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Second Chances

We all went home that night.

 I slept easy, knowing that Toby was going to be fine. Dakota told everyone to be at her house at 7:00 that next night so we could all go the hospital together. Connor had said the day after Toby gets home his parents should be home but they would be busy trying to get tour dates ready for the winter months coming up, so his parents wanted Toby watched carefully and had told his parents that my parents were the doctors that had operated on him. They said that when they weren’t at home they wanted Toby staying at my house, and that mean everyone over at my house, which means PARTY TIME.

“I can’t wait for Toby to come home!” was the first thing I heard when I walked into Dakota’s house.

I laughed a bit and everyone turned around to view me.

“Hey thought you weren’t going to come! Is it ok if we stay at your house tonight on the count of what my parents said?” said Connor a bit too happy.

I smiled,” Of course I was coming I was just dealing with Sammy and Mi. Yes guess there’s going to be one big sleepover at my house!”

Just then Riley and Tess walked out of his room, which immediately put a damper on the atmosphere that one second was happy then the next tense.

“You guys ready?!” said Kota breaking the tension.

We piled into Dakota’s car and drove the hospital singing at the top of our lungs Kiss You by One Direction. We were laughing and all having a good time, pulling up to the hospital all getting out and running up to the hospital front doors. 

We got to Toby’s room in one piece after getting lost once and yelled at for running by a janitor which there was a wet floor and I and Thomas fell flat on our ass’s making everyone including us laugh.

“Ready to go home baby bro!?” said Connor entering the room.

Toby looked up from his phone and smiled wide,” Heck yeah!”

“Well you aren’t exactly going home yet we are staying at little Mika’s house till tomorrow afternoon when mom and dad get back home but even then when they aren’t at home they want us there.” said Connor smiling at his little brother.

“Alright party at Mika’s!” Toby yelled making us all laugh.

Then there was a knock at the door and it was my father, most likely coming in to give the whole lots of us how to treat Toby for the next week and half.

“Hello children, well today is the day that Toby goes home and here is some of the things you can and can’t do with him and I’ll give you all his prescriptions here. Let’s start with his lower body, his legs are fully healed he might have trouble walking on them at the moment because he after all hasn’t walked on them in a while but by the time you get down to the car he should fine. Now his arm is still healing, no running, overall no hard work. You may have to shower with the sling on, sleep with the sling on and basically doing everything with the sling. Your ribs are healed but need to be treated with care. They are still fragile, not to their fill strength.  Now your internal injuries,” my father sighed,” You are not too do running, dancing or singing nothing that is going to cause you to be out of breath and you are going to be out of breath easily for the first couple of days so when he is at the house,” father looked at me sternly,” he can’t be going up and down the stairs, you kids will have to move base camp downstairs.”

He went on with his pain medicine and his medicine to prevent infection. Take each at the same time twice a day my father promised no interacting between the both. Also to take a calcium pill every day at lunch.