Secrets

Ready For Me, Are You?

Lily came into consciousness later in the evening of the next day. No one had left the hospital, Sam had insisted to the girls to go home, that he would be there and tell them if there was any news, but the three of them didn't move a muscle. After the text they received, ever fiber in their body became alert and suspicious. Even though their first suspect should have been Sam, but since Sam had been so gloomy and devastated ever since he brought his wife to the hospital and also since he lost his own baby, the three of them had eliminated Sam as their suspect. 

Laura kept thinking about the person behind all these and every time, she would come up empty which aggravated her further. Taylor had paced the hallways of the hospital like fifty times already and even though Laura wanted to ask Taylor to sit down, Laura understood that Taylor was as worried for her friends as Laura herself was. And then there was Sarah. When Sarah heard about the death of Lily's unborn child, Sarah felt as if someone inserted a knife into her chest and had drawn out her heart with the knife. Sarah knew that the baby was not hers, it belonged to Lily and Sam and she couldn't begin to imagine what Sam must be going through or how would Lily react once she opened her eyes and heard the news; however, ever since Sarah had decided to tell her feelings to Lily and ever since she had thought about Lily's baby, she had promised to take care of Lily's baby as her own, love the baby as her own. And maybe because of that, she had considered that baby to be some sort of piece in her life and when Lily lost her child, Sarah felt like she lost a child as well. 

Laura and Taylor looked at Sarah and they were extremely worried about Sarah because unlike the others who had shown their anger or sadness or any sort of emotions overtly, Sarah simply sat in a chair, staring at nothing. Laura always believed that expressing one's feelings through anger or tears or in any verbal form was much better than just suppressing them until the point that they suffocated the person and after watching Sarah keep quiet, looking numb the whole night and the morning just worried Laura and Taylor. 

But as the day closed in, the nurse informed them that Lily had finally opened their eyes. The three friends waited for Sam to first enter but Sam, being a gentleman, asked the women to go ahead before him and meet their friend. Everyone let out grateful smiles towards him while a stoic Sarah gave a nod to him. Sam smiled at them as he saw them eagerly go inside to meet their friend. 

When they entered Lily's room, everyone's heart ached to see their friend so fragile in a hospital bed. From Lily's facial expressions, her friends knew that the doctor had told her the news of her baby. Laura and Taylor stood to Lily's right while Sarah to Lily's left. As Sarah gazed upon the love of her life, her heart fell onto her stomach. Lily looked so thin and pale. Her head was bandaged and her semi-opened robe showed the plaster around her ribs. Her left arm had some bones broken which was also plastered. Sarah closed her eyes as she tried to control the anger that began to flare up inside of her. 

Sarah's eyes went towards the monitor that was helping Lily to breathe because breathing on her own had become a difficult task for such a vibrant woman. Sarah's heart was aching so badly, Laura's eyes were seeing red spots as she began to get hot due to anger and Taylor was mentally cursing the person who did such an execrable thing to their friend.

When Lily saw her friends, so worried, tears automatically rolled down her cheeks. Laura shook her head at her friend. "Don't cry, my friend. I am going to kill the bastard who did this to you." Lily wanted to say something, but she wasn't able to talk as it pained her ribs when moved too much. 

Sarah was intently looking at Lily. "She wants to tell us something." Laura and Taylor's heads snapped to look at Sarah when she uttered a full sentence after twelve hours. "You want to tell us something, yes?" Sarah asked Lily.