Kori made it to the arena with a half hour to spare and decided to grab something to drink from catering before heading to Vince's office. She noticed a lot of the superstars in there from the other day, but tried to get in and out without being seen.
"Hey Kori, come over and join us for breakfast." Shawn yelled waving her over.
Kori nodded and grabbed her water with her good hand and headed over to the table to sit by Ashley and Trish.
Trish noticed she didn't move her left hand much " Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?"
"Well your not really moving your left arm, and I thought maybe you were hurt or something."
"Oh, no. I'm a klutz, I slipped down the stairs at my apartment this morning and tried to catch myself."
John came over and took her arm to look at it. Her wrist was so swollen and black, and blue that it hurt to even touch it, let alone move it. " Let someone take you to the trainers to have a look at it."
Kori pulled her arm from his hand and grabbed her bag " Thanks but it'll be okay. I'll go to the hospital later if it gets worse."
"You really should get it checked, before it gets hurt worse." Hunter tried to reason with her.
Kori looked at her watch " I better go check in with Vince, maybe later. It doesn't hurt. Infact it looks worse than it really is." She walked out of catering before anything else was said.
Hunter watched her go " I'll talk to Vince in a bit. He'll have her get it checked."
Later that day Kori was biting through the pain she felt in her arm, but just barely. She was sitting in a room by herself copying schedules, but the pain was getting worse, and she was fighting back the tears threatening to spill.
Vince came in, and cleared his throat. " Let's take a walk for a bit."
Kori put her pen down, and followed Vince out of the room, and down the hall a ways until she relized where they were when he led her into the trainers office.
"We just wanna make sure your wrist is okay."
Kori sat down on the table as the examiner looked at her wrist. " Well I don't think it's broke. You should get e-rays done though, because it could be fractured or just badely bruised."
Vince nodded " Thank you Kim."
Vince led Kori down to the locker rooms, and openned a door. " I need someone to escort Kori to the hospital please."
John stood up " Well we're done for the day so I'll take her."
"We'll come to ." Amy said as Adam and Dave agreed. "We can get something to eat afterwards."
Kori knew she couldn't say no so she just nodded her head and followed them to John's SUV.
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"Well Miss. Mathews the cast will have to stay on for 6 weeks, and then everything should be okay. Here something for the pain."
Kori took the perscription " Thank you Doctor."
He disscharged her, and she walked out to the lobby to join the others.
They stood up when they saw her coming " Well?" Amy asked.
"Just a small fracture. I'll be good as new in 6 weeks."
"Come on. We'll take you home." Adam said.
"Oh that's okay. I can call a ride."
Dave put his arm around her shoulder causing her to flinch a little from the bruises on her back and along her shoulders, but noone seemed to notice. " Girl will you just go with the flow."
Kori smiled a little as they led her out of the hospital.
She was fine till they started down her road, and she saw Chad waiting on the steps of her building.
"You can stop here."
"Well where do you live?" John asked.
Kori pointed to the building in front of them, and when John pulled up She thanked them for the ride, then exited the vehicle. John put his window down when he saw a guy get up to greet her.
Chad got up to meet her, and gave her the flowers he brought her. "Kori I'm so sorry about last night. I didn't mean to hurt you."
Kori sighed a little as she looked down at the flowers, then back up at Chad. She knew they could hear their conversation a little bit, but she was just so tired from the pain medication the hospital gave her she really didn't care.
"You never mean to hurt me, you just do."
He leaned down and kissed her on the lips " I love you, and I'm sorry."
Kori just nodded. She waved to the guys to let them know she was okay, and then walked inside with Chad.
Later that evening Kori was sitting on her bathroom floor with her arms wrapped around herself as she cried. In all her life she never imagined Chad would hurt her this badly. How could someone hurt, and torture the one they supposedly loved. Force them to do things noone should have to do against their will, and make a person feel so unsafe in their own home. She cried as the bangging on the bathroom door started again.
"Please just go away ! Please !"
"Please." She whispered to herself as she prayed for this all to end. " Someone help me."
The bangging continued.
