Vic’s pov
“Tony are you in there?” I spoke whilst knocking on the wooden door.
“Tony please, open up?! Is this about Iris?”
I tried talking to him for the next hour but no answer. Not a whisper, not a cry, not even a sense of life was coming out of the room.“Hey Mike. Come here.” I shouted down stairs.
“Coming dude.” I heard Mike running up the stairs. “What’s up?”
“Can you get the bathroom door open?”
“Sure why?”
“Tony hasn’t come out in nearly 2 days, something is really wrong!!”
“Okay.”
After a while of picking at the lock Mike finally managed to get the door open.
“TONY!!!” I shouted. He was laying there. His chest only making slight movement, and his wrist, his wrist was covered in dry blood. “MIKE CALL AN AMBULANCE NOW.” Mike came rushing out his room.
“Why? What’s happ- TONY!!”
“MIKE!” Tears were falling and I didn’t care, I just needed my best friend to get into hospital now.
“They’re on their way now. W-what happened?” Mike was crying which just made me cry even more because he never cried, but, when he did the outcome was never good.
“I-I-I don’t know.”
I could here sirens in the far distance. What if he isn’t okay? What if something terrible happens to him? Questions were running through my head that I barely noticed Mike pulling me out of the bathroom.
“Would one of you like to come in the ambulance?” One of the paramedics asked.
“Vic, you should go. You’re in no state to drive right now.” Mike said, I new he was right.
I followed the paramedics down the stairs and out the front door. Before I got into the ambulance I shouted back to Mike.
“Can you text the guys what’s going on? Can you text Iris as well?” I said the last bit not as loud because right now she was the person to blame for all of this. I know I shouldn’t blame her but what else has happened lately for him to do this?
We got to the hospital in record time. I got out and followed the paramedics inside, not waiting for Mike.
“Mr. Fuentes you will have to stay in the waiting room.” I nodded, the tears didn’t stop. My best friend cuts himself and I never even new. What a good fucking friend I am, eh?
“WHERE IS HE?” I heard a girl shout to the receptionist, it sound like Iris.
“Who are you looking for ma’am.”
“Tony Perry.” She said in more of a hush tone.
“Of course. Are you related? Only relatives can go through.”
“Errr..yeah…we’re his….errrr….cousins, yeah we’re hi cousins.”
“Okay…Just walk down there and you will see a big open space, if you wait in there and the doctors should be out slowly,” The waiting room was only a few metre so I could here the whole conversation.
Iris came storming in with Mike and Austin speed walking behind her. She spotted me and came over straight away.
“Where is he?” No way was I going to speak to her. Maybe I sound childish but she is possibly the reason Tony is in here.
“Vic, where the hell is he?” She whisper shouted getting closer to my face. She looked angry, really angry.
“Victor Vincent Fuentes if you don’t tell me where my best friend is I will-“ She was cut off by the doctor.
“Mr. Fuentes?” We all sprung to life at the noise of my name coming out of the doctors mouth.
“Y-Y-yes?” I stuttered.
“I’m sorry but there is very little chance of him making it. Do you know how long he was in the bathroom for?”
“Around 2 days….I new something was wrong. I thought he was just being stubborn and wouldn’t come out, he’s done that before so we just presumed…” I trailed off.
“That would be why then…” The doctor said barely audible.
“What would be why?”
“We have managed to stitch up his wrist, when he cut he must of put some pressure on the open wounds to stop the bleeding, if he didn’t I don’t think he would be here. He has a very weak pulse at the moment and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. You can see him if you want but he isn’t awake. We have but him into a fixed coma. He should be awake in around 2 weeks, that’s if his pulse holds out.” The doctor walked away.
Everyone was crying now. Iris had fallen to her knees and was just a crying mess on the floor, Austin was trying to calm her down by siting her on his lap and rocking her side to side. He was crying to. Mike was sat a few seats away from me trying not to cry in front of people
When we pulled ourselves together we decided to go into his room. As soon as we walked in my stomach dropped and Iris fell to her knees crying once again. Austin picked her up bridal style and took her to the couch in the far corner of the room to calm her down. I sat down on the chair beside his bead and stared at his lifeless body. How could I not of known this? I have lived under the same roof as him for god knows how many years.
“It’s all my fault, Austin. It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t of told him I loved him. I new he harmed himself and I was scared, scared in case he would do something like this if I told him I don’t love him back. I went for that meal and, I don’t know, did I lead him on.”
“What? You new he did this and you didn’t think to tell me?” I practically shouted at Iris.
“Yes I new but he made me promise him that I wouldn’t tell anyone. I don’t go telling people secrets that are between me and my best friends.”
“This is different! This isn’t something you can keep a secret Iris. Tony’s life could end because of you. Why didn’t you tell him to his face that you didn’t like him in that way?” My voice was getting louder every time I spoke.
Iris stormed over to Tony and kissed him on the head. “I told him I loved him back because I was scared of this happening.” She ran out of the room, her hands covering her face whilst Austin ran behind her.
I new it was he fault, I new she was the reason Tony was in here. One of the nurses came in to see if his heart rate was okay.
“You know if you talk to people that are in comas they can hear you. Which makes them want to wake up which means he might to be in the fixed coma for 2 weeks.” She walked out of the room.
I started sharing memories with Tony whilst Mike went to get coffee. I just want him back. There is a chance he will never come back, and at the moment that’s what’s scaring me the most.