"How did this happen?" Kristoff lay face down in the nurse's office on a bed in the back of the room. The nurse scrambling to call for an ambulance.
"I got pushed into a trashcan and I hit my head on the way down." His head still foggy about the incident. All he knows is that someone pointed out in first period that his blond hair was maroon, and blood was running down the back of his shirt.
"Well, you're going to be alright, I called the hospital, they are sending over people who are going bring you to the ER-"
"No!" Kristoff says, sitting up way too quickly, making his vision fussy. "My parents won't be able to pay for that, they hardly get by as it is-I can't-They won't-They are going to be so mad at me." Kristoff hung his head down.
"Kristoff, it's going to be alright, we are going to get this all figured out. But you need to go to the hospital. The gash on the back of your head is serious." The nurse crouches down so that she is at eye level with him, her curly white/gray hair pulled back into a ponytail.
"But-but they don't-won't have enough money to, to pay-"
"Shhhh. Don't worry now. Lay back down, your parents are going to meet you at the hospital." Her face is soft and her smile is kind as he listens to her and lays back down. He closes his eyes and tries not to think.
A few minutes later there's commotion in the office outside the nurse's room. some teacher barges in. "Ms. Winters, come quick. We don't know what's happened." He leaves the room in a hurry.
"Kristoff, I'll be right back, stay there and don't move." His mind gets the better of him as he goes through every possible situation in his head. Maybe the chem lab exploded and someone's hair caught on fire. Or two seniors got into a fist fight over a girl. Someone might have fallen down a flight of stairs… Kristoff's mind continued to wonder as time went on.
After only a few minutes the nurse came back in shutting the door behind her.
"Sweetie, please, tell me what happened." The nurse says in a quiet voice. She brought a student in with her. There's a long pause, with sickening silence filling it. "I can't help you unless you let me." More silence. "Come on Anna, you know you can talk to me." Anna?
"I don't want to talk." That's definitely her. Her voice is up an octave since the last time he saw her. She's been crying. "I just want to go back to class." She sounds like a completely different person than she was this morning. "Why am I here? I'm fine."
"The teachers saw you and Hans fighting Anna." Mr. Winters voice changed from kind and sweet to serious and cold. "They saw him slap you," Silence. "and kick you." What the hell? "They heard what he called you. He's a senior Anna-"
"Stop." Anna said, a little bit louder than necessary. "I know what he is. I know who he is. It doesn't change anything. He'll never lay off. There isn't a reason for him to stop. Not now. Not ever… especially now." Anna's voice traveled off, Kristoff heard the crying from the other room changing into sobbing. Kristoff would never admit it but he shed a few tears, for this mysterious girl he hardly knew. If they can't stop him. Someone else will. Anna showed him so much kindness in just the first few minutes of meeting him. She certainly seems like an likable person, not to mention the fact that she is gorgeous-Stop Kristoff you just met her you can't possibly be thinking about liking her.