Chapter 15: Tabooed Actions and Reactions

Luna's POV:

"WHAT?!" I scream into my phone and Gill looks suspiciously at me as I hold up a hand towards him and clench my fist around my cell phone. "What do you mean she's in the hospital?! What did you do Skye?!"

"Look," he says, his voice coming out shaky but hard at the same time. "I wasn't driving the bus. I didn't do anything to her Luna. Just go down to the hospital and check it out. I'm pretty sure Claire and Kai might be there too."

"And where the hell are you?!" I yell.

He sighs. "I'm in my room," he says. "I'm not going to that hospital Luna; it's just not something I really want to do right now."

"I don't care about what you want and don't want to do! You were with her this morning weren't you?! You were in a group, together and something went wrong. Why aren't you over there?! Don't you care about her?!"

"Why should I, it's not like we know anything about each other?!"

"I can't believe you!" I yell. "You are going, whether you want to admit to yourself that you care or not!"

I slide my phone off and head off back in the building.

"Wait up!" Gill calls, and I realize I'd left him sitting on the bench. "What's going on Luna?"

"Jill and Skye went out to go get supplies or something, and Skye and she got separated somehow, then Jill got into this huge bus collision and she's in the hospital."

Gill's eyes widen.

"Now Skye doesn't have the decency to go to the damn hospital and see her!"

"Then it's settled. We're taking him to the hospital."

I nod, and together, we push through the doors to get to the residential section.

Skye's POV:

People were so inconsiderate.

Yea, Jill was in the hospital. But Claire and Kai were with her. What made Luna think I wanted to pay for a cab and sit through traffic just so I could watch some girl I barely knew sleep for a couple days? In fact, I had to cancel my plans with an old friend to sit in the ambulance. Hadn't I done enough?

That was what I was trying to put through my head.

That was probably what the old Skye would think.

But I wasn't a new version of myself. Perhaps I'd changed, but not for the better, maybe not even for the worst. It was hard to tell at this point. But I knew that I wasn't supposed to care as much as I did about Jill getting hurt. It was true that maybe now I was going too far, too distant, but I didn't know what to do. All I knew was that I was starting to get way too close to this pony-tailed girl. In the ambulance, I'd been seriously scared for her, and I'd said some really stupid stuff. The good thing was that she probably wouldn't remember.

But…

You don't care Skye, so stop worrying.

"SKYE YOU LITTLE DOUCHE OPEN THE GOD DAMN DOOR!" I hear Luna screeching.

I'd been so lost in thought, coupled with me listening to really loud music was NOT helping me…at all.

"Hold on," I say grouchily, throwing myself off of the bed and opening up the door. "What do you want?"

"Are you dressed?" Luna asks, eyeing me suspiciously.

"Does it look like I'm naked?" I say coyly.

"Perfect," she smirks, and then pulls my collar. I stare at her, pulling back. She has no strength whatsoever.

"Was that you're amazing plan?" I ask, rolling my eyes.

Then all of a sudden Gill comes in and whacks me over the head with something really REALLY hard.

"What the hell?" I ask, blinking my eyes open.

Luna smiles complacently at me, beside Gill. What was going on with those two?

"Isn't this kidnapping? And assault? And-,"

"Says the thief who goes out inconspicuously each night," Luna smirks. "You're not weeding your way out of this one."

"What was that you said about weed Luna? Can't seem to get this one off the subject," I say, narrowing my eyes.

"As if I'd get into drugs," she chortles. "Please Skye; you're definitely more likely to be a stoner than I am, what with everything you manage to swipe."

I roll my eyes. "Why would I endanger my cover by becoming a druggie?"

"Maybe because you don't care about your cover, since you know, 50% of the schools sophomores know about your little issue there."

"I'm not a kleptomaniac Luna, no matter how much you want me to be your little sob story."

"Perfect," Luna says. "Then you can be my tragic romance story! We're here."

I get out of the car reluctantly and Luna takes Gill's arm and they start walking over to the hospital. I stare dumb-founded.

"Get over here Phantom!" Luna calls.

"Sure, sure, but one question. Luna, why do you need me to be your love story if you've already got one of your own?"

I expect an answer from her, but Luna's face goes pale and she realizes she's holding Gill. "It's moral support," she says, snatching her arm away.

"What do you need moral support for? You weren't at the crash!"

"But…er…she's one of my best friends!"

"You've known her for what, 2, 3 days?"

"Just shut up, we're here."

Gill hadn't said a word the entire time that we'd been walking. Finally we passed through hallway after hallway and came across her room. Luna and Gill walked straight in, with confidence. I hang back, straggling behind.

Luna and Gill are directly in the room, talking to the doctor. I could make a break for it right now. It's not like they could catch me, and they wouldn't want to anyway; causing a fuss wouldn't be the best thing for Jill.

And running away from her was supposedly my best?

I run a hand through my silver hair, sighing. I had to make a decision, right now. Luna and Gill weren't going to drag me through anything. Jill would've been upset to know that they'd forced me to come. If I left now, she'd never know about me being here. She'd assume I just didn't show up. How would she feel about that? She was sleeping for a long time.

It was funny. One part of me wanted to run, a very big part, so that she wouldn't know I'd been deliberating here like a coward. The other part, shoved, kicked, and pushed down, wanted to walk into the room and hold her hand until she woke up.

Hadn't it been me in the first place who'd gotten her in the crash. It was me who'd left her at the store to flirt with Lumina, and without a doubt I could see that after 2 hours she'd caught that bus after crying her eyes out. And now she was in the hospital.

I owed it to her to see her, like Claire had said.

So I walked in the room, and her heart stopped beating.