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Can You Feel Me? : Chapter 4
The crew and managers looked on in shock, however it was nowhere near the
shock that had descended on those closest to him, his bandmates.
One of them in particular stood out from the rest. I wasn't his paleness,
every person that had made the journey that descended tem into the thick,
humid night was various shades of pale. It wasn't the blood that clung to
his clothes, sticking the material to him and making a faint metallic smell,
that is the scent of blood, rise from him. Kevin had the same blood coating
him also. No, it wasn't any of these things that made him stand out from
the stunned group of people huddled at the back entrance to the hotel.
It was his eyes.
The eyes that had watched Nick through ups and downs, through break-ups and
make ups, through things that those on the outside of stardom couldn't begin
to understand. The yes that had met up with the ocean blue ones of his best
friend and saw all the pain and hopelessness in their depths before he had
collapsed. Those ice blue eyes weren't the same now. All that he has
witnessed this night had erased the playful joy that made them sparkle and
left a dull, lost look in it's wake. The most startling of all was the
color. They were no longer blue, the color seeming to have drained right
out of them when the rest of his body had paled in shock. Now pools of
stormy gray looked out onto the world, the blue clouded by shock and regret.
'Why didn't I realize something was wrong? I'm his best friend. I should
have noticed that it was this bad.'
She sat by his feet on the gurney, watching as the two paramedics fought to
save his life. Everyone was moving so frantically, the only one who looked
peaceful was the one whom they were all frantic about. He lay there,
oblivious to the panic around him.
"Who is going with him?"
The paramedic looked at the group and Brian felt himself being thrust
forward. He looked at the uniformed man, "I am. He's my best friend."
Kevin took the medic to the side and discreetly whispered in his ear, "You
may want to check him for shock too, he has a heart condition and was the
one who found Nick."
The medic nodded sympathetically and took Brian to the ambulance, leading
him by the hand like a small child.
Within a minute, the ambulance roared to life, the siren not springing to
life until they were a block away, the wailing cry like a keening call
through the night.
The silent group of people still stood out in the lot, not sure of what to
do.
The stillness was broken by a stifled sob. Though it wasn't loud, it ripped
through the group like a gunshot. Everyone looked for it's owner and found
Kevin leaning against the wall of the building, his forehead resting on the
brick.
It seemed to give everyone unspoken permission to break down. One by one,
the tears flowed and the sobs wrenched their way into the night.
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