Four or Dead by G O A

Leo POV

Present

My phone vibrated on the table next to my bed and without opening my eyes I answered it.

“Yeah?”

“Leo, I need you to get here now,” Asher said and I sat up quickly, suddenly wide awake.

“Why? Is Emma okay?”

“No, she is freaking out. She’s scared of me, and Leo…she can’t see anything. They said she is temporarily blind.”

My heart stopped for a second as the horror of that statement settled into my mind. She’s blind? How?

“What do you need me to do?” I asked him.

“Just get here, maybe she will calm down if you’re here. The shrink is coming around to day to talk to her. They want to make sure she won’t try to hurt herself again before they release her. Also, the cops were here asking her questions. She wouldn’t admit to anything, but the cops could tell she was holding back. They asked me who I thought was hurting her and I said they should speak to her father since he was the one who had a tight leash on her. They said they haven’t been able to contact him for two days now. Something isn’t right.” Asher rambled on.

“Okay okay, I’ll head there now,” I told him hanging up quickly.

I quickly stood and wandered around grabbing random pieces of clothing and pulling them on. I rushed out of the door and down the stairs passing the living room where Jayden and Logan were watching TV.

“Hey! Where are you going?” Logan asked.

“Is it Emma? Is she okay?”

hospital. Emma is awake and she is scared of him. She…they said she is temporarily blind, and she is sort of freaking out.” I said quickly as I pulled

getting to his feet and grabbing his wallet and

we were out the

thrashing around like crazy but her eyes were completely closed.

others joined us the others quickly joining us . We stood beside Asher and out of the way as

few minutes ago screaming and crying. She seems to be trapped in a

to calm her down?”

to inject it, but as soon as someone touches her, she freaks out,” Asher

No! Stop please! I don’t want to!” Emma cried out, her face

with something. Her body started to relax but she was still whimpering as the nurses stepped away. The other nurses who had

now.” The remaining nurse said as she adjusted

happened?” I asked

had mentioned that she had trouble sleeping a lot of

nodded in agreement and the nurse

is messed up. She is worse off than we knew.”

all seemed. Logan always seemed calm and unaffected by things, but even he couldn’t hide his emotions. He stood against one of the walls with

several hours sitting with Emma taking turns getting coffee, waiting for her to wake. I would glance at each of my friends occasionally and would catch them watching her with regret and guilt in their eyes. After all these years of tormenting her, they were regretting everything they had done and so was I. This had knocked some sense into us but it was also a reminder that there was a part of us that was still…human. We had been playing like we were cold and uncaring for a long

move around a bit a couple of hours later and we all shot to

She asked in a

glance at each other not

her breaths becoming quick and shaky and she started to move further back in the bed even though there was no more room for her to move to.

know if you guys do something to

throat. The others looked equally as hurt by her

us want to hurt you, but we also don’t want you to be alone,” I