It had been 7 hours since Kirsty had been brutally attacked and kicked unconscious.
She laid there- limp and pale, on the cold kitchen floor tiling, blood had pooled around the back of her head and she had a bruise, mostly hidden by her hair on her forehead from where his foot had made contact.
She was still unconscious and Warren was worried sick- but not so much about her wellbeing ,more about how much trouble he would be in if she died.
He did feel guilty though, this was the worst he had ever done and he thought she might die. He had stayed up all night watching her, making sure she was breathing. Which she had been, but even he knew she was breathing very shallowly.
About two hours ago he had picked up the phone with the intention of calling an ambulance, after all Nita needed a mum didn't she?
But he hadn't called for one, he let his cowardice take over .Instead he just gripped the phone tightly in his sweaty palm, watching, waiting, hoping for her to come round. It was getting light outside now and he could hear the birds chirping.
It was only then that he realised that she had to be into work in less than 4 hours, and she was in this state- she'd have to have the day off, but that would be difficult seen as she had missed a lot of work recently with unexplained injuries and she had Tess on her back, thinking she was faking ;and Adam was still snooping around...
Well that's if she ever wakes up he thought, looking once again at the phone in his hand, contemplating, planning the story he would tell.
His thoughts were interrupted by a low groan; he looked down and saw that Kirsty was drowsily looking up at him.
"Hey, Kirst you ok?" Warren asked sweetly, acting as though she had just woken up from a deep sleep.
Kirsty looked at him confused. All she could see was a blur and she couldn't even focus on that because of the excruciating, pounding pain in her head.
"Hawwmm" was all she could manage, her throat was all dry and she found it hard to breath.
"I'm glad you're ok love, I was worried" Warren replied as he moved, kneeling down besides her before fondly tussling her hair, acting as though there wasn't a massive bruise there.
"W-wat,h-ap-nd?" she managed, but it took her so long to say it that by the end she already remembered.
"You tripped" Warren said with a shrug, dismissing the question the best he could.
Kirsty's vision had cleared up now and she was back on "planet earth", which was ironic due to her surreal situation .She was aware of where she was and she could remember what happened , but she felt drowsy, nauseous and just ...wrong.