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~ Chapter Thirteen ~

Sonny kept her eyes focused on him, not hearing the sound of sirens in the distance, not really listening to Josh's pleas for help, she couldn't tear her eyes away from his body. Her hands clung onto his shirt still, her fingers curled around them and she wondered what would happen to her if she let go – would her life truly end?

She didn't bother wiping away the tears that were falling heavily down her face, she didn't bother moving until she felt a hand on her shoulder but even then she couldn't register the fact that someone else was in the room, someone was going to save her.... maybe even save Chad.

She didn't look away from him though, she noted every small flutter of the eyes, every time his chest rose and then fall again, she couldn't stop looking because she was terrified that if she did, then something would happen to him.. if she did even look away for just a second, he could die.

She shook off the thought, telling herself that Chad would never leave her, not when he had promised her, not like this. She wanted to tell him that she loved him, she wanted him to hold her in his arms and never let go, she needed him more than she had ever needed anything else.

She felt like screaming when she was being pulled away from his limp body, but no matter how hard she tried, it wouldn't come out, and she knew that if Chad did die – there would be nothing left for her, nothing. She didn't look at the man who had his arms wrapped around her waist, soothing her with kind words before walking her down some steps and through the front door.

She winced a little when the sunlight hit her eyes, almost bringing her arm to cover her eyes before deciding that would be too much effort. She bit down on her lip a little when she saw Chad being loaded into an ambulance, everything else seemed a blur to her, her entire world was just focused on him and the paramedics trying their best to make sure he lived.

Sonny stared blankly ahead when she was sat down in an ambulance, watching Chad being driven away instead of focusing on the police officer in front of her – asking her questions, wanting to know what happened in that house, needing to understand.

She wanted to scream when Josh was being pushed out of the building, she wondered if he was going to die, the phrase an eye for an eye running through her head as she stared at his limp body, a life for a life, she thought as she watched him being loaded into another ambulance that was soon driven away.

She wanted to be able to tell everyone what happened but she couldn't find the voice she so longed to, she didn't want to do anything as she thought about Chad – he could be dead.

She winced inwardly at the thought, Chad just laying there, pale, limp, lifeless. She had no idea what to do without him, because that's what love was sometimes – it's when you depend on someone so much that you have no idea what a life without them would be like. It's when you wake up in the morning and your first thought is them, it's when you need them to hold you, kiss you, tell you it's going to be okay.

Love hurts, but it's never meant to hurt this much.

She never noticed being bundled into the ambulance, she didn't really know what she was doing when she suddenly found herself in the hospital – she never actually understood what was going on around her. She just wanted to find Chad and make sure that he was okay, she needed to make sure he was okay.

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Nico looked around before putting his head in his hands once more and looking down at the floor, tears falling down his face as he thought about losing Sonny. He couldn't lose the girl he loved more than anything else and then one of his best friends – he couldn't. He thought about how close they had just come to losing her, because she was so determined that it was Josh – none of them had believed her.

He looked up at Grady for a second, the boy was just sitting there staring at the wall in front of him, small tears falling down his pale cheeks as he tried to wipe them away as quickly as possible.

Zora was sitting there, letting her legs dangle over the edge as she stared at the floor – it had been hard losing Tawni, but she wasn't sure how she would cope without Sonny. She wondered if she could have helped more, if she had believed Sonny when she told them who the killer was, she wondered what could have happened.

The only noise that could be heard throughout the teenagers was the sobs coming from Portlyn as Skyler held her in his arms, a lone tear running down his own cheeks as he fought for control. They had been close, like brothers, and he wasn't sure he could lose Chad.

Portlyn put her hand over her mouth as she tried her best to stop herself from crying, she knew that there was nothing she could have done to stop Chad running after Sonny, but she just wished that there was something she could do to save them both.

They had all seen Sonny when she came in, blood running down her head that not even she had seemed to notice, the distant look in her eyes as her mother rushed next to her and gripped onto her hand. They had seen the deep cut on her cheek, the way her whole body trembled, they had all seen the way her clothes had been ripped – they could only assume the worst.

When the doctor came an hour later to tell them Josh had died, none of them shed a tear, none of them cared – he had murdered one of their own, he had raped her and then went after another. He wasn't worth anything to them, he was a nobody, just like he had been his whole life.

There was only one thing they did feel when they heard he had died, justice. Because as they say, an eye for an eye, a life for a life. It was only fair.

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A/N: I am evil aren't I? None of you know about Chad yet, other than the fact he is in hospital – I haven't decided what I am going to do yet, I just wanted the other characters in a chapter.

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