OMG! I have just gone through a freaking stressful week! As if my term paper wasn't stressful enough, my friend crush my floppy disk that had my whole paper on it! Luckily, I had saved most of it on a computer at school. But argh...Fights with friends, explaining to my teacher why my paper was late, and then studying for exams all add up to a lot of freaking stress. Therefore, I have no idea how long it will take me to get the next chapter written. But I am hoping it will be soon. And thanks for all the reviews! Keep them coming.
The first part of the chapter is told from Ethan's POV. Then back to normal. And remember...I do not own any of the characters, I do not get payed for writing this...so just enjoy this chapter.
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"Hey Mark, whats up?" Ethan said as he answered the door at around 8:00.
"Not much. Are you two ready to go?" Mark asked as he came into their house.
"I know I am, but I'm not sure about Ellie." Ethan said. "I'll go check on her."
Ethan walked up the stairs and then turned to go down the long hallway that led to Ellie's room. He knocked on the door once, but no answer. He knocked again, a little louder. "Ellie?"
"What?" He heard her voice come from the other side of the door.
"Mark's here!" Ethan said. Was Ellie in a bad mood or what?
"I'll be down in a few minutes." Ellie yelled.
"Okay." He said. He then turned to go back downstairs. Why was she getting mad at him again? He could understand that she was under stress, but why did she have to be getting upset with him?
"Is she ready yet?" Mark asked as Ethan came back downstairs.
"No...I think she may just have gotten out of the shower." Ethan said.
The boys continued to talk and then Ellie came down the stairs about ten minutes later.
"Hey, you look nice." Mark said.
"Thanks, so do you." Ellie said.
Ethan looked at both of them. Mark had a strange look in his eyes, which he did not not like one bit. Ellie had a tired look in her eyes, she had lost the look of fire and spirit she had not even two weeks earlier. What was happening to her? It was like the stress she had was taking the life right out of her.
They all went out to Mark's car and drove to the party. Ethan and Mark mainly talked while Ellie sat in the back seat looking out the window.
Ethan and Ellie soon seperated at the party. Ethan had one beer, but then stopped after that. Normally at parties he would drink until he would black out. But lately, Ellie had been dragging him to church every Sunday morning, it had grown on him, so he still had his fun at parties, but he learned to limit it, which was something many of this friends had to learn to do.
It was about an hour later that he notice Mark start dancing with Ellie. He just smiled to himself, and then went back to making out with Heidi.
About ten minutes later when he looked up again he noticed that Ellie and Mark where both gone.
"Sorry Heidi, I have to go find someone..." Ethan said as he picked up Heidi off his lap and then put her next to him and stood up.
"I'll be waiting for you." Heidi said to him as he walked off.
Ethan ran upstairs and checked all the bedrooms, getting a couple people mad in the process. He then ran back downstairs and literially ran into Nick (*remember the guy from chapter 4*).
"Ethan! I'm so glad I found you!" Nick asked as he regained his balance.
"Where's Ellie?" Ethan asked.
"Thats why I was coming to find you. He tried to take Ellie to one of the bedroom's but she didn't agree with him, so she walked out on him." Nick explained.
"What?" Ethan gasped. Mark was one of those guys who always got what he wanted. Ethan wanted to kick himself for not staying with his sister. "Where are they?"
"Ellie ran outside, Mark followed her." Nick said. "I knew I couldn't take him alone, I also knew you might what you get him too."
"I sure do...Lets go get him." Ethan said angerily.
They went out the front door and looked around the front yard. They heard two cars driving quickly, Ethan noticed one of the cars that was speeding off had Lizzie's "Superstar" bumper sticker, which meant rhat Ellie had gotten away from Mark. They saw Mark slowly walking toward the porch.
"Hey! Little help?" Mark yelled to them.
Ethan walked quickly towards him with his fists clenched. "I'll help you alright." He then punched Mark as he got closer to him.
Mark almost fell to the ground. He wiped his lip where Ethan had punched him, he was bleeding. He then looked at Ethan. "What gives man?"
"You know what!" Ethan yelled. "You don't touch my sister."
Mark straightened up and got right in Ethan's face. They both stared at each other intensily. "You know I get whatever girl I want...and tonight it happened to be Ellie. She wouldn't give it to me so I tried to take it myself." He told Ethan.
Ethan wanted to rip his head off. As Mark was saying these things Ethan breathed heavily and clenched his fists.
