It had been an accident. You didn't really think it needed to be sought after for a week by a whole team of nurses and a lousy doctor that didn't know his ass from his stethoscope.
Slipping on ice in your drive way hadn't been the most graceful thing you ever did, but neither was the broken leg you got out of it. You were now sentenced to bed rest until further notice.
What was even worse was the fact that you weren't alone. You had been stuck in a room with another girl around your age that was getting her appendix removed, or so you had heard when the useless doctor came in to see her.
If only you hadn't pissed off mother, you'd be in a private room. Turns out when you're a poor college student, you're lucky if you have insurance that can get you this.
Mother will be receiving a pretty bill sooner rather than later, and you know she'll pay it because debt is what she fears most. You also know she won't let you forget this either, and she'll take what she wants from you when she wants it.
Sharing a room wouldn't be nearly as bad if she couldn't talk. Instead she had either a nurse or a doctor in to discuss the procedure, and if it wasn't anyone in the medical field she had what you believed to be her father breathing down her neck. The worst part though was when her girlfriend visited. The six foot two ginger fawned over the girl (whose name you learned was Laura), every chance she got. And maybe what the absolute worst thing that could have come out of this room situation, was the fact that you kind of liked her.