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ALANA's POV


To say that I was hot and bothered, would be an understatement. Thanks to Harry's wonderful proclamation, I'm on pins and needles anxiously waiting for tonight. If I'm being completely honest, I'd be more than willing to leave the reception so I could finally...

"Line 'em up!" Bridgette shouted, bringing me back from the clouds.

A waiter had brought over a tray full of shot glasses and placed them on the table. The reception was at its peak, with guests surely buzzed or drunk about now. Most of the older folks turned in for the night which left all the young bucks to party to their hearts content. Liam and Harry stepped out for another business call. Seriously, is it that important that they both have to go?

"Alright, Alana, Niall, Jacob and Louis. First one to finish their shots will be deemed the winner!" Bridgette announced.

Somehow we made a game called '4Play'. Four rounds, four drinks each, four different types of drinks for each round and four players. The first round was champagne, the second round was beer, the third round was mixed drinks and the final round...shots.

"Who said this would be a good idea?" Louis sighed looking at the glasses in front of us.

"If you're ready to tap out go ahead and have a seat bro." Jacob challenged. A mix of 'oohs and laughs' filled our table.

"Not a chance american idol." Louis teased.

"Ok you guys ready?" Bridgette held up her phone to record. We all nodded. "Go!"

We quickly grabbed the first glass and shot it back. No problem. Second glass. Not too bad. On second thought.

"Shit!" Jacob yelled, covering his mouth. "Ok timeout."

"Go a head and grab a seat bro." Louis teased but also slowed on his shot.

Niall and I went on to our third glass. I wanted to plug my nose so bad. The smell of vodka all of a sudden became the worst thing I've ever smelled. Still I tipped it back and swallowed the burning liquid.

"Ahhh!" Niall slammed his glass in the table. We looked at each other beginning to regret our decision in participating. I picked up my glass, as did he.

"To the winners!" I cheered. I knew this last shot would send me well over whatever limit I had. I choked back the feeling to gag and regurgitate the liquid that made it's way down my throat. I tossed the glass and quite frankly I didn't even care where it landed.

"Yay!" Bridgette clapped. "And we have the winners!" She quickly shot to Nialls side and whispered something in his ear. A nod from Niall and an overly excited smile from Bridgette sealed the thought of those two having a very active evening in the room.

"I need a smoke, I'll be back." I said out loud not necessarily to anybody in particular. Luckily there was a waiter on my way out, I needed something non alcoholic.

"Excuse me can I have a water please?"

"Here you go sweetie." She handed me the glass. Her accent sounded like she wasn't from around here. Hmm. Interesting.

"Thank you ma'am." I smiled and downed the glass in front of her and handed it back.

"Another drink sis?" Tui walked by.

"Just water bro." I laughed waving at him.

"Sure sure." He walked away raising his beer.

My head was spinning so I sat on the first chair I saw. When I looked down, I realized I came outside to smoke, but failed to bring any out with me.

"Oh for fucks sake!" I groaned out in annoyance.

"Hasn't anyone ever told you it's not ladylike to speak with such vulgar language?" A voice melodically spoke to me.

"That only applies to those who consider themselves ladies." I said still looking out towards the ocean. "And I never said I was a lady." I giggled.

"True, and yet here you are. A damsel without a cigarette." He stood in front of me grinning with a pack in his hands.

"Well, it just so happens that I do have a cigarette...but I forgot it inside." I tilted my head towards the tables inside. "And it's too far!" I pouted.

"What am I to do with you Sweets." He smiled pulling out a smoke. He lit it and took a drag then handed it to me.

"Thank you Zayn." I looked up at him. And to my surprise he just nodded and began walking inside. "Hey!" I yelled. "Where are you going?"

"Grabbing a water, do you want one?" He asked.

"No thanks, just had one. Can't you just keep me company?" Once again the pout came out. He smiled and walked back over and sat in the chair across from me.

"You know I should be giving you the cold shoulder. Your cousin is quite...hands on." He gave me a seriously look.

"I'm sorry." I laughed. "I tried looking, but I couldn't find you."

"That's because I was hiding. Well that and I was talking to Sonny." He took out a cigarette for himself and lit it.

"Getting in the good graces with the old man huh?" I raised a brow and cocked my head to the side.

"I'm offended Alana!" He sarcastically gasped.

Maybe it was because I was drunk, I swore we were only outside for a few minutes. I didn't even realize how long we had been outside until my third cigarette. It felt so good to talk to Zayn. Just like it had been when we first met. I flinched when I felt a sharp pain in my stomach and Zayn took notice.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Yeah yeah. I'm fine." I shook my head. "So how has..." Suddenly my head started spinning. I dropped the cigarette and began falling forward. Zayn was quick to kneel by my side and catch me. "I'm going to be sick."

"How much have you had?" He cupped my face.

"I...I'm.." Words couldn't form. My vision was blurred and it felt as if my heart was about to beat out of my chest. Oh shit. What the fuck.

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ZAYNS POV


"Alana look at me!" I said holding her up so she wouldn't fall over. "How much did you drink?!"

