Chapter 16 - Friends Visit At The Hospital

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Ocean

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I don't care what my mom said. I didn't believe that Makai had pulled me from the water. He hated me. He had hated me from the first day he got here.

I know that I hadn't been the nicest person to him, but he was trying to steal my girlfriend from me. He did steal the number one spot on the team from me. He was already insanely popular. And, I heard someone say they were nominating him for student body president. He would probably win that and steal it from me too. He was literally taking everything from me. How could I be nice after that?

Still, he had made it clear that he didn't like me the moment he first saw me. He was glaring at me in the classroom. He was constantly glaring at me too. I would catch him glaring at me in class, in the locker room, at the pool, everywhere. He hated me. I could see it in his eyes.

So why then, would someone who hated me save me? It made zero sense whatsoever. I was lost in these thoughts when there was a knock at my door. My mom and dad had gone to get me some clothes and other items to last me the night, since I was being kept for observation. I didn't think it was them though, because they probably wouldn't knock before coming in.

"Come in." I called out to whoever was on the other side of the door.

When the door opened I saw that it was Ryan and Ben. They had been at the swim meet with me today, they could tell me what had happened. I would be able to get some answers from them for sure.

"Ocean! Man, I thought you were dead for sure." Ryan almost yelled the moment he saw me.

"What the hell happened to you?" Ben asked me with a stern expression.

"Weren't you guys there? I don't know how I ended up in the water. I just know that I was pulled out and that I had hit my head."

"No, we went with the team back to the locker room." Ryan hung his head like he felt ashamed or something.

"What? Then who was out there with me?" They weren't about to tell me what I thought they were going to, were they?

"Kai was the only one out there with you."

"Kai?" I had never heard Makai called that before.

"Yeah, that's his preferred nickname. Didn't you know that? He told everyone on the first day he had gotten here."

"I wasn't around then I guess." I just shrugged and brushed it off. "How come he was out there with me? Why did he save me?"

"I don't know. He said he could tell you were tired and sick. He was worried about you."

"Yeah, he was watching you and looking like he was expecting something bad to happen." Ryan and then Ben told me what they remembered.

"I'm sorry we didn't notice anything Ocean. I was too caught up in the meet to notice that you were sick. I'm a bad friend."

"No you're not, Ryan. I was trying my best to hide it."

"Well that's just stupid." Ben yelled at me. "Why would you hide that you were sick and tired? You could have died."

"I only hit my head. I was fine."

"You weren't breathing." The two of them yelled at me at the same time. Their forceful words hit me hard.

Wait a minute. If I wasn't breathing that means that someone had to give me CPR. Who did that? I had a feeling I knew.

"I wasn't breathing?" I wanted to make sure that I heard them right.

"No. I remember it all vividly. We had just made it to the locker room when we heard Kai screaming your name. He sounded frantic and scared. When we all got back out there we saw that he was pulling you up from the pool after having jumped in after you." Ryan sounded like he was in awe of Makai right now.

"Yeah, it's all true. He pulled you from the water himself. Guy must be strong as hell if he can pull you and himself up that ladder from the water. I remember he yelled for someone to call for help and that made Coach run to your side. He got the paramedics there as soon as he could." Ben added the next part of the story for me.

"So it was Coach that gave me CPR?" That was a disgusting thought.

"Nah, that was all Kai. He not only got you from the pool but he gave you CPR."

What the hell? Why would he do that? And why did it make me feel scared and nervous to know what had actually happened? Was Makai going to demand a payment for him saving me? Was he going to hold this over my head? Could that have been why he came to the hospital?

I didn't know, but the look on his face and what he said when he was here, it didn't look like he was trying to lord over me and hold this all over my head. So what was it really? What was really going on with him?

I didn't really know, but I guess I would have to talk to him in person to truly figure it all out.. I just wish he didn't make me feel so nervous whenever I saw him.