Chapter Twelve: “Leaving L.A.”

A week has passed and it was time for me to move to Boston, I was excited for my new life with Chris. We haven't started to plan the wedding but it's going to be big and beautiful. Chris called me saying that he was coming to L.A. to come meet my friends and get to know the place I used to live in. Before I left Boston I had to say goodbye to some of my friends here and tell them all about Chris and how a week in Boston changed my entire life.

I made plans with my friends to see them later at a restaurant to say goodbye. I'm coming to visit them whenever I can, I'm not leaving any friendships behind.

Night time had arrived and Chris was going to meet us at the restaurant, my friends came to pick me up and I was starting to get sad that I was leaving them. Before we went to the restaurant, my friend Carlos had to pick something up at his office, but I had told him that were where in a hurry because we had to meet Chris at the restaurant and not keep him waiting. My friend Carlos liked to drive very fast, my friends and I told him to go slower but he wasn't listening. Carl that was seated next to him tried to stop slow him down pulling the hand breaks. As Carlos didn't notice, he lost control of the car and crashed into a tree, the impact was so hard that the tree split in two and fell on top of me in the car.

Chris arrived at L.A. and drove straight to the restaurant. He called me several time and he noticed something was strange, the cab he took drove right next to where the accident had happened. He knew my friend Carlos had a white Range Rover so he told the cab guy to stop and let him look for a second. He saw five people hurt not awake, with ambulances all over the place, people didn't stop coming to see what had happened. In that moment Chris saw me as they were taking me away, he yelled my name as he saw the taking me away. He got closer to the ambulance I was in and he got permission to get in with them. Chris asked questions to everyone and held my hand as he was nervous to death.

The ambulance got to the hospital and they took me to the ER, but they didn't let him go in with me. He sat down and waited, he called my parents to notify them about what had happened. He was nervous, worried, he asked every nurse, every doctor he saw about an update about me.

Five hours have passed and he was still waiting, my family were on their way here. He saw another nurse and asked her, luckily she did know some new information about me.

-"she's still in surgery, she's still hurt and has a lot of open wounds. She's going to be all night in surgery, you should go home and get some rest." She said to him, but it didn't calm him.

As she walked away he said quietly, "she is my home." He sat down again, he couldn't fall asleep. Two hours had passed and my parents were on their way here, he was waiting for them until the doctor came in with any news.

My parents got to the hospital and saw Chris sitting down, they went towards him and they all hugged.

-"is she okey?" My mom asked Chris.

-"I don't know, no one has given me an update."

As my mom sat down to process what had happened, she thought about how my friends were doing. The doctor finally came to give them an update.

-"how is she doctor?" My dad asked.

-"she's okey. She's in recovery. In a few minutes you can go see her, but she hasn't woken up." He said to us.

My mom hugged my dad and Chris was calmer. As the doctor was leaving my mom asked him, "how are the other's?"

-"I'm so sorry, but they didn't make it. Your daughter is a very lucky young woman."

Chris was in shock and my mom started to look at him. They didn't know what to do.

Half an hour has passed and they gave them permission to come see me. I was finally awake and scared. I had a broken leg but everything else was fine. My mom and dad hugged me carefully, as Chris stared at me with fear in his eyes. I told him to come closer to give me a kiss, my parents left us alone and he hugged me.

-"I'm so happy you're okey. I was worried sick about you." He said to me.

-"I'm fine. How's the others doing? Are they okey?" I asked him not knowing what was going on.

He looked away and he didn't know how to break the news.

-"Lily, I'm so sorry..."

-"NOOOOO!" I yelled.

I started crying and asked him, "all of them?", he said yes as he went to hug me again and tried to calm me down. I was crying so much, my friends had died and I was the only one that made it.