A Wave Of Desire

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Makai

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With Ocean and Dr. Malachi ready for this next part, I pulled the door open and looked outside with shock on my face. I wanted to make sure that the cameras didn't pick up something that was too forced or rehearsed.

That was when the three of us ran out of the house and toward Justin's car. I could see him through the window, holding his head like he was in pain. I didn't know if it was the headache that Ocean made him think that he had or if it was from him hitting his head on the steering wheel.

When I got to his door and pulled it open, I saw that there was a small cut on his forehead with a tiny bit of blood trickling down toward his eyes.

"Justin, are you OK?" I called out to him as I reached for his arm. I wanted to steady him and help him out of the car.

"No, leave him alone." Dr. Malachi called out to me. "He might have a neck injury." This had all been something that we planned and it was indeed rehearsed, at least for me and Dr. Malachi. Still, it was scary though. "Ocean, call an ambulance. Tell them that I am here and that we will be taking him to Trinity's."

"Y..yes." Ocean truly looked like he was panicking. I hated to think that this was causing him that much more stress.

'It's almost over, Ocean. We will be done soon and then everything will be OK. Just hang in there, baby. Hang in there for me.' The encouragement I was sending him was silent, of course. It was all that I could offer him though, so I gave it to him.

"Y..yes, hi, my friend was just in an accident."

Ocean was busy making his call now, so I went back to what I needed to do. Actually, there wasn't much that I needed to do. I just needed to follow along with Dr. Malachi as he checked out Justin's vitals and made sure he was OK.

"Are you OK, son? Can you tell me your name?"

"My head hurts. It's killing me. I can't think. I can't stand the light."

"Yes son, I know, it will all be OK. Can you tell me your name?"

"M..my name is Justin." He struggled a little and was doing his best to block what was left of the light.

"OK, Justin, I am Dr. Malachi. Do you remember meeting me earlier?"

"No. No, I don't think that I have ever met you before." He had met him, but he had not been introduced. He had seen the doctor when he attacked Ocean at the hospital.

"OK, no worries. I am sure that there are no real memory issues. We need to get you to the hospital though. I need to check you out."

From there, Dr. Malachi had Justin follow a series of commands. Things like following his finger with just his eyes and other things like that. I know it was meant to make sure that there was no true damage. He was the one that planned this, but he was also very thorough in caring for his patients. I knew that Justin would be OK with Dr. Malachi around.

After a few minutes, Ocean came walking over to stand near us and called out to the doctor.

"Dr. Malachi, the dispatcher wants to talk to you." He was holding his phone out to him. Dr. Malachi sighed and took the phone right away. It was like he had known that this was going to happen.

"Yes." I couldn't hear what the person on the other end was saying, but I could hear Dr. Malachi's responses. "Yes. I am taking his vitals and stabilizing his head and neck. When they get here, I will be riding with them. The boy has something neurological going on." There was another pause before Dr. Malachi spoke again. "Yeah, we will be waiting."

Before he even handed the phone back to my Ocean, we could hear the sirens in the distance. They were already on their way and were rushing.

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Ocean

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I had been a nervous wreck when I called for the ambulance. And I knew that just calling them to come here wouldn't be all that happened. There were going to be cops and other people showing up in droves. And that made me feel so scared. I had made this happen. Would they know that? Would they arrest me?

The first siren to approach the house had been the cops that I was starting to fear. I knew they were going to ask what had happened and what we had done to Justin to cause the accident.

And to make matters worse, the two cops that got out of the car when it stopped, were the same two that had come to my hospital room the other day. These were the two that I told not to arrest Justin. And I could tell by the looks in their eyes that they recognized us as well.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The cop that kept laughing last time asked.

"You three again? What is going on now?" The other cop asked.

"Officers, we have a young man over here that was in an accident." Dr. Malachi pulled their attention toward him and Justin and away from me.

"Yeah, yeah." The more serious, or rather the less joking of the cops, spoke as if he was annoyed while the two of them walked over to Dr. Malachi.

"What the hell happened here." That one was the laughing cop. He always sounded like he was angry but said it all with a laugh so that people would think that he was joking.

