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~Dazzler 916~

Chapter 27

Back To Life, Back To Reality

(Ella's P.O.V.)

And from true loves first kiss, sleeping beauty finally awakens from her deep slumber.

When I was little I always dreamed of that happening...though technically I already had my first kiss ;).

In my head I heard him say that he had to leave and it made my brain go into a panic. This time I didn't want him to leave me. I wanted him to stay with me...cause I didn't want him to take forever to come back.

I opened my eyes only to find him walking away.

Despite how exhausted I felt, opening my eyes for the first time felt strangely odd. I barely opened them due to the fact that the fluorescent lights had startled me, so I squinted my eyes.

"Seth," I managed to croak before he walked out the door. It was barely even a whisper but he obviously heard it seeing that he turned around.

"Ella?"

"Don't leave," I told him.

He was by my side in an instant. It felt so good to be back in his embrace. I leaned in to kiss him but was quickly rejected. A frown had formed on my face.

"Be right back," He ran out of the room.

Fine then, don't kiss me.

Seth was back in a matter of minutes only he had Carlisle with him along with a nurse. "Ella, glad to see you're awake." Carlisle told me.

"Hi," I said faintly.

"Do me a favor and get a hold of her parents. I'll take it from here," Carlisle to the nurse before she walked out of the room.

"Where's Randy?" I've been wanting to get that out for a while.

"Ella how do you feel?" He asked me, not even bothering to answer my question. :P

"Fantastic, where's Randy. I wanna see him—"

"Ella, do you know what day it is?" Carlisle asked me.

"How am I supposed to know? Last thing I remember is being in a car that was completely smashed and standing on its side. You tell me—and then tell me where I can I find Brandon Thomas Matthews the third, because I want to see him."

I wasn't gonna let the doctor slide so easily without answering my question.

"Later," Seth told me with an unhappy look on his face.

"Seth please don't start this with me right now cause I don't want to argue with you about him." I said.

"I promise you I won't even—"

"Seth, I think it's best that Ella stay as calm as possible right now. May I remind you she just got out of a coma." Carlise said.

"Well that's not going to last long once someone tells her—"

"Seth. Drop it." Carlisle told him.

"Wait whoa whoa...tell me what?" I asked the two of them.

"Nothing," Both of them said at the same time.

"Jeez, never mind." I mumbled under my breath as Carlisle continue to examine me. I continued to let my eyes wander around the room and my eyes stopped at the digital clock.

2/10/13
11:35 pm

wtf? Last time I checked it was January 25th.

"Where are my parents?" I asked Carlisle.

"They should be here soon." He assured me.

I really wanted to see everyone...my parents, my siblings...my friends...but most important I wanted to see Randy because I just want to know if he's okay.

That crash was the last time I ever saw him and I can't help but wonder if he's still alive or if he's in a coma. What if he hasn't woken up yet?

I didn't think it was gonna take us only a month to become good friends...best friends actually. We told each other so much in so little time.

I just pray to God that our time won't be up anytime soon. He's helped me so much when it came to dealing with Seth and the baby...having that come to mind became the topic of my next question.

"I lost the baby, didn't I." I muttered.

It didn't take me long to realize that him choosing not to answer my question was an obvious yes...leaving me to break down in tears.

"Damn it!" I slammed my fist into the bed before bringing my hands up to cover my face.

Despite the fact that I don't have to worry about having a baby anymore I was still upset. I was just starting to get used to idea of me being pregnant. But it obviously wasn't meant to be since all of this happened.

At the same time it's like a part of me had disappeared. Believe it or not I was a little astonished as time went by over the fact that Seth and I created life.

We created a life, but now it's gone.

"Babe, don't cry—"

"No! I mean—just don't. Let me cry okay?" I said. Just this once I didn't want to be comforted. I'm a big girl, I can handle this on my own...until I really start to break down.

Then there's something else that's starting to bug me...it's the fact that I know that there are a few other things that they're not telling me.

Something really bad.

I don't like this.

I don't like this one bit.

"So much for telling my parents." I muttered.

"Well we don't have to worry about that anymore, it's all over. Things can go back to the way the used to be...sort of." Seth said.

"What do you mean by sort of—" I began to ask before Carlisle cut my question short.

"Seth why don't you go see if her parents are here." He told him.

"But—"

"Seth, go check." Carlisle was more stern with him this time.

"Fine...I'll be back." He finally left the room...and then there were two.

"My goodness." I sighed.

"If only you saw him these past few weeks." Carlisle told me.

"Was he that bad?"

