VIP waiting room above.
Amelia Smith
Liam and I rush into the hospital and we see everyone with worried looks on their faces.
Emily runs over to me and pulls me in a bone crashing hug then both start crying. “They’re going to be okay,” Emily assures through her tears.
I pull away from the hug and I nod my head yes. I wipe my tears and take a seat beside Liam. He instantly wraps his arms around my shoulders and kisses my forehead.
Immediately he told me what happened, we both packed our bags and flew back to Bluefall as fast as we could. We don’t know how it happened or why Nicole and Jasmine are both unconscious.
It has been nine hours and none of them have woken up.
“So what really happened, guys?” Liam asks.
We are now sitting in a VIP waiting area at the hospital. Everyone looks exhausted and worried.
“So, um Tyler and I were on our way to Nicole’s house and we literally saw both of them lying on the street close to the Starbucks near the house,” Colton says.
Jasmine’s house also isn’t far from Nicole’s house.
My heartbeat races. Who hurts them then? Did they drink something?
“We both panicked and froze at the stop. After getting my head straight, I called the police and Colton called his mum. I carried Nicole to the car while he carried Jasmine and we drove them here as fast as we could.” Tyler elaborates.
Colton’s mum is one of the best doctors in the country and the hospital we are now is hers.
“So you guys don’t know how it actually happened to them?” Liam raises his eyebrow.
“That’s the interesting and scariest part.” Rob folds his hands and everyone nods.
Liam and I look at them in confusion.
Colton who has his arms around Emily gives a phone to Ian and he hands it to Liam.
I instantly recognize the phone as Jasmine’s.
There’s a message so I read it and gasp.
Unknown: You can’t escape me, Jasmine Johnson. I will find you wherever you are.
                                   -X.
Oh my God! Jasmine also receives messages from X which means she’s one of the other three rich kids.
“Jasmine is one of us?” Liam asks.
They all nod their heads and Jacob speaks.
“Yes, that’s the interesting part. Check out the scary part.” He says, giving Nicole’s phone to Liam.
860-961-9957: Hey! It’s Jasmine. Let’s hang out at Starbucks.
Then Nicole replied, Hey! Jas, when did you change your number? And sure, what time?
860-961-9957: 7:00pm
“But this is not X’s number,” I say, giving Nicole’s phone back to Jacob.
Well, I wouldn’t even know because X hides his/her number every time he/she sends a message.
“Yes, but the same number messaged Jasmine asking her to meet at Starbucks and look at what happened to both of them AT STARBUCKS.” Ian says. “I mean near Starbucks, whatever.” He corrects himself.
“Do the police know about this?” I ask.
“No, we told them that they had no phones when we found them. The mayor is fucking pissed and he has the police checking every surveillance to know what actually happened.” Tyler answers me.
The ten of us had an agreement on not involving our parents or the police on X.
Did I mention that Jasmine is the mayor’s daughter?
This is so fucked up.
“It’s going to be okay, they’re going to be fine,” Liam says to me, stroking my hair.
I close my eyes and lay my head back on his chest.
I don’t know what I will do if they don’t wake up. Jasmine may not be my best friend but I care about her a lot. I knew her since we were babies and she’s one of my closest friends.
“Hi, kids,” Michelle says as she walks into the room. She has been coming in and checking upon us.
I can’t imagine what type of pain she’s in, seeing her daughter is lying down on the hospital bed.
No one says anything but we turn to her to give our attention.
Her blonde hair looks messy and there are dark circles under her beautiful blue eyes that Nicole got from her. Worry and sadness are all over her face.
“Why don’t you all go home and take a rest, especially you two.” She points to Liam and I. “I will immediately inform you when they wake up.” She says.
“It’s fine, Michelle. We’re comfortable here.” Brian says and we all nod our heads in agreement.
“Are you sure? The doctors said that they don’t know when they are going to wake up.” She says casually, trying to sound strong.
“Yes, we’re sure.” I give her a weak smile.
“Okay. I will have someone to bring you some food then. Let me speak with Laura.” She smiles at us and leaves the room.
*****
“Amelia, Liam, wake up! Nicole is awake!” Ian’s voice startles me.
I open my eyes and I look at him. He has a big smile on his face.
“How about Jasmine?” Liam asks rubbing his eyes.
“Not yet but the doctors said that we can finally see Nicole.” Ian answers and Liam and I get up.
We follow Ian to Nicole’s room and I see everyone there. Nicole is lying on the bed, smiling at Brian as he says something to her.
I quickly go over and pull her in a hug. I don’t know when tears start coming out of my eyes.
I have never been this close to losing someone. I thought that I would never see her again. Nicole is like my sister so I don’t know if I would do without her.
She tightens her arms around and starts crying loudly.
“I don’t know which one of you is a bigger drama queen, honestly.” Liam’s voice breaks in and everyone laughs.
“I would say, Amelia.” Emily laughs.
I pull away from Nicole and give her a playful glare. I wipe my tears and Nicole does the same.
“Hi, blondie.” Liam smiles at her and he hugs her.
“Hi, Liam. How was your honeymoon with Amelia?” She smirks.
“It was not a honeymoon.” I roll my eyes, blushing.
“Yeah, it wasn’t but I bet that you two did the deed.” Brian winks at me causing Liam to smack him on the head.
“Yes, they did it! In New York, the city of love.” Ian claps his hands together.
“New York is not the city of love, jackass. Paris is.” Liam says to him.
“I know that.” Ian rolls his eyes.
“So?” Rob speaks.
I totally forgot that he is in the room. He’s been quiet, sitting with his arms crossed since I came in.
“What?” Ian asks.
