"What? What is it?" He says as he notices their nervous and upset glances.

"Jaden... He's doing drugs. Hard drugs." Josh reveals. "We've tried to help him but he brushes us off."

Garrett throws his head back again and sighs. "And Bryce?"

"Just the usual, he can't commit to anything." Nessa shrugs.

Garrett looks towards the ceiling once again. "You're not going to make this easy are you?"

"When can I get out of this damn hospital bed, all you idiots need to get your asses kicked." Garrett groans.

"I didn't do anything buddy!" Josh throws his hands up in surrender.

"Two words. Diss. Track." Garrett says.

"Come on it was kinda cool." Josh laughs.

"Not in the slightest." Garrett laughs.

"Shhhh." Addison lifts her head slightly whispering and then falls back asleep.

"What ever happen to... Charly?" Garrett winces as he says the name.

Dixies whole body tenses and that's when Garrett knows she's been awake for a while.

Leaning his head down he gives her multiple kisses all over her forehead like he used to.

"She made an Instagram post explaining the truth. That you didn't cheat and that it was wrong of her to do that." Nessa explains.

"Id never cheat on my girl."'Garrett whispers down to Dixie.

Dixie kisses his chest but keeps her eyes closed tightly.

• • •

A few hours later all of the girls including Nessa on the chair were back to sleep as Josh and Garrett continued talking.

"Hey. Where the fuck has Kio been?" Garrett laughs as he realized he couldn't recall seeing Kio when he didn't remember anyone.

"With Olivia." Josh rolls his eyes. "He wanted to come back when you collapsed but Olivia had 'problems' and needed his help."

"Spoken like a true simp." Garrett hums and josh laughs.

Slowly all of the girls start waking up as Jaden and Bryce walk into the room.

"We brought some good food." Bryce exclaims as he walks into the room with bags of food.

"Actually we can hold off at on that." Garrett says confusing them all.

"I sat in line for an hour for this." Bryce points out with furrowed brows.

Making direct eye contact with Jaden he says, "Jaden and I need to have a chat."

Jaden gulps and avoids eye contact with anyone else.

Everyone slowly starts to leave but Dixie stays. "You too love." He whispers into her hair.

"What if something happens?" Dixies eyebrows crunch up in such sincere confusion that it breaks the mans heart.

Bringing her hand to his heart like he had a week and a half ago he assures her. "See, it's still beating. I'm still here, nothings going to happen."

Dixie sends him an unconvinced glance.

"You need to call your parents." He reminds her. She sighs and kisses his cheek before leaving the room.

Jaden stands in the corner of the room in silence.

"What's up?" Garrett says nonchalantly.

"Just get on with the yelling." He motions with his hands, rolling his eyes to conceal his real emotions.

"Oh no, you want to die go ahead." Garrett shrugs.

"Really?" Jaden questions, not buying the mans unbothered attitude at all.

"Oh yeah." Garrett enthusiastically nods his head. Jaden slowly walks towards the seat Nessa had once occupied and takes a seat.

"Your sisters are going to ask me what happened." Garrett says with a straight face.

"What?" Jaden questions confused.

"When you die." Garrett bluntly states. "When you die they're going to ask me what happened. They're going to scream, cry, beg for me to give them some sort of explanation as to why you started using again."

"Oh stop it." Jaden scoffs.

"Your moms going to sob over your casket asking god why he would take her baby from her. She's going to scream at me, asking why I couldn't save her baby when I promised I would." Garrett slowly raises his voice.

Jadens eyes slightly gloss over but he tries to keep the tears at bay.

"And you're dad is going to do everything he can to hold himself together for the sake of your mother and sisters. And soon enough he'll be a shell of who he used to be and there will be no coming back. Mads will probably kill herself if we're being honest. She will not cope. Because all she will think is that she wasn't enough for you to put down the fucking drugs!" Garrett shouts at the crying boy.

"And the boys? For the rest of their lives they will all wonder what they could've done to save you. What they did wrong." He finishes.

"And you?" Jaden's voice cracks as he avoids his best friends eyes.

"I will cry. I will break shit. I will probably do a lot of fucked up things. But I'll move on." Garrett cries. "Because the truth is there was nothing I could do to help you because you didn't want to help yourself."