"I would have gotten it too, if her friends hadn't come." Mark said. "And I will get it next time, you can tell her that!"
Ethan's anger boiled over. He pushed Mark so hard he fell on his back, then got on top of Mark and began punching him. Mark then turned it around and began hitting Ethan. This continued until someone pull Ethan off Mark and held him back, another person pulled up Mark and held him back as well.
"Get off me!" Ethan yelled to whoever was holding him.
"No! You two are out of control!" It turned out to be Nick who was restraining Ethan.
Ethan tried to break free from Nick's hold, but Nick just held onto his arms tighter.
"Just calm down!" Nick yelled at Ethan.
Ethan lowered his head and began to calm down, and noticed Nick's grip getting a little looser. He then looked up and saw Mark and he wanted to beat his head onto the ground again. But Nick's grip tightened again.
"Let me go!" Mark yelled at Travis Melrose who had a tight grip on him.
"No way!" Travis yelled back.
"I'm getting out of here!" Mark said.
"Mark, you are way too drunk!" Travis told him. "Give me your car keys and I'll drive you home."
"No way!" Mark yelled, still struggling franicly to get away from John. Suddenly, Mark passed out, partily because he was drunk, and partly because he had obviously gotten extremely tired from trying to break free from Travis's grip.
"Is he okay?" Nick asked.
"Yeah..." Travis said. "He's still breathing."
"Will you let me go?" Ethan asked Nick again.
"Are you going to attack Mark again?" Nick asked him.
"I never hit anyone while they are down." Ethan said.
"Fine then." Nick said as he let go of Ethan's arms.
Ethan stepped away from Nick. "Can you give me a ride back to my house? I need to talk to Ellie."
"Sure..." Travis said as he pulled something out of Mark's pocket. It was Mark's set of car keys. "I'll drive Mark's car."
"Yeah we should take him home too." Nick said.
Nick and Travis picked up Mark by his arms and dragged him over to his arm and dragged him into the car. John then went around and got into the drivers seat, while Ethan and Nick got into the car.
They were driving home and everything was going fine, until Travis noticed a car was coming toward them.
"What is this guy...Stupid?" Nick thought aloud.
"Probably drunk." Travis said, wondering how he could avoid the car coming at them. He was sure they would get hit even if he pulled off to the shoulder side of the road. "Shit!"
The next 30 seconds was probably the most terrifying moment of their lives. The car did eventually hit the drivers side of the car with so much force that it cause the car to flip over.
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Ellie, along with Lizzie, Miranda, Kate and Mrs. McGuire all got off the elevator and quickly went over to the recpetionist desk. They were told to wait and the doctor would be with them shortly.
"I hate hospitals." Ellie thought. She had been to the hospital several times before for various reasons.
"What do you think could have happened?" Kate asked.
"I don't know." Ellie said. "But I wish they would not take so long."
A tall, dark haired man came into the waiting room and few moments later. He looked at his clipboard. "Miss Ellen Craft." He said.
Ellie stood up, and so did Kate. "Yes, thats me."
"I'm Dr. John Mayz, I called you eariler about your brother, Ethan." He said.
"Yes, please tell me what happened." Ellie said. Kate standing at her side gave her a sense of comfort, but her stomach was still turning.
"Well, he was invovled in a car accident early this morning." He told her. "Along with, Mark Green, Nick Landeson, and Travis Melrose...do you know any of those boys."
"Yes I do." Ellie said.
"Well, your brother is the most lucky out of all of them." He told her. "He broke his arm and has several cuts a bruises but he really should be alright."
"What exactly happened?" Ellie asked. She was happen Ethan was alright, but what happened to the other three boys?
"A drunk driver hit the driver's side of the car, which was the side that Travis and Mark were sitting." Dr. Mayz said. "Mark has a broken foot, a head injury along with several cuts and bruises. Nick's right arm is broken and he broke a rib, but his injuries are not life threating."
"What about Travis?" Kate asked.
The doctor sighed. "He was the one directly hit, he broke a few ribs and he has a bad head injury as well. He has slipped into a comb, and we don't know if he will pull through."
Ellie lost the feeling in her legs. Kate caught her before she fell to the ground.
"Ethan and Nick are awake right now if you would like to see them." He said.
"Thank you." Ellie said.
The doctor turned and left all of them in the waiting room. Travis was dying? That couldn't be possible.
