Haunted

Chapter 20

Songs for this chapter

One Way Or Another - One Direction

Warrior - Demi Lovato

The Only Reason - 5 Seconds Of Summer

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I can't sleep.

It's past two in the morning and there's no way I'll be able to sleep. All I can think about are Ariana and Ashton.

Is she crying right now? Does she have nightmares again? Will he ever wake up?

I should've stayed with her tonight. There are so many things I wanna ask and I'm sure she would've talked to me again. One of the most important questions is.. why does she talk to him but to no one else? Others could help her, he obviously can't. But he can neither judge anyone..

Before I know what I'm doing I'm up and getting dressed. I'm home alone so I don't even have to sneak out. What am I even doing?

I call a taxi and tell the driver the address of the hospital. As we reach it, I pay the man and walk inside. Wait. It's around three in the morning. I can't even visit him now.

"Fuck", I whisper and look around. All I can see are injured people and their families. How can I get to Ashton? I notice a tall, muscular boy coming closer. He smiles and waves. Wait, I know him.

"Hey, man", Steven says. "What are you doing here?" Good question. "I couldn't sleep and wanted to visit someone.. but I forgot you can't visit people at night", I reply and he chuckles. "Are you drunk, dude?" "No! I'm not!" "Well, okay then", he chuckles again. "So what are you gonna do now?" "Sneak in", I reply and he looks at me surprised. "C'mon Luke, you are drunk!"

"I'm really not! Don't even ask why I'm doing this, okay?", I say and he furrows his eyebrows. "If you say so.. but I can help you. My mum had a little accident at home - she fell down the stairs..", he rolls his eyes, "..but if we tell them you're her son you can get past the secretaries and security guards." "You'd do that for me?!", I ask surprised. "Yeah.. if you promise me something."

Of course..

"Take out my sister once", he says and my eyes widen. "What the fuck, man..", I mumble and he laughs. "She has a crush on you and I'm only asking you to take her out once", he says and I grin.

I don't even know her and she has a crush on me? Okay then..

"How old is she? If she's twelve..", I begin but he cuts me off laughing, "She's sixteen! C'mon, please?" I laugh, then I nod. She can't be too bad, I guess, Steven's cool so why not his sister?

"Thanks!", he grins and leads me to his mum who's having some bruises and obviously a bad headache. "Mom, Luke will pretend to be your son, okay? Don't even ask..", he says and she looks at us confused. "Well.. okay?", she asks and Steven pats my back. "Right, good luck."

Me and his mum follow the nurse and wait in a big room with lots of other people for a doctor.

"I need to do some other stuff, I'm sorry but I need to leave you alone", I say and quickly stand up. As I leave the room I hear her calling after me, but who cares.

I make my way down the hallway and look around. I have no clue if I'll get caught but it's worth a try.

It's sad, really, that I wanna talk to some guy in coma because I don't have anyone else to talk. My old friends are in Australia and I haven't heard of them in ages. My best friend is Ariana and I can't really talk to her about my problems with the deal or something like that. Michael is my friend as well - I guess - but I don't wanna tell him that Ariana talked to me. Calum is also a really good friend but he doesn't know about any of those things and it's better like this. And the rest? If I can't talk about all my problems with my old friends, Ariana, Michael or Calum, there's no way I could tell them. I'm alone. I'm totally left alone to deal with all this shit.

I hear steps and quickly look for a place to hide. I could hide behind that bin over there but I'm pretty sure that only works in movies.

I try to open the door to the room next to me and luckily it works. As soon as I'm inside I turn around. It's dark but I feel like I'm not alone in here.

"Who's that?", I hear a deep voice. Oh shit that sounds like trouble. "I.. I'm sorry, wrong room", I stutter. "Well, okay, please leave then." I open the door and step outside.

Good, I think no one's here anymore. There's no way I'll get out here without getting caught. I probably should just leave again..

No. I just need to talk about it. I don't care if he can't help me. He can't judge me, that's important.

And why does this need to happen in the middle of the night, Luke? Because my whole life's a mess, that's why.

I reach an elevator and press the button. It only takes a few seconds until the doors open and I step inside. Please say I'll stay alone in here. The elevator takes me to the fifth floor and I look around. Room 483, wasn't it?

I look for the room as quiet as possible and it takes some minutes. Seriously, how the hell is it possible that I haven't been caught yet?

Suddenly someone switches on the light and I hear a few people coming closer. Oh, just great. I knew it. That's it, I'll get caught any minute.

"..woke up. Lisa said he can't remember who he is, that's not good!", a young woman shouts. Oh, someone woke up from coma. I freeze. What if it's Ashton? It's possible, isn't it?

"Room 478!", a man calls and I sigh. Part of me wished it was Ashton but another part hoped it wasn't. Probably because I know Ariana doesn't want him to wake up.

What would happen though if he woke up? Would Ariana forget about me? No, she wouldn't. Right?

I sigh and keep looking for room 483. It's easier now that the lights are switched on, but the chances of getting caught are higher.

I finally find the room and quietly open the door. I step inside and quickly close it behind me. Great, I can't see anything.

I try to remember how exactly to get to Ashton's bed and bump into something. My heart stops for second until I realise it's just another bed. Hopefully an empty one, as far as I can remember three of the beds in here are taken and three are empty.

I reach out for a bed or a wall and my hands touch a cold, flat something. This must be the window, means I'm close.

Alright, you can do it.

Normally I could just use my phone but since this one guy decided to wake up it's too dangerous. I'd just get caught even easier.

I gasp as my hand touches a foot - probably a foot. Is that Ashton? I try to find his head and as soon as my fingers touch a few curls I'm pretty sure I found him.

I sigh and sit down on the floor. That's it, you're completely crazy, Luke. Well then, let's go.

"Hi buddy", I say after a few seconds and start the one-man conversation.

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