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She continues typing away, ignoring my words I’m sure she’s heard this a thousand times before, but this time is different This is my brother This is h everything with me
"Well, since you’re family, I need you to fill out all of hisit back when you’re done and I’ll go see if they’re allowing hivisitors?" I shout "This isn’t a prison! Look, I can fill out this paperwork back there with hi about I NEED BACK THERE"
She ignores ly Before I can hurl the board across the fking erabs it out of my hands
"I can fill this out If you could hurry and find out where he is, I would appreciate it" She smiles easily at the lady and I’s her nails in deep "My goal is to see Jaxon as soon as possible I think we share a coht you that you can catcha bastard If you piss her off and er than I have to, so help rowls in a low voice to me and stomps off to fill out in pacing the tile in front of the door that leads to the patients If someone would just open this damn door, I could breathe a little easier I pull out e at all of the missed calls from Cole I can’t believe I didn’t have this onhim about fifteen times on my way over here, but he never answered
My brother is somewhere back there hurt or even worsefuck, I can’t think like that He’s back there and this fkingif he’s okay Sraze acrosstoo tight and I can’t handle soft words or pitying looks at the moment Audrey calls out my name as I walk away in the opposite direction Away froainst the wall and think about what I can do Suddenly, the door opens and a nurse comes out Evidently she’s not new at this because she quickly shuts the door behind her She glances around the room and does a double take when her eyes land on me I can see the shock on her face and immediately know that she has to be Jaxon’s nurse
"Are you Jaxon Riley’s brother?" she asks
"Twin," I hastily spit out The others quickly come over to join me
"I can take you back there, but I can’t let you see hi rooet you You can wait there for a doctor to give you roup I’m technically only allowed to let four of you in"
"I’ll hang back here," Lane volunteers Well, it sure as hell wasn’t going to be ain, Jace Not such a drag anymore, is it?" Em bites out at me as she pushes past to follow the nurse Ouch I’d take everything I said back if I could
Quickly, we all file in behind her andif I can catch a glimpse of my brother We round a second corner at the end of the hall, where I see Cole sitting on the ground with his back against the wall and his face in his hands My stomach plummets as I pick up asp, "Cole" Even though it was only a whisper, he was still able to hear her voice and his head shoots up to look at us I hate how fking stressed he looks and how red his eyes are What does that ht here in this roo to the room next to Cole "Ah, now there are five of you I’ll try to let you all stay, but they ht already," Cole’s ragged voice announces e all enter the tiny prison they call a waiting room
"That was fast," I say
"No it wasn’t I feel like I’ve been here for ten fking years already," he h his hair
Quinn finally reaches hi her face into his side He grabs on to her tightly and hides his face in her hair We all watch as he sucks in a deep breath E at the two of theainst the wall by the door And I’s Cole
"We were running a play It was the last one before Coach was planning to dismiss us At the snap, Jax shot down the side and cut to the middle just like he was supposed to Fisher tossed a perfect spiral and it practically dropped out of thin air into Jaxon’s ar was that the defenders were expecting it this tiot blocked in, so he ran and tried to leap over thes and he spun at an odd angle headfirst into the ground" Cole grabs the bridge of his nose and shakes his head back and forth
"It ful The second he hit the ground, his whole body went li but we just couldn’t wake hi happened"
The rooins to soak in Cole’s story I’ve seen Jax jump into the end zone more times than I can remember He’s leapt over defenders’ heads and even done a flip or two to get the touchdown We’ve all juet those extra points on the scoreboard Except this ti hit and he crashes down on his head
Everyone eventually finds a spot in the room as we sit to wait out the news Em claims the chair closest to the door She pulls her feet up and rests her chin on top of her knees Her eyes never leave the door, al to will the doctor to enter Quinn fell asleep in Cole’s lap shortly after we arrived Cole stretches out across the length of three chairs Audrey parks herself next to the onlyin the roo suit is still wet and has soaked through her clothes I catch her shiver slightly
I alternate between pacing the roo my head out the door, just to re for any piece of news No one speaks and no one dares to leave the room Hours pass, three to be exact, before aarea and looks around at everyone
When he finally sees e to see you after working on Jaxon for so long"
"Working on him?" I quickly inquire
"I’m sorry I’m Dr Graham You are related to Jaxon Riley, correct?"
"Yes, sir"
"Would you like to step out in the hall to speak?" he questions, while looking at all the eyes peering up at him
I look down and see Em’s anxious face and shake my head, "They’re all here for hiht then Your brother endured what appears to be a mild traumatic brain injury We ran almost every test possible and I’m optimistic at his outcome You need to know that he is cons of ive him time to heal I don’t believe we need to take any drastic ive hihly
"We’ll continue to ," Dr Graha could he be in a co the arhtly
"Everyone reacts differently to a brain injury, so I’e on the GCS"