The Guy Next Door (COMPLETED)

By Percabeth5599

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"Every good girl wants a bad boy who is good only for her." "Every bad boy wants a good girl who is bad on... More

The Guy Next Door
Chapter 1:Next Weeks Headlines
Chapter 2: Don't Judge A Party By Its Invitation
Chapter 3: 7 Minutes in Hell
Chapter 4: A Psycopaths Greatest Weapon: A Diary.
Chapter 5: Jake and Alec Step it up.
Chapter 6: There is Nothing Mysterious about the Mystery Girl
Chapter 7: The Importance of High Heels
Chapter 8: I Want Peonies At My Funeral
Chapter 9: Im Blushing like im Bella and he's Edward Cullen.
Chapter 10: Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde
Chapter 11: The Automaton Supergoddess
Chapter 12: Teenage Girl Pirhanas
Chapter 13: Brownie Points
Chapter 14: Coming out of The Closet
Chapter 15: Some Things Are Just Worth Remembering
Chapter 16: Cat Fights Have Nothing On How Girls Fight
Q & A: Ask And You Shall Recieve
Chapter 17: The Best Way To Become Sober
Chapter 18: My Life Is Like A Spanish Soap Opera.
Chapter 19: I Liked You Better When You Were Body Snatched.
Chapter 20: The Jake I Like.
Chapter 21: Do You Want A Lap Dance With That?
Chapter 22: An Assinine Manboob with Issues
Chapter 23:She would enjoy Death by a Pillow Way More
Chapter 24: It's like I am Going to Meet the Godfather
Chapter 25: Being Good is Overrated
Chapter 26: You Can't Beat Me in Sad and Pathetic.
Chapter 27: Under the Mistletoe
Chapter 28: Bringing Back Memories Part: 1
Chapter 29: Bringing Back Memories Part: 2
Chapter 30: Certifiably Crazy but Fun
Chapter 31: Drama Should Be My Middle Name
Chapter 32: I Always Hated Barbie Dolls
Chapter 33: Some People Never Change
Chapter 34: Gossip Girl Wasn't Nearly as Scandalous
Chapter 35: It Must Have Cost A Panda
Chapter 36: I Go All Jackie Chan on Him
Chapter 37: Nothing Beats Apple Juice
Chapter 38: I Prefer Barbie to Creepy Ken Any Day
Chapter 39: The New Years Jaw Drop
Chapter 40: Forget Karma, Life is a Bitch
Chapter 41: Polish Your Armour, Prince Charming
Chapter 42: You Belong With Me
Chapter 43: It's All About the Chemistry
Chapter 44:You Wish You Were as Cool as Elsa
Chapter 45: This is Turning Into A Final Destination Movie
Chapter 46: It's Like a Never Ending Merry Go Round
Chapter 47: What You Deserve
Chapter 48: The Blame Game
Chapter 49: How to Give Snow White a Run for Her Money
Chapter 50:My Life is like a Burger King: Unlimited Refills of Drama
Chapter 51:How to be the Biggest Bitch on the Planet
Chapter 52: I Fall to Pieces.
Chapter 54: If Orlando Bloom Came in Wearing a Dress Made of Kit Kats
Chapter 55: I Solemnly Swear I'm Up To No Good
Authors Note
Chapter 56: Being Kaptain Killjoy
Chapter 57: Channeling My Inner Kate Beckett
Chapter 58: The Zombies From Walking Dead Have Nothing On Me
Chapter 59: It's Like She Thinks MIT is a Community College
Chapter 60: Newsflash! My Life Is Not a Romance Novel
Chapter 61: Deafening Silence
Chapter 62:Edward Needs To Cut Back On Body Glitter
Chapter 63: Kiss Me Even If You Shouldn't
Chapter 64: He's the Freaking Pegacorn
Chapter 65: We Wear Pink On Wednesdays
Chapter 66: I Love You
Chapter 67: I Want Everything
Chapter 68: How You Get the Guy
Chapter 69: The Guy Next Door
Epilogue
Bonus Chapter One: Texting

Chapter 53:Because You Promised

378K 13.8K 14.3K
By Percabeth5599

UNEDITED: Eh, you guys are going to have to exercise because of the level of cheese in this chapter.This is so totally not one of my good chapters.