"Should we stop them?" Nessa questions concerned as she hears muffled shouts.

"No." Josh's shakes his head as he pulls the girl into his embrace. "If anyone can get to Jaden it's Garrett."

"I don't know how to help myself." Jaden shakes his head in denial.

"Yes you do." Garrett argues. "You just don't want to admit it because you're scared."

"Scared of what?" Jaden challenges.

"Feeling." Garrett shrugs. "You're afraid of feeling all of the pain you've been bottling up. You're afraid of feeling Jaden." Garrett sends him a sad smile.

Jaden abruptly stands up from the chair and stomps towards the door but Garrett has a few last words making Jaden pause infront of the door.

"Think about your six year old self every time you're snorting those drugs. Because it's him you're hurting. It's your mom it's your dad it's your sisters."

Jaden doesn't say anything but leaves the room ignoring everyone's staring eyes as he quickly leaves the hospital building.

The group walk back into the room and see Garrett wiping his eyes.

"So..." Bryce questions.

"He's going to be okay." Garrett says, hoping to god he is right because what he said to Jaden about himself was a complete lie. He wouldn't be able to live with his best friend dying.

Dixie crawls back into the bed again and wipes the remaining tears off his cheeks. "It's okay bubs."

"Did you already eat?" Garrett questions the girl and she nods her head.

Bryce sets his down on the table. "There's your food."

"Why don't you all go home and sleep for the night, I gotta spend some time with my girl." Garrett says still staring at Dixie.

They all nod and leave the room.

Dixie sat straddling the boy and Garrett grabs both sides of her face pulling her forehead towards his.

Rubbing their noses together Dixie laughs but it quickly turns into sobs.

"What's wrong love?"

"It's been so long since we've done that." Dixie cries.

Instead of saying anything Garrett brings her into a long kiss that quickly escalated.

He places his hands onto her butt and gives it a tight squeeze, guiding her hips forward and backwards faster.
"I forgot how good you felt." Garrett moans.

"Garrett we can't your body is still recovering!" She scolds him.

He quickly flips them and roughly grinds into her covered core making her let out a loud moan to which Garrett silences with his hand. "I'm fine, as long as I don't injure my head again I'm fine."

She reluctantly nods her head and He quickly gets up and locks the door before returning to the bed and slowly peels off her pants.

"Fuck Dixie you're so wet for me." He groans.

Garrett slowly takes his pants off and enters her with his shaft. He starts off slow but dixies back scratching encourages him.

• • •

After they're done they're both a panting mess collapsed on the bed. Garrett pulls her into his side and kisses the side of her head. "I love you so fucking much."

"I love you too." She whispers. "When can you go home?"

Garrett rolls his eyes. "I can go home in the morning, they're any time keep an extra eye on me for now."

• • •

When the next morning rolls around Garrett was going home from the hospital. Dixie was driving them because he was still a bit sore, they both walk into the house and notice it's eerily quiet.

"What the fuck." Garrett mumbles. He hadn't talked to any of the boys since the night before.

Walking up the stairs they notice that no one was home.

Turning around Garrett is quick to pick Dixie up by her thighs, automatically wrapping her legs around his waist and runs them into his bedroom and slamming the door shut.

They're in a heated make out session when they hear the door slam open. Garrett groans in protest making Dixie laugh.

Her laughter is automatically cut off when they hear a voice. "Hello!"

Dixie freezes as all of the muscles in Garrett's body tense and the smile from his face vanishes.

He's quick to sit up and Dixie is just as quick to grab his forearm trying to keep him from leaving.

"Please don't, you just got out of the hospital." She begs.

He leans his head down into her neck trying to calm down for her sake as she cooes in his ear while rubbing his neck.

"Hello!" The voice shouts again.

Dixies hold on Garrett tightens when he begins to shake in anger. "Garrett please."

She hides her arms when she realizes he was staring at her bruises the whole time.

"Promise me you'll stay in here." He whispers into her ear.

She shakes her head. "No no Garrett please."

"For me, promise me." His voice was deeper than it usually was scaring Dixie.

"Garrett." She says only to be interrupted.

"Promise. Me." He grunts out in urgency as he hears steps coming near the stairs.

"I- I promise."

And just like that he was out of the room.