sick and tired | jaden hossler

stitches

kaitlyn's pov

"we need to talk." jaden stands at the top of the stairs looking down at me.

i nod in return and follow him into his bedroom.

"i overheard cody talking about me." he begins taking a seat in his desk chair.

"oh that." my voice falls a little bit.

"that's toxic, katie. the way he spoke to you is exactly the way mads used to speak to me. you can't let somebody manipulate you like that." he bosses me around.

"i can take care of myself and what's it to you?." i argue.

"you shouldn't let somebody walk all over you like that. you preach left and right about how griffin controls you too much. don't be a hypocrite." he protests.

"oh, so you think i'm a hypocrite? just because you're pissed at me for fighting your psycho ex girlfriend doesn't mean you get to just barge into my relationship and start name calling and shit." my anger builds up inside me just like it did at nessa's party right before i fought mads.

"i'm just trying to protect you like a good best friend would." he defends himself.

"you're the one who said we weren't best friends anymore! you're protecting me? i was protecting you against mads and yet you sided with her. this is so unfair and you know it. no apology. no nothing. you're the biggest hypocrite ever. i have every right to be pissed at you." i raise my voice a little.

"i know and i'm sorry." he says smally.

"can i leave?" i get up from his bed.

"i kissed paisley." he blurts out stopping me from leaving.

"so now you're kissing my friends? is that all you wanted is to be on good terms just so you can fuck around and sleep with my friends? well guess what, jaden! we're not on good terms and i refuse to be okay with you dating my friend-." i shout at him walking towards him almost hitting him but he cuts me off by grabbing both of my wrists and kissing me.

i rip my hands out of his grip. i am astounded by what just occurred.

"i got to go." i quickly speak before rushing out of his room.

i lock my bedroom door and don't come out for the rest of the night.

i am furious.

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the next morning, i rush downstairs before jaden could wake up. he usually wakes up around two o'clock and it's now twelve so i have time. kio and anthony aren't home unfortunately. i begin making myself some breakfast before jaden comes down. i need to avoid him at all costs.

i get so lost in my thoughts that i accidentally drop a glass measuring cup from off the counter and it shatters on the floor.

"fuck!" i whisper shout.

i proceed to pick up the broken pieces but cut myself in the process.

i stare at the gash in the middle of my left palm. blood drips out of it. i begin to panic. blood makes me severely anxious.

i grab a towel and press it against the gash on my hand. the bleeding won't stop. i continue to panic.

tears quickly stain my cheeks. i'm in great pain. i cry out a yell in deep agony.

i'm sitting on floor on the verge of blacking out when i feel a pair of arms carry me upstairs into jaden's bathroom.

"what happened?" jaden lays me down on the cold bathroom floor.

"i cut my hand." i sniffle.

"let me get you a wrap." he rummages through random crap underneath his sink.

he frantically searches while applying pressure onto my wound.

"stay with me. don't faint. keep breathing." he calms me down.

"i think i need stitches." i stammer.

"i'll take you to the hospital. let me call griffin." he wraps the wrap around my hand.

"i don't think i can walk. i feel dizzy." i barely speak.

"i'll carry you." he picks me up and grabs his keys off of his night stand.

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we get to the hospital. along the way, jaden blasted the ac so that i wouldn't faint even though he was clearly cold.

since griffin is currently in texas, cody meets us at the hospital instead.

jaden called him only because i asked him to.

seven stitches in my left hand. seven. jaden paid for the whole hospital bill too. griffin said that he'd pay him back but i know jaden doesn't mind.

cody leaves shortly after the doctor stitches me up. he came by with his friend candace. i've never met or heard about her before so she must be a new friend.

jaden could tell i was uncomfortable with her being her so he was the one who hinted that cody should leave.

this whole thing made me forget about the kiss between jaden and i last night. all i know is that i can't tell cody. i mean, i didn't exactly pull away. the kiss meant nothing though. it was probably just to shut me up, right? RIGHT?

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