I dedicate this chapter to the amazing, and beautiful and brave megancox08 <3 stay strong my lovely gal!
ALSSOO!! I plan on changing the cast as soon as the book is done cuz they all look like kids....basically.
Any suggestions? I'm keeping Jaycee, Ashton, Jace, Aaron and the idiot bully.
ALSO this chapter was written right after the previous one but i couldn't find an exciting way to end it.....now that it's here...LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN <3
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It was safe to say that Annabelle was so disappointed and utterly horrified, yet somehow proud.
Kind of.
Sort of.
I would like to think so anyways.
I did in fact help a beautiful person but in return I got my location somehow compromised.
Typical Alexis move I swear.
I try to do something sweet and thoughtful but it ends up blowing up in my face like a nasty stink bomb.
Oh well...
On the bright side, New York is a huge city and I could literally be anywhere by now. So not exactly a loss.
Annabelle was waiting for me at the entrance of the hospital, with a look I couldn't quite decipher. Was she mad? Furious? Happy to see me?
Yeah, I'll go with that.
She's so happy to have finally seen me that she's impatiently tapping her feet, with her arms crossed. With a look only the devil himself can wear.
Yup. Definitley that.
I knew I was smart for a reason. Good job Lexi.
"Alexis Raven Pierce! What do you have to say for yourself?!" She said, her eyes shooting daggers at me. My eyes automatically closed at the sound of my full name the same way it did when I was being reprimanded for eating sand as a kid.
Wait. Is that why I'm an utter moron? Was it because I ate sand?! Because let me tell you, that would explain so much!
Like, so much, so much.
Also replying with what I always say at the mention of my name, I replied with a fake spanish accent, "That is not my name senorita! It is I, Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa RamÃrez!"
Yes, Zach and Cody will always be in my heart.
Remembering my childhood comeback, her face lit up a little bit. Just a little bit.
"After all the measures that have been taken to protect you Alexis, you just go and ruin it all in an instant?" She says, guiding us both towards the VIP suites we've been trapped in for the past God knows how many days.
"In all fairness, it wasn't even my fault. I didn't even have a smartphone with me! You gave me a brick from the days of Moses and called it a phone. All I did was treat someone to a place they deserve. I thought it would redeem all the bad things I caused my friends over the past few days. I mean, seriously, who would've even predicted that people would have their noses off their phones and actually be listening to what others are saying?" I let out, frustrated at the situation I've been stuck in. How no matter what I do, no matter what I say or who I meet; it's always my damn fault.
"That is the real world out there! No matter how much you care Annabelle, you can't protect me from the real world. Everyone has a phone, everyone knows someone who knows someone, and even if the entire FBI took every communicating device to ever exist, there would still be news of the girl who helped an old lady. People talk. We can't change that or make a law prohibiting that."
"Are you done with you outburst young lady?" She reprimands as we enter the elevator and presses the 2nd floor. "I know it's not your fault Alexis, but sweetheart, you need to be way more careful than that. Having your location known to everyone puts you at risk. We still don't know the lengths your uncles will go to get you, so you have to stay put. And no more sneaking off by yourself. You're staying here until we can secure a safe house for you." She finished, just in time as the elevator opened up.
Now I'm back to the same hallway that nurses dying people. The same depressing place where my mom still lays; her fate unknown. I tuned out everyone as I was walking towards our room at the end of the hallway. There were little children playing, a boy on his guitar, singing to them. There were mourning parents and children, but what caught my attention was the room next to our.
There was this beautiful girl who looked about sixteen years old. She had hazel eyes and a beautiful smile, and also a colorful bandanna wrapped around her head. As I passed her open room door, she smiled and waved at me. I stopped, smiled and waved back and she motioned for me to come to her. I saw that Annabelle was busy with one of her agents so I slipped into her room.
The room was decorated with stickers and certificates and letters from various people. Her blanket was a charming purple color with stars filling its center. Although the room looked really pretty, it gave me the idea that she must've been here for a long, long time.
"Hello!" She said ever so sweetly, her laugh resonating throughout the room.
"Hi! I'm Alexis. What's your name?" I replied, standing at the foot of her bed, afraid that any wrong move would hurt her in some way.
"My name is Margaret but everyone calls me Maggie. I already know who you are!" She said, almost jumping off her bed.
"How do you know me?"
Is she with my uncles? Am I going to get kidnapped again? Wait, why am I even thinking about that?
