Tick Tock Timebomb
Chapter 3 Part III
Radio Free Roscoe
"Lily, what's wrong with Lily?" I asked, still sort of on a cloud from tonight, almost in a daze.
"She's...She's in the hospital" That was when my cloud fell from under me, and I hit the ground...hard. I was back to reality and I found myself running from the house straight to the hospital. I could hear my mom yelling "Ray, where are you going! RAY! GET BACK HERE NOW!" I knew I was going to be in trouble, but I doubt it was as much as Lily was in at this exact moment.
As soon as I hit those double doors, of the hospital, I ran to the desk, and frantically tried to keep breathing, I needed to remember to exercise more often.
"I...room....Lily"
"Ummm, excuse me?" The nurse asked. She had heard three words that had meant nothing to her. I waited a little to catch my breathe.
"Ok, lets try this again", I started, "I need the room for my friend Lillian Randall"
"Ok, she's on floor 5, room 216, she's not in a very good condition, but she is awake."
I ran to the elevator, pushed the little up button, and waited. Then waited a little longer. I wanted to see my friend so badly, I decided to take the stairs, how hard could it be? I had run all the way here, but then again I almost needed to go to the hospital after that myself, but I didn't mind running the flights of stairs. I jumped 2 stairs at a time, and was in pretty good condition as I got to floor 5, I walked through the hallway and glanced at the room numbers
"198" I said aloud, then went a few more.
"210" I said then realized how close I was to seeing Lily. So I walked more.
"216!" I nearly shouted. Some people there must have thought I was crazy, I didn't mind, people had thought that about me for most of my life, anyhow.
I walked in and saw an awake Lily in Travis' arms. Lily had an IV going from her left arm, from a bag of this clear stuff, which is what she had told me is like food for eating disorder patients.
"Hi Ray" she said in a faint voice.
"Lily" was all I could manage out, she looked and sounded weak. Her thin body was super thin, it looked under 100 pounds. I sat beside her and Travis.
"I'm going to get something to drink" Travis said as he pulled me aside. "You two need to talk, things with her have gotten a bit worse, obviously, if they hadn't she wouldn't be here, but you wanna know something?" he asked me
"Yea"
"When the ambulance arrived at her house, after I walked in on her passed out in the bathroom, she asked to see you once she came to"
"What about you"
"She wanted to see you more than me, I wasn't hurt by it, I know how good friends you two are, and that is why I called you, she needed to see you" he said as he exited to get a drink.
"What was that all about?" Lily asked me as I sat beside her.
"Nothing, he was just telling me how you got here, and why you are here, and about who you asked for when you got here" I said smiling.
"Yea, I wanted to see my best friend, which is you. I never realized it would ever get this serious. I was losing weight, apparently too much weight. I had lost over 20 pounds. At my normal weight I weighed 115, and today they made me get on the scale, and I weighed 92." She said with a solitary tear falling from her eye.
"Lily, you need to tell Travis why you did this, I mean, you don't need to lose weight to get any guys attention. You are perfect" I said while wiping the single tear away.
"Not now I'm not, I'm too skinny, and completely ugly looking"
"If you were ugly, then why does the guy who has cared for you and dated you, still love you now?"
"Because...you are paying him?" she said jokingly.
"Very Funny Lily, he still loves you, and always will, that Travis is a good guy, even though I harp on him too much, he's got a good heart"
"Are you sure you aren't in love with me?" Travis asked me and laughed when he walked back into the room with a coke in his left hand. I turned around surprised and laughed.
"Swami, you figured me out, I never loved Lily, all I wanted was you" I said and Lily and Travis cracked up.
"Thanks for the kind words though Ray" Travis told me.
"Yea, I think I can learn to trust you and be your friend, if you don't brutally murder me for what I am about to tell you."
"Maybe, It depends, what's up Ray?" he said while sipping on his coke.
