My story part 9

That night we went to a friend of Cosimo's that he started hanging out with again.  His name was Chris and he had a girlfriend Beth.  They also had a crotch rocket.  Over the next few wks we started hanging out with them and I ended up quitting my part time job and Cosimo and I got back together.  When summer came we were everywhere.  We went swimming, out to dinner, the movies, racing and Cosimo bought a new quad and we went quad riding.  We had a blast and I even got my first ride on a harley davidson.  I personally didn't like it cause it was too loud and too slow.  July 4th we really didn't go anywhere.  We got some beers and the four of us stayed in our hometown.  Afterwards all four of us took the bikes and went to Mount Washington.  Summer was great.  I decided that I needed a better paying job and the I wanted to move out on my own so I applied for a full time night job that payed great.  I was going to work two jobs again for awhile then quit my day job.  On July 23rd I got a call from Chris's dad.  I was at work and I didn't know if anything was wrong so I answered my phone.  He told me that Chris had to take my brother to the hospital.  My brother had worked with Chris and they worked on gas lines.  He told me that Justin had got down in the hole to cut the pipe and it surged.  He got burnt really bad.  His boss couldn't get hold of my parents so Justin gave them my # to call.  My mom had my dad at the hospital for his yearly check up for his stomach ulcer.  My supervisor was on break and I couldn't leave cause I had to answer the phones to approve money transactions.  I tried and tried to call my mom.  Finally I told another supervisor that I had to leave that I had a family emergency.  I sped down to the hospital and found my mom in the back waiting room.  I told her that Justin was in the hospital and what had happened.  I forgot to turn my cell phone off before I went inside and it started ringing again so my mom and I went outside.  I was Chris's dad telling me that the hospital was taking my brother to the burn center in Pittsburg.  My mom called my grandparents and they headed down to the hospital.  My mom was shaking.  To make her feel a little better I told her "ma, he's just trying to break his own record," and that made her laugh.  (See every July my brother always got in an accident and wound up in the hospital.  He had fallen down a hill on his quad and broke his leg really bad,  almost cut his leg off with the chainsaw and decided that it was funny and that he was going to go back to what he was doing even though he was bleeding really bad, and this year he wound up in the hospital from the flu, he decided that he didn't need fluids and asprin like the doctor prescribed.  I know it sounds bad that we laugh at my brother but he'll even tell you that he's trying to break his own record and he laughs at himself.  I swear that boy has a death wish or he's just trying to be a different kind of evil kneivel.)......