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I'll do my best to update as much as I can. I'm not sure when, since I've started on my new job (YAY!) and with school so getting plenty of rest is important on my brain so I can entertain as much as I can for y'all. Plus, y'all know I love writing anyway, hehe. :)
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It was two days later since Cosmo and Seth had talked to each other. There was so much more to discuss but they would cross that bridge before they got to it. For now, Seth continued to see her, always checking on her, making sure she was ok.
It was the very next day in the afternoon and Cosmo looked up to see that it was her best friend Skylar coming in this time, right after Seth left 10 minutes ago. For lunch, she had a cup of apple juice and some crackers, groaning at the forecast of the weather report on the TV as it would rain later tonight.
"Sick of juice already huh?" Skylar chuckled a little.
"Anymore cups of these and I might as well be pissing out an apple tree." Cosmo groaned as Skylar giggled, pulling up a chair next to her best friend.
"How are you feeling.." Skylar asked.
"Well, the doctor said that I'll be out of here in three weeks. I think I've pretty much failed all my classes though for school." She sighed.
"Don't worry. I know Roman and Seth will talk to your teachers and give you more time to make everything up." She assured her green haired friend.
"Well, they shouldn't really hold their breath..but I do appreciate it. Hopefully, they will give me more time, especially since its not a sick day or anything. I practically got hit by a car." She said half jokingly.
It was quiet for a few minutes, until Skylar looked at her again.
"...Why didn't you tell me? What you were going through..why didn't you just reach out to me?" She whispered, trying not to cry. Skylar couldn't help but blame herself for Cosmo's condition. She was her best friend, family to her; She wished she could have paid more attention to Cosmo's habits and her moods more closely.
Cosmo sighed. "I don't think it really matters anymore, Sky. What matters is that I'm finally going to get the help I need. Isn't that's what's important?" She really didn't want to discuss this but she knew she couldn't avoid this problem forever.
"It is. But at this moment, its about you not telling me what was going on. You never told me that you-"
"Go on, say it." Cosmo said bitterly. "I'm a junkie. I know I am.."
"No you are not. You're just sick, that's all. I just want to know why you didn't trust me to tell me."
"Skylar..you don't need me anymore." Cosmo closed her eyes, whispering.
Before Skylar could react, Cosmo held up her other hand that was still mobile. "I know we use to hang out all the time and we would do the wildest and craziest shit together, but you've grown up. You have a family now and you're a hard working mother to my beautiful goddaughter. I don't want to fuck up your family. I'm the worst influence ever. I'm surprised that you even want me to take care of Karissa more than anything. I'm so fucked up, Sky. I couldn't stop myself taking drugs. Tonight, I don't remember exactly what happened but I know that I wasn't drunk. I was hit by a car because of my bad karma, to which I deserved. I'm a shitty friend."
"No, you are not!" Skylar stopped her, squeezing her hand. "Listen to me, you crazy woman; You are my best friend. You are my family, don't you get that? I've been wanting to spend time with you all the time, but I guess I was so caught up with myself, I should have seen more of the signs as to what was wrong. You are not a bad influence to me. I'm a grown ass woman and so are you and if I want to hang out with my sister, than I will. Not only that, most of all; Karissa loves the hell out of you. She can't stop talking about you. Roman and I couldn't get her to stop crying when she heard that you were in an accident."
"Wait..she saw it?" Cosmo's eyes widened.
"Well..it was on the breaking news and we were all watching a movie when we saw the news. I've been rushing out the house to come and find you, to find whoever did this, that they would be fucking burned to the ground and they will. The police are already investigating everything but the point is, is that I love you, Cosmo Valencia. You are my family. Roman loves you. You have people who really do love you. You are not a fuck up, and you are not a screw up. I'm really sorry I've been such a crappy friend to you."
"You haven't." Cosmo shook her head slowly. "You have been the best sister I've ever had. The best bad influence I've ever had in my whole life."
Skylar went over to slowly hug her and they shared tears. "I would have gone nuts if you left me. I probably would have to drag you out from heaven and choke you with the halo to make you come back to me."
"And the psycho bitch is back." Cosmo joked as Skylar flipped her the bird.
"Well I do like girls and I don't think the guys won't mind, but Roman won't like sharing." Cosmo laughed softly as Skylar backed away, groaning at her best friend's perv manner.
"God, you are such a gross hobbit."
"Love you too, pudding cup." She giggled.
They heard the door open and there was Roman, with Karissa as she smiled at her Auntie Cosmo.
"Auntie Cosmo!" She went over to her, trying to climb on the bed, to which Cosmo gritted her teeth in slight as Karissa was a little rough, getting on the bed, hitting her leg.
"Careful, princess." Roman told her gently. "Auntie Cosmo needs her rest. You can't jump around and be so rough with her like that."
"Oops." She said in her tiny voice. "I'm sorry, Auntie Cosmo. I've just missed you so much."
"I've missed you too, little flower." She smiled warmly.
Karissa went over to lay on her chest as Cosmo used her other hand to stroke her soft jet black curly hair. "I don't want you to leave me, Auntie Cosmo. Please don't leave me. Grandma said that if I prayed, you would stay. I prayed really hard for you, Auntie Cosmo."
Cosmo had tears running down her eyes. "I will never leave you, princess. No way in the world I would leave a little sugar cube like you behind."
"Do you think when you get better..we'll bake cupcakes again, like we use to? Because mommy and daddy keep burning them up."
"Hey!" Roman and Skylar said in unison, making all of them laugh.
"Well of course sweetheart. I would love to bake cupcakes with you again?"
"Good. Because I've asked Uncle Sethie if he would help and he said yes. You two make the best cupcakes in the world. Two is better than one right?"
