#4 stole my heart

Chapter 11: Brotherly Advice

Kelly's pov:

Braden walks over to where Zack and I are talking. He looks mad. Like red-hot mad. I see fists at his sides and know what he's about to do. But before he can square Zack right in the jaw, I step in front of the punch. I don't know why, I just do.

It hurts like hell. I fall to the ground and slam my head, hard, on the concrete floor inside the concession stand. I feel blood run down my face and pour out from inside my mouth. The last thing I see is Braden kneeling beside me, crying, saying "I'm sorry Kelly, I'm so sorry." Then it all goes black.

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I wake up with a start, not knowing where I am or what has happened. I'm in a hospital room, but no one is here with me.

Just then, Joey walks in.

"You're awake!!" He screams and runs over to give me a big hug.

"Haha nice to see you too bro." I laugh

"Nice to see you? More like lucky. Kel, you nearly died."

I'm speechless at his words. I clear my throat and say the most ridiculous thing to say right now "What do you mean?"

"You hit your head so hard when you fell that you shook up your brain. You almost snapped your brainstem in half, and if it had broken, you wouldn't be alive right now."

"Are you serious?" again, another stupid question.

"Yeah Kel. You're lucky to be alive. You've been unconscious for the past 2 days."

"Oh my gosh. What? Where is everyone? Mom? Dad? Braden?"

Wait, Braden? I don't wanna see him. He did this to me.

"Mom and Dad are down the hall talking to the nurses, they should be here once they're done. And Braden went home this morning to get some rest. He rode in the ambulance with you on the way here, and never left your side until this morning when he literally needed to get some sleep or else he might've died of sleep deprivation." He laughs "He'll probably come back really soon though."

"He never left my side?"

"Nope. I mean except when he had to pee of course, but you know what I mean." He laughs again

I whisper under my breath to myself, "Wow."

Joey sits down on the side of my bed, and he looks like he's about to lay down a huge load of brotherly advice. "Look Kel, you do know Braden is the one who knocked you out, right?" I nod, trying not to remember when his fist made contact with my jaw, "well, even though he did that, I don't think you should be mad at him. Braden's a good kid and he didn't mean to do this to you. I can tell he really cares about you and would never intentionally hurt you. So please don't go too hard on him, I know how you can get. But like I said, if I thought Braden meant to do this, I would've knocked his teeth out the second I heard about it. So trust me, you don't wanna yell at him. He already feels bad enough. He loves you and your guys' friendship so much, so don't mess it all up over a mistake. Yeah, it was a big mistake that could've had awful consequences, but it didn't. So I think it'd be best just to forgive him for it, for the sake of your guy's relationship." He pats my hand, looks me in the eyes, then gets up to leave.

I think about what he said, and maybe he's right. A few minutes later, Braden walks in. His face looks distorted, his eyes have huge bags under them, he's still wearing the same clothes he had on the day this all happened, and honestly, he looks so totally beat up. Like me being hurt, is hurting him too. His face lightens up when he sees me awake. He runs over to me.

"KEL-BEL! Oh my god, how I've missed you!" by now, he's hugging me and crying.

I laugh and ultimately decide to take my brother's advice. Braden never meant to hurt me, and he definitely never wanted me to end up almost dead. Plus, he was hurting too, I could see it in his eyes.

"I'm so so so so so so so sorry Kel-Bel" Braden says, pulling away from our hug with tears rolling down his face.

"Hey, hey, stop crying silly!" I wipe away his tears "I'm alive aren't I? I'm ok haha. I know you never meant to hurt me, it's alright. I'm not mad." I smile, and I mean it. I love Braden and don't want to see him beat himself up like this.

Braden looks so relieved, like I just lifted the weight of the world off of his shoulders. "Thank goodness! You have no idea how worried I was!" He laughs, and I do too. 

We get to talking about my condition, and what's gonna happen to me and everything, but we're only a few minutes into the conversation when someone walks in.

I tense up. I know how this ended before, and I'm terrified to see what happens this time.

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A/N: so who do you guys think just entered the room to make Kelly feel this way? and what's gonna happen next? You can leave your predictions in the comments!
I'll update again soon! Love y'all!❤️