Unconditional

Chapter 2

It's been about a hour. Caleb came in to see me. I needed stitches for my tongue because I was a dumb fuck and bit through it when I was kneed in the face earlier. Anyways, Caleb came in the room when I was done and he looked at me.

"Hey dork, how are you feeling?"

"I feel kneedy. Ba dum tss" I laughed at my bad pun and Caleb sat there, looking so so disappointed.

"That was literally the worse pun known to man."

"Yeah, yeah. I know. Can you come here and lay with me Caleb?"

"Of course."

I scoot over and make space for Caleb. It looked dark outside, but it was only five in the evening. I was hungry but at the same time I was tired.

"You know I love you right, Aeryn?"

"Yeah I know. I love you too. You are a really good friend Caleb."

He sighed a bit.

"You're so dense sometimes"

"I'm not dense, I'm tired"

"Fine, I love you as a girlfriend Aeryn."

I felt myself start to blush. He walked over to the bed and lay down next to me. I turn to face him and set my head on his chest. He was acting all calm but I could hear his heart beat and it was crazy. I ended up giggling.

"You think it's funny?"

"N-No, I like you too Caleb. It's just, you know?"

"Yeah yeah, you are having a bad time getting over Dakota right?"

"Yeah...I really like you Caleb but I am just afraid that I won't be able to do some of the things normal couples do. Like kissing or holding hands. It's just..."

"No need to explain Aeryn, I understand. But we can still date right? Just no kissing or holding hands. You seem to hug fine."

I nodded and looked up at him, "Yeah, would you like to go out Caleb?"

"I would be honoured to go out with you Ms. McCallister."

I whine and smile "Ahhh, why did you have to say that. You totally ruined the moment in the most goofy way possible."

"Yeah, I know, but that's a reason why you would love me. Cause I am goofy and I can make you laugh."

He wasn't wrong, if I was ever down or needed a good laugh, he was there. He always knew the right thing to say. He's such a great guy. I only hope that I can be equally as great for him.

"I am tired, I think I am gonna try to sleep. Will you stay till I do? I still have nightmares." I looked up at him with pleading eyes. He just nodded.

"Yeah, of course. Anything for my angel right?"

"God, you are so cringey."

"It's a quality."

"Yeah, a bad one."

He playfully tugged on my hair and I smiled.

"Ow! You ass hole. That wasn't nice."

"Shush, stop talking and go to bed already."

"Fine, goodnight goof ball"

"Goodnight Satan."

I stuck my stitched tongue out at him and snuggled him a bit. Not long after I passed out. Caleb got up. A few minutes afterwards, Joey walks in and lightly knocks. Caleb puts a finger to his lips and points at me before leaving the room.

"Man, Joey she is asleep. You missed your chance."

"Damn, when do you think she will be awake?"

"Man, I don't know. But I am going out to get food. You can come with me. We can bring food back for her. But we have to make it fast. You know hospitals freak her out still right?"

"Of course, how can I forget? No one can forget what they did to her before. Not even herself. And I wish she would sometimes. She wouldn't be as sad or anxious, ya know?"

"Dude, you are making me sad and anxious just talking about it. Shut up."

Joey holds his hands up in defense then looks over at me as I shift around a bit in my sleep. He puts Caleb on hold for a second and the boys walk in my room to see me sweating and breathing heavily.

"Dude, I think we should wake her up. She looks like she is having a nightmare."

Joey shakes his head, "Nah man, let's just go. She will be fine."

Caleb rolled his eyes and walked up to me, kissed my forehead then left the room with Joey to go get something to eat.

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The boys took longer than expected. When they got back, the hospital was panicking a bit. Joey ran up to a nurse and asked what was wrong. She said one of the patients had disappeared. Caleb asked how and she said it was a female patient. She was checked on because they heard sobs and screams. When they went into the girls room, she was sleeping but we had to wake her up because she was disturbing others. Joey shakes his head, knowing that was a bad idea. The nurse continues to say that the girl freaked out a bit yelling about being abandoned again. We tried putting her under but it wasn't working fast enough. She pushed through our nurse's and ran outside, saying something about a safe haven?

Caleb pulls out his phone and the nurse looks at him.

[N] "What are you doing now?"

"I am going to look for my girlfriend. Since you seem to be having a bad time keeping her here."

The nurse got offended and left. Joey looked at Caleb.

"Dude, what are we going to do about it? She is on the loose and she is drugged. She can literally be anywhere and she can easily be taken by anyone."

"Man, I love you and all. But shut up. If you are just going to be negative then leave. Otherwise look for Aeryn. What she needs right now? Is to know she wasn't abandoned by us." Caleb gets off the phone and kicks a trash can, "FUCK!"

"Dude, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Seriously Joey? My girlfriend is out there, she is scared and depressed! She thinks we left her by herself! She is on drugs too! What the fuck isn't wrong?!"

"Let's call Christian, maybe he can tell us what the Safe Haven is? Let's just go to the house dude, everyone will be there and we can find her with bigger numbers ok?"

Caleb nods and they drive off to their house. They all live together. But when they got home, they didn't see Aeryn anywhere. They got more concerned and went inside then explained everything to everyone, including Xios.

Xios agreed to help look. They all split up, searching different parts of the city. Xios was in charge of checking the old school house around the hospital. He didn't like the idea because it freaked him out, but he wanted to help his new friends out.

He walks inside and looks around. He has a flashlight and was looking around. His hand was shaking, he saw someone in one of the empty rooms and went to check it out. He shined his light in there and saw Aeryn. He went to help but then stopped.

I looked up and saw Xios. I shook my head and weakly pointed at trip wire in front of the door.

Xios looked up at me and looked a bit sad. He could hear my breathing and how raspy it was. He looked around, as if to see what was wrong and I pointed to my side, there was something wooden sticking out of it. And lots of blood. He mouthed that he would go get help and I nodded.

Xios turned his back and started walking, then he heard me screaming bloody murder and he started running out. He didn't know who was in there, but he knew it wasn't good. So he had to act fast, because no matter how fast he ran, time was running out faster.