Cosmo felt awkward when she brought up Seth's name, and Skylar and Roman felt it too. However, they didn't want to believe something was wrong. But with Cosmo, she knew her and Seth had a long way to go to repair the friendship they once had.
"Well..sweetheart. Maybe it's best you only make the cupcakes with Seth."
"I can't, Auntie Cosmo." She sat up slowly, looking at her with her big gray eyes, just like her father. "It's fun when you two bake them with me. Won't you two help me together? Pretty please?"
"Ok, Karissa, let's let Auntie Cosmo rest for today, alright babygirl?" Roman picked her up gently as she pouted.
Cosmo really hated to disappoint the little girl. Just because her and Seth were having problems for the moment and issues that needed to be resolved, doesn't mean she had to punish the sweet little girl.
"I'll tell you what sweetheart: Once I get all better and get plenty of rest, We'll hit the market and get all the fixings you need so we can bake those cupcakes."
"Halloween is coming up too! I wanna show you my costume! And daddy is going to take me trick or treating too!" Karissa said excitedly, clapping.
Cosmo smiled warmly. "I can't wait to see it on you."
"Bye bye, Auntie Cosmo. I love you." Karissa tried to get down from Roman's arms and gave her Aunt a wet kiss on her cheek, standing on her tip toes in her glitter Minnie Mouse converse.
"I love you too, sugar cube." She playfully stuck her tongue out. Roman went over and pecked her on the forehead in a loving and get well soon manner.
"We miss you, Cosmo." He told her.
"Take care of my girl, big man." She smiled. Roman nodded in understanding.
"Hey Roman?"
Roman turned around to look at him.
She swallowed her, despite how uncomfortable the neck brace was. "How's Seth?"
He sighed heavily. "He's doing ok. But right now, you should probably get some more rest."
She shrugged as she slowly laid back down, closing her eyes. She heard the door open again and as she thought it was maybe one of her friends or her dad, there were two police officers.
"Hello, Ms. Valencia. My name is Officer Kimberly and this is my partner and detective, Officer Thomas."
"Um hello..why are you here?"
"Well, we have a couple questions for you; pertaining to the accident that night. You were not the only one that's hurt. But we're glad to know that you are feeling well. We don't want you to feel bombarded or-"
"No-No it's fine." Cosmo sat up a little bit. "I'm not feeling so bad like I was that night. It still hurts like hell and I still need rest, but all in all, it's going ok."
Officer Thomas pulled out a chair, sitting in front of Cosmo. "Do you mind telling us what happened? Or what you remember?"
Cosmo blinked a few times as she tried to remember exactly what happened that night.
"I'll tell you what I know.." She swallowed carefully, nervous for some reason.
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Seth was outside the waiting room, holding Karissa in his lap.
"Are you ok, Uncle Sethie?" She asked, playing with his fingers.
He smiled, kissing the top of her head. "Of course, sweetheart? Do you want me to get you some more snacks."
She shook her head no. "I wanna see my Auntie Cosmo but mommy said she needs to rest."
"Yes she does. But don't worry, she'll get better soon." He assured her, wishing he could erase what happened to her.
"I was really sad about her, Uncle Sethie. I love her. She even helps me with my reading homework. She's super smart."
"She really is." He agreed with her. "But don't worry. She is a strong woman and you know what? This will all be over soon, ok? But don't you let this hang over your head, do you understand me young lady? I don't want to see anymore tears from you."
Karissa nodded. "Yes, Uncle Sethie. I understand."
They decided to make silly faces at each other until she had another question to ask Seth.
"Why are those men here?" She asked innocently, not knowing the whole story of the situation. "I saw them in blue clothes. Mommy said they are the men to help stop evil and help Auntie Cosmo."
"Yes they are." He nodded to her. "But you shouldn't worry about that honey."
"But I wanna know, Uncle Sethie." She pleaded. "Why did they here?"
"Because of me. I stole some cookies from Cookie Monster." They both heard Dean's voice as he scooped her up, laughing and squealing as he tickled her sides.
"Bad man, Uncle Dean. Give the cookies back to him!" She stuck her tongue out.
"Nope." He slightly grinned. "I stole them for you."
And then Renee Young pulled out a bag of Oreo cookies for her.
"Awesome! Forget him, cookies are mine!" She started eating the Oreo cookies, making a mess on her shirt with the crumbs.
"Karissa, don't get your shirt all dirty, sweetie." Skylar came in from outside, along with Roman.
"I love Cookies!" She giggled happily.
It was then that everyone saw the two police officers come out as they approached the group.
"Umm..say sweetheart, why don't we go outside to find some nice flowers to play with. It's a pretty day, isn't it?" Renee Young suggested, knowing the police had to talk with all of them
"Yeah it is. Let's go to the park!" She smiled.
"Sure. There's the park around the corner, we'll be right back." Renee Young gave Karissa a piggyback ride as she nodded to the group, mostly Dean, to make sure he would fill her in on what happened. They were all surprised that the accident was under investigation. It was only an accident..right?
"Officers..what's going on?" Seth stood up, as Skylar, Roman and Dean and AJ and Punk all gathered around.
"Well..we questioned Ms. Valencia on what happened. After some thorough investigation, we believe that this accident was planned..and another thing too.." They both swallowed carefully.
"What..what are you saying?" Seth furrowed his brows, everyone was confused, trying to put it all together.
"From Ms. Valencia's statement..she wasn't drunk or high. In fact, she said she only had one drink and then she felt fuzzy. So in other words, we believe someone not only drugged her..but tried to kill her as well."
"What?" Everyone said loudly
Seth froze in shock. Who could have tried to hurt her?" he thought to himself.
Whoever it was, he knew for sure, would be in for hell to pay.