"I am dating Audrey, we clicked at the Math session that Audrey was giving me, and we kissed and are now dating. I grabbed a tray and held it at my face pretending that Travis was going to throw things at me.
Travis chuckled "Ray, I'm not going to kill you, I'm dating Lily now, me and Audrey are over, and you can have her, I'm fine with that" he smiled and wrapped his arm around Lily. Soon Robbie showed up.
"I'm so sorry that I didn't get here sooner" I pulled over a chair.
"What was wrong"
"I got stopped and third-degreed by mom, she is too overprotective"
We all laughed, we knew Robbie's mom. She was overprotective.
"So what's new?" Robbie questioned.
"Well" I began, "I am dating Audrey, Lily is in the hospital for Bulemia, and she weighs 92 pounds, and I might actually pass math."
"Wow" Robbie began, "You might pass math, no way" I smiled as Lily and Travis chuckled. "I can't believe that's why you are here Lily"
"I only did it because..." I saw Lily give a look toward Travis. "Because I felt imperfect compared to you Travis" Travis looked at her in disbelief.
"That's why you became bulimic?" He asked amazed, I would be amazed too if a girl had contracted and eating disorder because of me.
"I'm sorry Travis, I thought you would soon realize how amazing you are, and how average I am, and I was afraid you were going to leave me." Travis pulled Lily into a hug.
"You are perfect, you don't have to starve yourself, to make yourself acceptable to me" Travis said to her during the hug. They let go, and we talked about RFR, school, Audrey and everything. Something I had missed. Soon after A LOT of talking and A LOT of cokes and chips from the nearest vending machine, it was nearing 10 pm, and we got kicked out. Visiting hours were over. This is how it was for the next week. Me, Robbie and Ray were hanging out at Mickey's.
"Travis, when is Lily getting let out of the hospital?" I asked Travis.
"She said she would call me when she gets released."
"Cool, hopefully it can be like how we hung at the hospital."
"Ray, you realize how weird that is? I mean who compares having an awesome time to talking to Lily at the hospital" We laughed.
"I do admit I had a good time as well" We all turned around to see a very healthy looking Lily standing there in those jeans I had seen her in, that were very loose. Now they were snug and normal fitting, it made me smile.
"Lily you said you would call me when you got released!" Travis stood and smiled at her.
"And miss these expressions? NO way!", She said as she kissed him.
We just hung out there for the rest of the afternoon, tomorrow was school, and also that huge math test, I studied my brains out that night and fell asleep while studying. In the morning, I packed up and left the house. I met with Travis, Robbie and Lily on the walk there.
"So Ray are you nervous?" Lily asked me while she was throwing her pink ball up and down in the air.
"Yea, Ray, you were fretting about this thing for a while" Robbie said while kicked a stone out of his way.
"I'm not worried, because my girlfriend has been helping me out a lot on it."
"She always had a thing for math, and a thing for art" Travis said smiling, as Lily stopped throwing her ball around and grabbed Travis' hand, as we walked to school. Once we go there, I spotted Audrey.
"Hey guys, catch you at lunch" I said as I rushed over to talk to Audrey
"Hey there Ray" Audrey smiled and kissed me as she saw me approaching.
"Today is the big math test, I actually feel prepared", I said to her.
"Because of my awesome teaching, could it be?" Audrey said and smiled
"Why yes, yes it is Audrey, thank you so much for helping me" I said, stealing another kiss from her. Soon the bell rang loudly in my ears.
"See you in Math Ray." Audrey said, as she left for art and I left for Science.
"The Human Body consists of many bones, joints and ligaments..." The teacher continued, on and on and after all the boring stuff, she assigned us homework. The bell rang loudly again, and then it was math time.
"Ray you sure you are ready?" Audrey asked as she sat her bag down in a seat next to mine.
