Comfort Me - Chapter Eight
Val took a deep breath and walked over to Tyler's locker, she whispered into his ear. "He's here."
"Who?"
"Him." She said, tugging back the tears. Tyler caught on.
"How do you know?" He asked, shutting his locker as the halls started clearing. She handed him the note and he opened it. It read through it, his face getting paler as he finished.
"Val, can you finish the school day?" Tyler touched her arm, as if comforting her. She looked at the ground blankly.
"Why is he doing this to me...?" She asked.
"I don't know, Val." He pulled her into a hug and the halls were now clear. "Come on, you can't stay in school today." He said, pulling her arm.
"Wait, Tyler, where are we going?"
"Just, come on." They walked out in front of Jamie's french class. Tyler gestured Jamie to come out. He watched as Jamie rose his hand and said it was an emergancy. Jamie came out into the hall and aroud to corner so his teacher wouldn't see him talking to Tyler. "Jamie, Val needs a way to get out of class."
"Go, Val. Ditchin'?" He said.
"No, Jamie. This." He held up the note and Jamie skimmed over it. He got a serious face.
"Oh, Val. I'm sorry." He said. "So this was whta Caitie was talking about. Alright, here's what you do. Go to the gym, and out of the gym doors. Make sure you go into te woods and stay there for a while so no one sees you. After a few minutes leave." Jamie said, then walked back into French class.
Val and Tyler went to there class, math, that they had together. They walked
in late but the teacher nooded, thinking they were on a call, and it was
there 24 hour shift but they didn't have a call. They sat down next to each
other and the teacher contiued his leason. Half way though he started to ask
question, "Tyler, if you don't have a pie button on your calculator, what
number to you use instand?"
"3.14." (A/N: I think that's it anyways, that is what I remember anyways)
"Good, Kathy, If 100 is c squaded and 20 is b squaded what is a squaded?"
"I have no clue sir."
"Tyler? I know you know this."
"40, sir." (A/N: Once again, I did this stuff last year, and a little bit
today, but my new teacher is so stupid and makes everything confusing, my
team had the answer and she sat there and told us how to get it another way
and than my friend..well nm sorry lol you can im me if you want to know lol
supervaltyler anywho the story)
"Good, Val what is the tree of 75." (I know this one but i don't know how to
say it.)
Val is in another world, "Val?" Coming back into the real world, "Huh?"
Just than the bell rings and everyone gets up and leaves but the teacher
stops her, "Val, What's up? You always pay attention in class..."
"NOTHING, can I go now?" And storms out of the room.
Tyler stops her, "What did the teacher want?"
"Never mind that, I'm going to be late for P.E."
She left him there with a confused look. She did just as Jamie had told
her. Val was waiting out in the tress. All of a suden she felt someone grab
her, but she couldn't tell who it was.
After class no one could find her, everyone looked everywhere. Tyler, Caitie,
Jamie and Hank all were released from school and work to go and try and find
her.
***
Finally, a few hours later, Tyler pulls out his cellular phone and calls Hank on his. "Hank, I'm really worried."
"Look, Tyler. We'll find her. Give her some time. She'll come back." Tyler took a deep breath.
"Thanks, Tyler." Tyler sat down, took another deep breath, and thought. He put his hand to his head and curled up in a ball by his bed. Then he remembered. "The river..." He whispered to himself. He grabbed his coat and ran out to his car. He quickly drove to the river. Why didn't he think of that before. She had to be there. He pulled up to the river, around the corner, and there she was. Her wrist tied behind her, her feet tied together. He shirt was ripped half way off, and she was only in a pair of shorts, and half of a shirt. Scotch tape was over her mouth, tears running down her face.
"Val," Tyler held his tears back, he quickly untied her and gently took the tape off. She leaned in and cried uncontrolably. She flung her arms around him and cried so much she screamed. This made Tyler upset. "Who did this to you?" He quiestioned, so concerned he put his hands on her shoudlers, shaking her a little bit. "Val... Val... what happened?" He calmed her. But, she only screamed more. Why wasn't she talking at all, she couldn't talk. He pulled her into a hug, felling wetness dripping on his hands. He looked behind her. A long slit going down her back. "Ahh.." She cried when he touched it. "Can you breathe?" He asked, nervously.
