Desert Island (Chapter 15)
Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.1, 13.2, 14, 15.
NA/:For those who wonder why I haven’t updated as often lately… the think is I’m in this (I don’t know how it’s called in english) but is something like summer school, except it’s on winter and I’m not in school but in college… so I guess it has nothing to do with summer school, anyway I’m studying optic and acoustic physics and have been three tough weeks but I’m like an exam away from freedom, so from now on I’m updating more often, okay now as I now you are here for the story and not for this…. enjoy :D
“Simon?” I looked up, someone was calling me from across the room, I was a bit surprised when I saw that Kelly was the owner of that voice, “What are you doing there?” she approached to where I was, still sitting on the floor, “Man! you look terrible.”
"Thanks I hadn’t noticed," I laughed ironically, I guess I was done with the crying and had begun with the meanness.
"Hey bro, I’m just say’n," she lifted both hands in sign of surrender.
"Yeah, well, but guess what?… I feel worse than I look," she made and horrified face and I started wondering if I did look that bad, well, at least my clothes did look that bad, I was wearing the hoodie and it was bloodstained.
"Let’s clean you up a little, you can’t wait for her family like this," she offered me a hand to lift me.
"Yes I guess I can’t let them see me like this."
We went to the men restroom and she just entered there like it was her own house.
"Hey woman, this is the men’s!" a man who was in the loo said.
"Yeah, I know, but if you feel uncomfortable being here, you can always use the women’s," she answered and the man gave her an odd look and went away.
"He prefer the women’s though," I said and Kelly laughed.
"Clean up your hands and face a bit, I need to do one call," Kelly told me.
I let the water run over my hands and saw how the red liquid left my skin gradually.
"Hey Pau Pau," Kelly saluted, "are you already coming to the hospital?" she asked, "oh! great, can you bring some clothes so Simon can change? He is made a mess."
"Thanks sista and hurry up, Demi’s parents can’t see him like this," after that, Kelly hung up and then sat on the counter by my side, she was giving me a deep look.
"What?" I asked and she shrugged.
"Nothing, I was just wondering, how do you feel?"
"Demi could be dying in there and it’s all my fault, how do you think I feel?" I was not stupid I knew that was not the real question Kelly wanted to make, but I was not interested on answering her real question, so I didn’t go there.
"Man! It’s not your fault unless it was you who put the snake on her leg."
"I wasn’t talking only about the serpent!" Kelly didn’t reply to that and I didn’t say anything else.
We went to the waiting room again, maybe Demi’s family shouldn’t see me with this clothes, but that was better than if they didn’t find me there at all when they arrived. Luckily Paulina arrived before them with the new clothes and I could change before they could see me like that.
Then when her parents and Dallas arrived and the nurses didn’t let them through as they had made with me, Eddie run to where I was and took me by my shirt while yelling questions in my face, so fast and so angrily I could barely understand a few. I didn’t defended myself, ‘cause I deserved it, I deserved whatever he wanted to do with me.
It was Dallas who made him let me go and started the questions over again, asking everything they wanted to know, I told them what had happened with the yacht and they didn’t seem surprised, I had no time to think over it, because Dallas and Dianna were still making questions and Eddie was still giving me that murderer gaze, so I told them what had happened then when we arrived to the island, excluding, naturally, some moments like the cave or the fight we had right before the snake bite her.
And finally when I got to last night’s part, when I was sucking the venom out of her wound, I could see horror growing in everyone’s faces. Kelly put one hand on my shoulder supportively and I mentally thank her because I really needed that support.
"Who is Mr. Simon Cowell?" someone asked interrupting my account and we all turned to see a blond guy with a medical coat, the guy was reading my name from the form I had had to fill while we were on the helicopter.
"It’s me," I stepped forward and so did Dianna.
"I’m her mother, how is my baby?" she asked to the doctor.
"How is our girl, doctor?"Eddie stepped forward too and suddenly I was once again in the back, and Kelly’s hand was once again on my shoulder supportively.
"She is…" suddenly I was torn between cover my ears like a little afraid girl or simply yell to that man to speak quicker, "…out of danger, we gave her the antidote and she is responding positively," that was the moment when I realized I was holding my breath, it was such the relief I felt, that it seemed that I had been holding my breath since the night before, and perhaps I actually was.
"Thank you, doctor, thank you!" you could hear Dianna was hysterical.