Sometimes I think that something is seriously wrong with the way my brain is wired.
To answer my question, she opened her bed-side drawer and gave me a neatly folded paper that looked like it was at least a few years old.
She motioned for me to sit at the foot of her bed and I complied; a sense of nostalgia washing over me.
Slowly, I opened the letter and was met with a familiar handwritten paper.
Dear Maggs,
I'm really sorry to hear about your cancer. I really don't know how to comfort you in anyway but let me tell you this: YOU CAN OVERCOME IT! Nothing is as strong as you are at this point in time! You can and you will fight this! You are strong and brave and for sure you are not alone. Your doctors are with you, your nurses are with you, your family is with you and I am with you :) If you ever need anything at all don't hesitate to write me and I will do everything that I can to help you. Along with this letter I also put in my lucky angel wings necklace; I hope it'll keep you safe.
Always remember that you are a beautiful and intelligent and loved person! You're way beyond special and never forget that. I am glad to have met someone as amazing as you and always remember that you will always be my friend. Forever and Always.
XOXOXO
Love,
Alexis Pierce.
I was speechless for what seemed like ages. I re-read it again just to be sure that it was me who wrote it. She realized that I was a little starstruck, so she sat up with some difficulty, and started the conversation.
"Last year, there was this program between the hospital where I stayed and this cool high school. We had to randomly send a letter to someone and when they randomly find our letter through your administration, they reply and some sort of pen pals are born. To my good luck, my pen pal happened to be you. You words gave me so much hope and lifted my spirits to the point where my doctors visually saw that I was getting better. So thanks to you and your never-ending encouragement, I am being discharged in a few days. I'm finally seeing the outside of a hospital room for the first time in months!" Her hazel eyes were stained with tears as she happily declared the news.
"I am so happy for you! I'm really glad I did something that didn't end up hurting someone!" I reply, pleased to find a little happiness in this dark pit of hell I was involuntarily thrown into. We hugged for a long time but I had to let got because I was afraid I was going to hurt her.
Yup. The dark aura around me would definitely find a way to get to her as well. You never know.
Little overly-observant me noticed that her smile didn't quite reach her eyes; I'm one to know about concealed sadness. It's practically my middle name.
You know, the one no one knows exist but me.
Anyways.
"What's the matter? You don't look too happy." I asked, pulling the chair from the wall closer to her bed.
"I really am happy, believe me. But..." She chewed her lip, presumably contemplating her answer.
"But what?"
She looked at every inch of the room except at my face.
"Don't worry, you can trust me. Maybe I can bestow upon you some of the non-existent wisdom I have."
She giggled, and I took that as a sign that she was okay with telling me.
"I have this.....friend. He never visited me once. We were best friends since day care, and we spent every waking moment together. Until..." She trailed, tears pooled in her eyes, but she fought them back like the warrior she is. "Until I got sick. He never called, never visited, never even bothered to send a text message. And as much as it's hard to admit, it really hurts. It hurts to consider someone your family and friend and guardian angel just for them to do that to you in the end. He never bothered to check in with me even after that whole 'through thick and thin' BS he's been telling me. I even texted him and it was always left on seen. Every. Single. Time."
I could see that she was trying so hard to fight back the tears, because the sorrow in her face turned into anger
"I really hate how this makes me feel. I hate being this weak and vulnerable because of a person. But I just can't push it aside you know? Not when...."
"Not when the person means the world to you right?" I interrupted.
"Uh, yeah." She said, furrowing her eyebrows.
"I don't mean that in a friendly way Maggs. You love him. I can see it in your eyes." I said with a sly smile. Then it disappeared as soon as I remembered he who must not be named.
She opened her mouth to say something and closed it back again, slumping her shoulder in defeat.
"I don't even know how to explain is Lexi. It's like there's this weird feeling when I look at him or see him smile. Something just runs through my veins, under my skin, through my blood vessels and shoots at my heart. It's a really weird feeling but it's always there with just one look at him. I feel as if my stomach is playing its own kind of symphony and that my heart is there for the ride; bopping along. I don't know what to call it other than love. He's been my everything for a very long time but unfortunately I've been one of his many things forever and I can't get myself to just stop, you know?."
