Bradin walked into his house the following afternoon. He just drove from LA back to Playa Linda. Elie still wasn't up when he left the hospital hours prior to then. His aunt walked up to him.
"I'm sor-"
"Don't worry about it, sweetie," she told him. She brought him into her arms and hugged him tightly. She could feel him start to cry. "How did you get in to see her?"
"I told them that I was her cousin at the front desk. When I went up there, they recognized me from pictures and let me see her. I can't lose her, Aunt Ava. How did you find out?"
"Nikki saw it on the news. How was she when you saw her?"
"She wasn't up. They said she hasn't woken up since she collapsed."
"Just be glad that you don't have any classes today," she told him moving his hair out of his face, "Go wash up or sleep. You look like you need sleep."
He nodded and walked into his room. He closed the door and broke into tears. He didn't want to cry in front of anyone else because he didn't want to show anyone how much he needed Elie and how much this hurt him. Since she left him, he hasn't showed his true feelings about it and needed to get them out at that second.
Days passed since Bradin left the hospital. He wan't allowed back up there because someone found out that he lied about being Elie's cousin. That made him upset. Every night, he would cry himself to sleep because he wasn't able to see her or find out how she was doing. He walked into his house late one night. He has been working hard on a paper for one of his classes.
"Hello, dear," Ava said. He half smiled at her. "Are you hungry?" He shook his head and walked into his room. He heard the doorbell ring but didn't get it. He started to put some things away and get changed for bed when he heard a knock on his door.
"Hold on," he said. He put a shirt on and opened his door. There stood his aunt.
"Someone dropped this off for you," she said handing him an envelope. He stood at the doorway of his room and opened the envelope up. As he glanced at it, it appeared to be a song.
A/N: short i know. but i didn't want to wait any longer to update. there was suppose to be a song at this point that i wrote but it's still under construction it shall be in the next chapter tho. hope you enjoy.