Chapter 23

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Shannon's P.O.V
***3 days later***
Everyone's here, cammies mom, cammies dad, Vanessa, Shea, mom, dad, Casey, Byron, and of course cammie. The room is a little packed during the day but at night it's usually just me and cam. A nurse walked into the packed room to check my incision.
"Hello Mrs. Beveridge how are you today?" She asked
"I'm dandy, how are you" I reply
"I'm fine thank you, now we're going to check your incision to see if it's infected"
"Okay". She lifted up my gown and I could see the giant bandage covering my ribs, she took the bandage off and the cut was about 8 inches long and was surrounded by a giant purple bruise.
"Holy shit" Casey said
"Oh don't worry the bruising is normal, you had about 3 broken ribs. This incision looks fine now I'm going to check the other one"
"Woah, the other one?" I say confused
"Yes the other one, you had some heart problems in surgery so we had to open you up again. Look here's the cut" she said pulling down my gown, there was a cut that went from the top of my neck to my cleavage.
"Cam" I say desperately and hold out my hand
"I'm here" she says and grabs it "it's okay, hey Shan stop looking at the cut look at me" I stare at her eyes and she smiles, I try smiling but I can't seem to make my face lift. Cam starts rubbing her thumb against my hand while she looks at the incision.
"There is a little infected part on this one which means we will need to give you some antibiotics and some ointment for it"
"Ointment? Shannon your an old man" Casey states, I smile and give her a glare.
"Before I go, Camden you need your stitches removed" the nurse says "so come with me please"
"Okay" cam says still starring at me, she gives me a long kiss and goes with the nurse.
"Shannon can I sign your cast?" Vanessa asked
"Sure" I laugh, she put:

"I got into a fight, that's why I have the cast so don't fuck with me"

"Wow ness your making me look tough" I joke
"Hey I'm just looking out for you" she laughed
"I want to sign it" Casey says, she put:

"This kids is why you always wear a seatbelt (jk I got totally wasted and fell of a roof)"

I give her a glare and say, "I don't drink that much"
"Oh please Shannon!" Ness says, everyone else signed it with all these goofy things like:

"Apparently the car said 'I'd hit that' which is why I have this" -Shea

"Get legs" -dad

"This is what happens when you spank your kid to hard" -mom

"Don't try me bitches" -Sandie

"Donald Trump is stronger than he looks" -Byron

"dancing to hard" -cams dad

They where all so funny and they made me laugh, but eventually everyone had to leave to go eat or pack or do something. So I took a nap, I woke up to the door opening.
"Hey babe" cam said
"Hey" I say back
"I see you've been busy" she says pointing to my cast
"Yeah" I laugh
"Can I sign it?"
"Of course you can! Here" I hand her the sharpie, she looks for a spot to sign but there wasn't one.
"Looks like I'm a little to late" she says disappointed
"No your not, I left my arm for you. See no ones even touched it yet". She smiles and starts writing stuff on my arm, she was taking a while so I feel asleep. She shook me awake.
"I'm finished" she said and blushed, I look at me arm and it says:

"Property of Camden Scott ( her GF )"
"Cammie loves Shannon xoxo :)"
"I've seen her naked...jealous"
"WARNING: This girl will fart, these farts are deadly stay within 12 feet"

She also drew a picture of a turtle and a Starbucks coffee, I look at her and say, "a bunch of this is inappropriate...but I love it"
"Thank you Shan ban I worked my very hardest". I kiss her, and I can feel her lips trying to smile but I don't allow them by deepening the kiss. Somehow she still manages to break a smile, her teeth press against my lips.
"What?" I laugh
"I don't know" she laughs
"Your so weird. I'm going to sleep you going to come cuddle"
"Yeah I just have to pee" before she went into the bathroom I grabbed her hand. "What" she asked, I grabbed her head and examen the cuts and on her cheek and on her arm.
"They look good" I say
"Okay? Thanks?"
"I'm just looking out for you cam Scott"
"I know baby" she says and kisses my cheek

Cammies P.O.V

I woke up to Shannon having another nightmare, she was sweating and breathing heavily. I shake her awake, she looked around the room and then at me. She rubbed up against me and I started rubbing her back.
"This one was worse" she whispered
"How?" I ask concerned
"This time you where the one that got hurt. And I couldn't save you" I could feel her tears beginning to drip on my cloths.
"Well I'm fine Shan, and your going to be fine and we are going to be very happy together okay"
"What if I can't get better"
"No, we are not doing 'what ifs' we don't say that. You will get better, and we are going to be happy, because I love you". She looked up at me and we kissed, she came and rested her hand on my cheek and I pulled her up closer to me.
"I love you too" she said, once she feel back to sleep I crawled out of the bed ,thinking that maybe she'll sleep better with more room in the bed, and slept in the chair. Because little did she know that I had the nightmares too, I never want to fall asleep because when I do she gets hurt or dies, and I can't save her, and she's never wakes up so I can have some comfort. I fall asleep, which is a bad idea but I haven't slept in a while and I know that's not good. The next morning I wake up and Shannon's still in bed sleeping peacefully, I decided to go and get us coffee because it was a long night, but I can't seem to get into a car. So I don't go I stay, I walk back up tithe room and it's empty.
"Shan?" I yell for her, no response. I go to the front desk and ask the lady where she is.
"She's getting an X-Ray on her leg it will be a moment" she said rudely, I just go back into the room and sit on my phone till she gets back.
The door opens and Shannon is wheeled back in, I help her into bed.
"Shannon were here to discuss your X-rays" the doctor says, he puts two sheets up of Shannon's leg. "As you can probably see the bolt we put in your leg are not doing there job"
"What does that mean?" We both ask
"It means your leg is more damaged then we had hoped, we need to take you back into surgery and see what's going on"
"Okay, but how will that effect me walking" Shan asked
"There's a 45% rate of recovery which means it's going to be one hell of a recovery"
"Okay, cam hold my hand please". I take it without hesitation.
"Basically what the surgery will do is, we'll get stronger bolts to put in and if that doesn't work we'll take some of your bone and make some bone graphs"
"What will the bone graphs do?" I ask
"I'll place them around the break which will hopefully seal the break"
"Okay sounds good" Shan says
"Okay I'll leave you two"
"Thank you" I say, as he walks out the door I begin to sob on the chair. It's the kind of crying where you hold your mouth so you don't make a noise, your cheeks hurt from the face you make when you cry, you have to constantly take in deep breaths, and you have one hand on your stomach and one on your heart because both hurt. The cry you would get when you where so completely heart broken, I wasn't heart broken, I was just in pain. Knowing that I did this to her, knowing that she'll have to do hours of physical therapy just because I couldn't take my GODDAMN EYES OFF HER! It kills me. 
"Cam it's going to be okay" Shannon comforted "hey cam why are you crying?"
"I did this to you" I say finally catching my breath "I did Shan me! You could have died-"
"But I didn't! I lived this is just part of the living"
"No it's not, I can't even look at you without a sharp pain of guilt rushing through me!"
"That doesn't make sense, you where protecting me-"
"Yeah from something that happened anyway"
"Why are you so scared all of the sudden!"
"I've always been scared!! But he thing that scares me the most is...Shan what if you'll never be able to dance with me again, what if I fucked up so bad that the old memories just haunt me for the rest of our lives"
"I'll dance with you cam, always"
"But what if you can't, what if at our wedding there will be no 'couples first dance' because you can't" but at this point were both crying.

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