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When Shelia called me with a trembling voice that Logan was attacked, I couldn't breathe or think rationally for a moment. I couldn't bear it, if he died I don't know how I could survive it. I couldn't lose any one special to me again, my mental health wouldn't take it. Scarlet found Logan first and called the ambulance and followed it while Shelia and I met her at the hospital later. Sharon was there at the hospital too, she fainted due to shock and exhaustion and had a light concussion but Logan...mama had to break down the news to the three of us carefully and slowly.

"He has three broken ribs, a broken arm and the cut narrowly missed his heart..." There was a simultaneous sharp intake of air by Shelia and I while Scarlet just remained emotion void as usual. Mama continued. "You three, I want you to do me a favour." She said and we nodded. "Logan, he is prone to panic attacks and hallucinations. That is mainly because he seldom sleeps." That got a reaction from Scarlet. Did she know about that?

"There are traces of sedatives in his blood but his body is beginning to get used to them. At this stage, only very heavy sedatives can work for him. What you three have to do is to reassure him always that he is safe. I'm guessing his insomnia is due to trauma. It won't be easy to take his sleeping habit away but you all can always try. Don't overwhelm him, however, just be there. Do I have your word?" We all nodded excluding me. I was angry at him and angry at myself for not noticing sooner. I knew that he was holding out on me but I couldn't place my fingers on what exactly. That fool!

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It was evening time already. Shelia and Scarlet had left already while I was the only one in the hospital with Logan. Visiting hours would be over soon but I stayed nevertheless. I suspect that he is hiding more than just insomnia from me. It was just a feeling before but now I can sense it loud and clear. What is it? Just what the hell was it? Something came to my brain but I shook it off because there was no solid evidence.

'Logan, could it be that you're... No. No way.'

I stood up and walked towards the door, taking a last glance at my sleeping friend, and went home with mama, who's shift had ended.

L O G A N

Day two at the hospital...everything was boring and annoying until after school hours when Ayo and Shelia came to visit and teach me what they learnt at school. Scarlet came late but she came nevertheless, which was surprising. She came with Asa who was surprisingly not freaked out by my identity and the fact that I was living with Scarlet for the meantime.

Jordan also came to visit and, surprise surprise, thanked me for saving his girlfriend. He also added that his appreciation did not mean he was forgiving me for being Maru's son but I paid that bit of information no mind at all. I was happy that things were looking up a little bit for me.

Sharon started talking to me again and her lost friendship with Shelia was restored. Ayo suspects me for something and does not fail to express it openly by keeping his eyes on me ALL the time that it was beginning to get creepy. I had to kick him in the gut to keep him from entering the same bathroom stall as me.

It has been a month since I've been here in this 'lovely' place. A lot of surprising things happened during the month like how Don suddenly started visiting me and being my friend again. It started off awkward at first considering that we had not spoken before then but it smoothened out eventually and our friendship was back.

Sama was allowed to visit for a while and she signed my cast for me. Along with Sharon came a very begrudging Jordan, who claims he is only talking to me because I saved his girlfriend, and Phyllis, who was shy, and April, who was plain awkward. I didn't hold a grudge against any of them, I was super happy that they came back for me.

The only person that was yet to come was a certain dancer with black gelled hair I know but I know I'll win him over, it's a given. It was evening time already and the hospital was getting quieter. Sharon had been discharged days after the incident, leaving me alone in the hospital, so I had nobody to talk to around this time. It's nothing I'm not used to though, I usually pass time talking to Nata and Sean. Speaking of the couple, I didn't mention the incident or the fact that I'm hospitalized to them. If I did, they would find their ways to Beast ville and give me a long sermon about not telling my problems to them and ultimately, I would worry them a lot. I picked up my phone and called Nata, who picked up immediately.

"Baby! I was about to call you but you beat me to it. Guess what?!" She sounded excited for a reason I didn't find trustworthy. Nata seldom gets excited over stuff, she is more of a sarcastic person than a cheerful one. I decided to push my luck by asking.

"What?"

"Sean and I are coming over to Beast ville for spring break!" My phone slipped out of my hand and landed on the bed in utmost horror. "Logan? Logan?! Are you there?! Baby?!" I got over my shock and picked the device up again. I asked what she said again, praying I heard wrong but clearly mother earth is not on my side. I'm dead!

"Uh...uh...that's cool I guess." I replied.

"You almost sound unhappy. Anyway, I can't wait to see your girlfriend to see if she really is hotter than I am, and that brother of yours from another mother, and that boy-girl who let you stay in her house..." I rolled my eyes at her even if she couldn't see me. For someone sarcastic, she has a bad habit of rambling when she's given the opportunity to. It was then that something struck in my head, if they come over where would they stay?!

"Where are you guys going to stay if you come over?" I asked.

"Lord Kamile put in word for us with Lord Mayorkun, we're staying with him. I heard he's hot. How's he a mayor and a principal at the same time? He should get an assistant or something-"

"Rambling again, Slytherin?" I smiled at the way Nata protested against the nickname Sean gave to her. She does that all the time but that does not stop him from calling her that name. You see, Sean loves upsetting people to the point that we had to take him for a mental check up...he's a sadistic freak. I listened to their argument and laughed at how he turned every thing she said into innuendos and she got flustered. "Hey Logan!" He turned his attention to me.

