As You Wish, Chapter 5 ~ Goodbye California~

Goodbye California

Steph’s P.O.V.

I woke up in a very familiar place. I was very confused though. What was I doing in the hospital; room 101 to be exact? How did I know the exact room number I was in? Easy, the hospital assigned it to our family. My brothers are always in the hospital because of fights and sports. So the hospital decided that they were just going to put us in the same room each time to make it easier on…well; me. I used to have to rush around to find which room my brothers were in or the people they injured. Yupp, the people they injure get room 101 too. It’s kind of funny, really.

I looked around the room. How did I get here? Maybe it was the magical Lara fairy! (Lol inside joke!) I spotted a head of Messy Black hair sitting in a chair by my hospital bed listening to my I-Pod while going through my cell phone.

Excuse me, but did I say he could use either one of those?

You were passed out, you didn’t SAY anything.

Then He should have left my stuff alone! Humph!

“Having fun there?” I asked staring intently at the guy in front of me. ‘Ohh he’s a hottie….’ Startled by my sudden question, the hottie jumped about 5 feet in the air.

“Whoa, I didn’t notice that you woke up!” He said smiling. ‘No shit Sherlock.’ “Um… I called someone on your phone. They said they’d be right here. It was about 5 minutes ago so they should be here soon.” He said rubbing the back of his head.

“Who’d you call?” I asked praying that he didn’t call my brothers. If he did, this boy is toast; even if he did save me from possibly getting raped or kidnapped or something.

“I pushed speed dial number 1 and pushed send.” He said unsure of himself. “She said she had to go get ‘Ty Ty’ and ‘Mindy’ before she came and then she told me to ‘stay put or else!’” The hottie chuckled.

“Ohh, you’re sooooooooooooo lucky! If you would’ve called someone like say; MY BROTHER! You would’ve been dead.” I said laughing to myself. He stiffened.

“Why? I could’ve saved your life! Someone could’ve found you and raped you or held you hostage or something!” He defended.

“I’m just saying. They would probably accuse you of molesting me before bringing me to the hospital or something stupid like that. Ha-ha, Ty can tell you about it when he gets here. He used to get accused of all sorts of crap when we were younger.” I smiled remembering the good ole days. Just then the door flew open and Tyler ran in followed by Bel’s and Mindy.

“STEPHENIE GEMMA BUKOWSKI! The Nurse says you might not be getting enough food! Are you starving yourself?” Tyler asked me in a motherly way. We (Tyler, Bel’s, Mindy, and I) all looked at each other and laughed hysterically.

“Oh my god Tyler! That was too funny!” I said between breaths. “I haven’t laughed this much since before Adien and I broke up!” Mindy, Tyler and Bel’s instantly grew silent at the mention of Adien.

“Anorexia is not a laughing matter!” The hottie spoke up causing us all to crack smiles. “What the fuck is so funny?”

“She eats like a pig!” Tyler exclaimed. I simply nodded my head agreeing.

“How the hell is she so small then?” The hottie exclaimed pointing at my very thin body.

“I run everyday and have a high metabolism.” I said shrugging my shoulders. Sure I had been eating less lately, but that only made me eat like a human being. Suddenly I had a thought “Hey, what’s your name anyways?” I asked turning my head towards the hottie.

“Blake Richards.” He smiled at me causing me to blush a little. What can I say? This boy was FINE!

“Well, Blake; this is Tyler, Mindy, and Arabella.” I said pointing at each one of my friends, “and I’m Stephenie if you haven’t already figured that out by my friends out burst.” I smiled back at him.

“Um, hate to interrupt,” Arabella smirked, “But your brothers are probably going to be here any minute. It won’t take them that long to figure out to call the hospital…. I think.” She paused for a second remembering how stupid my brothers could be then continued. “And, they have company…”

“What kind of company?” I asked curiously, taking my eyes off Blake. She didn’t look too thrilled, so I knew this kind of company might not be too good.

“Brandon and Adien are home… They got back this afternoon. Sean told me when he called saying he knew where you were. We don’t have much time. They’ll be here soon. What are you going to do?” I just gaped at her. Adien’s here; as in California; as in on his way here right now? That can’t be true…

“Who are Adien and Brandon?” Blake asked confused. I snapped my head towards where he was sitting.

“My brother and Ex…” I said still a little out of it. I wasn’t ready to see Adien! I was just starting to get over him… Ok that was a lie; I’ll never get over him but still.

“So what are we going to do?” Arabella asked again. Tyler popped up from his seat.

“I have an idea!” He said smiling. “Pretend you lost your memory. That way you can just “get your memory back” over time, without having to deal with anything right away.”

“That’s…. BRILLIANT!” I yelled. This might actually work. It’s worth a try. If I have to I could just be like ‘I remember everything now! It all just came back to me’ or something like that.

