This is a really short update. But it's really good. The story is actually starting to get MORE interesting. yea! 4 day weekends are always the best!! Thank you for the great reviews. I'm surprised this became such a big hit! If any of you haven't read my story One More Chance, I suggest you do, since a lot of people love it, and that has been my best hit since Flashback! Oh, I forgot to tell you that I finished New Moon in 3 days (and it's 563 pages), and it was good. Not as good as Twilight, but I LOVE it!! For those of you who have read Twilight, there's gonna be one called Midnight Sun and it's basically Twilight in Edward's version.
Chapter 5: How to Save a Life
Tommy and I started to talk a lot more. He walked me to all of my classes today and labs were a lot more fun. I still talked to Jamie and Kat. Kat wanted to know everything about Tommy and Jamie hated the mention of his name. It was Tuesday and everyone was talking about the dance. I decided I would go to Palatka to shop a little bit. I needed some new clothes anyway. It was snowing today and I hated snow even worse than the rain. I put my hood over my head and almost slipped on the ice on the parking lot.
I looked around the parking lot trying to find Tommy. I finally saw him and he smirked at me. Soon his face turned into fear. The same with his entire family. They were all looking like they saw some horrific event. I turned to see what they were looking at and froze in my spot. There was a van sliding on the ice coming towards. The smart thing to do was to move, but even if I did, I wouldn't have time to. It came so fast but it was like slow motion for me. I closed my eyes tightly ready for the sudden impact.
Suddenly, I felt my head hit the cement and my whole body go numb. The van was still coming towards me and then I saw Tommy standing in front of me. He stopped the van with just his hands before it hit me. I closed my eyes about to fade away but Tommy shook me. "Don't fall asleep Jude. You have to stay awake," he instructed me.
I forced my eyes open to see him cradling me. It felt like my head was against a hard rock. I heard a few gasps and someone yelling, "Get Kyle! He's still in the van! Then call the paramedics!" I blinked a few times until everything registered in my mind. Tommy had just stopped a van with his bare hands. How did he even make it over to my side in those two seconds? He was basically on the other side of the parking lot. "What happened?" I choked out.
"You almost got ran over, that's what happened," Tommy said, "Are you alright?"
I tried to lift my head up, but I feel right back down into Tommy's arms. My head hurt like hell.
"How did you get over here?" I questioned.
"I was standing right next to you Jude," he answered me. His tone was more serious now.
I tried to get up again, and Tommy finally released me from his cold hands. He helped me sit up and my head was throbbing. Everyone was moving around us. "You were…you were over there," I suddenly remembered. I pointed to his car on the other side of the parking lot.
His expression went hard and serious. It almost frightened me. "No, I wasn't," he said with an edge to his voice.
"Yes you were. I saw you"
"You don't know what you're talking about. I was right next to you and then pulled you out of the way." His intense gaze never left my face. He was trying to shut me up; I could tell.
"No," I said sternly. I wasn't about to stand down. He doesn't know who he's dealing with.
"Please Jude," he pleaded.
"Why?"
"Just trust me," he said softly as it sent a surge through my body.
"Only if you promise to explain later," I demanded.
His jaw tightened and he grinded his teeth. "Fine."
The paramedics came to me and told me not to move. They examined my head and put me on the stretcher. I didn't see why I needed to be put on one. I was completely fine, I just had a bad headache, and I was extremely exhausted.
I closed my eyes and felt someone shake me awake again. I opened my eyes, irritated and saw Tommy sitting by my bedside in the hospital. I looked around taking in my surroundings. My head was bandaged up. "How are you feeling?" Tommy asked in his perfect velvet voice.
"I feel…confused," I answered honestly, "Where's Stuart?"
"My father is talking to him right now. He came in panicking."
"Great," I said sarcastically.
Suddenly I saw Kyle coming through the hospital doors on a stretcher. He had cuts and bruises all over him. I felt incredible as they put him on the bed beside me.
"Jude! I am so sorry. And Tommy, I didn't see you there! I just lost control." He exclaimed.
"Hey, no worries," Tommy said.
I doctor walked in and I was mesmerized. He was tall and black with an intense gaze just like Tommy's. His smile was incredibly gorgeous as he walked up to me. I tried to keep myself from staring.
"Hi, Jude Harrison?" the doctor ask.
"Yes, that's me," I said.
"My name is Dr. Quincy," he said shaking my hands. I smiled at him as he smiled back. "Your X-rays are perfectly fine. You might have a slight concussion, but you'll be fine."
"Does that mean I get to go back to school now?"
"Maybe you should take it easy today. Your dad is in the waiting room. Just go home with him, and get some rest. You should be fine in the morning."
"Okay, thank you."
Dr. Quincy nodded his head and went to check on Kyle. Afterwards he went back outside. Tommy smiled at me and then patted my hand.
"Well, I better get going back to school," he said getting up to leave.
"Oh no, you don't. You promised me an explanation and I intend to get it." I demanded.
"Jude please, not now," he said leaving the room.
I got up from the hospital bed and followed him. If he thinks he can get away from me that easily then he has another thing coming. I grab his arm to stop him and he looked at me with his harden expression. "What? What do you want from me Jude?" he said impatiently.
"I want the truth," I said.
"You hit your head pretty hard," he implied.
"Listen, when I got out of my car I saw you next to yours. You were about 10 cars away from me and in two seconds you push my away from a van that's about to crash into me. Then all of a sudden it comes to me again and it should've crushed my legs but you stop it with your bare hands. I saw you lift it up and the dents in the van…" I trailed off knowing how crazy I was sounding.
"You think I lifted the van?" he said, acting like I was insane. Maybe I was, after all, I did hit my head pretty hard. No, I know what I saw. Soon I saw Stuart calling after me. I turned my head to see him walking towards me. I turned around to scowl at Tommy but he wasn't there anymore. There was something not right about this whole thing. He didn't know it yet, but Tommy didn't know who he was dealing with. I was going to figure it out.
After saying it about 50 times I convinced Stuart that I was fine and he let me go to my room. I laid in my bed trying to think of the different possibilities of how Tommy could've save my life like he did. My head started to hurt again, so I took some Tylenol and went to sleep.
Man, it was really hard to get that away from Stephenie, so I hope it turned out ok. This is one of my fav chapters in Twilight (chapter 13: confessions, being number 1). If you want to know more about Twilght go visit Please review!!
