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Chapter 9: If I Could Find You

Zero's head hurt like hell. He didn't open his eyes, although he knew that it was daytime. He thought if he opened his eyes, it'd make his head hurt even more.

He decided to try, to see where he was. He opened them very little, and saw something fuzzy... it looked like... vanilla ice cream... with chocolate syrup on top...

Oh wait, he thought, when his vision became clearer. It's just Squid.

"Zero? Zero! You're awake, man; you're awake!" Zero was pulled into a bone-crushing hug; well, it was more like a headlock.

"Squid... can't breathe..." Zero chocked, and Squid instantly let go of him.

"Sorry Zero... its just... you were... gone..." Squid stuttered.

"Huh?" Zero asked, confused.

"Um... Zero... you were in a coma for a month," Squid told him.

"What?!" Zero shot up in bed. "What happened?"

"You don't remember?" Squid asked.

Zero slowly shook his head. "I might, but it hurts my head to think,"

Squid took a breath. "Okay, well, you came over to my house because my dad was there... and he... he killed my cousin and uncle... and you came to help... and he hit you around the head... and you've been in a coma since... and the doctors said you might have amnesia."

"Okay..." Zero said.

"Have you... eh... forgotten anything?" Squid asked cautiously.

"No... well... I don't think so..."

Squid let out a sigh of relief. "Thank God,"

"So..." Zero started. "How's Jessie?"

Squid's face turned serious. "She's good... I guess. The last time I saw her she was good."

"What's wrong with her?" Zero asked quickly.

"Well... I don't know. No one's really seen her for a while. Well, we have, but no one has really heard anything. She comes to school and stuff, but she doesn't talk to anyone but Carmen, and she won't talk to us or anything. And... she's Goth."

Zero stared at Squid for a moment. "Goth?"

Squid nodded. "Yeah... she comes to school in really baggy clothes and chains and spikes and that stuff. We don't know why, but she does."

Zero bent down and gripped his hair.

"Hey Zero, what's wrong man?" Squid asked.

"Nothing," Zero mumbled. "Go away."

Squid nodded and left Zero's room.

Zero was deep in thought when Squid left.

'It's all my fault,' Zero thought. 'Everything... Jessie and Carmen getting kidnapped, Jessie turning Goth... and whatever's wrong with her.'

~There's a place off Ocean Avenue~

~Where I used to sit and talk with you~

~We were both sixteen and it felt so right~

~Sleepin' all day, stayin' up all night~

~Stayin' up all night~

'GODDAMNIT! What's wrong with me?' A tear rolled down Zero's cheek.

~There's a place on the corner of Cherry Street~

~We would walk on the beach in our bare feet~

~We were both 18 and it felt so right~

~Sleepin' all day, stayin' up all night~

~Stayin' up all night~

'What should I do...? I have to make it up to her... somehow...' Zero told himself.

~If I could find you now things would get better~

~We could leave this town and run forever~

~Let your waves crash down on me and take me away~

'If I could fine her now... things would be so much better...'

~There's a piece of you that's here with me~

~It's everywhere I go, it's everything I see~

~When I sleep, I dream and it gets me by~

~I can make believe that you're here tonight~

~That you're here tonight~

'I'm gonna find her,' Zero hopped out of his bed and got dressed, removing his IV.

~If I could find you now things would get better~

~We could leave this town and run forever~

~I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together~

~Let your waves crash down on me and take me away~

He climbed out of his hospital room, since it was on the first floor, despite the fact that it was broad daylight. He sprinted to the nearest payphone and looked up Jessie's address.

~I remember the look in your eyes~

~When I told you that this was goodbye~

~You were begging me not tonight~

~Not here, not now~

~We're looking up at the same night sky~

~And keep pretending the sun will not rise~

~Be together for one more night~

~Somewhere, somehow~

He found her and saw that she lived on the other side of town. 'Well, better start running.'

~If I could find you now things would get better~

~We could leave this town and run forever~

~I know somewhere, somehow we'll be together~

~Let your waves crash down on me and take me away~

Ten minutes later, Zero arrived, panting at the front of Jessie's house. He caught his breath for a minute before knocking on her door.

She answered it and Zero was shocked by her appearance. Her curly brown/black, curly hair was now but above her should, was all black and very straight. She was wearing TONS of black eyeliner and had dark lipstick on. She was wearing extremely baggy black pants and there were chains hanging off of them. She had a baggy black sweatshirt on that had a skull right on the front. And her earring where hugs with spikes sticking and her eyebrow had two spikes pointing out the top and bottom.

"J-Jessie?" Zero stuttered.

Jessie stared at him for a minute. "Hector?"

Zero nodded.

Jessie glared. "What do you want?"

"I wanted to say... I'm sorry," Zero was still panting slightly.

"No you're not," Jessie spat. "You're not sorry. You're just saying that."

"No! Really! I am!" Zero cried.

"Shut up," Jessie snapped. "I hate your sorry ass. Get the fuck away from me."

Then, she suddenly grabbed her stomach.

"Oh... oh my God..." She moaned, her eyes closed tight and she started breathing deeply.

"Jessie!?" Zero jumped to her side instantly but she swatted him away.

"Go away," She growled at him, starting to sweat.

"What's wrong?" He asked her urgently.

"Nothing... shut up... call the hospital..." She sat down, clutching her stomach.

Zero whipped out his call phone and dialed 911.

"Hi... I have a problem with a girl... she's... uh, she's..."

"Having a baby," Jessie said through clenched teeth.

"She's—what?" Zero exclaimed.

"DAMNIT HECTOR!" Jessie screamed.

"Sorry... she's having a baby... yeah, 101 Dean Way... Okay... bye..." Zero ran into Jessie's while still on the phone and got a towel, drenched it with warm water, and ran back outside and used it to wipe Jessie's forehead.

"Thanks, Hector," Jessie whispered, in pain.

"Anytime," Zero told her.

The paramedics arrived a few minutes and quickly put her on a stretcher and too her to the hospital with Zero.

"Ma'am, are you sure you're having a baby?" One of the doctors asked her.

"Yeah... well no... it's a miscarriage," Jessie whispered.

"Oh..."

As the doctors were taking Jessie into the emergency room, Jessie whispered, "Hector... don't leave me... please..." and she started to cry.

"Never..." Zero told her.

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Okay I don't have time for muses cause I gotta go to bed but I hope you liked it... I finally updated! Anyway, night-night and review!