Chapter 31
Jayden had to stay away from the hospital for the next few days. On the one hand, he didn’t mind: Darren was awake now, and it had calmed a lot of Jayden’s fear. On the other hand, he still didn’t know exactly what was going on, and twitched every time his phone went off in case it was Scott with news.
On Friday morning, Darren had another surgery—Jayden wasn’t told what for—and Scott slipped him the valuable information of the visiting times on Sundays, and that Darren was only getting family until one o’clock. Then hes all urs! Scott had added on the end of the text, and Jayden had clung to it. One o’clock.
So just after one o’clock on Sunday afternoon, he slipped into the farthest bay and peeked through the curtains—to see that Darren already had visitors.
“Oh,” he said a
