Adora's POV

It had been a few days since I had first entered the hospital. Today's the day I figure out if I'm able to use my shoulder. I hope I can since losing the ability to use my shoulder would probably be the most annoying thing in the world. I would have to adjust to a new lifestyle, and I'm not up for that.

I'm mostly worried about Catra, and that fight club. I don't want her to go in on her own, even though I said that I'm fine with it now, but deep down. I'm going in with her, with or without a working shoulder. I wish that Mrs. Grant could have just chosen someone else, or just let us not do it anymore. I don't understand why she needs that ring so much, I guess the best thing we're going to be getting out of this is that we get know where Shadow Weaver is.

Although, many things have been going on in my mind lately. Mostly relating to Catra, she was going the whisper something in my ear that day the doctor and Mrs. Grant had come in. I couldn't exactly make up the words she was going to say, I've been meaning to ask Catra about it.

But there was something else, that makes my heart race almost every time I remember it. The kiss that we shared on the balcony of the hospital room, almost felt unreal. It's something I always want to remember, and feel. Catra and I have been acting a little awkward around each other ever since then. Not that talking is a problem, were completely fine with that. But, every time we get close...physically, she tends to back down.

I'm tired of being awkward with Catra, I'm tired of sitting in this room with her and having an awkward silence every minute. And being in this cramped room isn't helping with it.I sighed and looked down at my clenched fists, I frowned trying to think of something else other than my awkwardness with Catra. Something then came into mind that made me almost jump in my seat, I haven't made any contact with Bow and Glimmer for the past week! They must be worried sick about me, I frantically looked around to spot my phone on a table charging.

I rolled my eyes, at least It is in arms-length so I don't have to make a whole table scene. I looked over at my left shoulder and made a squinting eye at it as if I was challenging it to start moving. I looked over at my phone and leaned over slightly and brought my left hand up lightly. I noticed there was no pain at the angle it was at, so I decided to test it and bring it up higher making my shoulder roll slightly. I gritted my teeth as the familiar pain came back, I raised my arm just a bit higher and almost screeched in pain as I finally latched onto my phone.

I was waiting for the pain to reduce as my arm stayed in the same position while holding onto my, but it never did. I slowly moved my arm back and tossed my phone onto my lap and quickly moved my arm into a comfortable position making me sigh in relief. I guess the pain in my shoulder is still there, and I can just barely lift my arm without it hurting. There's some progress?I rubbed my shoulder and laid back, still having leftover pins and needles.

"Your shoulder alright?" I heard someone say.

I slightly opened my eyes to see Catra holding a tray, I looked her up and down with lidded eyes seeing she was wearing just a plaid black flannel with her sleeves rolled up, and black jeans. I would be lying if I said she wasn't hot in the basic outfit she was wearing.

I didn't notice I was staring until Catra coughed. My eyes quickly snapped to her eyes and gave her an apologetic smile.

"Yeah, still hurts a bit" I finally said.

Catra gave a small frown and rolled a nearby chair next to my bedside, then put the tray of food next to my bed. I gave an uncomfortable look at the food and tried to slightly move away from it.

"Adora, you have to eat. Just because it's bad doesn't mean you don't eat it. All you've had is ramen and water. At least have protein" She insisted.

"I can't go to the gym, so I don't want to eat fat that I can't burn off," I told her, I wanted to cross my arms but that would hurt.

She let out a sigh and grabbed a scoop full of yogurt and put it in her mouth. I watched her get another scoop and placed the spoon up to my mouth slightly blushing.

"What are you? My mom?" I teased with a small smirk.

She let out a small embarrassed squeak and just shoved the spoon into my mouth making the strawberry yogurt fall into my mouth. I let go of the spoon with a small 'pop' of my mouth, licking my lips lightly feeling a bit of yogurt on them.

"Good?" Catra asked.

I nodded and opened my mouth hoping she would continue to feed me with a spoon, I felt like playing baby with her right now. She rolled her eyes and continued to feed me food off of the plate and place it up to my mouth.

"I think I would like to be fed like this more often" I murmured with a satisfied pat to my stomach. I had been neglecting to eat for the past couple of days, so eating food felt better. Even if the food hat the hospital wasn't the best.

"Yeah, well this is gonna be the only time" She scoffed with a playful tone.

"Aww, Catwa don't you wanna fweed your bwaby" I spoke to her with a baby voice and making a grabby hand for her to come closer with my right hand.

She made an embarrassed face and lightly shoved me in the leg, "Gah! Don't speak like that, it makes me uncomfy".

I let out a small laugh, "Gimmie a hug"

Catra looked away slightly and made small steps toward me awkwardly. There it was again, her wanting not to be close to me and making this awkward. I frowned and pushed that thought cause all I felt at this moment is wanting Catra to feel close to me.