Lizzie went with Ellie to see Ethan. Ellie walked in and saw Ethan and Nick laying in hospital beds side by side. Ellie went and woke up Ethan.
Ethan opened his eyes and smiled at Ellie. "Hey Elle." Ethan smiled a bit.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Ellie asked.
"Oh just great." Ethan said. "It has always been my dream to be in a hospital bed."
Ellie laughed a little. "Thats great."
Nick suddenly stirred in his bed. "Ellie? Lizzie?" He said to them.
Lizzie turned around to Nick. "Yes Nick."
Nick tried to sit up but gave up after a few seconds. "How is Travis doing?" He asked both of them. "I heard the nurse say that Mark should be alright, but how's Travis?"
Ellie shook her head. "They don't know if Travis is going to be able to pull through."
Nick looked as pale as a sheet. "What?"
Ellie tried to find words to explain Travis's condition, but couldn't. Nick and Travis where the captains of the basketball team, they also had been best friends since they were ten. Nick and Travis were two of those guys who knew what they wanted and never got drunk or did drugs or slept around with girls they barely knew, they knew it would get in the way of them playing for the NBA someday.
Lizzie explained it to Nick the best she could. Nick looked terrifyed as she told him what they knew.
"How long until we can get out of this place?" Ethan said a few minutes later.
"I hope today." Ellie said.
Ethan looked at Ellie. She looked like she hadn't slept in weeks. All the stress she was dealing with...and then this happens. She was probably dealing with more crap then he every would have to. "Ellie, why don't you go over to Lizzie's. Get some sleep."
"No, I'm going to stay here." Ellie told him.
"No...you are going to go get some sleep." Ethan told her firmly. "You look like you could use it too."
Ellie looked at her twin. "Oh really? Thanks...I'll try to return the complement someday."
Ethan smiled a bit. "I'm sorry, but please...Just go get some sleep."
"Okay..." Ellie gave in. "But call me as soon as you can get out of here."
"I will." Ethan smiled.
Ellie and Lizzie then left their hospital room. Ellie looked at her watch...It was 5:45. She was so tired, but she didn't think she could sleep.
"How are they?" Miranda asked as they got back to the waiting room.
"They look alright." Lizzie said. "Nick seems pretty upset about Travis though."
"Who wouldn't?" Kate said. "I mean, because of some moron, one of the best guys at our school could die."
Ellie's eyes filled with tears. She hated to think about someone as young as Travis dying, and for somone elses mistake. She blinked to keep them back.
"Ellie, would you like to come back to our house?" Mrs. McGuire asked.
Ellie nodded. "Yes please."
They all left the hospital and went back to Lizzie's house. All the girls were extremely tired, so they went up to Lizzie's room and quickly fell back asleep.
The girls slept soundly for hours until Lizzie's phone rang and it woke them all up. Lizzie rolled over and picked it up.
"Hello?" She said sleepily.
"Lizzie? It's 2:30...did you just wake up?" It was Gordo.
"Yes..." Lizzie sounded annoyed.
"Whats wrong?...You're parents never let you sleep in this late." Gordo asked.
"Ethan, Mark, Travis and Nick were in a car wreck last night. We were at the hospital for a couple hours." Lizzie told him.
"Are they okay?" Gordo asked.
"Ethan and Nick are, Mark is a little worse...But they are not sure if Travis is going to pull through." Lizzie told him. She sat up in her bed. She noticed all her friends were stretching in their sleeping bags.
"Damn..." Gordo sounded a little worried. "I'll let you sleep. Sorry I woke you up."
"Its okay...You didn't know." Lizzie told him.
"Well, call me later." Gordo said. "I love you."
"I love you too." Lizzie smiled a bit. "Bye." She then hung up the phone.
"Lemme guess...Gordo." Miranda said as she rolled onto her stomach.
"Yep." Lizzie said. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock. "2:30, you think we should get up?"
"No...I'm too damn lazy." Kate said stretching her left arm into the air.
Ellie suddenly shot up. "2:30? I was supposed to be at the ice arena at 12:00 for training." Her eyes filled with tears. "I am so dead now."
"Ellie, you have been on over load lately..." Lizzie said. "Is there anything you want to talk about?"
"No, I'm fine...Its just, I need like two more hours in every day to get everything done." Ellie wiped her eyes.