"Yea, most definitely" I said as Mr. Pulinowski shut the door and class began. I took the test, it was like the answers were already there, I knew every question, including the EC question. When I got my grade back I told nobody what I got. Throughout the morning I had classes with Robbie, Lily, and Travis, but I refused to tell them until lunch. Then when it came they were all quite anxious. I traveled to our usual table and before I sat down, I heard Lily's voice.
"So what did you get on your math test?"
"Geez, at least let me sit down first." I sat down.
"Ok, what did you get on your test?" Lily asked again, quite persistently.
"Why do you want to know so badly?"
"Because, if you didn't pass, you fail!" Lily said
"Ok, fine you broke me down" I reached in my bag, and pulled out the math test with an A- written on the top in red ink.
"Wow Ray, you did great!" Lily said to me as she pulled me into a hug.
"Yea great job dude" Robbie said to me.
"Same from me" Travis stated.
Audrey wondered over and saw my paper. "Ray, you did better then me! I got a B, that is amazing!" She told me before she kissed me.
"Why don't you sit down and eat with us?" I asked her.
"I would, but Lindsey asked me to quiz her on some math, maybe we can hang out tonite at Mickey's, say around 8?"
"Definitely, see you then" Then Audrey left. My friends and I continued with lunch.
This was definitely a stressful time, and a few months ago I had mentioned my life was like a time bomb in those corny action movies, I was right then, and still am. See, in all action movies, the hero always turns off the time bomb before something blows up, and now that hero was Audrey. Usually the hero gets the girl...but in this case, the hero got the funny guy, the guy who never gets the girl in the movies. But this wasn't a movie, this was real, and everything was perfect. My life was finally making sense, and the time bomb was turned off by the hero.
The End of Tick Tock Timebomb
A/N: Hope you liked it! I might write another joint fanfiction with Cassandra01000, another writer on Fanfiction.net (if you haven't heard of her, look her up, she is an amazing writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So please flood me with reviews on Tick Tock Time bomb, it took me quite a while to write this (2 hours, to be exact). Thanks for reading!
Much Love, Amanda
Chapter 3 Part III
Radio Free Roscoe
"Lily, what's wrong with Lily?" I asked, still sort of on a cloud from tonight, almost in a daze.
"She's...She's in the hospital" That was when my cloud fell from under me, and I hit the ground...hard. I was back to reality and I found myself running from the house straight to the hospital. I could hear my mom yelling "Ray, where are you going! RAY! GET BACK HERE NOW!" I knew I was going to be in trouble, but I doubt it was as much as Lily was in at this exact moment.
As soon as I hit those double doors, of the hospital, I ran to the desk, and frantically tried to keep breathing, I needed to remember to exercise more often.
"I...room....Lily"
"Ummm, excuse me?" The nurse asked. She had heard three words that had meant nothing to her. I waited a little to catch my breathe.
"Ok, lets try this again", I started, "I need the room for my friend Lillian Randall"
"Ok, she's on floor 5, room 216, she's not in a very good condition, but she is awake."
I ran to the elevator, pushed the little up button, and waited. Then waited a little longer. I wanted to see my friend so badly, I decided to take the stairs, how hard could it be? I had run all the way here, but then again I almost needed to go to the hospital after that myself, but I didn't mind running the flights of stairs. I jumped 2 stairs at a time, and was in pretty good condition as I got to floor 5, I walked through the hallway and glanced at the room numbers
"198" I said aloud, then went a few more.
"210" I said then realized how close I was to seeing Lily. So I walked more.
"216!" I nearly shouted. Some people there must have thought I was crazy, I didn't mind, people had thought that about me for most of my life, anyhow.
I walked in and saw an awake Lily in Travis' arms. Lily had an IV going from her left arm, from a bag of this clear stuff, which is what she had told me is like food for eating disorder patients.
"Hi Ray" she said in a faint voice.
"Lily" was all I could manage out, she looked and sounded weak. Her thin body was super thin, it looked under 100 pounds. I sat beside her and Travis.
