Pinky Promise

::13::

No answer. 

Again.  

Dammit. 

Don't give up.

Don't be so damn dependent on him!

I can ask for help, right?

Leave him alone.

My head kept arguing with itself.

"Ugh, Hello?"

"Landonimsosorryididntmeantoandiwasntreallygoingtodoitbutitwantedtoandnowimsoscared."

"What the hell? Dexter, what's wrong? Slowly."

"Landon, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do it. I threw up, and I wanted to take pills, and I don't know why, but I didn't, and I'm sorry to bother you because I'm fifteen not five." I choked out.

"Dexter, if you're going to kill yourself, do you need an ambulance?" Shit, I really had him scared.

"No, I jus...I messed up."

"How did you mess up?" He spoke quickly, and it seemed as if he was moving around a lot.

"I called you."

"How is that messing up?"

"I can't take care of myself."

"Dexter, where are your parents?"

"Upstairs."

"Go talk to them."

"I can't. They can't know. They'll hate me."

"Landon, what are you doing awake?" I hears his dad talk to him.

"I'm going to Dexter's." he rushed out the words.

"Be safe." Max didn't stop him.

"Dexter, stay on the phone keep talking, Babe." He said. I heard his engine start up. He'll be here soon.

••• 

"Come on, Honey, wake up."  

"Dexter, please, come on!" 

"Fuck. Wake up."

"He said he didn't take them, but was going too."

"Landon, we can't thank you enough right now."

"Why isn't he waking up?"

All these voices. All these words.

"Would a hospital be necessary right now?" A mans voice sighed in fear.

"I don't think it would be a waste, but he won't like it." Somebody mused.

"Let's get him to the car." They made up their mind.

My body was lifted, and whoever held me tried to avoid my back. They must not of tried too hard, but I couldn't respond to anything.

•••

"Where am I?" I woke up panting and sweaty, in an unfamiliar room.

"Dex, hush." I looked over to my side and Landon was slouched in a chair. He looked ready to pass out.

"Where am I?" I asked quieter. Even though I figured it out.

"Hospital. After you called me, you passed out in the bathroom."

"What time is it?"

"Three-thirty in the morning."

"Did they find out what was wrong?"