Guardians Of Rock And Roll

38. Driving is rough in a crisis

Jax

I went upstairs to Josh. I walked in and he was sitting in a chair by a little table.

"Hey Josh, how are you doing?" I asked.

"What do you think..." He said. I sighed.

"You cant just lock yourself in here forever." I said.

"What else am I supposed to do Jax?" He said raising his voice.

"You could go home? Or you could go downstairs and rationally work this out?!" I said.

"Listen! I'm don't want to ok! I'm not ready for this!" He said. He buried his face in his hands and punched the wall. And PUT A HOLE IN IT.

"Ok, first your paying for that, second, I think you should go home. I'll drive you there." I said leaving. I walked downstairs to see Link and Brendon looking at me in panic.

"Are you ok?" Brendon asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." I said.

"Did Josh hurt you?" Link asked.

"Oh gosh no. He put a hole in your wall though. I'm going to drive him home." I said. With that, Josh ran down the stairs and out the door, without looking at anyone. I said my goodbyes and went out to my car, which Josh was already in. I started the car and started driving.

"Listen Jax, I'm really sorry about the hole. I overreacted." He said.

"Its fine." I sighed.
By then, we were already at his house.

"I don't really want to be alone, I might do something stupid." He said.

"What do you want me to do? You're mad at everyone, so what is there to do?" I said.

"I dont know..I dont know where my head is right now." He said.

"I understand. Just go inside, get some sleep and calm down over this, ok?" I said. He smiled.

"Thanks Jax." He said getting out. I rolled down the window while he walked to the door.

"I still think you should forgive Link but, thats whatever ok bye Josh." I said out the window. He waved and I drove back to the house. I went back in and Brendon seemed relieved that I was back, because he immediately gave me a hug when I got back in the house.

"How did it go?" Brendon asked.

"It went fine. Well as fine as I expected." I said.

"Where is he?" Link said. I hesitated.

"He's going to stay at his house for a while, so he can have some time to think." I said. She nodded and sat on the couch. I sat next to Brendon while we watched some lemur show on Animal Planet. We watched it for about 15 minutes until Link started to look really pale. I was about to say something when she ran to the hall. I followed her and I saw she was puking in the bathroom. I pulled her hair back because, you know. She finally finished and washed her face.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"Yeah, just puking up some blood, nothing big." She said.

"That's pretty serious, do you want me to take you to the doctor?" I asked.

"No it's fine, Im going to go lay down." She said.

"Ok Link. We're down here if you need us." I said. She smiled and nodded. She went to the guest bedroom while I went back to the couch. Brendon and I started watching Dual Survival instead. About a half hour later, I heard coughing. At first, I didnt think anything of it, but then it continued and got progressively worse. I ran to Link's room to see her throwing up again, but this was just blood.

"Oh my gosh, Link." I started freaking out. I grabbed my phone and called Josh.

"Hello?" He said.

"Josh, get over here now." I said in panic. She was shaking and before I could hang up, Josh came through the door. Wow that was fast.

"I got her." He said picking her up. We all ran outside and got in the car. Josh held Link in the back seat saying sweet stuff.

"Linkin log.. I'm sorry. Just know, no matter what, I'll always love you. I dont know if you can hear me, but just know." He said.

"Geez Josh you're going to make us cri." I said, smiling at Brendon. I drove all the way there, running red lights and almost getting into 3 accidents. We got inside where I immediately asked for help. Link was unconscious and they put here on a stretcher. We all looked at each other. What's going to happen?