Nick and Stephanie were still on the couch when the telephone rang, “Brian! Phone!” Nick yelled as he flipped thru the TV channels.
“Hey stop.” Stephanie said as Nick passed a movie she wanted to watch, “I guess I’ll get the phone.” She muttered getting off the couch. She jogged into the kitchen and picked the telephone up, “Hello?”
“Brian?”
“No, he’s not around at the moment.”
“Stephanie?”
She leaned against the counter, “Um, yeah. Who’s this?”
“This is Brandi.”
“Hey girl, what’s up?”
“Well, I’m at the hospital…”
“What happened?” Stephanie asked standing up
“Well, D and I had a car accident.”
“Are you guys okay?” Stephanie asked in concern
“Yeah, D’s getting a few stitches, and I sprained my arm. I was wondering if you guys could come pick us up. The corvette was totaled.”
“Oh no, I bet Howie’s takin that hard.”
“He is.”
“Okay, Nick and I will be down there in a few minutes.”
“Thanks.”
“No problem.” Stephanie hung up the telephone and went back into the living room, “Nick, Howie and Brandi got into a wreck and they are at the hospital. The car was totaled and we need to go pick them up.”
“D’s vett was totaled? Man, how’s he taking it?”
Stephanie put her hands on her hips, “He’s getting STITCHES at the moment so I don’t know. Let’s go.”
Nick got up and followed her out of the house. As the climbed into his Darango Nick asked, “What’s Brandi doing here anyway?”
Stephanie thought about it for a moment, “I don’t know.”
**
Stephanie walked thru the doors a few feet in front of Nick, and went straight to the desk, “I need to find out where Howie Dorough is.”
The nurse behind the counter looked at a chart and back up at Nick and Stephanie, “Just go down this hall, second door.”
“Thank you.” Stephanie said as she turned and walked down the hall. Nick followed right behind. They entered the room to find a nurse standing over Howie and Brandi sitting on a hospital bed next to the one Howie was sitting on, “Are you guys okay?” Stephanie asked almost shutting the door in Nick’s face.
“Yeah, sort of.” Brandi answered holding up her right arm that was in a cast.
Howie turned to see Stephanie and Nick and yelped as the nurse turned his head back, “Please be still Mr. Dorough. I am almost done.” She continued to stitch up the wound on the side of Howie’s head.
“What happened?” Nick asked crossing his arms
“Some moron wasn’t paying attention and ran right into me.” Howie said the irritation dripping from his voice, “The jerk totaled my car!” The nurse finished her job and told Howie to stay put while she went and got some pain reliever for him. She walked out and the four just looked at each other.
All of a sudden A.J. came sliding threw the door, slammed it, and then put all his weight against it. Before anyone could ask what he was doing a herd of girls trampled by outside of the door. He waited a few minutes and then sighed, “D, you alright man?”
“My car was totaled.”
“Wow, that’s gotta hurt.”
Stephanie rolled her eyes at Brandi who smiled. The guys talked for several minutes and the nurse had still not returned. Howie was beginning to grimace from the pain. “I’ll go find the nurse.” Stephanie volunteered slipping out of the door. She was relived to get out of the room form where the tension was beginning to build. She had not gone two steps down the hall before she saw someone in the examining room next to the one Howie and Brandi were in. She looked closer and then gasped, “MEGAN!”