"Ya..." She cried out. "Help me, Tyler... please." She let out, reached her arms to him, afraid he'd leave her there.
"I will, baby." He said.
"Tyler?" Val said and than next thing was blackness.
Tyler looked over at her to ask what and saw she basically fainted. He
picked her up carefully, and rused her to the hospital. They took her in and
right away to surgury. Tyler called Hank cause he needed someone and what
better than a best friend.
Hank got there right away, along with Caitie, Jamie, Alex, and Tyler's
parents. They were all waiting and pacing. After awhile the doctor came out
and said, "Mr. Tyler Connell?"
Tyler steped up, "Yeah? How bad is she, is she ok can I see her?"
"Please follow me..." The doctor started to lead him into his office,
"Um..we need to know if you have any idea who did this to her? and she
should be fine, if recovery goes ok she will, she's out but she should wake
up with in a couple of hours. We don't know if she would have memory loss,
she shouldn't unless he hurt her head some way, but from what we can tell,
she ain't.."
"What...what all did he...like do to her...or..."
"Well from what we can tell, sir, he raped her, and tried to kil her, why we
don't know why. We were hoping you could help us out with that."
"Well there's a guy who calls her and stuff like that saying that if she
went to the police she would get it real bad and...stuff like that."
"Does she know who it is?"
"All she knows, it's a family friend."
Just than a nurse came in, "Doctor Pepsi (lol drinking it lol) we need you
in room 232."
The doctor turned to leave the room but Tyler grabbed his arm, "Is that Val's room?"
"Yes, now if you don't let me go I can't find out what's going on." He replied, sternly. Tyer let go of his arm, in a rush and sighed.
"You know, Caitie, I'm really getting tired of the sight of hospitals." He smiled, weakly, still looking sad.
"Seriously." She agreed. "Tyler... why would somebody do this to her?" She asked him.
"I don't know. I wish I could just... close my eyes, open them, and everything would be back to normal."
"I know how you feel." She stood up and sat next to Jamie. She rested her head on his shoulder and he put his arm around her.
"Jamie, do you think if we try hard enough, we could cheer Tyler up a little?" Caitie asked, closing her eyes.
"I don't think there's anything we can do." Jamie said, pulling her closer to him.
"Poor guy..." Hank said, staring at Tyler, his head buried in his hands. Alex had left by now, and Tyler's parents left knowing Tyler could handle this by himself.
After a few hours of not hearing anything, Tyler was becoming impatient. "I can't believe this. Three hours and nothing. What if somethings wrong?"
"Nothings wrong, Tyler." Hank smiled, comfortingly.
"What if... she's pregnant. I mean, he did..." He couldn't say it. His Val couldn't be pregnant.
Or could she?
Another two hours passed, finally Tyler got up and went to the desk, to talk
to the nurse there.
Caitie and Jamie were sleeping, Caitie's head on Jamie's shoulder and
Jamie's arm around her. Hank went to get something to eat.
"Can you give me some information please?"
"About?"
"Valerie Lanier."
No sorry we can only give the information to family."
"Family?...What family?...Plus i'm her boy friend."
Oh your...well sorry we just can't."
Just than the her doctor came out, "How is she."
"She... will probably be alright. She has had many injuries so far with the knife to the abdomen, and the cut to the wrist... bruises from the car accident, and all this depression." Tyler wanted so badly to ask if she could be pregnant, but he would be to embarrassed. But, he had to know. Just as Tyler was about to open his mouth the doctor once again spoke up, "Now, about the pregnancy tests. We havn't gotta a clear result, but there's a pretty good chance. We're not sure yet." Tyler sighed. The doctor left the room, it seemed so empty, he felt so alone. Jamie came over to him and rested his arm on Tyler's shoulder, as if comforting him in a manly way.