"Zaynieeee...I don't feel so good." She groaned as her body weight fell upon me.

"Please Alana, What's wrong? Does anything hurt?" I looked around to see if anyone was near by. "Tui!" I called. He was on his way walking outside. "Tui! Hurry up mate!" He saw Alana hunched over and ran towards us.

"Zayn!" Alana groaned. "My...fuck!" She clutched her stomach. Tui dropped to his knees when he reached us.

"What's wrong sis?" He asked and looked at me.

"I don't know, I think she drank too much?" I rushed.

"No! My stomach!" Alana whined.

"Sis what's wrong?" Tui now took my spot. She began coughing up a storm. It was as if she were coughing up a lung. Her head hung down for a moment, she groaned in pain. "Lanz look at me." Tui cooed.

She raised her head and both Tui and I stilled at the sight of her. Blood. Dripping down her nose. Spilling out of her mouth. My Sweets covered in blood.

"Stay with her!" I yelled, running inside. "We need an ambulance now!" Grant was the first to reach me.

"What's going on?!" He looked at me with wide eyes.

"Something happened to Alana, she's bleeding everywhere." I frantically spoke keeping an eye on the bartender who was calling for the ambulance. Before Grant could run to his sisters side Tui came rushing in, Alana in his arms. The blood now splattered on him and all over her face.

"Clear the table and get me some water!" He roared. One of the waitresses sped over to his side with his requests. He quickly poured the water onto a napkin to clean the blood off her face. The gurgling and choking sounds that were coming out of her were bone chilling. I ran over to her, pouring the water on the napkin to help clean off the blood.

"Wheres the fucking ambulance!" Tui yelled while he kept Alana on her side and kept head in place to keep from choking on the blood.

"On it's way sir." The bartender spoke up.

"Alana look at me, what did you take?" I tried to ask as calmly as I could. I had to block out the horrifying sight of blood splattered all over her. I needed her to stay awake. She was losing a lot of blood and I didn't know how to stop it.

"We were playing a drinking game." Niall stood behind me. "I don't know what else she had because we all drank the same thing." He pulled at his hair in distress. "Louis we gotta find Haz and Liam!" Both Louis and Niall took off to look for them.

"Zay..." Alana choked out. More blood coming out of her mouth.

"What is it love? What do you need?" I asked. What is happening to you?

"Harley go see where the fuck the ambulance is!" Tui yelled. "Jacob go get mom and dad!" They took off not missing a beat.

"M'tired." She whispered.

"No, no, no. Sweets, stay awake. Stay with me." I began to panic. Clearly the blood loss is making her weak. "Do you hear me?! Stay with me Alana!"

"C'mon sis. Fight it. You gotta fight it. Fight this shit dammit!" Tui's voice cracked at the end.

"This way!" Harley ran in and directed the paramedics.

"M'tired...slee..." She let out a breath a slowly shut her eyes.

"Alana!" Tui screamed holding onto her with tears streaming down his face. "Help her please! She stopped breathing!"

Everything went in slow motion. The screams and cries around us were ear piercing. The paramedics rushed to her side and performed CPR. Her body was limp and wasn't responding to anything. I stood there, heart beating out of my chest, tears on the verge of falling and only saw how she lay there...lifeless. They put her on the stretcher while a paramedic straddled and still did CPR. I couldn't move. Couldn't speak. Everything happened so fast. She was laughing and talking to me one second then...this.

"Who's coming with us?" A paramedic asked. "We need to go now!"

"Zayn go with Alana. We'll be behind you." Tui said wiping his face of the blood and tears. I didn't need to be told twice. I ran with the paramedics, carefully watching how they tried to resuscitate her.

"Sir, what happened?" One of them asked.

"I don't know, she was fine one minute then she started coughing up blood." I rambled keeping my eyes on Alana.

"What did she eat? Drink?" The paramedic asked.

"We all had the same things. I don't think she has any allergies." I jumped in the ambulance.

I sat there while they performed what looked like every procedure under the sun. How long has she been out? She's still not breathing. One of the paramedics pulled out a blade and reached for her throat.

"What the fuck is that for?!" I yelled and reached for Alana.

"Sir we need to open her airways." He said. "Sir please calm down and sit down. Talk to her so she knows someone is here." The other said to me.

I moved closer to Alana ear, what do I say? My eyes flicked towards the blade that was now sliding across her throat. I cringed at the thought of how much pain she's in.

"Love, wake up." It came out as a whisper. If she could hear me I needed to sound strong for her. "Sweets, c'mon I know you're stronger than this. Open your eyes for me. You can't let go."

The paramedic jabbed some kind of tube where he made the cut. Again they did CPR. Pushing on her chest. Squeezing the bag of air. One of them eyed me and rotated his fingers to get me to keep talking to her.

"Alana. There's still so much for you to do. You can't leave us like this. Your family needs you. The boys need you. Bridgette will be lost without you. Wake up Sweets. I...I need you." If there was ever a time for honesty. This was it.

