Sorry that I haven't updated in a while. I've just gotten sooo side-tracked. Anyway, here's the disclaimer, then the chapter.

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Alfie's Secret: Chapter 5

Patricia's POV

We all heard a loud thump and rock falling that sounded a lot like a floor giving into too much weight. I ran up the stairs as fast as I possibly could. When I reached the last step, I looked up, intending to head to the girls' corridor, only to find the floor of the attic in its place . I screamed.

Mara came up behind me. I looked over to her, only to see her jaw dropped, eyes wide and full of fear.

"Oh no," Mick said, scrambling over to where the corridor used to be. "Guys!" he yelled. He started moving through the rubble, looking for everyone. I made myself start looking too.

"Fabian!" Joy yelled. She was in tears, as was Mara. I was about to be, but I didn't want to cry infront of them; even though they would completely understand. "Amber! Trudy! Jerome!" she yelled.

"Nina! Alfie!" I yelled. Joy had said everyone else. That's when I saw a hand underneath a part of the floor. "Guys!" I screamed. "I found someone!" Mick scrambled over to help while Joy and Mara were looking for the others.

Mick and I pushed the piece of rubble off of the body. It was Nina. "Nina!" I yelled. Now I was crying. Her head was bleeding a lot. I pulled out my phone and dialed the hospital.

"Hello?" a woman asked.

"Help! M-My friends, they've...they've been p-practically crushed by a f-floor giving way! Please, you-you have to help!" I said in between my sobs.

"Okay, okay darling. Tell me where you are and I'll send some ambulances your way," she said calmly. How can she be calm?, I think.

I told her where we were and she said the ambulances would be by shortly, considering we were fairly close the the hospital.

"I found someone!" Joy yelled. Mick rushed over to help her move the floor. "It's Fabian!" she yelled. Mara put a hand to her mouth, tears flowing rapidly down her face.

"Mara, help us! We can't find them in time if you don't!" I yelled. Mara shook her head, but stepped forward and started looking. By now I was crying so much that I could barely see. I quickly wiped the tears away and saw a shoe. Alfie's shoe. "Alfie!" I yelled.

Joy came over to help me and we moved the beams and boards off of him. We moved his still body over to the clear part of the highway with everyone elses. Then we heard the ambulances. "The ambulances!" Mara yelled, running downstairs to show them where to go.

I heard heavy footsteps up the stairs. About 6 pairs of EMT's were here, and a few police officers. None of us stopped looking. The EMT's took Alfie, Fabian, adn Nina down to the ambulances. The others started to help looking, as did the police officers.

In about five minutes, we had found everybody. I walked downstairs and watched as they took Amber, the last one we found, out to the ambulance. Mara stood next to me, a hand over her mouth. Mick put his arm around her, and I saw that he had tears running down his face at about the same speed as Mara's. But Mick wasn't sobbing.

When I had stopped crying for a few seconds, I called a taxie and he took us the the hospital.

I walked up to the front desk. "I'm looking for my friends, Nina Martin, Fabian Rutter, Amber Millington, Trudy Rehman, Alfie Lewis, and Jerome Clarke? Do you know where they are?"

"Hold on," the woman said. She typed a few things into her computer. "Yes, all of them are in the intensive care unit. That's all I have of them right now."

"Oh, okay. If you get new word on how they're doing, could you tell me? My name's Patricia," I asked.

"Sure," she said. I walked over to where Mara, Mick, and Joy were sitting in the waiting room.

"Well?" Joy asked impatiently.

"They're in the intenstive care unit. That's all I know," I said. I took the seat next to her and sat back, trying to go over what just happened-how it could have happened.

It felt like hours before I heard the woman at the desk call me up. "Yes?" I said as I walked up to her.

"I'm afraid I have some bad news. Trudy Rehman isn't doing well; neither is Nina Martin. Fabian Rutter and Amber Millington have been stabilized and are in their rooms. There's no word on Alfie Lewis or Jerome Clarke," she said. She gave me a sympathetic smile.

