Chapter Six

Five people were waiting, Five familiar faces, Five and most of them with tears ready to fall out, Nathan, Haley's dad, Mr and Mrs Davis and Lucas. All waiting in a room with an annoying clock ticking which everybody kept on staring at waiting for a doctor to come in and tell them that the girls are okay...

Half an hour passed and still nobody...

An hour but still no sign of a doctor entering the room...

An hour and fifteen minutes but still nothing...

But then all of them turned to the door when all of a sudden they saw someone entering the room which was of course filled with sad looking faces, It was finally a doctor...

Nathan stood up as soon as he came in, but sat back down when he called 'the davis family', He walked to where mr. and mrs. davis were sitting but mrs davis couldn't get up, her tears had already fallen and she couldn't even talk to the doctor, so instead her husband got up...

"Is she okay?" Brooke Davis's dad asked.

"Brooke is fine, she just got a couple of stitches on her forhead and some on her arm, she's awake laying down in her room, I tried talking to her but she wouldn't answer my questions, so i just thought maybe you'd like to see her, talk to her maybe, she's in room 204" the doctor replied and nodded when Mr. davis said thank you and walked away from them.

Brooke's dad and mom went to see brooke in her room, they had told Jimmy that they would go to brooke and if he needed anything they were there for him, they were happy that brooke was okay, but part of them were not since nothing has been said about haley's condition, Mr. davis told lucas to come to brooke's room and tell him everything about haley as soon as the doctor comes in with haley's results and of course lucas agreed.

"Brooke? Honey?" Brooke's mom whispered as soon as she saw brooke laying on the bed, looking at the ceiling.

Brooke didn't answer...

"Thank god your okay" Brookes dad grabbed Brooke's hand and rubbed it.

Again, nothing was said, she just kept staring at the ceiling without a word said...

"Brooke talk to us" Brooke's mom said with another tear falling down her cheek.

All brooke did was turn her eyes from the ceiling to her mom and then back at the ceiling, without talking or atleast smiling or nodding.

Brooke's parents thought she might need sometime until she could talk, she must figure somethings out of course, she must be really scared and frightened because of the accident, So Another two hours passed without a word said from brooke...

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Nathan, Mr. James and Lucas waited in the hospital waiting room, it had been now three hours and a half and still no news about Haley, Mr. James went to the nurse's office but she told him they are still in surgery...

But just as he got back from the nurse's office, a doctor came in, finally. he walked over to where nathan, Haley's dad and lucas were standing and looked at mr. james for the longest minute, for a second there all of them thought that she died from the looks of the doctor but then he finally moved his mouth and began to speak.

"Mr. James?" the doctor asked and he nodded "Your Daughter? Haley James, Don't worry she's fine" he said after seeing the three worried faces infront of him.

"But?" lucas asked knowing there would be a 'but' somewhere there, there is no way that haley would be a 100 perfect after an accident which took the doctors three hours in surgery.

"Well, She's got a broken leg, her right one and some stitches and bruises on her body, she did loose a lot of blood but we managed to fix that problem." he continued.

"and?" Lucas asked after he saw the face the doctor was giving them, he knew there was something he's been finding a way to tell them...

"And" the doctor sighed "Well Mr. James, your daughter is in a coma" all of them stood there quiet at the word 'coma' it freaked them out, especially Haley's dad, he lost his wife, he doesn't want to lose his little girl..

"When exactly would she get up?" Haley's dad asked.

"Well, Most People who are in coma's usually wake up in a year or months" he said "But in haley's condition, she was a lucky girl actually for not getting hit so hard so she just might wake up in a couple of days, it's up to her and when she does we'll see how she does by then"

Mr. James sighed in relief..

'Thank god' nathan thought, he couldn't lose haley, not after everything thats been going on his mind and his feelings for her, no way could he lose her...

"She's in room 205" the doctor said and left.

Nathan told Mr. James that haley would like to see him first of course, All he did was thank nathan for his kindness, he knew that nathan was the boy haley used to hang out with a couple of days before the accident, he never met him before even though his past wife was a friend of nathan's mother but when he finally did meet him, here in the hospital, he thought he was a fine gentlemen and how he cared for his daughter, he just knew he wouldn't do anything to harm her, that was the first time Mr. James ever thought about a boy like that, he kind of shocked himself of thinking that about nathan, that he was a good boy and would let haley hang out with him or even date him...