Cover on top:@liamdxnbar

Everybody has a way of losing it completely. Some people would probably get angry and punch something trying to take their anger out on something. Some people would go steely calm to a point they were almost numb not even realising what was happening around them.

And some people would have a complete meltdown crying and become a total mess.

And then there was the Clara Wilson way of losing it and it was a mixture of all three in the nastiest way possible.

"Clara?

Rebecca looks at me unsurely as she takes in my appearance, her eyes falling to the bracelet which I had clasped around my wrist.

I stand up wordlessly not saying anything. I don't know how I ended up back on the floor but to be perfectly honest but I didn't care.

In fact at this point I didn't care about anything.

"Ashley's here." She says,"They've gone to get the doctor so they can give her an update about him. You coming?"

She tried to keep her tone as light as possible but her uncertainty flickers through her voice. But even she knows better than to say his name in front of me right now.

I give her a curt nod and she carefully links her arm around mine but I tug it away.

She doesn't say anything and maybe it's because she's hurt but I can't get myself to actually find out. She guides me to what I could only presume as the waiting room.

I barely register who is there or what they are doing here before I'm enveloped by Ashley into a giant hug. I faintly realise that she's crying and saying something in mind tells me to hug her back.

But I just stand there and wait for her to be done.

"I've called Jeanine." She says pulling away," She's on her way. She's getting Mr Evans too, they are getting on the jet and coming immediately."

I look at her blankly and she looks at me confused,"Clara did you hear me?"

I nod.

She tries giving me a reassuring smile,"I'm sure he's going to be fine. He's always been a stubborn kid anyway, he's not going to give up so easily."

Again I say nothing.

"Clara are you all right?" She asks slowly and kept staring at me expectantly as she waited for an answer.

Well she certainly wasn't getting one from me anytime soon.

"Family of Jake Henderson?"

Ashley's head snaps up as she turns to look at the doctor who had just entered the room. He was easily in his mid forties, his hair greyish holding a file in his hands.

"His mother is on his way, I- I am-" Ashley starts frantically.

The doctor looks apprehensive but he says,"He's got a severe concussion and a dislocated shoulder along with a few cuts, some bruised ribs, nothing too serious. He's in better shape than expected but he's not waking up."

I'm barely listening to what he's saying, my eyes are just focused on the file in his hands which he's currently referring to as he's speaking.

JAKE HENDERSON
ROOM: 559
PATIENT NUMBER:213456/002

"-he's been unconscience for more more than three hours which means that there is a possibility that even if he wakes up-"

Even if.
Even if.

"- possibility of amnesia and-"

I promptly turn on my heels, that feeling that I'm going to suffocate comes back in full force and I know I just have to get out of here.

"Can we go see him?" Ashley asks and the doctor regretfully shakes his head.

"I'm sorry ma'am right now it's family only. " He says,"We can't-"

"Clara?" Rebecca looks at me concerned,"He's going to be all-"

"Don't lie to me." I say quietly and she steps back shocked and I continue in my toneless voice,"Don't make promises to me that you can't keep."

She sighs looking away,"I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking."

My grandmother comes next to me and puts a hand on my shoulder," Sweetie, I know it's hard, just breathe okay? We can go check on Alec."

And that's what snaps me out of my numb daze. The fact that I absolutely don't want to see Alec Evans.

"No."

And I turn around and walk out of the room.

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"Elena is starting to annoy the crap out of me." My roommate Alison starts,"Good god Damon is right there with all his bad boy charm and she's still freaking choosing Stefan. Is she high or something?"

I laugh, Alison was currently ranting about Vampire Diaries, season three had just gotten over and she was annoyed to say the least.

