reaction.
Val's face was all scrunched up and her mascara was dripping onto her pink shirt, her hair was now messed up out of it's perfect headbanded look. She added more pressure and Tyler walked towards her, Jamie stepped back and his body tensed up at what he thought he was about to see.
Val turned around, looked at Tyler and said, "How dare you, it's my life,
why don't you just leave me alone?"
Hank called in Jamie and said, "Jamie, Caitie just woke up and wants to see
you."
Jamie went in and left Tyler and Val alone in the alley. "Val look I love
you and I'm not going to leave you alone, and give me that knife."
Val backed away from Tyler and said, "I have no family, what am I suppose to
do? I mean I can't get over this and NOTHING IS HELPING." At the end she
started yelling.
"Val look why are you doing this to yourself? Get a hold of yourself, yeah
you don't have that kind of family but me, my mom and even william think of
you as family."
"Tyler, what am I going to do with out a mom, or dad, or...."
"Val....look can we talk about this later?...give me that knife now you
don't want to do that."
"Tyler SHUT UP....."
She takes the knife and digs it down her arm, leaving a big cut down and
blood coming out. Tyler started to go for her to get the knife before she
could do it again and thinking to himself, 'I can't stand this... I wish she
wouldn't do this..... I can't look at it."
He started to try and chase her but she tripped and fell over her untied shoe
lace and went face first and fell unconsious. Tyler picked her up and
carried her in the hospital. The doctor came out and said, "What is going
on?"
Tyler told him the story and he took Val in the room, to 'wake' her up.
After she started to breath, but still not awake the doctor started to ask
Tyler question like, "It looks like she was abused, did you do it, what
happened to her arm, did her parents do it..."
And Tyler answered him, "No I wouldn't do that to her or anyone, she cut it,
and her parents didn't cause they died."
"I see..." The doctor nodded. "We need to get this stitched up. I think she'll be fine. But, are you sure you know nothing about this?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Her... parents just died in an accident, her sister shot herself at camp from the news of her parents. Now... she... well slit her own wrist... I tried stopping her, but she wouldn't listen." The doctor didn't seem to convinced.
"Hmmmm." He looked at Val's wrist. "What about these bruises?"
"Oh, we got into an accident this morning. Our friend, Caitie Roth, is in this very hospital from the wreck."
"Okay, now, we need to do this so, if you don't mind, stepping out?" The doctor asked, Tyler smiled at her and stepped out of the room.
He slid his body down the side of the wall and rubbed his hands over his face. Jamie's footstep echoed the non busy halls and he starred down and Tyler, he sat next to Tyler and there was silence.
"Hey." Jamie said.
"Hey, man." Tyler whispered.
"I'm sorry about all of this... is she going to be alright?" Jamie asked, sounding concerned.
"Yeah." Tyler looked at Jamie, "The doctor already thinks I'm abusing her. I just don't know what to do now. I feel bad for her, but it makes me mad she would do that. I mean, that's... suicide. There's something wrong with her."
"Yeah..." Jamie said.
After awhile Val came out of the room and walked right past where Tyler and
Jamie were sitting. She went past them and went and sat on the couch. Tyler
got up and sat next to her. Jamie got up and sat on the other side of her.
Hank was in visting Caitie. Jamie got sick of the silence and said, "Val, do
you want to talk to someone?"
She just sat there, and finally Tyler spoke up, "Val, if you need to talk
I'm here for you."
Still nothing, she got up and Tyler got up and started to follow her. She
turned around and said, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to take you home."
"No, I'm not going home."
"Then where are you going?"
"To finish my job."
Jamie got the hint and left to go talk to Hank and Caitie. Tyler grabed
Val's arm and said, "Hey look, we are going back to my house, got it?"
"Yeah, fine, whatever."
Tyler grabed her hand and started to leave. They were walking to his house
(the car is a wreck) and they had to pass Val's house, not even thinking that
they had to. Val stoped in front of her house which made Tyler stopped too
since they were still holding hands. Tyler looked at Val and seen that she
was staring at something, he followed her look and seen that it was her
house. They keep walking and get to Tyler's.
Tyler went to the answering machine, "'You've got one
new messgae... Hi Honey, it turns out me and William will be here for a few
more days, is everything alright ... how is Val anyway...I'll call
tomorrow...bye."