"He's been here every single day since you've been in the hospital, then again—what can I say? He imprinted on you. He value's your life more than you'll ever know. In the end I think it's obvious that he just wants you to be okay. So for these next few days I can guarantee that Seth is going to be very persistent when it comes to you and your health. Same thing goes for your family. They've have been so worried about you." He said.

"What about Sasha?" I asked him.

"She hasn't been here yet only because this place has too many people and she could be easily recognize and people would start to talk. But she'll be here tonight when everyone leaves."

"Okay, good." I breathed.

My goodness I didn't even realize how good it smelt in here. It's like someone imported a floral shop into my room. The fragrant smell of flowers helped distract me from watching Carlisle stick a needle of what I think might be pain medication into my forearm.

I absolutely hate needles : P.

"I gave you an extra dose of pain medication so you'll be able to sleep and not have to worry about being in any pain." He said.

"Okay so how bad are my injuries, and how long is it gonna take me to recover." I asked him. Better find out what I'm gonna be in for and complain now.

"Well you in case you haven't noticed, you have stitches in two different places on your left arm, then there's a couple of stitches right above your right eyebrows—I wouldn't touch those if I were you—as far as your left arm goes you fractured it in 3 different places which will probably take another three weeks to heal—"

I quickly changed the subject back to Randy and interrupted Carlisle in hopes that he would tell me something.

"What about Randy. I'm sure he's more beat up than me—or have you already released him cause we have a very important performance coming up and it's for college and Lord know how far behind we are —"

"Ella!"

"Mom!" To my surprise she was standing in the door way.

"We'll talk later," Carlisle said to me before he left.

"Oh my goodness." My mom wrapped her arms around for what seemed like forever. I really missed my mama. Her and Dad must have been so worried.

"I'm so glad you're okay. I've missed you so much."

"I've missed you too Mom." I told her.

She kissed my cheeks several times before it became too much. "Mom...Mom—hey that's enough—"

"Oh hush, you're my daughter. I've been worried sick about you." She pulled me closer to her.

"Lori don't choke her." The familiar voice of my dad had finally made it's way into the room.

"Daddy," I cried.

Jeez. I have a feeling there is gonna be way too much crying going on. Great. He made is way over to me and I hugged as tight as I could.

"How's my girl," He asked me.

"Tired," I told him.

"You need to quit scaring us like this." He said before kissing me on the forehead. "But it's good to have you back Ella."

"Where's Meg?" I asked looking around for my little sister.

"She's sleeping over at a friends, but we'll bring her by in the morning." My dad assured me.

"When can I go home?" I asked my parents.

"Well last week, the doctor told us that when you wake up, they're going to want to keep you here for a few days just to make sure that everything is okay." My mom said.

"Oh, well that's great—but um...Mom do you know if Randy got out already, or is he still here?" I asked her.

My parents both exchanged a look. It was the same look that Seth and Carlisle gave each other when I had as about Randy five minutes ago. Now I was really starting to catch on...

"Ella, it—I mean it's really late and you should really get some rest. We'll be here first thing in the morning." My mom seemed very hesitant when she said that.

"Thanks for answering my question...looks like i'm gonna have to ask someone else." I mumbled under my breath.

Something doesn't feel right, and now i'm really starting to get frustrated.
There's something they're not telling me...and they all know how much I hate it when people don't tell me about stuff that I have a right to know about—especially when it comes to one of my friends.

(Seth's P.O.V.)

Right as Ella's parents walked out, I started to make my way back in until Mr. Gardner stopped me. Now I'm either in trouble or he just wants to talk.

"We need to talk to you for a second before you go back in there." He whispered before closing the door.

"Okay," I stopped.

Carlisle had made his way towards the three of us, "I'm guessing you all aren't sure how to tell Ella about her friend?"

We all nodded.

"Well right now she needs to stay as calm as possible—" Carlisle began to say before Mrs. Gardner interrupted him.

"She's going to keep asking about him until someone gives her an answer. It won't be long before she figures it out herself and she'll just be even more upset." She said.

"Would you like me to tell her?" Carlisle asked her parents.

Mrs. Gardner shook her head immediately. "No no no. I'll do this—not at this second—but I tell her once she's home."

"You sure about this—"

"Yes Lance I'm sure. I got this." She snapped at her husband.

"So we're just gonna tell her nothing?" I asked. I'm sorry but they're going to have to come with something better than just ignoring her every time she asks about him.

I've already kept enough secrets from Ella, and I promised her that I wasn't going to keep any more.
I made her a promise.

"Seth, this is just how it has to be—"

"I'm sorry Mr. Gardner but I don't think this is gonna work. She already knows we're hiding something from her and I think we all know how much she hates it when we keep stuff like this from her—and I'm pretty sure she'll be mad at us when she finds out from someone else after we chose to tell her sooner." I said.

