Chapter 44…
Justin had picked-up sage at home and they just walked into the club when Darren came up to them;"Hi,guys,ryan is here and he seems pretty waisted."
"Why didn't you call me straight away when he showed up here?"asked justin irritated;"Where is he,Darren?"
"He's sitting at the bar with some guy."answered he;"We tried calling your house,but there was no answer."
"Calm down,justin,you can't blame Darren for this because it isn't his job to look after ryan."said sage as she grabbed justin's arm;"Try to stay calm when you talk to your brother,because getting all worked-up isn't going to help the situation."
"I am calm."started her boyfriend quickly and walked up to his brother with sage right behind him;"What are you doing here,ryan?"
"That is none of your damn business!"answered he angry when he saw justin;"Go away and leave me alone!"
"I can't do that,ryan,I'm your brother and I have to look out for you!"said justin slowly as he noticed how waisted ryan was and also saw the strange look in his eyes,suggesting that his brother might have had more then just alcohol;"Let me take you home and we can talk about this in the morning."
"I'm not going anywhere with you."yelled his brother furious and pushed justin away;"You can't tell me what to do damn it!"
"You heard what r.c. said,so beat it!"warned danny his friend's brother as he pushed justin away as well and gave ryan another beer;"Leave him alone,dude,your brother is a big boy and he isn't ready to go home yet!"
"This is between me and my brother,so just stay out of it!"answered justin irritated and pushed danny back while he turned towards ryan;"Come on,ryan,I'm driving you home!"
"Like hell you are!"said his brother's friend while he tried to take a swing at justin,who saw that coming and quickly ducked away,so instead of hitting him danny lost his balance and fell backwards right against ryan,who got knocked down on to the ground;"Damn it!"
"Is everything okay here?"asked Darren as he quickly came up to them with nick and the both of them grabbed danny;"You're out of here!"
"Hey!"yelled he even more furious while he was escorted out of the club;"He started it!"
"Justin!"said sage all of a sudden worried as she was helping ryan up from the ground;"We need to go to the hospital!"
"Why?"asked he surprised when he looked at his brother and saw what sage meant;"How did that happen?"
"Just leave me alone!"started ryan still angry while he tried to get away from them,but he was so waisted that he would have fallen down again if sage and justin hadn't grabbed him;"I'm fine!"
"No,ryan,you're not fine!"answered his brother worried as he pointed at ryan's hand,which was covered in blood;"You need to go to the hospital right now!"
The following morning shane was having breakfast with his wife when Vicky came in through the backdoor with jake;"Goodmorning,guys."
"Goodmorning."said Nicole a bit surprised about seeing her niece there that early;"What brings you two downhere this early,Vicky,is everything okay?"
"It looks like carol is waking up again."answered she;"Kristy went by the hospital about an hour ago and Jamie says that carol's brain-activity is increasing,so that means that she will probably wake up soon."
"That's great news."started her uncle slowly;"Did he say when?"
"I don't know,because kristy didn't have much time to talk on the phone because she was running late for a meeting at the office and I guess we'll hear all about it at lunch."said Vicky;"I called Jamie after I spoke to kristy and he said that even if she does really wake up there's no guarantee that she will recover fully."
"But according to Jamie it does look like she's waking up again,so maybe now we will find out what happened that day and who or what made Michael drive into that tree."answered her husband;"Maybe she'll wake up real soon."
At sam's hotelroom at tops sam woke up and saw Amanda,who was already awake,staring at the celling next to him;"Goodmorning."
"What are we going to do?"asked his ex-wife as she turned her face towards him;"I'm pregnant."
"First we're going to bring you back to the hospital before somebody finds out that you're gone and everybody starts to freak out about that."smiled sam and kissed her;"Then we're going to have a good talk about us and the future as soon as you're home again,Amanda,it isn't a problem that you're pregnant and I'm happy about that."
"How can you say that it isn't a problem?"started she a bit angry and sat up straight;"We're divorced!"
"Did you mean what you said lastnight about still being in love with me?"asked her ex-husband;"That's all I need to know."
"You know that I do I or else I wouldn't be here right now with you and we wouldn't have slept together for a second time,but that still doesn't solve anything!"answered Amanda tired;"We aren't together anymore and we got divorced,sam!"
