Cassie, Will, Bradin, and Kandy's father and brother waited in the waiting room of the hospital for Kandy's condition. Bradin couldn't get the image of Kandy's body out of his head. Her body below her stomach was all bloody. Her legs were smashed into her car by the other two cars. It looked like she wasn't going to be able to walk ever again. However, the paramedics told him that her legs could be repaired through surgery if they needed to.
"Bradin?" Cassie asked, "Are you okay?"
He shook his head and burried his face in his hands. He felt someone touch his back making him jump.
"Bradin," Cassie said as she noticed tears in his eyes, "She'll be okay."
"I love her, Cassie," he said.
Kandy's father's head whipped in Braidn's direction. "What did you just say?"
"I love your daughter, sir. I promised her I wouldn't fall for her. But, I did."
"Did you just say that she made you promise not to fall for her?" her brother asked. "Dad, she did it again."
"Did what?" Bradin, Cassie, and Will asked together.
"When she was five," her father began, "her mother walked out on me. Throughout the years that she grew up, everyone in our family commented her on how much she was like her mother."
"She's afraid that she's going to hurt a guy the way that our mother hurt the three of us," her brother said.
A doctor walked out to the five. "I'm assuming you're here for Kandy Johnson?" he asked. "She had terrible injuries to her legs. We're going to have to perform surgery on them one at a time. She also had a concussion. When she wakes up, she may not remember a lot. But, she will need your help to get better."
"Can we see her?" Cassie asked.
"She's being put into her room as we speak. I will have a nurse come and get you to bring you all up."
Kandy's dad shook the doctor's hand and said, "Thank you, doctor."
Thirty minutes passed and a nurse came down to the group to take them to Kandy's room. Bradin walked next to Cassie who kept giving him the "it's okay" look. They arrived at the room on the third floor and everyone walked into the room except Bradin. He tore up and sat in a chair that was in the hall. He cried into his hands as he thought of everything going on. He felt someone sit next to him and looked.
"Come on," her brother said, "You need to see her."
He shook his head. "I can't go in there. She's going to flip."
"The doctor said that she may not remember a lot right away."
"But, I might be someone she remembers."
Her brother forced Bradin into the room and made him stay in. Bradin stayed away from the bed and held his tears back. Then, he heard Cassie walking to someone.
"How are you feeling?" she asked.
Weakly, he heard, "Like crud. What happened?"
Everyone turned around to look at Bradin. He spoke, "You got hit by two guys who were racing each other. Both of them were drunk."
He saw her look over at him and sigh. "Talk to him," her father told her, "There's something that you need to know."
"No there isn't," Kandy said.
"Kandy, goddamn it!" her brother yelled, "He's in love with you! You need someone like him in your life!"
"Excuse me," a nurse said, "All of you should leave. She needs rest."
Once everyone else left, Bradin walked up to her bed. He saw her with her eyes closed and tears down her cheeks. "Kandy, don't," he said sitting on the bed. He placed his hand on her cheek and turned her face. "Can you please call me tomorrow?" he asked, "We need to talk about a few things."