"Ellie, come on, we have all been stressed out before. You can talk to us." Kate told her.
"You don't understand!" Ellie didn't try to hold back her tears now. "I mean, no one does...There's my school work...all the damn training...I barely get four hours of sleep every night! I can't eat anything that I want to anymore."
Kate put her hand on Ellie's shoulder. "But all the training with pay off in a few months, won't it?"
Ellie just shook her head. "It will, but that doesn't help the complete hell I am going through. I mean, I have to watch everything I eat. I am working on the same routine everyday, and everyday I seem to be getting worse and worse at everything I do."
Kate handed her a tissue. "You could just quit if it is causing you so much stress."
Ellie wiped her eyes. "That would just lead to more crap. The whole world thinks that Taylor and I are going to win the gold and silver. If I quit the press would have a field day. I want to do this, I am just getting so messed up. And to add on to everything, there is all the shit that happened last night."
Ellie continued to cry, none of her friends knew what to do of say to her. She finally calmed down and looked at her friends.
"I'm sorry..." She began.
"Oh chica...You never have to apologize to us." Miranda told her.
"Really Ellie." Lizzie said. "No matter what, you can always talk to us."
"Thanks." Ellie wiped her eyes again with a tissue that Kate handed her.
Lizzie sat up. "Hey Miranda. Do you remember homecoming last year?" She asked.
Miranda smiled. "I sure do. I remember I was upset about not having a date for the dance, and Travis asked me to go with him. That was the greatest time I ever had at a school event."
Kate smiled. "I remember freshman year I was cheering at a basketball game he missed a pass and it hit me in the face. I was so ticked off...But then he went and got me ice and made sure I was alright...I just couldn't stay mad at him."
Lizzie giggled a little. "I remember that game...You threw your pom-poms at him. I almost died laughing."
"Oh be quiet." Kate scolded a bit, but then smiled gentley.
"There was one time he came with Ethan to pick me up from ice skating...They got restless and decided to get out on the ice with me. Oh my gosh...I think you can picture the rest of it." Ellie told them with a small smile.
"Travis is one of those guys who was just awesome." Lizzie said. "I really hope he can pull through."
"Me too." Miranda said.
"He will." Kate said.
Lizzie looked at her. "How do you know?"
"If Ellie can recover from a head injury, remember everything about skating and win a National title all within a month, Travis can pull through this." She told them. "Plus, there are still to many things he needs to do."
"I hope you are right." Ellie said.
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The first part of the chapter is told from Ethan's POV. Then back to normal. And remember...I do not own any of the characters, I do not get payed for writing this...so just enjoy this chapter.
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"Hey Mark, whats up?" Ethan said as he answered the door at around 8:00.
"Not much. Are you two ready to go?" Mark asked as he came into their house.
"I know I am, but I'm not sure about Ellie." Ethan said. "I'll go check on her."
Ethan walked up the stairs and then turned to go down the long hallway that led to Ellie's room. He knocked on the door once, but no answer. He knocked again, a little louder. "Ellie?"
"What?" He heard her voice come from the other side of the door.
"Mark's here!" Ethan said. Was Ellie in a bad mood or what?
"I'll be down in a few minutes." Ellie yelled.
"Okay." He said. He then turned to go back downstairs. Why was she getting mad at him again? He could understand that she was under stress, but why did she have to be getting upset with him?
"Is she ready yet?" Mark asked as Ethan came back downstairs.
"No...I think she may just have gotten out of the shower." Ethan said.
The boys continued to talk and then Ellie came down the stairs about ten minutes later.
"Hey, you look nice." Mark said.
"Thanks, so do you." Ellie said.
Ethan looked at both of them. Mark had a strange look in his eyes, which he did not not like one bit. Ellie had a tired look in her eyes, she had lost the look of fire and spirit she had not even two weeks earlier. What was happening to her? It was like the stress she had was taking the life right out of her.
They all went out to Mark's car and drove to the party. Ethan and Mark mainly talked while Ellie sat in the back seat looking out the window.
Ethan and Ellie soon seperated at the party. Ethan had one beer, but then stopped after that. Normally at parties he would drink until he would black out. But lately, Ellie had been dragging him to church every Sunday morning, it had grown on him, so he still had his fun at parties, but he learned to limit it, which was something many of this friends had to learn to do.
It was about an hour later that he notice Mark start dancing with Ellie. He just smiled to himself, and then went back to making out with Heidi.
