Noc 6

Megan’s face exploded in joy seeing her father’s car pull into the driveway with Aaron in the passenger’s seat. She made it very clear to her father that he had better not leave Aaron at the hospital or she would never forgive him.

Carly and Megan’s father returned home three days early after convincing his superiors it was an emergency situation. Aaron constantly doped up on medicine, feeling great all the time, woke up in Carly’s bed to Carly scared half to death as his face laid in a pool of blood. After washing his face off, they concluded that it came from his ears and she immediately called her mom. Megan wouldn’t leave her room after seeing Carly walking Aaron into the bathroom with his head soaked in blood. Their neighbor had rushed him to the emergency room and the girl’s father caught the first flight home arriving early that evening to meet Aaron at the hospital. Carly, traumatized from waking up to see her love face down in a pool of blood couldn’t bear to face Megan. She herself could barely keep herself together as friends of their family stopped by to help the girl’s recover.

The girl’s father sensed how close the trio had grew in the few weeks together and from what he got from his daughters through the phone at the hospital, he tried his hardest to sway the doctors to let him bring Aaron home with him that night. After collecting several images of Aaron’s body through cat scans, MRIs, and a few X-Rays, the doctors reluctantly let him take Aaron. Aaron had to make daily checkups at the hospital from then on until they had figured out the exact details and had performed a possible operation to remove what looked to be a tumor. Adding to the complexity of the situation, the hospital insisted that if he was to leave the hospital, he would have to be monitored at all hours of the day as well as carry a panic button with him. The panic button panel actually carried two buttons, a large one which when pressed would signal a beeper which should be carried by a close monitoring adult at all times, and another smaller button that when pressed and held twice, would alert the local police.

The father approved to it all and when they left the hospital with the new prescribed medication, he and Aaron agreed that it would probably be best to not mention the truth to the girls. They decided to pass it off as a severe inner ear infection and hold the truth until they had a definite answer on what was going to happen, then persuade the girl’s mom to tell them.

Aaron was happy as hell that he was finally home. He figured that Carly made an excuse as to why he was in her bed in the first place and that was why her father wasn’t bothered by it but he feared that he might still ask him and his lie not be the same as Carly’s. He hadn’t done anything with her since their first time together, nor had he done anything at all since his last experience with Megan the morning after. Carly had felt so happy after her first time, she was a bit reluctant to try again so soon and instead tried developing a stronger bond with him. Megan hadn’t had much luck as Carly was always tailing Aaron, wanting to spend every minute of her life with him and had frequently pushed Megan away if she tried coming on to him. Needless to say, this only pushed Megan into jealousy and she vowed that she would lock herself away with Aaron the first chance she had alone with him.

Megan broke away from her bedroom window and sprinted downstairs to meet her father and Aaron to ask them countless questions. Seeing the two of them pulling into the driveway reassured her of what Aaron told her and how he couldn’t die and he would be protected by his money and her father.

Carly and Megan both broke through the front door at the same time as Carly was tipped off by Megan’s frantic race down the stairs.

The four walked back into the house, Aaron and their father answering question after question, telling the truth mostly and filling in the inner ear infection story as they went along. After the excitement died down, an awkward silence fell about them. Now that their father was there, Carly couldn’t be so blatantly caring and interested in Aaron and Megan couldn’t be so suggestive with him. Their father could sense that they were acting different on account of him being there, so he went into his bedroom to do some work on his laptop leaving the teenage clique alone to do whatever teenagers do.

His leaving did little to stop the silence as Carly couldn’t get the images from her mind of him in the morning, his entire head glazed in blood and seeing him motionless, she couldn’t tell whether he was asleep or not. Megan walking from her room at the time to see the commotion, imprinted the images of Aaron being guided to the bathroom with blood dripping from his face. She couldn’t even imagine what would have caused such a thing. Aaron just couldn’t bring himself to what was really happening. He hadn’t thought about death since his parents went, but now he was being forced to think about the possibility of his own, even though the doctors never said anything of the sort.

Megan reluctantly left to the bathroom, leaving Aaron alone with Carly.

“Are you ever going to want to sleep with me again,” Aaron asked Carly looking down to his feet. Carly seeing perfectly why he would say such a thing, thought and decided that he needed her acceptance now more than anything.