Blake walked into Tori's room with a huge smile on his face. Shane and Sensi were also trying to hid small smiles. The others all looked around and looked at the three confused.
"Okay, bro, what's going on?" Hunter asked.
"Kaylee, when you fall off a dirt bike, and the handle bar hits you in the stomache, at three months pregnant, it should hurt, no?" Blake asked completely ignoring Hunter's question.
"Depending on how hard, it could kill the baby." Kaylee said suddenly smiling as well. Soon every face but Marah and Dustin's were smiling. Marah and DUstin were just confused.
"SO, like, she did fall, and got hit in the stomache with the handle bars?" Marah asked. Then Dusitn smiled, because he understood everything now.
"Yes, but she was fine. So when she gets back, if she says she lost the baby, Kaylee, you need to ask her a hundred questions about it all. And everyone else can contribute, except Marah and Dustin." Blake said getting serious.
"Why?" They asked together.
"Because you'll say something and mess it up." Hunter said glancing over Dustin.
"Hey, I helped form the plan!" Dustin argued.
"What plan?" A teary eyed Niki asked walking into the room.
"A plan from back in the day." Marah covered. All eyes were on her, shocked that she made such a quick cover. She wasn't as dumb as they thought.
"Oh, umm...Blake can I talk to you alone..." Niki said as a few fake tears rolled down her cheek.
"Sure." The two headed out of the room. As everyone turned to face Marah again.
"Nice save, cus." Cam commented. Now all eyes were on him. "She really not dumb, she like a...a female Dustin. Smart when its needed."
"Whatever man." Shane said shaking it off. Shane proceded to sit on the floor next to the door, with his ear against it.
"Blake...you were right...I...I lost the baby..." Niki cried on Blake's shoulder.
"Shh..baby its okay. Its okay." Blake soothed her.
"Hunter's going to hate me for life. Him and Dustin warned me not to go riding if I was pregnant." Niki continued to sob.
"Don't worry about them. Come on." Blake said moving towards the door. Upon opening the door, it came into full contact with Shane's head.
"OW!" Shane cried.
"Sorry man, why were you sitting there?" Blake asked a now standing Shane.
"Do you see anywhere else to sit?" Shane retorted.
"Good point. Guys, we have some bad ne--" Blake was cut off by a nurse entering.
"Oh my!" She jumped back, not expecting to see so many people. "Weekday visiting hours are over. Only two family members are allowed to stay the night on weekdays." She said as she tried to stand in the very crowded room.(a/n i forget if i mentioned how long its been, so its now monday 7:30 pm, Kelly gave the boys the day off for today.)
"Okay, we better head out. Blake and Dustin should stay, they brought her in." Cam suggested.
"Only family." The nurse wuietly reminded.
"I'm her bestfriend, and he's her boyfriend." Dustin argued with the nurse. "She has no family here, or anywhere else that we know of."
"Fine, but everyone else out!" The nurse said walking past Hunter with a smile, which he returned.
"Okay, pregnant ladies first." Cam said offering his hand to Kaylee, who gladly excepted it. They headed out the door hand in hand.
"Bye Dustin, Marah said reaching over and place a small kiss on his cheek, before leaving. Kapri followed her, and was a little too quickly followed by Shane.Then Hunter and Sensi walked out, leaving a shocked Niki, and Dustin and Blake.
"Babe, you have to go, too." Blake said softly to Niki, while Dustin turned his attention to Tori, so Niki could see him smirking.
"What why?" Niki said coming out of her trance.
"Because only two people can stay."
"Well either you're coming with me, or you're sending Dustin home." Niki said matter of factly.
"Umm..no. See only family members can stay." Blake replied.
"You are not related to her, neither is Dustin, I guess we three should get going." Niki said as she began pulling Blake towards the door.
"Niki, no. You have no control over me." Blake said with a smile forming, threatening to blow everything.
On the otherside of the door, Hunter was about to leave when he saw the nurse coming back. He knew Niki was still inside, and that she would most likely flip if she saw three people in there. Hunter intercepted her as she headed towards Tori's room.
"Excuse me, Miss?" Hunter asked politely.
"Nurse Luxed." Nurse Luxed said with a warm smile.
