I blink and stare up at the white ceiling. I move to my left body hurting a bit and take in the white room. Hospital for sure. Why do hospitals always have to be white? But why am I..?
The car.
Ash.
Sammy.
Clare.
The last name made me sit up straight and strangely I didn't feel so much pain. I notice that from my arm there is a tube that leads up to a drop. I carefully sit up and start removing the weird tube from my arm. I look down at my body and see that I'm in a dress... fuck it. I head for the door when a nurse comes and jumps at the sight of me.
He shakes his head and laughs.
"Scared me their little kid. You shouldn't be standing up. How are you feeling?"
"Like nothing? Listen um, my friend Clare? Car accident? Where is she? How is she?" He looks down at me and nods.
"She's in surgery. She was
I blink and stare up at the white ceiling. I move to my left body hurting a bit and take in the white room. Hospital for sure. Why do hospitals always have to be white? But why am I..?The car.Ash.Sammy.Clare.The last name made me sit up straight and strangely I didn't feel so much pain. I notice that from my arm there is a tube that leads up to a drop. I carefully sit up and start removing the weird tube from my arm. I look down at my body and see that I'm in a dress... fuck it. I head for the door when a nurse comes and jumps at the sight of me.He shakes his head and laughs."Scared me their little kid. You shouldn't be standing up. How are you feeling?""Like nothing? Listen um, my friend Clare? Car accident? Where is she? How is she?" He looks down at me and nods."She's in surgery. She was
I feel heat rush up my neck and my cheeks burn at what Brandon just said. The nurse, Harry frowns at me his cheeks turning pink as well with embarrassment."Uh, sorry."Harry mumbles and moves to stand by the door. "Um, you need to get out now. All of you"Brandon gives me a kiss and Ash gives me an encouraging smile leaning forward to whisper in my ear: "I don't blame you for anything please believe that. Your best friend, Zee, seemed like a really nice protective guy and if he were here I can imagine him rolling his eyes telling you off. Nothing that happened was your fault and we're gonna get revenge because that bitch is a little piece of absolute crap that's going down." I gulp and nod holding back the tears.I see Alexander nooded me before he exits knowing he and Brandon heard what Ash just told me. Then he says: "Nobody messes with Alexander, his boyfriend and Brandon. Don't worry Idiota." I don't know if the morphi
My eyes slowly open and take in the room I'm in. White. Hospital of course..."Morning buttercup" I whip my head to the other side so fast I feel a bit dizzy and see Brandon sitting in a chair beside my bed smiling."Uh..morning Brandon. Um, what are you doing here?" I ask. Brandon raises his eyebrows and looks down at me with amusement."Oh. Weren't you the one that told the nurse that I was supposed to sneak in? Well, imagine my surprise as I walk in and see you sound asleep." He jokes making me blush."You thought I didn't hear that? I was right outside darling"He laughs and leans in to kiss my red cheeks. "Dream well? You looked so peaceful." He whispers into my ear and I gulp."I. It was..nothing I wanna talk about."Brandon pulls away and stares into my eyes deadly serious."The point of you telling us the story you told before was for us to he
When she is almost by the bed she pauses and I swallow. What is she going to do to me..."Braze...my son. I've done a lot of bad things for a reason..or I make it seem like a reason."What is she talking about? She closes her eyes for a couple of seconds and when she opens them I see the sadness and...regret? I've never seen her like this before. But I know that look. That's the look I have every time I see myself in the mirror. That look tells so much yet so little representing feelings that are buried, deeply hidden inside a box that's tucked away far in an unknown place. It's the look that says Don't help me because I don't want it even though I secretly do but if that happens the outcome is not gonna be good."Mum?" I shift uncomfortably and she takes a step forward.She slowly puts her now trembling hand on the sleeves of her sweater pulling them up. I observe her totally confused until I gasp claspin
"Buttercup. Flower. Rose Sweetie. Angel. Love.." I hear someone whisper and gently nudge my shoulder. I start to slowly wake up and realise that my head is against something hard and something that's moving. Something that's breathing. I slowly glance upwards and see Brandon smile down at me and I realise I fell asleep on him."Thought you would never wake up you've been sleeping for a long time darling." He whispers and kisses my cheek slowly."Morning Brandon." I whisper back a little embarrassed. "Um how long?""Lets just say it was Sunday afternoon when you fell asleep and now it's Monday morning beautiful."I blush a bit at that and can't help but snuggle into the blankets a little and he chuckles pressing a kiss on my forehead before stroking my hair."So how was the movies my beautiful eyed angel? You fell asleep during the fourth."I blush a little at the nickname