Tyler took off his jacket and put it in the closet, got two classes down
from the cupboard and poured some water in them. He went
over to the couch and gave one to Val. She took it and took a drink. Tyler
could tell something was wrong or that something was on her mind and said,
"Hey Val, what's wrong?"
"I... I'm in the way here, I think I should go home or something."
"Val you are not in the way here, but if you need to go home for memerories
than you can, I'll go with you if you want."
Val's eyes brightened up and she slung her arms around his neck, "Really? You'll stay with me?"
"If that's what you want." He pulled away and looked at her, but the he paused, "Why did you do this Val?"
She looked at him with sad eyes and she sat down again, "I don't know... by rights, they doctors should've put me in one of those mental homes, but he didn't, I think he understood. I didn't want to KILL myself. I just wanted to get away from all of this... pain."
"Val, if you would've went any farther - you would've hit your vain and died... you have to tell me what's going on."
She rolled her eyes and changed positions so she was sitting on one foot, "I don't know... it seemed like a good idea at the time."
"Look, let's just forget it, just promise me you'll never do anything like this again." And he pointed to her wrist.
"I won't... not after I realized I'd be without you." She looked up at him and stood up.
Tyler smiled and they heard a knock on the door, he opened it. It was Jamie and Hank, "Hey guys! Caitie's going to be FINE! She'll be out of the hospital in a few weeks, she has shown some recovery and she'll be able to walk again and be the same as normal." Jamie said, a little to happy. (lol, not normal Jamie.)
Val's mouth formed a smiled and she stood up and hugged Jamie, "Oh my gosh! I'm so HAPPY!"
"That's not something we've heard in a while..." Hank smiled, "That's great, so you're feeling better Val?"
"Yeah..." She smiled, "I really am."
She looked up at Tyler and contiued, "Just being here with you guys makes me
feel better, can we go now Tyler?"
Hank looked at Tyler than Val, "Where you guys going?"
"We are going back to my house for awhile, if you guys want to come you
can."
"Ok."
"Sure."
They began walking there and Tyler said, "Val, are you sure you want to do
this?"
"I have to sometime, why not now, while you are with me."
They get to her house and she opens the door with her key. They walk in and
all go into the kitchen and sit down at the table. Val gets up and says,
"Does anyone want anything to eat or drink before I go take a shower and
clean up?"
Jamie looks at everyone and says, "You just go ahead, i'm sure we can find
something, if we need something."
Val looks at him and says, "Ok fine, be my guest."
"I am."
"Funny, I'll be back in a little bit." Looks over at Tyler and smiles at him, "I'll be back."
Tyler jokes around and says, "Dang, that means we can't take all of your
food and run cause you'll be back."
Val just smiles at him and leaves the room. She goes up and takes a shower,
than goes into her room, the one that she shared with brooke yes, and looked
around the room. She seen Brooke's stuffed cow, Mr. moo cow, and took it and
held it close to her. She sat on her bed facing the window and not the door,
then layed down. Someone came in and she didn't even bother to see who it
was. She knew it would either be Tyler, Jamie, or Hank. She hoped it would
be Tyler. She just started crying and she felt that the person sat down on
her bed besides her, and felt someone put there hand on her shoulder. She
looked up and saw Tyler.
Tyler took her in his arms and she said, "Will I ever get over this?"
"Hey Val, look it takes time, I'll be here to help, so will Caitie, Jamie,
Hank, Alex, my mom, William and others. But I still think that you should
talk to someone about this."
"Will you be there?"
"If you want me to... look it will be hard at times, you might fell like what
you tried earlier a lot but just come and talk to me or anyone, we care alot
about you, I love you and will help you anyway that I can."
"Thanks Tyler." She huged him, "Where is Jamie and Hank?"
"They went back to visit Caitie."
"Again!?" She paused, "So what do you wanna do?"
Tyler shrugged, they both smiled and Val looked at him slyly, "Shop!" She stood up and laughed, "I'm making YOU come to the MALL!"
Tyler whined, "Nooo!"
"Yeeeeessssss." She leaned down and grabbed his wrists, pulling him up, pretending to drag him.
"Let me get my keys..." Val smiled and they walked out the back door, her still holding his hand. She got into the driver seat, she shifted. They were using her moms old car because her Dads Explorer was completly crushed. She felt uncomfortable.
She slowly turned the car on, "You know, I just don't feel right driving, Tyler." She had a smiled on her face, but she felt sad inside.