"You are surrounded by all these people who love you. Don't leave us like this...don't leave me like this." I ran my fingers over her hair. The tears that I had been holding back fell and didn't bother wiping them away. "You hear me Sweets...you can't leave me." I pleaded. I needed to be selfish. Alana needed to know that I couldn't handle her dying.

"The best part about us? We were friends first." I choked back a sob. "I love you Sweets."

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HARRYS POV


"I've already called the authorities." Michael said. Apparently someone was trying to hack into the system. Not exactly sure what they were looking for. Whoever it was, was looking into travel details but other than that it's pretty vague.

"Alright thank you Michael. We may be coming back sooner then expected." Liam rubbed his chin clearly irritated at the situation. He hung up the phone and lit up a cigarette.

"Who the hell would be trying to hack our systems?" He breathed out the smoke.

"I don't know. Probably some kids who have too much time on their hands." I said taking a drink of my beer. "You hear that?" The faint sounds of yelling. Liam just shrugged.

"Haz! Where the fuck are ya?!" I turned to see Niall and Louis frantically running down the walkway.

"Oy! What's with all the noise?" I yelled out so they could spot me and Liam.

"They're taking Alana to the hospital!" Louis said out of breath.

"What?!" Liam and I both said.

"Mate we gotta go, the ambulance is taking her!" Niall pulled at my arm. I dropped my bottle an ran as fast as I could.

"What the fuck happened!" I asked Niall.

"She was coughing up blood. It was everywhere." He said running next to me. We reached Tui first, he was yelling orders to his brothers.

"Bring them in that car, I'll drive the others." He ordered Grant.

"Tui! What happened? Where is she?" I questioned.

"We need to get to the hospital now. They already took her in the ambulance." Tears fell from his eyes but his voice was still strong.

"Who's with her?" Liam asked.

"Zayn." Tui looked directly at me knowing all to well about the history. "I told him to Harry. I needed to get mom and dad there." He said sympathetically. My mouth cracked opened but decided against saying anything.

"Let's go."

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Tui had explained how everything happened on the way to the hospital. Niall included the parts that happened before she went outside. I knew she could handle her alcohol but that game might have put her over the edge. But like Niall said, if that was the case, all four of them would be in the same predicament. My nerves were bad, I didn't know what I would find when we got to the hospital. Zayn. He was with her. He's my mate, he wouldn't do anything. If anything he would do just about anything to keep her from harm. We pulled up to the ER and ran inside.

"We need to see Alana Slate. She should have just come in." I ordered the woman at the desk.

"Are you family?" She asked.

"Yes!" Tui stormed to the desk. "We're her family. Now where is she?"

"I'm sorry she's in the O.R., you all can have a seat in the waiting area. A doctor will be with you as soon as possible." She pointed to the seating area.

We hung our heads in defeat and mindlessly walked over to the chairs. Most of us just stood against the walls or paced around waiting for someone to walk through the doors. Some were on their phones letting people know of the situation. Bridgette couldn't stop crying, Niall did his best to comfort her. Tui stood against the window, silently crying for his sister. I walked over to him and pulled him in a hug.

"I did everything I could, she just couldn't stop coughing up blood." He whispered.

"You did the best you could Tui. What more could anyone have done?" I tried to comfort.

"You didn't see her Harry. She looked so helpless. I told her to fight! I told her..." He sobbed.

I cried with him. I knew he was scared. Scared to lose his sister. It finally hit me. I was scared. Scared that I might lose the one who I fought for and finally had. Mad at myself for not being there. I far from ready to let her go.

"Where is she?!" A voice boomed through the doors.

"Where's my baby!" Sonny looked around the room waiting for an answer.

"Sir." The woman at the front desk looked terrified.

"Where!" Sonny demanded. I let go of Tui so he could approach him.

"Pops." His voice cracked. Sonny quickly came to Tui.

"Where is she son?" Sonny asked. Tui broke down and fell to his knees sobbing. Realization came over Sonnys face.

"No, Sonny. We don't know. They just said she's in the O.R. ." I clarified. Slight relief came over him.

"Come on son, it's alright." Sonny picked up Tui so that he now stood.


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The room calmed a bit but we were all still on edge. Every time the doors opened we all stood up waiting for any information. An hour had gone by and still no answers. Zayn came in with her, where is he? None of us spoke, only sighs and the occasional sniffs. How could something like this happen? She's perfectly healthy. The doors swung open and we all stood up. Zayn and a doctor. They both stood there looking exhausted. Blood stains covered Zayns shirt. His eyes had bags underneath. He looked up at us with a solemn expression. We rushed to his side asking for her. If she was ok. If she was awake.

"What happened?" Sonny asked.

Both Zayn and the doctor sighed.

"She's..."

Notes

Wellllllll that was a dramatic turn of events now wasn't it? I had to give you guys some kind of twist :)

Interesting chapter, lots to talk about. I'd love to hear your guys feedback.

I said I promised you guys some chapters and they are well on its way. It's unedited, but I had to get it up.

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