Mr. Gardner crossed his arms and squinted his eyes at me. Well he obviously didn't like what I had to say. So much for trying to make this easy.

"Lance he has a point. Maybe we should just tell her tomorrow." Mrs. Gardner suggested.

"Fine," Mr. Gardner grumbled.

Just as I started to make my way back into Ella's room. Mr. Gardner had stopped me yet again. "Make it quick. My daughter needs rest. You can finish talking to her in the morning."

(Ella's P.O.V.)

~Flashback~

He looked out the window and then right back at me...then we got hit.

It sent us off the road until we landed up sideways in the air and my side was touch ths ground while Randy dangled towards me still in his seatbelt. Shattered glass was everywhere...some of it even left little cuts all over my skin.

Blood was running down the side of Randy's head and it covered the front of his shirt. The smell of blood was beginning to make me feel nauscious and I was trying to keep my eyes open. My lower stomach area was starting to throb and I gasped in pain.

"You okay?" Randy asked me.

"What do you mean am I okay? You're more beat up than I am!" I panted.

"Don't worry, it's just my head...I think, but I can't really breathe," He paused to take a deep breath. He looked like he was having trouble breathing and he was beginning to have trouble keeping his eyes open.

I tried to move around hoping I could try and get out but it was no use.

"I'm stuck!" I told him.

"Ella you're bleeding!" I heard him shout.

That's when I started to realize my seat felt a little wet. I looked down to see that my pants were soaked completely.

"Oh no, no no no no no no this isn't suppost to happen—ow!" I screamed.

"What?"

"I think I'm losing t-t-the baby?" I began to panic even more. I feel like someone just hit me in the gut with a cement block. Suddenly I was beginning to zone out and I felt my eyes droop.

"No! Ella don't close your eyes!" Randy said.

"I don't wanna die!" I cried.

"Don't say that. You're not going to die," He took a deep breath. "Not tonight. We're not gonna die." He tried to assure me.

"You're starting to lose it too..." I told him.

He was breathing even harder now, trying to get some oxygen into his lungs.

"Just look at me, " He panted. "Don't close your eyes. Stay with me here!"

"I'm trying." I said faintly. I held my arm out and reached for his hand as he did the same reaching for mine.

We barely got ahold of each others finger tips. Randy's eyes were starting to roll into the back of his head.

"Ella..." That was the last thing I heard him say before he lost consciousness.

~Flashback ends~

For a second I thought I was really there, back in the car with him. But it was just a dream. A really bad dream that disappeared the moment I opened my eyes.

I looked at the wall clock to see what the date was...

February 11th, 2013
9:47 am

To be honest I don't know how hell I managed to sleep through the night with the memory of the car crash playing over and over in my head.

I tried to take off the oxygen mask that the nurse must have put on while I was sleeping. I let the equipment clatter down to floor as my eyes began to wander around the room in a panic.

"No no no," Seth showed up out of no where and quickly held the mask back up to my face. "You need to keep this on. You're still having trouble getting oxygen into your lungs."

"I don't need it. Where's Randy? I wanna see him now. I have to know that he's okay!' I said struggling against him.

"Ella May stop it. Just calm down." My mom told me.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Now fully awake, I ripped of the oxygen mask. As you can probably tell I don't have anymore patients.

"Ella—hey hey hey!" My dad finally got a hold of my arms to get me to stop fighting. "Just take a deep breath, and try to relax...there you go...that's it."

Once I convinced my dad that I was somewhat calm, I turned to Seth. "Seth," I reached for his hand and he started rubbing it with his fingers. Mmmm, it feels so nice.

"Yea?"

"Could you do me a favor?" I asked him.

"Anything." He shrugged his shoulders.

"Help me up," I started to struggle to get out of bed despite how much pain my body was in from trying to do so. The pain medication has definitely worn off.

"Ella no don't do this—" Seth said before I pushed him out of the way and tried getting up on my own.

Finally. I can stand up. "If you won't tell me, then i'll go ask someone else myself." I said.

I tried taking a step, but my knees buckled and I ended up falling. My body made a huge thud sound when it hit the ground...and it hurt like like hell.

"Ow." I panted.

Seth practically leaped to my side and wrapped his arms around me. Believe me, i'm not overreacting. I'm just trying to get some answers, no matter how much it hurts.

"What's the use? You guys are't helping me." I pouted.

"I got you," Seth picked me and put back on the bed. I inhaled, and then let out a very heavy exhale. I closed my eyes trying to regain some control of myself.

"Ugh!" I moaned.

"You okay?" My mom asked as she started rubbing my arm in a motherly way.

"No. I'm not okay." I said on the verge of tears.