“I don’t know you guys…” Mindy doubted, “How long do you really think you could pull this off?” Arabella started at her incredulously.

“It’s her brothers! We could pull this off for the rest of her life if we wanted too. They aren’t that smart!” Arabella commented.

“Hey! They’re still my brothers! Be a little nicer about it.” I said pouting.

“What about Andrew? You don’t think he’ll catch on? He’s smart when it comes to if you’re lying or not; and about how your feeling.” Mindy pointed out.

“Your right about that, but I think we could pull it off all the same!” I said being optimistic for once.

“Who’s Andy? Why would he be more apt to know you’re lying than the rest of them? Speaking of them; how many brothers do you have?” Blake asked confused about everything.

“I have 3 brothers. Sean; the oldest who is big and scary. Brandon; the middle child; he’s pretty laid back. And Andrew; my twin, who we all call Andy.” I said explaining my family to Blake.

“Wow, I see. What about your parents? Won’t they know?” Blake asked. I looked down and Tyler answered for me.

“They’re dead. Don’t bother apologizing; you didn’t know. So are we going to do this or what?” Tyler asked trying to change the subject.

“Yes, I think we are going to do this.” I said right as the door to my room opened and 4 very worried guys came hurrying in.

“HEY! They said you were sleeping!” Andy said pointing at me.

“Well obviously she woke up. That’s a good thing, retard!” Brandon said hitting Andy in the back of the head. I just looked at all of them with wide eyes, although I kind of wanted to yell at Sean for glaring at Blake. Here goes nothing…

“What the hell? Why are you glaring at Blake? Who are you people? Do I even know you?” I asked in a slightly pissed off voice. I got 4 blank stares. My breathe caught in my throat. Adien was standing not even 10 feet away from me. It took all I had to stay back and not run to him.

“What do you mean who are we? We’re your brothers! Did this Blake dude brainwash you or something?” Sean asked spitting out Blake’s name like venom.

“Sean! Calm down. She didn’t remember us either. Yelling.at.her.isn’t.going.to.help.anything.” Arabella said walking up to Sean and poking him in his chest after each word. He looked down at her and took a step back. ‘Woot! Woot! Go Arabella!’ I cheered in my head.

“Why can’t she remember us?” Adien spoke softly looking me directly in the eyes. I couldn’t help but stare back mesmerized.

“Do I look like a doctor? No. She must have hit her head when she fell and got a concussion.” Arabella started walking back over to her seat beside my bed.

“How do you know she fell?” Andy asked suspiciously.

“I told them. I watched it happen. She passed out after running, fell over, and hit her head. I took her straight here afterwards.” Blake spoke up. ‘Uh Oh, he’s a dead man.’

“So you waited until after she fell to do something about it?” Sean asked angrily. I noticed that he wasn’t the only one glaring at Blake; Adien tore his eyes away from mine and was now glaring at Blake also.

“I didn’t know she was going to pass out! She just stopped for a minute. It looked like she was deep in thought; then she just fell over and yelled shit” Blake explained not phased at all by the big creature wanting to tare him apart in front of him.

“HA! Told you she yelled shit! Let me guess she was also listening to the song ‘what happened to us’ by Hoobastank?” Andy asked proudly.

“Yeah, she was actually.” Blake said surprised. Maybe they had underestimated Andy’s connection to Stephenie.

“Ohh… I know everything you were thinking about sis.” Andy turned his head and looked at Adien for a second. “Looks like you got your wish. And don’t even think about the thing you were thinking about before…” Andy looked straight at me. He knew. I know he knows!

“What are you all talking about? UGH! My head is starting to hurt from all this drama.” I said trying to convince Andy that I had in fact lost my memory.

“Sorry, not buying it. Drop it Steph! I mean it; or I’ll tell everyone what you were thinking about…” Andy threatened. Crap should I abandon the whole ‘I lost my memory’ lie, or keep it up? Maybe he’s bluffing. “I’m not bluffing!”

“FINE! UGH! You caught me, I didn’t loose my memory! But if I ever find out you told ANYONE what I was thinking about, I WILL kill you!” I said glaring at Andy.

“If you ever do what you were thinking about; I will kill YOU!” He said glaring right back at me.

“…Which part? First or second?” I asked.

“Well, I’m not too crazy about either of them, but the first one.” He looked back at Adien again.

“So, wait… Do you have your memory or not?” Sean asked angrily. Seriously? Did he really not know the answer to that?

“Yes! She has her memory. We were just going to play a trick on you… We weren’t going to but then we found out you brought some… company.” Arabella looked directly at Adien causing him to shift awkwardly.

“What’s he still doing here?” Sean glared at Blake, understanding why I didn’t want to confront Adien yet.

