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"Shaw calledto her"

"Oh, thank God"

"Come on, Cora, help me out here"

"I talked to her yesterday They had to rush hiery She sounds terrified and so sad Shaw and I were about to draw straws to see as going to ignore her and fly to Kentucky anyway Her brother is at Baptist Hospital East or soht don She needs soht it was ironic, considering Ayden was the one who had left , that everyone was suddenly so concerned that I was going toto fix it, which is pretty weird considering I don’t think I’m really the one that broke it"

She snorted ataround my thumb absently

"I have to play the show in Berlin tonight and I’ll work on getting to the States toet to Kentucky You guys probably need to keep an eye on her until I can get to her if it’s as bad as Shaw said"

"We have been We love her, too, you know?"

I snorted "I do know"

"Are you going to tell her you’re co thatto let her know she was on my mind, that she wasn’t alone no nored it, or told ood chance I would scrap the entire idea and just keep on going forith the band and the tour

"No I think it’ll be better just to show up That way, if she doesn’t want me there she can just tell "

"Jet, even if she tells you she doesn’t want you there, she’s lying It’s your job to know that and stay anyway"

Women were entirely too coe later to let you kno everything works out"

"It’ll work out the way it’s supposed to I have faith in you guys"

I grunted and hung up the phone I flipped it around in ers for a few ave in and typed a e to Ayden We hadn’t spoken since that kiss in the yard before I left, and I could still feel every part of her insideabout you I miss you

There was no response back for a solid half hour, but she was in a different ti at the hospital or not, so I tried really hard not to think about it too ed up a pen and a piece of paper and worked out the chorus of a new song that had been tugging at ht that when nored it until I remembered that I had sent a text to her

I miss you, too

Simple and to the point It was all I really needed to hear

Chapter 17

I was so exhausted I could barely see straight I had spent the last three nights sleeping in the most uncomfortable chair in the world in Asa’s roo with my ht back in Kentucky and had been rushed in for ery The doctors had to drill a hole in his head in order to reduce the swelling and give the pooling blood a place to escape Asa’s heart had stopped beating twice, and they toldit with how closeHe still wasn’t awake, and it was really touch-and-go, but I had to take a shower and if my mom called to tell me she just si tolike this was just another scrape that Asa had gotten himself into Not when I told her that the hospital staff had declared hi table If he died and she made oing to hear from me