((Pairing: none
Song: none
Genre: random?
Side-notes: same as last chapter (I know, I'm lazy xD)))
Preston POV
I wake up slowly yawning and stretching. I am currently in Canada with the rest of The Pack for a convention. I glanced over at the clock in the hotel room and jumped up when I saw that it was already ten. Shit I was already late. I hurriedly got ready and rushed out the door. The convention center was a block away from the hotel so I didn't have to call a taxi. I bolted out the hotel door and ran as fast as I could towards the center. Somehow I managed to shave off two minutes from the time it took me to walk there yesterday. I glanced at the time on my phone and realized that I needed to get to the third floor as fast as I could as the panel was already started. I started towards the stairs as they would be faster than the elevator. As I was running up the stairs I tripped and fell backwards down a level. Luckily it wasn't that far of a fall so I got immediately back up and started jogging more cautiously up the stairs. Luckily I made it all the way up to the sixth floor where the panel was being held without any more accidents. I took a moment to catch my breath and casually strolled up to the stage where the rest of The Pack were hanging out obviously trying to stall the actual event till I got there. I decided to make a dramatic entrance so I snuck out behind the curtain. And looked out at the audience making the shushing motion with my hands and snuck out to behind Rob. I glanced over the crowd before smirking and jumping straight on his back. Rob screamed loudly and I started laughing hard.
"Your face," I laugh taking gasping breaths and pointing at Rob's now pouting face. He sighs and rolls his eyes picking me up and carrying me over to my seat. I grin up at him.
"Thanks honey," I tell him inwardly smirking at the "poofless" fans that were probably going mad with feels. I see a glint in his eyes and immediately the smile drops from my face. I glance around trying to find something before I find it. My eyes lock with Lachlan's begging him not to do it. He just smirks and dumps a bucket full of freezing water on my head. I overreact to the slight tingling that lets me know that the water itself is basically frozen. I stand up and grin again running over I wrap Lachlan in a giant hug he lets out a squeak and tries to push me off. I smile and we all settle into our seats and the panel starts.
I phaze out most of the panel itself my mind wandering back and forth on a bunch of different topics. I stay mostly silent before the viewer questions start up. Not that I pay much attention anyways. I don't have the widest attention span and I tend to just space out at panels. At the first conventions The Pack and the viewers were worried about me but after the fifth convention or so they just started to accept the fact that I was spacy af. I felt a nudge and I looked to the left and saw Rob and the rest of the guys looking at me concerned.
"Sorry I had a late night and didn't get that much sleep, what was the question?" I ask blushing at my inability to focus. Shit, again, I had forgot to take my ADHD medication to help me focus. I was too rushed this morning.
"I was wondering what everyone's favorite series was to film," a young feminine voice said from the masses of people. I think it over for a second. Before finally settling on one.
"I think I like filming Crazy Craft the best, but I enjoy playing factions more, thank you. Also sorry for spacing out again," I say grinning out towards where the questions come from. The rest of the questions pass quickly and I make sure to pay attention to each one. Not that my mind didn't wander a lot.
After the panel stops we all stand up and go down to the second floor where the viewers were mingling about. We hung out for a while together before splitting up into twos and chose somewhere to sit and just hang out. I choose to go with the Aussie so I could spend time with him. I shifted in my seat again. My arm had been feeling weird all day and I haven't had time to properly check it out. While sitting with Lachlan and when there was a lull in viewers coming over to get things signed and to simply talk to us. I love it when they hold normal conversations with us, it's really cool to connect with them like that. My mind wandered away before I shifted to the left and realized that my right arm still felt weird. I take my jacket off and check out my arm.
"Shit!" I cuss surprising Lachlan and shocking the people walking around us. I was known as The Pack member that didn't cuss so the fact that I did must have seemed really bad to the fans. I glance over to Lachlan grabbing his hand with my left hand and dragging him to the bathroom.
"I think I broke my arm," I tell him nervously showing him my right arm. It looked massively bruised and there was a slight bump on my arm where I could feel a shifting now that I was paying attention to it. Lachlan's eyes went wide and I think he started panicking because he started pacing.
