A New Life
Chapter 4
The door swung open "Excuse me is this Vanessa Fox's room?" A female voice came from behind the the opening door. A familiar face of a young feline appeared.
"Hello Sammi, what are you doing here?" She seemed happy.
"I'm glad you OK?" She sounded relieved. "Hello sir," she said to my uncle, and extended her hand to him.
"I'm Bentley Madam," He accepted her kindness and shuck her hand. "I'm Vanessa's uncle. May I ask Miss. who you are?"
"
My name is Sammi Christin, or just Sam for short." She turned to me. "I came to give you, your money back that you tipped me at the restaurant Ms. Fox." She pulled out an envelope from her brown jacket and handed it to me.
"Why would you return this?"
Her expression saddened. "I lied to you Miss." She began to cry. "I don't even live with my parents. They kicked me out when I was twelve." Her crying turned to sobbing.
"Oh Sam come here girl." I said softly. she sat on the bed and leaned on me. I held her trying to comfort her.
"Nessa I'm going to go get something got drink." Bentley softly said. I nodded my head acknowledging him. He rolled out of the room closing the door behind him.
"So who are you living with?" She wiped the tears from her eyes.
"I've been camping out ever since I got kicked out of my house." She was still sniffling.
"So you have been on your own for two years?" She nodded her head. Damn this kid's been through hell, but she didn't slow down, and kept her head up. I got to help her somehow; I know. "You want to live with me?"
"What, what do you mean?" She looked up with tears in her eyes.
Exactly what I said. Do you want to live with me as your mom? I don't have any experience raising kids. but I willing to give it a shot if you will." I explained with a soft voice.
Her eyes began to tear even more. "Yes," she happily smiled and hugged me more. A horrific pain shot behind my eyes.
"Ahhh!" I put my hand to my cranium.
"What's wrong?" She released her grip with concered expression on her face.
"Just a headache. Can you please get a doctor." She nodded her head and hastily opened the door, and went to find someone.
"She's a good girl." Bentley said as he came rolling back in. I put my hand back down by my side.
"Yeah... I just feel bad for her. So I'm going to try my hand at being a parent."
"Why not have a kid of your own?"
"Well I just didn't meet the right guy yet."
"Well with all of your 'standards' there may not be a guy out there for you. Why not compromise?"
"Bentley you know I'm not one for 'compromising.' I like getting what I want.
"Ah yes the Copper clan attitude. Sly was the same way with Carmelita. No matter how many times he got shot at or rejected he kept trying till he got her... Well I guess it's not all bad."
Sam came back in the room with a male doctor.
"What seems to be the problem Miss Hanks." I looked at Bentley. He shrugged his shoulders.
"I have an extreme headache that are very painful." I pointed around my temple and behind my eyes.
"Alright let me have a look." The wolf doctor examined my head having me turn and stuff. "Ok well it looks like you have a concussion." He wrote some stuff down on his notepad. "I'm proscribing you some medication to help with the pain. You should take it easy for about a month.
Sigh "What am I going to do over the next month?"
"You're not from this country are you? I can tell by your accent Italian-American?"
"Yeah my parents are American but I grew up in the Italian countryside."
"Why not go sightseeing. Buckingham Place and the Tower of England are two places I like going. Although two blue bloods were thought to be near the tower recently. Well at least that's what most people think the bodies are." My eyes widened.
Is that what that strange person ment? I'll have to check it out. I smiled at the nurse and began to speak, "Thank you. I guess I will have something to do now."
"That's good to hear." He ripped out a paper from his book and gave it to me. "This is a prescription for the medication take this to your local pharmacy. Here are some pills for now." The wolf man went to a cabinet in front of my bed and got me two red pills and a little thing of water. He gave them to me. I swallowed the pills and the water and gave the containers back to him. "Alright Miss Hanks rest here for a couple hours then you may be discharged." He then left the room.
"Well that's good news," said Bentley.
"When I leave here I'm going to go home, clean up, get Sam settled, in and go shopping."
"Sounds good to me. Just remember I'm always watching."
"Yes you dam creep. By the way why are you the only one here?
"Carmelita is in Paris still looking for clues on the whereabouts of Elizabeth.
"Sly's taking care of his mother back in Italy."
"Oh," I lowered my head and gripped the blanket tightly. "How is she?"
"She's fine just driving him crazy."
I laughed slightly, "That sounds like her."
"I'll be in England till next Wednesday. So if you need me just call me. You still have my number.
Several hours later.
OK time to go home I got dressed in a pink top and black jogging pants. I walked out of the bathroom. "Ok Sam are you ready to go home?"
"Yeah, while you were resting I went and got all my things." She turned and pointed to the back pack. I signed out of the hospital and walked to the parking lot.
honk honk
Uncle Bentley sat in the car across the lot.
It great to be back writing. I feel like someone was always getting in the way. Sigh I miss you guys. Anyway please review.