Safe Place / Remastered

62. A New Beginning

I woke up at 5:30 AM. How did we sleep that long? Where's Zoe? I laid Kian's head on the bed and got up. I went out and downstairs and I turned on the coffee maker. Zoe must be upstairs in mine and Jc's room. I walked upstairs and peeked into the room. Jc was asleep on the bed and Zoe was asleep in her bassinet. I peeked in and walked away.

I realized how pissed I am at him. He had no right to say those things. Maybe Kian was right. Maybe I should let go. I shook the thought out of my head. I suddenly heard footsteps behind me in the dark. I started running downstairs but it was still dark down there. The running behind me stopped and I peeked into the bathroom to see if the thing went in there. Kian popped out and scared me. I screamed then punched him lightly in the arm.

"Shhhhh, your gonna wake everyone up." Kian laughed. I frowned at him, then I turned the lights on down there.

"You suck." I said as I laughed.

"We slept a long time huh?" He said as I poured my coffee.

"Yeah we did." I said.

"We deserved it." He said as grabbed my coffee and started drinking it.

"Give it back!" I said as I ran at him. He started running away, and suddenly we were chasing eachother around the whole downstairs. He turned a corner and then stopped. I ran up behind him and jumped on his back. He dropped the whole cup and then face planted onto the broken piece of the cup on the floor. I immediately got off his back. He laid there motionless face down on the floor.

I felt my heart stop for a second and then a huge lump formed in my throat. I felt a huge wave of fear overcome me. "Kian?" I said quietly as I shook him. Nothing. I don't know how, but I flipped him over. Blood gushed from his shoulder and his forehead, it had reopened the cut from last night. "Kian wake up." I said as I shook him. I started to panic and my eyes watered. I sat back against the wall and put my head in my hands. "No, no, what do I do? What the hell do I do!?" I mumbled to myself. I felt a hand grab my ankle and I looked up.

Kian was sitting up holding his forehead and laughing. "You asshole." I said as I smiled at him. We both started laughing.

"Wait kian are you actually bleeding?" I asked as I started to stop laughing.

"Oh, yeah." He said. As he wiped some blood off his head.

"Holy crap. Wait. We need to go to the hospital." I said as my smile faded.

"Yeah theres ceramics sticking out of my body, we should probably go." He said.

We drove to the hospital and by 7 we were sitting in the waiting room waiting for a doctor. "Kian I can't believe you just did that." I said as I laughed. He laughed but it hurt him and he flinched.

Jc called and I didn't answer, then Bob called. It was Jc on his phone. "Bebe." Jc said. "Are you ok?" He asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." I said. He sighed in relief.

"Well tiny pieces of glass and blood are all over the floor and you're not here, I was worried." He said, legitimately concerned.

"I thought I was a horrible person so why would you care?" I asked him.

"Look I'm sorry, I was pissed off." He said.

"Yeah I know, but you have to be nicer even when you're mad, because it hurts me when you say those things." I said.

"I'm sorry." He said again. I hung up and let out a dry laugh as I shook my head.

"This is bullshit." I said to Kian. "I'm so sick of him treating me like shit and then being all nice. It's so fucking dumb." I said quietly.

"Well I think.." He was cut off by the doctor walking in.

"The glass isn't puncturing any major arteries or anything, so we'll pull em' out, stitch you up, and you'll be out of here in no time." The doctor said. Kian nodded.

We were out in about an hour. In the car, Kian turned to me. "I think you should talk to him." He said.

"I think you should try to live in the house with Franny there again." I said quickly.

Kian stayed silent. "I'm sorry." I said.

"No, you're right." He answered.

"And I'll talk to Jc." I said. Kian nodded as we started going.

We got back, and standing there, in Franny's window, was Harrison. I watched Kian's eyes go up to the window. Franny walked up to him and grabbed his face in her hands and kissed him. I turned to look at Kian. He turned his head away and he just walked into the house.

We got inside and he went to his room. I walked into mine. Jc was holding Zoe and sitting on the bed. "I'm sorry." He said to me. I sighed and sat next to him on the bed.

"I know." I said. "I'm just tired of you doing something wrong and then trying to act like it never happened." I said. He put Zoe in her crib and sat back down next to me.

"I love you. So much. I am trying to do better every day. I'm trying to control my stress. I'm sorry if I hurt you." He said. I nodded. He leaned forward and kissed me.

"I'm exhausted." I said quietly, then I closed my eyes and went to sleep.