Hayden's POV

Today has been the absolute worst, and Beth still needs to talk to us when we get home. At least I have one of my friends back. I still consider Isla my friend, but I still need to talk to her. I feel for her. I was only friendless for a day, and it was hard. She's basically gone her entire high school life without friends, and once she made friends, two of them betrayed her.

It's about six o'clock when Nick and I made it home. Lucas is already sitting at the kitchen table with Beth. Beth looks miserable. She's not her happy bubbly self. She normally has her hair tied up in a neat ponytail. Her green eyes are normally shining with her huge smile that shows off her pink cheeks. Today, she seems desolate. Her green eyes are dull and there is no trace of a smile.

She wrings her hands in her lap. "Boys, I got some news from the state. They're forcing me to let two of you go." She starts crying. "I don't know what to do. I tried everything. I have a little bit of money that I can give y'all..."

I look at Nick and Lucas. Nick gives me a faint smile and nods at me. "Beth," I say. "Nick and I will move out. Please don't worry about us." Lucas looks at us hurt. When we were all friends, we had agreed that if for any reason one of us had to leave, we would all go together. Now that Lucas is no longer our friend, it would only make sense for Nick and me to leave since two of us had to go. Lucas now realizes that we were being serious about no longer being friends with him.

"Nick and Hayden let me give...." Beth says before my phone starts ringing and cuts her off.

"Who is it?" Nick asks. Even Lucas and Beth seem curious. The only people who ever call me are all sitting at the table with me.

I shrug and ignore the call. "I don't recognize the number."

Ten seconds after I had ignored it, it started ringing again with the same number. I ignore them once more, but they call again.

This time I answer it. Maybe it is someone trying to get a hold of me.

"Hello?"

I hear crying and a young girl's voice. "Hay-Hayden? H-Help" My eyes widen as they say my name. They know my name, but I don't have a clue who is calling me.

"W-who is this?"

"Hay-Hayden.... I tried calling Kai-Kaira and Lucas, but they d-didn't answer." I feel the blood drain from my body when I realize whose voice is on the other line.

I look up at Nick when I ask, "Is this Isabelle?" Nick's eyes widen as he knows something must be wrong. Lucas looks like he's about to come unglued from his seat.

"What's wrong Isabelle? Where's Isla? How did you get my number? Put Isla on the phone."

"I-I can't. I think Isla is hurt." She cries through the phone. "When we got home, Isla was already in her bedroom, but she won't come out. Isaac is trying to break the door down. Isla had programmed all of your phone numbers into our phones in case of an emergency. Please help. I'm scared."

"Okay, calm down Isabelle. Nick and I are on our way." I watch as Lucas balls his fist as I don't include him. "We'll be there in ten minutes." It's a twenty-minute drive, but we are going to get there in ten if I can do anything about it.

"Beth, I need the keys, Isla is in trouble. Nick and I need to go now."

"Why aren't y'all taking Lucas' car? Isn't he going with y'all?" I shake my head.

"You should ask him about that," I tell her and she hands me her keys.

Before she can even ask him a question, he is outside running to his car. "You better not be going over to Isla's. Haven't you already done enough to hurt her?" Nick yells at him.

Lucas slams his fist on his car. "Why can't I fucking go over there. She's in trouble."

"Get in!" I yell at Nick. "We don't have time to argue with him."

Nick jumps in and we speed to Isla's house with Lucas on our tail. I agree with Nick, I don't want him there, but my priority at the moment is Isla. As we pull up to Isla's house. The front door is already open with Isabelle sitting on the porch crying. She jumps up when she sees Nick and I and pulls us into the house. Lucas gets out of his car but waits on the porch.

"Nick, take Isabelle and Isaac into the living room and wait with them just in case. Isla had a rough day at school." I tell him. He understands what I mean and takes the two kids into the living room. I won't lie. I am afraid of what I'm going to find behind this door. What if Isla tried to harm herself? What if I got here too late? Her life has been hell for the past week. She lost her parents, her friends ditched her in her time of need and then she caught Lucas kissing the girl who has made her life a living hell for the past three years.