About ten minutes later when he looked up again he noticed that Ellie and Mark where both gone.
"Sorry Heidi, I have to go find someone..." Ethan said as he picked up Heidi off his lap and then put her next to him and stood up.
"I'll be waiting for you." Heidi said to him as he walked off.
Ethan ran upstairs and checked all the bedrooms, getting a couple people mad in the process. He then ran back downstairs and literially ran into Nick (*remember the guy from chapter 4*).
"Ethan! I'm so glad I found you!" Nick asked as he regained his balance.
"Where's Ellie?" Ethan asked.
"Thats why I was coming to find you. He tried to take Ellie to one of the bedroom's but she didn't agree with him, so she walked out on him." Nick explained.
"What?" Ethan gasped. Mark was one of those guys who always got what he wanted. Ethan wanted to kick himself for not staying with his sister. "Where are they?"
"Ellie ran outside, Mark followed her." Nick said. "I knew I couldn't take him alone, I also knew you might what you get him too."
"I sure do...Lets go get him." Ethan said angerily.
They went out the front door and looked around the front yard. They heard two cars driving quickly, Ethan noticed one of the cars that was speeding off had Lizzie's "Superstar" bumper sticker, which meant rhat Ellie had gotten away from Mark. They saw Mark slowly walking toward the porch.
"Hey! Little help?" Mark yelled to them.
Ethan walked quickly towards him with his fists clenched. "I'll help you alright." He then punched Mark as he got closer to him.
Mark almost fell to the ground. He wiped his lip where Ethan had punched him, he was bleeding. He then looked at Ethan. "What gives man?"
"You know what!" Ethan yelled. "You don't touch my sister."
Mark straightened up and got right in Ethan's face. They both stared at each other intensily. "You know I get whatever girl I want...and tonight it happened to be Ellie. She wouldn't give it to me so I tried to take it myself." He told Ethan.
Ethan wanted to rip his head off. As Mark was saying these things Ethan breathed heavily and clenched his fists.
"I would have gotten it too, if her friends hadn't come." Mark said. "And I will get it next time, you can tell her that!"
Ethan's anger boiled over. He pushed Mark so hard he fell on his back, then got on top of Mark and began punching him. Mark then turned it around and began hitting Ethan. This continued until someone pull Ethan off Mark and held him back, another person pulled up Mark and held him back as well.
"Get off me!" Ethan yelled to whoever was holding him.
"No! You two are out of control!" It turned out to be Nick who was restraining Ethan.
Ethan tried to break free from Nick's hold, but Nick just held onto his arms tighter.
"Just calm down!" Nick yelled at Ethan.
Ethan lowered his head and began to calm down, and noticed Nick's grip getting a little looser. He then looked up and saw Mark and he wanted to beat his head onto the ground again. But Nick's grip tightened again.
"Let me go!" Mark yelled at Travis Melrose who had a tight grip on him.
"No way!" Travis yelled back.
"I'm getting out of here!" Mark said.
"Mark, you are way too drunk!" Travis told him. "Give me your car keys and I'll drive you home."
"No way!" Mark yelled, still struggling franicly to get away from John. Suddenly, Mark passed out, partily because he was drunk, and partly because he had obviously gotten extremely tired from trying to break free from Travis's grip.
"Is he okay?" Nick asked.
"Yeah..." Travis said. "He's still breathing."
"Will you let me go?" Ethan asked Nick again.
"Are you going to attack Mark again?" Nick asked him.
"I never hit anyone while they are down." Ethan said.
"Fine then." Nick said as he let go of Ethan's arms.
Ethan stepped away from Nick. "Can you give me a ride back to my house? I need to talk to Ellie."
"Sure..." Travis said as he pulled something out of Mark's pocket. It was Mark's set of car keys. "I'll drive Mark's car."
"Yeah we should take him home too." Nick said.
Nick and Travis picked up Mark by his arms and dragged him over to his arm and dragged him into the car. John then went around and got into the drivers seat, while Ethan and Nick got into the car.
They were driving home and everything was going fine, until Travis noticed a car was coming toward them.
"What is this guy...Stupid?" Nick thought aloud.
"Probably drunk." Travis said, wondering how he could avoid the car coming at them. He was sure they would get hit even if he pulled off to the shoulder side of the road. "Shit!"
