ANDREA'S P.O.V

The new common room was the volume of your average common room, in an average school. It always was. Not once had this large room seen the usual boisterous and lively babble that was normally us. Not one of us sixths felt like even talking in the last week and a half. Not since the fire... since Kelly.

After the first few hours of touch and go in the intensive care unit they wheeled her out of intensive care and towards the main hospital rather than us. Just as me, Annabelle, Chelsea, Polly and Taylor were walking back to the reception area Peaches ran at us.
"He's waking up" she shrieked, in the entire trauma with Kelly we hadn't been thinking of Flash. The looks on our faces must have said as much

"FLASH" she screamed "HE'S WAKING UP" this caught our attention. We all followed her down a corridor and through several sets of doors to the small ward he had been moved to around half an hour after we had arrived.

As we ran in Flashes eyes flickered open fully. "wa's goin' on?" he mumbled clearly disorientated. The posh tots began to celebrate in high pitched shrieks. "GIRLS PLEASE" Annabelle silenced them, before continuing

"Heya flash you feeling alright?" she said this gently, but there was an edge to her voice that told me she was preparing herself. Preparing herself to break Flashes heart.

"urm...yeah i fink so...altho' me 'ead is killin' me" he muttered back. Good he was still disorientated. That put off the inevitable moment when we would have to tell him. My relief was short lived as he continued "Where's Kel? Is she alrigh'?"
We all glanced at each other, all except Peaches, Chloe and Celia. He turned to Chloe who was nearest, a harsh panic coming into his voice as he went on
"Chloe! Tell me what's happened" Chloe looked startled.
"I don't know Flash" she paused as he raised his eyebrows at her sceptically at her "I swear I don't. I was in here waiting for you to wake up. Me Peaches and Celia."

He looked at me straight in the eyes and repeated his question slowly and clearly, "Is She Alright?!" I couldn't help the tears that sprung to my eyes. Kelly.... how could I tell him, we had agreed this would be Bell's job! I turned to her in desperation. She caught my eye, nodded slightly and turned her attention back to him.

"Flash... I ... I really don't know how the hell to tell you this..." she started the same anguish on her face as I was feeling inside. A cocktail of emotions crossed his face.

"Is she ... gone?" he choked out.

I looked down in shock to find tears streaming down his cheeks and into his stubble. I heard sobbing from behind me too and turned to see Peaches and Chloe standing hugging tears streaming down both their faces, their mascara going everywhere, but for once they were not even trying to sort it out. The biggest surprise was when I shifted slightly and saw the glimmer of tears on Celia's face. It was here that I realised I too was crying again along with Polly, Chelse, Tay and Belle. I wouldn't have thought the five of us had any more tears left after the last few hours.

"No..." Annabelle cut in, Flashes eyes lit up, that tiny spark of hope that had been blown out seconds before was there again, shining out. Peaches, Chloe and Celia too looked up their faces mirrors of Flash, full of hope and happiness, the rest of us kept our faces down knowing what was coming.

"But... shes not far off. She... uh.... she" Annabelle choked up clearly unable to talk any more, as she collapsed into a chair and her body began to shake violently, racked with sobs.
"Shes in a coma." I mutter, looking up and straight into Flashes eyes as I say it. The hope is instantly gone and replaced with an emotion, so strong and sad that there is no word to describe it.

After a few minutes he seemed to recover enough to manage a few words. "Is... I mean is there any you know.... brain activity or whatever they call it?"

"We don't know. They hadn't hooked her up to the machines yet. We can't see her until they have, she should be done in about 45 minutes they said" Chelsea murmured from her new position with her arms around Belle. The nine of us fell into complete silence.

For the next thirty minutes there was no sound from any of us other than quiet crying. Until suddenly Belle sat up.

"What the f**k are we doing?!" she exclaimed "This is SO not what Kelly would want us to do! Why are we not up stairs fighting to see her before 'official visiting hours'?!" She took on a perfect imitation of the nasty high pitched bitch who had told us we weren't allowed in to see Kelly until eight am. The so called Nurse, who didn't have enough heart to even bend the rules by two or three hours to take pity on eight teenage girls,.

We all jumped at her sudden outburst. But I saw what she meant. We were sitting around doing nothing, sticking to the rules and just crying, our heads (if mine was anything to go by) filled with emptiness.

"Shes right." I spoke up, all eyes swivelled onto me "the way we are handling this is against everything Kel Believes in. She would be ashamed of us if she saw us like this!" I could see the reaction I was getting. I was usually quiet, I prefer to keep to myself but sometimes I get upset and have an outburst. Like now. "Chlo, Chelse, Peaches, Belle, sort out your makeup." I almost yell. "Oh and you Tay" I add as an afterthought. "Polly clean your glasses they're filthy. Celia.... you're fine. Flash..."

he ignored me.

