Zendaya's POV

I wake up to the sound of my phone going off near my head. I try to reach for it, but something is blocking my movement. I open my eyes and last night comes back to me and I remember that I'm in the hospital. I finally reach over the little railing on the bed and grab my phone to see why my phone is going off.

It's still pretty early in the morning but most of my notifications are from people telling me that they're coming to visit me some time today if they can. There are two from my parents telling me that they're going to be here before I get my x-ray and that they're bringing me breakfast. I am busy going through all my messages when I hear someone come in.

"Good morning Ms. Coleman how did you sleep?"

I look up and see a woman not a few years older than me with a mess of blonde curly hair. I assume she's my nurse for today because she's holding my chart, and I now have a tray of food in front of me, but she could have introduced herself first.

"I slept pretty well nurse....."

She figures out that I didn't end my sentence because I'm waiting for her to give me her name. She quickly lowers my chart from her face and apologizes to me.

"I'm so sorry, I never introduced myself. I'm Victoria, but you can call me Tori if it makes you feel more comfortable."

"Why would Victoria make me feel uncomfortable?"

"I just give all my younger patients the option to call me Tori. Since I'm not that much older than you it might be a little weird for you to use my formal name."

"Tori will be fine for now. Anyway what's on the schedule for today?"

"Well first is breakfast and pain meds if you are feeling any discomfort. Then you have your x-ray at 11."

I look at my phone again and see that it's almost ten, so I nod to myself. That will give my parents plenty of time to get here.

"When will I see Dr. Griffin again?"

"She'll be in the room with the lab techs when you have your x-ray, and you will see her with your parents to discuss your results."

"So I'm basically waiting all day?"

"It's only an hour Ms. Coleman."

"It's Zendaya please. Ms. Coleman makes me feel old."

"You got it, Zendaya. I'll leave you alone and let you eat your breakfast."

"Can you see about getting me a different brace? I can't move in this monstrosity."

"Sure thing! Anything else before I go?"

"Unless you want to help me to the bathroom, I think I'll manage without anything else."

"You know that is in my job description. I'm assuming the answer is no tho so I'll just leave."

"That assumption would be correct. Wait is there any meat on this tray?"

"Your chart said that you're a vegetarian so I made sure to not get any meat."

"Thank you."

Tori leaves after that and I eat the hospital food. I don't eat much of it because my parents are bringing me something, but I make it look like I ate a little bit of everything on the plate.

I grab my sketch book and start doodling and before I know it I have a full sketch of Ty my nurse from last night. I smile at the drawing and start flipping through some of my older ones. I keep flipping through some of the other pages of the book and stop on a picture of Trevor. It's the only drawing of him I have and I draw almost everyone I meet. I flip the page again and my heart stops at the drawing of Dinah on the next page.

Compared to the one of Trevor it looks like a masterpiece. There's so much detail to the point where I couldn't tell if it was my own work or not. She's jumping off the page almost and my heart beats painfully in my chest. I try not to think about it and flip the page again only to be met with another drawing of Dinah. This time she's with Lauren and they're laughing at something. I remember when this happened because I was there, but I wonder why I didn't draw myself in the picture too. I flip through the pages again and stop on a picture of Normani. She's shooting a shot with perfect form and I remember that day too because it was during the summer before she moved.

All of these memories are too much for me right now, so I put my sketch book away. I grab my headphones off the bedside table and hit shuffle on my apple music hoping to forget about my conflicting emotions with some music.

Lauren's POV

Mama C: Daya is awake we're leaving in a few if you want a ride to the hospital.

Lauren: Dinah and I will be driving you two go ahead

I run a hand through my hair worriedly. This was not how today was supposed to go. Today was supposed to be simple and carefree, not stressed and full of worry. I look out my window to Zendaya's window and smile sadly. She's supposed to be over there sitting on her bed drawing, not in the hospital waiting to see if she can have a future in basketball or not.

