Chapter 14:
I sat in the waiting room of the hospital with my head in my hands. Mum was here too and pacing across the room. My sisters were sitting around me trying to get me to calm down but they didn't know Aunt Beth. They didn't know her the way I did.
Then six people came rushing into the hospital. "What happened?" Liam asked. "Louis just told us to 'get into the damn car right now'"
"Aunt Beth...I...I found her on the kitchen floor a-and..." I couldn't continue anymore and just kept crying. Harry sat down next to me and rubbed circles onto my back.
"Rosie found her on the kitchen floor with a knife in her stomach." Lottie said.
It just made me cry even more. The woman that raises me was lying in a hospital bed and I didn't even know her condition.
"It's okay Rosie. She'll be alright." Pippa tried to comfort me. I cried into her shoulder and she cried along with me. Aunt Beth was like an aunt to Pippa too.
A nurse came into the room. "Are you here for Elizabeth Poulston?" She asked.
We all nodded. "She's in surgery right now and we still don't known if she'll make it." She said. I burst into more tears and Mum did also.
After a few hours, I realized how bad my face looked.
I looked into my pocket for a tissue to wipe my tear stained cheeks but my hand came in contact with something else. I pulled out a piece of paper. It was the note I found next to Aunt Beth's body.
"She was part of the plan against me. It had to be done."
Was this the note left behind by the person who did this to Aunt Beth? The black van that drove away...was that driven by...oh my god what was I missing here?
I dropped the note that was in my hand. What was going on? There was definitely something Mum or Aunt Beth was keeping from me. Something very very important.
"Rosie what's this?" Louis asked picking up the note. I was too traumatized to stop him. "Where did you find this?" He asked. Louis handed the note to Mum.
"Oh my god. Bethy it's all my fault..." Mum said.
"Is there something you're keeping from me?" I asker her. Her face paled.
"No. What are you talking about Rosie?" She had te nerve to lie as her sister was practically dying. Even if she wasn't talking to me, she admitted that it was her fault. In some way it was her fault.
"LIAR!" I screamed. I don't know what took over my body but I lunged at her. But I felt two pairs of arms holding me back. I kicked and screamed, but Mum just stood there unmoving.
"Rosie, calm down." Harry soothed. No one could calm me down anymore.
"NO!" I shrieked.
Louis dragged me out of the waiting room. "Calm down. Rosie, why would anything be Mum's fault. They were probably just robbers that wanted a good scare."
"No Louis. There's something that Mum is keeping from me. There is something!!!" I screeched. I might as well be checked into a mental institution.
"Sir," A hospital staff member said, "Could you take her outside. She is causing a disturbance."
"WELL SCREW YOU! MY AUNT IS DYING AND-"
"I'll take her out." Louis said, dragging my lifeless body outside the hospital. When he let go, he expected me to stand up but instead I slumped to the ground and got on my knees.
Louis bent down to my height. "Rosie calm down. I don't think Mum is keeping anything from you. Just calm down." Louis tried. I knew he was used to being outrageous and outgoing. This trying to calm me down thing must be new for him since it was others trying to make him calm down most of the time.
"She is! She won't tell me why she gave me to Aunt Beth! Every time I asked, her face would turn white and she changes the subject!" I shouted.
"Rosie, just try and calm down so we can go into the hospital." Louis said. I sighed and reluctantly agreed. I follows him into the hospital sluggishly.
I sat down next to Mum without looking at her. Pippa gave me a worried look but I just shrugged.
"Are you here for Elizabeth Poulston?" The same nurse from before asked.
"Yes." I replied.
She sighed. Oh hell no. "I'm afraid Elizabeth didn't make it. We tried but the knife was too deep into her stomach. She lost too much blood."
I made a choked sound. I tried to speak but no words would come out of my mouth.
"Oh my god." Mum cried.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" I yelled at Mum. I ran outside going anywhere. But my crying made my bison blurry so I tripped and fell on the concrete skinny my knee. That would probably scar. I was about to clamber up but a pair of hands lifted me up. I turned to face Harry. I must look really unattractive with my tear stained cheeks, red and puffy eyes, and my now skinned knee.
"What?" I snapped.
"Rosie, don't just run away. Talk to your mum." Harry reasoned.
"Harry, I tried! And now Aunt Beth is dead! She died! She's gone! She raised me and my whole childhood was with her. She's gone!" I hysterically screamed. Yes, I might as well be checked into a mental institution.
"Rosie-"
"Leave me alone!" I cried. But he was Harry Styles. He didn't listen.
Harry scooped me into his arms and I struggled against him but man was he strong.
"LET ME GO! LET ME GO! Let me go!" My voice got weaker and weaker until my throat hurt too much and I stopped resisting. He walked around a bit until I stopped shaking and cuddled into his warm arms.
"Why did she have to go now?" I whispered more to myself than Harry.
"I guess it was her time." Harry sighed. "I'm gknna bring you back to the hotel that we're staying at. It's late. Okay?" I nodded an a few minutes later I felt that I was placed into a car. I sat up and was just numb. I was numb. I wish that things weren't this way. I wish I was just a normal girl from Doncaster. Like Pippa. Except for the fact that her best friend had a wacked up life.
We pulled up in front of a hotel and I was picked up again even if I could walk. Well maybe not since I still felt a little traumatized and was still shaking slightly. Plus, if I could walk, Harry was probably afraid I would start running like I did before.
I got carried into the hotel, earning a few dissatisfied looks from some middle aged women. Then into the elevator, earning a funny look from an elderly man, and down a hallway, earning a giant smile from Niall.
Harry just chuckled softly and inserted a room key card into a door and opened it. He set me down on a bed in one of the bedrooms of the suite.
"Louis has the other bedroom so I'm gonna go on the couch." Harry said.
"Where are the other boys?" I asked, resting my head into my pillow.
"Liam, Zayn, and Niall are in another rooms oth Liam on the couch" Harry said.
"I don't want you on the couch. Just-just get into the bed with me. It's not the first time. Plus I don't fel very safe being alone anymore. I just need to know someone is next to me." I said. I mentally slappe myself.
"Okay." Harry said. He left the room and I thought he bailed on ment he came back in boxers and gave me a giant t-shirt. "To sleep in. I'll turn around! I won't look! Unless you want me to..." Harry waggled his eyebrows and I actually laughed. It was a light one but I laughed.
"Thanks, but turn around you dummy." I chuckled.
Harry turned around and I stripped out of my clothes and our on the t-shirt. I knew it was Harry's just by inhaling it. "Like the t-shirt?" I turned around and Harry was looking at me.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK!" I shouted.
"I knew you were done though." He pouted. "I swear." He added. I shook my head and got under the covers and Harry did too. We looked at each other for a few moments until I closed my eyes.
That night, all I dreamt about was Aunt Beth and I. I missed her. Why Aunt Beth?
OH MY GOD IM CRYING! Like there are legit tears coming from my eyes when I wrote this chapter. A lot of you must hate me now. Halfway through, I'm like, "ADRIANA WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" But I just continued. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I'm gonna keep crying and please vote, comment, and fan me! Thanks yall!!
-Naidraa