“Hayley, get up. Hayley?” I begin frantically stroking her head. She doesn’t really feel heat. The truth is, she looks like a block of ice. There may be subsequent to no shade in her face. “Assist,” I name in a low voice. “Assist!” I begin screaming in a voice I can solely describe as one which feels out of physique.

I can hear footsteps earlier than I see them. Eli’s shadow is at a stroll till my voice echoes to him. Then he’s in a full dash in his swimsuit. He skids to a cease close to Hayley’s ft. “What the fuck occurred?”

“Name 9-One-One man. Do it!” I scream.

He pulls his telephone from the breast of his jacket and begins to dial. I can hear different footsteps behind him. It’s Gabrielle. “Oh my God. What occurred?”

Eli’s phrases on the telephone are a blur. I couldn’t let you know what he mentioned if my life trusted it. “Give me your jacket. She’s freezing. Her respiratory is… the place are they?”

“They’re coming,” Eli says, his voice trembling at our aspect. “Hey, Kiddo. It’s all good. We’re right here. All the things’s going to be okay.” Eli and Gabrielle each give me their jackets. I wrap Eli’s round her shoulders and canopy her legs with the opposite, as I cradle her higher physique and head towards me.

“Child, get up. Yell at me some extra. Inform me once more I’m an asshole. Say one thing.” I can hear the sirens coming towards us. They’re simply barely within the distance. “Assistance is coming.” I rock her limp physique slowly in my arms. “Assistance is coming.”

Chapter Fifteen

Wes

I sit behind the ambulance, holding Hayley’s hand quietly, whereas the EMTs place the oxygen over her mouth and nostril, speaking her vitals to the ready emergency room personnel. I want the siren might drown out my ideas. I want I knew what was incorrect together with her. I don’t need to know any of the horrible prospects.

I don’t bear in mind her complaining of not feeling nicely immediately earlier than taking place in my arms. She’s been so drained and unhappy. I do know she’s been underneath a variety of stress due to me, however I believed we had been working by it. Suppose, asshole, assume. What are you able to inform them that will be useful? I’m drawing a complete clean. All I can consider is that my woman is so pale and quiet. She seems to be like Sleeping Magnificence mendacity on the gurney as I rub her hand time and again, attempting to get it heat and let her know I’m proper right here.

The trip to the hospital is the longest and shortest jiffy. We pull into the drive, and so they whisk Hayley away simply as rapidly. The setting solar beats down on my again as they roll her by the emergency doorways. Eli runs previous, brushing my arm with out stopping to meet up with his sister. The world is occurring round me in a blur at warp pace. I can’t transfer. I’m frozen.

“Mav. You must transfer.”

The phrases begin to break by the ice I’m standing in. A tiny, powerful hand slides into mine, lastly shaking me free. Dylan has Eli’s jacket now round her shoulders. She leans in towards my arm, diving into the deep freeze alongside me. “I knew this could occur,” I whisper. “I ought to have trusted my instincts as an alternative of my emotions.”

“You knew what would occur?”

“I knew I’d destroy her and right here we’re. I used to be so singularly centered that I didn’t see what was proper in entrance of me.”

“You don’t know something. We don’t know something. We’re all simply as scared as you might be. However, Wes, I’m going to offer you a chunk of recommendation that was given to me by a very good good friend. Cease that shit. I’m not going to allow you to go down that rabbit gap. In case you can’t keep optimistic, then I gained’t take you in there. Blaming your self isn’t going to alter something. Hayley and Eli don’t want it. They want us. Put one foot in entrance of the opposite with me.”

I sigh. “Go away it to you to throw my very own phrases again at me at the perfect and worst time.”

Dylan provides me a small smile and a agency tug to my hand, as as soon as once more she and I stroll by a special set of emergency room doorways collectively. Eli’s pacing the ground simply exterior the safe entrance like a caged panther. He’s on his telephone. After we get inside listening vary, we hear him inform their mom to not get on a flight and he’ll name her with extra particulars when he has them.

Seconds flip into minutes. Minutes flip into hours. Dylan, Eli, and I take turns begging for data and the power to see Hayley. Nobody will inform us something. The final time Dylan goes to ask, we lastly get a special reply, one which I don’t like. The physician needs to satisfy with us in one of many household rooms. The final time I used to be close to certainly one of them, we virtually misplaced Eli. I do know I’m not prepared to listen to what they need to say.

Eli and Dylan sit on the sofa collectively as I perch on the sting of the chair throughout from them. My palms relaxation overtly over my knees as they bounce up and down. I almost soar out of my pores and skin when the door opens, and the physician introduces himself.

“You’re Hayley Sawyer’s household?”

Eli rises. “Sure, we’re. I’m her brother, Elijah. That is my spouse, Dylan, and Hayley’s boyfriend, Wes.”

“It’s a pleasure to satisfy you. I’m sorry it’s underneath these circumstances. I’m Dr. Miller. I’m the doctor who first noticed your sister when she arrived.”

I rapidly interject, “Look, I don’t need to be that man, however I’m going to be that man. Lower to it. What’s incorrect with Hayley?”

“I perceive you may have a variety of questions, and I’ll do my finest to reply them. When Hayley was admitted to the ER, she introduced with low blood strain and pulse, accompanied with an irregular heartbeat. We ran a number of blood assessments so we might start to evaluate how finest to assist her. We began her on intravenous fluids and that appeared to assist her a fantastic deal. After about an hour, she turned awake sufficient to reply questions for us.”

“I’m sorry. You appear to be telling us one thing with out telling us something,” Dylan states. “Have you learnt what prompted Hayley to move out?”

“I’m pretty sure we do. The variety of blood assessments we ran appear to point extreme deficits in lots of areas. She was additionally reasonably dehydrated. Are any of you conscious if Hayley has been recognized with an consuming dysfunction?” Eli and I lock eyes. One in every of us has been together with her day by day of her life. She’d by no means. I’d have recognized. I’d have seen it. “I’m going to imagine by the silence that will be no.”

“Why would you ask that query?” Eli asks.

“Properly, Mr. Sawyer, wanting on the blood work and after frank dialog with Hayley, she indicated that in the previous couple of weeks she’s had an unlimited quantity of stress between work and private life, and that she couldn’t inform us if she was constant together with her meals consumption. There are different indicators, however I’m not at liberty to totally focus on these with out Miss Sawyer’s consent.”

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