"Yeah... I can imagine." He smiled, "I'll drive." They switched seats.
"Better." She smiled, "Mall! HERE WE COME!" All of the money went to Val and Val did put it in the bank, but her aunt was taking care of all the financial problems, even though Val stayed with Tyler, when she got a job, she'd have to help.
Tyler chuckled and pulled out. When they finally reached the mall, Val was out of the car and almost to the entrance by the time Tyler got out.
"Geez, Val!" He smiled and she turned around with her hand on her hip.
"Can you walk any faster?"
"Yeah," He smiled, and he smartly began to run, passing her up. He slowed down and she came up next to him, he looked at her cast on her arm, which he knew was convered up by several stiches. It was hard to hold hands with a cast on so he moved on the right side of her and they held hands.
"Let's go in here." She pointed to the place where they could get there faces on T-shirts. He followed behind her. They sorted through shirts with all sorts of things where they could out there faces in. "I like this one." She pulled out a blue shirt with the words "Perfect Match" on the top. "Our faces will go here." She pointed.
"Whatever you want." They pulled out two on the same ones and they posed for a picture. The man finally handed them two shirts, Tyler and Val slipped them over there heads and walked out of the store, finishing there mall adventure, hand in hand.
They contiued walking around the mall. Val got a couple more cd's, shirts,
and other stuff. Finally they stoped for lunch. Tyler sat down and said,
"Val, I swear, I'm never going to the mall with you again."
"But Tyler...."
"Ok fine, so anyways, you happy Caitie's getting out in 2 more days?"
"Yeah."
Just than they see Jamie and he walks over to them and says, "Hey you 2,
what are you doing here?"
Tyler looks at Val than Jamie, "She's trying to kill me."
"Bye the way nice shirts."
Val looks at Jamie, "Thanks, why are you here?"
"Um...getting something for Caitie for when she gets out."
"Figures."
They all get something to eat and get back up to do more shopping. By the
time they were done, Tyler had one bag, Jamie had three and Val beat them
both by ten and of course Tyler hepled her. Jamie went back to his house to
drop of his bags and Tyler and Val left to do the same, but agreed to meet
at the hospital 2 hours later.
Val walked in Caitie's room expecting to see tubes going everywhere, but
what she saw amazed her, Caitie was sitting up talking and laughing. Val
went in with Tyler behind her and gave her a hug. Then time flew by and the
next thing they knew the nurse came in and said, "Visting hours are over,
only one of you can stay the night." The night before Caitie's parents stayed.
So of course Jamie did and Hank went back home and Val and Tyler went out to
a movie.
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"Let's see..." Val ran her finger over the list of movies on the wall. "American Beauty."
"Ohh.. okay. That's cool with me."
"I'm down with that!" Val said, sarcastically, mocking Tyler's grammer, jokingly.
They hurried and got there tickets. Tyler ran over and got a big bucket of popcorn and two Coke's, and met Val back at the theatre in her seat and ready to watch. The previews were just getting over and the lights dimmed.
The two shared a wonderful night and went back to Val's house. "I had fun today, Tyler. I think I'm going to be okay. I never thought I'd feel better, but I'm getting better. You know? Knowing Caitie's going to be alright. And Hank isn't paralyzed. And your alright."
The phone rang and it was Jamie, "Hey, guess what? Caitie's getting out TOMORROW! They did some tests, and everything's normal on her. Her heartbeat's back to normal, her bloodpressure..." He couldn't finish because of Val screaming and laughing happiness.
"Thanks for the news Jamie!" Val yelled in his ear. Tyler was smiling and he hugged Val and picked her up, while hugging her.
"You made living worthwhile, Tyler."
Tyler just looked at her and smiled. They sat down on the couch and watched
another movie. Tyler picked it this time and it was Where The Heart Is. They
mad more popcorn and got a couple of pops that were in Val's fridge. They
sat down and watched the movie. Half way though the movie Tyler's cellphone
rang. Tyler got up and went to the counter where his phone was.
"Hello?"
"Tyler? IT's mom, where are you at, we called the house like 15 times."
"Oh me and Val went to the movies and now we are at her house."
"So she's feeling better?"
"Yeah she is."
"That's good, well me and William should be back in about 4 days."
"Ok love ya mom bye."
