Hey, there was a review saying you were confused so 13Swifty what are you confused about? Maybe I can help explain it to you… hopefully, and I'm updating twice today because I don't know how much I can use my sisters computer because my mom made me pack my laptop up today earlier and we took it in so tomorrow they will start working on it and hopefull they fix the issues but I was told that since it was an HP I was very lucky that the computer lasted about 3 years seeing as most of them last 18 months apparently.
So yeah 13Swifty please tell me what you're confused on or hopefully this chapter will explain it to you but if it doesn't tell me what you're confused about and I will explain it to you!
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"Go ahead." Tara nodded and left. "Are you in pain anywhere else, Fang?"
"No,"
"Okay,"
"Doctor Early, the gunshot patient needs blood and we only have one pint." Tara said opening the door.
"Tara, what blood type do you have?"
"B positive." Tara answered.
"That would kill her instantly."
"Well I have her blood type according to Tara." I mentioned.
"Oh yeah, but you don't have a lot of blood right now."
"But in a few minutes he'll have enough blood to give a pint every 5 or less minutes (A/N I don't thinks that's true but what the hell). But we can give him orange juice and cookies between times."
"Yes, but how soon will they need the blood?"
"Well, they're going to take her into surgery in 20 minutes so in maybe 15 minutes."
"Go get the empty blood bags, mark them with O Negative and quickly get back here. There's no reason for you or anyone else to lose another family member or friend."
"Okay." Tara quickly left the room.
When she came back Doctor Early had laid me back on the gurney and started filling the bags.
"Tara, do you have the O Negative blood? We're taking her into surgery." A nurse said poking her head in the doorway.
"Here are two bags. We're working on the third." Tara handed the nurse the blood bags.
"Okay, the third bag is ready to go." Tara took the third bag from Doctor Early and handed it to the nurse.
The nurse left and headed down the hall.
Tara handed me a large glass of orange juice and two cookies.
"Here finish these and we'll probably be able to take some more blood in a couple minutes." Tara smiled.
"Doctor Early?" A nurse poked her head in the door.
"Yes?" He answered.
"There's a little boy with his hand stuck in a vase."
"Ok, Tara once he finishes, be sure to wait a minute before you take blood again. Then have a nurse take it down to surgery."
"Ok Doctor Early."
MaxPOV (GASP!)
I was floating around in a gray mist, it was pretty boring but I keep seeing people I know flash in front of me then they disappear. But one face keeps coming back.
I saw a scene from when we were dress shopping.
Flashback
"Max!" Fang grabbed my wrist and pulled me against him.
A truck sped by, the drivers head down not looking in front of him.
End
Another memory came.
Flashback
I was running. Running down the middle of the road. I turned into the woods and I had gotten far enough in the woods I couldn't see through to the road.
Multiple twigs snapped when I was tackled to the ground.
I began crying and Fang comforted me.
Fang REALLY cared.
We were kissing. My first kiss was with Fang.
End
The flashback ended before I wanted it to but now I felt weird. Different. But a new flashback came, one more painful to see. My chest hurt, I looked at my shirt and saw it was Fangs black sweat shirt. It had a hole in it and there was a darker black spot on the shirt around the hole. Blood.
Flashback
Damon raised his hands and got in fighting position. I watched Damon standing across from me.
Dylan grabbed something from his pocket and pointed it at me. Fang jumped up and tackled Dylan to the ground.
Damon threw a punch at me which I blocked and counter acted with a kick to his chest sending him back.
Fang looked at me when Dylan had managed to flip Fang to his back and punch him.
My eyes widened at the sound of a gunshot and I fell to the ground. I could barely see through the clouds covered my eyes but I could see that Fang was fighting a lot more and strength and got free.
"Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, Ella! Someone call 911!" Fang yelled.
Fang took Dylan and Damon with a punch both and he kneeled next to me. He pressed both of his hands to the bullet wound on my chest and applied pressure to it.
"They're on their way, Fang!" Iggy yelled down.
"The police coming?"
"Yeah, do you need help?"
"Run to the road and flag them down."
"Okay," Iggy started down the latter and jumped off half way down and sprinted out of the woods on the path.
"Come on Max. Stay awake. Max look at me." I blinked up at Fang through the clouds, he was hovering over me and I could see the pain in his onyx eyes, "You'll be okay just hold on 'kay?" Fang started talking to me and sort of comforting me, but most likely was to help comfort himself.
