The night before was a total disaster for the entire group. What was supposed to be a calm group date turned into an all out brawl that ended with the cops showing up.

After all the lies were spilled, AJ cried herself to sleep in her cousins arms. Kaitlyn was the only person, besides her mom, that would be allowed to see her crying. When morning came everybody was feeling down.

"Good morning, kids." Aunt Steph greeted them as they walked into the kitchen.

"Morning..." they all replied sounding very monotone.

"What's gotten into you guys? Group date didn't work out?" she asked while making them breakfast.

Synyster grabbed the gallon of milk from the fridge and poured himself a glass, "You could say that."

"One of you is missing."

"Jimmy's sleeping in cuz he still feels sick." Zacky responded.

"Where's Matt?" Steph asked.

"He went for a drive last night. I thought he would be back already."

"Have any of you tried calling him?"

"No." they answered.

Ring ring!

Stephanie answered the phone while the others finished eating their breakfast in silence. She came back into the room with tears in her eyes.

Kaitlyn walked up to Steph, "Mom what's wrong?"

She buried her hands in her face as the tears slowly broke free, "That was the hospital. Matt's been in a terrible car accident."

"What?!"

"He was hit on the side by a 16 wheeler. They said he's in critical condition."

Johnny came downstairs, rubbing his tired eyes. "What's going on?"

"Hunter!" Stephanie pushed her way past the kids, "Get the car, we're going to the hospital!"

"Guy's why are we going to the hospital?" Johnny asked.

"It's nothing." Zacky answered, "Just stay here and make sure Jimmy is okay." he grabbed his hoodie following everybody else outside.
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-Hospital-

Everybody rushed to the woman in scrubs, sitting at the front desk. "My name is Stephanie McMahon, I'm here to see my nephew, Matthew Sanders."

A nurse led them to his room, "Before you go I must tell you that your nephew suffered broken ribs, fractured arm and leg, a collapsed lung, slight internal bleeding, and some head trauma."

"Oh my god..." Syn shook, covering his mouth, "He's gonna be okay right? Please tell me you're going to make sure my brother is okay!"

The nurse sighed, "I'm sorry but there's no way of telling if he's going to... you know." she paused, seeing all of them start crying. "If you wish to still go in please keep your voice down. He's in a coma right now."

Synyster was the first one to make his way into the room. Matt was his brother by blood. They've been together since the beginning. There was no way that he was losing him. Not this way.

When he saw his brother lying in the hospital bed, hooked up to machinery it felt like his heart had stopped. Syn stood there completely still and didn't make a sound. This couldn't be the end for Matt. It just couldn't.

AJ and Zacky were too scared to go into the room and see their step brother hurt. They didn't have the stomach to handle it. Same with their Aunt Steph and Kaitlyn. They tried getting ahold of themselves and not thinking about the worst.

Synyster stared at his unconscious brother, feeling the warm tears strolling down his face. A large hand was set on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Syn. Matt's going to be okay. He's a fighter. He'll pull through." Uncle Hunter counseled, trying his best not to cry as well.

He started crying in his Uncle's arms, "I can't lose him, Uncle Hunter. I can't."

"Don't think like that. We're not going to lose him. He's going to make it. Matt's a strong kid."

Syn tried pulling himself together, wiping the tears that were still falling. "Okay." he sighed shakily, "You're right."
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-back at home-

Jimmy slowly opened his heavy eyes, briskly getting out of bed. He walked up the stairs to get to the first floor of the house (because he turned the basement into his room.) When he went into the living room he smelled food cooking and spotted Johnny playing video games on the couch.

"Johnny, are you cooking?" he asked in surprise.

"Bahahaha! No, I called your friend so she could help take care of you while the others are at the hospital."

"My friend? And why are they at the hospital?"

"Hi, Jimmy."

"Bayley? What are you doing here?"

"Johnny called me from your cell. AJ texted me the news, I'm so sorry."

"Why are you sorry? What's going on?"

Bayley brought Jimmy into the kitchen so Johnny wouldn't hear. "Matt was in a reck last night. Things aren't looking good for him."

"Matt's hurt? How come nobody woke me up?" Jimmy raised his voice, then had to find a seat because he felt dizzy.

"You just need to lie down and relax, okay."

"How can I relax when my brother could d-... I have to be there for him." he put his head down on the table and started crying.

Bayley slowly put her arm around the boy, trying to comfort him. "I'm so sorry, Jimmy. Is there anything I could do to make you feel better?"

He shook his head, "I'm going back to bed."

"Can you at least eat something?"

"I'm not hungry." he grumbled, walking back to his room.
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-Hospital-

"I can't believe this is happening." Stephanie sobbed, "Why would he even want to go out driving so late?" she tried catching her breath. "AJ, you should call my sister and tell her what happened. She needs to know about this."

"Okay." AJ answered, leaving the waiting room. Syn and Zacky followed her outside. She dialed the number and listened to the other line ring.