"I mean it's not that she doesn't love Damon too, huh?" She said,"We all saw her kissing him, we all saw her totally falling for him but she still freaking goes back to Stefan. He's safe? Really if you want safe just go wrap yourself in bubble wrap or something. God I'm starting to hate that TV show because the stupid main character is so dumb."

"You were just telling me how you can't wait for the next season." I say raising an eyebrow as I skilfully dodged some undergrowth as we continued our trek up the hill which I wasn't enjoying one bit. Walking was bad enough for me, but walking up hill at night with shrubs and stones was worse.

"Yeah well duh! Just because I hate the main character that doesn't mean I can't still hold out hope for her and Damon. Though let's face it Elena totally does not deserve him after all the shit she's pulled with the both of them." She says.

I roll my eyes,"I guess she thinks that Stefan is safe and sweet and nice. He won't hurt her and he'll always put her opinion in front of everything else. Plus she's known him longer."

She stopped abruptly making me crash into her almost losing my balance. Which would be nasty considering there was a large drop a few feet to the right.

"No." She says dramatically,"You did not just say that. You totally did not defend Stefan against Damon. It's just not-"

"Hey I'm team both." I defend.

She raises an eyebrow,"Isn't the ironic considering that you've got the hots for Jake? I definitely thought you were more into the bad boy type. I mean he'd probably have to grow older a little taller and get some fangs but I'm willing to bet that he'd come somewhere near-"

"Woah- woah! I have the hots for who?" I say.

"Me of course."

I jump to see Jake casually walking next to me.

It was nighttime and all of us were treking to the top of the hill to see the stars. Apparently they were so clear that you could see just about every constellation.

Although I wasn't too enthusiastic about the whole let's go climb on top of a hill with a steep drop and a scary forest thing at night I was excited by the prospect of seeing the stars. I wasn't too much of a star enthusiast, that was Jake but I was still all too excited about it.

"What is with you and sneaking up on people?" I say through gritted teeth my hand still on my chest.

"Tsk-Tsk." He says smirking,"You should pay proper attention you know, it's usually the unaware clumsy blonde chick who gets killed first in the horror movie right?So think of this as future practice, The guy tend to come from behind and grab her and-"

I raise an eyebrow,"Oh so now you're planning on grabbing unsuspecting teenage girls from the back, huh? Sounds real classy Jake."

"Nah." He says and then smirks,"That's just you. Can't have you dying first now can I?"

Alison was smiling as she looks over to the both of us,"So I'm just going to leave you both to flir-" I glare at her and she clears her throat innocently,"I mean doing whatever it is you both do now days."

She nearly ran ahead and I glared at her back. She was so totally doing it on purpose. The two of us were at the back of the group now, a few campers mainly girls glancing back from time to time staring at us.

Correction: staring at him.

"Remind me to tell her that I hate her." I say sarcastically before trudging ahead,"I'll just put her name below yours on that list."

"Oh come on Car." He says,"I thought we were past this you hate me because boys have cooties phase."

"Boys have cooties phase?" I say incredulously,"I don't hate all boys I hate you specifically."

He puts his hand on his chest mockingly but he genuinely looks hurt,"But I'm adorable."

I give him a look and then point to my red hair and the my super short shorts.

"That's not adorable."I say,"It's annoying."

"I'm annoyingly adorable, you mean to say. " He corrects and I simply huff and keep walking ahead.

He smirked,"So this what this about then? That you're a sore loser."

"Hey camp isn't over yet." I say,"I'm so getting back at you."

"Last time I almost got torn by a pack of fourteen year old girls." He says,"I would really like if that didn't happen again and my hair is totally off limits."

"You do know you're just tempting me more?"

He shrugs,"Well I try my best."

I roll my eyes and give him a shove. He stumbles to the edge catching himself but then makes a big show of almost falling down the edge.

Panicked I reach for him to try to help him regain his balance, thinking that he was actually going to fall.

And then I trip which me stumble and slam straight into Jake who is already on the edge which in turn make him lose his balance and send us both tumbling down.

And the award for being the stupidest klutz in the universe goes to, queue in dramatic music, Me!

