As promised, I'm posting this new chapter now since I've been taking forever to update recently due to my sister getting married. I would have posted it earlier today, but I honestly write better at night. I know I've said this before, but I'm just so surprised by how long this story has become. It was only supposed to be like somewhere between four chapters long. The only thing I knew when I started writing this story was the beginning and end, but now I added all this middle stuff that I didn't even think of before. Anyways, I'm guessing there will be somewhere between 2-4 chapters left, but who knows since I've been unable to predict this story from the beginning. Anyways, now that this story is slowly winding down, I realized how much I'm going to miss it, so I'm going to make a One-Shot sequel after the last chapter is posted. If you're interested, please let me know! I also wanted to tell everyone that I'm now accepting beta requests, so if any of you readers are thinking you might want some beta help you should check out what stories I accept them for. Thanks for reading, everyone! I know I talk a lot before and after I actually start the chapter… But that's just part of my charm, right?

Twelve:

Everyone, once again, was waiting. The only difference was now Sean, Marco and Paige were joined by Spinner and Griffin. It was strange how everyone had a different way of expressing their grief. The victims can be quiet, anxious, angry, hysterical or anything that seems expedient to them on how to articulate their sentiment. It was one of the key ways that showed that they were diverse and exclusive from one another, no matter how much they may have in common with one another. It makes no disparity because inside they will always be unusual. Anything other then who they are and how they act in response is foreign to them.

Sean POV:

What in the fucking hell can be taking so long? We've been waiting here for hours. I don't like this. Last time they took this long it was because of bad news. You wouldn't think an eye problem would be taking this long. Why would it be taking this long? Everything I know about medical care in ink would look like a fucking 'I can read' book. What is taking the doctors so long!?

I don't what I would do it—no. I'm not even going to think it because it's not going to happen. Ellie's probably the strongest person I know and she's going to be fine. In fact, I don't even care what the doctors say, because even if it is bad news, this girl deserves a miracle. God damn it, I deserve a miracle. I finally have Ellie back in my life again and I'm not going to give her up. I'm not ready to give her up yet. The world is just so fucked up for doing this to her. Why would anything like this happen to her?

She always been taking crap from her mom, her friends—me. She's never even done anything to deserve the hell she's been through over the years! I've never been one to rely on faith, but this is it. If anything happens to Ellie, I'm done. Everyone and everything can just burn in hell. There is nothing but what you're seeing in front of your eyes. There is no god, there is no higher being, no faith, there is just life and death. We're all just shells one strings like puppets. Shit happens.

Marco's POV:

God, this is taking forever. I wish they would stop taking so long—it's making me worry that this is really serious. Oh god—her face. Those bloody tears won't leave my mind. Will she ever be able to see again? I thought her whole problem was about internal bleeding or whatever. And that was near her stomach, wasn't it? So what the hell is happening now? Is this just something entirely different that they looked right over? I can't feel anything. I'm too much of a loss with these pointless questions that won't be answered any time soon—meaning until the doctors finally decide to come out. Why are they taking so long? Can't they just send someone out to give us a little idea of what is going on?

Oh god—Mrs. Nash should really be here. I know she was shit-faced before and couldn't come without upsetting Ellie further, but she's probably sober by now. I want her to get here—for Ellie's sack, but I don't want to be the one to get her. I need to stay here and find out what's happening. It sounds selfish, and I don't even care. I've been there for Ellie more then her mother has ever been. Still—she should probably know what's going on. Yet here I sit. I'm not budging until I speak to a doctor. I suppose that's okay since I wouldn't even know what to tell Mrs. Nash in the first place. Yeah—it's better this way. She's the lucky one after all, not having to wait here in the sickening suspense.

Paige's POV:

Dear god this is taking forever. Isn't this just about her eyes, or whatever? Still it was pretty scary; her looking like an extra on a zombie flick and all. But still, something with her eyes should be this serious—like life or death serious anyway. God I don't know why I keep crying, it's probably nothing. I've never seen anything like what I saw today. Go d I hope she'll be alright. I hope she won't go blind. Oh god—Ellie. I honestly don't know what I would do if she is going to be blind. Sheesh, why do I keep crying? I can't control it. I don't know why the tears haven't stopped in hours when I don't even know what's going on.

I don't know what is going on and it's all the doctors' fault. Why can he just give us a clue on what's happening to my best friend? I mean, Ellie hasn't always got me like Hazel or Alex or even Marco, but I can always trust her. She's my complete opposite, but I actually find that kind of—refreshing. I'm sick of always hanging out with people like me. Everyone I spent time with in most of high school were just little followers. Sheep. Degrassi and all who have ever attended are cursed. I mean honestly, I've had to go through all this hospital stuff with First Terri, then JT, now Ellie? The school is cursed. And just to prove my point, how many schools out there have had a shooting before? I can honestly say my high school has, and that's not something most people have to live through.

