Hello everyone! Welcome to my new fic! Since I have two others in progress, the chapters for this one won't be as frequent until the others are complete. So… here we go!

Everyone at school said that I was lucky. I got to leave school early. But I would rather be sitting in a boring classroom learning about stuff that I had already programmed into my head then pacing the floor of the lobby in the hospital, waiting on news about my mother. All I knew wasthat it was bad. Bad enough to get me pulled out of school early.

And what was extra sweet was that Gabriella actually ditched. She ditched school to watch me worry over my mother. Every ten minutets, she would assure me that everything was going to be okay. "Your mother is going to be fine." she calmly sat in a chair next to the fish tank.

"McKessie?" a nurse in scrubs came into the lobby. I froze and turned to her. "You can see your mother now." she led the way for me and Gabriella into her room.

No wires, or tubes, or anything else that would give a heart attack, just an IV running into her chocolate brown arm. "Mom?" I asked quietly.

"Shh... she's sleeping." the nurse informed me. "She gave us quite the scare shen she didn't wake up. But every once in a while we get her up and make her tell us her name and the date. Just to make sure."

"What... what happened?" I asked, taking her warm hand.

"No one really knows yet." she shrugged, scribbling notes on a clipboard. "We're still waiting for more information. And witnesses. Maybe."

"Taylor?" Gabriella asked quietly, "I'm going to go down to the gift shop for a minute. Grab a soda. Do you want anything?" she stood from the chair by the door, waving her purse.

I shook my head no and continued squeezing my mother's hand. The nurse silently left the room, leaving me with my mother. I looked her over. How could they not know what happened? How were they going to treat her if they didn't know? I looked over her white gown, noticing a patch of blood on the fabric by her ribs.

My heart picked up its pace. I panicked and pressed the button by the door, bringing a nurse for assistance. That same nurse rushed into the room, looking a little frazzled. "So you decided to keep it a secret from me that she was cut?" I asked. "How do you forget something like that?"

"Ms. McKessie, I was told to hold back on the news until your mother woke up." the nurse told me cautiously. "I was only following an order."

Mom stirred in her bed, her eyes only slivers. "Hmmmm...?" a low humming noise came from her lips.

"Mom?" I squeezed her hand again.

"Taylor..." she sighed. "Let me sleep." her eyes shut again. I turned to see the nurse leaving the room again. I smiled down at my mother, knowing that what Gabriella had said was true. My mother was going to be okay.

"Taylor..." Gabriella re-entered the room, a man right at her heels. "This guy says he knows you?"

I looked to the tall man behind Gabriella, immediately becoming really, really pissed. He reeked of alcohol. "Heyyyyyyy, Tay Tay." he slurred. "Aren't you gonna give Daddy a kiss?"

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