I stood outside of Danny's hospital room. It was like my entire body was frozen. It's not that I didn't want to go in, I just couldn't. My legs wouldn't move. Nothing moved. Not until I felt Mike squeeze my hand in his.

"We have to go in eventually." Mike whispered to me.

"Mikey I can't. I can't do this." I shook my head and started to back away from the door. I refused to let
this be real.

"Don't walk away from him Victoria. Don't do that to yourself." His grip on my hand tightened and I saw his jaw go hard.

"Well what am I supposed to do! I don't wanna see my best friend laying in a hospital bed half dead. I hate myself for not talking to him as much as I used to. Maybe if I did he wouldn't be in this situation. If I had just been there when he needed me none of this would have happened. I should have-"

"This is not your fault in ANY way Victoria. Do you understand me?" Mike said cutting me off. "Now lets go see this loser in here. " he nudged me forward and I walked through the doorway.

Danny laid still in the bed, tubes and IV lines all over him. Tears flooded my eyes immediately. I didn't want to see this. I didn't want this to be real. I hated every second of this. I walked over to the side of the bed and sat down. My fingers tangled into Danny's and Mike took a seat next to me.

"You can't give up you know." I said, knowing he wouldn't respond. "Don't you dare give up. You better wake up soon Danny Desire. I can't be without you. God you're dumb. I can see the needle tracks in your arms. I could kill you for that. Stop doing this to yourself...what about me? You're just gonna leave me?" I whispered the last part. "What about my new baby? You have to meet the new baby. You can't just miss this." I straightened my shirt and rubbed my stomach.

"Dude, all the things you've gone through and this is how you wanna go out?" Mike laughed.

The beeping on the heart monitor went faster and Danny's eyes moved around beneath their lids.

"Uh.."

"He's waking up." A nurse said walking into the room and checking the machines.

"What?!"
"Baby shhh" Mike laughed.

"Are you relatives of Mr. Medina?" The woman questioned us.

"She's his wife and I'm her brother." Mike blurted out.

"Alright. Take it easy on him when he fully comes to. He'll be a little confused." She said before exiting the room.

"His wife. Really."

"They wouldn't have let us stay and you're too white to be his sister."

"You could have been his brother." I pointed out.

"Stop yelling..." Danny groaned and smacked my hand.
"I am going to beat the shit out of you when they let you out of here Daniel Medina." I said through clenched teeth.

"There's no need for hostility Victoria. Your best friend just woke up from a coma. This is no way to treat him." Danny retorted.

"My best friend wouldn't be in a coma if he didn't start doing heroin again." I snapped back at him. He stayed silent after that, playing with his tumbs in his lap.

"I'll be in the waiting room. Feel better man." Mike got up, kissed the side of my head, and clapped Danny on the shoulder before leaving the room.

"I don't want to talk about this right now."

"Well when are we gonna talk about it Danny. I'm not letting this go." I sighed and took his weak hand in my own again. "I'm not losing you over something that can be avoided. I've lost way too many things that mean the world to me in my lifetime."

"Victoria st-"

"No. Do you remember the day I left for San Diego?" I questioned. He just nodded and waited for me to continue. "I told you that I needed you and I swear to god that was true. It will always be true. There's not a single day that I don't think of you and if you think otherwise then you are so wrong it's not even funny."

"I'm sorry..." He said quietly.

"I know baby. I know you are." I smiled weakly and kissed the top of his hand. "We'll get through this."

~

"Okay so you remember where Collins old room is right?" I questioned Danny while I sat next to him on the plane to San Diego.

"Yup, a right at the top of the stairs."

"Good. That's where you'll be staying." I smiled. "I'm so excited!"

"I never thought I would live with you. Ever." he laughed. "I give it a week before you kill me."

"Oh hush. I'm pregnant I can kill whoever I want."

"Don't forget I'm not coming out here for vacation. I need to get better." he said quietly.

I reached over and held his hand in mine.

"It'll be easy this time, I promise. You want help now Danny, you're in such a better state of mind." I beamed at my best friend and watched the worry drain from his face.

"We got this?" he smirked and held his hand out for me to link our pinkies together.

"Oh we got this man." I wrapped my pinky around his, twisted our hands, and we kissed each others thumbs. We had this in the bag.

Notes

i havent been on my computer in like two weeks but i met mike and vic last night goodbye