"I'm going to get something to drink" Travis said as he pulled me aside. "You two need to talk, things with her have gotten a bit worse, obviously, if they hadn't she wouldn't be here, but you wanna know something?" he asked me
"Yea"
"When the ambulance arrived at her house, after I walked in on her passed out in the bathroom, she asked to see you once she came to"
"What about you"
"She wanted to see you more than me, I wasn't hurt by it, I know how good friends you two are, and that is why I called you, she needed to see you" he said as he exited to get a drink.
"What was that all about?" Lily asked me as I sat beside her.
"Nothing, he was just telling me how you got here, and why you are here, and about who you asked for when you got here" I said smiling.
"Yea, I wanted to see my best friend, which is you. I never realized it would ever get this serious. I was losing weight, apparently too much weight. I had lost over 20 pounds. At my normal weight I weighed 115, and today they made me get on the scale, and I weighed 92." She said with a solitary tear falling from her eye.
"Lily, you need to tell Travis why you did this, I mean, you don't need to lose weight to get any guys attention. You are perfect" I said while wiping the single tear away.
"Not now I'm not, I'm too skinny, and completely ugly looking"
"If you were ugly, then why does the guy who has cared for you and dated you, still love you now?"
"Because...you are paying him?" she said jokingly.
"Very Funny Lily, he still loves you, and always will, that Travis is a good guy, even though I harp on him too much, he's got a good heart"
"Are you sure you aren't in love with me?" Travis asked me and laughed when he walked back into the room with a coke in his left hand. I turned around surprised and laughed.
"Swami, you figured me out, I never loved Lily, all I wanted was you" I said and Lily and Travis cracked up.
"Thanks for the kind words though Ray" Travis told me.
"Yea, I think I can learn to trust you and be your friend, if you don't brutally murder me for what I am about to tell you."
"Maybe, It depends, what's up Ray?" he said while sipping on his coke.
"I am dating Audrey, we clicked at the Math session that Audrey was giving me, and we kissed and are now dating. I grabbed a tray and held it at my face pretending that Travis was going to throw things at me.
Travis chuckled "Ray, I'm not going to kill you, I'm dating Lily now, me and Audrey are over, and you can have her, I'm fine with that" he smiled and wrapped his arm around Lily. Soon Robbie showed up.
"I'm so sorry that I didn't get here sooner" I pulled over a chair.
"What was wrong"
"I got stopped and third-degreed by mom, she is too overprotective"
We all laughed, we knew Robbie's mom. She was overprotective.
"So what's new?" Robbie questioned.
"Well" I began, "I am dating Audrey, Lily is in the hospital for Bulemia, and she weighs 92 pounds, and I might actually pass math."
"Wow" Robbie began, "You might pass math, no way" I smiled as Lily and Travis chuckled. "I can't believe that's why you are here Lily"
"I only did it because..." I saw Lily give a look toward Travis. "Because I felt imperfect compared to you Travis" Travis looked at her in disbelief.
"That's why you became bulimic?" He asked amazed, I would be amazed too if a girl had contracted and eating disorder because of me.
"I'm sorry Travis, I thought you would soon realize how amazing you are, and how average I am, and I was afraid you were going to leave me." Travis pulled Lily into a hug.
"You are perfect, you don't have to starve yourself, to make yourself acceptable to me" Travis said to her during the hug. They let go, and we talked about RFR, school, Audrey and everything. Something I had missed. Soon after A LOT of talking and A LOT of cokes and chips from the nearest vending machine, it was nearing 10 pm, and we got kicked out. Visiting hours were over. This is how it was for the next week. Me, Robbie and Ray were hanging out at Mickey's.
"Travis, when is Lily getting let out of the hospital?" I asked Travis.
"She said she would call me when she gets released."
"Cool, hopefully it can be like how we hung at the hospital."
"Ray, you realize how weird that is? I mean who compares having an awesome time to talking to Lily at the hospital" We laughed.