He hung up the phone and looked over to the couch and seen that Val was not there. He looked over at the table to where the thing of knives were, one missing, than looked over to the T.V., it was paused at the part where, Novely was writing the the information on the death of the sister who was her only family.
He shook his head, "Oh no." He dropped the phone and ran through the house, "Val... Val, NO!" He knew what she was about to do. He finally reached the bathroom and noticed the door was shut and there was a light on. He opened the door to see Val standing next to the sink with a knife by her stomach. "No, Val." Tears sprung from his eyes. "You'll die instantly if you hit your organs. You'll bleed internally."
"What do you think I'm doing, TYLER?! I thought I was doing better, Tyler. I thought I was cured from this HELL... but I'm not."
"Val.. this is no way to get away from your feelings... you're about to KILL yourself, Val. Well, it's not. You know what it's going to be like... the feeling of dying. You'll regret it when you take your last breath." His tears were running freely now, as she jabbed the pointed of the knife about a centimenter below her naval. Blood started oosing out of her stomach.
"Val... don't do it. I love you, I can't imagine life without you, Val." Her eyes were watering up, and she felt her head get light and she fell to the ground, letting the knife break free of her hands and fall the to ground next top her, she was still breathing, but bleeding. He noticed she also hit her head off of the bathtub, pretty hard.
He slid one arm under her knees and the other under her back and carried her out to the car, he drove to the hospital, knowing Jamie would already be there with Caitie.. so he called Hank.
Hank got there as fast as he could. He ran into the waiting room and sat
next to Tyler, "Hey man how is she?"
"I don't know."
Jamie came out and asked what was going on. Tyler told him that Val tried it
again and he don't know if she will live or what. Tyler was pacing back and
forth. Jamie finally told him to stop and asked him, "Why do you think she
keeps on doing this...I mean trying to kill herself?"
Tyler looked at him, stoped and said, "I don't know....I wish she wouldn't
though."
Jamie came up with an idea and went into Caitie's room and got her so she
could go see Val. Caitie went into the room and seen Val, Just as Caitie
went in there she woke up, "Hey Caitie, how you felling?"
"Val? What did you do....why did you....Val you got to stop this....Jamie
told me what is going on."
"Look Caitie, you don't know nothing. Just leave me alone."
"NO. We are best friends, come on talk to me."
"Just like I told Tyler, I'm not going to ever get better, when will the
pain go away? When Caitie when?"
By than Caitie was crying too, "I don't know, but we can get through this if
we try."
Just then the doctor came in and said, "What are you doing out of your
room?"
"Visiting her."
"Well get back, I need to talk to her."
So Caitie left, and the doctor looked over at Val and begain to say,
"Look...this is the second time you did this."
"Yeah I can count."
"By the rules I would have to put you in a home but Tyler believes that if you talk to someone, stay with him and not to do this again, I won't have to. So I talked to some people and if you agree to not do this again, get some help, and talk to Tyler and other people when your
having a hard time, and come back here once a week for awhile than you won't have to. But that's all up to you."
"I'll think about it."
Hank who was around the coner came out and said, "What is there to think
about? I mean look you have a nice doctor who is willing not to put you in
one of those places, a boyfriend who will give up his life for you, friends
who care about you like no end..."
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"Caitie, is not dying." Jamie yelled, holding her hand.
"Jamie.." Caitie spit out. She looked terrible, there was cuts and forming bruises.
"A person on the street called the ambulance..." Hank explained.
"What happened?" She asked, she tried sitting up, but her back hurt to much. "I can't move my back..." She cried along with Val.
"Val... she'll be fine." Tyler said holding her hand.
No sooner did they hear an ambulance whistle. "Thank, GOD." Jamie whispered.
"Am I going to be okay?" Caitie asked, her eyes barely opening.
"Yeah..." Jamie said. 'I hope so.' He thought. "Why weren't you wearing your seatbelt, wait you know what I'm not going to lecture you. Nevermind."
The men lifted the backboard onto the ambulance and Hank, Val, Jamie, and Tyler went into the ambulance with her and left the car for the tow truck.
Once they got to the hospital, Val was still crying uncontralably, Tyler was
trying to comfort her, and Jamie was trying to talk to the nurse and Hank
was just sitting there. The doctor came out and told everyone else they had
to be checked, so they all went into a room, finally everyone else was
checked, Hank just had some small cuts and bruises, Tyler and Val both
needed stitches and Tyler had a small concusion and Jamie just had a sprained
arm and a couple cuts.