“Are we not going to talk about what happened?” He asks.
“Way to ruin the mood, Robert.” Emily gives him a glare.
“I’m just saying. Nicole was unconscious for almost twenty-four hours. Jasmine is still not awake. Who knows what’s going to happen next?” He says in a serious tone.
Rob is actually the most thoughtful person amongst us and he really takes things seriously. Maybe it’s because he’s older or… I don’t really know.
Tyler, Colton, and Jacob are with Michelle and Colton’s mum, Laura. They went to get us food which took hours to be ready.
“I don’t really want to talk about what happened now,” Nicole speaks, giving Rob a forced smile.
“Sure, you can take your time.” He smiles back and we all nod our heads in agreement.
“What the hell are you doing here?” We hear Jacob yell from outside.
“NO, FUCK OFF! YOU’RE NOT FUCKING ALLOWED IN!” He barks louder this time.
The door opens and he comes in and closes it.
“It’s Jamie.” He speaks.
My eyes widen and I look at Nicole. Her face is expressionless so I don’t know how she feels about seeing Jamie after we haven’t talked to him in months.
“Guys, Jasmine is awake,” Colton announces as he opens the door.
****
Today I woke up really late and I know it’s because I didn’t get much sleep in the past two days.
Last night after Colton announced that Jasmine was awake. We went to her room and checked up on her.
We stayed there as Jamie was speaking with Nicole in her room. When we went back, she was in tears. Crying about how she loves and misses him.
Emily and I joined her and my heart was breaking at that time. If only she knew.
He and I didn’t speak much. We just hugged and asked how each other are doing.
I’m now on my way to the hospital so I stop by and buy Nicole and Jasmine a bouquet of roses.
They insisted on being put in the same room because they are scared to sleep alone now that they’re conscious.
I also wanted them some cupcakes but the cupcake shop is not on my way so I text Liam and tell him to buy some on his way since Darlings is not far from his house.
I finally arrive at the hospital so I park my car and step out of it.
Amelia’s outfit.
On my way in, I see one of my mum’s assistants, Jessica.
“Jessica?”
“Amelia, hi. You look really nice” She smiles at me.
She also does.
Her burgundy hair is pushed pack in a ponytail. She is wearing a sweater and a pair of skinny jeans.
“Thank you.” I smile at her. “What are you doing here? Is someone you know also sick?” I ask.
“No, your mum sent me to check up on Nicole and Jasmine and to bring then some gifts and get well soon cards.” She answers.
“Oh really?”
I didn’t know that my mum knows that Nicole and Jasmine are here. She probably heard from Michelle or someone else.
She and dad are still on their trip but they are coming back tomorrow.
“Yeah, I waited for you to come for like an hour but I have to go back to work that’s why  so I’m leaving.” She says.
“Yeah, I slept in,” I tell her.
“Yeah, you must be exhausted since you just came back from New York.” She says.
“Exactly.
“Well, I gotta leave now. I hope your friends recover quickly.” She smiles.
“Okay, bye.”
****
“Awww, thanks for the cupcakes, Liam,” Jasmine says, hugging her cupcake box.
“Oh, they’re from Amelia, not me.” He smiles at her.
“But you bought and brought them,” Tyler says.
“Yeah because she asked me to.” Liam states.
“Pussy whipped.” Rob snickers and that makes Ian and Brian laugh out loud, high-fiving each other.
Emily and Colton are on their way and Jacob has an important make-up test so he went to school while all of us skipped.
“You guys are crazy,” Nicole says to the guys and she turns to Liam and m. “Thanks for the cupcakes, Ameliam.” She smiles at us.
Liam hugs me from the back and he leans down to my ear. “Let’s go outside, I want to show you something.”
“Okay,” I whisper back.
We excuse ourselves and leave the room but not after Tyler said. “I hope that you two are not going somewhere to make babies.”
We go outside and Liam pushes me against a wall in a dark area and we start kissing. Pleasure runs all over my body as he runs his tongue across my bottom lip. I open my mouth and our tongues meet.
He pulls me tighter and I moan. We break away to catch some air and we do a sweet and short kiss.
“Please tell me this is not what you wanted to show me.” My voice breaks in the silence.
“It is.” He laughs.
“Idiot,” I say, joining him.
“We didn’t kiss today and I didn’t want to do it in front of the kids so I pulled you here.” He says and I laugh knowing that my kids, he means Ian and Brain.
Our message tone comes at the same time and we share a look. I unlock my phone and read the message.
Unknown: Now you know that Jasmine Johnson is one of the thirteen names I have. Find the other two or my next targets will lose their consciousness FOREVER.
-Love, X.
“Let’s go back inside.” Liam holds my hand and we go back.
We inside the room and we see Jasmine telling the story of what happened.
“So I was like ‘when did Nicole change her phone number?’. She says.
“Oh my God! I thought the same thing!” Nicole says to her.
“So I drove to Starbucks and as I step out of my car, I feel someone cover my nose and that’s it,” Jasmine says.
“Me too,” Nicole says to her.
“So you guys didn’t even see each other?” Emily asks and they both shake their heads no.
“I didn’t know about Jasmine till when I woke up. I was confused at first but Colton explained everything.” Nicole informs us.
“Wow.”
“So Jas, when did you start receiving messages front X?” I ask her.
“Like two weeks ago.” She says and I nod my head.
“Who exactly is this person and what does he want?!” Tyler exclaims angrily.
“I think the real question is ‘what does he want from us?’.” Nicole says.
“And out of the billions of people in the country, why does it have to be the thirteen of us?” Liam also speaks.
“I guess that’s what we’re supposed to find out,” Rob replies.
****
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