Behind Closed Doors [A Shoey AU]

Chapter 9

A night had gone by. Joey and Shane both stayed unconcious.

*Joey's point of view"

When I woke up I was lying on a bed. I slowly opened my eyes and above me was a white roof. I looked around my bed. I was in a hospital. Next to me was Shane. His face was swllen up. There was a bruise on his jaw and his nose. I wanted to run over to him but I was hooked to a machine.

"Joey?" I heard my mom's voice. "Joey how are you feelinh hunny?" she walked up to me and held my hand.

"I'm fine just feeling a little weak. I think the blood made me faint. Is Shane okay?" I asked her.

"Well his nose is broken and his Jaw is badly bruised as are his ribs but the doctor says after today he should be fine to leave. As long as he doesn't move around too much for the next week." She moved down and kissed my forgead. "I love you Joey."

"M-mom. I have something to tell you." I figured now would be a good time to tell her about me being gay. I put my head down but she just put her hand on my jaw and pulled it back up to me so I was facing her again.

"What is it honey?" she said as she bent down to eye level from the bed.

I'm-I'm gay" I turned my head away expection to be yelled at but nothing happened. I looked back over at her and she was smiling.

"Honey that's-that's wonderful." she moved down and gave me a hug. I'm so happy she accepts me. I just hope everyone else will too. I already know Meghan, Luke and Ingrid do. I looked over at Shane. He was out cold.

"Mom can you leave me alone for a little bit. I have a headache and I wanna take a little nap before they make me leave." My mom agreed and left the room. Just as she did a nurse walked in and check Shane's charts.

"Nurse" I tried calling her over. She didn't hear me. "Nurse!" I shouted probably a little to loud. "Oh sorry." She walked over to me and smiled.

"What can I help you with um Joseph right?"

"Well actully Joey but that doesn't matter. Could you let me get up, I feel perfectly fine now. As long as I don't see anymore bloog." she chuckled a little then nodded her head.

"Sure you can. Just take it easy." She unhooked my monitar and grabbed the clipboard from the end of my bed and walked out.

I pulled myself out of bed slowly and got up and walked over to Shane's bed.

I stared at him for a little bit watching his chest move up and down with each breath.There was hair in his face so I reached down to him lying on the bed and pushed the hair out of his face.

"Don't be taking advantage of him while he's asleep." I jerked my hand back and turned to see who had spoken. I let out a sigh of relief it was just Luke.

"You scared me Luke."

"So are you feeling better?" he walked up beside me and sat in the chair closest to Shane's bed. I joined him and sat on the one beside it.

"Ya I guess blood just isn't my think." I chuckled a little bit.

"So Joey you like Shane then?"

"Well ya. I think I do."

Luke smiled at me. "I'm pretty sure he likes you too. You should tell him."

"Maybe. I just wanna make sure before I get hurt. But enough about that where is Shane's mom?"

"She was here for a while. She asked about you and said you looked sweet but she had to leave to go to work. Shane's family really needs money right now so she literally couldn't afford to stay."

"oh"

We continued to talk about school and other things.

*Shane's point of view*

I could hear talking around me. The voices sounded familia but I couldn't quite make them out.

I tried opening my eyes but I felt so weak. I tried talking but when I moved my mouth I was hit by a stream of pain. That's going to be sore for a while. I lifted my hand as a last resport and as soon as I did I felt another hand holding mine.

"Shane?" I made it out to be Luke's voice.

I forced my eyes open and saw Joey and Luke staring down at me. I looked to see who had grabbed my hand and to my surprise it was Joey. I squeezed it, I didn't ever want to let go. Why must he be into Meghan. Why can't he just like me. I hate myself.

"What-What happened?" I forced the words out of my mouth.

"We found you in the bathroom, you were beat up and bleeing everywhere. Joey fainted so I went to the nearest classrom and the teacher told to office to phone an ambulance. Your nose is broken and your jaw and ribs are badly bruied." Luke finished.

I had a flashback and remembered Cullen beating on me. My arm's shot up. For a moment I thought the flashback was real. I screamed. "Please leave me alone!" Luke and Joey both jumped back. Luke looked at Joey and ran to get a nurse. My heart was racing.

"Shane, Shane you're okay." Joey grabbed the sides of my face with his hands and stared into my eyes. "Nobodys going to hurt you anymore." His touch on my face made my cheeks burn with pain but I didn't pull away. I stared back into his eyes and began to cry. I'm so weak.

I felt two hands slide behind my back. Joey was hugging me while I cried. I dug my face into his chest. It was so comforting hearing him calm beating heart.

"Thank you Joey." I said but it was muffled by his shirt.

"That's what friends are for right?" Joey said patting Shane's back.

Friends, friends. That's all we will ever be, friends. I forced myself to stop crying while he was still holding me.

The nurse ran into the room and saw Joey hugging me. She cleared her throat and JOey turned to look still holding me.

"I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you and Luke to wait in the hall while I talk to Shane."

Joey tightened his hug and then let go and met Luke in the hall.

"So Shane, how are you feeling?" She smiled at me.

"Well better than before." I smiled back.

"Can you remember who did this to you?" She had a pen and was filling in another chart.

I thought about it for a while. Should I tell her. I don't want Cullen to hurt me anymore. I better just keep it to myself.

"No I can't it's all a blur." I lied and put my head down.

"Shane if you ever remember please tell us okay?"

"Ya." I answered her.

"Shane while you were out we had to take your blood covered cloths off and we noticed you have cut's on your wrists. Could you tell me how that happened?" She remained smiling. Her voice was soft and comforting. I felt comfortable around her but not enough to tell her the truth.

"Well about 3 days ago I fell into a rose bush arms first." I lied. I hope it was believable enough.

"Okay." I could tell she knew I was lying but I think she knew I was already going through enough. She wrote one last thing on the char before getting up.

"You should be able to leave in about an hour or so. Your body will just need to rest for a week. Don't do anything stupid okay?" She smiled and walked out of the room.

Joey and Luk  ran back into the room and both hugged me at the same time.