I look at Dinah and she's talking to her mom on the phone. She never went home last night she stayed the night at my house. I hope she doesn't think that I don't know about her feelings for Zendaya. Her feelings for her are as clear as day no matter who she's dating or pretending to date. Yeah I know about that too. It's not like she told me either. I figured it out on my own all I had to do was pay attention. I wonder if Normani knows too? We should compare notes one day.

My phone vibrates in my hand taking my attention away from my thoughts about Dinah. I actually have a few notifications not just one, but one catches my eye in particular.

Cheeseball: let me know when youre heading to the hospital I want to be there too

Green Eyez: you don't have to come Ill keep you updated thru text

Cheeseball: theres no way im not going to be there if at least not for Z I'll be there for you

Cheeseball:......

Cheeseball: uhhhhh you know if you want me there or whatever

I smile at how sweet Alessia is being, and if it wasn't the worst timing ever I would ask her out right now. God this girl is adorable. I'm still smiling when I type out my reply and bite my lip before hitting send.

Green Eyez: yeah.....I definitely want you there

Cheeseball: let me know when youre on the way so I'll be ready

Green Eyez: okay

"Who are you smiling like that at?"

"Alessia. She's being really sweet over text right now."

"You know she fakes injuries during practice so she can talk to you right?"

I blush slightly at a particular memory of having to massage her leg because she swore she pulled a muscle, and nod to answer Dinah's question.

"Yeah no one gets that's many injuries a week and walks away perfectly fine after practice ends."

"Remember when she switched her limp to the opposite leg as she was walking away from you that one time? She didn't even last three steps!"

We laugh long and loud at simpler times when our best friend wasn't sitting in a hospital bed. I definitely needed the laughter that Dinah provides me. She makes sure that things stay light and fun.

"So...when are you gonna ask her out?"

"Not while Zendaya is in the hospital."

"You know she's not dying right? At the most she'll have a torn acl, and that will be fine with a few weeks of rest. Don't put your life on halt for her. She's gonna be okay."

"Is that why you were crying last night?"

"I was not crying!"

"Dinah I saw you wipe at your eyes in the hospital waiting room. When are you gonna be honest about your feelings for Zendaya?!"

"I don't have have feelings for Zendaya! What are you talking about?!"

"Oh please you saying you don't have feelings for Daya is like me saying I don't have pale skin and green eyes! You know it's obvious to everyone that you have feelings for each other? The only two people who don't see it are you two."

"Stop lauren."

I ignore her completely and keep going on about how you could be blind deaf and dumb and still see that they like each other.

"I bet you even Trevor can see it, and that's why he's been playing up the boyfriend act at school."

"Stop Lauren."

Ignoring her for the second time I start to dig in a little deeper into her.

"I mean really you went on a double date with them just so she wouldn't be alone with him. They've been together for months she could have said no but she clearly said yes to spend time with you! And don't get me started on that fake ass relationship between you and Justine. I mean what is it just for convience or is she getting something out of this deal you have too? Because if that poor girl has actual feelings for you and you're just stringing her along I feel sorry for her."

Dinah's POV

Lauren won't stop talking. I've been sitting here listening to her go on about my romantic life for the past ten minutes, and she's still talking. She thinks she knows everything that's going on between us but she doesn't know even the tiniest bit. Now she's going on about I don't even know anymore and I have had enough.

"LAUREN I SAID STOP!"

She just stares at me as I fume. I've never had to raise my voice at her, or get angry with her for anything before. But I am just so tired of her, and she's about to know it.

"You know nothing about what's going between Zendaya and I, so don't even try to tell me about it. I am trying to be patient and wait for the day she finally sees Trevor as the piece of shit that he is but I can only be so nice. Do you know how he talks about her when she isn't around? No you don't, but I do and it is the most disgusting thing I have heard. And I know it's not true because Z would never, but I know who would and it makes me sick. 

