Hold On
Chapter 15
Chapter 15
This last week has been amazing. I have spent most of everyday with Sarah. I had a bad feeling about today though, and I wasn’t sure why. The guys and I had plans to take Sarah out today because management was wanting us to get back to work in a few days. I really didn’t want to leave Sarah behind again. Maybe that was why I was having a bad feeling.
I shook the feeling away again as I headed across town to Sarah’s flat. The boys were still getting ready and had decided to just meet us there. We were all going to go out for a nice dinner. I wanted tonight to be perfect because I wasn’t completely sure when the next time I was going to see Sarah would be.
My phone rang and I quickly answered it, “Hello?”
“Hey, we are about to load up and leave. You there yet?”
“Not yet,” I said as I turned a corner and was stopped by a red light. I sighed. It never seemed to fail. “Give me about five minutes.”
“Alrighty,” Louis said, “Give us a call when you are heading over there. Later.”
He didn’t even give me a chance to answer him before he hung up. I sighed but soon smiled as the light changed to green. I chucked my phone into the other seat as I moved forward. My car was too silent, so I turned on the radio. I smiled as “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol came on the radio. I began to sing along.
“I don’t quite know how to say how I feel…” I stopped and listened to Sarah’s voice pick up the next part in my head.
“Those three words…are said too much…or not enough.”
I could remember when Sarah and I first heard this song when we were in middle school. We both had immediately become addicted to it and listened to it on repeat.
I smiled back at her as we hung out in my room and sang. I had opened up more about my singing after Sarah had told me that I could sing, or that she liked my singing.
“If I lay here…If I just lay here…Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” we sang together with huge smiles on our face.
My mind came back to reality as I pulled into a space outside of Sarah’s flat. I sat in my car for another minute and listened to the song. I could think of so many times that we had just hung out and sang to that song. All of those times were memories that made me laugh or smile. I shut off the radio because I realized that I was smiling like an idiot in my car. I grabbed my phone and headed up to Sarah’s flat. I continued to hum the song as I headed up.
“Sarah?” I said as I knocked. I waited but heard no answer.
I knocked again, “Sarah?”
I decided that I would just go in. She was just probably getting ready in the bathroom and couldn’t hear me. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the key that she had given me for getting her things while she was in the hospital.
I closed the door and slid my key back into my pocket. Her flat was dead silent. I looked around, seeing no sign of Sarah. I thought for a minute. She shouldn’t have gone anywhere, so where could she be?
It took me a few moments, but I decided that she must have fallen back to sleep. The doctor had said that she would be weak for a while due to the severity of her concussion, not to mention that she had told me that she felt a little funny this morning. I peeked my head into her room, seeing nothing. I couldn’t hear anything coming from the bathroom either. I scratched my head as I headed back into the living room. I fixed my hair as I tried to figure out where she could be.
“Sarah?” I called again, hoping for an answer.
I walked through the living room, heading to the only other room in the flat that I hadn’t check. The kitchen.
“Sarah?” I asked as I stuck my head around the corner.
I froze in fear. Sarah was lying on her kitchen floor, her eyes closed and not moving. My heart stopped as my eyes landed on the blood that was oozing from a gash in her forehead, a giant red pool consuming her.
“Sarah!” I screamed as I finally broke from my chance. I ran over to her and pulled her up. She was still breathing, I could see her chest raising and falling. But it was only barely moving. I felt the tears come to my eyes as I fumbled for my phone, I had to call for help.
This last week has been amazing. I have spent most of everyday with Sarah. I had a bad feeling about today though, and I wasn’t sure why. The guys and I had plans to take Sarah out today because management was wanting us to get back to work in a few days. I really didn’t want to leave Sarah behind again. Maybe that was why I was having a bad feeling.
I shook the feeling away again as I headed across town to Sarah’s flat. The boys were still getting ready and had decided to just meet us there. We were all going to go out for a nice dinner. I wanted tonight to be perfect because I wasn’t completely sure when the next time I was going to see Sarah would be.
My phone rang and I quickly answered it, “Hello?”
“Hey, we are about to load up and leave. You there yet?”
“Not yet,” I said as I turned a corner and was stopped by a red light. I sighed. It never seemed to fail. “Give me about five minutes.”
“Alrighty,” Louis said, “Give us a call when you are heading over there. Later.”
He didn’t even give me a chance to answer him before he hung up. I sighed but soon smiled as the light changed to green. I chucked my phone into the other seat as I moved forward. My car was too silent, so I turned on the radio. I smiled as “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol came on the radio. I began to sing along.
“I don’t quite know how to say how I feel…” I stopped and listened to Sarah’s voice pick up the next part in my head.
“Those three words…are said too much…or not enough.”
I could remember when Sarah and I first heard this song when we were in middle school. We both had immediately become addicted to it and listened to it on repeat.
I smiled back at her as we hung out in my room and sang. I had opened up more about my singing after Sarah had told me that I could sing, or that she liked my singing.
“If I lay here…If I just lay here…Would you lie with me and just forget the world?” we sang together with huge smiles on our face.
My mind came back to reality as I pulled into a space outside of Sarah’s flat. I sat in my car for another minute and listened to the song. I could think of so many times that we had just hung out and sang to that song. All of those times were memories that made me laugh or smile. I shut off the radio because I realized that I was smiling like an idiot in my car. I grabbed my phone and headed up to Sarah’s flat. I continued to hum the song as I headed up.
“Sarah?” I said as I knocked. I waited but heard no answer.
I knocked again, “Sarah?”
I decided that I would just go in. She was just probably getting ready in the bathroom and couldn’t hear me. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the key that she had given me for getting her things while she was in the hospital.
I closed the door and slid my key back into my pocket. Her flat was dead silent. I looked around, seeing no sign of Sarah. I thought for a minute. She shouldn’t have gone anywhere, so where could she be?
It took me a few moments, but I decided that she must have fallen back to sleep. The doctor had said that she would be weak for a while due to the severity of her concussion, not to mention that she had told me that she felt a little funny this morning. I peeked my head into her room, seeing nothing. I couldn’t hear anything coming from the bathroom either. I scratched my head as I headed back into the living room. I fixed my hair as I tried to figure out where she could be.
“Sarah?” I called again, hoping for an answer.
I walked through the living room, heading to the only other room in the flat that I hadn’t check. The kitchen.
“Sarah?” I asked as I stuck my head around the corner.
I froze in fear. Sarah was lying on her kitchen floor, her eyes closed and not moving. My heart stopped as my eyes landed on the blood that was oozing from a gash in her forehead, a giant red pool consuming her.
“Sarah!” I screamed as I finally broke from my chance. I ran over to her and pulled her up. She was still breathing, I could see her chest raising and falling. But it was only barely moving. I felt the tears come to my eyes as I fumbled for my phone, I had to call for help.
7/23/13