Why Try {unedited}

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Someone violently shakes me awake.

I open my eyes to see three people looking down at me with so much fear in their eyes.

The rain was still falling down hard so lying down on the road felt like a waterfall was cascading down on my face. My right eye stung as I tried to open it.

Cameron puts a hand behind me and pushes me into a sitting position.

"My head hurts like a fucker," I hissed.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so fucking sorry. I'm so sorry Brooklyn!" Cameron panicked.

"Just shut up, I'm okay," I told him. (I'm not okay)

Cody, who was kneeling on my left took my face in his hands and inspected me as he moved my face in different angles.

"You got a bump on the back of your head and a black eye but that's all," he tells me.

Jeremiah still looks at me with concern. "Are you okay?"

I glare at him. "No."

Cameron glares at him too and stands up. "The rain isn't that hard anymore so I suggest lets go. J, you're going to drive us to the nearest motel in your car because our van broke," Cameron orders him as he walks towards Tawni and Tommy sitting by the bags.

Cody made a "tsk" sound and slid an arm under my legs and one behind me. He pulled me up as he stood.

I was now being carried in his arms. "Do you see how scary Cameron is?" He asks Jeremiah.

Jeremiah licks his bleeding lip and shrugs. "He is, but I'm guessing he's just ultra mean because I somehow have some bad history to him."

Cody smirks. "Don't mess with the sister," he tells him as we (well he) walked away from him.

He sat me down beside Tawni and Tommy.

Tommy still tried to reach for me but Tawni held him tight. "Your mom looks awful," she told him.

Tommy's cries at least subsided when Tawni gives him his milk bottle.

The milk bottle I tried to reach for inside the baby bag before Jeremiah had hit our van and made me hit my head for the first time for today and had led to unfortunate circumstances.

Cody unzips one of his bags and takes out a jersey jacket similar to Jeremiah's but this time it wasn't for football but for soccer.

He draped it around me and also took a pair of sweatpants from his bag. "I bet you didn't bring anything for a cold weather, huh?" He teases me as he slid the sweatpants up my legs, my wet cutoffs still inside.

I nodded. "I was really expecting a sunny day," I told him truthfully.

He took of his wet shirt and pulled on a new dry tee.

I wore my slippers while he talked to Cameron quickly.

"Come on, we got ourselves a new driver," he tells me, referring to Jem who was starting his car. Cody carried me again and brought me to Jeremiah's car. Cameron was holding an umbrella above us.

I sat on the front seat because they all decided that I needed the most space since I was practically like a rag doll.

We didn't take all our bags from the van because the trunk of Jeremiah's car could only take so much.

We locked the van with some of our bags still inside and decided to have the van towed tomorrow.

Cam, Cody, Tawni and Tom sat in the backseat.

Jeremiah finally started driving.

Tommy started to cry again so I twisted around the front seat to take him from Tawni.

Tommy giggled when I placed him on my lap. I turned him around to face me as I held both his hands and kissed his face. "Miss me?" I told him in a "mommy-loves-baby" voice. Tommy giggles more.

"Thank goodness, I'm through with babysitting for today," Tawni says.

I kissed Tommy more and talked to him in a low voice where I was the only one he could hear.

"I love you baby boy," I told him.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see Jeremiah watching us.

Cameron coughs from the backseat. "Eyes on the road, pal."

I smiled and kissed Tommy more.

He pulled on my hands, which were inside the sleeves of Cody's jacket.

Very slowly, I see Tom turning his head away from me as he watches the guy beside him driving.

I straightened my back from the slouch I was on and looked at Tommy. He was still watching Jeremiah, like a scientist watching an unknown specie.

Jeremiah finally looks away from the road and looks back at Tommy.

He gives Tommy a flash of dimpled smile before turning back into the road.

My chest ached. Literally.
I had to clench my chest.

"What's wrong?" Cameron asks me as he leans front from the middle of the backseat.

"She's having chest pains," Cody tells him.

"Yeah, I know. Why?" Cameron asks him.

"Don't mind it, she has it whenever she feels extreme emotion," Tawni laughs.

I rolled my eyes at them.

"Then don't feel extreme emotion," Cameron scolds me as he sits back down.

Cameron feels more responsible with my health at the moment considering that he had given me a bump behind my head and a black eye.

With that said and done, everybody settles into their seats again, just the faint sound of rain the source of sound.

Tommy fell asleep on my lap, and so I was caressing his hair when Jeremiah looked at me.

I stare back at him.

He smiles.

What the hell am I supposed to do with this asshole?