“No!” Declan screamed when he saw Madison was on a stretcher soaked in blood. She was hardly recognizable with her face swollen and covered in soot and blood. I was seconds to late to save her, but I wasn’t going to miss a second of being with her if this was it. I rushed over to the ambulance and screamed over to Ezra to call Stella and Delilah.
We pulled up to the hospital and they rushed Madison into the emergency room. I was escorted to another room to have my arm bandage up from where the bullet grazed me. I was so focused on Madison, I didn’t even realize I was bleeding everywhere. Well between being covered in Madison’s blood, I don’t think any of us realized I was bleeding. Afterwards, I was told to wait in the waiting room, but all I wanted was to be by Madison’s side. Eventually everyone arrived besides Stella and Knox. I would honestly be surprised if Knox even showed his face here.
“Excuse me, are any of you family?” We all looked up at her wanting to say yes, but technically we weren’t.
“Hi, I’m her boyfriend Jude. We are waiting for guardian to come, but is there any way you can let us know if she is going to be ok?”
“I’m sorry, but we will need to wait until her guardian is here to give out any information.”
She went to turn away, but I needed to know if Madison will be ok. I can’t sit here for another minute thinking she could be possibly dead. “We understand, but please we almost lost her back there and right now we just need to know something.”
She turned around taking an eyeful of my bloody clothes and soot covered skin. You can tell by her expression on her face she was fighting with herself internally on what she should do. Lucky for us, she took a deep breath and whispered, “The most I can say is your girlfriend is in surgery as we speak. There was a lot of blood loss, but you will have to wait for the doctor to let you know the results. That’s all I can say and not another word.”
She turned around and walked away without saying another word like she said. I fell back in the chair and just held my head in my hands. I couldn’t stop replaying everything that happened tonight. When that got to be too much, my brain decided to punish me with every cruel thing I did to her these last few months. The worst thought that haunts me though is Madison seeing that video play in front of everyone. Her last memory was thinking I was behind it. How the fuck did tonight go from me wanting to tell her I’m in love with her to this?
I got up to get some fresh air, but that had to wait since Stella came rushing into the hospital. “Where’s Madison Bloom! Nurse, someone, please tell me where my friend is!” Stella was shouting at anyone and everyone. Nurses were telling her to calm down while I noticed security making there way down to us.
“Stella!” I shouted and she came running towards me. I was never an affectionate type of guy, well besides to Madison, but here I was holding her best friend while she bawled her eyes out on my shoulder.
“I’m so sorry. I was late getting to her and now she is fighting for her life.” I felt my throat starting to close and that sickening feeling returning to my stomach. I know Chanel and Mrs. Montgomery were to blame for this, but I couldn’t help feel guilty also.
“Stop! Don’t think for a second any of us, especially Madison, would want you to blame yourself. My brother on the other hand has a lot of apologizing to do. He’s waiting outside and knew you may want to talk to him.” She let go and walked into the waiting room. Ezra held his arms open and she went to him. They held each other while she cried and I wished more than anything I could just hold Madison again, even for just a second.
I headed outside to have a word with someone I thought was my best friend. I understood I stabbed him in the back for taking back my girl and lying about it, but what he did in return was over the line. He was leaning against the hospital wall with his head bent down and once again I saw red. I stormed over shouting, “Yo! What the fuck did you do tonight!”
Knox was taller and bigger, but knowing my girlfriend might actually die tonight took any type of sense left in me out. I grabbed onto his jacket with my left hand and cracked him in the face with my right fist. I then proceeded to slam him into the wall. Knox wouldn’t fight back. Hell, he wouldn’t even look at me. He just took whatever anger I had in me and accepted it.
I finally pulled his head up so we can face eye to eye, but what looked back at me wasn’t the Knox I knew. His eyes were filled with tears and had a haunting look to them. “I deserve much worst Jude.”
“I’m not going to lie, you do. I don’t want a sob story from you right now, I want the truth. What in the hell happened tonight?”
“After I caught you two in the woods, I was the angriest I have ever been in my life. She was my girl and you were my best friend. When I invited you to her house and I saw the way you two looked at each other, I knew I lost her then. So I asked her not to hook up with you and you know what she couldn’t even promise not to. I wish I just let her
