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"Go," Ava said "You’ll know you the second we find anything"

The nurse, Mary Ellen, forced own, and then she started an IV

"Seriously? At worst, I need an ACE bandage, not an IV Why do I need a hospital gown?" It wasn’t wide enough for my shoulders, so no matter what I did, it wouldn’t close in the back The nurse kept averting her eyes "Can’t you just slap on a Band-Aid and send rumpy Let us take care of you The IV will keep you hydrated" Mary Ellen slid the needle underWe need to keep your stomach clear, in case that’s a break, specifically a coery? I can’t have surgery I don’t have ti in the rooot what I was ave you a little soitated" She frowned and took a step back before leaving the rooitated" Panic couldn’t eclipse thecould have the sa effect as alcohol I wouldn’t be able to feel anyone’s emotions, not even my own

Not Lily’s

I struggled to sit up, to keep h of the painkiller to take down a horse

I don’t kno, but that’s when the wall between Lily and me tumbled down

I’d knoere connected, but the pain I felt noas so sharp I could’ve been in her skin Every emotion was amplified She was pissed off and scared and worried The pissed-off part made me hopeful for one brief second, and thenfor days My stomach twisted in knots

She wasn’t okay

Fear Desperation Fear Desperation

I fought against both as I fell into a deep sleep

Chapter 50

My eyes flew open

Fear Desperation

Lily

Her pain was co from a clear direction, and it wasn’t just emotional

The clock said 5:00 An hour before sunset My left arm rapped in a half cast I pulled the two IVs out of h, and my headache had settled into a dull throb My clothes were neatly folded inside a cabinet, and I put the my injury I couldn’t findme in half with anxiety

I stuck ht and the left, and then I took off for the stairs

Once Imy injured arm close to my chest The hospital was only a few blocks froh streets, and the sounds of otten it was Halloween

Deadline The word took on a whole new hosts and witches in pointy hats Superheroes, villains, mummies, vampires, and olves filled the sidewalks and streets The rush of eiddiness to disappointment, and combined with the remnants of my pain- froo

"Focus Just focus" I stopped to lean back against a tree and close my eyes I recalled what it felt like when I kissed Lily, when I held her It onlyher fear, since that’s what she was feeling now The night she saw her first rip, the one of the hanged man And then the way she’d felt e’d landed on the sidewalk after leaving Em and Mike behind

I opened my eyes

She was in the center of town