My famous brothers

15. The stunt

Lukes POV
The whole set went quite. All that could be heard was his scream. Then the ambulance siren. The crew was all in a panic.
"I told you he wasn't ready for the stunt!" Is all the director is yelling. He grabs my arm and pulls me to the side. "This is your fault!" He says pointing over to where Jake is being surrounded by the crew and paramedics.
"I didn't tell him to do that stunt. And I'm also not the one who pushed the stunt forward when everyone knew it wasn't safe." I yell defending myself and trying my best to take the blame away from Jake. But the director won't have any of it. I watch in horror as I see him pull back his hand and feel it smash openly against my face.
"Your fault Luke! Not mine." He threatens and I stay where I am. I'm no use to Jake or Lucy by getting into a fight. Right now I need to focus on my siblings not some pathetic old tempered man. I walk over to my car and follow the ambulance that Jakes in. I cant bring myself to see him in so much pain, at least not yet.

As I drive to the hospital I quickly phone Lucy's school. I keep the explanation brief and as quick as possible. I just need Lucy to get here quickly. When I arrive i cant help but pace up and down outside of Jakes room. Then finally Lucy comes running down to me in a panic and practically collapses in my arms. Tears streaming down her face. I feel awful.
"Are you okay?" She says looking at me to see if I'm hurt. I smile weakly at her and I see the look in her eye. She's terrified. I bring her into a tight hug and she clings onto my shirt tightly. I can feel her soft tears slowly soaking through my shirt as she mumbles into my chest, "I'm so sorry. I should have just forgiven you when you came back that day, or when you kindly took me in." I stoke her back softly in an attempt to calm her down.
"I'm sorry to. I never should have treated you like that. Ive missed you Lulu." I kiss the top of her head gently and I feel her slowly start to calm.
"Ive missed you too big brother." I feel her tighten her grip and I do the same. I want her to know shes safe. Then as she pulls away the looks over to my cheek. I hear her gasp slightly and I give a weak smile. "Luke what happened?" She says as she analyses the small cut in my face and the bruise that followed.
"Just a falling out with the director again." I sigh as the words echo around my head. They tire me out and I fall back into one of the chairs. Lucy slowly sits down in the chair next to me and supportively grips my hand. "I'm sorry Lucy, this was all my fault. This shouldn't have happened to him. I should have stopped him. I-" she cuts me off.
"You are not too blame her Luke. Jake knows you and so do I and i can confidently say that neither of us would ever think you'd do this on purpose." Finally someone who doesn't blame me, and I'm glad it's the only person I never want to have a reason to blame me.

Then a nurse walks out of the room and me and Lucy both jump. I can see she's just as tense as I am right now. But i calm down slightly when I feel her grab my hand. There's my little Lulu.
"He's gonna be just fine." The nurse says in a calm and steady voice. I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding. I feel so tired and light headed all of a sudden like everything has just suddenly hit me and my brains finally caught up. "You can go in whenever your ready." The nurse smiles before she leaves. But neither of us move.
"You go." I say. 
"No you go." She says.
"No you." I say
"No you." She says.
We both then let out a small chuckle before we both slowly shuffle into the room.

When we see him he's asleep and I can tell its worse then we both had hoped but definitely better then we'd both feared. I pick up his chart and read the notes on it.

- Broken knee cap
- fractured collarbone
- 4 broken ribs on his left side
- multiple stitches
- and quite a few bruises

Suddenly he slowly starts to wake up and I feel Lucy jump back and tightly grip my arm. I know shes scared. She's always been scared when one of us got hurt to ever come within 3 meters of us in fear she might hurt us more. I remember when I dislocated my shoulder from a football game and she refused to go into my room or any room I was in unless mum was there. She was only 4 at the time and I was 9. But even now shes 15 nearly 16 and I see the same little scared look she had on her face all those years ago. Jakes eyes slowly open and he looks over at us.
"Hey...." I say nervously. I still feel guilty about this whole thing. It was supposed to be me who got hurt in that stunt. The wrong brother is in that bed right now.
"Hey... Luke." I can tell he's tired and in pain from the way he talks, which only, makes me feel worse. Then he looks over at Lucy who's shrunk into her own shyness and fear. "Hey Lu." He says trying to make her less tense and it works a little but shes still stiff.
"Hi." She shrugs in her quite little 5 year old voice.
"Hey Lucy why don't you go for a little walk and clear your head." I whisper in her ear and she agrees. I see her watery eyes look up at me as she walks slowly out of the room.

I edge closer to Jake but stop at the foot of the bed.
"Don't look at me like that Luke, it freaks me out." He says trying to lighten the mood.
"Sorry." I shrug nervously.
"You blame yourself don't you?" He says seeing straight through me and I sigh.
"Why J? Why did you have to do that stupid stunt?" I almost beg.
"Because, you're exhausted and it was too dangerous, if it had been you Luke you could have ended up much worse." He sounds annoyed but I can't tell.
"So?" Now it really hits me. All the energy is knocked out of me and my eyes feel like their getting heavier and heavier. I slump down into a chair next to him and hold my head in my hands.
"Luke?..." Jake sighs almost like he's about to apologise.
"Don't J." I snap trying not to let my tears show.

We sit there in silence till we both here the door creak open. I look up and see Lucy stood in the doorway. She looks so small from here. I open one arm and she comes and sits down next to me. I wrap my arm supportively around her and she looks at Jake, who's looking at both of us.
"How you feeling?" She asks with a nervous fidget that she tries to hide, but I notice.
"Like I just fell from a two story building window after the air bag failed." He sighs bitterly. Though neither of us can blame him, we know he's in a lot of pain and after years of growing up with Jake we've both learnt how aggressive Jake gets when he's hurt or frustrated.
"So when do you think you'll get to go home?" I can see Lucys really trying to help and I feel sorry for her when Jake just shrugs her off. I pull her in closer and she relaxes her head on my chest.

The whole room goes silent till we all jump when some random girl I've never seen before bursts through the door.
"Oh my days Jakey what happened?" I raise my eyebrow and look from the girl to Jake.
"Uhhh who is she?" I ask. But before Jake can answer she cuts in.
"I'm his Girlfriend stupid." She says coldly before she walks over to Jake and kisses him.

I look over at Lucy and I can see the same look of fear in her eyes as there is in mine.

Girlfriend?!