"It'll be alright, man." Jamie said, softly. Tyler put his hands deep into his palm.
"Jamie, you don't understand..." Tyler began.
Hours later the doctor had came out with a concerned look on his face, he asked to see Tyler alone.
"What's the matter, Doctor? Is she alright?"
"Nothing that can't be fixed within a few months." Tyler knew what that meant, "Mr. Connell, your girlfriend is pregnant... with that man's baby." Tyler eyes grew wet. "... Val has decided to have an abortion." Tyler's head shot up from his feet.
"What? No, she can't, she can't kill her own baby like that." He said. The doctor shrugged as if saying 'it's not your decision'. Tyer burst into Val's room, to see a crying Val. "No.. Val. Don't kill the baby."
Val looked up at him, she was so peaceful looking, yet so alone looking. "I know."
"I'll help raise him or her ... " He said.
"I feel so dirty, so cheap. Do you know how that felt? I... he... hurt..." She didn't know what to say. "Your right... I won't kill my own baby... this is my chance... to... have a family." A slight smile spread across his face.
"I can't believe this, Val." He said, "We... have a baby."
"Yeah... but it's not your baby." She patted her stomach. "Oh, how I wish it was..."
"What do you mean you wish it was? Are you saying....?
"What?"
"Um...Val..I know that we are only seventeen but....."
"Hey honny how are you?" Tyler's mom came in the room, interupting his
important question. "I'm so sorry Val, is there anything I can get you,
anything you need?"
"No i'll be fine if Tyler stays, thanks anyways mom."
"No problem. I'll talk to you later, bye dear."
Tyler looked up, "Bye mom." After his mom left the room he walked back over
to Val's bed.
"Now Tyler, what were you saying?" She asked. Tyler hesitated.
"Since..." He began,"I'm going to be taking care of the baby with you... you know, like fathering it. We can't... just be friends... I mean... we can't just be boyfriend and girlfriend."
Val's head shot up. "What are you saying?"
"I'm saying..." He stopped. He got on one knee. His heart beating fast, his body trembling. He never though in his dreams he would be doing this at seventeen. "Will you marry me... Val?"
The room became silent. The only noise you could hear was their soft breathing. "I... I..." Her mouth was gaped opened.
"You...?" He said, repeating her.
"I... yes, Tyler. I will." She said. Her voice was crackly. She was happy, and sad. She was sad she had become pregnant. Her parents would be so ashamed. But it wasn't her fault... not her fault.
"I love you, Val. And I will do everything in my power to support you and this baby." He said, slowly. "I don't know how long I've loved you... or how long this love with go on... but if it was up to me, I'd make it forever."
"It will, Tyler. It will... forever, you and me." He said, soothingly. His voice sent chills up Val's spine and she couldnt' believe this.
"Marriage? Baby? This all came so fast. It's like... BOOM. I'm pregnant. BOOM!" She almost yelled. "This is... terrible." She began to cry. "I mean.. I really want to marry you, and I will, Tyler... I will. But, I can't raise a baby." Tyler was becoming more and more upset at this man who did this to Val. Who knows what kind of diseases he could have had?
"Yes... yes you can, Val. WE can raise this baby." Tyler said, softly, putting his hand on her stomach. "Don't you see, Val? This baby will be ours. And when we get older, we could maybe have one that also belongs to me."
"When he, or she, grows up, and get's older. What will he tell his friends? 'I don't know who my father is, I was created by a rapist'? Tyler, it'll get teased."
"No, no, he will say, 'My father is Tyler Connell'." Tyler explained. Val shrugged.
"That's a while from now... we'll think about that later."
A/N: Hey! WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR!? Sorry this part is so short, we're working on chapter nine. Should we have a sequel to this? I mean, so far.... like so you think this'll turn out alright? Send us questions, comments, concerns, how to improve's... anything, we'll be sure to reply! *Val and J'sGirl*
Val took a deep breath and walked over to Tyler's locker, she whispered into his ear. "He's here."
