Tears were streaming down my face as they carried him out of the bathroom on a stretcher. Mark had show up just in time to get into the ambulance and accompany Ross to the nearest trauma center, Hershey Medical Center. The drive from here to Hershey, Pennsylvania was about 56 minutes. They had managed to get him breathing on his own again, apparently, he was vomiting and passing out at the same time. His breathing was stopped when some vomit got caught in his throat. That was cleared within minutes and he was breathing on his own again. The simple fact that he was breathing on his own was the only reason they didn't' helicopter him to Hershey.

After the ambulance took off in a red and blue haze, I found myself being confronted by Stormie. At first, she seemed calm, until she opened her mouth. "What happened to him? What did you do to him?" I was on my feet now, I didn't know what to say, I had barely talked to him. Rydel and Rocky were standing on each side of her, she was getting angrier with each second I wasn't answering her questions. I heard her talking but I didn't understand what was coming out of her mouth. I felt a painful slap across my face and finally understood what she was saying. "Did you hurt him?"

"No!" I screamed, rubbing my cheek. "I would never hurt him." I felt the red hot tears stream down my face. I wasn't sure if it was being of her slapping me or because of the worry. I did fear that I did something wrong. Maybe I did do something wrong to him... but what could I have done? I noticed they were all getting ready to leave. "Can I come along with you guys?" I asked, looking directly at Rydel, hoping she would see how much pain I was in.

"Yes. There is enough room in the van." Stormie said, after rushing over to me and touching the cheek she had slapped moments before. I thought I heard her mutter something about an apology, but I brushed it away and gave her a big, fake smile. She must be going through more emotions than I was. But, unlike me, she held her emotions very well.

We got outside and noticed that there were still many emergency vehicles in the parking lot. Stormie had saw that a fire truck had been parked in front of the van and began to shake with sobs. "It'll be forever until we get out of the parking lot." she said, sobbing.

"My car is parked out front. It'll hold all of us. Rydel, call Riker. Jay has a car and he can take Riker up to the Hospital." she nodded and they all started following me to the front of the hotel, where I was parked. "Can you also ask him to call the admissions office and tell them we're going to be out of the county for three days and to have our assignments dropped off at our apartment?"

We got to the front of the hotel and I was able to get into my car. Everyone piled into the small car and I pushed the key in the ignition. When I turned it, the Austin and Ally season one soundtrack began playing on the radio. I instantly saw Stormies head go into her hands and she started to shake again. I tried my best to get it off the radio as soon as I possibly could, but the damage was already done. She had gone into a full fledge breakdown.

"This is my fault." she said, looking into her lap, "I push you guys so hard, I was so much for you. Ross had been telling me he was sick and I was more worried about the band. I should be worrying about each of you individually. I'm sorry guys."

Each of the boys tried to reassure her that she was doing a great job as a mother, including Ellington. Although it seemed like their reassurances worked for a while, I occasionally heard her mumble small details about things she was doing wrong. She was really beating herself up hard.

The entire car ride, the radio was off. This was unusual for me, I had to have music. I started to pick out things about the environment around me to keep my mind off of Ross. The entire way up 83-North, I noticed there were a lot of Rutter's Farm Stores. When we pulled onto Paxton street in Hershey, I noticed that the roads were a milk chocolate color. This humored me. I started seeing the Hershey's trademarked dancing Hershey's Kiss and I knew we must be close. I saw the large Hershey Medical Center sign and turned onto the road. It was nearly gettin dark and I looked to the right side and noticed the hospital had enormous lights sitting at it's base which made the entire front of the U-shaped hospital appear purple.

We found parking and made our way into the emergency entrance. After talking to the lady at the front desk, we found out that Ross was in room 6106. This room was in the intensive care unit.

We all found our way to the elevator and piled into it. Rocky pushed the button to take us up to the sixth floor and we all waiting patiently as the squeaky elevator began to move.

Six dings later, we were on the sixth floor. To the left, there was a nurses station and right in front of that was a long hallway. At the end of the hallway was the ICU. We made our way back the hall.

Riker and Jay were there, they were standing outside of the door to room 6106. I positioned my head to look inside the room to see that Ross was laying shirtless on the bed with a tube coming from his mouth and a bunch of machines hooked up to him. Mark shuffled around from the corner with a doctor and looked at Stormie. He shook his head and looked at the ground.

Stormie and I must have been in sync, because we both started crying at the same time.