Draw the Shades and Close the Door (a Vic Fuentes Fanfic)

Chapter 42

~~Jaime's P.O.V~~

I was awoken from my sleep by some shuffling around in my hospital room. It fucking sucked being stuck in here on my birthday. The only people who had been to visit were my parents and the doctor to check everything was ok.

'Ouch! Nina!' I heard a voice whisper shout.

'Shh you'll wake him!' Somebody else said. Hah too late for that.

'This bloody thing.' I heard a familiar voice say.

'Echem' I coughed letting the people in my room know I was awake. The 4 of them all span around at once looking guilty shoving something hind their backs.

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' Mike, Nina, Tony and Vic all shouted at the same time popping party poppers in the room. I looked around and saw banners all over my room saying 'Happy 18th Birthday' or '18 at last' a huge grin appeared on my face because I knew that after a week of hell. I finally had my friends back.

'Thanks guys, you know I was having the shittiest birthday ever until now.' I said smiling at the 4 of them.

'Hah, wait till you see your present!' Mike blurted out with a huge grin on his face.

'Miiike!' Tony, Nina and Vic all said in unison. 'Not again! You're such a fucking blabber mouth! I'm never trusting you with my secrets!' Vic said glaring at him.

Nina rolled her eyes and stepped forward with her hands behind her back holding onto something. 'Happy Birthday Jaime, it's from all of us.' She pulled what she was holding around so I could see.

There in her hand was the most beautiful Bass Guitar I had ever seen. It was a greeny bluey teal type colour with a cream white neck. It was gorgeous. I couldn't believe it. I just lay in my bed staring at it.

'Err do you not like it? Cause we would take it back and get a different one.' Nina looked concerned.

'No no no its- it's perfect!' I stressed. 'Thank you all so much!'

'Its ok Hime, we're just glad you like it.' Vic smiled at me and I smiled back at him. I hoped this meant he had forgiven me.

We sat for the next hour eating cake and food that Mike had somehow managed to sneak in without anyone knowing. Including Nina and the guys.

'What the fuck Mike!' Vic had said while mike produced the cake, some paper plates and a knife to cut it with from his bag. We all just burst out laughing when Mike just shrugged and said 'What? Everyone needs cake on their birthday!'

'We better be off now actually Jaime.' Nina said looking down at the time on her watch.

Tony looked down at his watch too. 'Oh shit yeah, we'll try and see you tomorrow though!' He said apologetically.

'Yeah sure, I get out of here in 2 days anyway so that should be cool. Can't wait to use my new guitar at our gig!' I said excitedly.

The all looked down at the floor away from me. I didn't know why. Mike slowly looked up. 'Yeah, about that Jaime, we er.. We had to cancel, I'm sorry, there is no gig for us on the 22nd anymore. We didn't know how long you'd be in hospital for and to be quite honest, we weren't even sure if our band would stay together through this. None of us were really ready and we haven't been able to practice either so we wouldn't even have enough songs.' he confessed.

The smile fell of my face. I understood but I was still upset, I had been really looking forward to that. 'Oh that ok, there always be another opportunity right?' I said hopefully.

'Yeah maybe..' Mike said quietly before the all started to leave my room. I was just about to close my eyes again when I heard someone re-enter my room. It looked up to see Vic stood at my door.

'Can we talk?' He asked quietly looking sad.

'Of course.' I sat up in bed a little more.

Vic took a seat near my bedside and looked down at the floor. He was playing with his hands and looked nervous and awkward. 'Jaime, I'm so sorry and I'm so so ashamed of myself for doing this to you, for making you end up here.'

'Vic-' I stared but he stopped.

'No, Jaime, listen. I deserve to be locked up right now, I really do because I came storming around to your house and I didn't even let you speak before I started punching you and even then you didn't fight back yet I carried on until you were lying practically lifeless on the floor and it makes me sick thinking that I could have done that to my best friend even if you did what you did. I know now that you were drunk and upset and Nina was also drunk and upset, not to mention because of me, and what you did was just a drunken spur of the moment and you never meant to hurt me and you didn't even know what you were doing because I know you Jaime and I know you still love Tess and if you were in your right mind you would never have done that. So I just wanted to express really how sorry I was Jaime and how grateful I am that you dropped the charges against me because in my mind, I really don't deserve to have a friend like you and what I do deserve is to be locked up in a cell right now.' Vic finished and he looked down at the floor again.

'Vic please don't say stuff like that ok, you do not deserve to be locked up. It was just like you said, you were hurt and I understand that. I couldn't feel worse about myself for hurting you that badly and I totally deserve what came to me. I could never hold up charges against you because no matter what Vic, you're my best friend and hopefully always will be. I'm just sorry for what I did and will regret it for the rest of my life but I was hoping that we could just put this in the past and forget about it now.'

Vic smiled and looked up at me. 'Of course we can Hime.' he stood up and punched my arm lightly. 'Ill see you soon man.' and with that he opened the door and left.

woop update, 

so i auditioned for house music on the oboe, went to see if i got in a week later and found out that they put me as senior solo on piano..which just completely defeated the object of auditioning in the first place if they knew they wanted me on piano. They couldve just said but oh well, check out the cover of 'strobe' by evan duffy, its what im playing :):)