"Who?"
"Him." She said, tugging back the tears. Tyler caught on.
"How do you know?" He asked, shutting his locker as the halls started clearing. She handed him the note and he opened it. It read through it, his face getting paler as he finished.
"Val, can you finish the school day?" Tyler touched her arm, as if comforting her. She looked at the ground blankly.
"Why is he doing this to me...?" She asked.
"I don't know, Val." He pulled her into a hug and the halls were now clear. "Come on, you can't stay in school today." He said, pulling her arm.
"Wait, Tyler, where are we going?"
"Just, come on." They walked out in front of Jamie's french class. Tyler gestured Jamie to come out. He watched as Jamie rose his hand and said it was an emergancy. Jamie came out into the hall and aroud to corner so his teacher wouldn't see him talking to Tyler. "Jamie, Val needs a way to get out of class."
"Go, Val. Ditchin'?" He said.
"No, Jamie. This." He held up the note and Jamie skimmed over it. He got a serious face.
"Oh, Val. I'm sorry." He said. "So this was whta Caitie was talking about. Alright, here's what you do. Go to the gym, and out of the gym doors. Make sure you go into te woods and stay there for a while so no one sees you. After a few minutes leave." Jamie said, then walked back into French class.
Val and Tyler went to there class, math, that they had together. They walked
in late but the teacher nooded, thinking they were on a call, and it was
there 24 hour shift but they didn't have a call. They sat down next to each
other and the teacher contiued his leason. Half way though he started to ask
question, "Tyler, if you don't have a pie button on your calculator, what
number to you use instand?"
"3.14." (A/N: I think that's it anyways, that is what I remember anyways)
"Good, Kathy, If 100 is c squaded and 20 is b squaded what is a squaded?"
"I have no clue sir."
"Tyler? I know you know this."
"40, sir." (A/N: Once again, I did this stuff last year, and a little bit
today, but my new teacher is so stupid and makes everything confusing, my
team had the answer and she sat there and told us how to get it another way
and than my friend..well nm sorry lol you can im me if you want to know lol
supervaltyler anywho the story)
"Good, Val what is the tree of 75." (I know this one but i don't know how to
say it.)
Val is in another world, "Val?" Coming back into the real world, "Huh?"
Just than the bell rings and everyone gets up and leaves but the teacher
stops her, "Val, What's up? You always pay attention in class..."
"NOTHING, can I go now?" And storms out of the room.
Tyler stops her, "What did the teacher want?"
"Never mind that, I'm going to be late for P.E."
She left him there with a confused look. She did just as Jamie had told
her. Val was waiting out in the tress. All of a suden she felt someone grab
her, but she couldn't tell who it was.
After class no one could find her, everyone looked everywhere. Tyler, Caitie,
Jamie and Hank all were released from school and work to go and try and find
her.
***
Finally, a few hours later, Tyler pulls out his cellular phone and calls Hank on his. "Hank, I'm really worried."
"Look, Tyler. We'll find her. Give her some time. She'll come back." Tyler took a deep breath.
"Thanks, Tyler." Tyler sat down, took another deep breath, and thought. He put his hand to his head and curled up in a ball by his bed. Then he remembered. "The river..." He whispered to himself. He grabbed his coat and ran out to his car. He quickly drove to the river. Why didn't he think of that before. She had to be there. He pulled up to the river, around the corner, and there she was. Her wrist tied behind her, her feet tied together. He shirt was ripped half way off, and she was only in a pair of shorts, and half of a shirt. Scotch tape was over her mouth, tears running down her face.
"Val," Tyler held his tears back, he quickly untied her and gently took the tape off. She leaned in and cried uncontrolably. She flung her arms around him and cried so much she screamed. This made Tyler upset. "Who did this to you?" He quiestioned, so concerned he put his hands on her shoudlers, shaking her a little bit. "Val... Val... what happened?" He calmed her. But, she only screamed more. Why wasn't she talking at all, she couldn't talk. He pulled her into a hug, felling wetness dripping on his hands. He looked behind her. A long slit going down her back. "Ahh.." She cried when he touched it. "Can you breathe?" He asked, nervously.
