The Big Mistake

T H I R T E E N

*Cam's Hospital Room - 3AM*

"And then the chips started talking." Cam said, giggling slightly. 

Cam was high on the pain medication. 

"mmmhmm." I murmured flicking through instagram. 

"And then Justin ate them. All three of them." She whispered, jerking her head over in the direction of the sleeping Justin. 

I bit back a laugh. "Arn't you tired?"

She collapsed back onto her bed with hysterical laughter. I flinched. It was so weird to see Cam completely out of control. I suppose thats what she would look like drunk. 

"I'm not tired." She gasped, "Don't be silly."

"Too bad. You're sleeping." I said and walked over to the bed. 

"But I'm not..." She cut herself off when she yawned. 

I shook my head and gently pushed her back into her pillows. She snuggled down and pulled the blanket up to her chin. 

"Sing me a lullaby." She whispered, her eyes half closed. 

Oh God. I was not singing a lullaby to a 16 year old. 

"Cam..."

"Pleeeeeeese." 

If a nurse walked in...

"Um...twinkle twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world..."

BEEP BEEP BEEP

FEET RUNNING

SCREAMING

CRASH

Thankfully Justin can sleep through a hurricane and Cam was full of meds. She muttered something and began to snore. 

I grabbed my bag and pulled open the door. A silver cart full of fresh towels was lying on its side, the towels spreading across the hall. A 13 year old boy was clutching his hand and muttering. His face stained with tears. 

"Hey." I said rushing over. "Let me see your hand."

He looked up at me with a scowl on his face, but when he talked his voice shook. "You can't tell me what to do." 

"Please." I said softening my voice. 

He looked like he was going to refuse so I snatched his hand. He moaned in pain. His knuckles where a mixture of bright red and purple splotches and the middle knuckle looked swollen. 

"Can you straighten your fingers?" I asked quietly. 

He bit down on his lip so all the colour drained out of it and twitched his fingers. Tears welled in his eyes and he shook his head violently. 

"I think you've broken your knuckle." I said pointing to the swollen knuckle. 

He whimpered. 

"Did you punch the cart?" I asked dragging him in the direction of a nurse. 

"Yes." He murmured. 

"Why did you do that?"

"I don't know...I'm...I'm just so...mad." 

"What happened?"

"None of your business." 

I sighed. The kid was right. It was none of my business, but you have to punch a cart pretty hard to break your knuckle.

I frog marched him into the ER and handed him to a nurse. "I think his knuckle's broken." I said pointing to his injured hand. She scowled at the boy. 

"How did you do this?"

He said something that sounded like "I smunched a yowel tart." 

The nurse shook her head. "I'll take him to the doctor. Thanks love." 

The boy gave me a weak smile before he got yanked away. 

Then I realised that I had left my bag in the hall. I ran all the way back to the cart but it was no where to be seen. Thankfully both my phone wallet and keys were safely in my pocket but my macbook and various snacks were in my bag. 

After what felt like hours I was back in the waiting room with nothing in my hands. I was just praying I had backed my mac up.  

The exhaustion finally caught up to me and collapsed in a chair. After an while of drifting in an out of sleep I was jolted awake when a guy plonked heavily onto the seat next to me. 

"Jace?"

"Hey Mi. How's it going?" He leaned over a kissed me gently on the cheek. 

"Not great. My best friend's in hospital, she's high on pain meds, her boyfriend has collapsed with exhaustion and I'm not to far from that myself. How are you?"

He chuckled. "Well since my Dad got home he has been forcing me to come back here and get checkups. The doctor left me alone in my room and I thought I heard your voice outside. But when I snuck out all I found was a backpack." He held up the familiar nike bag. "I saw you had it at the movies so i thought i might be yours. I opened it, looked at your mac and sure enough it belonged to Mia Sanders." He handed me the bag. 

"Thank you so much." I said grabbing it and pulling Jace into a hug, "You have no idea how much i love my mac." 

He laughed, "Nice profile picture by the way." 

I scowled and put a hand protectively over my bag, "I'm allowed to like boy bands." 

He grinned and bit his lip. It was adorable. I huffed out a breath and dropped my bag to the floor. 

"I heard about your friend. Cam isn't it?" He asked looking at his converse. 

"Yeah." I murmured. If only he knew how much she hated him. 

He shook his head, "I've never liked bike riding." 

 Cam and Jace could start an anti bike club. 

 *2 weeks later* 

"Shut up and deal the cards Jason." 

I think it was safe to say that my friends were getting on with Jace pretty well. Kyle and Jace got along really well and Phoebe and Justin had grudging respect for him. I was surprised with Cam. She stuffed all her bad feelings down and was being nice and normal around him. We were playing cheat at my house and Jace and Kyle were being idiots. 

"I said DEAL THE CARDS!" Phoebe said hitting Jace over the head. 

"Sorry. Sorry." He laughed, quickly shuffling the cards and handing them out. 

Cam slid her cards across the table and awkwardly looked at them. 

Cam was amazing but not very hand-eye coordinated. Since she got her cast we had all suffered injuries. I'm pretty sure she nearly gave Ash concussion. He had been reading an article on his mac and Cam was reading it over his shoulder, when I asked her a question she turned to me and didn't pull her arm up far enough. Plaster hitting skull doesn't make a pretty sound. 

We soon realised she could end up seriously hurting someone if we went out, so until she got her new cast she was exiled to the house. 

Jace looked up over his cards and grinned at me. I returned the smile and winked. 

Life was finally starting to look up.

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