Chapter 14

Ned looked at the clock on the stereo in his car. It read 5:55. Dang! Ned thought it's almost 6:00 and I haven't slept a wink!It's not as if he could sleep knowing Moze was in a coma. He needed to be with her more than anything right now. He found a parking space in the nearly empty hospital parking lot. Naturally not many people were there considering the time. He put the car in park and got out of the car slamming his door.

He trudged gloomily to the hospital's entrance, he knew this was going to be hard, but it was something he wanted yet felt compelled to do. Moze meant more to him then anything or anyone. He just had been too stupid to realize this before.

As he opened the door he slowly made his way over to the front desk.

"Can I help you?" The lady at the front desk asked, curious as to why a boy Ned's age was here at the hospital in a tux.

"Yes I'm here to visit Jennifer Mosely." Ned said politely.

"What is your relation to her?" The receptionist asked typing some information into her computer.

"She's a really good friend of mine!" Ned explained simply.

There was a slight pause.

"I'm sorry young man, but no one but family is allowed to see her without permission from the staff." She said not looking away from the computer screen.

"Excuse me?" Ned said loosing patience easily. "I've known Jennifer my entire life, were neighbors for petesake."

"Sorry! But that doesn't change a thing. Rules are rules." She said now annoyed.

"Okay so you're telling me I can't see my best friend because I'm not family? That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard! I NEED TO SEE HER IMMEDIATELY!" Ned said now loosing his temper.

"Don't you yell at me young man! Sit your rear end down and wait for the family to arrive so I know that you are who you say you are, or leave this instant!" She boomed loudly.

Ned took a seat in one of the couches close by, he couldn't believe this! It was then that out of the corner of his eye he saw a familiar face.

It was Faymen!

"Ned!" Faymen shouted excitedly "I'm glad you are here!"

"Is Moze okay? How long will the coma last? Is there any more news?" Ned asked frantically pumping Faymen for information.

"They wouldn't tell me much once they found out I wasn't family, they how you say…shooed me out of the room." He said, his accent making shooed sound like shhoooooed. "When I found her on the side of the of the road, it appeared that her car had hit a stop sign. It had been bad crash, there was glass everywhere, but Jennifer was in pretty good shape, besides the fact that she was knocked unconscious. Which the doctor's diagnosed as a temporary I think is the word… coma that could last for weeks, months or even years."

"YEARS??" Ned shouted! Earning the attention from the receptionist, who looked even angrier than before, when he had talked back to her. It seemed there was no messing with authority.

She got up from her desk and made her way over to where the two boys were sitting.

"I don't know who you think you are young man. But no one yells in this hospital! There are patients who are seriously ill and I'm sure they do not appreciate your tone of voice!" She snapped at Ned.

"Sorry," He grumbled.

The receptionist walked back to her desk and continued typing as if nothing had happened.

Faymen looked at Ned with sympathy. Faymen could not fathom how two people could be so obviously in love with each other but yet do nothing about it. Sure he loved Jennifer but not the way he was sure Ned did. Somebody had to be the bigger man and he was not going to get in the way of them. They were made for each other.

"You love her Ned. Am I correct?" Faymen asked.

Unfortunately Ned was too far gone to listen to a word Faymen was saying, because a certain someone was all he could think about.

He found himself wallowing in the past.

It was about 10 years ago and Moze and Ned were sitting in his room in the middle of a game of truth or dare. When Moze had boldly requested dare.

"I dare you to…" Ned pondered for a while. What could a seven year old possibly come up with that was truly daring, and Moze would most likely decline. "To… kiss me!" Ned said expecting her to be grossed out.

"Is that the best you can do?" Seven year old Moze mocked him. She obviously didn't want to go through with it.

"Are you scared?" Ned asked.

"I'm not scared!" Moze had said courageously.

"Then prove it!" Ned spoke.

Moze leaned in and kissed him full on the lips. Needless to say Ned had not been expecting that! She pulled away and looked at him, not knowing what to do.

They had continued the game keeping it their little secret.

To this day nobody knew. Remembering this made him feel somewhat closer to her. That had been the day he had fallen for his best friend without even truly understanding, pushing the feeling away.

His mind began wandering again and another memory popped into his head.

It had been a sad day for Ned, on this sunny spring morning, his grandfather had died. When he had called Moze, (they were only eleven at the time) she had rushed over and brought him homemade cookies her and her mom had made. They had spent the entire day watching silly movies and eating those cookies.

Moze had always been there for him, even at such a young age.

"Will we be friends forever?" She had once asked him a few years back.

"Of course!" Ned had mindlessly replied.

Not thinking that something like this might happen tearing them apart. He regretted all the times he spent the day with Suzie instead of Moze. Suzie had turned out to be cold and heartless, but Moze had a heart of gold.

Yet again another memory popped into his head, this time it was the kiss they had shared on the bus, after the last day of seventh grade.

"It was like kissing a wall." He had said covering up the fact that he had really felt some more than friendly feelings towards his best friend.

"A wall that didn't know how to kiss." Had been her response.

That had been the biggest lie of his life.

"Ned! Ned!"

Ned was pulled away from his foggy daze to hear Faymen calling his name.

"Did you hear a word I spoke?" Faymen asked him.

"Um…" Ned had no idea Faymen had even been talking to him. "Were you talking to me?" He asked absentmindedly.

"YES!" Faymen said annoyed.

"Oh…." Ned said not knowing what to say.

It was a good thing at that moment there was a huge interruption.

"I NEED TO SEE MY SISTER!" Shouted a very familiar voice that Ned knew all too well.

That voice belonged to none other than Rose. She was standing at the receptionist's desk, wedding dress and all, with Jason draped around her waist. When they saw Ned they rushed over to him.

"Ned what are you doing in the waiting room? I thought you would be in the room already." Jason questioned.

"I would be, if this lady over there," Ned said gesturing to the women at her desk, "would let me see her!"

"Come with us!" Rose said dragging Ned behind her and Jason.

Everyone was so hyperactive that Faymen had been forgotten.

Rose had a look of anger streaming form her face as she marched over to the front desk.

"Listen lady, you let my fiancé and his brother in that room now or you're going to pay the price!" She said fuming.

Jason and Ned exchanged a look.

"No can do!" The lady spoke. "I need Identification before I can let anyone in that room that isn't immediate family." She said smugly.

"Identification?" Rose spat. "Is it not proof enough that I happen to be her sister and both my fiancé and brother in law happen to be in tuxes while I'm here in a wedding dress?" She asked impatiently. "They have every right to see her just as I do!" She screeched in her face.

Ned and Jason took a step back; the Mosely's were not people you wanted to be around when they were angry.

"Get some identification for these young men, or get out of my face!" The lady screeched back at Rose.

At that very moment Mr. and Mrs. Mosely came barging through the door, Lawrence right behind them looking terrified. Rose must have called Mrs. Mosley because she looked ANGRY! She walked up to the desk and boomed:

"You let my daughter, her fiancé and brother in law in that room NOW!"

The receptionist looked from Mrs. Mosley to Rose, they both looked like they were about ready to punch someone preferably her. Keeping her cool the receptionist asked:

"And who are you?"

"I'm Jennifer Mosely's mother, and I demand you let us in to see her this instant!"

"Oh that changes everything." She said getting up from the desk. "Follow me!" She said as the Mosely's and Bigby's all trailed behind ready to see Moze!

Ned was just relived he could finally see his one true love even if she couldn't speak to him considering her condition.

A: N I'm so sorry that it took me such a long time to update! I have been very busy! If I get enough reviews for this chapter, I will try to update ASAP! Thank you to all who have read this story, only a few more chapters to go.