"That's easy to fix."laughed he while he kissed her again just when the doorbell rang;"I'll bet you that it's either lisa or our daughters at the door."
"If that's our daughters then they can't know about this,sam,please just tell them that I'm not here or something!"begged his ex-wife worried as sam got out of bed and got dressed;"I'm not ready to answer all those questions!"
"Don't worry,honey,I'll take care of this and you'd better get some more sleep or something because you didn't get much sleep lastnight."smiled sam teasing as he closed the bedroom door behind him as he went to open up the frontdoor;"We'll finish this talk later on."
Devon was having breakfast when her brother came downstairs and into the kitchen;"Weren't you suppose to stay the night at sage's?"
"That was the whole idea untill our little brother decided to act up like a moron and we ended up spending over an hour in the e.r."answered justin as he sat down;"So the night didn't really end like it was suppose to end."
"What happened?"asked his sister worried;"What did ryan do and why did you guys end up in the emergancyroom,justin,did you two get into a fight or something?"
"I went to the club with sage when Darren came up to us as soon as we walked in to warn me that ryan was there and that he was pretty waisted,so I went up to our little brother,who was there with that friend of his,and that's when the trouble began."started he slowly;"Ryan didn't want to go home with me and his friend got involved and to make a long story short danny tried to take a swing at me,but missed and knocked into ryan,causing him to fall down,while he was still holding a beer-bottle in his hand,and then he ended up with a serious cut in his hand."
"So you and sage took him to the e.r."said devon shocked;"How serious was the cut in his hand?"
"Let's just say that ryan had a lot of luck on his side lastnight,because sage,who fixed him up in the e.r. herself,said that he came close to messing up his hand forgood."answered her brother;"So ryan ended up with ten stitches in his hand,devon,but that might not be our biggest problem."
"There's a bigger problem?"asked she sarcasticly;"I thought that ryan getting seriously hurt lastnight and having to explain to our parents why ryan has got ten stitches in his hand is a big enough problem,so what on earth could be worse?"
"I don't think that ryan was just drunk lastnight."said justin hesitating;"I think that he was on something else as well,so that's a bigger problem!"
At the hospital evan was coming back from the e.r when he ran into Jennifer;"Hi,evan,you look tired."
"That's probably because i have spend the last 24 hours downhere at the hospital,so I'll be glad when my shift is finally over and I can go home."said he with a faint smile;"How about you?"
"My shift started at six this morning,so I'm not that tired yet."started his friend hesitating;"How are things between kristy and you now?"
"I have no idea."answered evan;"I haven't talked to her for a few days,jenny,not since she walked out on me angry last Saturday when I asked her why she stood me up at lunch."
"Haven't you seen kristy since michael's birthday and hasn't she called or anything either?"asked she surprised;"But I saw her this morning when she came to see carol and she didn't say anything about a fight with you."
"Then I'm probably not that important to her."began her friend tired;"Her sister told me that I shouldn't take it personal and that kristy was just upset because of it being michael's birthday last Saturday,but how can I not take it personal when she doesn't even call me anymore?"
"Maybe you should just give kristy a little space right now,because she's still working through everything that has happened."said Jennifer;"Kristy was never really good with things like this and she turned herself away from everybody as well when her mother died,so just give it some time."
Just before one that day adam walked into his wife's hospitalroom and was a bit shocked when he saw her trying to get out of bed;"What do you think that you're doing?"
"What does it look like?"asked m.j. irritated while adam quickly helped her back into bed and layed down;"I was trying to get out of bed,adam,untill you came along!"
"You're not suppose to sneak out of bed!"warned he his wife worried;"You're still not well enough and what if you'd fallen down?"
"Jamie said that I could start trying to get out of bed for a while each day now that my fever is gone."answered his wife;"So if you have a problem with that then talk to your cousin!"
"I know what Jamie said this morning,because I was here when he said it."started adam slowly;"But I'm sure that he didn't mean that you should try to get out of bed while you were alone,m.j."
"I just want to be able to get up and about so that I can go home again!"said she frustrated,with tears in her eyes;"I just want to go home!"
"But doing too much,too soon isn't the answer,honey,rushing things won't get you home any faster."answered her husband as he put his arms around her;"Beeing without a fever is a good step into the right direction,but you have to take this one step at the time or else you'll have a setback."
To be continued….
