Chapter 15
The ambulance arrived less than ten minutes later. The paramedics got down on the floor and checked for Brandi's pulse and to see if she was breathing. Her heart was only beating mildly, and her blood pressure was abnormally high. Katy, Cheryl, Joyce, Lizzy, Chelsea, and Kimber all stood in the corner of the studio in tears. They all watched as Brandi was taken away on a stretcher and into the ambulance.
"What could have happened?" they all wondered.
After Brandi was taken away, the rest of the girls were all ordered to go home by security.
Hours had passed before they had gotten any word of Brandi's condition. By the time the phone first rang, it was 4 in the afternoon, and the guys were at the girls apartment.
Chelsea was the first one to the phone when it rang. "Hello?"
"Hello, this is Dr. Ploss from the Seminole County Hospital," a friendly voice said over the phone. "Is this the residence of Miss Brandi Marshall?"
"Yes it is," Chels answered.
"Is there a close family member around that I could talk to?" the doctor asked.
"Yeah, hold on, I'll get you her cousin," Chelsea said as she handed Cheryl the phone.
"Hello?" Cheryl asked in a scared voice.
"Hi, This is Dr. Ploss calling on behalf of your cousin. I'll just need your cooperation for a few moments," the doctor said. "Now," he continued, "I'll just need some basic information, like phone numbers, family members, things like that. First off, I'll need your name, number, and address for the both of you, just to clear things up here for our records."
"Okay," Cheryl agreed. "My name is Cheryl. We both live together on 517 Crystal Palm Drive, Suite # 505. The number here is 407-846-0695."
"I'll need your last name, miss," the doctor replied.
"Oh, it's LaPierre."
"Thank you," said the doctor. "That's all the information we need right now."
"I see, when are visiting hours?" Cheryl asked.
"Well," the doctor began. "We would advise no visitors for Brandi for the time being. We want to make sure she is well rested. Call anytime if you have any questions." With that, the conversation was over.
"They won't let us visit Brandi," Cheryl announced to the rest of them. "They say she needs her rest."
Justin just sat there on the couch looking down at the ground. "What the hell happened?" he asked.
"I don't know," Kimber answered. "We had just taken a water break, then we started to take it from Brandi's descant, and then she just kinda fell to the floor."
"I've never seen anything like it," Lizzy remarked. "I don't know what could have happend. I don't think she was sick or anything."
Everyone nodded their heads "No".
"Well, whatever it is, I'm sure we'll find out in the morning or whenever we get another phonecall from the hospital," Cheryl said, a little weary of the reason why this happened. She went across to the livingroom, and sat up against Chris in his arms. Little Gidget jumped up into her lap and began licking her tiny paws.
"Do you think that this whole thing is connected?" JC asked, simultaneously scratching his head and yawning.
Everyone thought for a few minutes. Finally, Joyce replied, "How could it be? The stalker has been fallowing a pattern of just strictly leaving notes, hasn't he?"
"This is true," Katy agreed. "But this couldn't have come at a more inconvenient time. And the stalker knows our schedule... somehow," she rambled on. "You don't suppose-"
"Suppose what?" Kim asked, perking up JC's shoulder and her sleepiness.
"Suppose that the stalker was in that room with us when this whole thing happened?"
The room went silent as the girls tried to recall who was in the room with them at the time.
"I can't think right now, I'm beat," Chelsea admitted. "I'm going to bed."
"Sounds good to me," Lizzy agreed.
"Yeah, I wish I could sleep. I'm so scared I don't think I can," said Katy, while being licked on the cheek by her new lively puppy. "Good thing I have Roarie here to protect me!"
"Oh yeah, good watchdog!" Justin laughed. "But seriously, are you girls really seriously scared?"
"Yeah," they all answered.
"Well then," Justin began. "I'm not trying to set up something kinky here-"
A voice interrupted. "That would be my job!" Chelsea gave Joey a playful slap on the arm.
"But," Justin continued, shooting Joey a dirty look, "Would y'all want us to stay over tonite? We could sleep in the livingroom..."
The girls all looked at eachother. "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt," they all came to an agreement.
Within minutes later, the guys were all set up in the livingroom with sleeping bags, blankets, and the two pull-out couches. Their girls felt safe with them there, and that's all that mattered to Justin, Lance, Joey, JC, and Chris. They all felt relieved that Brandi would be safe in the hospital, or would she be...?
Morning soon came, but still no call from the hospital. However, there was a knock at the door. First a quiet one, then a very loud one, that scared the fellas in the living room half to death.
"For the love of Pete! Someone's getting fired for this!" Chris yelped, obviously rudely awakened by the loud bang on the door. JC was still sound asleep. Chris sprang to his feet to answer the door.
"Hey guy!" Lynn said to Chris as soon as he opened the door all the way.
"Hey Lynn, the girls will be happy you're here."
"Oh really?" Lynn asked.
"Yeah," Lance chimed in. "There have been some disturbances since we've talked to you last, and something major happened yesterday."
"Oh my God, is everyone alright?" Lynn asked, looking a bit concerned.
"I'm afraid not," Justin answered. "Brandi's in the hospital."
"Holy shit! What happened?" Lynn asked.
Coming out of a bedroom and down the hallway was a very sleepy Katy. She had just been woken up and didn't want to go back to sleep.
"Lynn! You're here!" Katy exclaimed at the sight of Lynn and ran up to give her a big hug. "You won't believe what happened."
"Actually, the guys were just getting to that. Is Brandi gonna be ok?" Lynn asked.
"Well," Joey answered, joining the conversation. "The doctors won't let us visit, and they say that they haven't found out what's wrong with her."
Lynn stood there for a minute. "But what happened?"
Lynn listened to Katy as she told about what had happened to Brandi the day before. By the time she was done explaining, Cheryl had woken up and went towards Chris to give him a good morning hug. Roarie, for some reason, was now cuddled up on the couch next to JC's feet, keeping them warm.
"Can someone please tell Sleeping Beauty to get up?" Cheryl said as she looked down at JC and Katy's dog.
By now, Kim was out of bed and went over to give JC a kiss on the forehead. JC didn't wake up. Kimber then blew into his hear, which perked him up very quickly. "Time to wake up!" Everyone laughed.
Chelsea let out a big yawn. "Why don't we just try going to the hospital to see Brandi? Cheryl, you're her cousin, I don't think they could refuse if you were there. That's immediate family."
"I guess so," Cheryl agreed. "C'mon, let's get ready and go."
"I'll be up later," Lynn said. "I'm just gonna investigate and take some time to think about this. But just be careful, huh? First it was Cheryl and now Brandi. I don't need anything else happening to another one of you. Got that?"
They all nodded in agreement as Lynn shut the door.
Chapter 16