And there is nothing I want more than to just tell her everything that I know and be a good friend, but I'm not a good friend. A good friend would have told her all this shit that I know a long ass time ago. A good friend wouldn't put the slight chance that she could feel the same as I do over her knowing the truth about her boyfriend."

"Dinah you are a good friend-"

"NO I'M NOT LAUREN! I'M NOT! BECAUSE A GOOD FRIEND WOULDN'T HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HER BEST FRIEND IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

The room is silent except for the sound of my heavy breathing. I am looking everywhere but at Lauren while I can feel her eyes trying to find mine. The room feels like it's closing in on me causing me to start hyperventilating.

"Dinah breathe."

Lauren's words go in my ears, but they don't reach my brain because of the lack of oxygen getting up there. I try to grab onto the door to balance myself but I end up sitting on the floor with my head in my hands. I feel Lauren sit next to me after I start to calm down and slowly puts her arms around me in a loose hold.

"Can you look at me?"

I turn my head to her to look at her in her eyes, and I see wave after wave of comfort and support and love in her eyes. I know Lauren loves me deep down and I feel her presence even though she's just barely touching me.

"Please don't say I told you so."

"First I would never, especially not when you just had a panic/anxiety attack. Secondly never be afraid to tell me anything. I know that I was Zendaya's friend first, but I am still your friend too. You don't have to have all this weight on your shoulders. You don't have to keep things from me if you're trying to keep things from Zendaya."

I feel a tear fall from my eye and I wipe it without shame of Lauren seeing me cry. I mean I did just have an anxiety attack in front of her I think crying is fine right now.

"It was an anxiety attack. I wasn't panicking about being in love with her. It was anxiety because it was the first time I said it out loud."

"Good. I would hate to see that you are panicking about being in love with someone as great as Zendaya."

"She's so great isn't she?"

"I don't know you're the one in love with her. You tell me?"

I lean into her side and start telling her everything that I love about Zendaya. Which is everything about her.

Zendaya's POV

"Knock knock?"

I look up from my parents and towards the door and in walks Tori with a small smile and a wheelchair. Oh my god she has dimples.

"Hey Tori. Is it time?"

"Yep. I need you to get up so I can get you into this wheelchair to go downstairs."

"Okay. Dad can you grab me the crutches?"

I'm handed the crutches and quickly take myself to the bathroom. When I get back I sit in the chair Tori brought and pass the crutches back to my dad. I grab my hoodie from atop my book bag quickly and put it in my lap because this paper thin shirt Ty gave me last night is horrible.

"Okay Tori and I will be back. Make sure someone doesn't come in here and steal my stuff."

"Don't worry we'll be gone twenty minutes top. Now might be the time to call any of her friends to get down here. They'll be here by the time we get back."

"Yes see if Trevor and Normani will come by today. Please?"

"I will call them."

"Okay let's roll out Tori."

"We'll be back."

Tori wheels me out of the room and I take the time to look around the hospital. I wasn't placed in the children's ward when I came in because there aren't any bright colors on the walls. I'm also on a really high up floor and children's wards are normally on lower floors.

"Uh Tori?"

"Yes?"

"Will it be alright if I have my phone on me during the x-ray?"

"I don't know honestly. We may need to ask the x-ray technician when we arrive downstairs."

"I'm just gonna give you my phone to hold during the x-ray. Just in case."

"If you think that's best I can do that for you."

Tori laughs as she speaks before she hits the elevator down button. I pull out my phone and send out a text telling everyone that I'm getting my x-ray now, and I get a swarm of warm wishes and texts full of people saying they would pray for me. I smile at every single text I get all the way down to the basement of the hospital.

The elevator goes off on the basement floor and I feel the cold air around me instantly. I pull on my hoodie quickly to get away from the chilling air around me.

"I'll be able to wear this during the x-ray right?"

"You're going to have a metal apron on and it's your knee being looked at. I don't think it'll be a problem with the techs. Don't worry I know it's cold down here."

"Cold is putting it lightly Tori. How are you alive in those thin ass scrubs?"

