One Day At A Time

|Chapter 24|

Everyone sits in the waiting room area of the hospital, nervously waiting for the doctor to come out and deliver the news. Although they want everything to be fine, they all know something bad is going to come out of it anyway. Seeing the doctor come out, they all stand when they hear him call out for Juan and Javier's family.

"I'm Dr. Cunningham." He starts by introducing himself before sitting down in one of the empty chairs that were nearby.

It was almost 12 in the morning, so it was just them in the waiting room area. Everyone else had either gone to see their loved ones in their respective rooms or left.

"Are they going to be okay?" Demi asks, sitting at the edge of her chair.

Without another thought, she slowly inches up a bit more, leaning over to grab the doctors hands, and hold them tightly in her hands. He holds his composure as his body shakes from Demi trembling right next to him.

"Doc, please please please tell me they're gonna be okay." She pleads, now bringing his hands to her chest and holding it there, indicating that she NEEDED them to be okay.

"There's good and bad news." He says looking over everyone's faces. "We were able to stop the bleeding from Karter and she's okay. She's resting right now."

"Thank God!" Hazel says holding her hand over her chest, but not letting go of the sigh that sits lodged at the back of her throat. "What about Juan and Javier?"

"Javier just got out of surgery but they suggest he will be fine with a few therapy sessions after he gets released, but Juan..." he pauses before looking at Demi and continuing. "Unfortunately didn't make it. He was pronounced dead when he arrived here and we tried our hardest to resuscitate him."

Everyone in the room is shocked to know that Juan, a loving and caring person who never did anything to anyone, was murdered. To say that everyone was devastated would be an understatement. They all broke down into tears as the doctor said his condolences and looked away to keep his composure.

3 hours earlier

"Why can't we just have a party? Y'all always say ain't no party like a Mexican party right?" Karter laughs.

Karter hasn't really gotten the chance to reach into her Hispanic roots, besides hearing Hispanic songs and celebrating Cinco de Mayo, since she's lived in Atlanta all her life. Although she was kidding at the moment, she really did want to have a party with all of her Mexican family, most of whom she hadn't even met yet. Now would be the perfect opportunity since she's old enough to get to know everyone and remember them.

"Yeah but in this case we're just going out to eat. We can't just invite people to LA this late." Hazel says.

"Well can we just go for ice cream?" Justyce asks as they all walk out of the building.

"Yeah you can't go wrong with that." Ava goes along with it.

Ava was ready to eat some real food, but ice cream sounded a bit better in this circumstance. She thought ice cream would make Javier feel better about the loss, even though he really didn't care since it was their first loss of the entire season.