TWENTY-THREE

- SEAN'S POINT OF VIEW -

I was currently sitting in the waiting room of the hospital. I tapped my foot repeatedly, anxiously waiting for the news about Hala. I threw my face into my hands. I was incredibly furious right now. I was seriously going to kill Katrina, she needed to be locked up. I leaned back against the chair and slowly closed my eyes. It was all my fault, if I never met Hala she wouldn't of been in this mess. But then again, if I never met her I wouldn't of had such an amazing person in my life.

"Excuse me? Are you here for Hala?" I looked up to see a nurse. I stood up and nodded. "Alright well, she's in room 213 just down the hall. She is doing fine, but just a little groggy at the moment, because of the medicine we had given her for her head."

I ran down the hall, looking for room 213. When I finally reached it, I rushed into the room, making sure to be quiet as well. She was sleeping peacefully in the bed, the only thing you could hear was her steady heartbeat from the monitor. I sighed, walking over and taking a seat in the chair next to the bed.

I slowly took her hand in mine and gently squeezed it. A couple seconds after, I felt her squeeze my hand too. I quickly looked up to her and saw that her eyes were now open as she smiled up at me.

"Hey." She whispered.

I chuckled a little. "Hi. How are you feeling?"

"Tired and gross."

I laughed. "But does your head hurt."

"Sort of, not as bad as before. But what happened?"

I furrowed my eyebrows. "You don't remember?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Am I suppose to?" Maybe I shouldn't tell her, maybe it will be better for her.

"You fell down the stairs." I lied.

She stared at me. "I'm not joking Sean, tell me the truth."

I sighed. "Do you remember going to Katrina's house with me?" She nodded. "Well she wouldn't allow you to come inside with me, so I went in there alone while you waited out on the doorstep for me. After about 5 minutes, I heard something bang the door so I went to go see what it was, and when I opened the door, you weren't there anymore and I saw a car driving off. I figured that someone had taken you and locked you into the trunk of the car." She took a shaky breath.

"Do you want me to continue?" I asked.

Her eyes widened. "There's more?" I nodded. She sighed and nodded, signalling me to go on. I took a deep breath, and continued.

"I followed that car and it had ended up driving into another drive way. The 'masked' person came to get you, but you went all ninja on them, when they opened the trunk," Hala laughed. "then afterwards you two began to fight, and when you pulled off their mask, it kinda shocked us all. It was Danielle." She sighed.

"Do you remember now?" I asked.

"I think so, then the car exploded, am I right?" I sighed and nodded. She laid her head back onto the pillow.

"Where is she now?"

"I don't k-" I froze. "I thought-"

Hala cut me off. "Thought what?"

I checked the time and it was almost 5PM, which meant we only arrived at the hospital about an hour ago. "She was suppose to meet me here." I mumbled. "An hour ago."

"Oh..." Was all she said.

"You know what? Forget it, forget her who cares. All that matters right now is that you're going to be alright." She looked up at me and smiled.

"You know, we should call your parents."

Her eyes grew big and she sat up quickly. "WHAT? NO!"

"Why not?"

She grabbed my hand. "Because I don't want them to get involved. Sean for all I know if Katrina is after me, she'd probably try and kill my parents if they knew about this. I'm not taking anymore chances." I sighed and nodded, understanding what she meant. I got up and pulled my phone out.

"I'll call my parents then."

"No! Don't!" She yelled. I stared at her. "Sean, I am NOT joking. Don't you dare call your parents, or anyone else!"

"Then who am I suppose to tell?!"

"No one! Katrina is a psycho killer, and she'll end up killing us all if someone else found out about this."

"What if the nurse asks about your parents? What am I suppose to tell them?"

"I don't know, just say I don't have parents."

I gave her a look. "What? What else am I suppose to say?" She said.

I threw my hands up in surrender. "Okay okay." Just then my phone began to ring. Hala jumped.

"Who's that?!" She asked.

I looked down at my phone and saw that it was my mom. "My mom."

Hala then began to shake her head. "No no, don't pick up!" I looked at her, then quickly answered the phone. She glared while I just smiled innocently.

"Hey mom!" I greeted happily.

"Hi honey, I just called to ask where you were, I haven't seen you all day."

I nervously laughed. "I was just at Jake's house."

"Oh, well young man you better be home in 5 minutes."

I laughed. "Alright mom, see you soon. Love you."

She laughed as well. "Love you too." I hung up and placed my phone in my pocket. I looked at Hala.

"See everything's fine. But I do have to go, she did sound pretty stern about the being home in 5 minutes." She laughed and nodded. I walked over to her bed and leaned down, giving her a sweet and loving kiss. I pulled back, so that only our foreheads were touching.

"I love you." I whispered to her. She smiled.

"I love you too." I kissed her forehead and got up, walking backwards towards the door. I winked before turning back around and walking out the room. I left the hospital and stood just in front of the entrance.

I pulled out my phone and texted Jake, telling him where I was and to come pick me up. After about 10 minutes he pulled up next to me. I opened up the door and hopped in.

"Care to explain why you're at the hospital." He asked.

"I'll explain later, right now I need to be home." Jake nodded and began to drive.

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- 3RD PERSON'S POINT OF VIEW -

It was 11 PM. The halls of the hospital were dead silent, only nurses wondered, making sure patients were doing okay. Hala was sleeping peacefully in the hospital bed, not having a clue what was about to happen next.

A mysterious person snuck into the room, wearing a black hoodie along with a mask covering their face. A syringe was held in their right hand as they slowly moved towards the machine with the IV wires that were connected to Hala. Slowly but yet quietly, they injected it into the wire, sending the fluid into her system. Then quietly, they snuck back out of the room, leaving absolutely nothing behind.

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- SEAN'S POINT OF VIEW -

It was 12 in the afternoon and I was driving down to the hospital to go and visit Hala. I pulled up into the parking lot and got out, walking into the hospital's waiting room. I walked into Hala's room and saw that she was still sound asleep. Wow she must be exhausted. I took a seat next the bed and gently shook her.

"Hala?" I whispered. She groaned and slowly opened her eyes. She smiled once she saw me.

"Hello." She whispered.

"How are you feeling?"

She yawned. "Really tired." Her eyes began to droop again, but she tried her best to keep them open.

"Hey hey, don't do that. You should sleep if you're tired." I moved the hair from her face and leaned down and kissed her lips softly. I pulled back and looked at her, seeing that her eyes slowly closed. I sighed, but then suddenly felt her hand drop from mine.

Maybe she's asleep and she let go. Right? But I was wrong. The heart monitor began to make that sound that I wished never would. It was the sound that meant it was a flat line. My eyes grew.

"SOMEONE HELP! NURSE!" I screamed, running out of the room. Nurses and doctors ran into her room, I tried running back into the room but one of the nurses pushed me back.

"Sorry sir, you can't come in, they're are too many people in here." She said, before shutting the door and pulling the blinds close. I stood there in shock. I didn't know what to think. I then dropped to my knees and threw my head into my hands as tears streamed down my face.

This can't be happening. I thought she was okay. What happened? But then a scary thought passed my mind.

.........Is she....dead?

AUTHOR'S NOTE

So everyone that is the end of the story and I am sorry to say, there will NOT be a sequel. But I hoped you enjoyed this story and please don't forget to vote and especially comment. I love it when you guys comment :)
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NAH I'M KIDDING! So there WAS a sequel that I posted but I've decided to take that book and merge it into this one so it would become one full book. Now technically there is no sequel, you can just continue on reading this book.