Ok. Here's chapter
eleven! Thank you for reviewing and I hurried as fast as can be!
lol. enjoy...er. sorta. Disclamer ((eh. I forgot it. sorry.)) to
Meg Cabot. Her characters. Not mine. Well, there USED to be a song by
LINKIN PARK in here, but since all of the stuff goin on w/ sonfics, I
had to take it off. Sorry it's kinda spacey without the song in here,
but listen to BREAKING THE HABIT or read the lyrics or something. it's
good.
Suze
"Jesse? What's wrong? Are you...Oh my...MOM!" I yelled as Jesse paled, and fell into my lap. Oh My God. What happened to Jesse? Something's wrong with Jesse. He's not ok. Oh my gosh. Something happened. Oh my gosh. I am panicking!
Brad, dense as could be, looked up from all of his food and said to me, "Gosh, Suze, what'd you do to him? Way to make the guy feel welcome, why don't you?"
"Shut the hell up! Why the hell do you think he collapsed? Any ideas? NO? That's what I flippin thought!" He just stared at me, openmouthed until Andy broke in.
"Susie, watch your language. Brad hasn't done anything to the boy. Brad, be quiet for heavens sake! We need to get Jesse to the hospital now. Dave, go call an ambulance. Tell them that he uhh, just tell them something. Jake, help me get him off Suze and into a comfortable position."
I was too far gone to help. I watched from a different place as Andy and Jake moved Jesse to the floor, my mom propped his head on some chair cushions, and David came back into the room on the phone.
"Um, well, we were
having dinner, and he just turned white, and fell into my sister's
lap. No. I don't know. Here. Let me ask. Um, Dad, is he breathing at
all?"
Jake answered him "Yeah. But not much. Just tell
them to hurry!"
"My brother said that he is. And to hurry. He said that he might not be ok if you guys don't get here. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. Oh. 99 Pine Crest Road. Ok. Thank you!" He hung up the phone and walked over to us. "Suze? Are you ok? I mean, you're crying pretty hard. What's wrong?"
"No. I'm not. My boyfriend just collapsed into my lap in the middle of dinner. He's not going to be ok!" I sobbed at him. My mom heard me and started to talk to me
"Oh, Susie! He'll be fine. The ambulance will be here in a second. They'll make him all better. I promise." But what if they can't? Then what? What will I do?
My life will just fall apart again. And my luck, he'll probably go straight to heaven, or where ever he's supposed to go. What if he DIES? Oh my gosh. I just THOUGHT it!
As I was spazzing in my mind, my mom wrapped her arms around me and held me close. I heard the ambluance roar up the street to us. The sirens got closer and closer to us.
Men in white suits put Jesse's lifeless looking body on a strecher. Oh my gosh. I can't watch.
They ask who rides with him to the hospital. I do. As I get in, clutching his hand tightly, they close the doors on us, and two of the guys in white suits. They unlatch me from his side, and start hooking him up to monitors to give him medicine, and watch his heart on the way to the hospital.
We're going fast. Fast is good. The faster we get there, the faster Jesse wakes up. I want him to live so badly. Please don't die, Jesse. I love you so much. What would I do without you?
The sirens ring in my ears as we get out of the back. Jesse's hooked up to a bunch of rolling things, and I'm past feeling now. Just numb. They roll him in on the pure white, in to a pure white room with a pure white bed. It's too white. He's going to be unhooked from the other machines and put on new ones. My mom arrives with Andy and David. She's looking worried. David just looks confused. Poor David. I wonder if they made him come.
Maybe it was me. Did I do something to him? Was it because I kissed him? What did I do wrong? Can't someone tell me? There has to be a reason why this happened.
Paul. It was him. I can blame him. It's not my fault. If Jesse dies, I can just kill Paul.
Father Dominic shows up too. I guess my mom must have thought that I or Jesse needed him. And I do need him. My mom and Andy left to go get David something to eat, they'd be right back. "Oh, Father Dominic! I'm so glad you came. We have to call Paul. Maybe he can make it better somehow. He was the one that started all this. Please?"
"Susannah Simon? Father Dominic? Paul Slater? I have you listed as primary people to contact in the case of an emergency. The doctor needs to know his insurance, and his immediate family to contact."
"His family has passed on. I am in charge of the boy until he is of age. I'll go give them the insurance. Will you show me where? Susannah? Here," He handed me his cell phone, "Call Paul. Maybe he can do something. It's worth a try."
"Ok." I found his number saved in the phone, and diailed it.
"Hello?"
"Is Paul there? Tell him it's an emergency please."
"Ok. Paul!" The
guy shouted.
"Hello? What's wrong?"
"Paul!
You've got to come to the hospital. Jesse was at my house for dinner,
and he just fell into my lap! There's something wrong with him. You
have to fix it please!"
"Ok, ok, I'll be there in a second. Hold on."
"Thank you Paul."
He came, but not as fast as I thought. My mom and everyone else was still eating, and they wouldn't let me in Jesse's room until Father Dom finished the insurance crap. "Paul! I'm so glad you finally came! Thank you so much!" I hurled myself in his arms. This surprised him, but he just hugged me and said
This surprised him, but he just hugged me and said "Suze. It's ok. I think I know something to help him. It seems he's had the post-recussitation heart attack that I'd thought about. Come on. You're getting my shirt wet. It's going to be fine! Come on! They have to let us in. Father Dominic put me and you down as important people. That oughta get their attention." I unwrapped myself from him, and walked close to him.
