Chapter 14

Previously: She had her arm wrapped around me when the door burst open. It was Scott.

Reed POV

I jumped up and ran into Scott's arms. He wrapped his arms tightly around me and I felt his tears dripping on my face. I briefly heard Taylor get up off the bed and shut the door quietly, before I buried my head further into my brother's chest. I felt Scott guiding us over to the nearby bed and lifted me on to it. I started to hyperventilate as I felt him move away from me and he rushed back and took my face in his hands.

"REED! Come on Reed you need to stay with me, I need you to stay awake. Please Reed stay awake for me. I promise I won't leave you again."

I could hear him crying and tried to fight my way out of the darkness. But after a few minutes I had to give in, I couldn't fight it again more. The last thing I heard was Scott screaming for help.

Scott POV

Her body had started convulsing and I screamed for help. The doctors and nurses rushed in and one ran towards me.

"Sir, you need to wait outside." I was not leaving.

"There is no way I will be leaving my sister alone here; I'm staying in this room until I know she is alright." The nurse just nodded and hurried over to help Reed. I sunk down to the floor and blocked out all noises around me, listening only for news on Reed's condition.

Josh POV

I jumped into my car and was about to set off to the hospital when Noelle opened the passenger door. "Noelle, what the hell are you doing? I need to get to the hospital and tell her now. I need to know she is alright."

She gave me a scathing look and gracefully slipped into the seat. "I'm coming with you idiot. She is going to be my sister soon and I look after my family."

I nodded at her and pulled out of the school cark park. The nearer we got to the hospital the more nervous I got. Reed was going to hate me, however forgiving she was. This was the second time I had betrayed her. Although neither time was officially my fault, I still felt guilty about it.

"Josh?" An annoyed voice brought me out of my thoughts "We just passed the hospital, and no offence, but I want to check on Reed today at some point."

"Sorry, I was thinking." Noelle just nodded and turned her head to look back out the window. I looked back to the road and swung the car around. After we parked, Noelle started towards the hospital entrance. I hurried after her striding figure getting more nervous with every step. Noelle strode through the hospital liked she owned it, marching over to the lifts and tapping her foot impatiently. I walked until I was beside her and gave a small smile.

"Can't wait a few minutes for a lift?"

"Shut it Hollis. I thought you would want a few minutes to decide how to tell Reed your lovely story."

"Noelle, I don't know if I can do it"

She turned towards me and glared so hard I took a step back. "You are telling her Hollis" She got the memory card out of her purse. "Or I get my laptop and make you seem like the bad person that we all know you're not."

I take a deep shuddering breath as the lift pinged and the doors opened. We let the porter wheel out an old woman in a wheelchair before rushing into the lift. Noelle repeatedly stabbed the button for the 5th floor until the door closed. The journey seemed to take a lifetime and as soon as the doors reopened we were thrown into the crowd. We could hear a man shouting for help and Noelle turned towards the sound. She hurried off in the direction of the voice with a hard look on her face. I could just hear her muttering "Please god, don't be her, don't let it be her."

She couldn't be talking about Reed could she?

I sprinted off ahead of her, towards all the commotion, and looked in all the doors as I passed. As I neared the end of the corridor a man was pushed out of a room to my right and knocked me to the ground. The door was shut in his face as he jumped up and started shouting to be let in.

"Let me in! I promised I wouldn't leave her! Let me see my sister! REED"

No. It's her.

A nurse came up to the shouting man and touched him on his shoulder. He flinched and span around.

"Mr Brennan, you need to calm down, this will not help your sister in any way."

He seemed to accept this and took some calming breaths, his eyes closed. The nurse offered me her hand, and I hauled myself up. Reed's brother looked to me apologetically. His voice sounded thick, as if he was struggling not to cry.

"I'm sorry. It's been a rough day. My sister is in there."

"It's fine. You must be Scott."

He stared at me, his eyebrow raised. "How do you know my name?"

"I'm Josh Hollis. I'm Reed's boyfriend."

The look I got from him was pure evil.

"Boyfriend? The one that cheated on her, the one that broke up with her after she was drugged and made a huge mistake, the boyfriend who she didn't hear from for over a month after he promised to call. That's not what I would call a boyfriend."

I almost broke down crying from the force of his gaze. "I'm sorry alright! I couldn't get close to her again after all the threats. I couldn't let her get hurt by me again. But I've done it again, I'm going to have to hurt her or risk her getting hurt by someone else."

I couldn't help but cry now. Noelle stuffed a tissue in my hand and turned towards Scott, her eyes flashing.

"Don't shout at him! He's been through enough already. If you had kept in closer contact with Reed recently, you would have known something else was wrong. She didn't tell you about her stalker did she?"

His face was shocked. He managed to splutter out a few words: "What... No... How... She didn't... They can't be..."

Noelle looked over at me and nodded at me, I nodded back stiffly, wiping my eyes.

Scott turned his eyes to Noelle; "I'm sorry, I overreacted completely. I didn't mean what I said. I need to look after my sister; she's all I have now."

A nurse walked in between the two and into the room, shutting the door behind her. Scott looked anxiously through the window and started pacing outside the door. He paced for about five minutes before a middle age doctor came out and held his hand out to Scott.

"Nice to meet you Mr Brennan, I'm Doctor Andy Pearce. I've been supervising the care of your sister Reed."

Scott nodded his head, all the colour draining out of his face, "How is she? What was wrong? Can I see her?"

"She is resting at the moment; you can go in soon and wait for her to wake up. I must ask you do not distress her as it could set her off again. As for what is wrong, we are not yet quite sure. She had a seizure for an unknown reason. It may have been caused by all the stress."

Scott sank to the floor with his head in his hands, sobbing. Noelle sat down next to him and put her arm around him. I was shocked, Noelle sitting on the floor with her arm around a man she hardly knows, showing emotion.

Doctor Pearce waited until Scott was calm again before telling him that tests would be run and that we could go in and sit with Reed until she woke up. We all quietly entered the room and sat down in the scratchy chairs surrounding the bed. Reed looked like an angel, with her hair spread out on the pillow and her chest gently rising and falling. Scott looked towards me and whispered in a hoarse voice, "What did you mean by you couldn't get close to her after all the threats? That you're going to have to hurt her again?"

"I started to get emails saying that I had to hurt Reed." He stiffened," Obviously I refused, so they threatened my family. They told me that they didn't want to hurt her physically, but mentally. I had to have sex with an ex girlfriend and film it. So I did. But that was when Noelle walked in on us. We came straight to the hospital."

Everyone was sitting in silence, not having realised that Reed was awake and had hurt everything I had just said.

A.N- I'm so sorry about the long wait. I've just started my GCSE's and they like to give us homework. I will try an update more often, but I can't make any promises.

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