"Ya..." She cried out. "Help me, Tyler... please." She let out, reached her arms to him, afraid he'd leave her there.
"I will, baby." He said.
"Tyler?" Val said and than next thing was blackness.
Tyler looked over at her to ask what and saw she basically fainted. He
picked her up carefully, and rused her to the hospital. They took her in and
right away to surgury. Tyler called Hank cause he needed someone and what
better than a best friend.
Hank got there right away, along with Caitie, Jamie, Alex, and Tyler's
parents. They were all waiting and pacing. After awhile the doctor came out
and said, "Mr. Tyler Connell?"
Tyler steped up, "Yeah? How bad is she, is she ok can I see her?"
"Please follow me..." The doctor started to lead him into his office,
"Um..we need to know if you have any idea who did this to her? and she
should be fine, if recovery goes ok she will, she's out but she should wake
up with in a couple of hours. We don't know if she would have memory loss,
she shouldn't unless he hurt her head some way, but from what we can tell,
she ain't.."
"What...what all did he...like do to her...or..."
"Well from what we can tell, sir, he raped her, and tried to kil her, why we
don't know why. We were hoping you could help us out with that."
"Well there's a guy who calls her and stuff like that saying that if she
went to the police she would get it real bad and...stuff like that."
"Does she know who it is?"
"All she knows, it's a family friend."
Just than a nurse came in, "Doctor Pepsi (lol drinking it lol) we need you
in room 232."
The doctor turned to leave the room but Tyler grabbed his arm, "Is that Val's room?"
"Yes, now if you don't let me go I can't find out what's going on." He replied, sternly. Tyer let go of his arm, in a rush and sighed.
"You know, Caitie, I'm really getting tired of the sight of hospitals." He smiled, weakly, still looking sad.
"Seriously." She agreed. "Tyler... why would somebody do this to her?" She asked him.
"I don't know. I wish I could just... close my eyes, open them, and everything would be back to normal."
"I know how you feel." She stood up and sat next to Jamie. She rested her head on his shoulder and he put his arm around her.
"Jamie, do you think if we try hard enough, we could cheer Tyler up a little?" Caitie asked, closing her eyes.
"I don't think there's anything we can do." Jamie said, pulling her closer to him.
"Poor guy..." Hank said, staring at Tyler, his head buried in his hands. Alex had left by now, and Tyler's parents left knowing Tyler could handle this by himself.
After a few hours of not hearing anything, Tyler was becoming impatient. "I can't believe this. Three hours and nothing. What if somethings wrong?"
"Nothings wrong, Tyler." Hank smiled, comfortingly.
"What if... she's pregnant. I mean, he did..." He couldn't say it. His Val couldn't be pregnant.
Or could she?
Another two hours passed, finally Tyler got up and went to the desk, to talk
to the nurse there.
Caitie and Jamie were sleeping, Caitie's head on Jamie's shoulder and
Jamie's arm around her. Hank went to get something to eat.
"Can you give me some information please?"
"About?"
"Valerie Lanier."
No sorry we can only give the information to family."
"Family?...What family?...Plus i'm her boy friend."
Oh your...well sorry we just can't."
Just than the her doctor came out, "How is she."
"She... will probably be alright. She has had many injuries so far with the knife to the abdomen, and the cut to the wrist... bruises from the car accident, and all this depression." Tyler wanted so badly to ask if she could be pregnant, but he would be to embarrassed. But, he had to know. Just as Tyler was about to open his mouth the doctor once again spoke up, "Now, about the pregnancy tests. We havn't gotta a clear result, but there's a pretty good chance. We're not sure yet." Tyler sighed. The doctor left the room, it seemed so empty, he felt so alone. Jamie came over to him and rested his arm on Tyler's shoulder, as if comforting him in a manly way.