After a while there were aloud back in the waiting room and was told that Caitie was in surgery and may be paralyzed. When Val heard that she ran out of the room. Tyler thought just to let her be and let her take care of this one. Jamie, being the smart one, went after her and found her with a knife at her wrist.
"Val.... put the knife down." Jamie went closer to her, slowly, and held up his hands, thinking if he made any quick moves, she might get overracted and cut herself right then and there. "Don't do this." The normally dark alley behind the hospital was slightly lightened by the mid-day sun.
Tyler walked out into the alley with his head down, "Hey.. are you.." He stopped as he looked up and saw Val, with the knife placed on her wrist, but not yet cut through.
"I'm going to do it, I have to. I have nothing. Besides... you... I mean, I have you and... Caitie... and Jamie... and Hank... but no family." She added pressure to her hand.
Jamie took a deep breath and looked over at Tyler, "Why, Val? Stop doing this. Don't you want to grow up and be a doctor, and have a family?" Jamie cringed when he heard Tyler say 'family' and was afraid of Val's reaction.
Val's face was all scrunched up and her mascara was dripping onto her pink shirt, her hair was now messed up out of it's perfect headbanded look. She added more pressure and Tyler walked towards her, Jamie stepped back and his body tensed up at what he thought he was about to see.
Val turned around, looked at Tyler and said, "How dare you, it's my life,
why don't you just leave me alone?"
Hank called in Jamie and said, "Jamie, Caitie just woke up and wants to see
you."
Jamie went in and left Tyler and Val alone in the alley. "Val look I love
you and I'm not going to leave you alone, and give me that knife."
Val backed away from Tyler and said, "I have no family, what am I suppose to
do? I mean I can't get over this and NOTHING IS HELPING." At the end she
started yelling.
"Val look why are you doing this to yourself? Get a hold of yourself, yeah
you don't have that kind of family but me, my mom and even william think of
you as family."
"Tyler, what am I going to do with out a mom, or dad, or...."
"Val....look can we talk about this later?...give me that knife now you
don't want to do that."
"Tyler SHUT UP....."
She takes the knife and digs it down her arm, leaving a big cut down and
blood coming out. Tyler started to go for her to get the knife before she
could do it again and thinking to himself, 'I can't stand this... I wish she
wouldn't do this..... I can't look at it."
He started to try and chase her but she tripped and fell over her untied shoe
lace and went face first and fell unconsious. Tyler picked her up and
carried her in the hospital. The doctor came out and said, "What is going
on?"
Tyler told him the story and he took Val in the room, to 'wake' her up.
After she started to breath, but still not awake the doctor started to ask
Tyler question like, "It looks like she was abused, did you do it, what
happened to her arm, did her parents do it..."
And Tyler answered him, "No I wouldn't do that to her or anyone, she cut it,
and her parents didn't cause they died."
"I see..." The doctor nodded. "We need to get this stitched up. I think she'll be fine. But, are you sure you know nothing about this?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Her... parents just died in an accident, her sister shot herself at camp from the news of her parents. Now... she... well slit her own wrist... I tried stopping her, but she wouldn't listen." The doctor didn't seem to convinced.
"Hmmmm." He looked at Val's wrist. "What about these bruises?"
"Oh, we got into an accident this morning. Our friend, Caitie Roth, is in this very hospital from the wreck."
"Okay, now, we need to do this so, if you don't mind, stepping out?" The doctor asked, Tyler smiled at her and stepped out of the room.
He slid his body down the side of the wall and rubbed his hands over his face. Jamie's footstep echoed the non busy halls and he starred down and Tyler, he sat next to Tyler and there was silence.
"Hey." Jamie said.
"Hey, man." Tyler whispered.
"I'm sorry about all of this... is she going to be alright?" Jamie asked, sounding concerned.
"Yeah." Tyler looked at Jamie, "The doctor already thinks I'm abusing her. I just don't know what to do now. I feel bad for her, but it makes me mad she would do that. I mean, that's... suicide. There's something wrong with her."
"Yeah..." Jamie said.
After awhile Val came out of the room and walked right past where Tyler and
Jamie were sitting. She went past them and went and sat on the couch. Tyler
got up and sat next to her. Jamie got up and sat on the other side of her.