"Oh you shouldn’t thank me, instead I think you should thank him," the guy pointed me, "if he hadn’t suck the venom out, I’m afraid we would not have been able to save her."
Dianna turned around to face me, there were tears running down her cheeks and as soon as I realized I was being squeezed in her arms.
"Thank you Simon, thank you for bring her back," she repeated in my ear over and over.
When she let me go I looked around, no one was now looking at me the same than five minutes ago, they wasn’t judging me anymore, so there was just two people left in the room who still thought that everything was still my entire fault and that two people were Eddie and me, he was giving me a look that clearly prayed “It’s still your fault!” and it was carving deep on every single inch of my soul, because I knew he was right.
"Can we see her?" Eddie asked turning again to face the doctor.
"Not yet, she is still in recovery," the blonde guy said and then turned around and left.
So there we were, sitting on a waiting room, looking at each other’s faces, while no one said anything.
"Does anyone fancy some coffee?" Kelly suddenly asked, “It doesn’t matter, I’m buying it anyways," after that she stood up and left the room, almost instantly Paulina and Dallas followed her after a really weird look they shared.
Si I found myself facing Demi’s parents alone for very first time since the rescue and it was something I didn’t thought I could handle, I couldn’t even hold Eddie’s gaze, I mean, me, THE Cowell couldn’t help but look down to the floor, what was wrong with me?… I felt so damn guilty, that was what was wrong.
I didn’t look up again until Kelly and the other girls came back with the coffee, almost twenty five minutes later than what it actually should take to them to get the coffee.
So they apparently thought it was okay to leave me alone with her parents for almost half an hour! Well, it didn’t really matter, I could always take revenge later, after all, two of them were about to become my employees and the other one was already my sister in law even when she didn’t know that.
Kelly extended a cup of coffee to me and then whispered an apology so quite I was the only one who listened. I shrugged and accepted the cup. At least she was sorry not like Paulina and Dallas that in the other hand were across the room looking at me like the wanted to figure something out, whispering something in each other’s ear and giggling.
They seemed like they knew something, but I didn’t pay attention to that, however I would have to face everybody at some moment and tell them the truth, I was just hoping that wouldn’t happen before Demi left the hospital.
A lot of awkward hours of silence after, we were all still sitting in the waiting room, well, maybe they were just a few tortuous and slow minutes, I don’t know, but we were sitting there in silence anyways.
"Mr. Cowell?" it was the blonde guy again, " you can enter to see her now, I automatically turn to look at Dianna, the Eddie’s pissed expression and then back to the doctor, they were as surprised as I was, they were her parents and this guy was here saying I was going to be the first person to see her.
“No way, we are her parents we are entering the first,” of course it was Eddie, murdering me with his gaze, if that was possible after all the times I had died in his mind already that day.
“You are right Mr. De La Garza, but she has been asking for him since she woke up and she’s so confused, I thought as he was the last person she remembered from the island, it’s better for her, if he is the one who enter the first, but if you want…”
“It’s okay, Simon, go ahead,” Dianna said taking Eddie from his forearm before he said or do anything else.
I followed the doctor to the hall and he guided me to her room.
“Hey man! I admire you, look that having that father in law…”
“What?” what the hell was this guy talking about? How would he even know about our secret?
“We have arrived,” the doctor said holding one door open for me.
I saw her laying on the bed and anything else mattered, whatever the blonde guy has just said wasn’t the exception, I simply run into the room.
I took her hand in mine once I was by her side, she opened her eyes and smiled at me, then she turned to look at the doctor.
“Thank you, for bringing him first, doctor.”
“No problem darling,” the doctor said and after that closed the door and left us alone.
“So, what’s up, big boy?” there she was smiling wide as if nothing had happened and I couldn’t help but smile back at her.
“I love you,” the words left my mouth without my noticing, I was just so happy of seeing her safe.
“Woa! Not so fast old man…” my heart stopped, doesn’t she love me back? Perhaps she was blaming me as well, for what had happened to her, “…you must come here and kiss me first,” she pulled me from my hand making me lean in, I didn’t need to hear anything else, I just got closer and kissed her.
“Demetria? Simon, you son of a bitch!” we separated and suddenly I was being thrown against a wall.
“Eddie!” Demi cried, “Mom!” she begged and Dianna unsuccessfully tried to hold him back.
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