Wild

Harry’s POV
Waiting sucks. Sitting in a room without any idea of what is happening behind the emergency room doors is the worst feeling in the world. Every time the doors opened I’d look up, hoping that someone would give me news about Emily, but each one of the doctors that walked out went to someone else. I sat in my chair, my right leg bouncing from anxiety. The boys were scattered around the room, giving up all effort to talk to me once they realized that I was too out of it to listen. My mind was focused on Emily and every memory from the past few months with her. Every moment that caused me to fall more and more in love with her.
*Flashback*
“Harry! Harry!” Emily cried as she ran up to me.
“What? What?” I asked, saying the word twice like she did. She took one look at me and burst out laughing, leaving me completely confused.
“Why are you laughing? All I said was ‘what’”
“But the way you said it. It reminded me of a funny part of a movie”
“Alright then. So what did you want?”
“Huh? Oh...I forgot”
Now it was my turn to laugh. She pouted, something that I absolutely loved, and turned away from me with her arms crossed. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her waist, resting my chin on her shoulder.
“Sorry, love”
“I can’t help that I’m forgetful you know. I get distracted easily, and most of the time its your fault”
“You remind me of Dory from Finding Nemo sometimes. Now, I don’t mean that in a bad way either” I chuckle.
“I LOVE DORY! I can speak whale you know” she said matter of factly.
I chuckled.
“Oh, I know you can. So can I”
We both started speaking whale like they do in the movie and it resulted in the two of us landing in a heap of laughter on the floor. A few minutes later the boys ran in to see what was going on.
“What’s going on in here?” Louis asked.
Emily and I looked at each other before answering him in whale. They looked at us like we were insane, but we didn’t care. We got the joke.
~.:o:.~
“And I was like baby baby baby oh!
Like baby baby baby no!
Like baby baby baby oh!
I thought you’d always be mine, mine”
I walked out onto the stage to find Niall playing guitar while Emily danced around crazily while singing song. His laughter filled the air, which caused me to laugh. Emily grinned and danced over to me before pulling me in to dance with her. We laughed, dancing like idiots as we sang at the top of our lungs. Louis came in sometime during the middle of the song and recorded it to put on Twitter. It didn’t take long for him to join in as well. Soon everyone was dancing crazily and having a good time. Emily brought the child out of all of us.
*End Flashbacks*
“Harry. You’re mum is on the phone” Louis said, holding out my phone to me.
I stared at it for a moment, wondering how I didn’t hear it ring when it was sitting right next to me. I shook the thought from my head and took it from him, then walked outside to talk to her.
“Hey, mum”
“Harry! Oh, thank goodness! I’ve been so worried about you! I heard what happened on the news. Are you alright?”
“Yes, Mum. I’m fine. I got burned a bit, that’s all” I said.
“Have you heard anything about Emily?” I had to pause and take a deep breath before answering.
Just hearing her name nearly made me cry again.
“I don’t know. We haven’t heard anything...” I said quietly.
“I’m sure she’ll be alright. She’s a strong girl. How are you?”
“I’m worried about her, mum. I don’t want to lose her” My voice cracked as I spoke, tears forming in my eyes.
“Oh, honey. Everything will be alright. Just you wait.”
“Thanks, Mum”
I talked to her for a few more minutes before we hung up. I stayed outside. The cool air felt good on my warm skin and woke me up. I was about to go inside when I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see a man who looked to be in his mid twenties walk up to me. He had brown hair and blue eyes similar to Emily’s. Something about him was familiar, but I just couldn’t remember.


“You’re Harry Styles right?” he asked.
“Yeah...”
“I’m Matt. Emily’s brother” he said.
Realization hit me as soon as he said his name. I remembered asking Emily about a picture of her dad, herself, and her brother a few weeks ago. That’s where I remembered him from. Now that I looked at him, he did look a lot like her.
“Hello. Nice to meet you. She talks about you a lot” I said.
“Not as much as she talks about you, I’m sure” I smiled half heartedly and his face grew serious.
“How is she?” he asked.
“We don’t know. They haven’t told us anything” He nodded and we stood there in silence for a moment.
“Thank you. For taking care of her” he said. “I’m glad she finally found someone who treats her right”
“I’m only giving her what she deserves” I replied.
He smiled. “That’s a good answer. You won’t have any problems with my dad when he gets here”
“He’s coming? I thought Emily said he was working on some big case.” I said.
“They’re letting him come for a few days since it’s a family emergency” Matt said.
“Good. Emily really misses him” Matt nodded.
“Yeah. It’s always been tough for her when he buries himself in police work.... Let’s go inside. I’ll see if I can find anything out”
I nodded and followed him inside to where everyone else was waiting. He went to talk to a nurse while I sat down next to Louis.
“Who is that?” he asked.
“Emily’s brother, Matt”
“Oh...How are you doing?” he asked.
“I’m alright...” I shrug slightly.
“Hey, Harry. Niall and I are going to get some coffee. You want anything?” Liam asked.
“No thanks” I replied.
He nodded before the two of them left. A few minutes later Matt came back and informed us that she was out of surgery and that the doctor was coming in to talk to us. We all waited anxiously until he finally came out ten minutes later.
“The surgery went well and she’ll make a full recovery” he said.
We all sighed in relief. I felt like a ton of weight had been lifted off of my shoulders, but then I saw the look on his face and became worried again.
“There’s something else isn’t there” I said.
He sighed softly. “Yes...We had to clear away a lot of infected tissue from her throat and lungs due to the smoke. I’m afraid there’s a chance that she’ll never speak again”

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