Disclaimer: See chapter 1. Also I have no medical knowledge so what I've said is probably all wrong- don't sue!
A/N. Sorry. I'm such a bad writer. I haven't updated for ages. Its a long chapter though. Forgive me, please? No seriously I have had absolutly no time to update. College has been crazy and along with work it's been pretty hectic! Thanks to hennahito, Sarah, andrewhot, Brian, Emz, Laura, miss M and red-wax for the reviews. Well two people got it right so congrats to you lol. Also massive thanks to UFOhelena as usual for her magic beta skills! Anyway that enough from me! xx
Kate's POV
'Right that's it' Andrew stood up and announced as Justin clutched his stomach pulling his legs towards into a ball as he was sick, 'I'm calling an ambulance.' I grabbed his arm.
'How well do you think that's going to go down with everyone here?'
'I don't care, look at him!' Justin's face was twisted in pain.
'Can't someone drive him?' Andrew shook his head.
'Everyone's been drinking' I sighed and looked at Justin. My breath caught as I realised he had passed out and was no longer breathing.
'Okay call an ambulance' I said 'He's not breathing'
'WHAT?' he asked alarmed
'Just call them.' I ordered as I cleared the remaining sick in his mouth. I could hear Andrew on the phone behind me. I rolled Justin onto his back and started giving him emergency breaths. After a couple of breaths he coughed and begun breathing again. I let out a sigh of relief. 'He's breathing' I called to Andrew as I rolled Justin back onto his side. I could hear Andrew relaying the information. Andrew ended the call and came over.
'He's breathing?'
'Yep, when will the ambulance be here?'
'They said they were near, only a couple of minutes.'
'Go wait outside, so they know where to come' Andrew hesitated 'He'll be okay' I assured him and he turned to go out the door. John, who had been cleaning up in the bathroom, came in.
'How is he?'
'Unconscious' I answered 'We've called an ambulance'
'I heard.' We sat waiting for the ambulance to turn up. A few minutes later I heard sirens and a couple of minutes later Andrew appeared at the door with a female and male paramedic. The woman came over to Justin.
'Hello? Can you hear me? What's your name?' She asked Justin tapping him on the shoulder. She looked at me.
'Justin' I supplied
'Justin?' She asked 'My names Beth, I'm a paramedic. You're going to be fine Justin' Justin didn't reply. 'Okay let's get him on a stretcher' she called to the man. 'How old is he?' She asked as they strapped him to the stretcher.
'18'
'And how long has he been unconscious'
'About ten minutes' I answered following them as they carried him out of the room.
'And how much has he had to drink?' I hesitated remembering the stricter laws here than I was used to in England. 'He won't be in trouble' she assured me as though she were reading my thoughts.
'We don't know exactly, he hasn't been here that long but he's had a bad day or something.'
'Okay and has he showed any other symptoms other than vomiting?'
I nodded'Yeah, he said he had a headache, erm stomach cramps, like really bad ones, fever and chills, you know shivering?' By this time we were outside and they were loading him into the ambulance. The man went in with him. The woman nodded at me. 'Is he going to be okay?' I asked quietly. The woman smiled
'Its early days but we'll do our best, he's in good hands.' I looked her in the eyes.
'That's exactly what they said before my mom died.'
'I'm sorry' she replied. The man stuck his head out of the back.
'Ready to go?' she nodded and went around to the drivers side climbing in. He looked at me. 'You wanna come with your boyfriend?'
'He's not my boyfriend' I corrected
'Sorry.' He paused 'Well is someone coming or not?' I looked at John who was standing next to me.
'It shouldn't be me.' I said. He looked away from me to Andrew, who stood a metre or so away staring at the ground and then back at me. I called Andrew. 'Andrew?' he didn't move. 'ANDREW!' he looked up. I beckoned him over. 'Do you wanna go with him?'
Andrew's POV (I know there's an overlap but I wanted to do it this way)
Katie finished listing Justin's symptoms and I stopped at the edge of the road. 'Is he going to be okay?' I heard her ask. I didn't hear the reply, I didn't need to.
Katie's always been the responsible one. Maybe because her mom was a doctor or because unlike mine her mom realised her child wasn't perfect, but Katie had taken first aid courses since she was about 6. It was Katie who stopped my pulling the glass out of my knee after I fell over when I was 8 because it 'could be holding my insides in'. She always reassured me and told me things would be fine, and she was always right. That's why the look on her face when the paramedic replied scared me more than any words could. Her voice shook me out of my panic and I looked over. She beckoned me into the road.
'Do you wanna go with him?' she asked. I thought for a moment then nodded. She smiled at me. 'Okay we'll find some way meet you there.' I nodded again, seeming unable to talk. She reached up and kissed me on the cheek. 'He'll be okay' she said squeezing my shoulder. I climbed into the ambulance and the man shut the doors on the outside world and we drove off.
At the hospital, the same one we had visited only hours ago though it seemed like a lifetime, Justin got rushed off into the depths of the hospital. A nurse took me to the desk to check Justin in. I started giving her his details. We were interrupted by a man collapsing in the waiting room. She rushed over to him, leaving me at the desk, a couple of minutes later a porter came and showed me to a waiting room.
I don't know how long I was waiting before John and Katie were shown to the same room. I looked up as they came in.
'How is he?' John asked as they sat down. I shrugged.
