Chapter 5- the blame game
(Warning a lot of crying is involved in this chapter)
Katie's P.O.V
I was afraid to go near Lexi's hospital bed. I grabbed Logan's hand and he patted it. He then sat down on the chair Kendall had been sitting in and he placed me on his lap. He then explained to me what the different machines were. Lexi has always been a big sister to me. Whenever the guys were out on the rink during their practices Lexi would sit with me and play with my Barbie dolls. She always made me laugh when she chased the boys after they tried to pull pranks on her. I remember one time she asked me to help her with a prank. She made a plan that she would have the guy's baby sit her new Boston terrier puppy she had just gotten. My role in her prank was to trick the guys into think they lost her puppy which would be hilarious. So the plan went like this. Lexi came over early on Saturday morning and asked Kendall if he could watch her puppy because her mom was going to be cleaning all the rugs and didn't want the puppy to get in the way. He agreed and brought the puppy into his room. James, Carlos and Logan came over to see if Kendall wanted to go to the ice rink down the street Kendall agreed (idiot) and he left the puppy in his room with the door shut. As soon they all left Lexi and I went to Kendall's room and took the puppy and left his door open and then I left the back screen door open. When he and the guys got home he saw that the back door was opened and went upstairs to his room and saw the door was opened. "Aw man Lexi's going to kill me ", he said to James. "Why what happened ", James asked? " Lexi asked me to watch her dog and I lost it I could have sworn that I left my door closed said Kendall. I was listening through a crack in my door. I started to giggle but Lexi put her hand over my mouth so the guys could hear me. Then the four boys ran outside calling the puppies name and skated down the street looking all over for the dog. Lexi ran back to her house which was two blocks from mine and was across the street from Carlos's house. She sat on her porch with her communicator which was a set and she gave me the other one. We kept in contact and soon she told me that the guys were coming to her house. Lexi left the wacky talky so I was able to hear everything they said. Kendall took a deep breath. "Lex I lost you dog he said sadly. "You did what ", she yelled! " I left only for an hour and when I came back she was gone ", he explained. Then Lexi and I shouted GOTCHA! She and I won the prank war that year. That was the best day of my life. But today I wasn't as happy as I was that day. Now I was sad because my friend was fighting for her life in a coma. Logan started to sob again shaking his head. "I should have been there to help her. How am I suppose to become a doctor when I can't even save my friend ", he said. Before I could respond there was a knock at the door and Camille and Jo entered. Both girls looked tired and had mascara streaks down their faces. Logan had put me down on the chair and ran to Camille and they both hugged and started to sob together as Jo walked over to the nightstand and put a beautiful case that had lilies in it. Beside pink roses Lexi really loved lilies. Jo then put me on her lap and started to cry. Lexi would hate this I thought. She was a very happy person and if she saw everyone crying she would tell a silly joke to lighten the mood. But unfortunately she wasn't awake. Jo told me Stephanie was in the lobby comforting Carlos who was crying when they showed up. When Logan stopped crying he told them about James and how he was having a hard time with everything that happened. He even told them how he had told off Tasha right before Lexi went into her coma. I felt sorry for James because he tried to win Lexi back and when he had finally succeeded she passed out. I knew he was blaming himself for all of this when truth of the matter was it really wasn't his fault. I had a bad feeling he was going to runaway back to Minnesota but I told myself that he would never leave us like that. He wouldn't leave knowing that someone he cared about needed him. Suddenly he was in the door way. He looked awful .his hair was a mess and his eyes were red and his face was pink. He then asked us to leave so he could sit with Lexi. As I walked out of the room I was impressed that he came because we all thought it would be a week before he was able to visit her.