CHAPTER 29

The morning came sooner than expected to all of Top Gun- after all, they'd fallen asleep a few hours after sunrise. Squib was sleeping on the bed with Cody, and Adena, Megan, and Sebastien lying cramped on the other. Well…Megan and Sebastien were cramped; Adena was spread out all over the mattress.
A nurse squeaked into the room and started chuckling. She knocked on the door to wake them up and stood waiting, just inside the room.
"Mphfff… what time…it?" mumbled Cody.
"It's 10'o-clock hun," said the nurse gently.
"Thanks…" Cody grabbed her extra pillow off the floor and chucked it at Megan's head. "Megs…g'morning."
"What? What? What day is it? Do I have a match? Where's Adena?" called Megan. "Where…oh yea…the hospital." She turned over and saw Adena lying there, sleeping peacefully. "Adena! Get OFF!" She shoved her off the bed and rolled over, ready to go back to sleep.
"Ow. Hey! A visitor!" chirped Adena. "How's it goin'?"
"Quite well! You guys kept half the ward up last night…no wonder you're so sleepy." The nurse walked to Sebastien's bed and woke him up. "Come on, sleepyhead! I need to check your arm." Megan pulled her arm off from around his waist and helped him sit up while the nurse adjusted his sling. She went over to Cody's bed and fussed over her casts, while Squib snored through the whole episode.
"Hey guys…" murmured Sebastien. "Someone wake up Squib!" Cody grinned mischievously and whacked Squib in the head.
"Huh? Hey! What did you do that for?" he asked, too sleepy to be really angry.
"At least you didn't get pushed off the bed," whined Adena. "If Dan was here…"
"He'd do what?" teased Megs.
"Guys, shut up…how am I supposed to play tennis if my arm's injured? What's wrong with it anyways?" asked Sebastien.
Megan drudged up her memories of the day before. "The doctor said it wasn't broken…but you've got a ton of bruises everywhere. And your arm is uhh…super bruised."
"Great vocab, Megs," voiced Squib.
"Since when do you know anything about vocabulary?"
"Ahem…" The gang stopped arguing while they searched out the source of the noise. A policeman walked into the room, followed by Dr. Myer's. "The doctor told us you finally woke up- although we could hear it from the waiting room," quipped the man.
"It sounds like you're on the road to recovery," managed Dr. Myer's. It seemed like talking took a lot of effort for him.
"We caught the guy…" started the policeman.
Instantly, everyone in the room froze and focused their entire attention on him. "He didn't get far…caught this Jake guy trying to get a car less than a kilometre from here."
"Is he in jail?" said Squib breathlessly.
"He is. He's in custody…but Cody," Dr. Myer's said, "You have to testify against him. In court. He won't say a word to anyone, won't confess, and they need all of you to be witnesses. You're going to need to describe it all, Codes…"
"When?" she squeezed out.
"Soon. They want to get Adena's testimony before she leaves for the Hamstead, and when she get's back it'll be too late. Normally trials take months, or even years, but they bumped this one up because of the contents of the case," explained the police officer. He tipped his hat to them all and left, leaving a tense silence in his wake.
"We're here for you Cody," whispered Megan.
"All the way," added Adena.
"No matter what," Sebastien said.
"We'll be here," finished Squib.