He entered the room to find machines all around her, he couldn't take it anymore, his tears fell freely after seeing her like this, he remembered how his wife died 'a car passing a red light' and it just killed him because thats exactly what happened to haley right now. he walked next to her and saw her chest move 'she's breathing' he thought to himself, atleast that shows she's alive and it calmed him down, he grabbed a chair and sat next to her bed, he cried even more after he saw her closely, all bruises and stitches over her arms and face, he watched her silently and saw her...He saw his wife in her, the women he loved and married and promised he'd take care of her no matter what happened, but look at her now, she's died, gone somewhere he can't find, she's gone, After that happened he promised himself that he'd take care of haley, thats all whats left of her, Haley James, his daughter that he loved so very much and now she's laying, trying to find her way back to where she belongs, laying down there not knowing where she is, she's lost in a world inside her mind where she's trying to come back, he grabbed her left hands and kissed it and thought about seeing brooke. he got up and when he went out, he saw nathan standing there, he nodded to nathan as a sign for him to go in as he walked to brooke's room.

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Haley's dad knocked the door on his daughters bestfriends room which was exactly infront of haley's room. he saw Brooke's mom crying on the chair next to brooke, and her dad standing by the toilet door, He noticed Brooke just staring at the ceiling with out a tear in her eye, without blinking, without moving any body part, even her eyelashes didn't move, it scared him but he knew she must feel terrible inside, he stood next to her dad and saw his eyes watery, trying to get the tears out but he thought he must be trying hard to be strong and not cry for Brooke...

"How is she doing?" Jimmy Broke the silence in the room in a really low voice which made Brooke's mom not hear what he was asking.

"She's been like that for the past two hours" Brooke's dad explained.

"She just probebly needs time to think everything over, of course still scared" Jimmy said as he still saw brooke, she looked like a paralized person, actually like a dead person with open eyes, 'Poor Brooke' Jimmy thought, she must be feeling terrible and scared...

"Yeah, she'll be okay" Her dad wiped his tears which were just about to fall, he then turned to Jimmy "Lucas told me about haley, I'm so sorry Jim" he said, Jimmy looked down, closed his eyes when he reminded him of haley, it hurt him alot, all he did was nod and didn't say a word after that...

"She'll be okay" Brooke's dad told Jimmy "She needs time too" he said and by that Jimmy looked up at him and smiled slightly...

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There she was, the girl he was supposed to tell her how he felt about her, the girl he was falling for, the girl he's inlove with, his eyes were on her the first time he ever saw her, last year in class but waited for the right moment and when that happened, he didn't do anything about it, and now look at her, she's gone into a place he can't find, he wants to hold her just like he held her in the park so bad, he wants to tell her so badly, he just wants her to come back to them again, but it was hopeless, she just laid there, with all these machines on her, her eyes closed, he wished she'd come back to them, he closed his eyes and waited for her to call his name hoping she would wake up, but it didn't happen, she was still the same haley he saw as he entered the room...

He grabbed her hand and rubbed it, hoping she would feel it wether she's almost with them or not, he kissed it and laid it down on the bed still holding it...

"Haley?" he whispered.

But she didn't say anything, she didn't open her eyes to him, she didn't answer back...

Now, his tears fell when he realized that this wasn't a dream, it was true, she was laying there hopeless, everytime he called her, she'd answer back but now, she wasn't...

"Haley? please wake up hales" he said as he wiped the tears away but it was no use, more just kept on coming. he slid his hands threw his hair and sniffed a couple of times before continueing what he was about to say.

"Haley? You know today? Before this all happened, i told you i had something to tell you, remember?" he asked her even though he knew she'd never answer back which she didn't..

"You know what i wanted to say? I've been hiding this for a long time now but just didn't have the courage to tell you this, i don't know how you'll react, and now when i want to tell you, i can never see that reaction, It's not really a big deal" he said but then laughed lightly at himself as he still kept on crying "No actually, it is a big deal, I think i'm falling inlove with you Haley James, Yeah thats right, i love you and i wish you could know that but now you can't, because your somewhere i wish i could bring you back from, but i can't! i wish i have told you this before, before the accident but i guess i was scared, i don't think i've ever fallen really inlove like this, i mean even though its just been a couple of days right? thats not the point, in these couple of days i just kept falling more and more for you!"

"Damn it!" he yelled as he buried his head in his hands to try and stop the tears, when he wiped most of them he looked up to look at her again "I just thought you should know that, even though your not really with me right now, but i'll always be with you" he whispered those last words, 'Geez if somebody came in they would think i'm crazy, well i really am, what am i doing talking to her? its not like she can hear me or anything, i'm telling her how i feel now? when she's in a coma? god i'm such an idiot!" he thought to himself.

just then Haley's father walked in and it teared him up just to see nathan like that, in tears. if nathan was like that, what would happen if brooke walked in this room? it would tear him up more then ever, he knew Brooke loved haley so much that she could never leave her alone, she loved her like she was a sister to her, a bestfriend that could never leave her side, what will happen if brooke see's her, she'd be angry, sad, terrified, and then he thought about all those words he just thought of..

Angry...

Sad...

Terrified...

That's what he was feeling right now, more then that too, he couldn't help it but everytime he saw his daughter, more tears kept on falling from his eyes, he wanted to be strong, 'he had to be strong' he thought, for himself, for brooke, his family, For Haley...