We slam into the ground painfully as we roll down the hill. The hill was at a height but the slope was gentler than expected. It still hurt like crap though.

If I was dead it would definitely hurt less.

"Jake?" I call out softly and slowly raise my head.

Jake is lying a few feet away from me absolutely still. I turn my body and manage to push myself towards him.

I shake him slightly,"Jake!"

He's still not moving.I don think he's breathing.

Shit, shit.

"Jake!" My voice is even more high and panicked,"Jake please be okay. Wake up!"

And then he starts shaking and finally cracks open his eyes.

Not shaking- laughing.

"Sorry-" he says in between breaths,"I just couldn't hold my breath any longer."

I stare at him gape mouthed as he is still laughing. I hit him hard on the shoulder,"God you're such a jerk!"

"Jake! Jake please be okay-" He says mockingly but cuts off when he takes a look at me,"Shit Car are you crying?"

I wasn't, but I was pretty damn close to it.

"Any sane person would be crying now. " I say,"Considering that we are currently somehwere at the bottom of the hill in the woods at night. Not to mention I'm stuck with a complete jerk."

"I didn't think you'd take it so seriously." He says,"It was a joke."

"No it wasn't. Have you ever thought what would happen if something really happened to you?" I ask,"What would happen to me?"

He looks at me curiously,"I thought you hated me. Why would you if something-"

"Don't. You. Dare. Finish. That. Sentence. " I say slowly and then take a deep breath and then I added,"I don't hate you Jake. Although you are a jerk and annoying but I don't want you dead, most of the times. "

He raises an eyebrow smiling just a little bit,"Most of the times?"

"Well killing you is a task that is solely my job." I say actually managing to return the smile.

"Uh-uh. " He says not looking even the least bit convinced.

I give him and eye roll and then I realise just where we were. I don't know how I forgot.

"Okay I think we should start moving." He says getting up slowly putting his weight on his legs. He doesn't stumble which tells me that nothing must be broken.

He then stretches both his hands towards me, his palms slightly cut up and bleeding,"Come on let's get you up."

I take his hands as he hoists me up to my feet, I as usual stumble slightly on my feet but this time Jake is ready for it and steadies me.

"Okay." He says scanning my face his hands on either cheek ,"Anything broken or hurting?"

For a second I look at him kind of stunned trying to collect my thoughts under his intense gaze.

Why haven't I ever noticed how green his eyes were?

"Clara?" He asks,"You okay?"

I snap out of it.

"I think so." I say scanning my arms which thanks to my full sleeved sweatshirt was fairly untouched. But my legs...

My legs were completley scratched up and scraped. Both were covered with numerous scratches almost all bleeding but the skin on my right knee seemed to be the worst almost completley split open drenching my sock and shoe with blood.

And right then all is could think about was thank god, Jake wasn't a vampire he'd probably try to eat me.

Yeah, Alison and I really need to cut back on our Vampire Diaries talks.

But Jake looked horrified. At first I thought it was the sight of the blood but then guilt and regret flashed through his eyes and I got that he was probably feeling pretty shitty for screwing with my clothes so I was forced to wear the shorts.

"You know it's better than it looks." I say feeling kind of terrible for making him look so guilty,"It doesn't hurt that much."

It hurt like a bitch but I was a pro at handling this sort of thing. I was the kind who fell down stairs, I was the kind who got cuts and bruised everyday so this wasn't really bad.

So I just stood in front of him, one of my hands wrapped around his shoulders to keep my balance feeling incredibly bad that he was currently blaming himself for it.

"Jake. I'm fine." I say actually smiling and surprised that I didn't have to fake it even bit,"Because I know you're going to get us out of this. I trust you."

He finally looks at me, his green eyes widening with this disbelief,"Y-You trust me?"

The smile grows wider,"Always." And then I give him a look,"But if you ever pull that kind of shit again by scaring the living daylights out of me by dying on me, or fake dying or whatever I'm going to personally going to-

"I get it, I get it. " He says and smirks,"You care about me and I promise I'll never let anything happen to this adorable face."

