Adam

We were in the hospital car park. I sat stunned into silence. Kirsty would never do that. I refused to believe it. I looked over to Nita who was sat also silently beside me; this must be so hard on her. She was staring out of the windscreen sat ridged in her seat. She looked like she hadn't had a good night sleep in weeks. I reached over and gently squeezed her arm. She looked at me and I forced a small smile to try and reassure her.

"Come on, I know she will want to see us." I went to get out of the car but stopped when Nita started to talk.

"Why are you here? You haven't bothered until now, she thinks you don't care." I turned to look at her surprised. What did she know about Kirsty and I? I sighed.

"It's complicated, I've had a lot on my plate the last couple of weeks and I am really sorry that I haven't been able to be here for her but it's all sorted now and I'm not going anywhere."

"What if it's too late now?" Nita questioned; her voice quivering as she spoke. She refused to look at me and continued staring straight ahead.

"It's not; she's going to be fine, she has to be." This provoked a reaction. She turned to face me a mixture of anger and sadness over riding her features.

"No she doesn't. She's been through so much and I don't know how much longer she can carry on, and neither does she." Nita was almost shouting at me now and my heart broke for her. She shouldn't have to go through this, she's only a child.

"She will, lets go and see her and you can see for your self." I knew it was stupid to make those promises to her when I didn't know but I refused to believe that Kirsty would have done that, not after she'd had such a close call with death only a couple of weeks ago. She'd held on and fought so hard to do so, to make it back to me and her family. She wouldn't have thrown it all away. God I hope she hadn't!

Warren

"Paramedics." A woman's voice called out whilst she knocked on the front door. I was torn, do I leave Kirsty alone to answer the door or wait for them to knock it down? Deciding that I would only be away from her for less than a minuet I made a quick dash for the front door to let the paramedics inside. I threw open the door.

"She's up stairs; please you've got to help her." I lead the way back up the stairs and into our bedroom immediately dropping on my knees beside Kirsty who I'd placed on our bed. I could see her chest slowly rising and falling assuring me that she was still breathing. I heard one of the paramedics gasp when they realised who was lying in front of them before the moved forward trying to help their friend.

"Kirsty it's Dixie and Jeff sweetheart. Can you hear me?" They got no response and turned to me.

"What happened?" Jeff questioned.

Panic took over; I barely heard what Jeff said. All I could do was watch as Dixie tried to get a reaction from Kirsty. Her head lolled to one side, her face was facing me. She didn't look dead; she just looked like she was sleeping peacefully, something I haven't seen her do for a long time. I reached out and brushed a brown bouncy curl off her face and found myself almost surprised when she didn't flinch away from my touch. I immediately felt guilty. She was scared of me, of my touch.

I barely noticed as Dixie and Jeff moved around the bed tending to Kirsty or when they moved her into the ambulance. In fact the whole ride to the hospital was a blur. Kirsty was still unconscious but breathing. She lay still covered in a blue blanket with an oxygen mask over her face, her eyes closed. I could hear the sirens and soon the sound turned into a faded background noise that was also barely noticed like it was the most normal sound that my life would be empty with out.

When they stopped it was like I was snapped out of a trance. The sirens stopped, the doors were pulled open and Kirsty was wheeled out. Doctors and nurses stood around the gurney talking about Kirsty like she was just another patient. I was stood by her side holding her hand and moved with the gurney when it started moving towards the ED doors. My eyes were transfixed on Kirsty and it was like the rest of the world had faded away for a couple of seconds.

Then the moment was broken and suddenly everything speed up and it was all happening so fast. I found my self pushed a side, left stood out side rhesus looking in as figures blurred around her. She looked so small lying there attached to all their machines. They had given her something to counter act the drugs she had taken. They were monitoring her carefully to see how she responded and just waiting for her to come round. They said she should be fine but something made me doubt them. She might be fine physically but mentally was completely different. If she could do this would she even want to come back? Were they even going to let her come home once she was better?

Nita

Adam held the door to the ED open for me. I looked up at him. He was surveying me, trying to work out if I could handle seeing my mum in here again. I took a deep breath before walking through the door holding my head up high trying to convince Adam, and myself, that I was fine and that if I was then everything else would be too.

The ED looked the same as always. It was surreal how everything else carried on so normally when people died here everyday. Adam looked as nervous as I did. Neither of us knew what to expect and my mind was running away with scenario after scenario of what could have happened to her. Adam led the way to reception and leant on the counter waiting for Noel to finish on the phone. I stood behind him not knowing what to do with myself.

"Noel,"

"Hey Adam, what can I do for you today?" He stood smiling cheerfully at Adam and I before his face dropped slowly and I couldn't help but let out a small smile but it quickly disappeared.

"What's happened?" He asked changing his question to go with our expressions.

"We're looking for Kirsty she came in in an ambulance about an hour ago maybe two," he looked at me for conformation and I nodded at Adam before returning my attention to Noel waiting for him to direct us in the right way but Adam turned and strode away from him before he had time to answer. I took one last look at Noel before running to catch up with Adam who was frantically searching rhesus looking for her. I was stood in the doorway watching his efforts to find her and was struck by how much he cared for her.

He circled the room checking each bed for her before quickly moving to the next one. When he came to the last bed he turned striding impatiently towards me as he subconsciously ran his hands through his short hair. He looked extremely stressed and worried and it made me wonder what exactly was going on between them.

A big thank you to Emmylovett my beta reader and everyone who reviewed, sorry it's taken so long to get to you.