"What the fuck were you doing alone in there?" Jake says.
I bite my lip, "I-I was exploring, I don't really have anything else to do." I say and clasp my hands together.
"Here follow these directions." Elton says and hands Sam his phone.
We ride in silence to the hospital and park near the front. Colby jumps out picking me up again as the boys rush me into the hospital. Blood trickles onto the ground as we go inside. "Help!" Sam says as the nurses rush toward us. They help me in a wheelchair and Sam and Colby follow me back to the room as the others take a seat in the waiting room.
"Alright darling what's your name." They ask me.
"Uh, Alaska Callaghan," I say nervously. She nods and puts a plastic band around my arm. She checks my vitals and takes me back to an emergency room.
"The doctor will be in here shortly." She says as she finishes rewrapping my leg after washing it.
"Thank you," Sam says as they take a seat beside my bed.
"Is there anyone you want us to call?" Colby asks.
"No." I say quickly as tears form in my eyes. Sam rests his hand on top of mine, to my shock I don't instantly pull away.
"Are you sure? Anyone at all, parents? Siblings?" He asks.
"They're dead." I whisper as a tear slides down my face, "I don't have anyone, or anywhere to go. I've been drifting for a few weeks now."
Their faces soften from confusion to sorrow. Colby runs a hand over his face, "fuck, I'm sorry." He says. I nod as the doctor walks in.
"Looks like you had quite the fall there young lady." He says, "we're gonna stitch you up and send you on your way with some narcos alright?" He says and removed my bandages. I squirm as I see the needle with numbing liquid in it. I intertwine my hand with Sams and squeeze it tightly as he injects the liquid in my cuts. He begins the sewing process as I look away.
"Alright kiddo looks like we're done here." He smiles at me. "Keep it aired out for the first 24 hours alright, take the medicine as prescribed and ice it 2 times a day aright? Now I just need to ask you some basic informations alright then you'll be on your way." He says and I nod in agreement.
"Can you tell me how old you are?"
"19."
"Currently place of residence?"
I look down not knowing how to tell them I'm homeless at the moment. "Uhh-"
"She lives with me. I mean us, she lives with us 1234 cactus avenue." Colby says quickly. My eyes dart to his as I look at him with shock.
"Alright, and I guess that answers my other question!" He smiles brightly at me. "Alright I hope you get to feeling better soon! Have a nice night!" He says and walks out.
I sit there shocked at what just happened, "you can uh drop me off at a bus station if you don't mind." I mutter.
"No, your coming home with us, there no way we're letting you sleep in the rain." Sam says and stands up. I stand up feeling better and able to put pressure back onto my leg.
"I can't ask you to-"
"It's not a choice." Colby smiles at me.
I wonder why they're being so nice to me, "okay." I agree knowing that I'll most likely die of hypothermia if I stay out there.
"We're staying in a hotel tonight, and going back to LA tomorrow. We'll figure out what to do after that okay? Tonight let's just go rest, we've all had a long day." Sam says as we walk into the waiting room and see Elton and then filming.
"Why are you filming?" I ask Sam.
"We're youtubers, we film exploration videos and stuff." He says and waves Elton to put the camera up, "Alaska's gonna be joining us for the night." Tells them. They nod and smile.
We arrive at the hotel and take the elevator upstairs, "Alright since we have 2 rooms and there's 3 people in the other one, you can room with Colby and I if you want." Sam smiles at me.
"O-okay." I stutter at him and smile a bit. We reach the room and separate. Sam, Colby, and I walk into our spacious room and sit down on the bed.
"Alright Sam and I can sleep together and you can have the bed for your self Alaska. Here's a sweatshirt and a pair of Calvin's, you can take a shower right now if you want." Colby says and hands me his clothes.
I smile, "thank you guys really. I appreciate this so much." I say and limp to the shower. I peel off my dirty clothes and put them beneath the sink. I turn on the hot water getting in and soaping up my body. I wash and condition my hair and shave as well. I jump out and pat dry my stitches and dry the rest of my body but keeping my hair wet. I slide over an XPLR black hoodie at reached the tops of my knees. I'm a small framed person, weighing at about 130 pounds and being 5'3. I brush out my long brown hair side on a pair of underwear from my backpack instead of the Calvin's cause they were too big on me. I walk out of the bathroom and into the bedroom where they sat on their phones. I place Colby's underwear on the desk and sit on the bed feeling a lot more comfortable even though I wasn't wearing pants.
"Feel better?" Sam asks me with a smile.
"Yeah I do, a lot actually."
Colby walks past us and gets into the shower.
"I hope this is like awkward or anything" Sam says and scratches his neck, "I know it was sudden, also considering you don't know us or anything." He chuckles.
"I was nervous at first but you seem like good people. Plus you could've left me there to, I don't know, die or something and you didn't." I laugh a bit.
"True," He says, "so Alaska, Colby and I were talking about it, and we wanted to know if you wanted to maybe come back to LA with us? I know it's a lot very fast but there's no way we can leave you here alone and hurt with no where to live. We can help you." He says and sets his hand on top of mine.
I consider it, there's so many risks, but what's life without risks, "uhm, actually, yeah, let's go for it." I smile lightly.
Same eyes light up, "wow, cools, yeah." He says shocked by excited, "okay, great. Let's get some rest now okay? We have an early flight to catch, 8:00!" He says and bounces to the other bed. I crawl under the covers of my bed as Sam shuts off all the lights. "Goodnight Alaska."
"Goodnight Sam."