I roll my eyes,"Good and remember I hate people who can't keep promises they make."

He grins and gives my hand two small squeezes "I wouldn't even dream of breaking it."

Liar.
He was such a godamn liar.
And as soon as he woke up I was going to kill him.

That night was what should have been a nightmare for any sane person. Being stuck in the woods at night, bleeding like crazy with a boy who got on your nerves to a point where you almost wanted to kill him.

But for some reason whenever somebody told me to calm down and go to a happy place I would go to that night.

That moment when Jake looked me when I told him that I trusted him completley and when he made a promise to me that I should have forgotten about a long time ago.

But I I didn't.

I'd never told anyone about it because that promise was meant for me, only me, that he wouldn't let anything happen to him because of what would happen to me.

He'd known I suppose, somewhere, even as a fourteen year old that someday just how important he would become to me. And maybe someday just how much that promise would actually mean to me.

And I refused to accept that this was it. This was how we were going to end after everything we had been through. That he was just going to give up.

I am not going to let him give up.

Reaching the elevator was easy and getting into it was even easier. There was really no one around at this time of the night. I look at the buttons and press the 5th floor.

559.

That shouldn't be too tough to find.

Only family, what a joke. The doctor can go to hell, I don't care. I was going to see Jake and whoever actually got the guts to stop me..

I'm wasn't going to end pretty for them.

The elevator beeped and slid open. I stepped out only to be stopped in my tracks.

"Visiting hours are over." The woman said,"You can't be here."

I give her a quick once over.She looks young, around twenty four on the maximum her dark black hair tied in a careless bun. She's holding a coffee cup in her hand as she stares back at me unsurely trying to hold my gaze.

Intern, definitely, new too. Coffee cup means she's probably the one stuck on the late night shift and is having one hell of a time trying to keep herself awake.

"I'm here for the patient in room 559." I say sounding calm,"Jake Henderson?"

She looks even more unsure,"Umm only family members are-"

"I am a family member. " I say icily. My voice is cold enough to probably freeze an entire town. The cold may not have bothered Elsa but it definitely bothered the intern in front of me.

Good, it better because I was very close to another tipping point right now and if she didn't get out of my way in two minutes I would lose it.

I don't care if she believed me or not, Jake was my family, he was actually the closest thing I had to one apart from Alec and Rebecca. Because my real family except for my grandmother had fallen apart at the seams long back.

And no matter how much I tried to convince myself that I could stay away from Jake, the past few hours had given me stunning clarity to just what a mess I would be.

I'm not going to lose him.
Not like this, I don't care what I have to do but he was going to come back to me.

"I-I didn't know he had a sister." She starts.

I glare at her not bothering to correct her,"So now will you get out of my way?"

She steps back nervously and starts stammering,"I-I can't let you without clearance-"

I glare at her and somewhere at the back of my mind I feel sorry for her. She was probably new to the hospital and terribly nervous in her new job which made her easy prey.

But I didn't care.

My eyes narrow. I don't know if I currently look the part but if I knew if I really wanted to, I could pull off a Michella Wilson easily,"You're saying that you have the audacity to stop me from meeting him when he's injured and hurt because you don't believe me? I will literally sue your-"

Her eyes widen and she interrupts,"S-sorry. I-Ill take you right away."

I follow her as she leads me down the bright white hallway my steps slowing with each step. I'd acted on pure impulse while coming up and now I was starting to question if I would actually get through this.

No.
I had to.
I had to see him.
Because I could not and would not let my last words-No, not last words.

"We are here." She says quietly and I stop and nod. My hands have gone cold and I think I'm shaking as I stare at the door.

He's actually there. He's there behind the door. I stand in front of the door trying to find it in myself to just open the damn door but I can't. I'm frozen.

Because I'm scared to the point that I can't even get myself to see him like that.

But I have to.
Because for once in my life I have to do something. I can't run away from this and I won't. I won't run away from him.

So I push the door open. The door shuts behind me with a soft click as soon as I enter.