The next 30 seconds was probably the most terrifying moment of their lives. The car did eventually hit the drivers side of the car with so much force that it cause the car to flip over.
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Ellie, along with Lizzie, Miranda, Kate and Mrs. McGuire all got off the elevator and quickly went over to the recpetionist desk. They were told to wait and the doctor would be with them shortly.
"I hate hospitals." Ellie thought. She had been to the hospital several times before for various reasons.
"What do you think could have happened?" Kate asked.
"I don't know." Ellie said. "But I wish they would not take so long."
A tall, dark haired man came into the waiting room and few moments later. He looked at his clipboard. "Miss Ellen Craft." He said.
Ellie stood up, and so did Kate. "Yes, thats me."
"I'm Dr. John Mayz, I called you eariler about your brother, Ethan." He said.
"Yes, please tell me what happened." Ellie said. Kate standing at her side gave her a sense of comfort, but her stomach was still turning.
"Well, he was invovled in a car accident early this morning." He told her. "Along with, Mark Green, Nick Landeson, and Travis Melrose...do you know any of those boys."
"Yes I do." Ellie said.
"Well, your brother is the most lucky out of all of them." He told her. "He broke his arm and has several cuts a bruises but he really should be alright."
"What exactly happened?" Ellie asked. She was happen Ethan was alright, but what happened to the other three boys?
"A drunk driver hit the driver's side of the car, which was the side that Travis and Mark were sitting." Dr. Mayz said. "Mark has a broken foot, a head injury along with several cuts and bruises. Nick's right arm is broken and he broke a rib, but his injuries are not life threating."
"What about Travis?" Kate asked.
The doctor sighed. "He was the one directly hit, he broke a few ribs and he has a bad head injury as well. He has slipped into a comb, and we don't know if he will pull through."
Ellie lost the feeling in her legs. Kate caught her before she fell to the ground.
"Ethan and Nick are awake right now if you would like to see them." He said.
"Thank you." Ellie said.
The doctor turned and left all of them in the waiting room. Travis was dying? That couldn't be possible.
Lizzie went with Ellie to see Ethan. Ellie walked in and saw Ethan and Nick laying in hospital beds side by side. Ellie went and woke up Ethan.
Ethan opened his eyes and smiled at Ellie. "Hey Elle." Ethan smiled a bit.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Ellie asked.
"Oh just great." Ethan said. "It has always been my dream to be in a hospital bed."
Ellie laughed a little. "Thats great."
Nick suddenly stirred in his bed. "Ellie? Lizzie?" He said to them.
Lizzie turned around to Nick. "Yes Nick."
Nick tried to sit up but gave up after a few seconds. "How is Travis doing?" He asked both of them. "I heard the nurse say that Mark should be alright, but how's Travis?"
Ellie shook her head. "They don't know if Travis is going to be able to pull through."
Nick looked as pale as a sheet. "What?"
Ellie tried to find words to explain Travis's condition, but couldn't. Nick and Travis where the captains of the basketball team, they also had been best friends since they were ten. Nick and Travis were two of those guys who knew what they wanted and never got drunk or did drugs or slept around with girls they barely knew, they knew it would get in the way of them playing for the NBA someday.
Lizzie explained it to Nick the best she could. Nick looked terrifyed as she told him what they knew.
"How long until we can get out of this place?" Ethan said a few minutes later.
"I hope today." Ellie said.
Ethan looked at Ellie. She looked like she hadn't slept in weeks. All the stress she was dealing with...and then this happens. She was probably dealing with more crap then he every would have to. "Ellie, why don't you go over to Lizzie's. Get some sleep."
"No, I'm going to stay here." Ellie told him.
"No...you are going to go get some sleep." Ethan told her firmly. "You look like you could use it too."
Ellie looked at her twin. "Oh really? Thanks...I'll try to return the complement someday."
Ethan smiled a bit. "I'm sorry, but please...Just go get some sleep."
"Okay..." Ellie gave in. "But call me as soon as you can get out of here."
"I will." Ethan smiled.
Ellie and Lizzie then left their hospital room. Ellie looked at her watch...It was 5:45. She was so tired, but she didn't think she could sleep.
"How are they?" Miranda asked as they got back to the waiting room.
"They look alright." Lizzie said. "Nick seems pretty upset about Travis though."
"Who wouldn't?" Kate said. "I mean, because of some moron, one of the best guys at our school could die."
