Second Chances ~ l.h.

Chapter 19

***Katharine’s POV***

It's been a few days since my argument with my parents about my scholarship. They've called me back a few times and we made an appointment with the councilor in charge of scholarships and we're going to talk about it then. Mikey is still the only person who knows about the scholarship, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Katey and Gill have thought about it too. Since the attack there has been a short tensions going around to everyone about different things; every once in a while we’ll snap about the stupidest things.

Meanwhile I've managed to absolutely nothing but lie in bed all day and do nothing and it's killing me. I've been regaining my strength each day so now I'll finally be able start getting up out of bed and use the crutches to try to walk around. I don't need the IV anymore thank god because I hate needles and I've stopped using the breathing tubes since the day after the attack. I was now allowed to wear my clothes from home, just a t-shirt and sweatpants- with the right pants leg rolled up so it stopped right at my knee cap and didn’t have fabric hanging around. I was also moved into a regular hospital room out of ICU.

Everyone is hanging around my bed, playing poker because I've grown board of watching TV. I sit on my bed and Luke is sitting behind me so I'm sitting in between his legs. Katey, Gill, Calum, Ashton and Michael are sitting around the end of my bed so we can use the bed as a table for everyone to use for the game.

"Hahaha! Beat that bitches!" Gill shouted as she threw her hand down on the pile of potato chips we were using as poker chips and started pulling them towards her, winning the pot.

"Damn it!" Michael shouted and we all groaned as Gill won the pot for the fourth time in a row.

"Hey I can't help it if I'm good at beating you." Gill said with a cocky tone in her voice.

"I still suck at playing poker. Why did we even decide to play this if we all knew Gill was going to win?" I asked.

"Because we only have a deck of cards until Liz comes back with more board games." Ashton reminded me.

"Well what about a simple game of go fish that everyone knows how to play and can win?" I ask. Everyone agreed and we started playing. That's when Luke's phone went off for what had to be the thousandth time today.

"What is it now?" I asked him.

"Nothing" Luke said brushing off the topic like it was nothing.

"Luke that is the thousandth time your phone has gone off today and it's only 11:30 in the morning, what is it?" I asked him again.

"Just some fans" He said.

"Again?" Calum asked.

"Yeah" Luke said.

"About the same thing?" Ashton asked.

"Yep" Luke answered while checking though his cards thinking of what card he wanted to ask someone.