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Chapter 12
*Brian's
POV*
"Kevin, did Kris call while I was in the shower?" I asked, pulling
on a black wife beater shirt with my indigo jeans as I walked into the family
room.
"Nope, when was she supposed to be here?"
"An hour ago. Kevin, I'm worried, she always calls or something. I paged Na, and she said she should've been home long ago. She was at Nick's, so I called their place, but it was busy. So I paged her and she still hasn't responded," I said, wondering where in the world she was.
"So, maybe she's on the phone, B-Rok. The girl does have other people to spend hours on the phone with," Kevin teased, only half listening.
"Kevin, this is serious, man! I'm gonna go to her place and find out what's going on," I said, grabbing my keys from their hook.
"Okay,
okay, I'm coming. Not like I have anything better to do," Kevin muttered,
straightening his black cargo pants as he rushed to catch up with Brian. *
I practically ran up the stairs to their apartment. "Kris, you there?"
I yelled, pounding on her door. No response.
"Hey man, what's all the dark stuff on her car?" Kevin called, waving at me. The door was open and there was an unmistakable smell that I couldn't quite put my finger on.
"Oh Lord," I said, then we both ran up the stairs. I turned the knob, which opened under my hand. "Kevin, oh my God," I gasped, pulling my sticky hand away. It was covered in blood, and there was no mistaking it.
"Kris!" we yelled, following the trail of blood. I flipped on the bedroom light and started screaming, "Kevin, oh Lord, go call for help! Oh my gosh.." I rushed over to her, laying face up, her shirt a dark red and the phone on the ground, the handle red. I gently turned her face up and brushed aside her hair. I heard Kevin gasp from behind me. Blood was pouring from everywhere on her face and there were bruises covering every inch of bared skin, her eyes swollen shut. I felt for a pulse and almost cried when I felt a very weak one under her clammy skin.
"Call
911 Kevin, NOW!" I yelled, then started praying, "Baby, don't leave
me, I need you. Please God, let her live! I need her more than anything else
in the world, please..." and for the first time in a long time, I started
crying. *
Kevin and I rode to the hospital in the EMS van, watching as the people worked
frantically on the person I loved most in the world. We called everyone from
the hospital and it wasn't long before everyone was there with us. I felt a
light hand on my shoulder and turned to meet Nina's red and swollen eyes.
"Is she gonna be okay? What happened?" she asked, her eyes pleading.
"We don't know if she'll be okay, they're doing tests and trying to get her fixed up right now. She lost a lot of blood. The only thing the doctor would tell us was someone tried to beat her to death. She has several broken ribs and it looks like her jaw may be broken, too. They said she's lucky to be alive, if we had found her any later.."
"Oh my.." Na started crying again, then pulled me close desperately, trying to find comfort in the fact that her friend was still alive.
"I'll kill him," Na muttered to herself, but I heard her.
"Who Na?"
"No one, I'm sorry, could you excuse me? I need to get some tissues.." Na hurried off, and I watched her go, wondering what was really going on. *
*3rd
Person*
Nina walked down the hallway, ignoring the bright blue eyes of the man she so
loved for once, not wanting Nick to follow her.
"I'm gonna kill Josh if this is his fault," she thought, grabbing some tissues and blowing her nose. Nina sat in a chair for the longest time, thinking of how long she'd known Kris and all the fun things they'd done and bad times they'd helped each other through. Finally, she got up, her spiky hair pointing in all directions, and thought to herself, "Kris is going to be fine, and we will get through this one together, too." Her confidence restored, Na headed back towards the waiting room, though still gripping a few tissues.
"Nina, is that you?" a familiar voice called. Turning, she felt anger boil up inside her as Josh wheeled his way down the hall. He had a huge shiner and bruises all over his handsome face
"Oh Josh, what happened?" she cried, faking her pity and putting on a great performance.
"What happened! Kris broke my knee! Why are you here, anyway? When you see her, tell her that she messed up my knee and I'm not sorry for what I did to that slut, she got what she deserved..." He trailed off as Na came closer, and he thought she felt sorry for him.
"Poor Josh, are you okay?"
"Well, maybe if you come back to my room, you can help make my knee feel better, it hurts like hell..." Josh muttered, but smiled up at her. His eyes narrowed as Na's face hardened, and she said calmly, "I thought it was you! Well, good, I hope it hurts like hell, you bastard! My best friend is in ICU because of you!" she screamed, then punched him smack in the nose, which made a crunching noise as it connected with her fist. Josh just stared at her, shocked, as blood poured from his nose.
"You stupid whore! I'm gonna kill you when I get.."
"You're gonna do what, jackas*?" Nina screamed, dealing him another blow to the face as he roared and jumped out of his wheelchair, pinning her with his arms before she could run. *
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