AN: I apologise because I made a promise to myself to upload a chapter of this every weekend and it is now Monday. But I am likely to update and add to this Fanfic next week as it is half term. Anyway, here is the chapter.

Chapter 12: Aftermath

The flash of blue sirens through the rain is all I can see out of the broken car window, it hurts to keep my eyes open, everything hurts. I just want to sleep, I want to sleep forever, I try shouting but my throat feels like sandpaper, and only a sound of pain escapes my lips. Is this purgatory? Or is this hell? Then I close my eyes, hopefully forever...

My whole body feels sticky, like it's coated in treacle. What happened? It feels like my head is on fire, the ache is burning through my skull. The pain is so intense, so, so, so unreal...? It's so hard to describe. I close my eyes for what feels like a second, but when I reopen them I can feel splodges of rain on my face. Something red is smeared on the smashed up window, blood? Someone tells me to keep calm, not to panic, that I'll be okay, will I? Then I close my eyes again.

I can't move my leg, it's trapped by something, and my chest feels heavy, like I've been hit with something but who knows what, and who knows where I am. It's dark where ever it is and cold and wet. I head a "One...two...three..." and a small sliver of light enters from overhead, but it's still grey and cold and wet. I try to keep my eyes open, so I can understand what's going on, I fail, but right before I close them, I see a flash of a high visibility jacket. Then my eyes shut.

I open my eyes and feel pain. I close them and feel free. I open my eyes and feel weak. I close them and feel happy. I open them again and look but don't see. I don't see what is going on, my head can't put all the pieces together, like the smashed windscreen with chunks of it missing, but I don't see why. I hear a moan of pain and wonder who it is but I just don't know.

I look up at the dark, grey clouds, and feel the rain on my face but I don't know why, I hear sirens just constantly wailing, with flashes of blue but I don't know why. I notice lots of people with bright jackets moving around, moving their lips, but I don't know why.

I can't focus on any of it, I can't concentrate, I can't move. Then I close my eyes and think of happy memories; the time we played hockey and all four of us lost a tooth. The time we decided to build a tree-house-fort, out of Lego. The time we watched a horror movie; when we were way too young and pretended to enjoy it, when all it gave us was nightmares. The time we went to camp and got kicked out for starting a food fight. The time we started middle school and found out we were all in the same class. The time we went to our first school dance and we all got our first kisses. The time we went swimming in the lake in the middle of the night. The time we auditioned for Gustavo. The time we moved to LA and every moment since, every moment until the most recent of months. But we were together through it all, and we're together now...