"I'll call the ambulance do you think that you could call the rest of The Pack to let them know what is happening, or are you in too much pain?" Lachlan asks taking out his phone to start dialing. I knock the phone out of his hand and turn it off. I take his hand dragging him over to where my jacket was lying and I pulled it on so my arm was covered. He looks at me confused on how I wasn't screaming in pain.
"I'll explain in the car on the way to the hospital, also no ambulance, there's no need to panic the viewers," I tell him dragging him out of the bathroom to where there was a giant mob of people. It seems that the news of me cursing had spread through the whole room and to the rest of The Pack. They had grouped up together looking kind of confused. Lachlan took over and started gently moving his way through the crowd. He makes sure that I never move my arm thinking that I was in excruciating pain. I smile at his sweetness and just follow his lead. Once we make it to the boys he makes sure we are all there before walking towards the exit beckoning for the rest of us to follow him. The guys keep mumbling confusedly as Rob gets in the driver's seat and everyone else piles in the car trusting that lachlan had a good reason from taking us away from the convention. I take off my jacket in the heat of the car and so that I can check on the rest of my arm to make sure they weren't broken anywhere else. I move all of my limbs and cringe at the weird feeling in my ankle too. I guess I was too excited to notice the weird feeling.
"What is happening?" Rob asks starting off towards his house. I frown at Lachlan who is sitting next to me.
"Actually Rob, we need to go to the hospital," Lachlan somehow gets out before looking me directly in the eye. "On a scale of 1-10 how bad is your pain?" He asks me grabbing my face in his hands. I shrug before looking away.
"Also I think my foot is broken or sprained too," I say quietly. Yet the sound of my voice travels far in the car. It goes completely silent and I'm almost surprised that Rob didn't completely stop driving in surprise. The car quickly erupts into sounds as everyone starts panicking or throwing questions at me. I try to get them to shut up but they don't. Finally I just scream in frustration. They all get silent thinking it's me screaming in pain.
"Finally god dang it. Now Lachlan the pain's at a zero and rob don't crash the dang car, pay attention to where you are driving," I rant at them huffing at the end. They all look at me confused that I wasn't in any pain.
"What do you mean 'zero', you have one maybe two broken bones Preston," Lachlan asks me as if I could forget the weird feeling of bones sliding against each other.
"I know Lachlan I'll explain in the hospital after I get my arm and foot set," I tell them looking down. I don't want them to find out and think of me as a freak like all my childhood friends do. The rest of the car ride is in complete silence. Somehow Rob manages to get to the hospital after only ten minutes. Even though it was supposed to be a twenty minute drive. Vik gets out of the car with me to make sure that I don't collapse in pain or something. I limp slightly to try and keep my foot from getting messed up anymore than it already has. I walk all the way to the reception room with Vik trailing behind me as if to catch me.
"Excuse me, I know that my arm is broken and I'm pretty sure that my foot is sprained or broken too," I tell the lady at the front with a completely straight face. She looks up shocked before frowning at me.
"It's not nice to lie young man, I know you might think it's funny or something to make fun of hurt people but we don't condone lying about something like broken bones," she tells me with a strict face and an annoying tone. I sigh before I turn to the left to show her my right arm. She pales at the mess of bruises and such on my arm.
"Oh," She says just staring. Obviously it isn't everyday that you get someone with broken bones talking coherently but when have I ever been normal.
"Can you get a doctor or something?" I ask her sighing again at her. She seems to snap out of shock before she frantically makes a couple calls. A doctor rushes out of the back room with a stretcher that they force me to get on. They shove a needle into my arm and I feel a liquid pulsing in my veins before everything fades to black.
I wake up to a bright white room. I groan on impulse as I try to roll over onto my side. I am stopped from moving by two giant casts that seemed to be big bricks on my appendages. I groan as I realize that I am not going to be able to move or play games for a long time with the stupid casts.
