CHAPTER 31
Justin hadnt left my side during the night, neither
did monika.Pam and Lance where the first ones to visit
the following morning and they brought food for
monikia and justin.With that monika called joey to
come pick her up so she could get some sleep and take
a shower.They tried to convince justin to do the same
but he refused to move from his seat. "come on
justin,i know for a fact you haven't had a chance to
sleep and i know you're tired.Just go home for a
couple of hours and come back.She'll be alright we
aren't going anywhere and if anything happens we'll
call you." lance said. "you guys just don't get it,I
am not going to move from this chair.I kind of feel
responsible for this mess and I promised myself and
mary that i wouldn't leave unless she's coming with
me.You guys can try all you want but im not going to
budge." justin said as he squeezed my hand.Even though
I couldn't show them that i was listening, i heard
every word he said and i was so happy to know that
justin loved me so much.I began to think why would he
feel responsible for the fire, and then it hit me.It
was britney who broke into my house and set it on
fire.Anger ran throughout my whole body, that was the
house i grew up in and it held so many memories
inside, memories which were now ashes.I was highly
upset inside and i couldn't show it. Then a tear ran
down my face and Justin saw it. "m mary? baby? can you
hear me?" I then felt his thumb run across my cheek
wiping away my tear.At that point pam and lance were
all watching me like a hawk waiting for me to do
something to show them i was ok."baby, it's justin
listen to me, move your finger if you can hear me." i
took a deep breath and used all of my strength and i
gave his hand a little squeeze."mary, you can hear me!
oh, baby you're going to be fine. I'm so glad you're
ok." he said as he hugged me and kissed my cheek and
forehead. "gurl do you know how scared me and monka
were.you better get better and fast cuz all of us miss
you."pam said as she put my long brown hair behind my
ear."speaking of monika she just left and is waiting
downstairs for joey, shouldn't you go tell her the
good news?" lance said. " Oh, that'd be a good idea."
pam said as she jumped out of her chair and walked
fast to catch up with monika. Once she caught up with
monika, she was getting into joey's car.They both
jumped up and down and rushed back to mary's room,
with joey not far behind."hey i just heard the good
news!" monika said as she walked into the room and
right next to the bed."Nice one mary, just wait for
your best friend to leave the room and then you give
us a sign that you're fine." pam chuckled as she
said,"right, that our mary for you." Then just as joey
got there he had to turn right back around cuz monika
was really tired and she wanted to get some sleep."why
do i even bother?" joey pouted as he walked out of the
room behind monika.It was about 4 in the afternoon and
everyone was there.Justin never let me hand
go.Everyone was in their own little conversation with
someone and justin had dozed off and was taking a
nap.My body had rested enough and I had regained all
of my strength and energy.I slowy opened my eyes to
see everyonr doing somthing and talking about many
different things. joey,chris and jc were playing a
card game. lance was talking to monika and pam while
they watched tv. and then my eyes fell upon the
angelic face sleeping next to my hand.With my other
hand free i slowly stroked his cheek with the back of
my hand.He moved a little but didnt wake up.Then i
whispered in his ear, "justin babe, wake up,i'm up."
he slowly opened his eyes and then saw my face smiling
at him. "MARY!!!" With that everyone looked over and
they all made their way over to the bed. Justin just
hugged me and gave me light kisses.Monika and pam made
a mad dash towards me."woo there!! you guys can hold
your horses." "that's easy for you to say,you weren't
the person that had to wait for someone to show a sign
of some sort to findout if they are alright." pam
snikered as she hugged me. "gurl, you have no idea how
worried we were." monika saidhugging me then she hit
my arm as she said,"don't do anything like this again
ok?" i just laughed and said "ok monika whatever you
say." the doctor came in and wanted to speak to me in
private.Justin got all defensive and said, "whatever
you have to say to her you can say in front of all of
us." The doctor looked at me and i just noded. "ok,
well then you show that you have recovered, but just
in case we are going to run a test today  to see if
your alright." i looked at him and asked, "after that
can i go home?" he looked at me and said, "if your
test results come back all cleared then you can be
released." My face lit up after hearing that. the
doctor excused himself and left. I turned and looked
at justin,"heard that i can go home!" Justin smiled at
me.Then i realized i had no home and my smile turned
into a frown."what's wrong?" "I...I don't have a home
to go to." then my eyes got watery again."oh mary, you
know our house is always open for another girl to move
in." pam said. "baby, you know there will always be
room for you at my house." justin said as he caressed
my cheek with his hand.i tried my hardest to smile but
i just couldn't."I know, but it won't be the
same.Justin you know what i mean.That house meant
everything to me,there were so many things that
happened and there were a lot of memeories that it
held." i just started to cry harder and harder just
thinking about it.justin just sat on by my side and
hugged me and let me cry on his shoulder.Then he
whispered into my ear,"This feels familiar have we
done this before?"i started to smile and i pulled away
from the hug and wipped away all my tears.I looked
down and said, " justin,i think i'd feel safer staying
with you." he smiled and replied,"i feel better off
knowing you're in the same house as me, i won't worry
so much."i looked back at him and smiled.Then two
nurses came in with a wheel chair. "Mary,we're ready
for you to take the tests."the first nurse said.
