Chapter twenty-two

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Aayda

First things first I feel like I got hit by a whole ass bus filled with a bunch of Dwayne The Rock, Johnson's. Second thing though the man holding my hand is hot as fuck.

Xander might look like he hasn't slept in 4 years but he is still very attractive. "Why are you looking at me like you just got surprised with a puppy?" For some odd reason those are the first words out of my mouth.

He lets out a laugh "I'm glad to see everything is back to normal." As he said it he looked at me with something in his eye... care. "I need to let the nurses know your awake and call Lilla, Max, and you dad. I'll be right back."

He gets up and smiles at me before letting go of my hand and waking out of the room. Then it hits me a couple minutes after he walks out that there are bags on the floor. Are those Xander's bag? Also Xander calling my dad?

As I'm thinking about it Xander walks back in and a nurse follows him in.

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After the nurse ran what felt like 100 tests she has finally left. While she was doing tests Xander was running around the room gathering stuff and putting it in the bags, I think he's been staying here. I don't know I'm not assuming... but it sure looks like it.

When the nurse left my dad and Lilla ran into the room. Both of them practically tackled me while I was still in bed. "Hi guys, where's Max?" My dad laughed and I heard Lilla say something but she was in a weird stop and her head was kinda in my armpit. "Please let me breathe, I need to stand up and walk around." My dad let go and Lilla crawled off of me. 

As I stood up I was a little wobbly and noticed that the bags and Xander was gone, probably while I was being tackled and suffocated. Im kind of sad that he left. I kinda deserve it though I did it to him.

Shortly im walking around the room and it comes to mind that Max still isn't here. "Umm so did Max like forget about me or is he is not coming?" 

Dad just shrugs his shoulders "I just thought it was funny that it was one of your first questions, I have been picking up and dropping Lilla off at school everyday and then coming to see you then going to work, haven't seen him a lot. Only on the weekends when we all come up here." 

I look at Lilla, when I can't drive her she has Max secretly pick her up without Corey knowing or she gets the balls to drive herself and with me in the hospital she probably doesn't trust herself so I would think it was Max. "He got a new job and was out of town, as soon as I knew I called and told him and he was on his way back. Im sorry he's not here but he should be in a few hours."

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Xander

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Xander

I ordered a car when I went to go get the nurse. I wanted to go  home, put my clothes in the wash, shower really quick,and then go back up to the hospital. Give her and her family some time to themselves and then go back and check on her. Remember the word wanted, well that didn't happen. 

I got home and as soon as I walk in the door I see about 300 people in my house. Walking around, talking on the phone, files in hand. By some miracle I spot Dante,  he looks tired.  I walk up to him and when he sees me he looks surprised. "Is she okay?" he has a genuine caring look on his face, over the last couple weeks he the only person I talked to and after 9 days of Aayda being in a coma I started telling Dante about everything that was going on with us and everything that happened and even though she hasn't been awake he's gotten to know and care about her. 

"Yeah she woke up, thought I would give her and her family some time before I went back up their." He nods his head "What's going on here?" and as soon as I get that out I hear my name being yelled and of course it's my father.

As I turn around all I hear from Dante is "I didn't tell them anything, they are pissed that they haven't been able to find you. Good luck." 

I needed the luck. I have been working straight for a couple hours, I gave Lucas orders to tell the hospital to tell me right before they gave Aayda her discharge papers. I just wanted to know if she was getting them tonight. 

But I haven't got anything from Lucas or the hospital so it's back to work for me. Someone hacked into our lower level system that just has all our warehouse and safehouse locations. And as the child that everyone is mad at for being gone for 3 weeks I get the crappy job of going in and changing all the locations to different ones before they open the file and see all the real locations. All of my family except for mom and Stasia went to go find them, they got a location on them about twenty minutes after I got home and it was 13 hours away so im not gonna see then for a little bit, but I have school and mom has to watch Stasia so we got stuck here.

After about an hour more I have all the locations done and I go and check on my mom and Stasia. Mom is asleep and Stasia is just laying there looking around, once she sees me though she is up and bolting to me. She hasn't seen me since I got home so this is expected.

I made an effort to not see her until now because I was guessing I was going to get punished for being gone and didn't want her to think I didn't want to spend time with her because I couldn't. She runs into my arms and I pick her up and spin her around, then I remember al the stuff I need to do, but everything is better with a little helper. "Hey Stas, you wanna help Lex out?"

"Yayyy" is all I have to hear before I know she is on board.

I go and get her a snack and then set her on the bathroom counter, I take a quick shower while she eats and then when shes messy when I get out I can give her a quick bath. It takes a little longer than expected because she wanted bubbles and quite frankly I can't say no to her, I mean she looks just like me up just a little cuter, no one can say no to that.

I take Stasia out of the bath and while im getting her dressed she says something to me "Can we go see your friend Lexy? I miss her." Is she talking about Aayda? I mean that is the only girl hat I have ever brought around her. I think she's talking about Aayda. 

"Sure Stas, I just have to put my laundry in the washer so if you help me we can get that done really fast and go visit her." She smiles and we go and put my laundry in the washer and head out. 

Once I put Stasia in the Jeep I had to kinda explain to her that Aayda was at the doctors because she had a boo boo and she said we had to get her stuff to feel better and again I can't say no. So now we are in the Walgreens Candy isle and im pretty sure we have one of everything, next Stasia made me go and get her a stuffed animal, and she insisted on getting her four balloons. 

Now we are sitting in the McDonalds drive through and we got everyone burgers and fries and Stasia says something I can't help but laugh at. "Lexy did you know that your friend thinks my bed is comfier than yours?"

"Where did you get that idea?" she puts one finger on her chin like she is thinking and then shrugs her shoulders.

"I read her mind, it's a girl thing." I just laugh at her and grab all the food and drive to the hospital. 

Once we get to the hospital I have Stasia pick out only a few bags of candy and I put those in the bag with the stuffed animal and tie the balloons to it before getting Stasia and walking up. Stasia insists on walking (wadling) all the way there. 

When I open the door all I see is the back of a man, and he's hugging Aayda.


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Hey babes!! sorry it has been a minute but I just got my laptop fixed and started school!! I will definitely going to be writing more, sorry for the delay on updates!!

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Bye babes and see you in the next chapter!! 

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