Chapter 87 Hospital creepys

Chapter 87 Hospital creepys
There were two types of creepy hospital at nights decided to be.

The first was horror movie creepy, this creepy involved imagining people in over all white and messy hair walking around the halls whispering "wake me up"

It's creepy because no one is ever in the hall but you're constantly hearing sounds.

The other kind of creepy was the reality creepy. This one can be described as the fear of hearing every single machine beeping without any iota of certainty. Meaning the power could go off and those on life support could die or worse someone just vouldt hold on to life again and we hear the sounds of t
Heavy boots rushing towards the same direction.

It's the creepy that was the creepiest.

Maya was already half asleep, ethan was doom scrolling on tiktok.

Despite all the efforts I put into convincing them not to stay, they still insisted.

"Look maya it's you" ethan said referring to a video of a girl trying to do a tiktok dance in a cast.

She fell down and ethan couldn't stop laughing

Maya threw a pillow at him. The pillow wasn't even an inch away from her.

"I hate you" she said in a sleepy voice "I hate this cast"

"Well this cast is supposed to help you get better" I said

"It's messing with my clean girl aesthetic" she grumbled

Klaus had gone downstairs to get coffee after arguing with me for fifteen minutes because apparently living on anxiety and air wasn’t healthy.

He was just being ridiculous.

The room fell quiet and maya stared at the ceiling.

"You know" she said quietly "this accident really scared me"

I looked at her "you looked like it was a walk in the park earlier"

She chuckled "it was better that way"

I understood immediately

She swallowed hard. “When the car crashed…” she paused. “I genuinely thought that was it.”

My chest tightened.

Here I was thinking I was the only one that understood the weight of the incident. Everyone else looked care free and treated it like it was some minor setback.

Little did it know that everybody else was just good at pretending things were okay.

“I kept thinking about stupid things.” she complained

"Like?" I asked

“My unfinished assignments.”

I stared at her with that 'really' look. You know the sarcastic one.

She burst out laughing

"I'm just kidding"

I frowned "that is so not funny maya"

Her smile softened "I thought about you" She paused "and yale, and my dad and as annoyingly stupid it sounds" she paused again "I thought about ethan then klaus"

Comforting that my boyfriend was on the end of that list.

Maybe she really didn't give a fuvk about his guts.

"You know that saying that when you're facing death your life flashes before your eyes?" She said

I nodded. I heard that saying every single time. Even in movies.

Sometimes I wondered what flashed before Stella's eyes when she....

I'm going to pause there.

"In that moment, all.the years we spent together flashed before my eyes even stella was there"

I smiled.

Her eyes began to tear up "I realised that if I don't survive this I wouldn't get to grow to see you fully pursue your dreams or me in yale or" her voice cracked

I had never see maya this vulnerable before. She never really opened up. This was probably never going to repeat itself so I wanted to savour the moment.

"And the irony is that I was so scared of growing an I still am"

"So am i" I admitted.

"I feel like a coward for not appreciating this opportunity to live by letting fear determine whether or not this is what I want"

What she said reminded me of what jay told me before my auditions. Fear isn't a magical stop sign.

"Fear is a bitch" I blurted and she burst Into the must unhinged in cry laugh I've ever hear before.

"What the fuck is that?" She tried to ask in between the laugh.

I told her about my audition frieght and how Jay stepped in to help.

"He said people think fear is a magical stop sign" I said to her "everybody is scared of taking that huge step, I mean I am too but the fact that there is no certainty in the result shouldn't be a reason to put a full stop"

"It should be the driving factor" she finished

Exactly!! This is why maya and I were besties. I mean how many best friends in the world were in sync the way we were.

I don't care what you all think but it's just maya and I.

I played with the stress relief ball inside the pocket of my hoodie.

We continued our conversation. Talked about how I passed out before an audition and I how I was reliant on people telling me I could do it before I actually do something I knew how to do.

It was like I was addicted to my friends.

We talked about my fear of flying and watched an episode of gossip girl.

We were both already asleep on her bed when I felt a hand gently stroking my hair.

It was klaus. I knew it because I knew how he felt on me. How my body reacted to interactions with him.

I opened my eyes slowly, he was ready looking.

He mouthed the words "rooftop?"

I nodded and gently placed maya to sleep.

I looked over to ethan who was already snoring on the couch. I made sure to make little to no noise before tiptoeing out of the room with klaus

You remember when I talked about how creepy hospitals can be?

I forgot about the third creepy.

The third hospital creepy was that one within you. That feeling of addressing issues that originally felt like something that didn't need immediate attention until something terrible happened and you're somehow in the hospital at night.

I don't know how else to explain this creepy but it was the creepiest creepy.

I was sure that creepy had gotten to klaus and whatever he wanted to talk about on the rooftop was either going to end terribly good or disastrous.