The Boy Girl Project

9~ Hospital

I stood there, numb. Numb as much as a person can be. I didn't hear my teammates, I didn't hear Mrs. Day, I didn't hear anyone except the same voice over and over.

Shawn. Is. In. The. Hospital.

Mrs. Day gently led me over to a chair and she gave me water and some tissues. I recomposed myself and then walked out to the team, some were still shocked, others were happily talking, and one girl was mean mugging me. I ignored her and walked over to Jennifer.

"Hey, you okay?" I shrugged, "I feel numb." I felt someone tap me so I turned around and saw the girl who was mean mugging me. "What's your problem?" She said, her name was Candace.

"I don't have one." I said, not wanting to be punched again. "Shawn was never your friend. He just pitied you. He was popular and you were just a mino. If you ever thought you were best friends with Shawn then you must be demented."

I stood there, mouth wide open, words repeating themselves in my mind. He just pitied me. I walked away and changed into the second costume. It was a green crop top with three quarter sleeve. We put a black and red Michael Jackson looking sweater over it, but letting the shirt show.

We had on leggings with our hair up into a pony tail. After changing, I walked out and Jennifer looked at me like I was crazy. "What?" I asked her, "aren't you going to visit Shawn?" I nodded, *after the competition though."

We were called and we jumped up, we got into our places. Jennifer and I were back to back, front and center. She was the co-captain. We listened for our cue and then stated our dance. (A/n go to chapter seven for the dance sorry.)

We came out and we had to change super fast due to the fact we had to perform twice in a row. We changed into the white leotards and our different colored tutus. Then we put back on our black and purple high tops with our hair in a bun.

We went out again and we did our dance to Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman. It was a really sad song but also a very emotional song. I held back my tears and continued to spin and jump and twirl around the stage.

After the dance we all ran backstage and hugged each other into a big group hug. "You guys did amazing!!!" I squealed, I was honestly so happy for them. They worked so hard for this and we made it.

I hugged Jennifer and she pushed me into a closet, "go now. Change into your costume, you have close to a hour to see him. Go." And this is why I love Jennifer. The girls went back to the hotel and I went and changed into my solo dance costume. It was a white crop top then ended just below my chest, at the end was a flowy see through fabric that had specks of glitter on it.

It went to the bottom of the white spandex the costume came with. The top had thick straps and a silver flower in between. It was beautiful and I absolutely adored it. I quickly put my hair into a bun with some wisp of hair framing my face.

I put on my flats and I walked to my car. I got the directions from Carson and sped to the hospital. I ran to the elevator and then to the nurses station. "Shawn Matthews please." I said out of breath.

The nurse gave me his room number and then a sympathetic smile. I practically sprinted to his room and almost knocked down Carson who was waiting outside the room.

"Oh my gosh Carson what happened?!" I said crushing him into a bear hug. He looked at me and I saw it. The fear. The hurt. The pain. The cluelessness. Everything. My poor little Carson was scared.

We walked inside and I saw him. His right side of his face drooping, his whole right side was numbed. He followed me with his eyes and I sat down next to him on the bed. The heart rate monitor started to beep like crazy and I looked at Carson. "He's really scared of what happened. He didn't want you to see him scared."

I nodded, "Shawn? What happened?" He looked at Carson and I saw the fear in his eyes too. "I'm not going to be mad at any of you got it?" He nodded. "I took to many hits from my inhaler and then used my nebulizer for all night." This is why they were scared. They knew I was going to get mad.

I take all of our conditions very seriously. Me, I have brittle bone syndrome, anorexia and anxiety. Carson, he has the worst. He is diabetic, autistic, has ADHD, bipolar disease, dyslexia, and has severe migraines. Although for his autism, he just has the part where it affects his hands, his social skills, and sometimes even walking.

It's known as Rett Syndrome. Carson actually pretty lucky to be honest. The syndrome mostly affects girls because of the x chromosome stuff. Most dudes that have it die after birth, but he survived. And yeah social skills. Carson may be pretty wild with us, but he's complete and utter afraid of unknown people.

Shawn, he has asthma, paranoid personality disorder, and insomnia. We were all cancer patients at a time, in fact that's how we all met. Shawn thought I was going to kill him, Carson didn't even look at me, and I had a panic attack. But, our friendship took a lot of hard work to create.

"Shawn Hunter Matthews! What is the matter with you?!?" I yelled at him, Carson slowly walked away and I yelled at him to sit back down. "Rawr," he said chuckling, I glared at him and he found a sudden interest in the floor.

"How many hits?" I asked him, I really didn't want to know the answer but I had to. "25," my eyes widened. I was thinking around ten. "25 hits Shawn?! Are you crazy?! You could've died!" He too then found a sudden interest in the floor.

"How long did you use the nebulizer?" I asked him, I can't get too mad otherwise his PPD would kick in. "All night?" That's it. Forget PPD. "Shawn!! Are you aware you are only allowed to use that for ten minutes?!" Shawn looked scared, I toned it down a bit.

"Shawn, you could have died. You're lucky you only had a stroke and nothing more. Why did you take so many hits?" Shawn looked me into the eyes. "I can't tell you." Oh no. I triggered Shawn's PPD.

"Why not?" I asked grabbing his hand. He ripped it from my grasp and looked around. "You're going to tell everyone and they are going to hurt me. They are going to hurt my mom. She's going to hurt me." He then met my eyes again and said something I've never thought he would say.

"You're going to hurt me."

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Woah baby! Long chapter and some very very interesting and sad secrets. Did you think any of them had health problems?

What did you think of Shawn's sudden behavior? How about Carson's health? Did any of you think they were like that?

Teaser: solo dance and what's gonna happen to Shawn and Jamie?

Picture above is of Jamie's dress. Isn't it lovely? I absolutely love it.