"Okay. Thank you. Um, do you think I could have the room numbers? If I can visit them?" I asked.

"I don't think you can see them just yet. The doctors want to run a few more tests before anyone sees them," she said.

"Okay. If you get word on the others..." I didn't need to finish. She nodded and I sat back down next to Joy.

"D-Did they s-say anything?" Mara asked, her sobs quieter.

"Trudy and Nina aren't doing well; Fabian and Amber are okay; they don't know anything about Alfie or Jerome," I told her. Another tear ran down my face.

Joy started tapping her foot like she always did when she was nervous. After about five minutes of it, Mick said, "Enough Joy! It's annoying!" He took a breath. "Sorry. I'm just worried."

"It's okay. We all are." Joy rubbed Mick's shoulder. I think I saw a hint I jealousy in Mara's eyes but it was gone so quickly I can't be sure if it was there or not.

After about two hours, the woman at the desk called me back. "Yes." I said as I approached.

"You can see...Fabian Rutter and Amber Millington now; Trudy Rehman has got worse; Nina Martin has gotten better; Alfie Lewis has been stabilized; Jerome Clarke is..." She stopped.

"Jerome is...what. Jerome is what!" I yelled, panicked.

"Ah, here we go! I found his file; sorry about that. He is okay. Not stabilized, but not bad either."

"Good. I thought you were going to say...nevermind." I walked away from the desk. I walked over to my friends. "We can see Fabian and Amber. Alfie is stabilized. Trudy is worse; Nina is better. Jerome is okay."

"Oh no! Not Trudy! I need her!" Mick said. I glared at him and slapped his arm. "Well, who else is going to cook for us!"

"Mick! She's just been almost crushed by a floor, and all you care about is that you won't have someone to make you food?" Mara yelled. Some people looked over at us. Mara stomped off, which was useless because she didn't know the room number.

I caught up with her and took all of them to Amber and Fabian's room. When we stepped in the door, I saw that a small curtain was supposed to be like a wall.

"Patricia! Mara! Mick! Joy!" Amber said excitedly. Fabian was looking out the large window on his side of the room. He glanced at us, smiled for a second, then turned back to the window without a word.

I walked over to Amber and hugged her.

"Hey, Fabes!" Joy said. She opened her arms to hug him, but he didn't look at her. He just stared out the window. "Something wrong?" She put her arms down.

Silence. "You can talk, can't you?" I asked walking over to his bed.

"I can talk; just don't want to," he said, so quietly that only Joy and I heard it.

"He's worried about Nina," Amber said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"She's doing better," I said, trying to give him some comfort.

"I know. But she's not stabilized yet, is she." He said. It wasn't a question.

Joy put her hand on Fabian's, but he moved it away. He obviously didn't want to be touched right now - at least not by Joy. But I completely understood.

"How's Alfie doing? Jerome? Trudy?" Amber asked. I turned to face her.

"Alfie's stabilized, Jerome...well, he's not bad, but he's not good either. Trudy is...doing bad. Getting worse, actually," I said. Amber's face looked sad when I told her about Trudy.

"Oh, I hope their okay," she said, looking down at her hands.

We stayed and talked with them - by them, I mean Amber - for half an hour or so, then we went to visit Alfie.

"Hey, Alfie!" I said as we stepped inside.

"Guys! Finally, someone to talk to!" he said happily. We all laughed.

"So, how you feeling?" Mara asked.

"Oh, you know, few broken bones, headache, the normal side effects of almost getting crushed by floor," he said, that little joker twinkle in his eyes. I smiled at it.

I mentally smacked myself. I can't fall for Alfie, I thought. He's...Alfie. Amber would be so ticked off.

This is where I'm leaving you. Nothing really happened with Alfie's secret...yet. But that will come. This was mostly so you could find out what happened to them.

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