“He’s a friend now so drop it! Plus he saved me.” I smiled reassuringly at Blake. When I looked back, Adien was gone.

“Crap!” I jumped out of bed, but quickly grabbed a hold of the pole to steady myself. “Whoa, still a little dizzy!” I laughed awkwardly, and then grabbed my clothes Mindy, who was holding them, and rushed off to the bathroom to change, before anyone could protest.

“What’s the worst that I could say? Things are better if I stay!” My phone, that was in the pocket of the Jean Shorts I was about to put on, went off.

“Hello?” I asked pulling my shorts on, steadying the phone with my shoulder and head.

“Hey! It’s Shelly!” My sista from anotha mista said into the phone.

“Hey, what’s up? I’m kinda busy!” I told her pulling my pink stripped tube top on.

“Adien went back to California!” She yelled. ‘No really?’

“I know, I’m about to go after him. Some stuff just happened, I’ll tell you later.” I told her about to hang the phone up.

“Wait! There’s something you should know. Adien knew that you were lying when you said that you didn’t love him anymore. He admitted it to me. He also said he stayed on the beach and watched you cry all night. Steph, he STILL left. He KNEW what you were going through, he KNEW what you were feeling, he KNEW that you hated yourself for it, he KNEW and he still left. He didn’t even have the balls to tell you that he knew you were lying, but he was going to come to Spain anyways.” I was crying at this point in her little speech. It couldn’t be true, could it? “Stephenie, he’s a total jackass. Your brother didn’t even tell him what was so great in Spain. He just told him all this great stuff to talk it up, because he didn’t want to go alone! The thing that was so great about Spain was Tamara, and she has a boyfriend now. So Brandon and Adien coming to Spain was a waste. I can’t believe he left you for something that he didn’t even know a lot about. I can kind of see why he wanted to come for a visit or something; Brandon really did talk it up a lot. But still…” I hung up the phone. I didn’t want to hear anything else. I turned my phone off and exited the bathroom. ‘Screw this! So what if Andy said I couldn’t runaway, there was no way for him to stop it.’ I wasn’t watching were I was going and ran into Blake about halfway down the hall.

“Hey! Where are you going? The doctor didn’t check you out of the hospital yet.” He said concerned.

“Do you have a car here?” I asked quickly.

“Yeah, but don’t you have to…” I cut him off by grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the exit of the hospital.

“We’re leaving.” I explained shortly.

“Ok…” Blake just followed.

“Keys! I’m driving; you don’t know where my house is. I’ll explain everything on the way.” I said turning to him, “Trust me.”

“Whatever you say.” He said looking at me confused. He handed over the keys and got into the passenger seat.

“So, I’m leaving. I wouldn’t really call it running away, because I’m 18. Where I’m going; I have no clue. Probably a different state. Something far, far away, maybe on the other side of the country. No where cold though, it needs to be warm, like California.” Blake cut off my rambling.

“Somewhere like, Florida?” He asked smiling.

“Exactly!” I said hitting the wheel.

“Sweet! I know exactly where you can stay! My place! I live in this beach house with some of my friends and my little sister. It’d be perfect, one of my friends just moved out, that’s actually why I’m here. He moved to California and I helped him move in and stuff.” Blake smiled at me. ‘hmm, that did sound perfect! A house on the beach, no brothers… sign me up!’

“Are you sure it wouldn’t be a problem? When are you heading back to Florida?” I asked Blake.

“No, it wouldn’t be a problem at all. And the plane leaves tomorrow at 2:30pm.” Blake said looking at me. Am I really about to do this?

“Then I guess it’s settled then, I’m moving to Florida. Just don’t tell my brothers. They’ll flip! I’ll leave them a note. Kinda mean, but oh well. We’ll have to hurry and pack all my clothes and get the plane ticket and stuff tonight. We can figure out all the smaller details tomorrow morning.”

“Sounds good. Do you just want to stay at the hotel with me tonight, to avoid your brothers?” Blake asked.

“Yah, that would be great.” I sighed. “Goodbye California. Hello Florida.”

Readers,
Sorry it took me so long to update! I've been kind of busy lately. I won't be able to update for a while either, because school is starting soon and i haven't started reading the 4 books i have to read for honnors english yet :( plus we have a full house at the paddock household this weekend. Sean and his GF r coming, Allen is coming, Andrew is coming, and Sean is also bringing his German friend. Plus... TONIGHT IS THE BREAKING DAWN RELEASEPARTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT!! I am just hours away from reading the book! :D SO EXCITING! I'm also obsessing over the Twilight movie. You have no idea how much i love that series.... Seriously. Went to a Stephenie Meyer book signing the day Eclipse came out, and predicted that there was going to be a Twilight movie when it first came out! Yupp, I pretty much love that series! :D anywayz, hope you liked the chapter. R&R.