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Disclaimer: Boy I'm getting annoyed with this whole 'disclaiming' thing! I still don't own H2o Just add Water

Chapter Four: Calling him

Bella's POV

I was the first one to stop crying, but although the tears had stopped, the pain hadn't. Once I gained my composure more the police began asking me questions like "Do you know the personnel involved? Do you have any information that could be of use to us? Did you witness the accident?"

At the rush of questions and the intensity of them, I began to tear up once again, before I wiped them away and said "We know the girl that was in the accident, she's a friend, but we don't know anymore about the accident than that. We only just got here." The policewoman who had been trying to comfort us softly asked us "What's her name?" I sniffled and said "Rikki Chadwick." The policeman wrote this down before the policewoman asked "And what are your names?" and she handed Cleo and I tissues. We wiped our red tear stained eyes and I said "Bella Hartley" and Cleo added "Cleo Sertori". The policewoman said "Thanks girls, we understand it must be hard seeing your friend like that, but we really appreciate it. Are you two going to the hospital?" I looked at Cleo who nodded at me and I said "Yeah we are, do you where she is at?" The policewoman whose nametag said 'Laura' then offered to drive us to the hospital and we accepted her offer.

Next thing Cleo and I were sitting in the backseats of the police car in silence. I got my phone out of my pocket, dialed a familiar number and waited a few rings before there was a pick up noise and my boyfriend answered "Hello, Will Benjamin." "Hey, it's me" and he must have heard or sensed the tone of my voice before he said "Hey Bella! Are you alright?" sounding happy but then a bit concerned. I gulped before I said "No, not really." He sounded alarmed when he said "Why? What's wrong? Are you okay?" I took a deep breath, considering how to break the news to him that one of his best friends is in hospital, the longer than I realized before I said "Will… its Rikki. She's been in a really bad accident and she's at the hospital. Cleo & I are on our way now." There was a long silence and I was feeling the pain of what felt like for the both of us.

Rikki and Will were really close. There have been many jokes that they were like brother and sister, and if we didn't know better we would likely believe that too. The way they acted around each other was seriously like watching a brother and sister. They would fight with each other… constantly, but Will would always look out for Rikki and protect her, while Rikki acted like she didn't need her 'big brother' but I knew that she liked that security.

After the silence, Will said with a choked up voice "What happened? How is she? I'll be at the hospital in a few minutes." I looked at Cleo and said to Will "Cleo and I were walking down the beach to go for a swim when we saw the accident. I'm not sure how bad her condition is or what happened, but in the glimpse I saw of her, she looked pretty bad. Oh by the way can you call Lewis too; Cleo's not up to it." Will then said "Okay, I'll be there soon, Oh, and Bel, Please keep me updated." I agreed and we said our goodbyes. I looked out my window and saw that we were close to arriving at the hospital and I thought about how lucky I was to have the distraction of calling Will or else the trip would have felt like forever having to continuously mentally re-watch the blood-stained mess that Rikki was when I saw her, the mangled car and Cleo and I crying by the mess and chaos of it all.

Just as we parked I pinched myself hoping but making sure I wasn't having a bad dream…. I felt the pinch and I took a deep breath trying to ready myself for what lay inside the hospital.

As Cleo & I walked into the hospital, I surveyed the very white interior as we walked over to the counter before asking the female receptionist "what ward is Rikki Chadwick?" The lady looked on the computer, while I observed how long her nose was before she interrupted my surveyance saying rudely "only family are allowed up." I lied as I pointing to myself and said "Sister" and then changing my fingers direction to Cleo and saying "Step-sister. What ward is she?" The rude, long-nosed receptionist looked at her computer again before saying "she in the emergency ward, 4th floor." We thanked her and made our way to the elevator. As we walked in the first thing I noticed was that the white theme hadn't stopped. Almost everything in the elevator was white, excluding the silver buttons and a hand sanitizer advertisement poster.

Cleo & I stood in silence during the short ride up, then when the doors opened with a 'ting' on level 4, we both hesitated stepping out. I don't think either of us wanted to know what was ahead. I was the first to move, knowing the doors would close in any second and the longer we put it off, the less we would know, I mean for all we know she could have just been knocked out with a few scratches and concussion and she would be alright. Doubtful but still possible.

"Come on, she might be alright" I said to Cleo trying to convince her to step out of the elevator, which I had my hand in front of the doors sensor keeping the doors open for her. Although I was trying to reassure Cleo, I think I was trying to reassure myself a lot too.

After a few moments Cleo exited the elevator and together we began walking in search of the emergency ward's receptionist desk. After 5 minutes of left turns, right turns and following signs, we finally reached the emergency wards desk. "Rikki Chadwick" I said to the nurse who seemed a lot friendlier than the bottom floor one. "She is still in surgery, but wait out there and we will keep you updated" she said pointing to a bunch of seats in a corridor with lots of doors opposite to the seats. "Thanks" I said to her in reply and Cleo and I walked over to the seats and sat down trying to make ourselves comfortable.

After 20 minutes of discomfort and moving to try and get into a more comfortable position, 2 blonde teenage boys our age rushed down the corridor towards them, prompting Cleo and I to raise and hurry over to them.

"Hey" Will said to me as he enveloped me in a hug. "Hi" I said returning the gesture before we both let go. I looked over to Cleo, who was crying into Lewis' shoulder. "Any news?" Will said before all 4 of us sat down on the mighty uncomfortable seats. "She's in surgery, but we haven't heard anything else." I said sitting down as Will put his arm around me around me. "Hell" he said because we both knew that means it's pretty serious of has the potential to be, which has kind of erased my hopes of a few scratches and concussion.

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