Chapter 16: Trouble

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"I got no faith
And, oh, did I mention
I want no trouble"

Days later......

"You what?" I ask Nate. I must be hearing things.

"I said I bought us Imagine dragons concert tickets for later this year."

"They're my favorite band."

"I know. Which is why I bought the tickets." He repeats it slowly since it seems I can't comprehend what he's saying .

"Did I mention you're the best?"

"No, but thank you for the compliment."

"Ahh! I can't wait!" I basically squeal. I never squeal so that's how big of a deal this is for me.

"What's going on?" My mom asks as she passes by. Nate and I are watching tv in the living room and have plans later to meet up with Emma and Matt for dinner.

"Nothing, just Audrey realizing that I'm the best boyfriend ever." Nate responds.

"Eh, I guess." I try to tone down my excitement which he doesn't buy at all.
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"What do you think of visiting California with me sometime? Plus you can finally meet my parents. They'll love you." Nate asks me as we make our way to the resturant.

"I think it would be fun. Just tell me when ahead of time." Even though thinking of meeting his parents makes me a bit nervous.

"We could go anytime using the private plane."

"Oh yeah. Mr.fancy has his own plane."

"Are you mocking me? I feel like I'm being mocked." He acts hurt and puts his hand to his chest. When he says that it reminds me of a meme I saw earlier.

"Me? Never."

I hear my phone buzz with a text message. I check it and see it's from Emma.

Me and matt are on our way 😜😎

I text her back

Us too. See u there

Before I put my phone away I find the meme I was thinking of and send it to Nate.

I put my phone away and notice we are not to far from the resturant.

When we get there we ask for a table for four since it doesn't seem Emma and Matt have made it yet.

We pick a booth next to a window and order something to drink.

I see Nate check his phone and start laughing. "Are you mocking my mocking?" He then shows me the message I sent him.

"Haha. I love that meme. Corgis are so cute." I explain.

We somehow end up talking about Kevin Hart memes.

"Are you ready to order?" A young waiter comes and asks us.

"Oh, um we're still waiting on our friends." I check the time and see several minutes have passed by.

"No problem, I'll give you some time. " He turns and leaves.

"They should have been here by now. Let me text Em." Maybe there was traffic where they were coming from and forgot to text us.

I shoot her a quick text

Hey, we're here. Did something come up?

A couple of more minutes pass and I decide to just call.

I'm about to hang up after several rings when she answers.

"Hello?" She sounds a bit out of breath.

"Hey, where are you?"

"Audrey! Matt and I got in a car accident, we are at the hospital emergency room. I'm really worried about Matt, he wasn't responding at the scene." I hear her starting to sob.

"Where are you? I'm on my way okay?"
I try to sound calm but inside I'm freaking out and really worried about them.

She tells me which hospital they are at and as soon as I hang up I tell Nate what she said.

"Let's go." He says and we make our way to the hospital.
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We get there in fifteen minutes and go straight to the front desk at the ER entrance. A woman in black scrubs looks up at us and smiles. "Can I help you?"

"Hi, I'm looking for my friends. Their names are Emma Laine and Matt Drun."

"Let me see..." She looks down and types in her computer. "She's in bed two, I'll show you." She leads us to the ER area. There's beds seperated by curtains.

"Audrey! Nate!" I turn and see Emma sitting on a bed behind a open curtain.

I almost don't recognize her. Her red hair is a mess and has spots with blood on her clothes.

We go straight towards her and give her a hug.

"How are you?" I ask her.

"I'm fine. The doctor just said I have whiplash and that I'll probably have some bruises but that everything else is okay with me."

"Where's Matt?" Nate asks quietly. I look around but don't see him.

"They took him to a room. He was bleeding alot from his head. After the car hit us, he wouldn't respond. I'm really worried." She looks devastated as she tells us.

"Hello? Is Emma Laine in here?" We hear a deep voice ask by where we are.

"Yes." She answers.

A male police officer then enters the small space and greets us. "Hello Emma, I'm officer Klyde Simmons. I have a few questions about the accident if that's okay? We can do this in private if you like." He then looks at me and Nate.

"You can ask me questions, I also don't mind if they stay."

"That's fine. So can you explain what happened tonight as best you can?" He pulls out a document and starts filling it out.

Emma takes a breath then starts to describe what happened. "Matt and I were on our way to meet our friends at a resturant. Matt was driving and I was in the passenger seat. We were at a red light and a black ford truck hit us from behind. After that he went to the next lane since it was empty and took off. Matt hit his forehead on the steering wheel and started bleeding from a cut. I kept trying to get him to answer me. I took out my phone and called 911. A couple of minutes later an ambulance came and brought us here."

"Did you see the license plates of the truck as it drove away or who was inside?" The officer questions.

"No, I think the windows were tinted. Sorry."

"It's fine, I will investigate further and see if any cameras were nearby. Here's my card if you remember anything else."

"Who would do this? There wasn't traffic. It feels like whoever did this, did it on purpose." Em informs him as she takes the card.

"I don't know, but we will try our best to figure it out. Take care. I'll contact you if I find out anything." He then turns and leaves.

"Excuse me Miss Laine, you can now visit Matt. I'm his doctor." He introduces himself as Dr. Johnson.

"How is he?" Emma quickly asks him.

"He's fine now. He had a deep laceration on his forehead, I'm guessing from where he hit the steering wheel. It required several stitches. He also had a concussion and blacked out which is why he was unresponsive at the scene. We are going to keep him overnight just to watch him. In the morning if all seems well we can discharge him."

"Okay. Um, can you show us where he is?"

"Of course."

We all follow him to a private patient room and as soon as we walk in we see Matt lying in the hospital bed.

"Hey babe how are you?" Matt weakly smiles at Emma.

"I'm fine. I was so worried about you." She goes over to kiss him. When she sees his stitches she starts to look upset.

"It's okay. I'm going to be fine. Hey guys, sorry we couldn't make it to the resturant. Something came up." Matt tries to lighten the mood when he notices us.

"If you didn't want to come, you could have just told us." Nate jokes along with him.

"Yeah but I like to be dramatic." Matt does jazz hands but winces. "Plus I just didn't wanna hear your whiny ass talk about how great the Dallas cowboys are. We all know the Houston texans are the best football team in Texas."

Nate pretends to be appalled.

"Wow guys are weird."Β  Emma gives me a look then starts to laugh.

Nate and I then tell Matt and Emma that we'll give them some time alone.

We go to the waiting room and sit for awhile.

"I can't believe that happened to them." Is all say.

"I know. But thank god they're okay now." Nate tries to reassure me and puts an arm around my shoulder.

I don't know why but I have a bad feeling. Like something else is going to happen. For now I push that thought aside, lay my head on his chest and close my eyes.

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