"Um well Nurse Luxed, I wanted to thank you, for letting my brother stay with Tori." He said quickly coming up with a lie, which wasn't as he thought about it.
"Oh, well, your welcome. And please, call me Tara. If thats your brothers girlfriend, I'd imagine, you'll be here until she wakes up. So we will be seeing more of each other, Mr.?" Tara said holding out her hand.
"Bradley, Hunter Bradley.' Hunter said taking the petite hand in his in a friendly shake.
"Well, Mr. Bradley, I have to get back to work." Tara said sweetly.
"Um, you see my brothers kind of not really dating Tori. After a big miscominuication period, he got another girl pregnant. But it turns out that she was never really pregnant, and is playing everyone. And my brother just offically figured it all out, so he's probablly telling her that now, so oculd you wait like two minutes before going in there?" Hunter said shocked as the words flowed right out his mouth. He was very comfortable around Tara. It was a little frightening to hunter, actually.
"Sure, but I am going to have to kick them both out when I do go in there." Tara said with small smile. 'What did I just do? You are not allowed to do that Tara! Stop letting that beautiful, dreamy, sparkling--STOP!'
"Blake'll be a little pissed, but he'll understand. That just means he'll be here first thing tomorrow." Hunter said with a small chuckle.
"And you?" Tara asked, cooly, but to herself very anxiously.
"Not til about 6 tommorrow night, enless my boss lets us off early because of Tori." Hunter said avoiding the fact that Kelly was his boss, so Tara didn't get the wrong idea.
"Oh, he knows Ms. Hanson?" Tara asked figuring if he wanted her to stall, might as well get to know more about him and her patient.
"Yes, she does. Dustin, Shane and I work at the extreme sports store Storm Chargers, Blake did before he left for the pro's, and Tori and Cam, and the others are always filtering through there. Its like one of our home away from homes." Hunter said smiling.
"One, you have more than one home?" Tara asked.
"The schools we teach at are like home as well." Hunter explained.
"So you teach, and work at the store?" Tara asked confused.
"Yes, Mondays, Thursday and Fridays 4-8, and Saturdays 8-3." Hunter said trying to cover up the ninja academy part of his teaching.
"OH, well you must be busy. I thought my life was complicated." Tara said with a smile.
"What do you do?" Hunter asked.
"Well, I work the night shift here, go to Med. school during the day, and work at my family's restuaraunt on weekends." Tara said with a proud smile.
"Med School? You look like your 22 at the most!" Hunter exclaimed, then blushed realizing he basically told her he was checkin her out.
"I'm 24, I took a lot of pre-grad classes in highschool, so I could get a jump start on college. What about you? To be a teacher you have to be about 26?" Tara said figuring things out in her head.
"No, I'm 23. I teach..karate." Hunter said trying to come up with a fib, that wasn't totally wrong. 'Why do I not want to lie to her?'
"Oh, I assumed.." Tara trailed off.
"Its alright. I never specified what I teach." Hunter said as a very pissed Niki cam flying out of the room. "I think its safe to go inside now." Hunter said a little disappointed.
"My shift ends in an hour, you can hang out in Tori's room, then maybe we could go get something to eat?" Tara asked bravely.
"Sure." Hunter said with a smile.
Back to were we left Blake and Niki...
"What about the baby?" Niki said calming a little.
"WHat baby, there is no baby?" Blake argued back.
"So just because I lost the baby, you don't love me?" Niki said as real tears rolled down her cheek.
"Niki, you knew I was in love with Tori. You were the one who said 'Sounds like Dustin's movin' in on Tori'. Then got me drunk!" Blake said.
"So this is partly my fault?" Dustin asked.
"SHUT UP!" Both yelled at him. Dustin just made a face and turned back to Tori.
"You were the idiot that got drunk!" Niki said.
"You were the slut that slept with me!" Blake said. SMACK! Niki's hand came in full contact with Blake's face.
"Don't you ever call me that!" Niki warned.
"Why cause its the truth, cause there was no baby, cause it was all a lie?" Blake asked holding his face, but not letting it bother him too much.
"Screw you, Blake!" Niki went to leave, but Dustin grabbed her wrist.
"Too late." He whispered to her. She was about to smack him too when Blake grabbed her wrist.
