Desperate Measures

Alibis

Matt's POV 

Once I got to the hospital with Josh they took him straight to surgery as I kept pacing around waiting for the guys to show up as I sent them the name of the hospital. But if he does survive this he's gonna be going through things mentally for a while. A nurse came out handing me his bag of stuff as I smiled. "Thanks." I said as I grabbed his phone out of his bag as I unlocked it as I pulled up Amanda's contact calling her. She deserves to know what happened to him. To my surprise she picked up.

"Josh?! I haven't heard from you since you took off! Are you okay?" I sighed sitting down shaking my head. "It's Matt, um he's gonna hate me for telling you what happened." I heard her sit down as I looked down at the floor. "It's fine Matt just tell me what he did, I can handle it." Well I do hope she can handle what I'm about to tell her. "He um...broke his sobritety Amanda, he met up with his old ex Carolina and ran off to Vegas and she played him like a puppet. From what happened she drugged him with a mix of heroin and a sedative so he was forced to use and she drove him out to the middle of no where and shot him. He's in surgery now but I don't know how he is right now. But he was high before on something I have no idea if it was heroin or something else." I heard her sigh as I could tell she wasn't happy with him. 

"Oh he's mentioned her before when we met. Wasn't she the abusive ex who left him for dead by giving him some mixed drug before he got clean? But I can fly out and have you told his mother?" I nodded as she was right and fuck i think the hospital must've called her. "Yeah that's her and they called his mother up a while ago. God she is not gonna be happy at all with this. But just text me when you're here and I'll come pick you up." I said as I saw some doctors walking over to me as I hung up the phone standing up. "Are you Josh's friend who came in with him?" I nodded as I was just so scared that he didn't make it. "He made it out alive and he's in recovery but we found high levels of heroin, oxycodone, and meth in his system sir. Now his recovery is going to be pretty hard with the withdrawls. Has he used before in the past?" I nodded sighing. "Yes he used to be addicted to heroin as a teenager but he's been clean for ten plus years. And it's okay I can stay with him and I can handle him." I said as I picked up his back as they took me to his room. 

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Josh's POV

I could start to hear beeping in my ears as I slowly started to wake up as I thought I was left for dead in the middle of a desert? I slowly looked around as I saw Matt asleep in a chair...he showed up? That's when one of the doctors walked over to me as I just looked at him checking something on my body. He tried saying something but I could hardly hear him. Wait why can't I hear anything? Is it from the gunshot since it was close to my ears? He looked at me waiting for me to say something. I could see him say 'can you hear me?' and I shook my head as I felt him looking in my ears. Shit...how bad did I fuck up? "Pretty badly and yeah your ears are messed up from the gunshot being so close. But it should come back but I can let you know what their saying." Yet I can still hear his dumbass? 

The doctor walked away as I saw someone walking over with a nurse as it was my mother. Fuck who called her?! "Shit this can't be good if she's here." I saw her walk into my room as I tried to sit up as everything hurt so badly. She shook her head as I pointed to my ears as I thumbed down to let her know I couldn't hear. "I-I'm sorry." I tried to say to her as she held my hand sighing as I could see her writing something down. She held it up to me as she wrote: 'It's okay but they told me you were on drugs again. Is that true?' I looked down nodding as her face just looked so disappointed. One of the nurses walked in handing me a whiteboard and a marker for it as I started to write a responce. 

'Yes I broke my sobritety and I am so sorry for breaking that promise I made to you and dad. If you don't want me in your life anymore I understand.' I wrote down as I closed the marker as I could hear it snap close a little. "We'll talk about that later once you can hear. Get some rest I'll be up in the morning." I could hear her softly say as she left the room as I pulled my knees up to my chest breaking into tears as I just probably messed up every relationship I had. Maybe once I'm out of here it's probably just better to disappear from everyone for a while to figure everything out.