"Panda. I think Jia killed the receptionist."I stare at him before I burst."PffffffffttttHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA" I double over laughing so much that it starts to hurt, tears welling up in eyes."WTF ASH?! HAHAHA WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? FUCKING RANDOM?! HAHAHAHA" I laugh and Ash looks offended."See I told you that you wouldn't believe me! I'm serious Braze stop freaking laughing!" He pouts and eventually I stop trying to breath. Now and then a small laugh escapes and Ash pouts even more."Ash listen. Trust me I appreciate everything you're doing for me and I think it's a miracle you still want me to be your friend. I'm really happy that you're trying so hard to help me, you have no idea but..we're not in some sort of adventure,crime, action, mystery what-not movie or serie. Things like this doesn't happen in real life, she commi
Brandon carries me through the hallway and normally I would have died in embarrassment at all the people that's staring at me but I'm too busy trying to calm my mind from all the questions and emotions that are increasing very time Brandon takes a step, getting closer to Sammy. What will her reaction be? We were literally driving the car. If I put myself in her position...did she even see us jump out of the car? What if she thinks we run her over? Omg what if she is blaming us? It was my fault but Ash doesn't deserve this! Why do I always drag Ash into everything? But he's so damn stubborn!"Braze darling?" I notice we've stopped outside of a room which I presume is Sammy. I look at Brandon in question. I'm dreading the moment I will see her but at the same time I'm desperate to make sure that she is okay."Braze I won't step foot into that room until I know that you're okay." He says determined and I swallow looking at the ope
"Mum. This is family and it needs to be discussed like a family. I think you should tell Alex and Jace." I plead."Absolutely not. Maybe it was a mistake to tell you.."Mum says. I don't know where this sudden annoyance come from but I just feel like we're all going in the same circle I didn't wanna tell you because it would have consequences. I didn't wanna tell you because I didn't wanna lose you. I didn't wanna make things worse.All of us. Jace, Alex, mum and me. We landed ourselves in the situation we are in because we failed to act appropriately. We chose to stay quiet and ignore. If Alex and Jace would've defended me against dad and mum would I still be close to them? If mum didn't listen to dad and instead did whatever she wanted and if she divorced him a long time ago would she still be hurt? And if I said something that night instead of staring out into space like an idiot, would there have been a
When we walk out of the school, we're met by two detectives who eye us up and down."What were you doing here? I think it's past school hours don't you think?" He asks. I give Brandon a panicked look and he's about to answer the detective when a familiar voice does it instead:"Because I gave them permission to do so"We turn around and see Hodge approaching us.The detective huffs. "You were the one that called us right? How come you gave them permission to enter the school alone and how did you know that Jia was going to be there?"Hodge clears his throat. "Well you see, they suspected that our school receptionist suicide was not really a suicide and eventually they found what they believe is the stolen video. I could not contact the police because up until now these were just speculations. When they found the footage, they called me and said that they might have evidence and I told them
We're on our way to drop off Nia and Elven when Ash stops the car two blocks away from Elven house."Thanks for coming Elven." Ash says. At least thirty seconds pass with pure silence before Ash turns around and looks at Elven. "Why are you still here?"Elven is utterly confused and Nia speaks up, " Elven, I think he wants you to get out of the car. You've annoyed him today so he stopped the car a few blocks away from your house because he wants revenge." Nia explains and you can see the realisation dawning on Elven."So wait...you're mad at me?!!" Elven asks like he can't believe it.Ash glares at him. Elvem and Alexander turns to Elven and say at the same time: "Get out."Elven puts his hands up in defence. "Fine whatever. Nia come on."Nia looks up at him and raises her eyebrows.Elven gapes. "Nia! What the hell you're my g
We stop by Elven house where we pick up both him and NiaElven opens the passenger seat door and scowls at Alexander. "Get outta here the passenger seat is reserved for the one and only me!"Alexander has been irritated the entire ride and I try to tell Elven with my eyes that now is not the right time. Alexander glares at him and slaps Elven hand away from the door. "Fuck off." He dismisses and slams the door in his face.Elven is about to fight for his rightful seat when Nia grabs his arm, noticing Alexander mood. "Stop complaining before I'll make you sit in the trunk."Elven rolls his eyes and we squeeze ourselves together in the back seats but we're four people so we're not able to sit comfortably. I hear Brandon sigh before he lifts me up and places me on his lap. "You sit here so we can fit."I roll my eyes embarrassingly but when he puts his arms around me I put my head against his shoulder
