Kim:
"Man i'm so tired." I said as we made our way back to Tulsa.
"Me too man..." Diggins yawned.
"So i've been wondering for a while, whats up with you and Shawn?" I asked looking out of the corner of my eye at her.
"We're friends." She reached over from driving and flipped through the radio stations, "why do you ask."
"Whenever you come in for recording he gives you a longing look and stares at you." I said, I looked out of the windsheild.
"Damn it, i can't find my station." Diggins kept fiddleing with the radio.
I let my eyes float down to look at Diggins trying to find her station, "Need any help?"
"Na, i got it." She said.
I looked back up a second later, and we were headed straight toward a huge truck, "DIGGINS SWERVE!"
She sat up in attention but, so shocked and everything happening so fast, it was too late. I heard the glass windsheld break and the twisting of metal around us. I heard the pained sheriek of Diggins next to me and my own. Our Car kept making loud noises until i saw nothing but darkness and heard nothing but silence.
Zac:
I heard a ringing which woke me. I had fallin' asleep with the cell phone in my hand. I groggily hit the button that picked it up.
I held the phone to my head, "uh hello?"
"Zac, Diggins was in an accident." Those words sent me into instant hysterics.
"What? Is she okay? What happened?" I asked in a jumbled mess.
Sherri sounded very upset herself, "She was in a car accident, and the docters say shes pretty bad, oh god."
"hold on." I set the phone on my bed.
I ran to my Dad, "Dad Dad DAD!" I shook him.
"Hmmmm." He moaned.
"Diggins was in a accident i have to go back." I said to him.
"Oh wow, is she okay?" He asked, still not awake.
"No, i have to go back now." i demanded.
"Okay son, i'll call the airport. Ike's going with you." He said, i don't mind Ike at all.
Diggins Mom:
I sit next to Diggins, my poor little girl. I remember when she was just a little thing, she was so cute and sweet. She would parade around the yard when i tended to the garden, in her little pink sundress and blonde pigtails. She was blonde back then, when she was about five her hair darkened. She would run up to me and pull on my apron and say, "Hug me mommy." and i would. It was so peaceful back then.
My husband, Diggins's father would come home in the evenings from his orcestra. He was the proud conductor of the most famous orcestra in Paris. He would come home in the evenings and then go to Diggins's room and look at her. I would often watch him, he would look at her then reach over and kiss her forehead and whisper to her, "You're my happiness, i love you, one day you'll be a great musician."
When he came out of her room i would be sitting in the garden, i loved it in there. I would gaze up at the stars. He would come and sit next to me then hold me close to him. We would sit there saying absolutly nothing for hours. Then all of a sudden he would pull me up and we would make love under the stars.
When my husband died, Diggins and I were lost. We were like two fish in a great sea, we didn't know what to do, didn't know how to deal with all of this. We soon moved to America and tried to start a new life there. Soon Diggins became reclusive and silent. She dressed in black and was out most of the day. I sat alone in the house and morned my husband, for years. I know nothing of what Diggins was doing all those years. I knew she was in a band and she loved it. When she first told me she wanted to play guitar at 10, that night i cried. Her resemblence of her father was so sharp, her wit, and her love for music.
One day i came home from a date with a guy i was dateing and there Diggins was with a boy. She was beaten up and there was a boy. My heart leaped because this is as much as i've gotten to know about Diggins in a while. Their relationship bloomed and she became happy again. Mine and Diggins's relationship was mended as well and her dieing spirit.
Everytime Zac had to leave town because he had business, i know Diggins was just lost without him. Her band was playing everywhere. I know they had made love. When i was washing sheets i found out. It filled my heart with happiness, she really loved him. I cried right there in the laundry room. She had found the one that made her heart soar. Later when i was cleaning her room, i found a box of condoms in her jeans. I'm glad they were safe about it.
Now, i sit here and watch over my baby. She is fighting to regain conscienceness. I read her books and hold her hand, but nothing. Her eyes flicker every now and then, but shes in a coma. I tell her how sorry i am for never talking to her about her father and morning her father for so long i forgot about her. I never gave her the love she deserved.
zac:
I sit in the airport next to Ike which has his arm around me, waiting for my flight to be called. God, i knew i should have asked her to come with. If i had asked her, she would be in my bed with me right now, and not in a hospital bed half dead. I'm to shocked to cry, so i just sit here and stare off into space.
"Hey Zac can i take a picture with you?" I hear a girl ask me from far away, i keep stareing off into space.
"I'm sorry he's not feeling well, i'll give you an autograph though." Ike negotianted.
Suddenly i feel a twinge in my body. My head is flung into my hands and i am doubled over in my seat and sobbing.
