I don't think I've seen Blaine this nervous in my entire life. Since it was a semi-formal dance he was wearing dark nice jeans and white polo with a black suite jacket over it.
"Blainey you look so handsome!" Amber praised. He widely smiled at her.
"Thanks Am!"
"Anytime cutie."
"Ready to go pick up Drew?" He took a deep breath.
"Yes, let's go."
Drew lived in a large house. The size of ours. His parents were obviously way more excepting of there son then Blaine and my own parents.
"Pictures! Blaine get over here! Stand next to Drew! You two look adorable!" Drews mother was screaming. Drew was a good looking boy. He had blond hair and tanned skin. He was wearing an outfit similar to Blaine. They smiled for pictures and shuffled awkwardly into the car saying there good byes.
"Blaine."
"Yeah?"
"You never told me your brother was the guy on the free credit rating commercial!" Blaine laughed.
"Sorry, Drew I forgot to tell you my brother is the guy from the free credit rating commercial." Amber got a kick out of that. "Better?"
"Yeah, it's so cool though."
"He is cool." Blaine says smiling at me through the rear view mirror.
"Have fun boys!" I called out as I drove away.
Me and Amber decided to stay home and watch Titanic. I voted to watch Star Wars but I can't win against her.
I fell asleep early in the movie only to be woken up by Amber at 10:30.
"Blaine home?" I said when I saw the time. Because it was a school dance it ended at ten but Blaine and Drew were most likely going to go out for ice cream with Drews parents.
"No, but your phone is ringing." I saw Blaines name on my phone.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Is this Cooper?"
"Yes, who is this? Why do you have Blaines phone?"
"This is Peter Wilson. Drews father. I came here and… the boys, they were beaten up. I know how much Blaine loves you and would want you to be with him right now."
"Are they at the hospital?"
"Well Drew is at Lima Memorial but Blaine had to be a-airlifted to St. Ritas." My head was spinning. You don't get airlifted for no reason.
"Th-thank you Mister Wilson." I said quickly and hung up right as the home phone rang. It was the police I let my mom answer and just ran to the car Amber close behind.
"Cooper what happened?"
"Blaine."
"What about him?"
"He was beat up at the Sadie Hawkins dance and had to airlifted, god damn it to St. Ritas trauma center! Airlifted Amber!" She cover her mouth. Tears were threatening to fall from her eyes. Before I pulled out of the drive way my mother ran out of the house.
"Cooper wait! Blaine we-"
"I know. I'm going you want to get in the car." She was having a full blown panic attack crying hysterically.
"Mom you need to calm down."
"I-I need to call your father."
"Okay you do that."
"Gorge you need to meet me at St. Rita's now."
"What? No it's Blaine."
"He was at a dance."
"I don't know what happened the police wouldn't explain!"
"Okay, good. Goodbye." She hung up the phone and continued to sob until we arrived.
"We're here for Blaine Anderson." I said to a nurse at the front desk. She look up from her computer and typed something in.
"Okay wait here I will get someone to talk to you in a second." She quickly walked off and when she came back an officer was with her.
"Mrs.Anderson?" He asked.
"Yes that's me. Can you tell me what happened?"
"We believe that your son was a victim of a hate crime. Apparently he went to the school dance with another boy and they both got severely beaten although his boyfriend is in much better shape than he is."
"He went with a boy? I thought Drew wasn't gay. Cooper did you know?"
"I-yeah I knew." She inhaled deeply looking not mad but hurt.
"Do you know if he's okay?"
"The doctor is supposed to come out and tell you about his condition. I'm very sorry Mrs.Anderson." He said swiftly and walked away. A few minutes later a doctor came out to talk to us.
"Hello Mrs.Anderson I am Doctor Hawthorn, Doctor Robins is in surgery with Blaine at the moment." "Surgery?" My mom asked.
"Yes, I am going to tell you his injures right now but I want to warn you it isn't pretty."
"Go on." I pushed.
"Okay, first he has a sever head injury, he was bleeding too much inside his skull so we had to open part of it to relieve the pressure. He had many broken ribs. His wrist is severely sprained and he also had a open compound fracture to his femur which we had to realign in surgery. He is still in surgery right now and is on many many pain medications. He also seized on the way here." I felt like I was going to throw up. "I must warn you though we don't when or if Blaine is going to wake up, but even when he does it is going to be a long hard recovery."
"I- uh- I- w-will he be out of surgery soon?"
"Maybe an hour or two?" I will keep you updated."
"Thank you." We sat and waited. An hour later my father had shown up. My mom was too distressed to tell him what had happened and I was honestly just mad for Blaine because my father had never once made him feel like a human being and now here Blaine is practically laying on a death bed. So Amber sweetly told him what was going on tears running down her face.
"He is an idiot. What did he expect to be accepted there? He never was before why would that change now."
"Leave." My mother glared at him. "I'm not losing my baby anymore over something this minor. Granted I don't understand it, he is still Blaine and if almost losing him doesn't' prove that you need to leave."
"Angela your not serious."
"Oh I am. Reevaluate what's important to you Gorge then you can come back but for the time nobody wants your negativity here."
"I will not leave. He's my son too Angela."
"Then act like your his father." Gorge looked down.
"He may not make it?" He whispered.
"They are trying." He then started crying. It was strange. That was the first time I had ever seen the man cry in my entire life.
"I was so awful too him. If he-"
"Stop dad. Its Blaine and if I know anything about him he's a fighter. He will pull through. He has to."
"Thank you Cooper." I nod at him.
I ended up falling asleep on Ambers shoulder in the waiting room. It must have been hours later a doctor came out.
"He lost a lot of blood and we ended up finding internal bleeding around his appendix which we had to remove. His heart stopped on the table, but he is stable now and in recovery." I held Ambers hand as tight as I possibly could. "We are going to move him into a room in a few minutes and you can see him there."
A few minutes later we walked into Blaines' hospital room. He was tiny on the bed. His face was swollen and bruised and he had machines sticking out of him from every where. I went up to him and held his hand in my own.
"It' s okay Blainey I'm here. I won't leave you."