James pulled into the nearest parking spot he could find. He got out of the car and ran to the entrance of the hospital. Once he got inside he realized something crucial. "Oh crap!" He said immediately pulling out his phone.
"James, what's wrong?" Carlos asked him.
"Katie is still at the palmwoods! We left her there!"
"Why can't Mrs. Knight just bring her over later?"
" Because, Mrs. Knight is in Minnesota for the weekend, remember? Dammit my batteries dead. Logan can you call Camille and have her bring Katie over here?" James asked.
"I'm already dialing." Logan replied looking down at his phone rapidly pushing buttons.
"Good, I'm going to go check at the front desk to see what room Kendall is in." James said as he walked over to the nurse at the desk. "Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for a Kendall Knight, he was hit by a car about an hour ago."
"Umm...oh yes, here he is, Kendall is on the third floor, room 304." She said.
"Okay, thank you" He remembered a sign he saw walking in, the third floor was the trauma unit. He sucked in his breath and walked back over to Carlos and Logan.
"Camille is on her way, so what floor is Kendall on?" Logan asked him as he headed for the elevator.
"The third floor."
Logan stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face James. "But, that's…."
"I know, trauma unit." James looked down so he could keep from crying. He hardly ever cried, even last year when he broke his wrist in a hockey game. He had gotten checked into the wall and landed hard on his wrist when he tried to catch himself. The cracking sound it made could have been heard 'round the world. Kendall had rushed right over to James to make sure he was okay, that showed how much Kendall really cared about everyone else. James looked up to see Carlos and Logan looking at him like he was a little kid, their eyes full of worry.
"You okay? We don't have to go see him if you don't want to. We could just go home right now." Carlos said very well knowing how bad he himself wanted to go see Kendall; he was surprised at himself for not crying yet.
"No no, I'm okay, I want to, let's go." James said walking past the two of them so they wouldn't see the pain in his eyes. He hit the button on the elevator again and again to make it come faster. He heard Logan and Carlos coming up behind him. They made their way up to room 304.
"What do you think he's going to look like?" Carlos asked breaking the awkward silence just as the doors opened to the elevator. "You know, with all the injuries he might have."
"Let's find out" Logan said approaching the door to Kendall's room. A part of him hoped he would see the Kendall he had seen this morning, happy, smiling, and most importantly, alive. Another part of him knew that that wasn't going to be the case.
"Here it goes." He said turning the door handle as slow as possible. He sucked in his breath and braced himself for what was coming next. He knew that things would be very different.