None of them said anything.

"I will not be okay until I know that Randy is okay. The only thing that continues to repeat itself over and over and over in my head is the night of that damn crash—and right now I really don't give a shit about what you have to say about the choice of words i'm using right now—but that's not the point. Now, Randy has been probably one of the best guy friends I have ever had in the short time it actually took to get to know him. He's helped me out so much you have no idea. So before you say anything else...please hear me out." I told them.

"We're listening." My mom gave me an encouraging nod.

"Seth and I had sex—a few times and I ended up getting pregnant—Dad don't even think about it." I said looking over him.

My dad looked like he was ready to jump over this bed and knock the crap out of Seth. As far as Seth goes, a nervous look had spread across his face, but it didn't stop me.

"I was already three months along and I had absolutely no idea until I started showing symptoms during the beginning of January. I told Seth, and we talked to his parents—and then we talked this over for days trying to figure out what we were gonna do. You guys have no idea how much we fought over this—I mean making a decision was so hard—plus we were planning on telling you the night—the night the accident happened but then we got into another fight...but as far as the baby goes, I had a miscarriage...and to be honest I felt so relieved and so upset at the same time—and I know you're probably confused as to how Randy fits into this but he...he's been so good to me and he's really helped me out through all of this. He got my mind off of everything that was happening but you wanna know the best part?...He was the only one that actually took the time to listen to me out of every single person I have talked to in this past month—including you three...so instead of ignoring me and trying to distract me with some lame excuse yet again...can you please just tell me where he is? I'm begging you...I just want to see him. I don't care if it's for ten minutes or even ten seconds—just do whatever you have to do to get him in here. I will be okay once I see him. That's all I ask."

"You and I are going to have a very long talk later." My dad told Seth as soon as I finished.

I turned my head in my father's direction and I just gave him this look of complete irritation. "Dad. No you're not going to have a very long talk with my boyfriend." I grumbled.

"Ella May Rose—" My dad began to raise his voice before I cut him off.

"See this is what i'm talking about!" I yelled. "It's like none of you actually take the time to listen to me when all I want is someone to help me out...so before you bring up anything else that is irrelevant to what I just said, please answer my question—and then you and mom can yell at me or ground me or punish me however you seem fit just as long as it doesn't involve me breaking up with Seth...now where is Randy?"

All three of them looked at each other. I could tell they were secretly debating on what to say.

"It's not that hard. Just tell me." I said.

"Ella, it's really complicated—"

"Mom just tell me! I'm sorry for snapping at you but it can't be that hard. It's just Randy—I mean it's not like nothing bad happened to him right?" I asked her.

She turned away and bit her lip.

"Right Daddy?" I asked him this time. He didn't answer.

Now my only option was Seth.

"Babe? Nothing bad happened to him right?" I said.

"Ella," He paused and shook his head. "I don't think this is something you're like—"

"Not you too? Seriously how bad is it? Just tell me. Come on, it's not like he—" that's when it hit me. It hit me like a ton of bricks causing me to stop right in the middle of my sentence.

"Oh my God." I gasped in horror.

I closed my eyes and the whole accident replayed itself in my head yet again. Only this time it was just the last part.

"Ella..." That was the last thing I heard him say before he lost consciousness.

That's the last thing I heard him say.

My name.

"He's dead." I said in realization. "He's dead. Am I right?" My voice more muffled this time because tears were slowly starting to form in my eyes.

"We're so sorry sweetheart." My dad said with a pained expression on his face.

He's dead...he's dead.

Randy is dead?

"No," I protested tearfully in denial. "NO NO NO NO!" I cried.

It's like my heart had skipped a few beats—better yet it's like my heart had just stopped beating. It's like time stopped. My name was the last thing to ever escape his lips and then he died...he died shortly after we both passed out.

I was sobbing my heart out.

"He" sob "wasn't" sob "supposed" sob "die." I said in between sobs.

"Seth," I reached for him and he quickly sat on the bed so I could cry hopelessly into his chest. I held him very close to me and he just knew that I wasn't gonna let go.

Someone please just tell me this is another bad dream.

"I'm so sorry," Seth rocked me in his arms as I continued to cry.

Suddenly...everything changed within the blink of an eye.

I didn't know that losing a friend would hurt this bad.

Now what do I do?

Crying is the only thing I can think of.

This changes everything.

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There you have it. Another heart-felt chapter. I worked real hard on this one. Sorry it took me so long to update lol. Thanks for reading everyone. Shout out to Sam V. who has been anxiously been waiting for me to post this lol. Have a great rest of the week! THE FINAL HARRY POTTER FILM COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY! I CAN'T WAIT!

Much love,

~Dazzler 916~