"I do admit I had a good time as well" We all turned around to see a very healthy looking Lily standing there in those jeans I had seen her in, that were very loose. Now they were snug and normal fitting, it made me smile.
"Lily you said you would call me when you got released!" Travis stood and smiled at her.
"And miss these expressions? NO way!", She said as she kissed him.
We just hung out there for the rest of the afternoon, tomorrow was school, and also that huge math test, I studied my brains out that night and fell asleep while studying. In the morning, I packed up and left the house. I met with Travis, Robbie and Lily on the walk there.
"So Ray are you nervous?" Lily asked me while she was throwing her pink ball up and down in the air.
"Yea, Ray, you were fretting about this thing for a while" Robbie said while kicked a stone out of his way.
"I'm not worried, because my girlfriend has been helping me out a lot on it."
"She always had a thing for math, and a thing for art" Travis said smiling, as Lily stopped throwing her ball around and grabbed Travis' hand, as we walked to school. Once we go there, I spotted Audrey.
"Hey guys, catch you at lunch" I said as I rushed over to talk to Audrey
"Hey there Ray" Audrey smiled and kissed me as she saw me approaching.
"Today is the big math test, I actually feel prepared", I said to her.
"Because of my awesome teaching, could it be?" Audrey said and smiled
"Why yes, yes it is Audrey, thank you so much for helping me" I said, stealing another kiss from her. Soon the bell rang loudly in my ears.
"See you in Math Ray." Audrey said, as she left for art and I left for Science.
"The Human Body consists of many bones, joints and ligaments..." The teacher continued, on and on and after all the boring stuff, she assigned us homework. The bell rang loudly again, and then it was math time.
"Ray you sure you are ready?" Audrey asked as she sat her bag down in a seat next to mine.
"Yea, most definitely" I said as Mr. Pulinowski shut the door and class began. I took the test, it was like the answers were already there, I knew every question, including the EC question. When I got my grade back I told nobody what I got. Throughout the morning I had classes with Robbie, Lily, and Travis, but I refused to tell them until lunch. Then when it came they were all quite anxious. I traveled to our usual table and before I sat down, I heard Lily's voice.
"So what did you get on your math test?"
"Geez, at least let me sit down first." I sat down.
"Ok, what did you get on your test?" Lily asked again, quite persistently.
"Why do you want to know so badly?"
"Because, if you didn't pass, you fail!" Lily said
"Ok, fine you broke me down" I reached in my bag, and pulled out the math test with an A- written on the top in red ink.
"Wow Ray, you did great!" Lily said to me as she pulled me into a hug.
"Yea great job dude" Robbie said to me.
"Same from me" Travis stated.
Audrey wondered over and saw my paper. "Ray, you did better then me! I got a B, that is amazing!" She told me before she kissed me.
"Why don't you sit down and eat with us?" I asked her.
"I would, but Lindsey asked me to quiz her on some math, maybe we can hang out tonite at Mickey's, say around 8?"
"Definitely, see you then" Then Audrey left. My friends and I continued with lunch.
This was definitely a stressful time, and a few months ago I had mentioned my life was like a time bomb in those corny action movies, I was right then, and still am. See, in all action movies, the hero always turns off the time bomb before something blows up, and now that hero was Audrey. Usually the hero gets the girl...but in this case, the hero got the funny guy, the guy who never gets the girl in the movies. But this wasn't a movie, this was real, and everything was perfect. My life was finally making sense, and the time bomb was turned off by the hero.
The End of Tick Tock Timebomb
A/N: Hope you liked it! I might write another joint fanfiction with Cassandra01000, another writer on Fanfiction.net (if you haven't heard of her, look her up, she is an amazing writer!!!!!!!!!!!!!) So please flood me with reviews on Tick Tock Time bomb, it took me quite a while to write this (2 hours, to be exact). Thanks for reading!
Much Love, Amanda