Innocence (5sos OT4)

I missed You

The next time I woke up I was in a whole new room. I was still in the hospital but i seemed to be in a more, for lack of a better word, important room. My neck was still wrapped and i had bruises on my arms and torso. I couldn't see my legs because of the blanket covering them and to be honest, I didn't want to move either. My skull held a slight stinging sensation but it was wrapped like my neck.

I jumped when the door opened, revealing the doctor and nurse from earlier.

"Hello, Luke! We just wanted to stop in and make sure that you're doing alright." He smiled at me before opening a folder.

"It seems that the medication we gave you made you have night terrors and could have possibly made you accidently hurt yourself in your sleep. Hence why your skull was bleeding. We've put you on a new medication and talked to your family about it... Now, your night terrors may get worse but you shouldn't accidentally hurt yourself in your sleep anymore. If you do, your family may have to involve restraints or some kind of railing to your bed. Most of your bruises don't look like someone hit you, they look like you fell down a flight of stairs-"

"U-u-up" I whispered. My voice was charred and breathy. It held no actual voice to it besides the slight squeak and exhale sound.

"Excuse me? Did you just say you fell... Up? The stairs..." The two of them were looking at me with very confused expressions.

"D-ra-a-ge-ed m-e-" i let out a cough, little splatters of red coming up.

"Oh dear!" The nurse squealed. The doctor rolled his eyes.

"Oh calm down! Its completely normal for his condition." The nurse turned to him and glared.

"He said someone dragged him up the stairs and he's got marks on his body to prove it! If he's coughing up blood he may have some internal bleeding!" She said. The doctor sighed.

"We ran x-rays. He is completely fine. If he had internal bleeding, we would have saw it-" he cut himself off by shutting the door behind him as he walked out. The nurse sighed and looked back at me.

"I'll try my best to help you, Luke." She smiled before opening the door and leaving me alone again.

I used to not mind being alone...

Now, it terrified me.

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Some time later the doctor returned me to the previous room I had been in where Calum, Ashton, and even Michael where looking worried. Calum was the first to jump up when he saw me, Ashton following suit. Michael stayed sitting, bouncing his knee as he stared blankly at the wall in front of him.

"Lukey! Are you okay?! Hows your head?!" Ashton had to grab Calum's arms to move him out of the way of my wheelchair. I looked to the doctor to help me get on the bed but, instead, Michael got up and put my arm on his shoulders, his other arm going under my knees as he picked me up and quickly (yet gently) lay me down on the bed. I smiled at him and he scowled back at me.

"Mr.Hemmings is alright. Just a little head injury caused by the medication." Ashton whipped his head to the doctor and glared.

"People don't bleed from their skull because of painkillers!" The doctor only chuckled and smiled at the golden blonde boy before leaving the room.

"Luke? Are you okay??" I looked up at Calum to find his sad puppy eyes staring right back at me. I smiled and opened my arms for him causing him to sigh before climbing up on my bed.

"Cal, I don't think you should-"

"OH SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!" Calum interrupted Ashton as he turned to glare at him.

"You'd do the same thing for Michael, so shut the fuck up. I don't want to hear it. You want to rub michaels love in my face and then yell at me and choke Luke because we like each other?! Both of you can go fuck off!" Ashton sighed and sat down next to Michael, who was just sitting and staring at Calum in shock.

"Sorry, Luke." Calum whispered. He lifted up the sheets and pulled them over the two of us before scooting in closer to me. He gently laid his head on my good shoulder and wrapped his arm around my torso. In return, I wrapped both of my arms loosely around him and kissed his head.

I heard both Michael and Ashton scoffed and looked at them in curiosity. I locked eyes with Ashton causing him to blush and quickly bury his head in Michaels chest. The pale lad smiled and wrapped his arms around Ashton much like I did to Calum. I smiled before I closed my eyes, praying that I had a good dream tonight.

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Four days of recovery layer, I was finally ready to go home. Calum, of course, came home with me as Ashton went back home. Michael hadn't been back to the hospital to see me since Calum's outburst but id be lying if i said thing weren't a lot more relaxed without him around.

"Hey, Calum? I wanna talk to you." I said softly. I forgot to metion, I can speak again but I can't talk loud and i can't yell. In all honesty though, I'm just happy to talk to Calum again.

"What is it?" Calum put down one of the bags he was holding and came over to me. I smiled as he gently wrapped his arms around my waist. I put my hands on his cheeks and pecked him softly before looking around the house.

"I think we should get emergency lights. Just encase the power ever goes out." Calum gave me a strange look before nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, good idea. It would be good to have them if a storm ever cut the lights out." I sighed in relief and grabbed my phone from my pocket.

Six new messages

37 missed calls

23 notifications (insta)

27 notifications (messenger)

47 notifications (kik)

23 notifications (snap)

"Woah, that's... A lot..." Calum laughed while scratching the back of his head.

"Nah, I just haven't checked my phone in five or six days..." I felt my face heat up in embarrassment, i could only imagine that my face looked like a tomato. Calum gave a small laugh before wrapping his arms around me and gently pulling me into his warm embrace.

"I missed you so much, Luke." The Maori whispered into my hair. I felt tingles go down my spine from my neck to my tailbone as his breath hit my ear.

"I missed you too." I whispered, placing a peck on his neck which caused him to relax a bit more. He buried his head in my neck, careful of my wounded shoulder.

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Sorry this book is such a mess 🖤🖤