"Hey Preston, how are you feeling?" I hear a voice ask me. That must be Rob. My eyes snap open and my body tenses when I realize what happened. My face is still almost completely shoved into the pillow and I shove it in further groaning again. My face frowns as I feel a drowsy, almost as if I was high. I sigh and bring my head up to look around the room. The Pack was sitting in chairs all around the room and they all looked exhausted. I glance over to my left to see an IV with a (color) liquid that I quickly identify as (Pain Killers). I sigh again and reach over with my bandaged arm and pull out the needle in my arm. All of the guys jump up in protest but I wave them off with my left arm.
"Its fine, all that will do is make me drowsy and loopy," I say frowning at all of them. They quickly sit back down and Lachlan looks up.
"What the hell has been happening?" He asks very obviously eager for answers. I sigh as I think over my options. I could tell the truth and possible be left by my only friends for being a freak, or I could lie and they could all leave me for not telling the truth. I run my hand through my hair trying not to freak out. My mind starts to wander down the path of them leaving me forever. Of course this makes me completely space out. I snap out of my thoughts when Lachlan shakes my shoulder.
"First of all do you think I could call for a nurse real quick I need to ask for something?" I ask them as if they were the ones with injuries not me. Rob nods and I press the red button near my bed. A nurse comes bustling in quickly.
"Hey do you think you could get me an ADHD pill so that I won't keep spacing?" I ask her completely ignoring the guy's confused looks. She gives me a quick suspicious look before deeming me to be tell the truth. The wait for the medication isn't very long and I quickly swallow them down with the water she gave to me. I could feel the weight of ten eyes on me. I shrug slightly and set the glass down before looking around the room nervously.
"Promise you won't leave me?" I ask them my vulnerability showing for a second before I quickly cover it up.
"We'll never leave you behind you cactus. A pack never leaves a friend behind!" Mitch says confidently. I smile at his confidence before I take a deep breath. I guess I have no choice but to tell them the truth now.
"I have a rare genetic disorder called Congenital Insensitivity," I tell them hiding underneath my blankets so they wouldn't look at me. I feel the silence descending and I start to panic slightly. They are going to call me a freak. Mitch was lying. They are going to walk out of my life forever.
"Is that so you can't feel pain?" Vik asks. I nod under my blankets and wait for them to leave.
"That makes so much sense," that's Rob. He doesn't sound mad or disgusted about my genetic disorder. I peek my head out from under the blankets and glance at the pack. They all look surprised and mildly concerned. Once I'm sure that none of them are disgusted I wiggle my way back up to a sitting positions and start fiddling with my cast.
"What's it like not being able to feel pain?" Jerome asks, curious about something so obviously different than what he knows. I shrug slightly not really sure what he's asking.
"It's normal for me, I've never been able to feel pain. The only thing that sucks is that I have to be really careful or else I'll get a fatal injury and not notice or something and end up dying," I say trying to forget that the doctor that I used to go to was convinced that I would end up dying before reaching 20.
"Also life expectancy is very decreased for people with it, mostly because we tend to do something crazy and die from it," I shrug again trying to brush off the fact that I was most likely not going to live too much longer.
"That's horrible. But that just means that we will have to make sure that you don't get hurt. I couldn't imagine us without you," Lachlan says obviously scared of losing me. I glance at his eyes and see that he is starting to tear up. I look down, I didn't expect them to react this well to my condition.
"So you don't hate me?" I have to ask, it's been my fear for so long that I can't help but think they do hate me.
"Why would we hate you? You're our best friend, it'll take a lot, and I mean a lot, more to get us to hate you in any way shape or form," Mitch speaks up staring at me weirdly. Rob must have gotten what I meant because he walks up right next to me.
"We don't think you are a freak, I promise Pressy, you're not getting us to leave this easy," he looks directly into my eyes and I feel a weight lift off my chest. After keeping this secret for so long, I'm glad it finally came out. I grin and snuggle my face into the covers. I'm so glad that I have these guys as my friends. I'm not sure I could have dealt with them leaving me. Even if one of us breaks or falls the others will pick them back up. I truly love them all.