Hank was in visting Caitie. Jamie got sick of the silence and said, "Val, do
you want to talk to someone?"
She just sat there, and finally Tyler spoke up, "Val, if you need to talk
I'm here for you."
Still nothing, she got up and Tyler got up and started to follow her. She
turned around and said, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to take you home."
"No, I'm not going home."
"Then where are you going?"
"To finish my job."
Jamie got the hint and left to go talk to Hank and Caitie. Tyler grabed
Val's arm and said, "Hey look, we are going back to my house, got it?"
"Yeah, fine, whatever."
Tyler grabed her hand and started to leave. They were walking to his house
(the car is a wreck) and they had to pass Val's house, not even thinking that
they had to. Val stoped in front of her house which made Tyler stopped too
since they were still holding hands. Tyler looked at Val and seen that she
was staring at something, he followed her look and seen that it was her
house. They keep walking and get to Tyler's.
Tyler went to the answering machine, "'You've got one
new messgae... Hi Honey, it turns out me and William will be here for a few
more days, is everything alright ... how is Val anyway...I'll call
tomorrow...bye."
Tyler took off his jacket and put it in the closet, got two classes down
from the cupboard and poured some water in them. He went
over to the couch and gave one to Val. She took it and took a drink. Tyler
could tell something was wrong or that something was on her mind and said,
"Hey Val, what's wrong?"
"I... I'm in the way here, I think I should go home or something."
"Val you are not in the way here, but if you need to go home for memerories
than you can, I'll go with you if you want."
Val's eyes brightened up and she slung her arms around his neck, "Really? You'll stay with me?"
"If that's what you want." He pulled away and looked at her, but the he paused, "Why did you do this Val?"
She looked at him with sad eyes and she sat down again, "I don't know... by rights, they doctors should've put me in one of those mental homes, but he didn't, I think he understood. I didn't want to KILL myself. I just wanted to get away from all of this... pain."
"Val, if you would've went any farther - you would've hit your vain and died... you have to tell me what's going on."
She rolled her eyes and changed positions so she was sitting on one foot, "I don't know... it seemed like a good idea at the time."
"Look, let's just forget it, just promise me you'll never do anything like this again." And he pointed to her wrist.
"I won't... not after I realized I'd be without you." She looked up at him and stood up.
Tyler smiled and they heard a knock on the door, he opened it. It was Jamie and Hank, "Hey guys! Caitie's going to be FINE! She'll be out of the hospital in a few weeks, she has shown some recovery and she'll be able to walk again and be the same as normal." Jamie said, a little to happy. (lol, not normal Jamie.)
Val's mouth formed a smiled and she stood up and hugged Jamie, "Oh my gosh! I'm so HAPPY!"
"That's not something we've heard in a while..." Hank smiled, "That's great, so you're feeling better Val?"
"Yeah..." She smiled, "I really am."
She looked up at Tyler and contiued, "Just being here with you guys makes me
feel better, can we go now Tyler?"
Hank looked at Tyler than Val, "Where you guys going?"
"We are going back to my house for awhile, if you guys want to come you
can."
"Ok."
"Sure."
They began walking there and Tyler said, "Val, are you sure you want to do
this?"
"I have to sometime, why not now, while you are with me."
They get to her house and she opens the door with her key. They walk in and
all go into the kitchen and sit down at the table. Val gets up and says,
"Does anyone want anything to eat or drink before I go take a shower and
clean up?"
Jamie looks at everyone and says, "You just go ahead, i'm sure we can find
something, if we need something."
Val looks at him and says, "Ok fine, be my guest."
"I am."
"Funny, I'll be back in a little bit." Looks over at Tyler and smiles at him, "I'll be back."
Tyler jokes around and says, "Dang, that means we can't take all of your
food and run cause you'll be back."
Val just smiles at him and leaves the room. She goes up and takes a shower,
than goes into her room, the one that she shared with brooke yes, and looked
around the room. She seen Brooke's stuffed cow, Mr. moo cow, and took it and
held it close to her. She sat on her bed facing the window and not the door,
then layed down. Someone came in and she didn't even bother to see who it
was. She knew it would either be Tyler, Jamie, or Hank. She hoped it would
be Tyler. She just started crying and she felt that the person sat down on
her bed besides her, and felt someone put there hand on her shoulder. She
looked up and saw Tyler.