I knock on her door. ''Isla, It's Hayden. Can you open the door?" I wait for a response, but I don't get one. "Isla, this is Hayden. If you are able to open the door, I need you to do it now. If not, I am going to bust it open. I need to know that you're okay." I bang loudly on her door. "Please Isla." I beg. "Open the damn door." When I still get no answer, I back up and kick the door next to the knob breaking the lock.

I prepare myself for what I am going to find. I step in the room, but it is pitch black. I find the light and turn it on. Isla is laying on her bed. I try shaking her to wake her up, but it doesn't work. "Call 911!" I scream out the doorway. I immediately search for a pulse, and I find one but it's weak.

I hear footsteps running up the stairs and I see Lucas on the phone. "Hurry, my friends needs an ambulance. NOW!" He yells at the phone.

Once he sees Isla lying there almost lifeless, he drops his phone and balls himself in the corner rocking back and forth. "I-is she d-dead?" He whispers.

I shake my head. "No. She has a faint heartbeat but she is unresponsive." I say as I cradle Isla in my arms, trying my hardest not to cry. I don't know what's wrong with her, but she doesn't deserve this.

Tears are pouring down Lucas' face and he is shaking uncontrollably. "Did I make her hurt herself?"

I look over her and examine her body. "I don't think so. There's no sign of self-harm." I Isla back on her bed and sit beside her. I push her hair out of her face. I don't know what happened, but I don't believe Isla would harm herself. She wouldn't do that Isaac and Isabelle.

I look at Lucas and watch my ex-best friend sit in the corner rocking back and forth with his hands covering his face. He mutters, "Why did I hurt her? Why am I such a screw up?" Over and over again. Part of me wants to comfort him, but part of me hates him for what he did to her. He is part of the reason why we are in this situation. He caused her to shut everyone out again. If he hadn't done that to her, we would have been here. She at least wouldn't have been alone. Isla was already broken, but everyone keeps giving her reasons to break more.

I don't know. Maybe I will forgive him eventually, but not today. Not anytime soon. I know he's hurting. Even if he doesn't want to admit it, he really does love Isla. However, he might have lost any chance with her after today with Chelsea. I wouldn't blame Isla one bit if she never wanted to talk or see him again. Whatever she decides I will support her one-hundred percent.

Lucas' POV

I can't do anything to help her. All I can do is stare at her while I am rocking in the corner like some crazy person. No. Not like some crazy person. I am a crazy person. How could I hurt her? How could I ever think that Chelsea was a good idea? After everything Chelsea did to Isla, I have to go and make out with her. I should have known better. Being drunk was not an excuse. I was just so mad and hurt. I've been trying to call Isla for over a week and her phone went straight to voicemail. I wasn't thinking straight. I should have known that she would need time. I said some awful things to her that day that she met with us at Beth's.

We soon hear sirens and Hayden runs downstairs to show them the way. While he's gone, I go and sit beside her on her bed. For the first time in a couple of weeks I am getting to see Isla. I notice that she has lost a lot of weight and is really pale. She has dark bags that are under her eyes and her face is stained with dried tears. This isn't my Isla. This is a broken girl who I help break. "Isla, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but I promise to make up for every bad thing that did or said about you. Please Isla, get better for me. I will do anything for you, just get better. You can't leave me. You promised to never give up on me. I'm sorry that I gave up on you, but I will never make that mistake again. Please, Isla don't give up on me." I kiss her forehead right as the paramedics enter her room.

They place her on a gurney, and I follow them downstairs. Hayden informs me that he is going to the hospital with Isla and asks if Nick and I can take Isabelle and Isaac to one of Isabelle's friend's houses. He has already called the mom and she said she would take them until Isla is better.

After dropping Isabelle and Isaac off, I drive Nick and myself back home. The car ride is silent and the tension is so thick that it is almost suffocating. When we pull up to the house, I stop Nick before he gets out. "I'm really sorry, Nick. I didn't mean any of it. I was just hurt and angry that she was ignoring my calls and texts."

"She wasn't fucking ignoring you." He shouts as he bangs his fist on my dashboard. "Her phone was broken. She didn't receive any of your phone calls or text messages, but I'm glad to know that if I ever ignore you, you would just drop our friendship anyways."