Our kiss loses control and after a few seconds Brandon is shirtless and we find ourselves having a make out session in the water. Brandon kisses me hard and I whimper crashing my head into the sand and it's only the feeling of water sorrounding my head and coming into my nose that breaks our trance. I push Brandon away and start coughing violently.Brandon laughs a little and start dunking my back. I stop coughing and instead try to breathe properly but I can't help but let out a little after cough.I smile guiltily. "Sorry for ruining the mood.."Brandon kisses me again. "Darling. I literally pushed you into the water while we were making out, you could've drowned. No need to apologise. In fact, I'm sorry"I grin. "It's okay." I look around still shivering at the water around me. "So um..you still wanna be in here?""I don't know, do you still want to sit in the water? Because I must admi
I shake my head. These people! But wait a minute..I open the door and interrupt their make out."Clare when the hell did you get discharged?!" Clare jumps making Jace and her break apart. Both of their eyes widen and their cheeks start forming a red shape."Panda! Wh-When did you get home?!" Clare asks while she looks down at her clothes making sure that they're sitting right."Just now. When did you get out of the hospital?""Just now. I was supposed to be released tomorrow morning but I insisted. Then Jace called me and you know we're dating so..."I raise my brow. "And you didn't think that it was necessary to text me and Ash?"Clare eyes drop down and Jace turns to me. "Give her a break Braze! She just came out of the hospital of course she's going to visit her boyfriend first!"I sigh. Sure you can visit your boyfriend but at least t
Brandon mother eyes me from top to toe. "Good choice Brandon, he looks adorable. Are you sure you deserve him?""Oh mum, stop, you're embarrassing him!" Brandon says and gives me a wide grin.I glare at him. "Brandon release me." I hiss but Brandon shakes his head."Brandon I have to greet your mum properly!" I hiss again and struggle in his arms because I'm legit starting to panic.I hear Brandon mum chuckle and I see here approaching. She ruffles my hair playfully and I give her a small smile. "No need. I like you a lot not like that other boy."When she mentions 'that other boy' her face twists in anger for a second before returning to be the nice mum. "I told Brandon not to choose him. But I really like you,little rose"'Well I guess it's a family thing to call me little rose..'I think to myself.Then she glares at Brandon. "I'll punch you
Alexander crosses his arms and curses . "You two are reckless, thoughtless, idiotic-..!""But smart." Brandon interrupts and gives us a proud smile. "Way to go team AshBree, now we can take down this psycho."Alexander looks at Brandon with warning. Ash entire face lights up."AshBree?! Did you hear that Alexander? Omg we have a ship name Bree!" He says like he can't believe it and then jumps at me, squishing me with his body.I whimper when he squeezes too much, my body still being a bit sore."That's enough idiota" Who would've thought that Alexander would be my savior.Ash releases me and apologises."AshBree. BreeAsh. Sounds so good, nice one Brandon! AshBree!""Goodness grief, this boyfriend of mine.." Alexander mumbles. "Idiota focus on what's important!"Ash snaps out of it and turns serious. "Oh yeah, right!"
Ash quickly crawls out and I'm right behind him, trembling because this is it. This is how Braze future ends. Under a fucking desk, caught by non other than freaking Hodge."Well..we just you know..got lost? I needed to use a computer so I could..email my mum! Because ..uh..I don't have a phone! And well I heard there are some really awesome computers down here so we went here!" Ash lamely explains and I want to facepalm myself. Really? Fucking really? That's the explanation that's going to save our future? I'm fucked.Hodge raises our brow. "Really? Then explain why you were under the desk?"Ash looks at me pleadingly and I bite my lip."Because..um.. Ash doesn't know his mum's email so he wrote it done on a piece of paper that he dropped on the ground and he couldn't find it. It's very dark in here so I went down with him on the floor to look and turned on the flash on my phone." I lie and put on a smile. Ha.Haha. Great, thi
"We've been here for an hour Ash what the hell are you doing? We should get out. Now. We haven't found anything!" I plead anxiously. I keep on glancing at the door, my nerves on edge.Ash is currently sitting in front of some computers checking surveillance or something and by the looks of it he hasn't found anything."I'm not leaving until I can prove that I'm right Braze" he says, still concentrated on the several screens in front of him.I sigh frustrated. "Ash enough. You're gonna get us in trouble and your theory is absurd. Thank you, I mean it, but we can't go blaming everything on Jia as soon as something bad happens because we want to bring her down."Ash gives out a frustrated sound and start to scratch his hair. " i don't get it! Why can't I find anything?!"I sigh. " What are you even looking for?""Since the clip where the actual murder