"The clothes I have on underneath them. I have family in the Midwest and they sent me a bunch of long jons for when I go to visit them. I always wear them at work during the winter because it may be California, but it's freezing in this hospital."

I laugh all the way to the x-ray room at the conversation Tori and I are having making me forget that I'm about to see if my leg is broken or not. I think it's Tori's job to calm the patients down before surgeries or tests, and if it isn't it should be because she's good at it.

I wonder if she works in the children's wing, I bet she does she's incredibly likable and kind.

"Here we are. You ready for this?"

"I'm just laying down and getting a picture taken of the inside of my knee. How hard can that be?"

"I meant emotionally."

"My feelings are still somewhere near scared as fuck. This is the easiest part of all the things I have to have done. I'm just trying to stay calm by not thinking about it."

"At least you're being honest."

"I'm don't have any reason to lie to you. Why would I lie to the people trying to make me better?"

"You would be surprised how many people lie to doctors and nurses."

I nod to myself, understanding why some people might lie to doctors, but doctors can't send patients to the police in any way.

While I'm thinking Dr. Griffin comes out of the x-ray room with a smile on her face. I take a deep breath and smile back with a nod. She moves out of the way and Tori wheels me in the room to get the most important picture of my life taken.

Dinah's POV(about two hours later)

Lauren just parked in the hospital's visitors parking lot and all the anxiety that I felt in her room with her comes back at once. Taking a deep breath I click off the seat belt and step out the car. I rode in the back seat the whole way here, and it really helped me relax. Alessia was surprised when I told her to sit in the front, but I think she appreciated being close to Lauren during the ride. Lauren is walking ahead of us, so I'm not really looking as I walk just following her.

We get our visitor stickers and turn to the elevator when I finally look up to see Normani and Trevor in the gift shop. I tap Lauren to show her and all three of us go in the small gift shop to talk to our "friends".

"Hey guys."

"Hey. Was wondering if I would see you up here today. Didn't know we'd get here before yall."

"Had to pick up a friend. Where's Justine?"

"She knows that Z and her aren't that close so she just dropped us off. She's gonna be back later."

I nod at Normani's statement with a frown. Damn if my fake bae can't show up to hold my hand who will? Trevor has been noticeably quiet, he didn't even wave at the beginning of the conversation let alone say hi. I can't help but think that he would rather be anywhere but here, but I know deep down he does actually care for Zendaya.

"I'll just text her later. I just kinda hoping that my girlfriend would be here. You know?"

"Don't worry you still got the rest of us for support Dinah. We were just about to finish up and go upstairs. Want to ride up with us?"

"Sure we can show where to go."

I leave the shop and call Justine. Just because we aren't really dating doesn't mean I'm not very upset right now that she isn't here. She picks up around the third ring and starts speaking before I can even hello.

"Hey listen I know you're calling me about the hospital and why I'm not there but I have to good reason. My mom called me and I had to go back home."

"Will you be able to come back? I really think you should be here."

"Dinah I don't think I should be there. I have no connection to Zendaya why would I be there?"

"You would be here for me. You are supposed to be my fucking girlfriend Justine!"

"Look relax it'll be fine I'll be there in spirit-"

"We are supposed to have an agreement and I have been the only one keeping up their end of it! I think we need to stop doing this."

"Look I'm sorry that I'm not there, but be rational right now."

"I am being rational. We have been keeping this going for way longer than we needed to and I am tired of lying."

I turn around and see Normani standing directly behind me, so I quickly get off the phone with Justine.

"Look I gotta go I'll talk to you when I get home."

"Yeah okay. Later."

I turn to Normani and try to smile at her but she sees right through it. She walks toward me probably to talk about what she just heard.

"Couldn't help but overhear but Lauren sent me to come get you."

"...How much of that did you hear?"

"Enough to know that I'm going over to Justine's when she picks me up later to yell at her. You clearly got the short end of the stick."