"Justin here had a neurological incident and temporarily lost consciousness. At that point, his vehicle struck mine." I could tell that the two officers weren't happy with the way that Dr. Malachi was taking the lead.

"And just what are you doing here, doc? Why are you here with these two?" The serious one asked.

"Make that three." The laughing cop chuckled when he saw Justin. "It's the one that the idiot over there let go. Let me guess, he came back to finish the job?"

"No. We were talking about the incident and how we used to be friends. We were trying to find a way to move on from this." I did my best to explain things to the cop. This was an answer that I had prepared in advance just in case I had needed it. I guess I did.

"Yeah, then how did the boy get hurt? Huh, fairy?" Chuckles, the cop, was not being very nice right now. 

"HEY!" Makai spoke louder and angrier than he probably should have at that moment.

"Watch your tone." Sourpuss, the cop, snapped back at him.

"I will when your partner talks to my fiancé with respect. That was uncalled for."

"Agreed." Dr. Malachi crossed his arms and stared at the cops.

I was thankful that I could hear the sound of more sirens coming but we were still alone with these two. And they were definitely not happy at all.

"How about we just arrest all three of you so we can see what you did to the young man before he crashed. I mean, you probably dropped the charges so that you could kill him yourself." Chuckles seemed to think that he had it all figured out.

"It's all on camera." Makai crossed his arms and showed the cop that he wasn't about to take his attitude.

"Sure it is." Chuckles didn't believe him.

At that moment another police car pulled up and behind them was the ambulance.

"What's going on here?" The first cop to get out of the new car asked when he saw the standoff that was happening between us.

"These two officers are being intentionally hurtful and crude. They have made no attempt to even check on the young boy that was hurt and instead decided to pick a fight with the three of us." Dr. Malachi explained everything to him. "By the way, my name is Dr. Abraham Malachi, the chief of staff at Trinity Memorial. That young man over there is a patient of mine and I was here doing a house call." That right there shocked us all. I hadn't known that Dr. Malachi was that high of a level, so it floored me. And as for the cops and paramedics, it spoke volumes about how much money either me or Makai had. If someone like Dr. Malachi was here for a personal appointment it must mean that we were high end clients.

Finally, things were starting to go in the right direction. The new officers sent the other two on their way.

"What, the doctor won't press charges or anything for the boy hitting that fucking Benz of his?" Chuckles was telling his friend as he walked away. I sincerely did not like the two of them. They were not good people, no matter what their position was. I was surprised that they were still employed in this profession with those attitudes.

I stood there silently with Makai as Dr. Malachi worked with the paramedics to get Justin into the ambulance. Finally, he was about to be moved to the hospital.

"Makai? Ocean?" Ben and Ryan were coming home now. They were coming earlier than I thought they would be. That, or this whole thing took longer than I thought that it would.

"Ben." I said his name reflexively as he leaned out the window of his car.

"Who are they?" The cop asked me when he saw the newcomers.

"Ben and Ryan, they live here with us." Makai answered him quickly. "They go to the same school as us and are on the same swim team. They know Justin as well."

"OK." The cop nodded and made a note, as if he needed to come back to talk to them later.

"What happened?" Ryan asked then as he ran over, the cop just stepped away and observed us.

"Justin came over to talk. We invited him." I told the two of them quickly. "He had told Makai that he wanted to apologize, so I thought today would be good. But for some reason, his head started to hurt like he had a migraine. When he left, this is what happened."

"Damn." Ryan looked shocked.

"Is he OK?" Ben sounded worried.

"I think so. I don't know yet. Dr. Malachi was here giving me a checkup before Justin got here, so thankfully he was here to help him."

"Ocean, we are off. You and Makai can wait here or meet me there. I need one of you to call his parents." Dr. Malachi called out to us, interrupting the conversation quickly before he pulled the doors to the ambulance shut.

"We got to go. You guys wait here, we will call you soon." Makai grabbed my hand and gave an excuse to our friends.

"Be careful." Ben called out.

"I hope he's OK." Ryan added