End
I saw a hill and sat down in the 'grass'.
FangPOV
Max has been in surgery for probably 10 minutes; I had given I think 12 pints of blood to her cause.
Iggy and the rest of the band –plus Ella– had shown up about half an hour ago.
Tara keep checking on me and brining me more orange juice every 5 seconds.
"You're probably going to hate orange juice after today." Tara laughed.
"Probably." I took a sip from the glass and set it on the table next to me and started playing an app on my phone.
"Tara, your sisters out of surgery." Doctor Batchelder said.
"How is she?" I asked him.
"She's stable enough for a visitor but only two of you can visit her."
"Ella and Tara should go." I said
"Okay," Ella said standing up.
"Nurse Martinez to treatment 2."
"Well, I'll see Max later when I'm making my runs." Tara head to the room she was called to.
EllaPOV
I started to Max's room after being told what room it was.
I opened the door and saw Max laying on the bed hooked up to machines.
A heart monitor beeped steadily next to her sleeping form. She had a breathing tube taped into her mouth and down her throat.
Sitting down next to her I took a hold of her hand.
(Linebreak if the linebreak didn't show up.)
I sat next to Max for an hour and I was going to sit next to her for longer, but I got a text from Iggy, saying we had to go.
IggyPOV (And hopefully I write this in a pervy Iggy's head which shouldn't be hard being who I am :D )
We got to the school gym where we stood across from our partner.
Since Fang doesn't have a partner currently, he has to learn the dance with the mayor's daughter, Megan.
Megan wasn't that bad looking, she was pretty hot. But I have eyes for a certain Martinez. But you didn't hear that from me and no it's not Max! That would be gross, ew.
After about an hour of learning the dance we got dismissed for the day.
"Guys, I'm going home." Fang said unlocking and getting in his hummer.
"Okay." I nodded and we went to Nudge's car.
FangPOV
"Megan I can't be your escort." I looked at the ceiling of the tree house and I sighed into the phone.
"Are you sure Fang?" Megan practically begged.
"Sorry Megan." I pulled the strap of Max's bag over my shoulder and grabbed mine. "Listen I got to go. Good luck finding an escort." I hung up and started down the latter.
I walked out to my car and got in, turning the radio on so I couldn't hear my own thoughts. I didn't want to think about her. Max. How it's my fault she's even in the fucking hospital.
I banged the wheel at a stop light and shook my head to try and get the thought out of my head.
I blared the radio until I got home, where I got out of the car and walked inside.
"Mom already?" I looked at my passed out mom beer bottle in hand.
I took the bottle and drank the last swallow of the alcohol and put the bottle by the others on the counter.
I dropped both bags –Max and I's– on the floor and closed my door. I flopped on my bed and stared at the ceiling thinking about what I could've done to have been the one in that hospital and not Max. I reached over blindly and grabbed my iPod.
I was about to press play when I got a text.
Hey band meeting/practice
-Igster
I sat up and scribbled a note in my horrible penmanship.
'Went to band practice. Take a pain killer for your hangover head ache. Take a nap in your room. I should be back in maybe a couple hours.
-Nick'
I set the note in front of her and walked out of the house.
"Hey." I said cutting through my neighbor's lawn into Iggy's.
"Your mom sober?" Iggy asked.
"What do you think?" I replied smirking.
"Passed out of the kitchen floor, which you then moved to either the living room couch or her bed."
"Close. Passed out at the kitchen table, but I left her there."
"Do I smell the hint of beer on your breath?"
"Probably."
"How many you drink?"
"The last of my mom's."
"So a swallow."
"Yup," I pulled my guitar strap over my head. "Start with Hero?"
"Sure." Everyone got to they're instruments and we started the song.