She was just standing at the bedside not doing anything, I grabbed the front of flannel with my right hand and pulled her forward making her shriek. Her body landed on top of mine making me let out a groan from her arms landing on my shoulder, but the pain was the least of my worries. The warmth that radiated around her body that was now on me made me exhale happily. I moved my arm around her neck and pulled her a little closer.

"A-Adora..your shoulder" She mumbled trying to get off of me.

I continued to have my eyes close and searched for her ear, my lips rested against her ear and whispered, "I. Don't. Care."

I felt her tense against me making me slightly smile, knowing that I was able to have this effect on her.

"Do you not want to hug me?" I asked trying to hide up the fact I was slightly disappointed she wasn't hugging me back.

"N-No! Nothing like that...I just don't want to hurt your shoulder" She reassured, lie, or not it seemed pretty believable.

I grabbed her waist making her slightly tense and put her up on my lap making her slightly tense up more.

"Wow, this is some position. Are you sure we're not about to fuck?" Catra teased.I slapped her arm and rolled my eyes, "No! I just trying to make this hug more comfortable for both of us.

She went silent and waited for me to bring her back into a hug. I grabbed one of her arms and put it around my uninjured shoulder and her other onto my waist, then bringing her closer. Although the hug wasn't exactly the most comfortable, it made me let out a small sigh.I felt her search for the crook my neck to which she finally found and curled herself, putting her head onto my neck.

"You smell nice," She said with her tail slowly swishing around.

"Well, perfume has its benefits" I giggled.

The silence between us finally wasn't awkward. It felt relaxing feeling Catra's small hairs against my neck, and her tail now laying lifelessly wrapped around my ankle. Just the presence of her being near me, feeling her against me was relaxing.

I slowly brought my hand between her droopy ears and slowly scritched between them. A couple of scritches later I heard small purrs begin to rumble. I felt the vibration of her purs against my chest making me smile. Hearing her purrs was rarely something I was able to get out of her, so it was kind of an accomplishment for me. I didn't know when to stop, so I gently dropped my hand.

I felt her lifted her head off my chest, "Hey, why'd you stop?"

I stared at her surprisingly, she usually hates when someone scratches between her ears. I brought my hand back to the same position and continued to scritch making her exhale in relief as she put her head back into the crook of my neck, snuggling right in.

About 10 minutes later she finally swatted my hand away, but not in an angry way. Just a signal to tell me that was enough scratching for her. She lifted her head off of mine, I stared at her kind of dazed from laying there.

I noticed she was still straddling me, making me blush. I moved up slightly making her tense once again, I grabbed her chin between my fingers, bringing her forward. I was about to lean in, but she quickly hopped off my lap and back into the seat.

"U-Um, I think your legs need a rest. I don't want too cut off the blood circulation, you know?" She laughed nervously.

I stared at her in defeat and looked away.

"Yeah.."

Why was Catra acting this way? The feeling of disappointment that was left at the bottom of my stomach began to rise, almost going to make me cry. I guess this was how she felt when I rejected her kissing me. Is she thinking about what happened before? I thought she let that go, I thought that she had forgiven me...

I felt a tear go down, looking the other direction from Catra, so she didn't see.

"A-Ado-" I heard her say behind me, but that was muffled from a sudden outburst of the door.

"SURPRISE!!" two voices screamed, voices that I've missed.

I whipped my head around and saw Bow and Glimmer standing there with a bunch of food, candy, balloons, and flowers. I smiled and wiped my teary eyes from earlier and signaled for them to come closer.

"Bow! Glimmer!" I gushed.

I saw them come closer, I watched from the corner of my eye Catra giving me a small smile as she walked out of the room leaving the 3 of us alone.

"How long has she been here?" Glimmer asked.

"Um, probably since the moment she was able to come in here" I answered.

Bow gasped placing a hand over his heart, "You mean, we could've come earlier! Glimmer you said that she has no visitors until today!"

"Well! That's what I thought, I guess not!" She sneered.

I smiled at there bickering, "Come on you guys. Group hug!"

Bow went to go hug happily but Glimmer placed a hand over his shoulder and shook her hand, "Haha, nice test Adora. You know you can't with that injured shoulder of yours"

I frowned, "Just give me a light hug then"

Bow gleamed once again and gave me a light hug, I placed my right arm around his shoulder and brought him close. I did the same with Glimmer after my hug with Bow.

After we exchanged hugs, they both sat on the edge of my bed.

"So you find out today huh?" Bow said with seriousness in his voice with arms crossed.I nodded.

"What are you going to do if you can't use your shoulder?" Glimmer added in.

I shrugged, "I don't know, at least it isn't my dominant hand, so writing won't be as hard for school"

They nodded, but I could sense something was wrong.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked with a shoved cookie in my mouth from the gifts they gave me.

Glimmer grabbed a nearby towel and wiped my mouth that had crumbs on it.

"We've meaning to ask you this, even before you got hurt. We heard you are planning something...with Catra" Glimmer announced.

I looked at her confused, I tried to search through my memories to see what I was planning to do with Catra.

