"What the heck happened buddy?" AJ asked helping Nick.
"That guy...tried to hurt Jess.But...I wasn't gonna let him," Nick began coughing. Howie ran into the lobby to tell them to call an ambulence. The girls heard the gun shot and came running in. They saw Nick stumbling as Kevin helped him walk out.
"Nick! Your ok!" Jessie screamed running towards them. She hugged him and then Kev helped Nick sit down on a bench.
"I wasn't gonna let him get away with trying to hurt you," he told Jessie.
"Oh, Nick that is so sweet,"she paused and then said,"How can you be so stupid!"
"What? I was just trying to help you,"he said.
"You could have been killed!" Jessie started to cry now and said, "I mean...thank you." She hugged him. He tried to kiss her but she pulled away and said,"Let's get that lip cleaned up first."
Just then, the ambulence pulled up and rushed in. They asked Nick if he wanted to go on the stretcher. He said, "No, I'm fine. I can walk."
They helped him into the ambulence as the guys took the girls and followed. Jessie walked silently behind them all and an officer asked,"Would you like to ride along in the ambulence miss? They need to take him to the hospital to check him out. We need to ask you a few questions while your there."
"Sure,"Jessie replied.
She let Kim know where she was going and they all got in their cars and followed the ambulence.
Jessie was sitting next to Nick when she saw his arm. It was bleeding like it had been cut with a knife.
"What happened here?" she said grabbing his arm.
"OH, that. He tried to shoot me but I got out of the way. He hit a ceiling light and I fell on it. It's ok though, it doesn't hurt."
"Your going to have to have a few stitches there sir,"said an EMT as they studied the arm.
They pulled into the howpital and the EMTs put Nick in a wheel chair. They took him into a doctor.
"Well look at you!"said the doctor, "You look like you were in a fight with Mike Tyson! Looks like you got a bad nose bleed, black eye, fat lip, and an arm needing some stitches!"
"That's all?" asked Jessie.
"That's all," said the doctor, "It's not as bad as it looks."
"Pheww," Jessie sighed.
"We are going to go get the stitches done now, then you all can go home,"the doctor said.
"Wait for me Jess. I have a suprise for you when I come out," Nick said.
"Of course," Jessie said and watched him roll down the hall way and into a room.
"Hey, Jess, we're gonna go, take care of Nicky for us?" AJ said refering to the departure of himself and Kim.
"Ok, see you guys," Jessie said.
"Yeah, I'll take the rest of the girls home and me,Bri, and D. will go back to the hotel. We will have Nick's room ready for him when he get's back."
"Alright, bye,"Jessie said.
They all left with long faces.
"Excuse me, Miss Richardson?"
Jessie turned around and saw two police officers.
"Yes, that's me."
"We need to ask you a few questions," one said.
"Ok," Jessie replied.
They went and sat down in the hospital cafateria where the officers gtot Jessie a cup of hot chocolate and began to tell her a story that she did not want to hear.