"It'll be alright, man." Jamie said, softly. Tyler put his hands deep into his palm.
"Jamie, you don't understand..." Tyler began.
Hours later the doctor had came out with a concerned look on his face, he asked to see Tyler alone.
"What's the matter, Doctor? Is she alright?"
"Nothing that can't be fixed within a few months." Tyler knew what that meant, "Mr. Connell, your girlfriend is pregnant... with that man's baby." Tyler eyes grew wet. "... Val has decided to have an abortion." Tyler's head shot up from his feet.
"What? No, she can't, she can't kill her own baby like that." He said. The doctor shrugged as if saying 'it's not your decision'. Tyer burst into Val's room, to see a crying Val. "No.. Val. Don't kill the baby."
Val looked up at him, she was so peaceful looking, yet so alone looking. "I know."
"I'll help raise him or her ... " He said.
"I feel so dirty, so cheap. Do you know how that felt? I... he... hurt..." She didn't know what to say. "Your right... I won't kill my own baby... this is my chance... to... have a family." A slight smile spread across his face.
"I can't believe this, Val." He said, "We... have a baby."
"Yeah... but it's not your baby." She patted her stomach. "Oh, how I wish it was..."
"What do you mean you wish it was? Are you saying....?
"What?"
"Um...Val..I know that we are only seventeen but....."
"Hey honny how are you?" Tyler's mom came in the room, interupting his
important question. "I'm so sorry Val, is there anything I can get you,
anything you need?"
"No i'll be fine if Tyler stays, thanks anyways mom."
"No problem. I'll talk to you later, bye dear."
Tyler looked up, "Bye mom." After his mom left the room he walked back over
to Val's bed.
"Now Tyler, what were you saying?" She asked. Tyler hesitated.
"Since..." He began,"I'm going to be taking care of the baby with you... you know, like fathering it. We can't... just be friends... I mean... we can't just be boyfriend and girlfriend."
Val's head shot up. "What are you saying?"
"I'm saying..." He stopped. He got on one knee. His heart beating fast, his body trembling. He never though in his dreams he would be doing this at seventeen. "Will you marry me... Val?"
The room became silent. The only noise you could hear was their soft breathing. "I... I..." Her mouth was gaped opened.
"You...?" He said, repeating her.
"I... yes, Tyler. I will." She said. Her voice was crackly. She was happy, and sad. She was sad she had become pregnant. Her parents would be so ashamed. But it wasn't her fault... not her fault.
"I love you, Val. And I will do everything in my power to support you and this baby." He said, slowly. "I don't know how long I've loved you... or how long this love with go on... but if it was up to me, I'd make it forever."
"It will, Tyler. It will... forever, you and me." He said, soothingly. His voice sent chills up Val's spine and she couldnt' believe this.
"Marriage? Baby? This all came so fast. It's like... BOOM. I'm pregnant. BOOM!" She almost yelled. "This is... terrible." She began to cry. "I mean.. I really want to marry you, and I will, Tyler... I will. But, I can't raise a baby." Tyler was becoming more and more upset at this man who did this to Val. Who knows what kind of diseases he could have had?
"Yes... yes you can, Val. WE can raise this baby." Tyler said, softly, putting his hand on her stomach. "Don't you see, Val? This baby will be ours. And when we get older, we could maybe have one that also belongs to me."
"When he, or she, grows up, and get's older. What will he tell his friends? 'I don't know who my father is, I was created by a rapist'? Tyler, it'll get teased."
"No, no, he will say, 'My father is Tyler Connell'." Tyler explained. Val shrugged.
"That's a while from now... we'll think about that later."
A/N: Hey! WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR!? Sorry this part is so short, we're working on chapter nine. Should we have a sequel to this? I mean, so far.... like so you think this'll turn out alright? Send us questions, comments, concerns, how to improve's... anything, we'll be sure to reply! *Val and J'sGirl*