Bella's P.O.V

"reverse" Danny smiled, throwing a reverse Uno card on the coffee table "reverse back to me, reverse, reverse again, skip, draw two, Uno, draw four, Uno out."

Everyone gasped and screamed in amazement as Danny shook Tyrone's hand.

"It was nice playing you."

"Hell naw, you cheated." Tyrone  slammed his remaining cards on the table and jumped up.

"No," Park laughed "he won fair and square."

His straight white teeth were utterly beautiful... They were blinding. I mean, Park was really hot-- like hotter than Ryan, but his teeth just made him adorable.

Danny jumped up and lifted his arms in victory and everyone was just cracking up. Pretty smiled and grins around the room, even from Tyrone.

Unanticipatedly, Giovanni began coughing loudly-- uncontrollably. Blood ran from her mouth as she gasped for air and clutched her chest.

Everyone panicked and Danny lunged at her. He caught her just before she dropped to the ground.

"G!" He shouted, shaking her back and forth.

"Giovanni!"

Without hesitation, Montana ran over and grabbed her from Danny's hands. She placed two fingers below Giovanni's bloody chin and sat dead silent.

"She's still breathing," Montana exclaimed, "someone get me my bag."

Park dashed off up the stairs to get Montana's medical bag and everyone crowded around with their hands over their mouth.

Danny was on his knees, tears streamed from his face.

"Is she okay?" Max asked, his fingernails in his mouth.

Montana looked up and glanced at the small boy as he stared at his only friend, worried to death, then she glanced back down.

When Park ran back down, he tossed the  bag to Montana and she hurriedly rambled through it with an unconscious Giovanni on her lap.

She grabbed her stethoscope, threw it on and quickly listening to Giovanni's heart.

After a solid minute, Danny anxiously spoke up. "She was born with a heart murmur. I just thought you should know."

"I can tell." Montana murmured. She took off the stethoscope and looked up at all the frightened faces.

"Her heart rate is slowing. She may have blood clots in her arteries or either.. well, I don't know but she-- She's gonna be fine if I get my hands on the medicine I need."

"You don't have it?" Park asked.

She slowly shook her head no.

"We can get it." Reese bursted. "We can get it."

"How?" Jose sighed.

"There's a hospital not too far from here. Maybe 30 minutes or so, but that's too dangerous. Way too dangerous." Danny said, running his fingers through his hair.

"Consider it nothing," Charlie grabbed Reese's hand and clutched it tight "we ain't no sissies."

"Do you realize how many dead people are in a hospital?!" Cody shouted.

"Uh.. yeah." Reese rolled her eyes.

"You could die!"

"But isn't that why we live?" Charlie jumped in, "we live every day like it's our last and someday it will be but maybe not now, Cody. Maybe we can save this girl's life. There's a chance. That's what I'm living for. Isn't that what you want? One more day with a chance?"

He stared at Giovanni for a second before he sighed and gave in.

"You're right. You two will need backup, won't you?"

"And I can go too!" I raised my hand anxiously, "I can go through the vents. I'm sure that I can fit."

"That's a perfect idea." Reese smiled at me," and even if that doesn't work, we still have one fire cracker."

"Just give us a list of the stuff you need and we can go."

"No--" Montana gently passed Giovanni to Danny and stood up, "I've got to go."

"No way--" Park jumped in "not without me. I can protect you."

.... And before I knew it, everyone had volunteered to go except for Kai and Danny. Even Max.. when he volunteered, Ryan was about to speak up but he got chucked by Reese.

We all loaded up the little bit of bullets we did have, our knives, nails and tomahawks and we decided to leave at night.

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Excuse the typos for this chapter.