I woke up in a hospital room. To my right was a wall. To my left was another bed with someone in it. I tried to get out of the bed that I was in, but there was something like a gate or something. The thing kind of reminded me of the things that you put on the side of the top bunk of bunk beds. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out how to get it down. When I finally did, it was a breeze getting out of the bed.
I slowly tip-toed over to the other white bed. When I finally got over there, I saw the covers were pulled over the body. Isn't that what they do when someone died in the hospital? Oh God! I slowly reached over and tapped the body with my index finger.
There was a slight groaning noise…
"Leave me alone. I'm trying to sleep over here!"
Oh! That was Tori's voice! Yay! She wasn't dead! That excited me just a little bit. Ok, ok, a lot a bit. I don't know what I would do if Tori died at my expense. I would feel absolutely terrible about myself.
"Tori…" I said, poking her again. "Are you ok under there?"
She quickly pulled the covers down to show her slightly messed up hair and majorly messed up makeup.
"Hey, Cat. I'm fine. What about you?"
I nodded a little bit and pulled a chair next to her bed. There were a few minutes of awkward silence before we heard someone knocking on the hospital room door. The person slowly opened the door and put a black combat boot through the door. It was Beck. But where was Jade? Jade…
"Hey there you two." Beck said in a somewhat cheery voice. There was a weird tone to that "cheery" voice though. Very un-Beck like.
"Where's Jade?" I asked as I saw André walk in behind Beck.
"They're running some sort of test on her." André told me.
The two boys grabbed some more chairs and pulled them up next to Tori's bed with me.
"Hey, Lil' Red, why aren't you in your bed?"
I told them what happened while they weren't in the room. They were pretty understanding of why I wasn't in my bed when they came in.
"What kind of test are they running on Jade?" Tori asked them.
Our two friends shrugged their shoulders.
"Probably checking her blood type or something."
There was another few minutes of silence. We all exchanged awkward glances during these few minutes.
"My dad…" I said as I walked back over to my white hospital bed.
André looked towards me with a concerned look on his face. A dread slowly fell in front of his face when he turned his head. He brushed it back before he started to explain.
"The cops had to give him some sort of tranquillizer. Don't worry, he's far behind bars right now." He told me.
André reached his hand over and laid it on mine. He was just as good a friend as Jade is. Which is a very, very good thing. He hasn't been with me as long as Jade has, but it felt like he has been.
"What happened with Jade exactly that she needed a test."
Beck and André looked at each other. It looked like they were having some sort of conversation with their eyes.
"Your dad… um… stabbed her." André said.
He looked towards Beck and he picked up where André left off. I felt a strange tugging feeling in my stomach.
"She lost a lot of blood; they needed to see what her blood type was…"
I covered my mouth with my hands. There was no way in this world that that is true. I refuse to believe that.
"Is she ok?" Tori asked.
"Yeah, but they say she might need a kidney transplant." Beck explained to her.
Oh God. That's not a very good thing. Not at all. I couldn't believe that my dad did that to my best friend. And it's all my fault.
André told me and Tori that they had called Jade's parents.
"They didn't even care! Not an ounce of sympathy for their own daughter! Can you believe that?" Beck said, dumbfounded. I don't blame him for being so angry about it all.
"Jade's parents aren't too big fans of her…" I said looking down.
It was the sad reality of her life. I'm not the only one who had a screwed up family, you know. She has it pretty bad, but she always says that I have it worst.
A blonde nurse in blue scrubs crept up behind us. Sneaky one right here.
"Hi. Um, well Ms. West will definitely need a new kidney but she'll have to be put on the end of the waiting list…"
We all looked at each other, doing that "eye conversation" thing hat André and Beck were doing earlier. We all wanted to help Jade (even Tori) in any way that we could. Even if it meant giving up an organ for her.
"Is there any possibility that we could get tested?" Tori asked the nurse lady.
She nodded.
"I guess so, are you sure though. This kind of stuff includes a very, very big commitment."
"We can handle it." I said for all of us.
"Well then, who wants to go first?"