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      "We are all bad in someone's story"
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   Hours passed agonizingly slow, me and Hannah did nothing but sit and stare at the clock and the door.

"He's okay, he's got to be okay maybe he kicked Jasper's ass and now he's just cleaning up the mess he left" Hannah said coming up with some ridiculous excusing to why he wasn't back.

"Han something happened I can feel it in my gut" I said looking at the clock and then the door once again.

I prayed that some kind of sense had been knocked into Shane's head, and that he would come walking through the door. That maybe one of Hannah's excuses had happened and that he was fine.

He never walked through the door that night.

Around 2:00 in the morning I got a phone call, it was the hospital informing me that Shane had been in an accident. My heart dropped and Hannah saw my face knowing instantly something was wrong.

Hannah and me rushed to the hospital as fast as we could while calling Justin and letting him know what happened.

When I got there Justin was already sitting in the waiting room his leg bouncing up and down anxiously.

"Hey any news is he okay?" I asked Justin when Hannah and I approached him.

"They said that he got into an accident around the time he left to go after Jasper, they just found his phone and wallet that's why we only found out until now" he said looking me in the eyes and continuously glancing at each doctor or nurse that walked by. "Other than that I haven't heard anything about his condition, I always told him to drive slower and safer but he never listens" Justin said looking down at his hands talking more to himself than us.

Hannah sat down next to him grabbing his hand. He looked up at her with watery eyes.

"Hey it's going to be okay, for all we know he could just have some minor injuries" she said giving his hand a squeeze.

I sat down on the other side of Justin, I gently rubbed his back in a soothing manner. Me and Hannah were always better at staying composed in these situations. Believe it or not we had been in this kind of situation before, but that time Shane had only broke his arm. But that didn't stop Justin from loosing it, claiming that Shane was going to die. Thinking back to that memory made me forget about what was going on right now. That was until Justin got up saying that he was going to get us all some coffee. Which snapped me back into reality. I turned to Hannah and I felt myself begin to loose my composure.

"Han what if he isn't okay, w-what if he dies?" I said feeling my own eyes begin to water.

"Hey hey now let's not jump to any conclusions, let's just wait to see what the doctors say okay?" She said grabbing my hand across the empty seat.

I slowly nodded a "yes" back to her wiping away the tears that had escaped my eyes. Time went by even slower than when I was waiting for him to come home. It felt like it took Justin hours to get the coffee and it felt like it took days for the doctors to come to us. Almost 2 hours since we had arrived he walked up to us, we all stood up joining hands to hear the news.

"He's going to be okay, we had to fix some internal bleeding and put his foot in a cast but he's all good now, he's sleeping but your welcome to go in and see him" he said we thanked him and followed him to Shane's room.

When I saw him laying in the bed all the tears I had been holding in came spilling out. He had some cuts and bruises and a big cast but he wasn't torn into pieces so I was relieved. I walked up to the side of his bed pulling up a chair. I sat down and grabbed his hand drawing circles with my thumb on it.

"Thank god you're okay, thank god" I whispered to him raising my hand to his head smoothing his hair back.

Hannah and Justin came up to the other side of his bed looking at him. Justin was crying now too and even Hannah had some tears in her eyes.

"You bastard, always making us worry" Hannah whispered putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Why can't you just listen to me for once" Justin said while sobbing.

I watched as Hannah turned to Justin bringing him into a hug. He threw his arms around her and continued sobbing into her shoulder. I looked back down at Shane as more tears came to my eyes. I grabbed his hand again and pressed it against my cheek.

"Yeah why you gotta make us worry all the time" I said.

After Justin had calmed down Hannah and him say down on chairs next to me. We talked for awhile trying to lighten the mood and wait for Shane to wake up but both of them ended up falling asleep in their chairs, and I ended up asleep bent over resting my head on the bed next to Shane's hand, and I didn't wake up until I heard him softly saying my name.