HEART OF A TRUE LUNA novel Chapter 2

AMBER.

“Take me to him!” I said as my chest heaved.

“That’s my plan, but I need to find out how to attach this dextrose to the stand…” She was not able to finish her words, and her eyes grew bigger when I clutched the tube attached to me and peeled it off my skin. I felt a tinge of pain, but it was nothing compared to the pain in my heart.

I couldn’t understand anything. My head refused to think why Zach would not visit me or why I was not allowed to visit him.

Was Dad or Mom upset with him? Are they blaming him for the accident? I have to tell them it was an accident and no one wanted it.

“Are you sure you’ll be okay? I don’t have shoes for you…”

“Just take me there,” I replied as Eva helped me get into the wheelchair.

“We need to be careful, as you’re not allowed to leave the room,” Eva said, and I nodded in response. I was grateful she was the exact opposite of me.

While I followed all the rules to a T, Eva was more adventurous. She broke curfews and rules but never complained when she got disciplined or grounded. She always owned up to her act. Not that I was jealous because I had no reason to break the rules—I was happy just being me. And Zach had always played by the rules, too.

After Eva made sure no one was in the corridor, she pushed my chair out, and we headed for the elevator—all the while, my heart was thumping loudly, praying no one would catch us.

I glanced at myself as we passed by the glass windows of another suite, and I could see my face was too pale. My hair was a mess from the ponytail I had, and I still have a bandage on my ear.

They said a metal cut a portion of my ear, but I was lucky it missed my head. I raised my hand and looked at my arms. I had bruises and scratches—nothing major. Mom said those were from debris from the broken window and some metal that hit me.

What made me unconscious was the big piece of glass that struck the back of my head. I was lucky the glass remained there until they were able to take me out and able to stop the bleeding, or I would have bled profusely.

After what felt like forever, the elevator finally pinged, and Eva rolled me out. Instead of going to the main entrance, she took the side exit. Someone was about to stop her, but she glared at the security. We were let out, but I heard him radioing someone that I went out of the building. So I was sure that at any moment, someone would come for us.

“Do you know exactly..:” I was about to ask her if she knew where Zach was parked when she cut me off.

“In that ambulance.”

“Is he still not okay?” I asked, and I realized my voice was trembling.

Why did he need to leave if he was still not one hundred percent okay?

“You need to see it for yourself, but I can explain later.” She said as we rushed forward until we finally reached the vehicle.

Eva maneuvered my chair to go to the back, and Zach finally came into view.

He was inside the ambulance, in its bed. His upper body was slightly raised up, and a blanket was covering the lower part of him. He had a full bandage on his right arm, and it finally hit me that it was the arm that was around my head where my earlobe was cut.

Zach protected me. If he hadn’t, my head would have been hit by that metal.

My tears kept rolling down my cheeks as I looked at him. Trying to take it all in.

I looked worse than him. He had bandages on his arm and a few bruises on his face, but he looked like he had gone to shower and had shaved his beard. They cut his hair. His long hair was gone.