I've had some pretty bad days in my life. In fact I've had some pretty terrible days too, days which all I wanted to do was crawl under my bed and never come out.

The day that Jake Henderson left me, in that hotel room had been the worst day of my life. He'd broken my heart in a way that I couldn't even start to fix it and I thought that after that day I wouldn't have to face anything worse because it wasn't possible.

I was wrong.

Because standing there in that hospital room seeing Jake pale, with tubes coming out of him, his face half hidden behind an oxygen mask that was strapped around his mouth and nose, was the moment when I realised that absolutely nothing could get worse than that.

And that nothing could ever break my heart as much as it did when I saw him like that.

He looked strangely peaceful and apart from the cut above his eyebrow he looked like he could be sleeping.

And I absolutely hated it.

Because this wasn't Jake.
This wasn't my Jake.

If he was here, he would open his eyes and stare at me with me with those green eyes of his, amused and smirking as he teased me for being such a mess over him.

Because that's exactly what I was, a mess and seeing him like that broke something fundamental in me. Because Jake Henderson was a lot of things but he was not fragile.

And right now that's all he was and it scared the hell out of me.

"Jake." My voice is barely a whisper and I can barely get his name out. I feel like I'm going to burst, which wasn't possible because I already had.

But that wasn't true because by the time I had reached beside him my vision blurred with tears.

I couldn't lose him.
Please not him.
Not like this.

"Jake." It's a plea this time, a desperate plea for him to come back to me.

But he doesn't. He doesn't move one bit the beeping of the machine still constant.

And I step closer and bend down kissing him carefully on his forehead. He still smells like himself, he still smells like my Jake, honeydew and a tinge of lemon.

Because he's still in there beneath that still sleeping statue.

"Please, please don't do this to me." I cry,"I can't lose you, not like this. Please Jake-"

My voice breaks and I swallow.

"Please come back to me." I say," I don't care if you never want to talk to me, I don't care if you hate me, just love me enough to come back to me like you promised."

"You promised me you wouldn't do this to me." I continue sobbing," You can't do this to me-you've already broken my heart Jake, how much more do you think I'll be able to take if you leave me? If you just give up?"

Nothing happens.

"I know you love me enough to come back, Jake, no matter how much you push me away I know you love me because- because-" I fumble to unclasp my bracelet as I wave it around and I'd probably gone mad but I didn't care.

"You came back that day, didn't you?" I continue,"You came back that day because you love me too and I-I- I'm asking this for myself. I'm asking you to wake up for me because I'm selfish, because I'm the one who deserves to be punished, not you. I'm asking you to wake up because you promised me.I'm asking you to wake up because if you-if you-"

I falter because I can't say it, I can't even think of him as...

No.

I tuck the bracelet slowly into his hand, curling his fingers around it,"I need you. I need you to wake up now and tell me how stupid I'm being crying over you, I-I need you to tease me for caring so much and acting like a complete mess."

"I need you to tell me why the color of my eyes are your favourite color and why you keep my bracelet in your pocket."

"But more than anything else I need you to just wake up because without you, I-I don't think I'll be able to make it."

Nothing happens.

"Please Jake. Don't leave me. Not again. Not like this. You promised. "

The movement is so slight I barely catch it but his hand tightens around mine for a fraction of a second.

For a second I think it's my imagination but there another tiny squeeze after that.

He goes still after that but I smile.

Two squeezes. Just like he had done on that day four years back.

"Thank you." I whisper.

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After exiting Jake's room everything became a blur. I went back to the waiting room and just sat there for a while. My grandmother had sent everyone home, I don't even know who everyone was but Rebecca was still there.

It's about six in the morning when my grandmother finally says,"Clara go home now and freshen up, I'll wait for the Evans to arrive and then come home too."

I want to argue but I don't have the energy to do so. I'm drained completley and utterly tired to the verge of collapse. Arguing would probably put me in a room in the hospital.

Jake wasn't awake yet but I knew he would be. He would, I knew he would but it was a matter of when.

And that was the only thing that was actually keeping me going right now.

