When they got there there was already a search boat out and an ambulance by the nearest road.
‘They got here quick’ J said ‘I need to find out whats happening here’ He ran over to an ambualnce girl who was standing helplessly at the side of the beach.
‘I’m going in’ Scott said as he kicked off his trainers.
‘What the f*ck are you doing Scott? These people don’t want to be searching for two.’ Abs shouted and pulled him back.
‘What am I f*cking supposed to do stand here and wait, you know I’m not going to do that.’ Scott shouted back and tried to get out of Abs’ tight grip ‘If we don’t help Ritchie is gonna die, don’t you get that??’ Scott was now screaming at the top of his voice.
‘Shit, the lifeboats are coming in’ Nats said as she looked down the beach. Scott wriggled out of Abs’ grip and ran to the boat closely followed by the rest of them, including J and Sean.
‘Ritchie can u hear me?’ Scott said as he looked at Ritchies limp body. The medics ran over and carted him straight into the ambulance. Then speeded away with the flashing blue lights and sound. Everything seemed to be happening about 10 times faster and they couldn’t take it all in.
‘We gotta get to the hospital, I’m getting a Taxi.’ Scott called already running away from them, as before the rest of them ran after Scott, past the pool, where Louise and Nats picked up a few essentials money, mobile and room key then ran after them. But by the time they had got to the taxi rank they saw two cars pull away with the others in it. Luckily another taxi had just pulled up. They opened the doors and got in.
‘Hiya, can u take me to the hospital, nearest 1 from here please and hurry’ Louise asked the taxi driver as he sped away from the car park.
‘Oh my god, why is this happening?’ asked Natalie with her head in her hands. ‘Please god, don’t let him die.’ She was not a religious person but she says that all she could do was pray.
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‘Can u tell me wheres Richard Neville please?’ asked Scott to the receptionist, who could just bearly speak English ‘He’s just been brought in by ambulance’
‘Erm..Ricardo Neville, erm....i will found out now...yes’ she answered
‘Yes, you do that and hurry’ Scott plumeted on the waiting room chairs next to the rest of them. Lousie and Natalie burst in through the doors.
‘So what do you know?’ Natalie frantically asked.
‘Nothing, yet’ Scott sighed as he closed his eyes. Natalie took the vacant seat next to him, and took his hand. Scott opened his eyes turned to look at her and smiled the best smile possible in this situation. Abs noticed a doctor walk through the doors.
‘I think he’s for us’ he said as the doctor walked over.
‘I take it you are friends of Richard Neville who was just brought in correct?’ The doctor asked in an english accent. The nodded ans waited for him to speak again. The doctor sighed and sat down on the coffee table by the seats.
‘I’m afraid I have some good news and some bad news’ the doctor started
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‘Mr. Neville had stopped breathing, but luckily we have managed to resusitate him’ the doctor said slowly. ‘However, his heart had stopped for a long time, and he’s on a life support machine because he can’t breath on his own, and I would describe his condition as very critical, he’ll be lucky if he survives the next couple of days.’ The doctor paused and looked around. Natalie was hugging Scott and were both close to tears. Claire and Nessi were crying and Abs and Louise were trying to stay calm, and Sean and J looked in total shock. The doctor continued ‘But if he does pull through the next day or two then the hope that he fully recovers is highly increased, I don’t have much else to say that will make any of you feel any better. I have to see to another patient but I’ll be back in about half an hour. A nurse will be along shortly.’ And with that he left.
‘Oh my God’ said Claire slowly ‘So, what do we do now?’
‘Sit and wait’ Sean replyed
‘Don’t you think someone should ring his Mum?’ asked Scott, ‘Then at least she can get a flight over here, just in case...you know’
‘Yeh, I’ll go and ring her’ said Abs and him and Louise left the waiting room to find a phone.
‘I’m gonna go and find someone who can help me, i can’t just sit around like this,’ Scott cried and got up and left with Natalie close behind him.
‘Scott, honey what do you plan on doing?’ Natalie asked as Scott power walked down the corridor.
‘Find someone who can tell me whats going on, I just at least need to see him.’ Scott found another doctor ‘Hey, excuse me could you please tell me where Ritchie Neville is please, I wanna see him.’
‘What ward is he under?’ the man spoke with a deep Spanish accent
‘I don’t know, he’s on a life support machine, he was brought in a couple of hours ago.’
‘Follow me.’ The doctor said and carried on walking down the corrdior. Natalie took Scotts hand and held it, she tightened her grip for reasurance as they made there way up the long corridor.
‘We have a Richard Neville in here, Now I must stress that we don’t usually allow visitors in when they have been brought in this early, but I will make an acception.’ The doctor said.
‘Thanks, can i just go in?’ asked Scott, the doctor nodded ‘Wait here, I’ll be back in a bit.’ Scott said to Natalie.
As Scott walked in the silent room he noticied all the tubes sufforcating his friend.He looked pretty bad, his skin was pale, he has machines pumping all sorts into him and he was lifeless.
‘Hiya mate’ Scott whispered, there was no responce from Ritchie, however Scott didn’t expect there to be. He perched himself on the edge of the bed. ‘Well what a mess you’ve got yourself into eh? I can’t really think of what to say to you. But I guess you can’t tell me to shut up either can you? Well, what a mess this holiday is, can u belive that our managers thought it would be a good time to bond, like we don’t do enough of that already. Well maybe their right, we probably will be more close after this. The only good thing about this holiday is Natalie, you know what Ritch shes really special and I don’t know what I’m going to do when we have to get back on the road, I’m gonna miss her a hell of a lot. If it feels like I’ve known her forever not just 3 days, weird eh?! But thats what love is I guess, weird.’ Scott looked up at Ritchie who just looked peaceful lying there. Scott sighed.
‘You can’t die on me mate’ Scott said as tears satrted to roll down his cheek, ‘I need you here mate, and so does everyone else, think of your mum, your dad, dave, and think of Billie. I know you guys haven’t seen eye to eye recently but she does love you mate, and I know you love her too. Maybe we could have a double wedding’ he laughed ‘yeh, you and her and me and nats, so you can’t go, not yet, not ever.’
He was interupted by Abs, who had appered from no where ‘Hey, how you doing? ’ Abs whispered, Scott shrugged ‘I rang Ritchies mum and she’s gonna get the next flight over. I also spoke to our managers and they want us to hold a press conference of some kind to tell everyone whats going on, but I told them to leave it as none of us are up to it yet, okay?’ Scott nodded Abs walked over to where he was. ‘He looks peaceful doesn’t he? I wonder if he can hear us?’
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It was a long day, Ritchie’s condition hadn’t improved but then again hadn’t deteriorated, but he kept slipping in and out of comas which wasn’t a good sign. The press had slowly began to build up outside the hospital aware that 5ive were there, but not quite sure what was going on, but then again no one was sure what was going on.
Scott was sat on the waiting room chair with Natalie huddled next to him. J was asleep on the floor, Sean was trying to read an english magazine but he just couldn’t concentrate. Claire and Nessi had gone through about a thousand cups of tea and coffee, and Louise and Abs were sat silent, just thinking.
‘Don’t you think we should have heard something by now?’ Nats asked quitely.
‘I have no idea, i guess these things take time, I just feel stupid sitting here. Maybe I should go and talk to the press outside.’ Scott replied
‘Yeh, but what would you tell them?’ said Sean, who as usual had been pretty quiet.
‘Yeh’ Abs added ‘Even if you did tell them what you knew that wouldn’t be enough, they’d just want to know more. I think we should leave it until we know one way or another.’
‘Looks like we might find out now then’ Scott said, as he saw the same doctor from before walk into the waiting room.