Talk

I felt like screaming, but my mouth was glued shut. I wanted to tear off the bandages and see if there was a wound in my skin. I wanted to be told what really happened. I wanted to know what happened. And more importantly,

I didn't want to be alone.

I looked around the hospital room. It was pretty much all white. And there where picture frames of things that looked like just splattered paint. It was a single room, I was on the only bed there was in here.

I jumped, what if this was another dream or something like that, like I had so many times before. About Ariana and now, Sabine.

I noticed I was wearing one of those hideous hospital gowns, it was white and had blue dots all over it. The room smelt like old people and medicine. I hated it, I saw there was a window on my right. The person still pacing back and forth like a few seconds ago.

I found that nurse button thing and pressed it. Soon enough a nurse came in, she was wearing baby pink pants, and a doctors jacket that had what looked like flowers on it. Her pocket read, Nurse Jacky. Her hair was a orange color, frizzy and pilled on the top of her head.

"Hello Reed! Are you feeling better?" She asked in trying to be sweet voice.

"… I think." I hesitated, talking to doctors always made me nervous. I would always tell them something wrong.

"Well you sure have a lot of visitors! The crowds going out the door!" She chuckled.

What? Me, visitors? Everyone hated me a few days ago! How come so many people really cared?

"What?" I hissed. What the hell was this lady trying to do? Scare me?

Jacky went over to the window and opened the blinds. They went up into a wrinkled mess.

I looked out the window though, and she was right. There where so many people out there. Presents, cards and many balloons filled their arms. Others where crying.

I just gasped, I couldn't believe it. My stomach turned, worried and scared. Was I going to have to talk to that many people?

"There where these two people that kept on trying to ask if you where ok, and when they could come see you." Nurse Jacky shook her head.

"Who?" I asked confused.

"This Noelle girl and this young man, I forgot his name." She said.

Noelle still cared? She still wanted me to be ok? Did this mean I was back in Billings? I couldn't breathe I was so excited.

Who was the other person who was asking? So many people rushed through my mind. But when I saw one face, I knew it was him.

Josh.

"Was the other person's name Josh?" I asked.

"Yes! That was it." She smiled. "He asked the most."

My face must have been red in embarrassment because she left the room quickly.

I wanted to talk to Noelle, I wanted to know what was going on. And see if I was in Billings.

The walls where kinda thin so I could hear everyone talking, but I couldn't make out any words.

I hated hospitals, the last time I was in one was when my mom started having some weird reaction to a pill she took. I sat in the waiting room for what seemed like hours hating every minute of it, even though I wasn't the patient.

The bed was more comfortable then the ones at Pemberly, but the Billings beds are much better.

It was a pretty good change. So I sunk down into the bed, and pressed the button for the lights. Once everything was dark, I pulled the covers over me, and dozed off.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw two figures in my room. They where talking, more like arguing. I kept my eyes close and listened.

"What are you even doing here?" I heard a familiar voice ask, it was Noelle.

"What am I doing here," It was Josh. "You've been treating her like shit for the last few weeks!"

"That was a misunderstanding. Do you know how much you hurt her by hooking up with Ivy Slade? That's just cruel." Noelle spat.

"Why do you have to be such a bitch Noelle?" Josh almost shouted.

"Well the same reason you have to be a boy scout, I'm good at it." She shot back. I smiled, she was so funny.

"Whatever." Josh whispered. I took that as a chance to wake up.

I pretended like I just opened my eyes, I sat up and looked at the two of them squinting a bit.

"Ohmigod! You're ok!" Noelle gasped, she walked over to my side. Her heels clicking on the tile floor. It was all the same. She gave me a big hug, "We need to talk." She smiled.

"Will you excuse us?" Noelle turned around and asked Josh in a much nicer voice.

I gave Josh a apology look. He just gave me a small smile and said, "Ya, I'll talk to you after." Then left the room.

"What the hell happened?" I asked Noelle once the door closed.

"Ok, well you where shot, obviously. Josh saved you, you would have been dead if he didn't push you out of the way. Sabine missed you're heart and got you're shoulder," She explained.

My eyes started to fill with tears. Josh saved me. He saved my life. Risking his own.

"And, don't worry Sabine was caught by the police, she's going to the same place… Ariana is in right now." Noelle said, she hesitated to the name Ariana. Not yet able to call her ex-best friends a murder. One tear slid down my cheek. I quickly whipped it away.

"So you're friends with Ivy now?" Noelle asked crinkling her nose up.

I laughed, "It was a one time thing. I needed to know who killed Cheyenne. It was my only way to get everything back into place." I explained.

"I know, and it pretty much is now." Noelle gave me one of her smirk-y smiles.

I gasped, "You mean,"

"Ya, I do. You're a Billings girl again Reed. It's where you belong." She smiled.

Tears began to really fall. Finally, I was back. My Billings sisters accepted me back into their Inner Circle. Joy and hope filled my heart, I could feel the warmth grow.

"Thank you so much Noelle!" I told her, I gave her a hug.

"You're welcome, we'll plan out who you're rooming with and all when you're out of this Hell Hole." Noelle laughed.

I laughed too. Then it hit me, roommates. Sabine's bed was empty. In my old room. I couldn't go back there. I just couldn't. And more importantly,

I couldn't room with Amberly.

"I can't room with Amberly." I told her.

"What? Oh, Reed. Just don't think about it. I know where you're going to go." Noelle told me, her smile seemed to be sparkling.

"Ok." I tried not to think about it.

"You're speech wasn't that bad." Noelle laughed.

"Noelle, it was the only way that I could get you to listen." I tried to explain.

"I know, I know. It worked." She smiled.

I smiled too, there was a comfortable silence.

"Well, I guess I'll let Hollis talk to you." She sighed. I felt warm just by the sound of his name.

"I'll see you later Noelle." I told her on her way out.

She was right at the door when she turned around and said, "You too Reed."

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Peace out,

Lauren