"You don't have to do that on my behalf it's okay."

"If you need a buffer I'm still here. I can understand having Trevor here will be hard on you."

"You've known since the sleepover haven't you?"

"You were wrapped around her like a koala. It was hard to miss when I had just woken up."

"Why didn't you ever say anything to me or to her?"

"Because I know how she feels too. You won't have much longer to wait."

"I think we should head upstairs I'm pretty sure they left without us."

"Lead the way."

Zendaya's POV

Everyone is here to see me today. I didn't even know Dinah could get up this early on a Saturday but she's here too. Even Alessia is here again. She must really like Lauren. I'm waiting for my x-ray results and having my friends here is definitely calming me down.

I can feel a weird tension surrounding Dinah and Normani, which is weird because the tension is normally between Trevor and Dinah. They ended up coming up to my room later than everyone else, and now I'm wondering what happened between them.

I'm laughing at some story Alessia is telling when Tori knocks on the door. Trevor who is closest to the door let's her in and when I see the wheelchair I know it's time to see my x-ray results.

"Hey guys this is my nurse Tori. What's up Tori?"

"Your results are in. Your parents are waiting on us to go see Dr. Griffin."

"Can my friends stay in here while I'm gone?"

"Not all of them, we only allow two people in the rooms when patients aren't there with them."

Dinah looks around for a second and I know what's she's about to do before she says anything.

"We can go. We got to spend time with you yesterday it's only fair. Right guys?"

Alessia nods from behind Lauren and while it looks like she doesn't want to leave Lauren nods too.

"It's probably for the best that we leave anyway since they would have to wait for someone to get them anyway and I drove. Just text me if anything happens and stay off that knee or I'll tell Doctor Ally on you."

"I'm pretty sure I won't be walking around for a while no need to call the calvary. Can you make sure to walk and feed Midnight and Noon for me?"

"Of course. Dinah can even help me."

I look back at Dinah, who switched places with Normani, and she winks at me making me laugh.

"We'll watch your children for you. Just don't be surprised if you come home and they've been permanently moved to my place."

"Thanks guys. Alessia make sure they don't get in an argument in the car and kill each other."

"You got it captain. I'm watching over precious cargo."

We all leave the room at the same time and ride down to the first floor together. I give Tori a look and she walks away to give me time to really say goodbye. I quickly hug Lauren and Alessia leaving Dinah and I alone. I wheel us to the side where there are some chairs and she gets the message that I want her to sit. I need to be eye level with her right now.

"Are you okay? You've been very quiet since you got here."

"Justine and I broke up before I came up in the elevator. I've just been thinking."

"Why did you two break up? I thought you two were solid."

"She was never really there for me. I mean Alessia showed up for Lauren and they aren't even dating. When I called Justine she made some excuse about not being close to you and that it would be awkward. I was always there if she needed me and I was tired of not getting that in return."

I grab her hand an give it squeeze. She looks so sad and I just want to take away her pain. I would never make her feel that way if I was in Justine's place. I would cherish Dinah for the incredible person that she is.

"Is that why you couldn't look at Normani?"

"She overheard the conversation before we got to your room. She takes my side over her best friend's. I just have a lot on my mind."

"We will talk about this more okay? Tomorrow?"

"Yeah tomorrow. I'll send a quick prayer upstairs for your results."

"Thanks."

She squeezes my hand and slowly walks away and out of the doors to the parking lot. I can feel Tori walk up behind me but I don't say a word as she wheels me to the exam room.

"You and your girlfriend are really cute together. You can tell she really cares about you."

"Thanks I'm really lucky to have her"

If only she was my actual girlfriend.

AN: So a lot has happened since my last update. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This fic is in the direction I want it in and I hope you don't mind that I'm skipping over most of the medical stuff. I have a question for you that you can answer in the comments. When do you want Trevor and Z to breakup and for what reason? Do you want her to find out about the cheating before or after the breakup?

Happy Reading

Peace,

Meags