Taken In

Chapter 10

Luke's P.O.V.

"A-a c-coma?" I asked, my knees feeling weak and my eyes glassing over with tears. My little baby girl in... a coma?

"I'm afraid so, Mr. Hemmings..." the doctor said. "We're doing all that we can for her, but this is just gonna take time..."

'But we don't have time! Our tour starts in a week and-'

"Whas coma?" a small voice said from behind the doctor. Alexandria sat in Calum's arms looking around puzzledly at us. Calum looked wide-eyed at me, then at Star, and back at me, expecting me to say something

"Um, it's... Uh"

"Star is just taking a really long nap." Michael jumped in

"Oh, otay..." Alex said quietly. She seemed a little sad, but she didn't seem to fully grasp the seriousness of the situation.

After a few moments of silence, the doctor softly said, "We'll give you some time..." as he and the nurse turned and left the room.

The tears that had been brimming in my eyes spillednout and I sobbed quietly. Ashton came over and wrappednhis arms supportively around me.

"This is all my fault!" I said, "I should have stayed out there wit-

" No no no..." Ashton cut me off, "You can't blame yourself for this. You couldn't have stopped that huge wave even if you had been there the entire time."

I heard some sniffles from around the room. When I looked up, I saw most of the other boys were tearing up and watching Star.

"Where's Alex?" I asked.

"Calum took her down to the gift shop." Zayn spoke up from one corner of the room .

I slowly walked over to Stalin's side and crouched down. I took Starlin's hand in mine and kissed it softly. I stared at her small, pale face.

Come back to me please??

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Alex's P.O.V.

I skipped around the little room Calum brought me to. It had lots of stuffed animals and balloons. There were even these funny little folded papers with pictures and words on them.

"Wha dat say?" I asked, pointing at one of the folded papers.

"Um, it says... Get Well Soon..." Calum replied.

"Oh..." I said, staring at the words. How does he understand them? They just look like weird drawings to me.... Oh, well! I continued skipping around the room.

"Do you want to get a balloon for Star?" Calum said. I nodded, smiling. He took my hand and we walked over to where the balloons were. I grabbed the strings that were dangling from the balloons and pulled, looking at each balloon and letting it go.

Finally, I found a pink one I liked and said, "Dis one!" Calum grabbed the string and pulled the balloon.

"Um probably not this one, Alex." Calum said, "This is for when someone has a baby."

"Oh, otay..." I pointed to a yellow balloon with a smiley face. "Dat one."

"Looks good!" he said, pulling the balloon down so I could carry it. He paid for it, and we walked out of the little "shop" or at least that's what Calum said it was

"Let me text Louis to see if they're ready for us to go back up, okay?" Calum said, sitting on a bench. I jumped onto the bench and sat, swinging my legs as Calum tapped his phone