"So, we have an issue.... it's been a full day that we have been here...we haven't even told Stella what has happened to Scar. I am sure that she will panic." I can see the dread that is written all over his face and I can see that his dread is just as bad as I feel it.
"I will give her a call or shoot her a text here in a little bit. I have no idea how to tell her or how to even approach the conversation." He shakes his head looking like he is really struggling to keep himself from falling apart. "Cam I am so sorry...I should have been there...I should have been with her...I even tried to heal her...but I couldn't do it Cam. I couldn't make her better. Ever since I fell, I haven't had my abilities anymore, I couldn't even heal the bruising in her face." I watch as he looks as though he is crumbling in front of my eyes, his face falls into his hands in defeat. It has been so long since he has mentioned anything to do with his falling, it kind of catches me off guard. I look at him and I know the guilt that he feels so deep down.
"Jace that is not your fault. Don't blame yourself. Neither of us could have known this was going to happen. I knew that you would try to heal her, but I had no idea that you didn't have your abilities anymore." I look at Jace and hold his gaze until he nods at me in agreement. He gives me this intense look as though he has a deep dark secret that he has yet to tell me. There is not much that we haven't shared with each other honestly after my parents died, he stayed at the house with me and Scarlet for almost 2 years just making sure that we are ok.
"Cam I never told you the reason I fell...I thought that you would be mad at me and that you would never want to be my friend again..." He gives me a look that says it all, he is struggling for words, and I am almost positive that I know what he is going to tell me.
"Buddy, you don't have to tell me, I can pretty much guess the reason you fell. I guess that I have always known, you fell because of the love you have always had for Scarlet. You started to love her before anyone ever really knew what was happening, I think that maybe you loved her even before you knew." I smile at him sympathetically knowing that this was something that would have been really hard for him to say, he has always struggled with talking about his time as an Angel and even more so the subject of him falling from grace.
"I am so glad that I didn't have to say it. But I am curious, how long have you known?" He looks at me in relief and curiosity.
"I pretty much new from the beginning...I had noticed the way you looked at Scar and how you always seemed protective over her. At first, I'm not going to lie, it really bothered me but only like the first couple days then I thought it really was cute and sweet. When you told me you fell, I almost asked you if it was because of Scarlet but I decided that it didn't matter. You are my best friend and the best person for my sister." I give him a confident look, "Have you told her yet?"
"Yes, I actually told her last night. I was so worried that she wouldn't want to be with me anymore but thankfully I feel like it brought us closer." He smiles with sadness, and I can understand why, he told her who he truly is, and he told her his deepest darkest secret and now this.
"She really is very understanding and very much mature for her age. I don't know what I would have done if she wasn't. She has honestly changed me in so many ways. I feel things that I never thought that I would know. She has made my heart feel so full in the last couple of days I never thought that she would ever even consider being with me especially considering that we are best friends."
Stella:
I wake for the second time tonight only this time to my phone ringing. I look at my phone, but I don't recognize the number. 'How odd an unknown number calling me at this time of night?' "Who is it Love are you ok? I can answer it for you if you would like me to." James is sitting up now looking at me with concern. I shake my head no and answer the call from the unknown numb.
"Hello?"
"Hey Stella, its Jace, I am so sorry that I am calling you so late. I just need to tell you something, I am not sure how to tell you and I don't know how you will react to the news I am going to give you...I don't even know how to say it..." His voice sounds strange...something is definitely wrong.
"Jace, what is wrong? I can hear that there is something huge happening I can hear it in your voice..." I am panicking, 'maybe this has something to do with the gut wrenching feeling I woke up with not so long ago.'
"It's Scar...she was in an accident...she was on her bike and a drunk driver ran a red light...and uhh...he hit her..." I'm in shock I feel as though I have had the wind knocked out of me, all of the air from my lungs rushes out hissing between my teeth.
"When did this happen? Is she ok? Where is she? Fuck is Cam, ok? Holy hell are you ok?" So many thoughts, too many questions to ask, pain, concern and fear. All of these rushing thoughts racing through my mind a thousand miles a minute. 'Please don't let my best friend be ripped from my life like this. She is basically a sister to me. I am an only child, and she is the closest thing to a sibling I have ever had.'
"I don't know how I am at the moment I am numb, and I feel as though the pain is going to open a hole in the ground and swallow me. Cam is not doing great; we are at the same hospital that their parents passed away in. But we are both coping the best that we can. The accident was earlier today. We are all at the hospital, I don't even know how it is possible, but she survived the accident. She has been down in imaging for the last few hours now. We should hopefully know more soon they just have to finish the rest of the testing." I can hear the pain in his voice. I don't know where my anger comes from, but I can't stop myself from yelling,
"Why in the hell am I just now finding out about this!? What the hell Jace! You or Cam couldn't call or even just send me a quick text till just fucking now?" I begin to sob uncontrollably, and James is holding me in an instant. He takes my phone from me, I don't know what he says to Jace, I can no longer hear anything anymore my world has come crashing down around me as I know it. I finally get myself calmed down enough to breath, and my phone chimes to signal that I have a message.
'I'm so sorry Stella. Honestly, I didn't realize it had been this long since the accident happened...We have been barely holding it together since we got here, ever since Cam called me, I haven't been able to focus all I can do is silently cry and beg for her to be ok. Cam and I haven't had anything to eat since before getting to the hospital.'
My world tips over but something or rather someone catches me. James catches me just as I begin to fall, I feel as though I am going to be sick. The feeling that I had early that woke me up from a dead sleep it was all due to Scarlet's accident. I begin to sob again; I can't breathe my chest hurts so bad as the sobs rip through me body. James quietly rocks me back and forth while he runs his fingers through my hair trying to sooth me.