Ike hands his autograph to the girl, "Is he going to be okay?"
"Yeah, thanks" Ike says and wraps his arms around me.
"Are you okay Zac." Ike asks me.
I just sobbed and shake in response.
"Flight 786A now boarding." I hear a mans voice on the intercom say.
"Come on Zac thats us." He helps me up and walks to me over to the gate.
We get in out seats in the back of the plane. I look at Ike, "Ike is she going to be okay?"
"Of course, Diggins is a fighter." He says which comforts me somewhat. Enough to make me stop crying, i sit there trying not to let myself fall asleep but somewhere i fall into a deep sleep and can't escape from it.
Diggins:
My head hurts like hell when i finally come to. I listen to my mom speaking to me, reading a book i think. I can't move my body, I try to move my arm but instead my hand twitches. I make my eyes open to see my mom. I immediaitly remember Zac, and how much i miss him.
My mom sees me open my eyes, "Mom?"
She leans over close to me, "What hunny?"
"Wheres Zac?" I ask then add, "I love you mom."
"He's comming digs." She strokes my forhead.
"Tell Zac," My throat is getting really dry and i'm so tired, "I love him."
"Okay i will, i love you too Diggins." She says still looking at me.
"Tell him i just had to do that." I smile and then feel myself slip away from consciencness.
Zac:
I slept the whole flight, Ike watched over me the whole time. Once we got off and grabbed our bags, we caught a Taxi and were looking at a forty-five ride to the hospital. I stared out the window, many lights were on and signs. At one point we were on a good sized hill and i could see the stars, so many in the sky, all sparkleing like the heavens. It comforted me to see that.
"You okay hunny?" Ike said. Hunny? What was that?
I gave him a weird look, "Hunny?"
"I don't know, Mom says it and it makes me feel loved." Ike put his arm around me.
"Don't call me hunny."
"Okay."
Diggins:
I felt myself have some strength again, I layed there thinking if i should open my eyes. My head throbbed, it felt like someone put it in a vice and was chranking on it.
"I saw her move." I heard a fimiliar voice that i reconized as Zac say.
"Talk to her." I hear Ike say.
"So Digs you can still crack a joke even when you're in and out of a coma?" Zac laughed.
I forced my eyes to open to the best sight in the world. Zac took my hand, i squeezed his as hard as i could. Which was weakly.
"Hey beefcake." I weakly smiled. I felt a new cut on my face that stung whenever i made an expression and cuts on my lips that also stung.
Zac gave me a warm smile, "Hey sleeping beauty."
"How did i get myself into this," I felt tears sting my cuts, "I should have waited for your call."
"Digs who knew that this would happen." He smoothed my hair back, "it's nobodys fault."
He leaned over and lightly pressed his lips against mine. He stood at my bedside, "Diggins, just so much could happen in so little time. I want to know something, so i will know that if something does happen, that i know what would have happened."
"Zac i'm not going anywhere..." I said.
"Ssshhhh," Zac put his hand on the side of my head, "Diggins will you marry me?"
"Yes." I answered right away, "I love you."
"I love you too." I could see tears forming in his eyes.
I moved over and let him climb in next to me. He gingerly pulled me to him, then i fell into the unconscience again.
Zac:
I stayed with Diggins a week in the hospital. Day and night, i couldn't leave her side. Then my parents called and told me i had to come and help out Taylor and Ike with the promo. Diggins had only awoke a couple times in the first two days. Then nothing, she was in a coma and didn't come out. Now i fear that she won't come out. It was a miricle that she didn't die. Now i fear that she won't come out.
So i'm shipped off to australia where Ike and Tay are with the rest of the family. I sit quietly most of the time, try not to cry. It's so hard to pay attention when your heart is half a world away.
Kim:
I was lucky unlike my best friend Diggins. I escaped with a concussion, a broken leg, scratches, and bruises. Diggins still lays in her hospital bed. I visit her daily, and she remains in the coma that has trapped her.
Once she woke up when i was there with her mom. She looked at me and demanded that i hugged her. She told me that she was glad that i was okay, and she didn't want me worse off than her because it was harder to find a bassist than guitarist. I find it hard to think that Diggins can still joke around for the few minutes that shes awake.
As for our band. Kate went balistic when we told her we weren't going to find a different guitarist for the band. We wanted Diggins to play or nothing. Kate made us pick between her and Diggins. We kicked Kate out. So it's back to us three. Kate will crawl back to the band once she realizes she wants to sing.
Kate will blow a nut when she finds out Diggins and Zac are engaged. I think it's great. Zac really changed her, for the better. I really don't get why shes so against Zac. She likes him and wants him, but Zac doesn't want her.