"Oh! Listen...I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys! I promise Catra is not a bad person, besides she took care of me-" I mumbled.

"N-No! Adora, we mean about that thing with Mrs. Grant" Glimmer cut in.

My eyes widened at the realization that I haven't told them about that 'fight club' Catra and I were planning to enter in.

"This is a long story, so buckle up" I sighed.

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I explained almost everything to them, about how we need to win, how I'm going to fight with or without a working arm, why we're doing it, and how we have no choice of backing out. Everything from the start.

Glimmer smashed her hand onto a nearby cupcake making me crumble inside, "That's bullshit! She shouldn't have to make you go into such a dangerous place, you're only in freshmen year and so is Catra! We have to take this to the police"

Bow nodded, "Agreed!"

I sat up quickly making me groan lightly, "N-No! Guys, listen. It's okay, whatever happens, is what happens. Catra and I are doing it to find Shadow Weaver, we need to know where and who she is. And besides, Catra is doing it for me, and I'm doing it for her".

"Did Catra get you into this mess?" Glimmer growled.

I quickly settled her down by putting a pat onto her shoulder, "No, she didn't. As I said, Mrs. Grant got us into this mess because she thinks we're capable of winning that stupid ring".

Bow exhaled and ran a hand through his hair, "We should be there Adora, we should go with you to make sure you don't get hurt".

"No! You cant! This information is supposed to be kept secret, and besides, I don't want you two getting in trouble for my problems" I urged.

They both looked at each other, "Adora...why didn't you tell us before?".

"Because I didn't want you guys to worry, you're my best friends. I don't want you to get hurt or anything to happen to you if Mrs. Grant found out you had this information" I answered honestly.

Bow let out a sad sob and pushed himself onto me, "Adoraaaaaaa! You big stupid dummy! Why do you have to be put into these situations like thissssss".

I giggled lightly and patted his head.

"Bow! Shoulder!" Glimmer scolded making him scramble back onto his knees.

"I still don't like her" Glimmer then mumbled.

"Who?" I asked confused.

"Catra!" She hissed.

Bow shrugged, "I kind of like her. She seems cool".

I gave Bow a slight smile and looked over at Glimmer.

"Glimmer, I promise she is a good person. She won't do any harm, I've known her since he was a kid. I can handle her" I told her while pulling her into a small hug.

I could tell she was smiling into the hug as she quickly gave a small hug back then slapping my knee slightly.

"Whatever! I still am keeping a watch on her...even though she saved your life. I owe her that one" She growled protectively.

"Ugh all this serious talk is making me die, let's talk about something elseeee" Bow whined.

Glimmer and I agreed, we decided to play a game of go-fish, ate snacks, and watched 1 or 2 movies on the small T.V that was on the wall of the hospital. It was good to see them after being stuck in a room for the past week.

"I kissed Catra" I blurted.

We were playing truth or dare and Bow dared me to tell me who the last person I kissed was.Glimmer and Bow gasped at the same time.

"You kissed Catra?!" They both shrieked.

I was about to tell them about it when I heard the door open, there was Catra standing at the door.

"Hey, Catra," I said waving to her sit down next to us.

"Hey, Adora" She replied walking a little farther from the place I asked her too. But at least she was in the room with us.

"Your arm feeling any better?" She asked sitting down in a chair.

"Yep, all good now," I told her giving a thumbs up.

"Catra, wanna play truth or dare?" Bow asked patting down on the bed, wanting her to join our circle.

She shrugged and got up, leaping onto the empty space of the bed, "Sure, also. The doctor should be coming in soon, about your um. shoulder".

I sucked in a breath, I have been dreading this day. Waiting to see what is going to happen to my shoulder.

"Hey, it's gonna be okay. You have us" Glimmer comforted.

I put on a fake smile and told her I'm not worrying, even though I'm practically dying on the inside.

Almost 20 minutes later of playing truth or dare, we heard a small knock come at the door. My heart literally skipping a beat. We all turned our heads to see the doctor.

"Hey, Adora!" He said cheerfully.

I exhaled hoping that was a good sign that maybe it was good news.

"Hi" I mumbled.

"Is your arm feeling better?" He said walking over to lightly touch my still casted shoulder.

"It still hurts a bit, but It's feeling a bit better," I said watching him.

He told me that was good, but his smile quickly fading as he grabbed a nearby rolly chair, sitting down.

"The x-rays came in today," He said grabbing the photos and examining them closely with a small frown.

"And.." He sighed handing the photos to me.

I grabbed them and couldn't make up what he was trying to say since it was mostly black and white photos of the inside of my shoulder.

"We...think that...maybe you're not going to be able to use your left shoulder anymore"

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A/N: Sorry guys if the spacing is off. For some reason when I was editing, the format went all weird and now there is double spacing between the paragraphs rather than just one. 

ಠ_ಠ   (If...grammar/spelling errors are there...gomenasai)