'Why did he run off like that' was the only question in my heart as I was now panting to keep up with my friends. Alex sped off in his jeep and there was no turning back. I guess they know him very well because without bothering to cry out after him, David pulled the garage door and wormed his Mercedes out, while Brono pulled his Camry out. These guys never go out in style... my mind was humoring every situation and I was trying hard to keep sober.

David was a mighty driver and I was glad I got into his car; because soon we were able to tail Alex even though we were four or five cars behind. David was keeping up with his speed to wherever he was going, but Brono was far back. You know what I did? I mentally teased Brono for being the lame driver. God, I am such a teaser. Finally, we reached in front of a hospital and that made me forget every humor cell I had, making me skip breathing altogether. I could see Alex jump out and ran like a mad man and so did we. Brono was not that far behind. He assured us that he will take care of the cars and so, we ran after Alex. Being the fat bee, I was far behind and at last as I reached where everyone was, I was so out of breath. I sat down near to an old lady and she looked at me aghast which irritated me. We were in the intensive care unit and from there I get to know that Jack has been in an accident.

I looked at Alex who was sitting with his head in his hands and he looked drained. I wanted to console him but was not sure how to. He was not talking to anybody and that just ripped me apart. After a long pause, he looked up and searched for someone and Natalie pointed to where I was sitting. I was watching them all this time, but when I though Alex was looking at me, I looked at a girl sitting in the last corner of Alex's row. I heard some ruffling next to me and I turned to see Alex sitting totally wasted with worry lines all over his face. The look on his face made me want to kiss all his worries away.

"I am sorry, I ran without giving a proper word."

"It's okey... what happened?"

"Jack...him, umm... oh, my god... there he is." I looked up to see the doctor and he was asking for Alex. He went to the doctor and I looked to where Jasmine was sitting. She was exhausted and it felt like she was blaming herself for everything. She was crying her eyes out and the old women were looking at her with sympathy. Gah... that old women looked at me horribly when I sat down out of breath and look at her, she wasn't to soothe Jasmine. Damn it. I slowly walked towards jasmine trying to forget the hatred toward myself and uttered what sound like a croaky groan. To my surprise, she understood and returned something in the same voice.

"Hey..."

"Hi..."

"See, you don't have to..." I don't know how to frame this. But, luckily she interrupted me.

"I have to; it was because of me, he... I don't even know what happened to him."

"Just relax everything is going to be alright." I rubbed her back as she comfortably cried to my birthday dress. Ooh, why was I thinking about me in every possible situation? This is terrifying me.

Half an hour later, Alex walked out looking red and flaming; he came out and hit the wall in the corner and jammed his head with a loud yell. The hospital seemed like a ghost town for a second and then everyone looked at their own businesses like nothing happened. Like no one heard a grown man taking it all out in an intensive care unit hallway. Knowing Alex and his short temper, no one had the courage to get past his anger, but, I wanted to know how he will react to me and thus, I mentally planned to not get hurt and pushed him to a seat. I pulled his head up to face me.

"Either you treat us silently and push us away by asking us to go or just say what the hell happened." He stared at me for a few seconds and then looked at everyone that was around him. Everyone wanted to know the answer with gawking beady eyes. So he looked down and nervously played with his fingers.

"Jack... he was met with an accident and him... had damaged his head pretty bad. He will be hospitalized for a few days. There were a few witnesses who claimed that it was not accidental and that was what the doctor called to me about. It was a planned hit and run. Well, the other vehicle escaped. The police have filed a case but I know pretty well that it will be lost in the sea."

"Do the people know the license plate number?"

"They said, there wasn't any"

"What the..."

And with that silence grew thicker and stronger and Jasmine was on the verge of shutting down. A little while later the nurse came out and said that Jack wanted to see Jasmine and this revived her spirits. She bounded and half ran in. Again silence.

After about one hour, Jasmine walked out and the nurses rushed Alex to the operation theater; we were devastated.

"Alex, Jack is in the critical situation and needs an immediate surgery; please sign here." The doctor seemed to be in a hurry. That really tensed us up.

"What? Why?"

"The blood has been clotted in his brain which made him go to a comatose and the surgery must begin immediately. " with Alex questioning and the doc taking the time to answer really irritated the doc, but he knew he should answer like a good doc. So, he stood there extending the board toward Alex's chest. Alex looked down at the board and stared at it before asking,

"Will he recover?"

"We are quite sure that his health is in good hands, but, we cannot guarantee anything before the surgery." Now, his voice was really that of a concerned doctor and I felt bad for accusing him in my head. After Alex signed the papers, he walked out hastily to the operation theater and we all were distressed.

"Alex..." Jasmine called and everyone's attention was immediately turned towards her.

"Your brother... he said, he saw someone who was vaguely familiar in the driver seat and that he rushed into him with full force which made him dodge his Civic; but, he remembers nothing else. The doctor said that one man who claimed to see everything from his coffee shop said that the SUV rushed into Jack's Civic which made him dodge his vehicle which was hit by the SUV and that forced Jack's car into an oncoming truck. The witness said it was a miracle that Jack's Civic didn't end in flames and that Jack was rescued. Jack sends apologies to have ruined your girlfriend's birthday. Stupid bugger; fool"

"This seems like a planned one of course. I wonder who it might be."

"Natalie, don't you see who it might be."

"I can, but...why?"

"I don't know."