"Hello?"

AJ broke down crying when she heard the sound of her moms voice again. Gosh, she missed her so much. "Mom? Something terrible has happened."

"What is it sweetie? Did your brothers hurt you?"

"What? No, mom. It's Matt. He was in a terrible car accident." Zacky and Syn huddled around AJ so they could hear the conversation. "Guys back up."

"Who's with you."

"Zacky and Synyster."

"Hi mom! We miss you!" they said.

"Mom we really need you here with us. Matt needs you here. Hello? Hello? Mom!" AJ yelled in the phone.

"What happened?"

AJ slowly put her phone in her back pocket. "She hung up on me..."

Zacky scratched his head, "Why would she do that? We need her here."

Synyster threw his arms in the air, "Isn't it obvious?! She doesn't like me and Matt. She never has! She hates Zacky and Jimmy too cuz they weren't her glass fragile little boys anymore. I don't even know why she adopted us in the first place if she wasn't going to treat us any better than our real mom!"

"My mom has done so much for all of us! So don't you dare say that!" AJ defended.

"She's done so much for us? You only say that cuz you were her favorite. Look at what she did. She flew us out to the opposite side of the country cuz she didn't want to be around us anymore." Syn reminded her. He never really let his step moms actions affect him in any way but now that he was talking about it, it really seemed to hurt him.

"It's not that she didn't want us. You guys caused her to have a nervous break down and she couldn't handle it anymore. She needed time to herself."

"Oh some mom, right? Things get a little tough and she ships away her problems!"

"Syn, calm down!" Zacky demanded, "What my mom did was fucked up but there's nothing we can do about it."

"What mother doesn't make an effort to come and see her son who might not make it?" He screamed at the top of his lungs. They've seen Synyster get angry but never like this.

"Why are you being so hostile?"

"Hostile? You think I'm acting like this cuz I'm angry?" Syn felt his chest heaving and his heart racing. It's like nobody could understand what his point was. "I'm sad alright. Matt and I are brothers by blood. I'm not saying that you guys don't have a close relationship with us, but we've been through a lot of shit together before we moved in with y'all." He paused sitting on the curb, "We went through foster home after foster home and when we finally find one that wants us we go and ruin it. We ruined it so bad that mom doesn't even want to be here with us." once those last words escaped Syn's lips he broke down. The tears didn't stop even though he wanted them to. It was like all the emotions he had bottled up were erupting all at once.

Zacky and AJ took a seat beside their heart broken brother. They honestly had no idea how to react to this. Syn wasn't the type of person to share things like this.

"You and Matt are the greatest brothers I could ever ask for." Zacky began. "I don't know what I would do without you two. You guys have made my life worth living."

"You mean step brothers." Syn corrected, ignoring Zacky's point.

Zacky shook his head, "No. Brothers. Blood or not we're still family and we're here for each other. You're always going to have somebody to count on. If that person can't be mom then whatever. We have Aunt Steph, Uncle Hunter, Kaitlyn, Johnny."

Syn sniffled, "Thanks, Zacky. I needed that."

"The one thing we can do is come together and be here for Matt." AJ added. "This is the one and only thing that should be important to us right now."

"You're right, sis." Syn stood up, and regained composure. "Lets head back and see how everybody's doing."
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-back home-

Knock knock knock

"Bayley I'm not in the mood to talk right now." Jimmy groaned, tossing in his bed.

Bayley slowly opened his door and had a tray of soup with her. "I just though you should eat something." she placed it on the desk beside his bed. "I think I have to go home now. AJ texted me that they're on their way back here."

"That's great." he responded a little rudely.

"I know you're upset that you didn't get to be with your family but-"

Jimmy turned to Bayley with an unusual dark look in his eyes. "Do you have brothers or sisters? Do you even know what it's like to know that one of them could die and there's nothing you could do about it? No you don't! So quit acting like you know what's best for me!"

Bayley backed away from him, "I'm sorry, Jimmy. I didn't mean to-"

"Just leave me alone Bayley! Please!" Jimmy yelled, scaring her out of the room in tears. He wrapped himself in his covers to calm his chills but it didn't work. The hot soup had steam coming off of it and it seemed like it would help. Jimmy dipped the spoon in his soup and started eating. "Why the hell did I just do that to her? I have to go apologize."

Before Jimmy could leave his room, Johnny entered. "What did you do to that girl? She ran out of the house crying really hard."

"Did she really?" he asked, feeling really guilty.

"Yeah, if I were you I'd apologize next time you see her."

"Thanks for telling me the obvi, Johnny."

"I think she really likes you." Johnny said under his breath while walking away.

"What?"

"Nothing. Feel better."

We're just friends. She can't possibly like me. There's no way. I don't even know if I like her like that. If I didn't then I wouldn't be feeling this guilty though...
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A/N: how are you enjoying this so far? Please tell me. So sorry for no Dean and Renee in this chapter. 😪 But they will be in the next one.