Spinners POV:

I've only just gotten here, but everyone one else look like they've been here for hours—all expect for Griffin, he got here after me. I feel really bad for Paige, but like I've tried to tell her, I honestly think it's not going to end up being that serious. I mean, I know what her and Marco saw really freaked them out, but she'll be alright. She has to be alright. I've never really heard about anything like this, so I can't say for sure I know what will happen, which is probably why my words have made no comfort towards Paige. Sean just looks like he's about to kick some ass. Which is worse is Marco. I honestly think he feels worse then anybody else, just by how expressionless he looks. He hasn't said a word to me or anybody else since I got here. I can understand that though, because he is after all Ellie's best friend. I never really understood why he hung out with her so much in high school but now it's quite apparent. Before she was just a quiet little Goth girl, but now I know more about her and she's become of my good friends. She's got awesome taste in music, being my replacement in downtown Sasquatch and all, she's talented, down-to-earth and a bit brutally honest—but in an appealing way. Like you never have to wonder what something really thinking about you.

I just wish someone would get their ass out here and prove to both Marco and Paige that Ellie is going to be just fine. She's what, nineteen—twenty? This like this don't happen to people our age. Or at least they shouldn't. It's not logical. I just can wait for the doctors to get out here and tell everyone that she's going to be alright since they won't take my word for it. They'll all see soon enough.

Griffin's POV:

I've only been here for like, ten minutes but everyone else just looks like death. I don't really know what it couple be—serious or not. You usually don't here to many cases of a fatal eye disease, so she'll probably be okay. It all started with a car crash, then internal bleeding, but how could that be related? How can a car crash cause bleeding from the eye? It doesn't seem to add up, unless the car crash didn't even have anything to do with what was happening now, and she was just a ticking time bomb. By the description Paige told me—or sobbed to me, rather it sounds pretty likely that she might go blind.

I don't exactly know Ellie all that well, but for what I do know, I like. I've always gotten along with her, because we're never really in each others way. Marco always has to be the peacemaker of the household for Ellie and Paige, but I just try not to get involved. I still think she's mad at me for not telling Paige I had HIV, but I know she just wants to protect her friend. She's always seemed to be like that. Faithful—loyal to those in which she loves. The doctors are really taking their sweet time now aren't they? I mean, couldn't they speed things up a little? Paige told me that they've been waiting here for hours, and Sean looks pretty much ready to punch someone in the jaw. That's probably why nobody's talking to them. They don't want to get of his bad side.

-End

It's been hours, and they still knew nothing. The damn doctors were doing exactly the same thing as before. Everyone always blames the doctors because it's easy, and it's convenient. You know the blame is faultless when everyone is pointing there fingers at the people whom have the patients life on their hands. The people who already have blood on they're hands. Everyone always blames the doctors. They are always the closet people to reach and will always be the most suitable. The hatred and inconsideration burned through all of them—it was their only constant. They quite bluntly did not know what to feel, because anything they tried out seemed incongruous. It was worse, because they couldn't let go yet and didn't know whether or not their friend would live or die. It was much worse this way.

The same doctor who had operated on her earlier came out, the elastic on his facemask dangling around his arm. All of the faces in the waiting room suddenly turned their attention to the man who looked unmistakably sorrow. Instead of Marco stood out of his chair, but Sean was already in front of the doctor.

"What's going on?" He asked. "Is Ellie going to be alright?"

Everyone was so silent that if a pin were to drop, it would echo the room unmistakably. The man scratched his head, and then dropped his hand at his side. "Ellie, as we know, has been suffering from internal bleeding in the abdominal, but now we are seeing it in the eye as well. It isn't really that common, but it can still happen. Her blindness is reversible, and can be fixed by some minor laser eye surgery. We have, regrettably, found another problem, however. A lot of times, when a woman is with child when getting abdominal internal bleeding, it kind of shields the rest of the organs from being punctured, but the baby wasn't very far a long—"

"Meaning" Sean pressed of, desperate for the doctor to get to the point.

"Meaning her kidney is now bleeding as well, something we didn't see before, and she probably won't make it. I'm very sorry."

As I've said before, please, please, please don't hate me. If it makes you feel any better, there is still 2-4 chapter left for the circumstances to improve a bit. Just promise me you'll keep reading, okay? Anyways, I'm going to try to post the next chapter my tomorrow. I just hope that you'll all like it. Anyways, review and I'll post quicker.

Here is how I tried to make everyone, let me know if you noticed...

Paige: gloomy

Marco: Unreadable, schocked and filled with questions

Spinner: In denial

Griffin: Realistic

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