Started Off As Friends *EDITING IN PROGRESS*

Chapter 16 Intensive Care

Hunter's POV

I woke up to sun coming strait into my eyes.

"Ugh" I groaned and put my face into the pillow.

After staying there for a few minutes, I lifted my head up.

The sun was still shining thru.

I got up and shut the curtains. I must have forgotten to shut them.

What am I doing here? Why aren't I at the hospital? I thought.

Oh yeah. Mama sent me back to the hotel to freshen up.

All I had dreamt about last night was about Taylor. I surprised I got any sleep at all.

Most if the night I had woken up, covered in sweat screaming. Screaming for Taylor.

I had been hoping and praying that Taylor was alive.

If she wasn't okay, I don't know what I would do. I probably wouldn't ever be able to do music again. She was my inspiration.

I probably couldn't continue earning my pilots license. She was my sky.

I just wouldn't want to live any more if she wasn't okay.

And to think that it was partially my fault. If I had moved, she wouldn't be lying in that hospital bed fighting for her life.

But if I had moved, I would be in her position and she would be in mine.

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I had gotten a taxi to take me the hospital.

I was leaning my head on the window, watching the rain come down. The weather perfectly fit my mood.

I tried racing the raindrops, seeing which came down the window first.

Taylor and I used to do this when we were little.

My subconscious mind thought back to all the times we had done that as kids.

When we were bored on a long car ride.

The time we went to Disney and it rained the whole car ride.

When her boyfriend ditched her at homecoming.

When Taylor broke her leg at the playground and I was trying to calm her down.

Those couple of rides to the hospital when her mom was pregnant with Dillion.

And to think half of them had to with hospitals. Taylor was such a klutz.

As we neared the hospital, my stomach turned into a ball of knots.

All I could do was pray.

"We're here." the taxi driver said.

"Thank you." I said as I handed him the money.

"This is like, 10 extra dollars." He said surprised.

"Keep the change." I said. I didn't have time to count the money.

I needed to see Taylor. Now.

As I ran to the doors of the hospital, I a I could do was hope. Hope she was okay. Hope she was alive.

I walked thru the doors and breathed in that sterilized smell. I have always hated hospitals.

"How may I help you?" the lady at the front desk said.

"I'm looking for Taylor Baker?" I asked.

She gave me a sympathetic look.

"She's in room 10. Intensive care."

I gulped.

Intensive care.

"Thank you." I said.

She gave me a small smile.

I walked down to the intensive care ward. At least she's alive.

Room 10.

Her room.

I prepared myself for what's inside.

I opened the door slowly.

I couldn't have even prepared myself for this.

Taylor was paler than the sheet, eyes closed, with hundreds of needles in her body.

At least 5 machines were hooked up to her.

Terry and my mom were sitting on a little couch in the room, comforting each other.

Ally and Tiffani were holding her hand and praying out loud.

Claire was still missing.

I cleared my throat.

They all looked up.

"Hunter..." my mom trailed of.

She came running over to me, and embraced me in a bone-crushing hug.

"She's ok. She is still in a coma, and on life support, but she is okay." My mom said.

"Life support?" I asked.

"She can't breathe or function on her own, so they hooked her up on life support. She's okay. For now."

I sighed. "At least she's alive."

"Yeah at least she's alive." mom said.

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The rest if the week consisted of me sitting by her bed, holding her hand and praying.

Some times I would sing some of her favorite songs.

Terry, Mom, Tiffani, and Ally came and went.

Claire was still no where to be found.

Taylor was still on life support.

But she was alive.

All that mattered was that she was alive.

She still had a chance.

A chance to live.

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