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Chapter 6

Cole's POV:

I've been awake for quite a while now. Only 2 hours, by it feels like forever. There isn't much you can do in a hospital bed. I've been doing all sorts of nonsense to amuse myself. Trying to balance those odd stick things on cotton balls. I watched the blood flow through the IV in my arm. I tried to push the up and down button for my bed at the same time, wanting to confuse the controls. I did a very good job of keeping rhythm with my heart beat. I would slam those stick like drum sticks and create a small fake band for myself. I did start singing but I got too loud and started to startle the nurse. So I stopped doing that. So, right now I'm trying to see if I can lick my elbow. I can't. So far! I hear that some people can do it! Maybe if I stretch my arm enough I can do it?!

I quickly put my elbow down when I saw the door carefully swing open. I looked over to find a friend walking in. Jay Walker. He was wearing almost all blue, eh, what did I suspect? He loves it. Can't blame him. His eyes widened with shock when he saw I was up.

"What up Sparky?" I smirked at him. He eased out of shock and started to chuckle a bit.

"Nothing much Hence. How ya feeling?" He asked, growing concerned. He walked over to me and sat beside me.

"Eh, I'm feeling just fine actually. How long was I out?" I grew curious.

"Only a couple days. Not long. But long enough to scare us all half to death." He admitted as I chuckled.

"Sorry, heh," I rubbed the back of my neck and avoided eye contact, "I guess I wasn't thinking straight. That's all." I chuckled, looking back at him.

"No dur. Let me say, you sure did put Kai on his edge." Jay shook his head with a smile. Was he implying Kai was the most worried? Why? Then a second question arose in my mind.

"Do you know who took me to the hospital?" I asked.

"An ambulance." He replied smartly. I rolled my eyes.

"Haha, very funny Jay. Do you know who found me then?" I reworded my question.

"Uh...Kai and Nya." He quieted his voice. I sighed out and hung my head.

"Damnit. Out of all the people in the world? It had to be them! Damnit!" I was growing angier.

As soon as I yelled a curse word, the ground below us began to shake. Jay and I looked at each other with so much shock and fear.

Just as it had started, it stopped. I finally realized that I was gripping to tightly onto the sheets of the hospital bed that my nuckles we're starting to turn white. Jay was doing the same to the handles on his chair. We searched around the room with our eyes for any damage but couldn't seem to find any.

"Earthquake...?" Jay suggested.

"But that doesn't make sense. We haven't had an Earthquake for a while and when we do it's normally a scale 4 to 6. That was most definitely a 1." I shook my head, this didn't make any sense.

"Let me check the weather reports." Jay took out his phone and grew attached with knowledge.

"Won't be much help. If they knew about it they would have warned us." I shook my head once again.

"Then what the hell was it?" Jay asked, as if I knew the answer.

"Don't ask me! It's not like I have all the answers to life." I argued with him.

"Whatever. Let's just ignore it. You weren't hurt from it and neither was I." Jay settled it as I nodded in agreement, "I should probably tell the others that you're awake. They'll be so excited!" Jay's face lit up with excitement, but it soon died down.

"What's on your mind Jay?" I asked the friend.

"I don't think I should be asking you this, but it's worth it..." He took a pause, "But, do you know what's going on with Kai at all? Perhaps before the accident? I don't know, he just seemed most phased by all this..." Jay was desperate for answers, but seemed embarrassed to ask.

"I honestly don't know." I was truthful in the statement.

"Did you guys like have an argument before? Or like...?" He shook his head before finishing his sentence.

"No no, please continue." I urged him on.

"It was a stupid assumption and very controversial." Jay disagreed with informing me.

"Come on Jay, we've been friends for a while now. You can tell me almost anything?" I ruffled my brow.

"Almost?" He questioned.

"You know what I meant..." I didn't need to say it and neither did he.

"Fine." He took another short pause. I swear to God I've never seen him so quiet and delayed, "Are you and Kai-"

"Cole!" Jay was interupted as I saw three familiar siblings stand behind him.

The Smiths.

