Chapter 7
When I wake up I see a bright light above my head and hear sirens
"What the hell? Where am I?" as I start to sit up a doctor pushes me back down
"Miss kokio, please stay still. You passed out because you drank too much on an empty stomach" he proceeds to ask me about my appetite and if I exercise enough, just then I notice a familiar face sitting beside my bed
"Drew?" I say with an uneasy feeling. He quickly snaps out of his sleep and looks at me worriedly
"Hey you're going to be okay" he says with a shaky but gentle voice. The doctor continues to look at a sheet of paper
"You need to be eating more and drinking less, your lucky your boyfriend brought you in when he did. If you would've gone a few more hours with no food you would have passed out and been in a worse situation" I look at the doctor with an angry look
"What boyfriend?" Then he looks over to Drew and Drew gives him his thanks as the doctor leaves. As things come back into focus I stare at Drew
"Do the others know where we are?" he shakes his head in response
"Did you clean the juice?" he looks at me flabbergasted and shakes his head.
"Oh great now I'm going to have to explain why I stole his orange juice AND why I am not home!" Drew looks at me with concern
"You should be resting, not worrying". I look up at the ceiling for a moment and see the light coming in from the window
"What time is it?" he looks at his watch as he says that its about noon on saturday, I suddenly shout "Oh shit! Paul is going to kill me! And I owe him my life on top of that!" Drew quickly takes out his phone and dials a number.
"Uh , yes hello? Oh geez there's no need to scream at me sir! Yes I have Miss Kokio right here" he hands me the phone. I automatically go in defense mode
"Don't start anything with me. I know I screwed up leaving and all that but I had good reason! I mean if you could see me now you wouldn't be yelling at Drew! I mean he saved my life!" I pause for a moment to let him speak. He asks where I am and I look over to Drew with a desperate look on my face, he holds out his hand and takes his phone back
"Yes sir, she is safe. Okay I will tell you but you have to promise to to freak out, okay? Alright we are at the emergency ro-" he stops to look at the phone and even I can hear not just Paul screaming but Jack and Mark too. The phone hangs up and I look at Drew
"I'm sorry I dragged you into this, you should probably leave before they get here" he looks down at his hands and replies
"Do you want me to?" I look at him shocked as the nurse comes in with a hot plate of eggs, some bacon and cereal. I shut my mouth noticing it was open this whole time
"No, but I also don't want to keep you from doing other things" he looks at me with a grin
"This is the most fun I've had in years!" We both laugh and as soon as I get a smell of the food I turn my attention to the plate of food in front of me and start to dig in. When I finish eating Drew looks at me with a solemn look in his eyes "What kind of life did you live before coming to new york?" and just as I'm about to answer him all the other guys come crashing into my room with a loud band Jack actually slipped on the floor and fell face first to the ground I laughed so hard it hurt, when they all surrounded my bed I couldn't think of what to do so I hid under the blanket the nurse gave me. It's not quite see through but I can still see everyone's silhouette through it, I hear Paul bombarding Drew with questions. Mark was just standing there silent, Jack came up to the tray with my papers on it and gasped at what they had to say.
Everyone went silent as paul and Mark looked over the papers, Paul looked like he was about to cry and Mark looked like he was grieving over something. The first person to speak was Jack
"Max I am so sorry I shouldn't have pushed you to drink that" with that he looked down at his feet in shame. The next person I heard speak was Paul
"I'm sorry I didn't know about you eating habits, I should have looked more into it before bringing you here" as he said that Mark got an angrier look on his face than I'd ever seen anyone have and started raising his voice but keeping it lower since we were in a hospital
"What do you mean you should have looked into it?! Where did she come from then?! Are you in charge of her or something?!" Mark started to pace around the room and Paul slowly looked up at everyone and started to explain the situation to them all. I slowly lift my head out from the blankets to see everyone with a grim or shocked expression on their face. When they noticed me peeking my head out they all looked at me with a sad expression I couldn't help but get angry
"So what if I come from a broken house! So what if i don't eat as much as I should! Don't feel bad for the way I live! I might as well go back!" I pause for a moment then continue "It shouldn't matter to any of you anyway. You're all in a good place, you should be enjoying yourselves not sitting here feeling bad about something you can't help!" I didn't notice it but I started to cry in the middle of my last sentence. After a good while Paul sits up straight and speaks with meaning in his voice
"But there are some things I can help with and there are some things I can help you change, that's the whole reason you're here!" as I look around the room everyone is nodding their heads as if they're agreeing with him. I look up to see drew speaking
"I can help you too, I can bring you a lunch everyday to make sure you are eating properly and that's not a question I am doing whether you want it or not" before I start to go back under the covers everyone starts adding in ways they're going to help me get my life back on track. Before long after our little talk I am released from the hospital and free to go where I want as everyone is walking out. I quickly run to give them all a group hug and whisper
"Thank you guys".