𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓘𝓷𝓯𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓜𝓮𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓼𝓽...

Chapter 27

It was around noon when I was finally finished with all my school assignments, and then I got a call from a voice that made me smile. "Hi, Emerson", I replied in the phone. "Hey, Carina. Could you meet me at the hospital in about half an hour?", his tone seemed anxious and it made me skeptical. But, I needed to see a friendly face again and I said, "Okay, no problem. See you later." He giggled in the phone and told me before hanging up, "Thanks, Carina. Bye!" That's interesting, him calling me less than 24 hours after I drove him and Remington back home last night. I guess I just didn't expect to hear back from them so soon. I figure things might be generally normal and somehow we might pretend none of this happened. But, I didn't want to forget about it, and now I want to know more about Rem underneath all the leather and rebellious persona. I must still be shocked about what happened, but I knew I will never forget about him, no matter hard I tried to.

I made myself look decent enough for going outside, since it was considerably early for me, and I drove to the hospital. I parked away the driveway as to not block any ambulances, and was happy to see Emerson there with Luis and two boys I've never met before. I walked up and he gave me a quick, warm hug, and I smiled when we let go. "It's nice to see you again, Em", I told him. He gave me a cute grin and responded back, "Likewise, Carina." Then he gestured to the other two boys who were new to me, "Let me introduce you to the other members of our 'gang'", he said while making air quotes around "gang" to hint at the other band members. "This is Zion Maxwell, or Z the Big B", he said while he laid a shoulder on the person with hair cut like a boy's and a style matching the gang and they playfully shoved Emerson after he said their nickname. "And this beautiful boy is Austin Taylor", he gestured to the boy with muti-colored hair, one side of his hair purple while the other was green.

"Hi", I said as I waved and smiled at them, "it's nice to meet friends of Emerson and Remington." They smiled and waved back, and then I looked over at Luis and stated, "And it's nice to see you again, Luis", he gave his cute smile and waved awkwardly yet sweetly. I looked back at Emerson and asked, "So, what are we doing here?" He looked over to the boys and then said to me, "We need your help to get crutches for Rem." My eyes widened and my smile dropped a little as I realized what was happening. "You need my help?", I asked apprehensively, "But, I mean, what can I do?" He leaned closer to my ear and whispered the answer to my question. I raised my brows and gasped a little as I realized my purpose here. When he moved away from whispering in my ear, I said "Are you sure I can do it?" He winked at me while also giving me a reassuring smile, and I felt a bit more secure and nodded to let him know I understood.

Emerson's POV

After explaining the plan to Carina about how we were going to try to get the crutches needed for Remington, she seemed a little scared she might not be able to help us, but I reassured her she can do it and I believe in her and she let me know she was okay. Then we let her step inside first, and waited at least two minutes after to walk in one by one to avoid any suspicion we were together. Carina was talking to the person at the front desk, and we scanned around for where the crutches might be. Austin was able to find them in a storage closet that was currently locked. We found a nearby doctor who had keys chained to his belt, and we figured out what to do before Carina could do the task we asked her to do. We all waited in the lobby, separately, and then when she glanced at me for a quick second, I nodded once to give her the green light to go.

"OW!!!", she shouted while holding onto her stomach tightly. "What's wrong, miss?", the person at the front desk asked. "Nothing", she replied while stumbling, "I just get the worst cramps ever once a month and they seem to get worse and worse." She then collapsed onto the floor, and then person called out, "Doctors, I need assistance in the lobby!!!" Then a bunch of doctors rushed into the scene and I was able to walk past the doctor with the keys inconspicuously and pickpocket his belt to get them. The others noticed and then walked past carefully as to not spark any suspicion and when we were out of sight, we rushed to the storage room and checked that no one else was around. Z grabbed the keys and unlocked the door, and we grabbed one pair of crutches, and Luis grabbed some scrubs and doctor's coats as well as face masks to disguise ourselves with to walk out without raising suspicion.

We rushed back to Carina after disguising ourselves to look like doctors, and then Austin declared to everyone around "Don't worry everyone. We're her doctors and what we need to do is take her home to grab her medication and anything else she needs to take care of her condition." We then proceeded to carry her up while she still pretended to be weak, and we walked as fast as we could to her car. When no one was looking, she rose back up and got into the driver's seat and we drove the fuck out of there. After a minute, she started laughing and it caught me by surprise. "Carina, what's gotten into you?", I asked while smiling. She turned to me and said, "That was the most exciting thing I ever had to do." Then, everyone started laughing as we drove back to my home.

HELLO!!! I started this chapter last night, but it got late so I couldn't finish until today. It was hard to figure out how to play this chapter out, but I hope this is good enough. So much fun to think about when you play it in your head. I'll do my best update when I have time since it'll be busy for me this month because of school. I love you all and thank you for your support!!! 😘😘😘