Win opens his eyes and saw that it looked like a nice day out. when he tried to get up, he realized that he was in a hospital bed and had an IV in his arm. he was playing around with it when he heard the door open. he turned to look and saw his roommate Din walk in.
“hey man you’re finally awake. how are you feeling?” Din asked
“ok i guess, what happen? why am i in the hosptial?” Win replied.
“you don’t remember? oh well i guess it might take some time to come back. they had to sedate you last night.”
confused, Win asked “sedate me? why?” he sat there trying to remember what had happen and then he began to remember bits and pieces of the previous night. talking, singing, bright lights, lots of noise… a crash…
Din sat next to bed and he saw Win’s hands starting to curl into a fist with the bed sheets twisting between his fingers. “You remember huh?”
“Riew… where is she?” Win asked without looking at Din.
“dude, i think you should just get some rest. worry about yourself first” Din said as he got up and walked away from him.
“Din!! tell me where she is, is she ok? why won’t anyone tell me? the doctors, they wouldn’t tell me either last night. thats why they sedated me isn’t it? tell me now!”
Din could hear the anger in his friend’s voice, but he couldn’t bare to be the one to tell him anything. Din took a deep breath and turn to look at Win. “Are you sure you want to know now?”
“Damn it Din! just tell me or i’ll get out of this damn bed and find out for myself” Win started to try and rip the IV out his arm when Din finally gave in.
“Ok ok man calm down. Riew… the girl that was in the car with you, I don’t know the specifics, all the doctors told me was that it’s serious”
Din saw Win’s eyes widen and his jaw quiver “.. serious?” Win asked?
“yea, man, from what the police told me… there was a convertible that basically drove right into you guys, but you swerved in time to avoid the head on collision. but the convertible ended up doing a lot of damage to the passenger side of your car, thats why Riew is..”
“seriously injured” Win interrupted “it’s my fault!! what did i do, what did i do??” he started hitting the bed when Din grabbed him and held his arms down.
“Win now you listen to me. this isn’t your fault, those guys in the convertible, they were drunk, the cops already arrested them. it’s not your fault you, you hear me?” Din then looked him in the eyes “don’t you dare try and take the blame for this like you did last time.”
“but..”
“no, no buts about it” Din said “last time was not your fault and neither is this time. i don’t care what you think, but i’m not going to have it this time. i let you deal with it your own way last time, which was stupid as hell, but i’m not going to let you drown yourself in pity again”
Win shook himself free of Din and laid down in his bed. “how hurt was she?” he thought to himself.
“she’s in the icu right now, do you want to go see her?”
Win sat back up “i can see her? they will let me?”
Din patted his friends back “aw puppy love, isn’t this cute?” he said with a laugh. “i’ll go get a nurse”
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Din wheeled Win over to the icu, as they were going through the waiting room he saw her bandmates sitting in there, all of whom looked like they hadn’t slept all night.
“Din wait, the waiting room bring me there first”
“sure, you know the least you could have told me was that you were dating a rock star, does she have any hot friends?” he replied
“man, shut up just push the wheelchair would you?”
when the door to the waiting room open, all three guys stood up in anticipation, but when they saw that it wasn’t the doctor, they all sat back down in disappointment. Win didn’t know what to say, he didn’t know much about these guys, but from what Riew had told him he couldn’t help but think that they wanted to kill him.
“i’m… i’m sorry” Win blurted out “sorry for being the reason Riew is hurt, sorry, i’m so sorry”
Lek got up and walked over to Win and said “man, it’s not your fault, you don’t have to be sorry. how are you doing? you doing alright?”
“yea, yea i’m fine.”
“we should have gone to visit you first” Thom said “but we’ve just kind of been caught up here, waiting to hear something from the doctors”
“it’s alright, i understand, Riew, she told me that you guys are like her brothers” Win said looking at the ground. he couldn’t bare to look at them.
“Win, go in and see her” Win looked up to see that Kong was staring at him. “go, go in we’ll talk later” he said.
Win nodded and looked up at Din, who wheeled him out of the waiting room towards the icu.
Din stopped in front of the doors, “you sure your ready to see her?”
“yea… i think so.”