"I-I didn't know. Damnit. I'm such an idiot."

Before I could say anything else to Nick, he opened his car door. "You hurt one of the sweetest and purest people I have ever met. I don't know about Hayden, but I was serious when I said I was through with you." He slams my car door and walks into the house.

I can't believe in less than twenty-four hours, I have lost those who I care for the most. I stay sitting in my car and try to figure out where it all went wrong. It then dawns on me that Kaira turned her back to Isla too, but why?

I call Kaira to find out what happened between her Isla.

"Hello?" She says through the phone.

"Hey, Kaira. I have a question for you."

"Is it about Chelsea's party this weekend? Want to ride together?" She asks excitedly.

"Umm... no. It's not about the party. It's about Isla."

"Oh..." She says with what sounds like disgust. "What about Isla?"

"What happened between you and Isla for y'all not to be friends?"

"Well, that day Monday that I was watching Isaac and Isabelle for her when she came home, she was really upset. I tried asking her what was wrong, but she refused to tell me. I kept pushing her to tell me what was wrong, and she told me she didn't want to be friends anymore. I then might have said something along the lines of that Chelsea is right, it's a waste of time trying to be Isla's friend. She then got mad and told me to get out. I threw her house key at her and left. I tried calling her and texting her, but she refuses to respond, so I figured she really didn't want to be friends anymore"

"Yeah, about that. Her phone broke."

"Please say that you are lying, Lucas." I can hear Kaira start to cry through the phone. "That means we made her attend her parent's funeral alone."

"Hell... I didn't even think about that." I can't believe I let her down so badly.

"I am such an awful best friend. I am worse than Chelsea. Nick and Hayden were right. She was just upset that night and needed to blow off some steam. Do you think she will ever forgive us?"

"Honestly I don't know. I think that she would on normal terms but..." I trail off and try not to start crying. "She's in the hospital. Isabelle called Hayden when they couldn't get Isla to answer her bedroom door. He found her laying on her bed, but he couldn't get her to wake up. She doesn't look good. She's super thin and her skin has no color to it."

"W-What?" Kaira cries through the phone. "Did she hurt herself? Oh God this all my fault. I should have known she was depressed and suicidal. Everyone at school keeps saying she is."

"Whoa... calm down. First, the people at school don't know shit about Isla. Second, there was no evidence of self-harm. I think she hasn't been taking care of herself like she should. She's under a lot of stress and you know how she is. She always puts others before her."

"Can we see her?"

"I-I don't know. Hayden is with her now and I'm sure Nick will go up there, but I don't think they want us up there. At least not yet."

"Oh... Do you think Nick and Hayden will ever forgive us? I don't want to lose them as friends."

"Isla too, right?"

"Huh?"

"You said you didn't want to lose Nick and Hayden as friends, but you didn't mention Isla." Something seems off with Kaira.

"Um. Yeah, I meant Isla too. I thought she was just implied. I didn't know I had to say her name Anyways, do you think Nick and Hayden will forgive me?" There's a long pause, "And Isla. Do you think they'll forgive me?"

"I would hope Isla would. Give Hayden some time and he might. He's actually pretty similar to Isla. I don't know why I didn't listen to him. As for Nick, he is one to hold grudges and he's not really known for forgiving people."

"Lucas, I hope Nick and Hayden will forgive me. Isla too. " She says the last part like it was an afterthought. "Even if they don't, I am not going to be friends with Chelsea for a while." A while?

"I hope the three of them forgive me too, but I have no intention of being friends with Chelsea or ever hanging out with her again."

"That's what I meant." Kaira states through the phone.

"Kaira, I need to go, but I thought it was only fair to let you know what happened to Isla."

"Thanks, Lucas. Let me know if you hear anything else. Good night."

"Good night." That entire conversation was strange. Kaira is acting differently and something about it is bothering me.

I sit in my car for a while more before I decide I will pray. I rarely pray anymore, but I feel so helpless. Please God, Let Isla be okay and let her forgive me.

I lock my car doors and slowly make my way inside. I know I have a lot of explaining to do to Beth, and she isn't going to be happy with me.

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