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Chapter 5

Ben P.O.V

Josh and I were in the lobby waiting for Sky, Chaz, Demarius, Jordan, and Zach to come down. We had decided to go to Central Park and have a picnic before the show.
"Guess who's here with the food!"
We look over and see Sky walking over to the couches.
"Did you remember the bacon?" Josh asks eagerly.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't know you wanted some." Sky gives Josh a pouty face. Josh looks like he's about to murder Sky.
"Ok calm down before you murder me and lose your job, of course I brought bacon." Sky almost looked scared for a second.
"OH HALLELUJAH!" Josh shouts, we burst into laughter. The guests around us are probably wondering why they were put in a hotel with us crazy people. A few minutes later Chaz, Demarius, Jordan, and Zachary finally come down.
"Sorry it took so long, Jordan couldn't find his shoe." Chaz says.
"I didn't realize I already put it on!"
We burst out laughing again. We're about to get up and head out when I hear the hotel door swing open. I look over and see a girl collapse onto the floor. I run over to the girl to see if she is okay. I look over her and notice that she has several cuts and bruises. I get a look at her thigh and notice that it is covered in blood. I hear Josh gasp behind me. "Ben I think it's a bullet wound." Josh says, pointing at her thigh. I look closer and see that, yes it is a bullet wound. I'm finally able to get a look at the girls face, and I notice, this is Mia.

"Guys this is Mia!" I say to the guys. I gently lifted her and carried her bridal style. "We have to get her to the hospital!" I say, already racing out of the hotel. "I'll call and uber!" Sky says.
Chaz gets an extra towel from the hotel staff to put on the wound. When the uber finally arrives I carefully lay her in the first two seats and I climb in beside her. "To the nearest hospital." I tell the driver. The driver speeds down the road and in a record breaking 5 minutes, we arrive at the hospital. I gently lift Mia into my arms, careful not to mess around with the towel on her wound.
"I need a doctor!" I call out as we walk into the hospital. A nurse comes over with a stretcher and I set Mia down. "What is her name?" The nurse asks as she starts wheeling her down to the surgery room. "Her name is Mia. I don't know her last name." I say, realizing that she never mentioned her last name. "Okay well we are going to need to do emergency surgery to get the bullet out. Go ahead and wait in the waiting room."
"Will she be ok?" I ask. I want her to be ok so I can give her a better life.
"As long as we get the bullet out successfully she should be fine." The nurse says.
I walk back out to the waiting room and see the guys all sitting there.
"Will she be okay?" Sky asks.
"They are doing surgery to remove the bullet, but she should be fine." They all sigh in relief. They barely know her, heck I barely know her myself, yet we care about her so much. After a couple of hours a nurse finally comes out. "Family for Mia?" She asks.
"That would be me!" I say, jumping out of my chair and racing over to her.
"Well the surgery was successful and we were able to get the bullet out. She is asleep right now but you can go and visit her right now." She says. I sigh in relief and follow the nurse down to her room. I walk in and see Mia peacefully asleep.

Mia P.O.V

My brain swims around as I feel myself start to wake up. I crack my eyes open and light comes flooding in. I open them a little more and take in my surroundings. I'm in a white room, laying in a bed. I look over and see Ben sitting in the chair. Why is Ben here? He doesn't notice that I'm awake so I ruffle the sheets a little bit to get his attention.
"Oh your awake. I was so worried about you." Ben says, walking over to me.
"What happened and why are you here?" I ask him. I didn't care if it was rude.
"I was in the hotel when you walked in and passed out so I brought you here. You had surgery to have a bullet wound from your thigh, which you might want to explain how you got." He responds. Finally it all comes back to me. "It was from one of my bullies. I was running away from him when he shot me." I say reluctantly. I know there's no point in lying.  "Why didn't you tell me you were being bullied this bad!?" Ben practically shouts. "I didn't want you to know! I didn't want to explain my life story the first time we meet." I say.
"Well we could've stopped this from happening!" He says.
"Look, I'm sorry for not telling you. Another question, why are you here? You didn't have to stay with me." Part of me is glad he stayed with me.
"Mia we want to help you. We want to foster you"

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Finally got this posted. Sorry if it seems rushed or not as good, I was trying to finish it as fast as I can.

The other day, I discovered that a friend of mine that I have math class with, also loves Newsies.
We have broken into song 4 times and are constantly making Newsies references. It's awesome.