"Trust me I do know. I completely understand where you're coming from and I think we can both proudly admit that the entire male species is nothing but an utter waste of space and air. They're animals and dirt bags and idiots and jerks and just UGH! Please disregard my previous rant, but let me tell you this: Don't let him be the stars in your night sky, don't let him be the air you breathe, don't let him be the reason for your smile or even your whole life - because as soon as he leaves, your skies will turn dark and you'll suffocate because the only person who has the ability to make you smile, would've taken your heart and walked right out the door."
As soon as these words left my mouth, I realized what a hypocrite I am! I'm the one who should be taking my own advice. I should be the one forgetting about Royce and what he did to me. I should be forgetting him. And you know what? I will.
Jaycee Royce? DELETED!
"You know what our problem is?" She asked, looking a little deep in thought.
"That you look like a freaking beauty queen and I look like a balding lizard in a mid life crisis?"
"HA! No. That we spend too much time wondering why we're not good enough and not enough time realizing that we are the best versions of ourselves that we can be. That other people wish to be us. We spend too much time with our heads down and miss out on the people who actually care for us, we never get the chance to take our eyes off the ground and see that the sun shines for us everyday."
"Damn girl! Where'd all that wisdom stem fro...."
I never got to finish my sentence because a stampede of doctors and nurses came rushing past her room and into the room right next to ours.
"Lexi is everything okay? Alexis!" I could faintly hear Margaret say.
It took me a while but I figured out which room that was.
Before the thought processed in my brain, I took off from the room and into the room next door.
My parents' room.
"CLEAR!" I heard someone say.
"Come on, one more time." I faintly heard someone else say.
"Administer one of epi." Someone else interfered!
I finally took in the scene...
They were trying to resuscitate someone....
That someone is....is....my mom!!
"NO!! MOM! MOMMY PLEASE WAKE UP!" I hysterically screamed, my hands latched on to the top of my head. "PLEASE WAKE UP!! DON'T LEAVE ME! PLEASE!!"
I tried to get to her.
To touch her one last time.
To hold her hand again.
"Someone please get her out of here!" Yelled a doctor at someone.
I was carried out by someone who was a little too buff to be a nurse and a little too off.
"LET ME GO!! I WANT TO SEE MY MOM YOU BIG UGLY GORILLA!"
"She'll be okay kid!! Just shut up and listen!" He said as he threw me on the floor.
My head felt a little dizzy.
Listen?
Listen to what?
Before I could utter the words, the tattoo filled Hulk disappeared between the crowd.
And then I felt it.
My phone was vibrating.
A call from an unknown number.
Of course it's unknown. Every single catastrophe in my life begins with a call from an unknown number.
I answered it and brought it to my ears, unable to utter a word.
"Hello Lexi."
A shiver ran down every single bone in my body.
"L-L-Lucas?" I barely whispered, unable to process what the hell is going on.
"What? Did you think that we would just let you be? OH come on. We're family, mischief runs in our blood." He said, I would imagine with a smirk.
"You're NOT my family! You're a deranged psychopathic low-life who deserves jail for what he did to me and my real family!"
"Ok. Maybe I deserve that. But listen carefully because I'll only say this ONCE."
"Why would I listen to anything you say?"
"Because it involves your mom."
He suddenly had my full attention.
"YOU had something to do with it? I will kill you myself and go to jail for it if anything happens to her do you hear me?!"
I was hyperventilating at this point, unable to see clearly or feel anything, so I had to hold on to the wall to keep myself from falling.
I won't cry, I promised myself. I won't give him the satisfaction.
"Oh but you will meet me. You either come with us voluntarily, and without anyone knowing, and I send someone in there to bring your mom to life immediately; you have my word. Not that it means anything. OR. You refuse to come pay us and your dying brother a visit, and watch your mom die right in front of your eyes. That'll make your loss go up to two."
"CJ..." I thought! He's still with them!
Wait. What the hell did he mean dying?
Okay I am going to officially murder him and parade with his dead body.
I can't believe this. Is this what family means to him? Is he being serious? He will kill his own sister, and for what? Of what use would I be to him?
"So Alexis. What do you say?"
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AN: Ladies and gentlemen.....prepare for battle. The last 9 chapters will be crzy and awesome!! Hope you guys enjoyed this!!
I MISSED YOU ALLLL!!! How's everryone doing??
NEXT UP!!! The gang is reunited once more for one last quest that will totally rock their senior year!!!
What would you guys like to happen....comment and I'll choose the best one and feature them in the next chapter <3
TIL NEXT TIME!