"tests?",i said in a confused tone,"i thought it was
just one."i started to get scared and i squeezed
justins' hand. "well its just 3 and they are just to
make sure that you're fine.Don't worry it doesn't
hurt.they are just x-rays mostly."I looked over at
justin and he just gave a look that reassured me that
it'll be ok.Justin picked me up and carried me over to
the wheelchair.I whispered to him,"I'm scared." he
gave me a kiss on the cheek and said,"there's nothing
to be scared of,the faster these tests are done the
faster i get to take you away from here and back to my
house."he gave me a bid old smile and he said,"I'll be
waiting for you to come back so i can get my kiss."
After hearing that my feeling of being scared wore
off.Then the nurse pushed me out of the room and down
the hallway.The other nurse began to change my sheets
on the bed and she picked up the stuffed dog and
handed it to justin as she said, "i think she'd want
to hold on to this, since she's been holding it so
tight the whole time shes been in here." Justin just
smiled and said," it does."it had been two hours since
they had took me away and justin was getting a little
worried.Everyone except justin,and monika left to go
to pam's house to rest up, and eat.Monika and justin
started to play cards but they couldn't concentrate.
Then a nurse came in pushing a wheel chair and i was
sleeping.Justin walked over and picked me up and layed
me in bed. "Is she alright?" justin asked in a
concerned tone."Yes she's fine,during the last test we
had to put her to sleep she should wake up in a few
minutes and the docor should be in shortly." "thanks,"
jsutin said as she closed the door to the room. Justin
went back to sitting next to the bed.He grabbed the
dog and layed it next to me in bed.The doctor walked
in and I was still sleeping. "Mr.Timberlake?" "yes."
justin answered as he stood up from his seat."Well the
test results came back and it looks as if mary still
has some damage inside her lungs." he was interupted
by justin asking"can she still come home tonight?"
"She still can,but with one condition.She'll need to
breathe from this prescribed asma inhaler.Once she's
fully awake I'll sign her out.She's just needs to be
checked up during the night.Just make sure she's
breathing alright." Justin just nodded.Then the doctor
had a call to take and left.I woke up to see justin's
smiling face."can i go home now?" I said as i sat
up."sure can just as soon as we get you signed out."He
said with a grin."yayyy!!" i said as i hugged justin
and said,"i gettogohomeigettogohomeigettogohome!!"Then
justin said,"no,no,no,you get to go to my home."I just
smiled.Then justin explained to me what the doctor
told him.I was a little scared but i knew nothing bad
would happened.Soon i was in the car next to justin
driving to Pam's house where we'd spend the night.As
we pulled in the driveway i saw that everyone would be
inside waiting for me.Monika got out and ran towards
the door.I looked at justin witha big grin. " Why are
you smiling like that?" he asked."Oh, just cuz you owe
me a kiss." "Oh well then we can't leav a girl
waiting." then he smiled and leaned in to kiss me.and
as we were kissing a bright light was pointed directly
at our faces.We couldn't see who it was.I got scared
and held on to justin's hands.Then i started breathing
shallow and faster.Justin turned to me when he heard
me having breathing problems.He made a dash for his
pocket to pull out the inhaler.With the light and him
rushing he dropped it on the floor of the car. The
next thing he knew he felt a hand on his shoulder and
then feeling it drop.
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