Ash and the Spellingg Bee

Im fine.

I was relaxing in my room watching whatever boring show was on, when Shawn limped in.
"You good?"
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Your limpin'."
"And?"
"You make me worried Shawn..... oh my god is this what it feels like when I make people worried?"
"I do want to ask you about your scars."
"Will you believe growth spurts?"
"No I will not."
"Shit."
"Ash what happened when you left."
"Life. The worlds a shit place with shittier people."
"Bunny...."
"I'm not going into details about what happened. It was ages ago. Topic dropped."
Before he could say anymore Gus walked in with a confused look.
"What the hell happened?"
"Long story." We both told

Shawn was limping down the hall way with a brace over his knee and I had one on my left wrist, since they wanted to make sure I didn't hurt it more for the day or two it's needed. I quickly noticed that Shawn was unwrapping a bandage from his wrist and hand.
"You call your dad?" Gus questioned.
"Should you really unwrap your bandages?" I added
"I'm fine. They're releasing me and Bunny." He told
"Did you call him?" He asked again and looked towards me to signal I was apart of it.
"I actually haven't talked to my father in awhile. So no."
"Shawn?" He asked as Shawn looked through a door.
"Gus, I'm not going to talk to my dad."
"He'd want to know you're okay. Both of your dads."
"Trust me Gus. My father does not care about my well being." I quickly told as Shawn threw the bandage away.
"All he cares about are results, just like those possessed spelling bee parents." He told before looking in another door.
"Ok but I'm having Marcus drop my car off. I'm not letting you get back on that bike in this state." I told as he gave a nod
"You know what's wrong with this? All of this." He asked as he grimaced from the pain.
"Shawn, you're delirious. You're upset. You lost control of your bike last night." Gus told making us both stop to look towards him.
"No he didn't."
"Ash, that's clearly what happened."
"Gus, I didn't lose control of anything. Someone tried to kill us, or send a very serious message." He told before we continued and looked for the room he wanted.

We were in Brendan Vu's room with him in the hospital bed as his mother stood beside the bed and his father sat in a chair. The room was filled with balloons, cards and flowers.
"Oh that reminds me. Got you a bear." I told handing it making him smile.
"Thank you." He quietly told.
"It honestly was no trouble."
"Brendan appreciates you checking on him." His mother told
"Well, we were in the neighborhood, and Gus here is a huge fan. He almost won the spelling bee himself."
"I took some bad advice." Gus stated.
"And our friend Ash is going to be a guest host in the last day."
"Ashlyn Monroe. But you can call me Ash."
"Is this some publicity stunt?" The father asked
"Oh no. I was hurt last night and I heard what happened with my friends. So we came and visit. Because you are very strong for going through what you did." I told making him smile.
"Well, Brendan's going home tomorrow. He's fine. He's more upset about missing the spelling bee." His mother told.
"Well, maybe they'll decide to redo the whole thing." Shawn stated making them confused.
"Why would they do that?" Brendan asked
"Because there might be something that makes them rethink everything." I told
'Oh boy.'

We were walking through the hallway since I was now Shawns ride for everything while his knee was hurt and they continued to talk about the case.
"Did you see the inhaler?" He asked
"Yeah. It's an inhaler."
"Same one as that little Czech kid?" Gus questioned.
"Get me a seating chart. I'll bet you I know who Brendan was sitting next to on day one." He told
"Already checked it out." Gus told making me give him a high five.
"Awesome job."
"Nice." Shawn added.
"Shawn, something's going on with that Czech kid." Gus told
"Talk to me."
"The doctor on his inhaler, Dr. Zavin in Ventura?"
"Yeah?"
"What about it Gus?" I asked
"He doesn't exist. I do training on that route. The last doctor in the book is Youngerman. I double-checked it today."
"You're saying that inhaler..."
"Is a fake."
"Ok this is where your going to say...."
"Your working the case with us Bunny." He told before laughing and walking away making me rush after him.
"Where are you two going?"
"I... am going to build a doghouse. And Bunny is my ride!" He told as he limped down the hallway.
"Yeah that's if I don't get killed from Marcus." I added.
"You'll be fine." He told before taking my hand into his.