LL Chapter 5

LL Chapter 5




Friendship and Sorrow



The rest of the weekend went by quietly. That is quietly as in Alice still was not speaking to me. She never did understand my views of the people in this town or the fact that I just did not want to date anyone let alone socialize with the people that we went to school with. I just did not give a shit about any of them. They meant nothing to me and I sure as hell was never going to think of any of them again after I left this town. Well, with the exception of Jasper, Emmett, and Rose.



Monday ended up being a bad day. Dr. Banner assigned us an in-class lab to do with our lab partners. That meant that I actually had to deal with the swan girl. I looked over at her, ready to tell her to let me handle the whole damn thing on my own, when I found that she already had her text book and note book open and was starting the lab. She looked me right in the eye and said, "Are you going to work on this with me or are you just going to sit there on your lazy ass?"



How dare she speak to me like that? I opened my mouth that snap back but then I got a good look at her. There were dark circles around her eyes, like she had not slept in ages. Or at least, she had not slept well in ages. Considering she had a baby in the NICU in Port Angeles, that was self explanatory. It was a very long hour in that class. Several times I looked up at the clock and I could swear that time was going backwards instead of forward. But, I did learn one thing. Bella Swan was not as stupid as I originally thought she was. She actually knew what she was doing in this lab.



When I got to the lunch room, I got the surprise of my life when I looked around and saw that the new girl had made a couple of friends. The fact that Angela was sitting at her table did not surprise me in the least. She was always known for bring home stray animals and was a sucker for lost causes. But the other person sitting with them was a shock, so was the fact that they were all smiling and laughing.



I did not hear Emmett coming up behind me, so he startled me when he started to talk. "Rose told me this morning that she was going to sit with her. Apparently, Bella joined the support group at the church and came to the meeting for the first time yesterday." Rose joined the support group at the urging of her family and her therapist after she was robbed at gun point six months ago.



She had gone up to Port Angeles by herself on afternoon to pick something up for a date she had with Emmett. It was his birthday and she had special ordered his gift and it came in just in time for his as she was getting back into her BMW, some guy stuck a gun in her back and demanded that she hand over her purse and the keys to the car. Then he made her lay face down on the ground and told her that if she turned to look at him he would kill her. To emphasize his point he shot at her, close enough to her head that she said that she felt the heat of the bullets, but not actually get shot. Then he was gone. Neither the guy nor her car was seen again. We all figure he went straight to a chop shop with it. Now, she won't shop alone and she won't drive any car that is not a rusted out hunk of junk. Emmett has a hard time getting over the guilt that she was there because of him. Consequently, what Rose wanted or needed from him…Rose got.



I sat down with the rest of the group and ate my lunch while listening to Alice gripe and complain that Rose was sitting with the new girl instead of her. Jasper managed to pacify her enough by giving her attention, but I knew what Alice really needed was assurance. Jessica and Alice had been inseparable when they were kids. Then one day, Jessica decided she would rather be friends with Lauren and ditched my sister. It broke my sister's heart to lose her best friend. Not that I really mind after seeing how Jessica and Lauren turned out. They were not only whores, but liked drinking and smoking. And I am not talking about regular cigarettes that you can get at the gas station. I am talking about weed and from what I have heard Alice talking about; they have dabbled in some stronger shit too. But my sister has never gotten over the fact that she was ditched for drugs.



Tuesday afternoon, I had to stop off at the library, so by the I showed up at the NICU, Isaac's mom was there but was getting ready to leave. Her husband, Eric, was on his way to pick her up as he left work, before picking up their daughter and having an early supper together as a family. She was just picking up her purse and I was almost to Isaac's incubator, alarms started going off like crazy. It was Isaac. The doctor on call came rushing in and was barking instructions to the nurse on duty, Jennifer I think. They were saying something about Isaac being in respiratory arrest and that he was crashing. I heard Carrie crying, so I walked over to her and pulled her into a hug and let her cry. Before I knew it, the doctors were on their way out of the door with Isaac for emergency surgery.



It was only seconds later that Eric came in, he paled when he took in the scene before him of his wife crying hysterically. He walked over to us and I handed his wife over to him. The nurse came back in the room and started explaining what was going on and offered to escort them to the surgical waiting room.



As soon as they were gone, I looked up across the room to see Bella sitting all alone holding Tanya. Bella was looking my way but she had tears streaming down her face and she looked completely lost. I stood there for a moment and just looked at her before I turned and walked out of the room.



I made my way down the where the gift shop was and bought three coffees at the coffee bar, before making my way back upstairs. I walked into the waiting room and immediately searched out Carrie and Eric, walked over to them, sat down, and offered them two of the coffees. I called home and told my mom that I was not going to make it home for supper and I then spent the next four hours in the surgical waiting room, keeping Carrie and Eric distracted by asking questions about Cassidy and their jobs while we waited to hear any news on Isaac's condition.



A/N:



I was going to end it with him walking out of the NICU, but reconsidered. He's been enough of a jerk in this chapter. I thought that he deserved for everyone to know that it wasn't really an asshole move on his part. FYH is about half way done. I have posted a teaser on my blog. There is also a link to my twitter. I sometimes post updates on the chapters there sometimes and I might post another teaser there tonight.