"Wake up," Scott yelled at Kalani early the next morning. Kalani rolled over turning his back at Scott.
"Just leave him," Ezra said from the doorway, Auggie had already left.
"Come on just get up,' Scott said annoyed. Kalani just grunted, he hadn't gotten any sleep withdrawal was kicking in, so he had lied awake most the night thinking of how bad he wanted a fix, or just a cigarette
"Fine I'm leaving," Scott then said giving up and left. A few minutes after Scott left Kalani got up and darted to the bathroom.
"Kalani?' Peter called as he walked into the dorm and didn't see Kalani in his bed. He walked farther into the bathroom to find Kalani asleep on the floor by the toilette where he had thrown up.
"Come on Kalani get up," peter said as he walked up and started to help him sit up.
"Where am I,"
"You're at Horizon," Peter answered him. Kalani looked at him like he was going to cry.
Kalani woke up in the nurse's station, he didn't remember how he got from the dorm to there but he figured Peter had helped him walk. He sat up and saw Peter sitting in a chair in the corner watching him.
"How long have you been sitting there?" He groggily asked.
"Only a few minutes," Peter answered then got up and walked over to Kalani. "Feeling better?" Peter then asked
"Yah, I guess," Kalani gloomily replied. He looked around the room there were a few more bunks next to the one he was laying on, but he was the only one on one. "What time is it?" He then asked after going to check his watch and realizing he had taken it off.
"Its almost noon," Peter told him, Kalani was a little nervous as he saw peter just watch him move around.
"I need to check my blood," Kalani said. Peter then got up and went to the cabinet to get Kalani's things.
"How long have you had diabetes?" Peter asked as he walked back to the bed
"Since I was ten," Kalani said not wanting to talk about it at all. He hated it, he was horrible at taking his medication and shots, and he ate too much sugar, the Hospital where he lived knew him well. It was silent for a moment.
"Are you feeling good enough to go have some lunch?" Peter then asked.
"Yah I guess," Kalani said not really up for doing anything, but it was better than just siting there having Peter watch him.
"Ok class today Kalani will be joining us, he's a new member to the cliff hangers," Steve said as he introduced Kalani to the group. Kalani just looked down and walked to the seat next to Scott that Steve had pointed out.
"Scott while you help Kalani with the assignment," Steve then said, Scott nodded.
"The assignment is on the board," Scott simply said then went back to his work. Kalani wrote it down then started working, silently. Every few minutes he would look up from his work to see the girl in front of him glancing over, or Ezra making weird faces.
"Here," Kalani said as he handed Steve the paper, it was only five minutes after Steve had assigned it.
"Are you sure, you got the right assignment," Steve said taking the paper, he looked it over." I guess so, what math were you in at your old school?"
"Advanced trigonometry," Kalani quietly answered.
"Whoa, well we don't have any books for that would you mind reviewing Geometry again?" Steve asked, Kalani shook his head no.
"Ok then you can go, then," Steve said. Kalani went back to his desk to put his notebook back in his bag.
"Where are you going?" Scott asked
"I'm done," Kalani said then left
"Aren't you cold?" Shelby asked as she walked up to Kalani, who was sitting at a picnic table drawing. Kalani only had two pairs of pants to his name, one was for when he had to dress nice, and the other was for painting and both had been left at his home.
"I don't have any pants," He said not looking at her at all.
"You don't have any pants," She said in disbelief.
"You don't really need them, for where I'm from," he said back to her.
"And where would that be?" She asked being nosey. He looked up at her.
"Some where warm," He answered with a smart-ass smile, then went back to his drawing. Shelby was quiet for a minute trying to figure out how she would get him to talk.
'What are you drawing?" She then asked. He brought his hands away from the paper to show her, it was waves.
"You like water?" She asked
"Yah," He answered back wishing she would quit asking so many questions.
"What are you two doing?" Scott then asked as he walked up to them, he had his geometry book in hand.
" Well Kalani was just telling me how he doesn't have any pants," She said like Kalani wasn't even there.
"You don't have any pants?" Scott then asked. Kalani looked up, irrated.
"No, I don't," He said back
"Why not?"
"I'm from Hawaii, you don't really need them," Kalani then blurted out in angre
"that explains it," Shelby said triumphantly
"Will you leave me alone now," He then asked
"This is Horizon, you never get to be left alone," Shelby then said with a smile