Ellie's eyes filled with tears. She hated to think about someone as young as Travis dying, and for somone elses mistake. She blinked to keep them back.
"Ellie, would you like to come back to our house?" Mrs. McGuire asked.
Ellie nodded. "Yes please."
They all left the hospital and went back to Lizzie's house. All the girls were extremely tired, so they went up to Lizzie's room and quickly fell back asleep.
The girls slept soundly for hours until Lizzie's phone rang and it woke them all up. Lizzie rolled over and picked it up.
"Hello?" She said sleepily.
"Lizzie? It's 2:30...did you just wake up?" It was Gordo.
"Yes..." Lizzie sounded annoyed.
"Whats wrong?...You're parents never let you sleep in this late." Gordo asked.
"Ethan, Mark, Travis and Nick were in a car wreck last night. We were at the hospital for a couple hours." Lizzie told him.
"Are they okay?" Gordo asked.
"Ethan and Nick are, Mark is a little worse...But they are not sure if Travis is going to pull through." Lizzie told him. She sat up in her bed. She noticed all her friends were stretching in their sleeping bags.
"Damn..." Gordo sounded a little worried. "I'll let you sleep. Sorry I woke you up."
"Its okay...You didn't know." Lizzie told him.
"Well, call me later." Gordo said. "I love you."
"I love you too." Lizzie smiled a bit. "Bye." She then hung up the phone.
"Lemme guess...Gordo." Miranda said as she rolled onto her stomach.
"Yep." Lizzie said. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock. "2:30, you think we should get up?"
"No...I'm too damn lazy." Kate said stretching her left arm into the air.
Ellie suddenly shot up. "2:30? I was supposed to be at the ice arena at 12:00 for training." Her eyes filled with tears. "I am so dead now."
"Ellie, you have been on over load lately..." Lizzie said. "Is there anything you want to talk about?"
"No, I'm fine...Its just, I need like two more hours in every day to get everything done." Ellie wiped her eyes.
"Ellie, come on, we have all been stressed out before. You can talk to us." Kate told her.
"You don't understand!" Ellie didn't try to hold back her tears now. "I mean, no one does...There's my school work...all the damn training...I barely get four hours of sleep every night! I can't eat anything that I want to anymore."
Kate put her hand on Ellie's shoulder. "But all the training with pay off in a few months, won't it?"
Ellie just shook her head. "It will, but that doesn't help the complete hell I am going through. I mean, I have to watch everything I eat. I am working on the same routine everyday, and everyday I seem to be getting worse and worse at everything I do."
Kate handed her a tissue. "You could just quit if it is causing you so much stress."
Ellie wiped her eyes. "That would just lead to more crap. The whole world thinks that Taylor and I are going to win the gold and silver. If I quit the press would have a field day. I want to do this, I am just getting so messed up. And to add on to everything, there is all the shit that happened last night."
Ellie continued to cry, none of her friends knew what to do of say to her. She finally calmed down and looked at her friends.
"I'm sorry..." She began.
"Oh chica...You never have to apologize to us." Miranda told her.
"Really Ellie." Lizzie said. "No matter what, you can always talk to us."
"Thanks." Ellie wiped her eyes again with a tissue that Kate handed her.
Lizzie sat up. "Hey Miranda. Do you remember homecoming last year?" She asked.
Miranda smiled. "I sure do. I remember I was upset about not having a date for the dance, and Travis asked me to go with him. That was the greatest time I ever had at a school event."
Kate smiled. "I remember freshman year I was cheering at a basketball game he missed a pass and it hit me in the face. I was so ticked off...But then he went and got me ice and made sure I was alright...I just couldn't stay mad at him."
Lizzie giggled a little. "I remember that game...You threw your pom-poms at him. I almost died laughing."
"Oh be quiet." Kate scolded a bit, but then smiled gentley.
"There was one time he came with Ethan to pick me up from ice skating...They got restless and decided to get out on the ice with me. Oh my gosh...I think you can picture the rest of it." Ellie told them with a small smile.
"Travis is one of those guys who was just awesome." Lizzie said. "I really hope he can pull through."
"Me too." Miranda said.
"He will." Kate said.
Lizzie looked at her. "How do you know?"
"If Ellie can recover from a head injury, remember everything about skating and win a National title all within a month, Travis can pull through this." She told them. "Plus, there are still to many things he needs to do."
"I hope you are right." Ellie said.
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