Tyler took her in his arms and she said, "Will I ever get over this?"
"Hey Val, look it takes time, I'll be here to help, so will Caitie, Jamie,
Hank, Alex, my mom, William and others. But I still think that you should
talk to someone about this."
"Will you be there?"
"If you want me to... look it will be hard at times, you might fell like what
you tried earlier a lot but just come and talk to me or anyone, we care alot
about you, I love you and will help you anyway that I can."
"Thanks Tyler." She huged him, "Where is Jamie and Hank?"
"They went back to visit Caitie."
"Again!?" She paused, "So what do you wanna do?"
Tyler shrugged, they both smiled and Val looked at him slyly, "Shop!" She stood up and laughed, "I'm making YOU come to the MALL!"
Tyler whined, "Nooo!"
"Yeeeeessssss." She leaned down and grabbed his wrists, pulling him up, pretending to drag him.
"Let me get my keys..." Val smiled and they walked out the back door, her still holding his hand. She got into the driver seat, she shifted. They were using her moms old car because her Dads Explorer was completly crushed. She felt uncomfortable.
She slowly turned the car on, "You know, I just don't feel right driving, Tyler." She had a smiled on her face, but she felt sad inside.
"Yeah... I can imagine." He smiled, "I'll drive." They switched seats.
"Better." She smiled, "Mall! HERE WE COME!" All of the money went to Val and Val did put it in the bank, but her aunt was taking care of all the financial problems, even though Val stayed with Tyler, when she got a job, she'd have to help.
Tyler chuckled and pulled out. When they finally reached the mall, Val was out of the car and almost to the entrance by the time Tyler got out.
"Geez, Val!" He smiled and she turned around with her hand on her hip.
"Can you walk any faster?"
"Yeah," He smiled, and he smartly began to run, passing her up. He slowed down and she came up next to him, he looked at her cast on her arm, which he knew was convered up by several stiches. It was hard to hold hands with a cast on so he moved on the right side of her and they held hands.
"Let's go in here." She pointed to the place where they could get there faces on T-shirts. He followed behind her. They sorted through shirts with all sorts of things where they could out there faces in. "I like this one." She pulled out a blue shirt with the words "Perfect Match" on the top. "Our faces will go here." She pointed.
"Whatever you want." They pulled out two on the same ones and they posed for a picture. The man finally handed them two shirts, Tyler and Val slipped them over there heads and walked out of the store, finishing there mall adventure, hand in hand.
They contiued walking around the mall. Val got a couple more cd's, shirts,
and other stuff. Finally they stoped for lunch. Tyler sat down and said,
"Val, I swear, I'm never going to the mall with you again."
"But Tyler...."
"Ok fine, so anyways, you happy Caitie's getting out in 2 more days?"
"Yeah."
Just than they see Jamie and he walks over to them and says, "Hey you 2,
what are you doing here?"
Tyler looks at Val than Jamie, "She's trying to kill me."
"Bye the way nice shirts."
Val looks at Jamie, "Thanks, why are you here?"
"Um...getting something for Caitie for when she gets out."
"Figures."
They all get something to eat and get back up to do more shopping. By the
time they were done, Tyler had one bag, Jamie had three and Val beat them
both by ten and of course Tyler hepled her. Jamie went back to his house to
drop of his bags and Tyler and Val left to do the same, but agreed to meet
at the hospital 2 hours later.
Val walked in Caitie's room expecting to see tubes going everywhere, but
what she saw amazed her, Caitie was sitting up talking and laughing. Val
went in with Tyler behind her and gave her a hug. Then time flew by and the
next thing they knew the nurse came in and said, "Visting hours are over,
only one of you can stay the night." The night before Caitie's parents stayed.
So of course Jamie did and Hank went back home and Val and Tyler went out to
a movie.
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"Let's see..." Val ran her finger over the list of movies on the wall. "American Beauty."
"Ohh.. okay. That's cool with me."
"I'm down with that!" Val said, sarcastically, mocking Tyler's grammer, jokingly.
They hurried and got there tickets. Tyler ran over and got a big bucket of popcorn and two Coke's, and met Val back at the theatre in her seat and ready to watch. The previews were just getting over and the lights dimmed.
The two shared a wonderful night and went back to Val's house. "I had fun today, Tyler. I think I'm going to be okay. I never thought I'd feel better, but I'm getting better. You know? Knowing Caitie's going to be alright. And Hank isn't paralyzed. And your alright."
