Chapter 23 of Never on My side
She gained consciousness quite quickly as she came out of the car to look at the damage.
"Oh.. my…god…." She said, the damage was obviously enough to get herself killed.
Still shocked, she stood there motionlessly.
"What the hell were you thinking! Don't you watch the road! Do you even know how much I paid for this car!" she heard someone shouting at her from behind, and for some strange reason, she knew the voice.
She took the risk of turning around to defend herself only to see the face was no other person than Lash…
They both stared at each other before Taylor broke the silence.
"Oh no." she said quietly, and when she turned to leave, he called out to her, but she didn't turn hack or answer…
It wasn't long before she felt a pain in her arm, and the phone that got the car totaled was ringing. She finally answered it out of anger…
"What the hell do you want!"
"Taylor?"
"Do I know you?"
"No. My name's Baston. Your boyfriend's best friend. Is he there?"
"Right now is a really bad time Baston."
"Alright, can you
tell him that I called, and if you don't something bad will
happen."
"Is that a threat?" suddenly there was a dial
tone. "Hello?"
-Back at the mansion-
Taylor thought of the look on Ryan's face when he saw the totaled car in the garage, and fell backwards on the couch only to be jumped on by Sebastian, the wolf.
"Hey Sebastian, haven't seen you in a long time, what's up?" she smiled and scratched behind his ear.
Later on when the sun began to set, she sat down by the computer and logged on to IM Warren, hoping that he and Courtney were okay.
'Hi Warren'
'Do I know you' Warren typed, not recognizing the screen name.
'Your sister.'
'Taylor.'
'How are you?'
'Where the heck are you? Courtney has been crying, I have no idea how to get her to sleep, and I have been worried sick!'
'Calm down, sing her the lullaby mom used to sing us.'
'Alright, I hope it works.' 'But when are you coming back?'
'Well I was going to come visit, but I crashed into Lash.'
'You're okay right?'
'Yea. But I don't think I'll be when I explain what happened to Ryan.'
'Ryan?'
'Oops'
'Taylor, who's Ryan?'
'A friend that I'm staying with.'
'I hope you know what you're doing.'
'See you soon bro.'
'Yea, but be careful.'
She then logged off..
Taylor got up lazily and went to watch some TV.
After 3 hours of non stop action/suspense, she decided to get something to eat, and went downstairs for some Chinese food that was in the fridge, heated it up, and fed Sebastian separately then went back upstairs.
It took Taylor half an hour after into another movie to go back downstairs to get something to drink, when she heard a glass break. She followed the position she heard the sound, and it led her to the kitchen, to only find Ryan on the ground.
"Ryan, are you okay?"
He immediately got up and wiped the blood off his hands. "Yea, I didn't see that glass there."
Taylor went over to the broken pieces of glass and helped him clean them up.
"You don't have to help you know, I don't want you to cut yourself."
"It's okay, it's the least I can do." She said thinking about today's collision and the totaled car in the garage.
"What's wrong?" Ryan asked
"What?" she looked up at him in confusion.
"What's wrong, you're so quiet."
"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm always quiet."
"Normally, you'd be telling me about your day."
"Well nothing happened today."
"Oh really."
"Really."
"Fine." Then they both got up and he kissed her on the cheek. "I'm going to call it a night."
"Good night."
"Wait, a guy named Baston called."
"Thanks." With that, he went upstairs.
Taylor, left alone in the kitchen, looked back at the counter and floor to see a lot of blood, but it seemed now like it didn't come from Ryan's 'supposed' fall, but from the glass itself… 'Was the glass filled with blood? What would Ryan be doing with it?'