"FLASH" he still ignored me. I was about to shout louder but before I could Polly moved from her spot by the lurid curtains around Flashes bed for the first time since arriving. She strode to his side in two steps pushing a startled Chloe out of the way. She drew her hand back and slapped him around the face so hard the resounding ring made even the hardened Taylor wince. "FLASH" she screamed as she did it "KELLY NEEDS YOU, YOU F*CK*R!!!" she finished. We all stood, our mouths hanging open. Polly wasn't violent or loud and she never swore.
"Thanks Polly, I really needed that" Flash grimaced. "Although did it have to be so bloody hard? I bet it will bruise" he joked

"Right! Let's get going then" I cut in before he could say any more.

We spent the next ten minutes after that conversation shouting at the ward nurse to get the self discharge forms for flash, and the ten minutes after that shouting at the IT that wouldn't let us in to see Kelly. Instead she told us to spend the next three hours in the "family room" at the end of the corridor. The chairs were big, low and brown but after a night of either standing up or using cold, hard, plastic, bedside chairs within two minutes of sitting down only me, Belle, Tay and, of course, Flash were left awake.

I sat and thought and thought. Of Kelly. Of all the good times I had had with her. Of all she had admitted she wanted to do, and have to me, Tay and recently Belle. Remembering the expression on her face when Kelly had first told us about Belle, I laughed out loud.

"How can you be laughing at a time like this Morti?" Taylor scathed.

"I was thinking of Kelly" I explained. Seeing the horrified look on all three paled, exhausted faces, I quickly corrected myself. "No no! I was thinking of some of the good times."

"What made you laugh?" Belle asked quietly, her tiny voice hoarse from all the crying.

"Remembering the look on her face when she first filled us in about you" I smirked. Flash and Taylor let out small snorts of depressed laughter.

"Hey flash do you remember that first time I met you? Up on the roof? And you said No to me, but the second Kelly came along, well that was different" Annabelle joined in. Again we all let out tiny snorts. "And your first attempts at German and Posh and snooty voices." She giggled "and even better the look on Kelly's face while you did them!" we were all properly laughing by now.

"Hey Rea," I turned to Taylor " Do you remember that time in second year where we gassed all the sixths and drew stuff all over their faces with permanent marker and Kelly wrote I am a Waaaanker on the back of the head girls neck and she didn't notice for weeks?" I burst out laughing

"We were so awful as kids!"

"yup! Well we were the terrible Trio" Taylor laughed

"YOU THREE?" Flash thundered suddenly. Me and Taylor looked at each other in confusion "when you three painted my car bright pink with love hearts and flowers all over it and a license plate saying TWAT01 all they would tell me was that the symbol on the hood meant it was the terrible trio but that no one knew who they were!" he exclaimed

We looked once more at each other before bursting into hysterics. Flash on the other hand turned to Belle and finished the story. "They painted a wash off paint over the top. So I didn't notice until it started raining when I was half way home!" Annabelle joined in with our laughing.

"Kelly sat in the library window for three hours waiting for you to realise and drive back" I spluttered. Then I remembered something else.

"Oh my god Tay, do you remember that summer camp when we were like 14?" I burst out. Taylor merely nodded and continued laughing hysterically. Both Flash and Annabelle were giving me questioning looks so I explained; "the three of us went to this summer camp thing in America. And basically it was like a real version of the parent trap film, the pranks and all of that. Except Kelly and the snob girl weren't twins, their pranks were pathetic... Oh and Kelly went to the isolation cabin ANYTHING but quietly! She broke out ran away from camp and managed to sneak back in with vodka. She then managed to get all of the people on her side of the whole pranks thing, into the dinner hall and started a huge party. The councillors never worked out who did it. Who would snitch on her when she had given everyone such a good time?"

Flash laughed quietly and shook his head. "Sounds like Kel" Belle nodded in agreement.

A distant look overtook Flashes face. "Penny for your thoughts?" I asked, curious. He looked at me, turned crimson and began to stutter.

"I just.... You know the huge party last New Year's?" he asked looking embarrassed. I nodded affirmative... I don't think any of us would forget THAT one in a hurry!

"Well... I was up on the roof at midnight... And I had already asked Kel out by then... and well... you can't tell 'er i tol' ya this.... she'll kill me...Like ACTUALY kill me!" he said, the dreamy super happy look disappearing, and in its place panic

"We won't tell her Flash" I reassure him

"Alrigh'. Well yeah... she came up, and as the countdown went off.... she er... well she kissed me" he blushed again and grinned at the memory. He was so cute. Made truly happy and so distracted from all that had happened just by the thought of her kissing him.

We spent the next two hours talking like this, remembering all the good times we had all had with Kelly. Then Bitch face re-appeared and told us we could see her.

"Should we wake the others?" I asked

"Only five guests at a time allowed." The sour faced cow said.

"Chelsea or Polly? I questioned the others"

"Polly." Came the instant answer. We woke her up. Quietened her and walked out in the corridor and up towards her room.

This one took a bit longer than the super quick stuff i was doing before :L Thank you to everyone who reviewed :) To anyone that hasn't Please do :)