The wait stretched to five hours and the doctor walked out with a smile on his face saying that the operation was a success and he is in good health, but he will be hospitalized for proper recovery and monitoring until he is fully recovered.

Finally; I was able to go home.

Urgh!

The days ran by and it was time for me and Alex to go back school. As usual, the culprit who started the fire walked out without even having any complaints pressed against them. Of course, they were held in custody all this time with a compensation amount settled as fine. But, being the rich people's children, they walked out which agitated the common folks; plus the reason for their spreading the fire was not certain. Everything was so fast and nice that I didn't want to go back, but I had to... within the stay here, I was able to reduce few pounds even though I was eating more than what I did in my home; it boosted up my confidence a tad higher. Well as for Jack, he was recovering fast, but at the time he gets these killer migraines and seizers which made his stay longer in the hospital.

At last, it was the day for us to rush back school.

"Ah, do you have to go? It was fun to be playing with you girl and you were just starting to learn our biking."

"I need to finish school Natalie that's what my mom wants. So, I will give it to her and then I will come home to where my heart belongs."

"Hmm... I don't want to leave you."

"Hey, you guys can come home to me for a few days... you were astonishing in the practicing that I am sure, you will be able to pull them off easily. Plus, it would ease my mind. At times, I don't like being in the cold all alone."

"That sounds like a nice plan, but, are you sure you are ok with this?"

"Natalie, I would like to have company, if it's you guys then I don't have to think twice."

"Wow, I will sure come then."

"What about you Stacey, want to come?"

"No, Nat's pretty good at what she is doing whereas I am not so I can't ditch practice; plus I have business to keep and children to babysit. Pamela is new and she needs my assistance. I know there are all excuses but tell you what... I hate it there... so, don't bother. We will come once when we are free."

And that settled our plan and I was so happy that at least Nat was coming with me. Alex drove us back commenting on how frustrated I was in the beginning when we set out this journey and how I threatened him to take me back within one hour. How I bought snacks for the whole town to party and how I only dressed for four days. Really, I packed four tops plus an extra one with four pants again an extra one and too many undergarments that will take me through one month and that's it. Nat had a good laugh hearing all this and after too many loud outbursts she begged Alex to stop because her sides were snitched from laughing. I had a big happy laugh too.

"You have good taste in interiors, wow."

Nat was acting like a new girl in town and that was kind of cute. Those guys out there in my town couldn't keep their eyes off her and Alex was having a good time, with the both of us. He was happy for me and I was happy for myself. It was not Nat's first time here, but, she was totally making it up for me and I was enjoying every minute. When Nat saw my apartment, she liked it very much; as for a part-time interior decorator, she knows the taste.

When we got down to stretch as we rounded up towards the street in my area, the boys down the parlor and pub had a good time enjoying what they saw. Nat wore here designer trade mark black leather rider jacket with black skin fit pants and some sort of tomboy shirt which had chain and studs in the neck. I totally loved this girl. Her hair was loose and always in the beauty wave and I had a pang of jealousy over there. Anyway, as we walked towards the pub to eat something, the boys whistled to which Alex had an amused grin but Nat turned towards them and looked as if a slut would do with her lips between her teeth and the boys really did an act of losing their senses. But, then she flipped both her birds and whistled at them. That had them laughing and did we, they totally loved this new girl and so did I. she, was confident, beautiful and well, everything. I turned around and opened the door. I don't want my mind which is always in the gutter to lose the moment.

Having a good meal we came back to the apartment being dead tired. Well, I guess it was only me because after changing clothes they decided to go outside which shocked me. Fabian was there to greet us and hearing our plan, he backed pressed me on.

"But, I am dead tired."

"Angelina, you were alright with us back in our place, what's got into you now?" Nat whined begging to make this happen.

"Well, I am not... I..."

"You are coming with me and I will see to them who wants to see you through the third eye."

Finally, as I decided, I saw the gleam in Fabio's eyes and I was definitely happy even though I was skeptical. I was really tired, they thought I was lying.

Jumping into a loose jeans and v neck flowery dress, I was ready to go but Nat considered otherwise and rummaged through my closet to find the best alternative. She pulled out a halter neck black dress which was not overly sexy but in the border line and a pair of faded blue jeans which hugged me pretty well. I didn't even know I had them there, I wanted to say no. But being the furious Athena, she made me go her way. She picked up my favorite shoes that I never wear because it was heels and you know what? She applied makeup on. However, the end result made me feel proud of myself.

Well, one needs a good friend in life.

She drove through the city, parked outside the mall making my heart skip a beat. It was the main zone for teenagers and my insides were fuming. Nat being the hawt cat, she stepped out and pulled me with her and then swaged herself in. I was constantly looking down avoiding eye contact but I was blessed because everyone was watching the new girl who looked sexy in that black backless dress which hugged her curves better.

"Angelina, act like you belong here and this is your game."

I was slowly able to pick myself together and walked confidently with her. But, it came crashing down as I saw Connie, Lena, Darla, Betty and Venn striding confidently towards us. Nat was prepared for a battle as she instantly flexed seeing them. I guess it was natural to know when something was off. I, on the other hand, was battling myself not to cry.

"Well...well... well... look who is here, Angelina with the fat ass and..." Laughter erupted and I was sinking lower and lower but the strong hands of Nat made me stand stronger. What came next was pretty awesome and entertaining. ... Miss slut new to town."

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