Hi guys! Sorry for not updating for a few days but my school holidays have just started which means you'll be getting a few updates in the next two weeks! :D yay! This chapter will be all from Jack's point of view and you're going to get a double update today because I feel like it :) I'm also really annoyed at my iPod right now cause I had pretty much finished this chapter but it ran out of battery and I just turned it back on and it deleted the note... Also, this is from when Bella was shot.
Shit. I couldn't think of anything else. There was no confusion as to who was shot just then. I felt a small tug at my left arm as Bella's right hand unwrapped from around my bicep. I span around to see Bella falling, her shirt was already staining red on her sleeve and it seemed she was falling in slow motion. Somehow I managed to wrap my arms around her before she hit the ground hard and laid her down softly. I place my hands on her cheeks. I heard another shot from behind me but I didn't care who it was right now, I'd find out later.
"Bella?! Bella!" I shout into her ear. Her eyes were closed but she wasn't dead, her chest was rising and falling slowly. "Fucking help me!" I screamed at the others who just stood there. Marcus ran over and helped me pick her up and carry her over to one of the ambulances parked behind the police cars.
"Where was she shot?" A young-ish lady with dark hair asks.
"A-arm! Right... Right arm!" I tell her, the lady pulls the right side of Bella's shirt up and rips the sleeve off.
"We need to get her to hospital! Now, Jim!" She yells, hitting the grate separating the front of the ambulance where the driver is. I watch as the lady begins to apply a bandage over the wound and holds it down.
"I'm her boyfriend! Please!" I yell out, the lady looks over at me, thinking for a minute.
"Get in, she has to get to the hospital!" The lady barks at me and I clamber in on the opposite side of Bella than the lady. "I'm Amber," The lady tells me.
"Hi, I'm Jack," No offense to her or anything, she seems nice but I don't feel like talking to anyone right now, only Bella but that's not happening at the moment.
"How long have you two been dating?" Amber asks me. I open my mouth to reply but close it again. How long have we been dating? I remember the first day I met Bella, every detail. I remember how beautiful she looked in that dress, how I held her after she hit her head on that stand, how nervous I was asking for her number. I remember Finn breaking my daze and being completely dumbfounded by her. I remember our first date, her exact outfit, the way the corners of her mouth turned up every time she looked up at me, the way she giggled at the smallest things I did. I also thought back on every day we'd spent together. The day at Harbour Park and every day we had spent either on the couch at her hotel room or at my house watching movies and talking about anything and everything. I remember the day I told her I loved her. Because damn, I loved her, so much it hurt to be away from her, even for a couple of minutes. When we were in the hotel and our group was split up, every thing bad that could possibly happen to Bella crossed my mind. And now, one of them was actually happening...
"Um, a couple of months," I finally tell Amber.
"That's lovely, I just need to ask you a few things about her if you're up to answering," Amber says, I just nod and look down, taking Bella's hand in mine.
"Her full name?"
"Arabella Rose Evans," I never found out where she got her middle name from. Her mothers name was Sarah so it wasn't after her.
"Okay, that's a very nice name," Amber said sweetly, she's right, Bella had the most beautiful name. "Her date of birth?"
"Uh, 12th of August, 1993."
I tried to focus and answer the rest of her questions after that but I could only think of one thing. Everyone had helped each other remember the date when we were locked up. Bella's birthday was in a month and 3 days, she was going to be turning 20.
When we arrived at the hospital after what seemed like hours of 20 questions with Amber, Bella's bed was pulled out of the ambulance by the driver and Amber.
"I'm sorry, Jack, but you're not allowed to come with us after the next corner, you can wait at the seats there until we notify you about anything," Amber tells me. No, I had to make sure she was going to be fine.
"No! I can't leave her, she has to be okay, I have to make sure she's okay!" I yell. I look down at Bella's, she looked so calm. I notice one of her eyelids slowly fluttering open. She was waking up.
"J-Jack?" She asks, her voice came out as a gasp instead of her usual strong and loud tone. I smiled, I was the first thing she thought of?
"She's awake," One of the doctors informed the others.
"Bella!" I tried to reach for her but Amber stopped walking with the other doctors and held her hand up to me.
"I'm so sorry, Jack but you'll have to wait out here," She says and then walks away into a small room. I couldn't help it, I turned around and kicked one of the chairs, causing it to clutter and fall over. I looked around, thankfully not many people were there and the ones that were didn't take much notice of me.
"Jack?!" I could hear multiple voices call out from the end of the hall. I recognized Finn's voice out of them. The voices caught up to where I was waiting, sitting on one of the chairs with my head in my hands.
"Where the hell is she?!" I look up after hearing the female voice, it was the one and only, Zoe Hudson.
"Zoe?" I ask, I stand up and give her a hug.
"Yes, it's me! But where the hell is my best friend?!" Zoe shouts. I raise my finger as if to 'sh' her. "Jack, where is she?" Zoe grits her teeth and whispers the words.
"I don't know exactly, they wouldn't let me through past here. She woke up literally just before they took her down there," I say and point to the corridor where they've taken her.
"What? She woke up?" Marcus asks. I was happy to see everyone here but I felt Bella didn't need to be crowded by everyone when she was allowed to have visitors.
"Yeah, she asked for me and I kept calling out to her as they wheeled her away. What happened after we left?" I ask. Everyone awkwardly shift on their feet.
"Eppie was shot. Wyatt and Marty surrendered," Joe tells me.
"Sorry we didn't come earlier," Caspar says. "I hadn't showered in a while and we needed to make some statements or something."
"Zoe?" I hear a younger male voice ask from behind the group of people around me. Both of the Zoe's spin around but Zoe Sugg turns back when she realises the person isn't talking to her.
"Luke?" Zoe steps out of the way of the group to talk to the boy.
"You probably don't need all of us here, please call us if there's any news," Tyler says worryingly. I nod and him, Zoe Sugg, Joe, Marcus, Alfie and Phil turn around and start walking away. Anyone could see Marcus didn't want to leave. I run up to him and put my hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, thank you," I tell him. For a second, he looks confused.
"For what?"
"For helping me. You were her best friend in there after Zoe left," I say and shake his hand. "You can stay here with us if you want to."
"No, that's okay. I have to sort out some stuff and Bella doesn't need to be crowded," After that, Marcus turns around and walks away with the others who are leaving.