Nya was first to rushed over to me, Lloyd close behind her and Kai dragging himself along. Nya hugged me tight as I hugged her back. I fist bumped Lloyd with a bright smile. Kai simply stood too far away for any contact. His hands were harshly tucked inside his jacket pockets and his head was hung low. Jay wasn't kidding...

"How are you feeling?" Nya asked me.

"Much better actually." I was honest with her, I saw no reason to lie.

"Have you found any hot Hospital chicks?" Lloyd tried to whisper to me. But Nya caught him and slapped him over the shoulder.

"Lloyd!" She yelled, mortified.

"Oh, right, my bad...did you find any hot Hospital dudes?" Lloyd took a second attempt. I laughed at his light hearted humor as Nya pushed him back a little bit, not being able to control her laughter as well. Through the midst of the laughter I noticed something...

"Where's Zane?" I asked gently, searching the room incase I missed the guy, he's fairly quiet, so I could have missed him.

"He has to work on a project with his Dad." Jay explained kindly.

I took my eyes off the blue clothed friend and settled them on the silent one. Kai. I have yet to see his face. Why won't he show me his face? It's not like he's ugly. He's fairly handsome and even Kai himself knows this. So why doesn't he just look at me.

"Kai?" I urged for his attention.

"Uh, ya?" He scratched the back of his neck, a habit he had when he was nervous. But he still refused to look at me.

"You alright bro?" I asked him with concern.

"Ya, you just shook us all up. That's all." He explained, I could sense the smile in his voice. But his face. Why won't he show it?

"...Kai...?"

"What now Hence?"

"Look at me." Something wasn't right, so I just went for it.

I heard Kai sigh out and reluctantly start to look up. It didn't take him long to reveal his face before me, embarrassment shattered among him. He couldn't bare to look at me, so he simply fidgited as he stared at the wall. He continued to bite his lip, he couldn't stay still. His left eyes was a swirl and mesh of black, blue, and the occasional purple. It bruised and showed to much physical pain that I assumed he was numb to it. It was close to closing his eye, but I could tell he still had room to see. The swelling seemed to have reached full maximum. His bottom lip was scabbing over with busts that covered the previously opened delicate skin. A faint bruise roamed the left side of his cheek, almost like a light brown. It didn't look at bad as his black eye, but no comfortable either. Along with this mess was a small cut on his forehead.

"Kai! What the hell happened?!??" I demanded an answer.

"It's nothing Cole! Leave it alone!" He yelled back. God! Why did he have to be such a HotHead.

"Can you just please tell me what happened?" I argued back, not stepping down.

"I got in a fight at school. Nothing new. Alright? So drop it." He argued smoothly, he had some control over his anger, but not all.

"Who?" I wanted more detail.

"Gene Nadakhan." He didn't hesitate to answer.

"And exactly why were you fighting?" I questioned, bit too harsh that intended, he didn't reply, he simply kept quiet, "Kai. Why the hell were you fighting him?" I had lowered my tone a bit.

"We go into a bit of a disagreement. That's all!" He finally replied, but he knew that wasn't exactly what I was looking for.

"What did he say?" I asked.

"He was saying bad stuff about you...and my parents.. " Kai's voice was finally calmed down.

I didn't know what to say. I got my answer but it wasn't explained the way I hoped it would be. I couldn't tell if Kai was hurt or just pissed off. Well, physically I'm the one hurt, so let's just say he's pissed off.

"Kai-"

"I need to go." And with that he rushed out of the hospital.

No one bothered following him. Kai just needed to do some stuff on his own sometimes. He'll be perfectly fine, I know that. But I can't help but think about what happened before the accident...did Kai and I...did we...we almost kissed. But, I'm not even gay! And I'm pretty sure Kai has something against it or something. I don't know, he's not very open about himself to others so I can see him as hating people who like the same gender. But I honestly don't know. That's not the point. Did what happened, well almost happened, phase him? Is he scared to look at me? Did I just ruin our friendship...?

End of Chapter 6! Hope you liked it! Please Review!