Hero by Skillet (I'm obsessed with them right now)
"I'm just a step away
I'm a just a breath away
Losin my faith today"
(Max) Nudge: "fallin off the edge today"
"I am just a man
Not superhuman"
(Max) Nudge: I'm not superhuman"
"Someone save me from the hate
"It's just another war
Just another family torn"
(Max) Nudge: "falling from my faith today"
"Just a step from the edge
Just another day in the world we live
"I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero"
(Max) Nudge: "save me now"
"I need a hero to save my life
A hero'll save me"
(Max) Nudge: "just in time"
"I gotta fight today
To live another day
Speakin my mind today"
(Max) Nudge: "my voice will be heard today"
[ Lyrics from: . ]
"I've gotta make a stand
But I am just a man"
(Max) Nudge: "I'm not superhuman"
"My voice will be heard today
"It's just another war
Just another family torn"
(Max) Nudge: "my voice will be heard today"
"It's just another kill
The countdown begins to destroy ourselves
"I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero"
(Max) Nudge: "save me now"
"I need a hero to save my life
A hero'll save me"
(Max) Nudge: "just in time"
"I need a hero to save my life
I need a hero, just in time
Save me just in time
Save me just in time
Who's gonna fight for what's right? Who's gonna help us survive we're in the fight of our lives"
(Max) Nudge: "and we're not ready to die"
"Who's gonna fight for the weak
Who's gonna make 'em believe
I've got a hero"
(Max) Nudge: "I've got a hero"
"Livin in me
"I'm gonna fight for what's right today I'm speaking my mind and if it kills me tonight"
(Max) Nudge: "I will be ready to die"
"A hero's not afraid to give his life
A hero's gonna save me just in time
I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero"
(Max) Nudge: "save me now"
"I need a hero to save my life
A hero will save me"
(Max) Nudge: "just in time"
"(I need a hero)
Who's gonna fight for what's right?
Who's gonna help us survive?
(I need a hero)
Who's gonna fight for the weak?
Who's gonna make 'em believe?
I've got a hero
I need a hero
A hero's gonna save me just in time"
We started playing Monster next. (Monster is by Skillet).
After that we played the music to Max's song, Max and I wrote called Brick by Boring Brick. (Brick by Boring Brick by Paramore)
We then played Secrets and Apologize. (Both songs by OneRepublic)
Apologize by OneRepublic (Sorry not doing the lyrics for Secrets)
"I'm holdin' on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground.
And I'm hearin' what you say,
But I just can't make a sound.
Yeah
You tell me that you need me,
Then you go and cut me down...
But wait...
You tell me that you're sorry,
Didn't think I'd turn around...
And say...
That it's too late to apologize.
It's too late...
I said it's too late to apologize.
It's too late.
Whoa!
I'd take another chance,
Take a fall, take a shot for you.
I need you like a heart needs a beat,
But it's nothin' new. Yeah!
I loved you with a fire red,
Now it's turnin' blue...
And you say...
Sorry, you're not the angel
Heaven let me think was you...
But I'm afraid...
It's too late to apologize.
It's too late.
I said it's too late to apologize.
It's too late."
"It's too late to apologize.
It's too late.
I said it's too late to apologize.
It's too late.
It's too late to apologize. YEAH!
I said it's too late to apologize. YEAH!
I'm holdin' on your rope,
got me ten feet off the ground."
We played the music to Max's other song Wake Me Up Inside (Bring Me To Life). (Song by Evanescene)
"I better go take care of my hung-over mother then get yelled at by my father for 'drinking', leaving my mom passed out alone, and not home two nights in a row…. This argument should be fun…" I sighed and put my guitar back on the stand in the corner and pulled the 'cover' (which was really a blanket) over it.
I went home and saw my mom leaning over the sink with a glass of water in hand.
"Nickolas, you're home." She smiled and winced at the door latching shut.
"Yeah,"
"How are all of your friends?"
"Ok…"
"Nickolas, I know something's wrong."
"Fine, one of my friends, Max do you remember her?" She nodded and I went on. "Well she kind of got shot." I looked at my feet. I felt her hand on my cheek.
"Do you like this girl?"
"Mom, I just said she was my fri- oh… I don't even know…"
"I think you do know." I felt my cheeks get hot. "I take that as a, you do." She smiled.
"I'm gonna go write." I left my mom standing by the sink and went to my room.
I shut the door and grabbed my lyric book from the top of my dresser. I sat down and uncapped my pen and started thinking on what I was going to write.
Family, no; even though I like my alcoholic mother more than my abusive ass father. My mom at least tries to help me with my problems. My dad just says 'fuck off.' and he has literally told me that.
I don't even know how I got to that but I started thinking of Max… and I was writing lyrics before I knew what I was doing.
