EMMA

"Hey, wait! It's still hot!", Emma said to Derek, who grabbed the pancake with his hand as soon as she placed it on the plate.

Derek just shrugged, "I have a habit now."

Emma sighed, "Okay, just tell me how it is. This is my first time cooking anything other than a sandwich", she said to Derek, as she wiped flour off her apron.

Derek chewed for a while, then stared off into the distance, as if thinking about way more intense things other than Emma's first-time pancakes.

"They are definitely not as good as Matt's, but they will suffice", said Derek, getting up, still holding the other half of the pancake. Emma breathed a sigh on relief. It was edible!

"Don't you need the plate?", Emma asked.

"I've never used the plate in my life", Derek said, going into the living room.
Emma knew better than to ask him to take a plate. She should have known Matt's siblings would have taken after Matt in some way or the other. So, Erica got the charm, Derek got the grossness, Hannah got the annoying part, Quinn for the fearlessness and David...it was too early to put a tag on David.

Moments after Derek had left, Hannah and Quinn burst into the kitchen as Emma set the second pancake down on a plate. They both stared at the pancake, then at each other.

"I'm not gonna let you take my pancake this time", Hannah said through her teeth.

"Oh, sure, slowpoke", said Quinn, and pushed Hannah to one side, and ran to the table to grab the pancake. But Hannah threw a handful of flour at Quinn, making the other stop.

"Hey!", Emma shouted, "Cut it off!"

But of course, no one listened to her.

Instead, Derek ran in with his phone, and started recording as Hannah and Q started throwing anything which was within a hand's reach. Emma tried to step in between them. She couldn't let them ruin the kitchen while Mrs. Lewis was at the hospital with...

"Cut it out", said Emma, snatching the jar of marinara sauce from Quinn's hands, half of which she had already smeared on Hannah's face. Emma had not realised that the jar did not have a lid on it. So all the sauce flowed down her apron.

All three of them laughed, and Emma too, smiled a little. Now she had kitchen duty after pancake duty. Yay.

Hannah and Quinn went upstairs to change, while Emma made some 'Triple C' pancakes, as requested by Erica and David.

After Erica and David had finished their pancakes as well, Hannah ran downstairs.

"Matt's okay! Matt's okay!", she screamed, running into the kitchen.

Emma felt goosebumps on her skin. Matt was okay! He would not die! But she would stay away. She was not good for him. Bad things always happened when she was around. She would stay far away from them. Far far away.

But then Erica tugged at Emma's shoulder,"Can we go see Matty?", she said, her big green eyes filled with happiness.

So Emma couldn't say no.

WILL

"So, who made the winning shot?", Will asked Penny, who was sitting next to Matt, who was still unconscious.

"Lee. Can you believe it?", Penny asked.

"Whoa", said Will.

"But you played much better than him", said Liv, sitting on the couch next to Will. She took his hand and intertwined her fingers in his. He smiled, what would he do without her?

Penny smiled, "Thanks."

The doors of the room opened, and Hannah burst in. She looked at Matt and then looked at Will, looking very disappointed.

"I thought he was awake", she said, "I even thought of all the words I'd use to curse him."

Will smiled, "No, but he is completely out of danger now."

Hannah smiled then held up a box, "Who wants pancakes?"

"Me!", said Will, Penny and Liv.

"Me", said a fourth, weak voice behind them.

At once, everyone turned around to see Matt, his eyes open, smiling at them slightly.

"You bastard", said Will, grinning at him as Hannah ran to his bed and took his hand.

"Don't you ever do that again, virgin", she said, tears forming in her eyes.

Penny ran outside and called a nurse in.

The nurse adjusted some tubes on Matt's wrists, which Matt did not seem to notice as he looked around. After she was done, Will sat beside the bed.

"His limbs are perfectly fine, right?", he asked the nurse. She nodded. So Will punched Matt hard on the arm.

"Ow! What was that for?", Matt asked.

"That was for scaring the shit out of me", Will said.

Penny punched him on the other arm, "And that was for not letting us sleep at night."

"Okay, okay, sorry", he said, smiling. The. He looked at Will and asked, "Where's Emma?"

Will looked down, he did not know how to answer that particular question. Emma had been acting so weird recently. Whenever he waved at her in the hallway, she would just walk away, pretending not to notice him. In classes, she either sit in some far corner, or with someone who she wasn't even friends with. Will did not know why she was acting that way. Penny answered his question.

"She's been acting extremely weird", Penny said, not looking at Matt, "She keeps avoiding all of us. So I asked her mom. She said Emma thinks she's bad luck, like bad things happen when she's around."

"That's absurd", said Will.

"I tried talking to her. But she doesn't even look at me. She doesn't answer any calls, texts, I even tried email", Penny said.

"Emma dropped us here", said Erica, holding one of Matt's hands.

"Yes she made us pancakes", said David.

"What Emma made pancakes? She doesn't cook", said Penny, frowning.

"She didn't come with you guys?", Matt asked.

"No", Erica replied simply, "but she comes home when Mommy comes here."

"Emma does not babysit either", said Penny.

Will frowned. What was up with the girl, he would never understand. Actually, he would never understand girls in general. 

"The pancakes were good", said David, smiling.

"Triple C?", Matt asked.

"Triple C", Erica agreed.

"What's Triple C?", Hannah asked.

Erica and David both shook their heads, "We can't tell you", Erica said.

"But why would Emma not come here?", Will asked.

Matt's smile disappeared, "She thinks she's responsible for my accident", he said.

"What?!", Hannah asked incredulously.

At the same moment, Will's phone rang. He went outside and picked it up saying "Hello?"

"Mr. Fisher, this is Captain Richardson speaking..."