"I'll be taking my ring back, please." Blake said holding out his hand. Niki took off the beautiful ring and threw it at Dustin's head. She flew out of the room in a very angry mood, right past Hunter and that nurse chick he was talking to.
"I think its safe to go inside now." Hunter joked. After another minute of talking, Hunter and Tara walked into the room.
"Hunter, why are you still here?" BLake asked.
"I have special permition. I'm not staying long." Hunter said eying Tara, who was three shades off crimson(how appropriate?).
"Tori's getting better. She should wake up with in the next few days." Nurse Luxed said trying to ignore the fact that Hunter was watching her carefully. "I'll be back later to make sure she's fine, before I leave for the night." she said and quickly exited the room.
"Dude, you were flirting with the nurse!" Dustin exclaimed.
"So?" Hunter whispered. blushing slightly.
"Let me guess. Stalling her, turned into hitting on her, which turned to asking her out after her shift?" Blake asked.
"No. Stalling her, turned into getting to know her after having to explain everything, which turned into Niki storming out, so she invited me out after her shift." Hunter said calmly.
"She...asked...you...out?" Dustin said between laughs.
"Shut it man!" Hunter said giving him a warning look, which Dustin stopped imidately.
"Ok." Dustin said quietly, looking at Tori. An hour passed and a short woman with shoulder length red hair, wearing a pink teeshirt and jeans, entered the room. At first Dustin and Blake didn't know who it was. Then she turned to Hunter and smiled with blushing. Hunter's breath caught in his throat as he looked at her.
"Are you ready Hunter?" Tara asked nervously.
"Yeah." Hunter said grabbing his jacket that was on the chair next to him. They walked out to the parking lot.
"So do you have a car?" Tara asked shyly.
"I have Tori's van, is that okay?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah, I was making sure, cause there were a lot of you here today. I don't have a car, can't afford it." Tara admitted.
"Me either, I use Tori's van when I can't walk to where I have to go. She actually trusts my driving." Hunter laughed. As did Tara.
"No one else drives well?" Tara asked as they pulled out of the parking lot.
"Me and Blake are the only ones allowed to drive her van. But even with Blake, she still has to be in the car. I guess she trusts me cause I'm the oldest." Hunter said.
"Your the oldest of all of your friends?" Tara asked with some excitement. She,too, was the oldest of her friends.
"Well, I think. Cam's 22, Kaylee i don't know, Kapri's 22, Shane, Tori, Marah, and Blake are all 21, and Dustin's not quiet 21 yet. his birthday is in December. So other than Kaylee possibly. Yeah I'm the oldest. Enless you include Sensi, which I don't." Hunter laughed nervously, but Tara laughed full heartedly. They pulled up to the Burger King drive through. "So what do you want to eat?" Hunter asked as they pulled up to the speaker.
"Hmm... a number 2, with extra mayo, king sized. Oh with a coke." Tara said.
"Wow," Hunter said with an amazed look. "Blake's the only person I know, other than myself who eats that.." He said with an admiring look.
"Really, most guys are weirded that I eat that much." Tara said.
"Welcome to Burger King, may I help you?" a voice said.
"hi, can I have 2 #2 with extra mayo, king sized." Hunter said. Tara smiled. For once, a guy ate as much as she did, and didn't care.
"What would you like to drink?" the voice asked.
"Two cokes, please." Hunter said.
"11.50, please pull up to the window." the voice said. Hunter did. Tara went to take out money when Hunter put his hand on hers to stop her.
"I got it." He said his hand linguring on hers a little. Tara blushed.
"I'm hungry, what about you?" Dustin said getting up.
"Yeah." Blake said, but not moving.
"I'll go get us somethin', anything in perticular?" Dustin asked going to the door.
"Nah." Blake said as he moved closer to Tori, grabbing her hand. Dustin left the room, as Blake kissed Tori's hand."I love you, Blondie. Please don't leave me." Blake whispered. There, he said it to her, even if she was unconcious. Suddenly Tori began to stir...
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Haha, cliffhanger! Okay, well hopefully that makes up for my two day lack. Whats going on with Hunter and Nurse Tara? What about Shane and Kapri? Or Cam and Kaylee? I don't remember if I have any new readers, but if I do, Thanks! And of course Thanks to my old readers! -Storm Strider