The phone rang and it was Jamie, "Hey, guess what? Caitie's getting out TOMORROW! They did some tests, and everything's normal on her. Her heartbeat's back to normal, her bloodpressure..." He couldn't finish because of Val screaming and laughing happiness.
"Thanks for the news Jamie!" Val yelled in his ear. Tyler was smiling and he hugged Val and picked her up, while hugging her.
"You made living worthwhile, Tyler."
Tyler just looked at her and smiled. They sat down on the couch and watched
another movie. Tyler picked it this time and it was Where The Heart Is. They
mad more popcorn and got a couple of pops that were in Val's fridge. They
sat down and watched the movie. Half way though the movie Tyler's cellphone
rang. Tyler got up and went to the counter where his phone was.
"Hello?"
"Tyler? IT's mom, where are you at, we called the house like 15 times."
"Oh me and Val went to the movies and now we are at her house."
"So she's feeling better?"
"Yeah she is."
"That's good, well me and William should be back in about 4 days."
"Ok love ya mom bye."
He hung up the phone and looked over to the couch and seen that Val was not there. He looked over at the table to where the thing of knives were, one missing, than looked over to the T.V., it was paused at the part where, Novely was writing the the information on the death of the sister who was her only family.
He shook his head, "Oh no." He dropped the phone and ran through the house, "Val... Val, NO!" He knew what she was about to do. He finally reached the bathroom and noticed the door was shut and there was a light on. He opened the door to see Val standing next to the sink with a knife by her stomach. "No, Val." Tears sprung from his eyes. "You'll die instantly if you hit your organs. You'll bleed internally."
"What do you think I'm doing, TYLER?! I thought I was doing better, Tyler. I thought I was cured from this HELL... but I'm not."
"Val.. this is no way to get away from your feelings... you're about to KILL yourself, Val. Well, it's not. You know what it's going to be like... the feeling of dying. You'll regret it when you take your last breath." His tears were running freely now, as she jabbed the pointed of the knife about a centimenter below her naval. Blood started oosing out of her stomach.
"Val... don't do it. I love you, I can't imagine life without you, Val." Her eyes were watering up, and she felt her head get light and she fell to the ground, letting the knife break free of her hands and fall the to ground next top her, she was still breathing, but bleeding. He noticed she also hit her head off of the bathtub, pretty hard.
He slid one arm under her knees and the other under her back and carried her out to the car, he drove to the hospital, knowing Jamie would already be there with Caitie.. so he called Hank.
Hank got there as fast as he could. He ran into the waiting room and sat
next to Tyler, "Hey man how is she?"
"I don't know."
Jamie came out and asked what was going on. Tyler told him that Val tried it
again and he don't know if she will live or what. Tyler was pacing back and
forth. Jamie finally told him to stop and asked him, "Why do you think she
keeps on doing this...I mean trying to kill herself?"
Tyler looked at him, stoped and said, "I don't know....I wish she wouldn't
though."
Jamie came up with an idea and went into Caitie's room and got her so she
could go see Val. Caitie went into the room and seen Val, Just as Caitie
went in there she woke up, "Hey Caitie, how you felling?"
"Val? What did you do....why did you....Val you got to stop this....Jamie
told me what is going on."
"Look Caitie, you don't know nothing. Just leave me alone."
"NO. We are best friends, come on talk to me."
"Just like I told Tyler, I'm not going to ever get better, when will the
pain go away? When Caitie when?"
By than Caitie was crying too, "I don't know, but we can get through this if
we try."
Just then the doctor came in and said, "What are you doing out of your
room?"
"Visiting her."
"Well get back, I need to talk to her."
So Caitie left, and the doctor looked over at Val and begain to say,
"Look...this is the second time you did this."
"Yeah I can count."
"By the rules I would have to put you in a home but Tyler believes that if you talk to someone, stay with him and not to do this again, I won't have to. So I talked to some people and if you agree to not do this again, get some help, and talk to Tyler and other people when your
having a hard time, and come back here once a week for awhile than you won't have to. But that's all up to you."
"I'll think about it."
Hank who was around the coner came out and said, "What is there to think
about? I mean look you have a nice doctor who is willing not to put you in
one of those places, a boyfriend who will give up his life for you, friends
who care about you like no end..."
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