Taylor's POV;
"Can I leave now?", I said to the nurse wrapping a new, clean bandage around my head. Her fingers lightly brushed the deep scar on my head. I cringed and held it in my hands.
"That means no. But maybe in two days if the stitches still aren't infected.", she patted the top of my head before walking out. I looked outside, 4AM and the California sun was just beginning to rise. Purples and oranges and pinks mixed with the ocean blue and it looked really nice. I wished I could be at the beach right now, I could ride my skateboard there and chill or go up to the park across from it and play a pickup game of basketball.
"I just want to leave the place.", I mumbled beneath my breath.
I watched the nurse push her cart down the hallway and saw a family hugging their older daughter wearing a hospital gown. I think she had a heart attack or something, but at least she had people wanting to visit her. No one had come to see me.
Standing up, I decided I was gonna go for a walk to clear my mind. My body was leaned up against the wall as I saw a familiar face. It was the girl I walked to Room 144!
Should I say something?
What the hell.
"Hey!", I said catching up to her. For a minute she looked really confused, but once she saw the bandage wrapped around my head she grinned and waved.
"Hey, what are you doin over here?"
"Just takin' a walk. I'm really bored. Uhhh, wanna come with?", I said hoping she'd agree. I was going to go insane if I didn't talk to another human that wasn't a nurse.
After debating it for a while and a lot of her biting her lip she nodded and fumbled with her hands.
"Yeah, sure!"
"I don't think there's anything interesting to see walking around a hospital, though.", she added in.
I raised my eyebrows in shock.
"Are you kidding!? I mean, yeah, I get this place is filled with a lot of sickness and death. But a lot of beautiful things happen here too, I'll show ya.", Without thinking about it, I took her hand in mine and pulled her down the hallway.
Chloe's POV;
I don't know what had come over me, but I wanted to see what this good thought was so great about hospitals. Next thing I know, we're holding hands and charging down an unfamiliar hallway. My hair flying in my face and feet tripping over each other, we finally came to a stop and I looked back at him.
We both had the biggest smiles on our faces.
He pressed his hands against the cold glass and so did I.
"I can't believe I never recognized this.", I said making faces at the newborn babies wiggling their fingers and their toes. Some were smiling wide at the new world they had just been brought into, and others still had their tiny eyes closed wrapped up in pink and blue fuzzy blankets.
"I've always loved the maternity ward. It reminds me that once we were all happy and excited to be in this world.", he said.
He really had a way with words.
"Wow....that's so true.", I said sticking my tongue out at the baby boy in front of me. His name was Chase.
At this point Taylor was breathing on the glass and drawing pictures on top of it so I wanted to see what else was so great about the hospital life.
"Anything else you wanna show me to prove me wrong?", I said smiling and crossing my arms.
"Actually....", I knew it, I laughed to myself. "Yes!", he said smirking.
"Oh...um okay.", I said surprised. I followed Taylor back towards the Young Adult wing where my brother was along with Taylor, Jack, Cameron, Nash, the other Jack, and Hayes. I couldn't help but wonder what Jack was doing right now. Last night was really something..
"Are you listening?", he said interrupting my thoughts. I found myself biting my lip raw and nodded.
"Okay well we're in the Cancer wing for the little kids. I know it seems rough, but not all parts are bad.", he said before opening the door to where a bunch of kids 4,5, and 6 were watching movies, playing with toys, and dressing up were. I couldn't help but grin.
"They're so...happy.", I said.
"And the best part?", Taylor said before slowly putting an arm around my shoulder. His fingers were long and skinny.
"All of the kids in this room are cured.", he whispered before I looked up at into his eyes and couldn't help but hug him tightly.
"That's...that's amazing!", tears began to stream down my face and I wiped them away before he could see. I looked at the clock and realized Shawn and Alyssa were probably having a fit. He was leaving tomorrow and we wanted to pack his things.
Taylor walked me back to Room 144 when I grabbed his arm before he could go,
"When do you leave this place?", I asked.
He stopped for a minute.
"It depends...but hopefully 2 days."
We said our goodbyes before I walked into my room.
No way.
Jack G's POV;
Last night with Chloe was making me sweat and shake now. God I needed to punch something.
"What if I never see her again? What if this is just a stupid thing?", I ran my fingers through my dark hair.
"I can't care about people like this Cam I can't!", I said yelling at him as he scrolled through this stupid video app he downloaded called, Vine.
He had been posting videos of himself telling stupid jokes and taking a bandage away from the Nurse's cart everytime she came in to check up on us. It was actually really funny and the only thing that brought my mind away from...her.
"Go see her then! If it's really bothering you see and say goodbye."
"Fuck it FINE I WILL!", I screamed and slammed the door open barging into the room.
Alyssa was walking out with the kids I met in the cafeteria last night- another Jack, Nash, and Hayes. And her brother left with them. I decided Chloe must've been in there by herself or something.
Until I heard that laugh. That familiar laugh that made my stomach swirl and my ears ring as we sat near the roof until the early morning. I turned- Chloe and...some other guy. She was holding onto his arm and he had a goofy looking bandage around his head, but I was already in the room waiting. I shut the door all the way and clenched my fists.
"Control yourself Jack.", I whispered to myself.
I can't let these dark thoughts escape from me again.
