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Temporary Good Times

Before anything could come out of my mouth, there was an uproar from Connor," I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU AND THE ONLY REASON I DON'T KICK YOUR ASS IS BECAUSE YOU ARE MY BABY BROTHER AND WE PROMISED THAT WE WOULD SUPPORT EACH OTHER THROUGH EVERYTHING NO MATTER WHAT," said Connor getting in Riley's face, I noticed that Riley had no emotion what so ever which was strange like he was in a daze," YOU LET GO THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU, THE OTHER DAY AT THE HOUSE YOU SAID 'O NO MIKA IS FINE NO HARD FEELINGS WITH HER' WELL THAT NIGHT YOU WALKED IN WITH TESS INTO HER OWN HOUSE, THE NIGHT SAMMY COULD'VE DIED SHE CRIED ALL NIGHT COULD YOU NOT TELL BECAUSE ALL OF US COULD SHE HAD THE BLOODSHOT EYES, THE DARK BAGS AND SHE COULD NOT QUIT RUBBING HER EYES, YOU NEED TO SERIOUSLY THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID THERE AND NOW YOU SEEM TO NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT OUR BABY BROTHER WHOM OF WHICH GOT BEAT ALMOST TOO DEATH TODAY AND WHO IS CURRENTLY FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE." Connor finally breathed and sat down Riley still emotionless then he spoke up.

"Well maybe he shouldn't have gone on the date in the first place."

That got a lot of 'What the fuck's' and 'Are you serious' and 'You got to be kidding'

"Leave, just go and if you plan on coming back don't come back with her." Braiden said getting all kinds of mad, pointing at Tess. She looked taken aback for a second then got a usual bitchy look back on her face.

They left hand in hand Riley whispering things in Tess' ear making her smile.

The 4 days were emotional and stressful the only time we would go home is to shower and get more clothes.

Do to storms and bad weather their parents were trapped at the airport for another 4 days.

There had been 4 mental breakdowns, 2 more fights and a whole lot of tears.

To make matters worse Toby wasn't getting much better, when a lung injury occurs, the lung may become inflamed. Its small blood vessels (capillaries) may leak too much fluid into the lung's air sacs (alveoli). This keeps the lungs from filling with air, causing the respiratory system to fail. This condition is called acute respiratory distress syndrome. It is a severe form of acute lung injury (ALI). It usually occurs within one to three days after an injury.

My mom said that my dad was doing his best and in a day or so they would be in surgery trying to extract all the fluid out of his lungs and repair it so no more would sleep in. They would also attempt to set the ribs.

It was 1 in the morning and my dad had managed to get a hospital room for all of to stay in. They were all sound asleep on the beds on the recliners on the extra couch, except for me I was sitting on the window seal looking out towards the view of the city. I was just thinking about how much my life had changed I smiled at the good times thinking about the first couple weeks and how happy everyone was all together like one big happy family then that night at the concert Tess came back and everything went downhill. For about the 7th time that week I started crying and then I heard sniffling behind me I turned around and was staring into Connor's eyes.

"You know when he was little he was always accident prone," he said smiling through the tears," he once fall off the porch at the age of 3, and when he was barefooted at the age of 7 got stung by a scorpion, but he always turned up ok, he always bounced back, this time it doesn't seem like it." Connor cried some more and I hugged him a long hug then while we were still in the hug he begin to apologize," I'm so sorry for Riley acting like a complete idiot I don't know what has gotten into him, he doesn't even talk to us at the house anymore and when we try talking to him he just seems shut out. I'm so sorry."

I came out of the hug we were in and begin to speak," None of this is your fault.." and then I said something that everyone was telling me that I swore I would never say," Everything will turn back to normal, in time Connor. Now go get some rest we got a big day tomorrow." I said giving him a sad smile after all tomorrow Toby's surgery I decided that I should get some shut eye too, I wondered over to my cot next to Braiden and Brenna falling fast asleep letting Evening in Paris by Cody Simpson sing me softly to sleep.