The next day, Travis, Alicia and I went to the hospital. Mom spend the night there after Travis took me home. He told me what he found in the church. Blood. He found a man but he ran away.

We got to the hospital and found Mom sleeping on the bed with Nick. Travis walked over and leaded over to Mom, "You got an hour before the first bell," He said quietly. Mom woke up, "Mm ..." She glanced at Nick, who was sleeping before getting up. Alicia sat on a chair with her phone while I stood near the bed with a coffee.

"Okay. I need coffee before anything," Mom said as Nick woke up. I smirked and hold out the coffee. "Thank you, Baby," She said, taking the coffee and placing a kiss on my forehead. "Here's your change of clothes," Travis said, handing Mom a bag of her clothes. She took it and started to walk away.

Travis looked at Nick and placed a hand on his shoulder and his other hand on my shoulder, "I'll be right back." With that he walked away. "That was sweet, you and the step," Alicia said to me and Nick.

"Not our step," Nick said. "Mom likes him. Who knows? She's used to disappointment," Alicia said and I opened a box and showed him his breakfast. "The hospital's food is disgusting," I said and he smirked.

I sat beside him as Alicia walked over. "I know what you think," Nick said, glancing at our sister. "What's that?" She asked, crossing her arms. "You two perfect and I'm not," Nick said. "You know, you're going to Berkeley, I got expelled from ..." He took a bite, "Citrus Community. I'm here, you're there."

"We don't compare ourselves," I said. "Well, I don't compare myself with crazy," Alicia said and I gave her a look but she ignored it. "I'm not crazy," Nick insisted. "Well, you repeat the same behavior and expect different results," She stated. "That's Merriam-Webster crazy."

I sighed, shaking my head and Nick took my hand, looking between me and Alicia, "It's not gonna be like this anymore. I'm ending it now. I'm choosing to," He declared. "Okay?" Alicia and I exchanged glances and looked back at our older brother, "Okay," I said, nodding. "Okay," Alicia said and placed her hand on my shoulder. "Come on, Tay, we need to go to school."

I sighed and looked back at Nick, "You be okay without me?" I asked, smirking. He chuckled, "Never. But I'm be okay for a couple of hours," He said and I grinned. I gave him a kiss on the cheek before getting of the bed. "See you later bro," Alicia said, giving him a kiss on the cheek too.

"Bye, guys," He said and we walked out. "Travis and Mom waiting outside," Alicia said and she took my hand and we walked out the hospital. We saw Travis and Mom talking as they started to walk to the car and we followed them.

"All right, Nick needs to know that whatever he saw was real or not," Travis said. "Of course it wasn't. He was raving when they found him," Mom said. "We're late again," Alicia said and added in sarcastically as we walked pass them, "Thank you."

"Travis, you cannot enable him," Mom said. "Well, I don't think he's lying, though," Travis said. "Me too," I agreed as I stopped to walk with them while Alicia continued. "So you think someone ate someone?" Mom asked me and Travis.

"There's a lot of blood," Travis said. "It's a drug den," Mom insisted. "It was bad," Travis said. "Bad things happen there. Shootings and stabbings," Mom said as she opened her car.

Alicia climbed to the passenger seat and I climbed into the back seat. We waited for Mom to finis talking with Travis and then she climbed into the driver seat. She started the engines and drive us to school.