'No one's told me anything' just then the nurse from earlier came in. 'Is he okay?' I asked.
'The doctors are still with him. I was wondering if you have his parent's number?'
'Why?'
'They are his next of kin.'
'What?'
'We need to contact his next of kin but the number in our records is unavailable' I shook my head.
'He won't want them called'
'Well he's not awake to tell us that and his form says to contact them'
'He hasn't lived with them for over a year'
'Then he hasn't been to hospital in that time'
'No he hasn't.' I snapped back. She sighed.
'I'm sorry but I have no choice. Don't you think his family would want to know he was here?'
'Is he dead?'
'No!' she said shocked
'Then no.'
'I'm sure his parents would want to be here'
'I don't really give fuck what they want' she changed tactics,
'Are you saying there's no one, if this was his last chance, Justin would want to see?' I started to shake my head.
'N-.' I stopped. 'His sister' I whispered.
'Does she live with his parents?' I nodded. 'Do you have their number?' I shook my head.
'No, I really don't'
'You don't know where to find them?'
'His grandma, she's in this hospital.'
'What's her name?' I couldn't remember. I only knew she was on the 3rd floor. The nurse accepted this and took me to reception to find the details and finish checking Justin in.
Kate's POV
Andrew followed the nurse out of the room and I sat in silence with John. Much like we had in the taxi ride over. John broke the silence. 'Kate?' I looked over.
'Yeah?'
'Can I ask you something?' I nodded. 'Why do you care so much?'
'What?'
'About Justin. I mean I know you're mates I just didn't think you were that close but you scooped sick out of his mouth and gave him mouth to mouth-'
'Mouth to nose actually since he'd been sick' I corrected quite inappropriately.
'Yeah and you just seem really concerned for him.'
'I've done it before for people. I'll probably do it again. I've done so many first aid courses you kind of do it by instinct.'
'So that's all it is, instinct?' he asked unconvinced. 'That's why you're so concerned, why you were so desperate for him to be okay?'
'Truthfully?' I asked. He nodded and I sighed. 'I just don't know if Andrew could stand to loose yet another person he cares about.'
'Another?'
'Yeah his Dad, his Mom and Justin'
'His mom?' I nodded.
'I don't care how many times he says he hates her, I know he cares.' John looked at me unconvinced. 'Trust me. When you've know someone for as long as I've known Andrew you can tell these things.'
'You haven't seen him for the last 5 years.'
'You'd have thought that would matter wouldn't you? Its like although we change a lot in out teens it's only superficial and who we really are was laid long ago when we were building the foundations of our personality.' John looked at me stunned
'That's a bit, erm deep, isn't it?' he asked, I laughed. He looked straight at me. 'Did you and Andrew ever date?' I was shocked at the sudden topic change.
'Where'd that come from?'
'Just what I've seen. There seems to be something there some sort of feelings.' We were silent for a bit.
'Yeah, we did, for about 4 months before I moved.'
'Four months?'
'I know, it's a long time for eleven year olds isn't it?' he nodded. 'I was really upset by the divorce and Andrew was there for me through out it. We decided we were too young for a long distance relationship. Which we were, much too young.' I was more thinking aloud by now and John interrupted my thoughts.
'So there's no feelings there now?' I shook my head not trusting myself to speak. John raised one eyebrow at me. I took a breath.
'Okay I still like him. You can't tell him though' I pleaded
'Is that why you freaked out about him and Justin?'
'No! It really isn't.' I insisted 'I already knew he was seeing someone, I could tell. I didn't realise it was Justin though. Weird that really isn't it? Maybe I just didn't expect to see it, maybe I did see it but blocked it out because accepting it was there would be admitting I had no chance-?' Andrew interrupted me by walking through the door.
'They've rung them. They're on their way.' I guess he was talking about Justin's parents. 'I hate them so much' he mumbled. Yep definitely Justin's parents. A nurse came in a few minutes after Andrew sat down.
'Is he okay?' asked John. The nurse nodded.
'He should be fine. He has a fairly bad case of food poisoning, combined with the fairly significant amount of alcohol he has consumed it caused him to be very ill. He'll have to stay in for a few days but he should make a full recovery.' Andrew let out a big sigh of relief and leaned his head back against the wall. I could see the glimmer of tears in his eyes. 'You can go see him now, he's awake.' Andrew sat up sharply.
'Really?' the nurse nodded.
'Go see him' John said, 'We'll come up later.' Andrew nodded and wiped his eyes a weak but genuine smile crossing his face.
Justin's POV
I was lying in the hard hospital bed when I saw Andrews face pear around the cubicle curtains. I smiled at him, inviting him in. He stepped inside and sat down.
'How you feeling?' He asked
'Sick' I admitted. He laughed
'I'm not surprised' his face then became serious. 'I was really worried about you. I thought you were going die.' I smiled and made the oldest joke ever,
'You won't get rid of me that easily.' Although I knew it wasn't true. Andrew could get rid of me any time he wanted. He didn't laugh or even smile he just looked at me and I realised that for the first time Andrew was looking at me the same way I looked at him every single day, as if he was the most important person in my life and I couldn't live without him, in my case it's true.
A/N So there you go its chapter 12. I really will try to update faster this time. Please review it give me motivation! Also how much longer do you think it should go on for? Its much longer than planned, when do you think I should end it? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks xxx