(Lyrics are to Don't Wake Me Up by Skillet)
I went to bed I was thinking about You
I ain't the same since I'm living without You
All the memories are getting colder
All the things that I wanna do over
I went to bed I was thinking about You
I wanna talk and laugh like we used to
When I see You in my dreams at night
It's so real but it's in my mind
And now I guess this is as good as it gets
Don't wake me 'cause I don't wanna leave this dream
Don't wake me 'cause I never seem to stay asleep enough
When it's you I'm dreaming of I don't wanna wake up
I went to bed I was thinking about You
And how it felt when I finally found You
It's like a movie playing over in my head
Don't wanna look 'cause I know how it ends
All the words that I said that I wouldn't say
All the promises I made that I wouldn't break
It's last call, last song, last dance 'cause
I can't get you back, can't get a second chance
And now I guess this is as good as it gets
I leaned back against my head board and I heard the front door shut.
I threw my lyric book in my black bag and shoved it under my bed, I kicked the other bag (most likely Max's –hope nothing breakable was in that– whoops). I grabbed my backpack and pulled my math book and my notebook out and flipped the book open to the assignment and started sort of working on it my head still thinking of lyrics.
"NICKOLAS!" fuck fuck fuck…. I'm fucked…
I got up and walked out into the hall and into the kitchen.
"YOU LEFT YOUR MOTHER HERE ALONE PASSED OUT!" and let the screaming father begin…
"I had to go it was an emergency." I leaned against the wall but immediately stood straight up.
"YOU WENT TO IGGY'S HOUSE FOR A BAND MEETING! I saw the note!"
"One of his bass strings broke. I had to put another one on."
"No you didn't! Now you're lying to me!" My head was smacked to the side when my dad slapped me. I was pissed now…
"AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SLAP ME!" I screamed
"Be quiet, your mothers trying to sleep!"
"I don't care right now! Tell me why you slapped me!"
"Because you and you're lying self needed to be slapped back into reality!"
"Careful you might wake mother up." I smirked.
I grabbed my stomach and leaned over gasping for air after I felt the shock wave of pain radiate through my body from getting punched by a football player built person. Time for me to get almost killed/put in the hospital.
I backed away from him and tried to run for my room. I was tackled halfway down the hall, my head smacking against the wood floor.
"GET OFF ME!" I punched him in the gut and shoved him off. I ran to my room shut and locked my door.
I sat on the floor against the door until I heard him banging on the door. I grabbed both the bags that I flung under my bed, opened my window and climbed out.
I ran through the yard between Iggy and I's and was about to climb the tree that went outside Iggy's room and get in that way when I remembered my dad would know where I ran off too. I started down the street every now and then looking behind me. He was looking out my window. I ran towards the park but keep running once I got to it. I turned down a road that I recognized to be Max's. I bolted down the sidewalk to the Martinez's back door.
"Fang? Oh my God! Get in here! Tara come here Fang needs help!" Ella said pulling me through the door and looking at my slightly burning red face and my ripped shirt.
Tara came running in and gasped.
"What happened?!" Tara asked grabbing the first aid kit.
"Nothing, I just fell." I answered.
"If you fell you wouldn't be breathing hard. Did you run here from your house?" I nodded and Tara continued "It was your dad again wasn't it?"
"Yeah," See my dad's been put in jail for child abuse but now since I have 3 months until I'm 18 he would be put in jail until I turned 18.
"Fang you're going to stay here. Seeing as I see two of your bags with you." Tara smiled; I winced when she put alcohol on the side of my face where my head had hit the floor.
Don't wake me 'cause I don't wanna leave this dream
Don't wake me 'cause I never seem to stay asleep enough
When it's you I'm dreaming of I don't wanna wake up
Don't wake me we're together just You and me
Don't wake me 'cause we're happy like we used to be
I know I've gotta let You go but I don't wanna be alone
These dreams of You keep on growing stronger
It ain't a lot but it's all I have
Nothing to do but keep sleeping longer
Don't wanna stop 'cause I want You back
Don't wake me 'cause I don't wanna leave this dream
Don't wake me 'cause I never seem to stay asleep enough
When it's you I'm dreaming of I don't wanna wake up
Don't wake me we're together just You and me
Don't wake me 'cause we're happy like we used to be
I know I've gotta let You go but I don't wanna be alone
I went to bed I was thinking about You
'Cause I don't wanna leave this dream
It ain't the same since I'm living without You
'Cause I never seem to stay asleep
I know I've gotta let You go but I don't wanna wake up
I quickly wrote the name of the song on the type of the page; Don't Wake Me Up.
I looked at the TV to see what Ella was watching, some kind of fashion show I think.
That was a weird way to end the chapter with Fang finishing the story. But you got to sort of see what Fang has to live with.