Later that morning Riku woke up to the sound of a door closing. He turned on his side and looked for Sora in the bed, he didn't see him. "Oh that must have been him closing the door… I wonder what time it is?" Riku said in a sleepy voice. Without a second thought Riku got out of bed and walked to the door. Just before turning the handle he yawned, and looked at the clock. "7:30, what the hell is he doing this early," Riku said with another yawn.
He opened the door, and headed down the hall to the stairs. When he was about halfway down he noticed an unusual smell in the air. "Is that gas?" Riku asked. Without a second thought he ran down the remaining steps and into the kitchen. "OH MY GOD," Riku shouted and kneeled down beside him "Sora," Riku said shaking the smaller boy on the ground. "Sora, Sora can you hear me? Wake up," He said starting to get tears in his eyes. "What am I gonna do?" Riku leaned lower so that he could bring Sora's head up into a hug. After he hugged the boy he loved, he lowered him back to the ground and looked at his hands and shirt. "What the fuck is this?" he asked, "Oh my God its blood, I should call 911," he said suddenly, and ran to get the phone.
He picked up the phone from the charger, and held it in his hands. "Wait! What's the number for 911," he stood there staring blankly at the wall in front of him. Then without thinking he dialed the numbers 9-1-1 on the phone and within a matter of seconds there was someone on the other side.
"9-1-1 state your emergency" the woman said.
"My friend is unconscious on the floor in the kitchen and his head is bleeding" Riku said in a shaky voice.
"Its ok sir can you tell me what happened?"
"I don't know what happened I just got up and came downstairs and found my friend passed out on the floor and blood staining the floor" Riku said tears staining his cheeks.
"Okay sir I'll have an ambulance come by the house immediately, give me your address."
"Its 69 Destiny Boulevard."
"Okay the ambulance will be there shortly, but I want you to stay on the line with me until they get there."
"Alright"
"Now can you tell me anything else about your friend, is he breathing normally?
With this question Riku kneeled back down next too his friend, and examined Sora's breathing. "Yes, Yes he is."
"Good now I need you to stay there and make sure that his condition does not change."
Less than five minutes passed before Riku heard the siren of the ambulance. He got up and ran the open the door. "The ambulance is here." He told the lady on the phone.
"Alright, good luck I hope everything is ok." And with that Riku hung up the phone.
Riku was waiting at the door and two people came up to the door in a hurried walk, one of them was carrying a big bag.
"This is the right place right?" the one man said.
"yes it is my friend is on the floor right here and his head is bleeding."
"Alright, we will do what we can, I'm Leon and my partner coming now is Cloud. We are EMT's." The man said and came inside, kneeling down next to Sora. "Can you tell me what happened?" He asked.
"Well I got up and was coming down the stairs and thought that I smelled gas..." Riku paused for a second thinking about what he just said, "Oh my God! I forgot about that, it must be the stove." Riku said and turning toward the stove and turned it off.
"Okay," Leon said as he was taking some gauze and covering the wound on Sora's head, and the Cloud was taking his blood pressure, "what happened after that?"
"Well, I saw him on the ground unconscious, noticed the blood and called 911."
"You didn't see any of the actual events?" Leon asked. "Cloud go get the stretcher," he said to his partner and he replied with a nod of his head.
"No I didn't, I just woke up and found him on the floor." Riku said getting defensive.
"Fine kid I understand, but if you want to come with us so that your not here by yourself, I would get dressed."
Riku realized for the first time that he was still in what he slept in, and ran upstairs to change. He threw on pants a shirt, and shoes, then quickly brushed his hair. After he was dressed and ready he ran back down the stairs seeing to the two EMT's rolling Sora to the side, and putting some kind of long board underneath of him. "What are you guys doing now?" Riku asked.
Leon looked at Riku for a moment after they had Sora on the Long board. "We put him on a long board to keep his spine strait, since we don't know what actually happened, we don't know if there is any spinal injury. We want to cover all the bases."
Next thing Riku saw was them put some kind of collar around Sora's neck, and place all kinds of towels under his back and between his legs, the fastened the straps. Each one walked to one side of the board. "On the count of 3 we lift him up," Leon said.
"Right," Cloud said.
"One, two, three," and at Leon's command they lifted Sora up and placed him on the stretcher, and fastened more straps. "Alright kid lets go. What hospital do you want to go to?" Leon asked.
"Whatever is the closest," Riku said.
"Alright, you sit up front with me," Leon said.