| Chapter 11 |
| �Mackenzie!� he yelled but she didn�t hear him. He ran toward Mackenzie as she looked over and saw the truck coming. �Mackenzie!� Justin yelled one last time before he pushed her out of the way just before the truck went speeding past them. By this time a crowd had gathered where Justin and Mackenzie lay on the side of the road. "Mackenzie? Mackenzie! Are you OK?" he asked pushing himself off of her. "Some one call 911" Justin said looking up. "Oh my god! It's Justin Timberlake!" a girl cried. "And oh my god I saw her on TRL today!" "Please Miss, step back." Nick said pushing himself between Justin and the crowd. "Mackenzie are you ok? Talk to me?" Justin said ignoring the girl who was screaming his name. Mackenzie opened her eyes and saw Justin looking down at her. "I'm...I'm ok." she said weakly trying to move. "Don't move, Kenzie. Stay still." he said taking off his jacket and putting it on her. "The paramedics are on the way. You�re going to be fine." A few minutes later an ambulance arrived and started to take Mackenzie away on the stretcher. Justin saw the scared look on her face and rushed to her side. "Kenz, it's going to be ok. I'm coming with you." Mackenzie didn't remember when Justin had given her his coat but she saw that he was freezing. "Justin, your coat." She said trying to pick it up off her lap. "Don't move." the paramedic said to her. "It's ok, Kenz. I'm fine." he said while stepping into the ambulance still holding her hand. When they arrived at the hospital TV crews were already outside waiting to get a shot of Justin and Mackenzie. Once they were inside doctors came to help Mackenzie and Justin was told to have a seat in the waiting area. "Right this way." a woman holding a clipboard called to Justin. Justin followed the woman even though he had no idea what was going on. "Can I see your arm?" she asked putting the clipboard down and turning to face him. "My arm?" Justin asked curiously looking down at his left arm. "The other one." the nurse said, "I need to clean that up and give you stitches." For the first time Justin looked down at his arm and saw it was bleeding. He had felt the pain after he had fallen on the street but he was too preoccupied with making sure Mackenzie was ok to realize what had happened. After a few minutes the doctor had cleaned the cut and given him 15 stitched up the front of his arm. She wrapped it in white gauze and told him the stitches could be removed in two weeks. A still dazed Justin reached into his pocket for his cell phone before realizing that he had dropped it in the street earlier. "They are on the way, J." Nick said as he saw Justin look for his phone. "I called them already. Jenna too. It turns out that it was on the news the second it happened. Some station's weather team was outside recording while it happened so they were already on the way. Just sit down and relax, man. She's going to be fine." Justin sat down in the chair next to him and closed his eyes. Everything kept replaying over and over in his head and it was eating him alive. "Justin, man are you OK?" JC asked while running into the waiting area with the rest of the guys, Jenna, and Jeremy. "Yeah...yeah I'm ok. Just a cut. The doctors are still checking out Kenzie. I haven't heard a thing. They won't tell me anything." Justin said standing up. "Are you all here for Mackenzie Hope?" the doctor asked walking into the room. "Yes, is she ok?" Jenna asked worried. "Yes," the doctor said smiling, "she will be perfect in a few days. She had a few scratches on her that needed stitches but more seriously she has 2 bruised ribs. She's going to need to stay in the hospital over the weekend and if all goes well she'll be released Monday morning. You all can see her now if you would like, she's in room 212." the doctor said exiting the room,"Oh and Justin? She's very lucky that you were there. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if you weren't." They all thanked her and made their way to her hospital room where Mackenzie was sitting up watching TV. "Mackenzie! Thank God you are ok! How are you feeling? Do you want me to get you anything?" Jenna asked rushing to her bedside. "I'm fine, really. Wow, you all didn't have to come." She said when they all came in the room. "Aww...Don't be so modest." Chris said sitting next to her. "How are you doing?" he asked. "I told you guys I'm fine. I was actually just watching myself on TV. It's kind of strange when every channel you put on has yourself being pushed out of the path of a truck. Where's Justin?" she asked when she noticed he wasn't there. "I'm right here." he said coming into the room. "How about we leave you two alone for a few minutes." Lance said when he noticed the look Justin was giving Mackenzie. Everyone left the room when Justin walked over to sit next to Mackenzie. "How are you feeling?" he asked "I'm ok." she paused and an awkward silence fell between them. "Thank you, Justin. Everyone keeps telling me what would of happened if you weren't there and I don't even want to think about that. So thank you." she blurted "There's no need to thank me. I did what anyone else would have done. I'm sorry I didn't get there sooner." Mackenzie was shocked to see Justin's arm wrapped in a white bandage and it terrified her to think that he might be hurt. "How's your arm?" she asked trying not to sound too affected. "It's ok." Justin said with a laugh, "Leave it to me to push both of us in a pile of broken glass bottles." Mackenzie giggled when she heard him say that, "A few pieces of glass is better than what could have happened." she said laughing harder. "Yeah." Justin said looking at his arm beginning to laugh. A few seconds later both of them were laughing hysterically and the best part was that neither of them knew what was so funny. Mackenzie looked at Justin's laughing form and realized that this was the first time she was seeing the real Justin. She could tell so much about him just by the way he laughed. When he looked up to meet her gaze Mackenzie smiled and continued to laugh. This was the beginning of a new friendship between Justin and Kenzie and both of them were looking forward to it. |