"I'll drive her home." Rebecca says jumping to her feet, she looked ridiculously awake for someone who was up the full night all because her friend, AKA me was having a mental breakdown.

But she understood it somehow how much I needed her to just be there, maybe not to talk or cry on just to be there for me and I honestly loved her for that.

"Come on." She says,"Let's go."

She links her arm around mine but this time I don't drop it. She leads me down a corridor and suddenly stops and then turns to me her eyes wide and worried.

"I know you'll probably hate me for this." She starts,"But I know you'll hate yourself even more if you don't do this now."

I give her a blank look,"What are you talking about?"

"You need to see Alec."

Bile instantly rises in my throat and I step back shaking,"I-I can't. H-He hates me Bex and I-I can't-"

I take a deep breath,"I can't go and stand in front of him and pretend that I'm not in love with Jake. I don't have it in me to do it. I-I just don't and he'll hate me for that, he already does. And I don't think I'll be able to handle losing him too."

She looks at me determined,"I don't know what gave you this idea but you're not weak. You are one of the strongest people I know Clara and you know it too somehwere deep inside. So Clara I need you to find it now and talk to Alec because we both know if you don't do this now you won't be able to forgive yourself."

"And he won't be able to forgive me." I say softly.

Rebecca looks at me thoughtfuly,"No Clara the real questions is will you?"

I stare at her for a moment as I realise how lucky I really was to have a friend like her, to have Alec and Jake, my grandmother too, even though I didn't do anything to deserve them.

"Go,now." She says smiling,"And best of luck."

I take a deep breath and open the door hoping that Alec's asleep.

But he's not.

We stare at eachother for a moment and I ready myself for what he's going to say to me, how he'd probably tell me to get out.

But he doesn't.

"Hi." He simply says, smiling a little but it's a sad one.

"Hi." I reply. He looks good as usual, the only thing out of place was the black cast on his left arm. A wave of relief crashes over me and I take another step forward.

He flinched slightly and I stop.

"I'm sorry." I say,"I-I didn't mean to, I know you still hate me but I-I.."

I falter as I look down at the floor,"I just needed to see you were okay."

I turn back to exit when he calls out,"Whats that supposed to mean? I know you're mad at me."

I stop and turn back at him,"Mad at you? W-Why will I be mad at you?"

He pales slightly and I realise just how tired he looks. There are bags under his eyes and he's barely holding himself upright on the bed.

"Why wouldn't you be mad at me?" He asks,"I screwed up pretty badly. "

I look at him confused, he didn't screw up I did. I kissed Jake. I lied to him. I deserved to be hated so why was he saying sorry to me?

Because that's the guy Alec was.
And that's exactly the kind of guy I didn't deserve.

"You didn't screw up." I say shaking my head,"None of it was your fault."

He looks at me darkly,"All of it was my fault."

I sigh I didn't want to talk about just how complicated our relationship was.

"How are you feeling?" I ask him and for a second he looks shocked at my change of topic but he manages to say,"Been better just a little bruised."

I sway slightly and quickly take the seat next to him as he looks at me slightly worried,"Are you all right?"

I let out a small grin,"I don't know why everyone keeps asking me that especially considering I wasn't even in an accident."

He smiles but it doesn't quite reach his eyes,"Jake." He says a mixture of guilt and sadness passing through his face,"I-I heard about him. Has he woken up yet?"

There is something about Alec which makes me think that he's on edge, as if he's going to burst too but I disregard it. If I had been an accident I probably would be on a verge of bursting too.

Although I'd done that so many times in one day I don't think it was possible anymore.

"No." I say my voice surprisingly sturdy,"He hasn't. "

Again that same expression clouds Alec's face. I open my mouth to ask what's wrong but I brush it away. It was a stupid question anyway, as of now everything was wrong. The accident, the-

Wait how did the accident happen exactly?

"Alec, how did the ac-"

Before I can finish the door bursts open to reveal Ashley, my grandmother and the doctor standing there.

"He's awake." Ashley says quickly.

