Ch 6
Emily and Nikolas just in her hospital room a little while longer. He didn't know what to say and there really was nothing to say. They sat there in silence, but that wasn't anything really new to their friendship. Emily was the quite type to begin with.
She never talked to the other kids at school and tried make lots of friends. He figured it had something to do with her being adopted but he was never really sure. Then once they had gotten close she had confided in him that she didn't like to get really close to people because she was afraid that they would abandon her, just like her mother did. It meant a lot to him when she told him that, it made him really happy to know that she choose to get close to him inspite of her fears.
When he and Emily hung out together they didn't talk much. They never really needed to. They sort of had this connection; they never had to say anything for the other one to understand.
Nikolas looked back over at Emily and noticed that she had fallen back to sleep. He quietly got up and closed the door. He took one last look at Emily and walked down the hall.
Emily woke up from yet another nightmare about the rape, a few hours later. She was relieved to see no one in her room when she woke up. She was all shaken up and did not feel like talking to anyone about it.
She had been sitting in her bed trying to think about something else beside the rape when she heard a knock at her door. She look up and saw Jason standing at the door way.
"Hey Jase"
"Hey Em" he told her as he walked in an saw the extent of her injuries
"how are you feeling?" he asked her
"I'm getting better"
"I should have put more guards on you"
"there is no point in thinking about what we should have done differently"
"but then you wouldn't have been attacked."
" you don't know that"
"Are you sure you're going to be okay?"
"I'll be fine."
"I'll come see you later"
"Bye Jase"
A few hours later
Emily was flipping through the television channels when she heard voices coming towards her room. She listened closer and realized that the voices belonged to Liz, Lucky and Nikolas.
" What are you guys doing here?" she asked when they came into her room
" well Nikolas thought that you might have been bummed about missing the rest of the dance, so we decided to have are own little party."
"Are you serious?"\
"Yep we brought pizza and especially for
you grape pixie sticks"
"How did you get that stuff in here?"
"We begged your mom, but she only gave us an hour so we don't have to long"
They talked and ate pizza and pixie sticks for about an hour until Monica kicked them out. Nikolas stayed behind to talk to Emily for a few minutes
"How did you know that that was exactly what I needed?' Emily asked him after everyone else left
"It seem like you need a distraction before. I'm glad I could help take your mind off thing, even if it was only for a little while"
"You have no idea how much I needed that. Thank you."
"I'm just glad your feeling better."
"I'm really sorry about before"
"It wasn't your fault. I've got to go before your mother throws me out. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay, bye"
As Nikolas was closing her door he heard noise coming from down the hallway. He saw a nurse try to turn someone away.
"You can't go see her. All her visitors have to be approved by her parents" the nurse told the women
"My daughter was raped and you're telling me I can't see her?" the women snapped at the nurse
"Who are you?" Nikolas asked as he got closer to them
" I'm Paige Bowen, Emily's mother"