Chapter 9 - I am not in love

"Don't touch me," a female voice says laughing, "what? I... I think I am drunk..." a familiar male voice says, "you are so hot" he whispers, "oh, stop, it's bad enough as it is..." says the female voice. "Look, everything will be alright" a male voice tries to calm down the woman, "who... who are they," Emma thinks to herself as she is lying in the floor, half unconscious. "You had to pick her... I swear, you don't have a good taste" says the woman, "what? We are not even together, by we, I mean me and Emma" said the guy, "is... is that Tom?" Emma thinks to herself, "anyways, wanna get freaky?" says the guy as he moves in for a kiss from the woman that is beside him, "no, not here, Emma can probably her us" says the woman, "isn't that what you want to do, make Emma listen while we make love?" says the guy, "no, I'm not that evil..." answers the woman "the bathroom is the best" she adds softly with a seductive tone, "after you, my lady" says the guy. The doors slam shut.

Emma opens her eyes to the relieving sound of the heartbeat monitor, "okay, I'm in the hospital, everything is okay, I'm safe, and I am defiantly not in that... place, where I was about to hear two people having sex, thank lord" Emma says to herself. As she turns around, she sees a figure on the sofa, sleeping. It took Emma a minute to figure out who the figure is, it turned out to be Jenifer sleeping, and on the other side, another masculine figure, on a chair, "is that... Tom" Emma thinks to herself. Emma's vision begins to get blurry as her head begins to ache, "ah, here we go again..." she thinks to herself, with every pulse, the pain increases, shivers go down her spine. After a minute or two, the pain slowly began to go away, "what is happening to me!" Emma thinks to herself as the begins to grip the blanket, "what time is it?..." she tells herself as she looks at her wrist watch, "3:06 AM... early..." Emma tells herself as she yawns, "I might as well go back to sleep, and hope not to have another nightmare..." she tells herself. Within minutes, Emma falls back asleep

A ray of sunshine wakes Emma up, she begins to stretch with a yawn as raises her head, she looks to her right, the sofa was empty "looks like Jenifer went to school, good luck Jen..." she tells herself. A snore made her immediately look left, "and Tom is here... I wonder if that was his last night... I'm gonna say that it is... wait... why isn't he in school.... what day is it today" Emma thinks to herself, "okay, it's 9:17 and it's a Saturday... Oh crap! Jen had that contest for drawing, that's why she left..." she thinks to herself again. Tom begins to wake up, "good morning sleeping beauty," he tells Emma, "if I am a sleeping beauty than you are a...." Emma begins speaking but is lost for words. "I mean, I can be a hunk, like you told me yesterday, I don't mind," Tom says as he begins to move closer towards Emma. "Now, apparently you can read my mind too?" Emma jokes around as she smiles at Tom, "now tell me, how are you, Emma? Are you feeling better?" asks Tom with a caring look in his eyes, "I can honestly feel a difference between yesterday and like now, which is good I guess haha," says Emma with a relief. Emma tries to sit up but she feels weak, "you need help?" volunteers Tom, "No... I can... do it" answers back Emma as she is trying to sit up. Despite the denial, Tom helps out Emma, "don't be scared to ask for help, okay? We are all here to help each other out" says Tom. "Okay... thank you," says Emma as she begins to blush, "his biceps are hard, he looks so good... Ugh Emma, don't, you are not falling in love with him, okay?" Emma tells herself. "So, you up for coffee?" asks Tom, "Umm, I don't... I don't mind" says Emma, "I'll go and get us a cup, okay? I will be back" says Tom, "okay" answers back Emma. "Why does he care about me this much, not even my best friend would be this close to me, I mean he obviously has a crush on me, but I have a feeling like this is not just a 'crush relationship', should I be concerned, I don't know, I am probably lucky to have someone who cares about me this much..." Emma thinks to herself, "I have to go to the bathroom too... let me try this by myself, I feel like my body is more conscious now" Emma thinks to herself as she tries to stand up. She sits at the edge of the bed, she steps down onto the floor and she puts on her slippers, she can walk, but barely, she begins to open the door and turns right, where the toilets are. Meanwhile, Emma is in the toilet, Tom comes back to the room with the two cups of coffee, "Emma are you he... Emma?" says Tom as he begins to look around, "she probably went to the toilet, I assume," Tom thinks to himself. Tom sits down and waits for a minute or two, he was immediately raised to his feet as he heard shouts outside, he begins to walk to the door, and as he reaches to the door he places his hand on the door handle and pushes down. He opens the door and sees a crowd of people surrounding something, as he tries to move to the centre to see what happened he realized that a body was lying on the ground, unconscious, soon realizing that the unconscious body was Emma.