At first I don't comprehend what she just said and I just stare at her blankly before it finally sink in.

He's awake.
He's awake.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

"He seems to be responding very well as of now but we still have a few tests to run." The doctor speaks up,"But he's adamant that before anything he wants to talk to someone."

Everyone's gaze turns towards me but before I can even start to get up the doctor says,"He's asking for his brother, Alec Evans."

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AUTHORS NOTE:(lol its very long as usual just skip it if you want)

Author: Sorry it took so long, I just didn't want this chapter to seem over the top corny. But eh, I failed.

Samantha:Failed in that as well as writing this chapter in proper grammar.

Author:I still went to #3 on the Romance List *does a happy dance*

Rebecca: I don't care, can you please update fast, it's really sad when my rate of making popcorn out passes your rate of updating.

Author: Don't get cheese popcorn there is enough cheese in this chapters to last a lifetime, maybe even more.

Rebecca: Eh, I don't care I want a new chapter or else I'm going to kill someone

Author: Don't try to kill Jake. Been there almost done that and I barely escaped with my life.

Jake: That's because everyone loves me.

Clara:You're annoying, but I'm glad you're not dead.

Author: *shakes head* Lol that's the understatement of the century.

Jake: What can I say I'm adorable.

*Both Clara and Author groan*

Anyway this isn't a cliffhanger as such but the conversation those two are going to have is super important, unfortunately since Clara is super clueless she's not going to ever really know what's going to happen, which brings me to the some of the questions you guys have asked me regarding these sort of stuff and POV changes.

While I'd love to write someone who is not Clara (she starts getting on my nerves)

Clara:*glares*

Author:*clears voice* I mean she's such a fabulous totally not whiny and an absolutely brilliant character which is why the main story is going to be completley in her POV no changes whatsoever because it's been 53 chapters and BAM! Suddenly someone else is narrating in the middle of a chapter, it makes no sense. But that doesn't mean there won't be other people's POV. I've got a lot of questions such as this so I'll just clear up some things.

1) Can you please do a Jake POV?
Ans) There will be bonus chapters in POVs of other characters and the epilogue will be narrated in the POV of the boy she ends up with. So you guys if you have a specific chapter you'd like to see in someone else's POV then just request, I'll be doing this at the end of the book to, so no worries you can ask then too. The ones I'm already going to do is

â׏Jake's POV form Chapter 40-43 basically one chapter of what happened when he was away from Clara.
â׏What Jake and Alec discuss during this meeting.

2) Is there a sequel
Ans)No, this book is going to be long but there will be no sequel. Again a bonus chapter or two like long one shots but that's it.

3)Have you forgotten about the present Jake had give her?
Ans) No. But that doesn't mean Clara hasn't but don't worry she will remember soon.

*turns to Jake* can you please say the vote line before all the readers kill me?

Jake:*smirks* You're just jealous because they like me more than you.

Author:*rolls eyes* I can still kill you.

*thousands of fangirls line up with flaming torches and very pointy pitchforks*

Author: *gives up* Fine they like you better than me, now can you please with with a cherry on top say the vote line so that they stop glaring at me?

Jake: *smirks* since you're begging and apologising for almost killing me-wait I didn't hear the apology.

Clara:*sits and starts sharing popcorn with Rebecca* wow this is actually entertaining from here.

Author:*glares at Clara* aren't you going to do something.

Clara:*shrugs* It's in between chapters which means I'm on a break, so this is on you.

*Jake smirks still waiting.*

Author:*mutters* totally going to kill him, slowly and painfully and-

Jake:*turns to readers* did that sound like an apology, looks like she needs motivation-

Author: Fine I'm so terribly sorry that I almost killed you. Happy now?

Jake: It will have to do. So don't forget to comment, vote and tell us what you think about the chapter.

Author:*smirks* just because he's awake why does everyone think everything is all right? It may not be.

Jake:*eyes widen* Wait wha-

Author: love you guys thank you for all your support and messages, until next time.

Love, Nylla.
(I know I'm evil *que in evil laugh*)

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