Chapter 9: "They came"
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POV Laura
"She is already stable" at that moment you can hear how we all let out a sigh. "Thanks to the Lord, Damien can it be?" he asks the name to which we agree while some of us say yes. "Well, luckily thanks to him we were able to make her stable".
"Can we come and see her?" Cameron asks, getting closer.
"Look, as a power of hospital policy, they can come to see her, but to tell the truth is that she is too weak and asleep, just like the boy is. It would be much better if they come back tomorrow, and at 9 o'clock the visiting hours begin" I nod again. "Any questions?"
"No, not for now" David speaks.
"Well, then I'll have to go. Thanks guys" nods and leaves.
"Thank you doctor" we all say hello.
We go back to the seats we were in until a while ago and we stay quiet until my dear boyfriend Thomas breaks it with the most inopportune question that could ever exist.
"How are they going to tell their parents that Sara tried to commit suicide and is hospitalized?"
"Small detail we forget" says David and we are all thinking.
"Shall I send you a message?" Sebastian asks.
"Let me call dad".
Phone call
"Hello?" Dad asks, he must be super asleep.
"Hello Daddy".
"What happened?" I think he realized, hell.
"Do not be upset please" I try to keep them calm but I doubt to achieve that over the phone.
"Daughter, tell us what happened" you are already half impatient, and well, you have to.
"Sara attempted suicide and is hospitalized" I say running.
"What happened that? Let's see daughter, speak more clearly please that I do not understand you".
"Can you sit down, please?" I ask, I don't want anything to happen to them, we have enough with a boarding school here.
"Daughter, we are worrying. Yes, we are sitting. What happens or what happened?"
"That Sara tried to commit suicide and is hospitalized but is now stable" I can't believe I told him.
"We're going there" Mom is heard from behind.
"No dad, and mom is not necessary. Visitors are not allowed and they will have to fall asleep here uncomfortably".
"And what do we do then Laura? Let's see, give me one of your brothers" my brothers don't have better ideas than me since one of them simply wanted to send them a message telling them so better not.
"No, it's not okay. Stay there and tomorrow at 9 o'clock the visiting hours begin so you can come here more or less at that time".
"In the morning?" she asks me, is she still asleep or what?
"Yes, dad, in the morning, at 9 in the morning the visiting hours begin".
"Well, try to get some sleep. We love".
"We love you. See you tomorrow".
"Yes daughter, see you tomorrow" my mother ends up answering me and then cuts.
End phone call
"I already told them" I speak to everyone as soon as I turn around and get to them.
"Thank you little sister" David and Sebastián say hugging me, literally that if it were up to them they would simply have sent him a text message and then they would say “I did it, I did what I had to do so that's it, now let's wait”.
Without realizing it, we all fell asleep sitting there and the next day Mom and Dad woke us up with eight coffees and eight muffins, we love them.
"We love them" all eight of us say and yes, Damien is here and we don't know when he arrived.
"When did you arrive?" Cameron asks, he said what we were all thinking.
"In the early morning, I was better and they told me I could leave the room. Although rather they threw me out because I was fine and they needed the bed but hey, I slept here with you".
"Visiting hours began" they announce over a loudspeaker and we all hear it, I think it's clear.
POV Sara
I see that the doctor comes in and checks me, changes the bandages on my wrists, takes my pulse, checks to see if I have a fever, does a complete check-up. I feel, I don't know, I honestly have no idea how I feel.
"Visiting time is about to start" he warns me but before leaving I yell at him to come back.
"No, no please, I don't want anyone to come by please, please, please" I plead with him hands together as if I were praying.
"Let's see, and tell me why" crosses his arms and for a moment intimidates me but I tell him why.
"Because I don't feel like being criticized. Because you did? Why didn't you think of your friends? Why didn't you think of your family?" I begin to say the questions that are highly likely to be asked, while moving my hands from here to there. "Why do you think only of yourself? Why did you go racing on a motorcycle? Why did you break up with Cameron? Why do you spend so much time with Damien? Why did you walk away from us? Why don't you listen to us? Why do you still not listen to us? Why...?"
"I understand, I understand. Much why without answers" the doctor interrupts me and I nod.
When the doctor walks through that door, I go back to bed and go back to sleep, I really don't want to face them yet. I'd like to take one of those naps where they bring you flowers every year, but apparently it didn't go as expected.
In my opinion, that is very good.
I don't understand your point of view.
You have to learn to see the bright side of things.
What if there isn't?
I assure you that there is always, always a good side to things.
"How do you feel?" the doctor asks me as soon as he enters, I look out the window and it is already night.
"Oh awfully good, I swear I was never better. Eating disgusting hospital food, hooked on many wires, with a needle that carries drugs into my blood, and with nurses who come in every two minutes. Seriously, this is perfect, it couldn't be better" I smile at him in a way that I hope is the most false.
"Okay, I think I got the hint. You are very bad, but hey, I'm going to tell you something. When you leave here you are going to have to do a recovery, rehabilitation. You will have a psychologist and a psychiatric doctor assigned for you to visit and they will see your progress".
"Well OK. But when would that be more or less?" I don't like the idea to tell the truth.
"I don't know yet, besides that when you leave, you will have to go with the people who come to visit" he says with a smile.
"They never leave?" I ask out of curiosity.
"No. They may go to bathe or eat but there is always someone up here with you. Those guys and your parents really love you" he walks out the door as well but I keep thinking about what he said.
But I am paralyzed from the moment I hear "your parents." I can't believe they're here, I can't believe they came.
I touch the button that is to call the doctor, because there is one to call the nurses and another for the doctor.
"Something happened?" he asks me as soon as he enters and I look at him with a smile.
"Let them pass my parents first, please".
He smiles at me like saying "you did the right thing" and I know I did. I want to see my parents, was I selfish for doing this? Too? I also want to see Alexa and Kiara, I wish they came.
I'm glad you're rethinking things.
I think me too.
- Writer
