Charlie's POV
Tillie took my hand acting as if she was going to be an adult but instead, she pulled me into a hug and whispered venom in my ear: I will kill you for this, you fucking slut. my response just pissed her off more, but she choked it down and walked away.
We all sat and had the dinner from hell, nothing bad happened but it was incredibly awkward and afterward we went to look for Tiff and hang out for a little while.
"Okay well we should probably get going. I need to bring Charlie back so she can get some rest."
"Oh please no Charlie dont go, you're like the only normal person I know. Stay and have a girl's sleepover, you can stay in my room with me, I guess Thomas can stay too"
I couldn't help but laugh, and even more so seeing Thomas' face so stern for a moment until he started laughing to: Okay fine I will stay but just for this night and then I have to go back home in the morning, its time I start looking for work if I'm going to move out of my mother's house.
"Um, no you're not getting a job, you know this isn't where I live right? I was just staying here because I've been gone so long, and my parents are having a hard time letting go. I actually have my own house, so why wouldn't you just live there with me?"
"Uh… well for one we haven't talked about me moving in together and for two I'm not just going to let you take care of me. I have dreams and aspirations as well and I need to feel good about how I attain them"
"We didn't talk about moving in, we talked about spending our lives together, how did you think we would do that… living in separate households? I just assumed, I mean we lived in the same shack, how is it any different, besides its clear neither one of us sleeps well without the other. As far as you getting a job to further your goals, I do understand that, but would you at least be open to discussing how you attain those goals?"
Both of our brows were knitted in a serious discussion while Tiff just looked back and forth at us in amusement and a smile across her face.
"I suppose that's true, we were already living together and yes, I cannot seem to sleep without you now. Okay I will think about us moving in together and yes, I would be willing to discuss how I attain my goals, BUT I am my own person, so I have the right to veto your ideas. You haven't put a ring on it yet." I gave him a teasing smile before Tiff interrupted us: Okay but the real question is… Can I live with you too.
We both looked at her and started laughing but not answering her question. We hung out all night watching tv and eating junk before we finally fell asleep, Tiff on one couch and me and Thomas on the other, his arms tightly wrapped around me.
The next morning Thomas looked so peaceful sleeping, and I didn't want to wake him so I decided to ask Henry for a ride home. He protested me not telling Thomas but in the end I won the discussion and he took me anyways. We were only a couple miles from my home when I got a call from an unknown number on my cell, I answered it but instantly regretted it when I heard the sickening sound of Tillie Macinosh on the other end: Hello Charlotte, you remember how I said you would die for taking Thomas away? She laughed a nasally laugh through her nose: Goodbye Charlotte.
I didn't have time to say anything, my body jolted to the left along with everything in the car and I heard a scream, I didn't realize till later it was my own voice I had heard, someone hit us and extremely hard, and my world spun with the car, it felt like being on a roller coaster but in slow motion, I held my stomach and the handle on the car just trying to hold on till it was over. I don't know if it was the motion making me black out like those astronauts in those machines or if something hit my head, but everything went black and all I remember is light starting to peek through and Henry crawling in from the window screaming my name.
I remember wondering why his hands were covered in blood. As I started to come to I realized it was my blood, I guess I had hit my head after all and I could feel cuts on my face that must have been from the windows breaking: You're okay?
"I'm okay. Charlie don't move, just don't move okay?" He screamed for help and he just kept telling me to hold on. I didn't feel like I was dying so I must have looked so much worse then what I felt, either that or I was in shock. I felt his hand on my stomach as he lifted my shirt and I remembered that I had tried protecting the baby: The baby… oh god! I felt an anxiety attack coming on and I started to cry out to Thomas. Henry just kept saying: Charlie it's going to be okay, but you need to stay calm. Charlie stay calm, okay? Thomas will be with you shortly.
I heard the wailing from the ambulance, and I saw the paramedics once they pulled the door off and as they put a brace on my neck to stabilize me. They lifted my body slowly from the window and put me on a stretcher and into the ambulance.
I felt myself in and out of consciousness and I could hear the Dr.s at work but it's like I couldn't open my eyes to talk to them. I remember feeling like I fell asleep and when I woke up, I was in a hospital room, and everything was quiet. I sat trying to remember what had happened and I remember hearing Tillies voice and what she said to me. She is the one who did this to me, she made a threat that I thought were the empty threats of a spoiled rich girl, but she made good on them and now I don't know if my baby is alive or dead. I hit the nurses call button and she swiftly came in: Oh, it's good to see you awake, how do you feel Miss Miller?
"Like I got hit by a bus"
"It was actually a semi so you're lucky to feel anything at all"
"Is my baby alive?"