At the desk, he said, "We're here to check in on Jesse deSilva please."
"He's not supposed to have anyone in his room. We're contacting his family right now."
"But he doesn't have any living family right now! We're the closest thing he is going to have to family for a long time! May we please just go see my boyfriend now?" I exclamed to her.
"Sorry miss, Doctor's orders. We'll send someone out to let you know."
"Excuse me, but we
are the people on his contact list. I am Paul Slater, This is
Susannah Simon, and where is Father Dominic again, Suze?"
"Oh,
he went to go fill out insurance papers."
"And Father Dominic
is here also. Now may we please go check in on him?"
"Oh.
Yes. You may go on back. He's in room 408. Be quiet though. If he's
resting, you don't want to wake him." Resting, my ass. He
freaking passed out on my lap and you're saying he's resting?
Yeah, right.
Paul must have noticed my expression, because he said, taking my arm, "Come on. Jesse's going to be fine. He is just resting." I followed him down the hall and into a random room. I don't even remember which room the lady said.
The room we walked into was painted peach, and the blinds were closed, making the room dark. A small beeping noise broke free from a few machines next to Jesse. The bed was up so it looked like Jesse was sitting up, just waiting to play Scrabble. But he wasn't. He was sleeping, with a tube in his nose! Paul saw what I was looking at and said, " Don't worry. He's fine. That's just there to monitor his breathing. And if he stops breathing, it'll keep going for him. But that's not going to happen, so, don't be thinking about it. Come on. I brought the papers.
"If you want to
revive him, he won't wake up on his own. It's like he's in a coma,
and you're the cure. Or someone that loves him is the cure. I assume
that you love him, or you wouldn't be getting so pissed right now,
right?"
"Yeah. I love him. What do I have to do?" I
was becoming more calm about the whole thing. I'd give my life right
now for Jesse to be alive and whole again.
"You have to go sit next to him, and take both of his hands in yours. Say this incantation after me." He said some sounds and letters, and I copied them. "Ok. Now, I want you to tell him why he needs to wake up. But hurry, before it wears off.
Leaning down to him, I whispered in his ear. "Jesse. You have to wake up this instant. I need you. If you were to die, I dont' know how I could go on with my life. It'd be unbearable without you. I love you so much. It's not Paul that I love, It's you. Please, please wake up, Jesse, I need you. I love you."
His eyelashes fluttered, but he didn't wake up. "Jesse!" I said louder, "Wake up! You're not allowed to be in the hospital anymore! You need to come back to my house, finish your dinner! You didn't eat anything. Come on, please, do it for me?" Louder I repeated it. " I love you Jesse. Please wake up." Tears were falliing down my face, and landing on him. Again his eyelashes fluttered, but this time, they opened. We locked eyes, and I burst into tears.
"Paul! We did it! Jesse! You're awake! Thank you God! I'm so glad you woke up! How do you feel?"
"Susannah, thank you. I could hear everything going on. I love you so much too. Paul," he turned his head to Paul, who moved closer to us, "thank you so much for watching over Mi Amor today. Thank you for coming. You are truely a friend." Paul sniffled, and I saw that tears were falling down his face.
"Thanks Jesse. I never should have been so nasty to you. You really are a great guy. Since you're the lucky man who has Suze, I want you to take care of her, ok? Don't keep her from me. I want to be friends with you two. You're the most family to me right now."
"Yes. We can all get along now. Thanks so much Paul, for putting up with me. For backing down lately. I didn't need someone up in my face for so long. You're one of my best friends."
Paul pulled up a chair, and he grabbbed one of my hands and held on tight. We cried for so long. Tears of joy this time.
Eventually, Father Dominic and my family showed up in the door. Apparantly, that witch of a nurse had tried to keep them out too. They got in, how, I don't know, finally, and were pleased to see that Jesse was fine. Seeing Paul, they stopped.
"Paul! How good to see you! I'm glad you came. Thank you for what you've done for Jesse."
"Oh, I owed it to Suze. I'd been so rude to Suze over the years that I've known her, and now, I realized how I had to make it up to her. And Jesse. He is a great guy."
"Thank you Paul." I whispered again. "You're a great friend. Now, all we need to do is find you a girl!" This made everyone laugh, and Paul actually blushed.
"Well! I'd better go get the doctor. Mrs. Ackerman? Would you come with me please?"
"Sure." my mom said, confused. My time had come. I had to tell Andy and David something. Jesse would help. Paul would help. It felt totally right. I'd tell my mom when we got home. And Jesse came over. The right thing to do.
"Andy, I have something to tell you."
Ok. I dont' know how many chapters there will be after this one, but I felt good typing it all up. The words seemed to flow out of my fingers! It was great! If you have ideas about it, I'd love to hear them! ((hint hint)) lol.
Yeah. I thought it was great with the song in there, but if you just look for BREAKING THE HABIT ((or listen to it)) and find the lyrics, then you'll see.
thanks guys!
