Title: Caribbean Nights
Part: 5/15
Author: Wendy
Category: 98º
Rating: PG-13
Copyright: 1999
Everything was peaceful in Jeff’s hospital room. After spending an hour at the police station, Drew, Nick, Justin, Wendy, Sarah, Jen and Pamela decided to go by the hospital to see how Jeff was doing. Drew, Nick and Justin went in first to see how their band mate and their friend was doing.
Outside of the hospital room, the girls all sat down on a bench quietly.
"What was that you were trying to put tonight out there?" Pamela finally broke the silence, aiming her words directly at Sarah.
"Pam, calm down! Don’t you think that this is hard enough for me already? I don’t need you to yell at me for what I did!" Sarah retaliated.
"Don’t tell me to calm down, Sarah! What if something happened to you and Wendy? How do you think we would feel?" Pamela yelled.
"Pam, stop yelling at Sarah. All she wanted was to protect everyone by trying to find out what was going on. Was that so wrong? Jeez, just calm down. Do you really think that it easy for her to see Jeff like this?" Wendy defended.
"All of you, just calm down!" Jen interrupted. "I don’t think that the guys would want us to do this to one another, especially Jeff. We all just have to stay calm and pray for Jeff and hope that whoever is doing all of this is going to be caught."
Wendy combed through her hair and said calmly, "Jen is right, they wouldn’t want us to kill one another out here. Let’s just hope that Jeff will be fine. I’ve already had enough drama for one night. Does anyone want any coffee?"
"Yeah, I’ll come with you," Sarah said and the two of them headed towards the cafeteria.
A figure slowly crept up from the back of Wendy and Sarah.
"Boo!"
"Ahhh!" both of the girls started to scream.
"Hey, chill, it’s just me," Drew said laughing.
"That wasn’t funny!" Wendy pretended to be mad at him.
"Sorry, but I just had to do it. You know me."
"So how is Jeff doing?" Sarah asked concernedly.
"I’ve definitely seen him much better and I think that he’ll be fine really soon."
"I hope so too," Sarah replied quietly.
"I hope that you know Jeff doesn’t blame you for what happened," Drew said slowly.
"Yeah, but I blame myself for doing this to him."
"Sarah, don’t be so rough on yourself. I’m sure that you only wanted to protect everyone else."
"Yeah, tell that to Pamela!" Wendy retorted sarcastically.
"Why? What happened?"
"Pam was being very obnoxious to Sarah, trying to blame her for everything that happened. She’s always like that. She always finds someone to blame something on," Wendy replied.
"I’m sure that she means well with everything that she does."
All three of them walked back towards Jeff’s room carrying seven coffees, unaware that someone was watching them.
"Jeff was asking for you," Jen told Sarah.
She dropped off all of the coffees and headed towards Jeff’s room.
When she walked in, Jeff’s eyes were closed and he was obviously very tired from all of the commotion.
"Hey, there," Jeff said.
"Hi," Sarah said quietly, trying to smile.
"I just want to tell you that—" both of them said at the same time.
"You can go first," Jeff offered.
"I just want to tell you that I’m really really sorry for what happened. I never meant for any of this to happen. I really didn’t. Can you ever forgive me?"
Tears started to trickle down her fact once again.
"Shh…sweetie, don’t worry about it. There’s nothing for me to forgive. I mean, you did what you thought was right and I don’t blame you for it at all. And as for what happened to me, I’m okay as long as you’re okay about staying here tonight."
A large smile appeared on Sarah’s face. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
He moved over on his bed meticulously and Sarah got on it and stayed in Jeff’s arms for the rest of the night.
~*~*~Outside of Jeff’s room~*~*~
Wendy peeked through the glass beside the door and saw Sarah comfortably laying in Jeff’s arms. "I think that we should go," she suggested, walking over to Drew.
"Yeah, I think that we should just all leave. Why don’t we go to our hotel instead?" Drew replied.
"Anywhere is good for me as long as I get to go back to sleep!" Justin said, prompting everyone to laugh.
All six of them exited the hospital and got into their limo.
Behind the limo, an 1988 Toyota Camry followed it until they all reached the hotel.
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