"Leave my sister alone, sadist."

"Well that I can not do, she's just too cute. You heard right? We're coming to visit you. Better be in good shape, I would kill for those lasagna you make." Why did he have to add 'better be in good shape' to the conversation and remind me of impending danger? I laughed nervously and faked a yawn.

"Okay guys, I'ma sleep. Bye."

"But it's not even-" I cut the call and her sentence short. Oh man, they'd kill me. Only if by miracle I get discharged before spring break am I free from their sermons.

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There was no miracle, that was for sure. No sooner did the time came for visiting hours than my door opened and in rushed a very angry looking Nata and a very sadistic looking Sean.

"Logan!" She yelled and thwacked my face while Sean grinned at my expense. Then all of a sudden, she teared up and started crying beside me which earned her the crazy sign from her boyfriend. "What were you thinking?! You could've died or worse, seriously disfigured!" She wailed.

"You need to get your priorities right, Slytherin. So Logan, how many bones did you break?!" Sean grinned that stupid grin of his and I hissed at him.

"We meet again for the first time in three years and the first thing you ask is how many bones I broke. If you must know, I broke three ribs, my arm obviously and narrowly escaped a knife in my heart."

"Wow. Was it painful?"

"No shit." I answered sarcastically and he raised his hands in surrender.

"Okay I'll stop. Slytherin, stop crying already!" And then Nata's mood changed all too suddenly and she stood up and started poking Sean on his chest repeatedly.

"Okay young man, I had it with ya. I'ma givin' ya three sec'nds ta drop tha' name or yer body parts will be fed ta tha snakes!" She threatened with her accent slipping up but Sean as usual turned it to something else in her hands.

"I'd like to feed a certain 'body part' to a certain 'snake'." He replied while wiggling his eyebrows at that suggestive innuendo. Nata didn't get it at first but it slowly sank into her brain the underlying message in that sentence. When she did, she grabbed him by his long brown hair and yanked it hard, earning a yelp from the unsuspecting boy. "Ow! You know I have a hair kink, uh?" And he made matters worse...that masochistic pervert.

"Oh that's it! I'ma rip yer brains off yer head and make it inta stew, then I shove it up yer a..." She reconsidered her choice of words and chose a safer and innuendo prone-less one. "...nose!"

"That's just giving me my brain back! Owch! Okay, okay I'm sorry! I'll stop!" He surrendered and Nata released him of her stronghold. Just then, Ayo came inside with a picnic basket in hand, raising a brow at the two while a nurse came to give them a warning.

"Well look at this hot chunk." Nata's attention was drawn away from Sean to my brutally honest best friend. I'm just waiting for a very nasty comment from the hooded guy, really.

"Woah there shorty, keep your distance and your hands to yourself. I'm allergic to fan girls." And there it is.

Sean couldn't hold his laughter in whereas I tried not to laugh, because of my ribs, at her priceless face. Nata huffed and stomped on his foot before marching towards the chair next to my bed in fury. "I'm not short, I'm cute!" She huffed and sat with a thud. Ayo set the basket on the table beside my bed and brought out a food flask from it.

"So, who are they?" He asked while opening the flask.

"Oh right. This is Nata and Sean. Nata Sean, meet my brother from another mother, Ayo." I introduced. Ayo cast a bored look at Sean, who cast a bored look of his own back. That left Nata and I wondering what that was all about until finally, Sean spoke.

"I know I'm hot and all but I am straight you know."

Ayo's nose wrinkled the way it does when he is annoyed. "You're a guy?" He asked dryly. "You could pass for a female." He replied and Sean scoffed.

"So what?!"

"Want to hear what I think?" Ayo asked and I interrupted the heated conversation with a cough. I know that what my friend has to say would either drive Sean to suicide or murder, and knowing Sean, he would choose the latter.

"What was that all about?!" Nata asked her unusually moody boyfriend.

"He annoys me." Sean replied dryly.

"Tch. I don't like his face, it's disturbing!" And that cracked a nerve in my long haired friend which ultimately led them all to be kicked out of my room. This is amusing. Shelia came inside my room not too long after the trio were kicked out and questioned it.

"Hey, I saw Ayo bickering with two girls outside, what happened?" She asked but I waved a dismissive hand at her.

"Nah, it's just Ayo being Ayo again and Sean's not taking it too well."

"That was Sean? One of your first friends?" She asked while opening the flask that Ayo abandoned and stirring the contents. It was porridge from what I could smell.

"Yes, and Nata is the short one among them." I replied.

"I thought Sean is a guy?" Shelia asked again. Truth be told, anyone could mistake the guy for a girl at first glance and his long hair did no justice to that. He didn't want to cut it because it reminded him of his mother so he let it grow. "Aren't you going to stop them? Nata seems tired already." Shelia commented as she fed me despite my protests that I could feed myself.

"Nah." I swallowed. "When I'm done eating."

"A fist fight would've evolved by then." I just shook my head and watched Sean and Ayo throwing insults and heated glares at each other, with Nata, who had given up,  in the middle. This is amusing. I can tell that my spring would be a loud, funny and maybe annoying one.

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