Later that night, Jamie was thankfully sleeping in the same room as her; the phone rang. Nikki had to get up and waddle over to the phone, she was already acting pregnant.
"Hello" she mumbled like she would kill someone if it was a stupid reason to get her up.
"Yeah?"
"He what?!"
"Do I have to come? Can't I kick has ass later?"
"Fine. Yeah Bye."
"Everything okay?" he asked
"Yeah," she sat down on the bed "Daryl got shot. Again." She said putting on some of the oversized clothes she and Eve had bought that week end.
"O-kay" he said thinking he was stupid "you want me to drive you?"
"No, it's fine, get some sleep. I'll see you later."
"Wake me up when you get home" he shouted after her.
"Not. Likely." She yelled back over her shoulder.
When she got there he was shot just by his spine. She would not have come if it was a less important injury. Some nurses told her she couldn't be in here and she flicked them off before going to her brothers. She hugged James and sat down in the empty room. James was tall and slender but he had a large build and cool blue eyes like ice and scruffy brown hair, he hadn't shaved in a while. As they waited for Daryl to get out of surgery they told her about what had happened. His buddy started messing around at a gun range and the gun went off. She hated the guy, but after all who wouldn't after they had shot your bother a second time. She was going to suggest suing him but it wasn't worth the effort and he didn't have money anyways. Plus it would be pointless with all the school she was doing. The doctor came and talked to us and said he would be fine and Nikki said to her brothers
"Can I go now he's alive, and plus I have school tomorrow." she semi whined
"Sure" Stefan said "but we'll see you tomorrow right?"
"Yeah, I guess. So what's for dinner?"
"It's a surprise" Zach said "so see you tomorrow." She left in a hurry knowing that they would notice or that the hospital nurses would be angry and kick her out. Plus Jamie would be worried that she had been out for so long.
When she got home she saw Jamie getting ready to go out.
"Hey" she said as she locked the door to their apartment. She walked over to him and slid her arms around his waist and put her head on his shoulder. "you want to go back to bed for" she looked at the clock it was 2:30 "another three and a half hours?" she finished smiling weakly.
"Sure." He sighed and agreed. They got undressed in silence and slowly crawled into bed.
"You ok?" he asked
"Fine, I'm just worried."
"About what?"
"My brothers thinking I was pregnant or at least gaining weight."
"I doubt it; didn't you wear those big clothes you just bought?"
"Yeah." He kissed her forehead,
"Just try and get some sleep, ok?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Hey, I'm serious"
"Yes mother" they laughed at that. She fell asleep curled up in his arms all night until the alarm woke up the both of them.
