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are going to be there for him and I won’t turn my back on him. Not after everything he’s done and given up for me. Time to put on your big girl panties and be a friend. It’s not like you even had made a choice as to who you love more. You are going to lose one of them.
    My inner thoughts have never been more right because as I push through the door to Jake’s room, my body turns cold at the sight in front of me. Doctor and nurses are rushing around the bed and Jake is hooked up to more wires and a breathing mask. I can’t hear anything. The world is right there but yet so far away. I see them trying to stabilize him, but it’s not working. Don’t leave me, Jakey. I watched on, wishing my inner plea could reach him. I start to hear again and the world comes crashing in. I hear the beeping of his monitors slow and now the alarms are sounding. I hear someone say, “Call the OR.” I feel like I’m going to pass out, I can’t lose Jake. He can’t die from trying to save me. I’m not worth that type of sacrifice. I see them push the button and the speakers are blaring, indicating a code blue in Jake’s room. The next words make me sink against the wall, right to the floor. I sit there staring blankly, in a pile of scattered emotions.
    “We’re losing him!”
    I’m still in a puddle on the floor when the door opens. Staring around the room, all around is disarray. Medical supplies are laying everywhere and the bed where Jake was is no longer there. “Becca, are you okay?” I look up to see Drake pulling me off the floor. I’m too shocked by what has happened to even understand the meaning of him being here.
    I hear the door swing open again and shriek. “Becca!” Drake is holding me while Keegan yells at me, with my brother and Charlotte looking at me, stunned to our current surroundings.
    “Where’s Jake, Becca?”
    I look to Alec, with no emotions left to convey. “He’s been rushed to the operating room.”
    I don’t move out of Drake’s hold and Keegan’s eyes are burning me. “What does that have to do with Drake being all over you?”
    I hear Drake groan. He turns but doesn’t let go of me. “I’m here because Charlotte asked me to come. We’ve become friends and I wanted to stop and see Jake before I went to find her. When I came in, I found Becca laying on the floor in shock and picked her up to comfort her.” I pull tighter to Drake trying to hide from Keegan, since I haven’t seen him since the Sarah incident.
    “Let go of Bec. She’s not yours Drake.” Keegan is seething but all I feel is the pain of being called Bec.
    “She’s not yours either, Keegan. From what the bitch new girlfriend of yours has being tell everyone, you and Becca are done.” I peek out from Drake to see that Keegan doesn’t deny it. Why should he, Becca? He doesn’t remember you.
    Keegan responds slowly, “I didn’t. I don’t know. I guess she’s right.” I turn my face away from his eyes because I just can’t bear to look at him anymore.
    “Key, don’t act like you ‘guess.’ I asked you and you flat out said shit to cement that fact... Like I don’t know you’re moving out of our house?” Alec is furious; he has so much hate in his tone.
    This is news to me and I tense. Drake pulls me closer and I’m in his full embrace as he strokes my back and hair. “How am I the bad one here? From what I’m told, she was like this, if not worse, with Jake. Why would I stick around for round two? Who knows, maybe this time it will be both Drake and Jake she’s sleeping with at night.”
    I can’t help the anger that comes over me and I blow up. I start screaming. “Get him out of here!”
    I hear shuffling and then the door is shut. I look up to see just Charlotte left in the room. Drake is comforting me and I’m actually surprised that it doesn’t feel off. I don’t get the same vibe I did from him anymore. “Becca, let’s go see if they have an update on Jake, okay?”
    I look to Drake and