Rachel's eyes fluttered open. She groaned,
"Mum?" Rachel questioned as she looked across the room. Shelby hopped up out of her chair and walked over to Rachel's side,
"Hi sweetie, how are you feeling?" She asked.
"Hmm; I've been better." Rachel replied. Her mother grabbed a chair and slid it over to the side of the bed,
"You've looked better too.."
"Excuse me?" Rachel stated while looking at her mother. Right as she did this the doctor walked in.
"Hi Rachel, we have the results. You have a couple of broken ribs.." He exclaimed while putting the x-rays up on the board, "Here and here," he pointed to the two broken ribs. Rachel sighed,
"So what happens now?" She asked irritably.
Her doctor started to explain, "Well the breaks aren't bad enough that we need to do surgery, but they aren't well enough for you just to walk out of here. You're going to need to wear a body brace around your stomach area for about 4 weeks, and then we will re x-ray your ribs and see what to do from there."
Rachel sighed, "Again..god!"
Her doctor laughed, "And this time, try not to do anything that can seriously hurt you. You have to try and remember that you aren't 100% healed yet. Can you try and do that?" Rachel nodded and chuckled. She would DEFINATELY remember that.
"I will leave you to rest." Her doctor said as he started walking out of the room.
Shelby sighed, "Here we go again. I'm kind of getting sick of you breaking things!" she laughed.
"Yeah I'll try," Rachel chuckled, "I'm getting sick of it too."
"I'm going to go and grab a bite to eat, are you all right for me to leave?"Shelby asked as she started to hop out of her chair.
"Yeah mum, go, I need some sleep anyway." Rachel replied. Shelby walked over to a table near the door and grabbed her coat and bag. Before leaving she turned and smiled at her daughter. She then walked out the door. Rachel smiled. Her eyes began to start closing but they quickly jerked open from a girl walking in. Rachel looked at the girl in confusion,
"Can I come in?" the girl asked with a sweet voice that filled the room.
Rachel sat staring at her for a while, before she realised what she was doing,
"Uh...yeah of course. Come in," She quickly stated while gesturing to the chair that sat next to the bed. She thought she had seen her face before somewhere, but she just couldn't put her finger on it.
The girl interrupted her thoughts and put her hand out to shake Rachel's hand, "I'm Hayley, Finns girlfriend." She said with a smile on her face. Rachel gasped. Was this girl delusional? Was she living in another world?
Rachel shook herself out of her thoughts, "huh? Girlfriend?"
Hayley's smile faded a little, "Yeah.." She replied slowly, "Judging by the look on your face I haven't been mentioned before now?" She said with a little giggle as she sat her purse down next to the chair beside Rachel's bed.
"Uh no not really. I think I've seen a picture of you and him in his bedroom on his desk." She actually remembered seeing the photo of them in a box at the back of Finn's closet; but she didn't have to know that.
"I've actually got some rather big news that I was hoping to tell Finn today," Hayley started explaining.
She pointed towards the chair, "May I?"
Rachel nodded, "Oh, of course. Go ahead,"
Hayley continued, "But when I got to his house there was a note on the front of the door from Carole telling Finn that she was at the hospital because you had been badly hurt, and to meet her there when he got home, so I thought that maybe I could catch him here."
Rachel nodded, "Oh right, well he's not here..as you've probably already gathered."
Hayley nodded, "Yeah, I did. And then I remembered him not being able to come up one holidays. He exclaimed that his friend had been really badly hurt and he needed to be here with them. I guessed that his friend was you, so I decided to come see you, and see how your going," She explained. Rachel was so angry at Finn, but she couldn't show her anger in front of Hayley.
Hayley continued, "I live about 4 hours away, and I only get to see Finn during holidays and sometimes during the term. So when he told me he wasn't coming up because of..well you, I figured it must be important to him. I just hate being so far away from him..." suddenly Hayley was cut off from the door slamming open. Standing in the doorframe was Finn. He was puffing, his chest raising and falling. He looked at Rachel..and then at Hayley...and then back at Rachel.
Hayley smiled, "Here's my boy; Hi," she stated while going to kiss Finn. He quickly changed the kiss into a hug.
"What are you doing here?" He asked in confusion. Rachel rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe he hadn't told her about Hayley. Everytime she looked at him all she saw was a big dope.
Hayley let out a little nervous laugh, "Well actually I've got something to tell you." She said with a smile as she went to grab his hand. Finn quickly used the hand she was going to grab to scratch his opposite arm.
He nodded, "What is it?"
Hayley smiled, " I'm moving here, to Lima!" She stood there looking at her with her arms in a position to hug him and a big smile on her face. Finn stood there in shock; did she just say what he thought she said? Hayley's smile slowly started to fumble into a questioned look.
"Uh.. So? Aren't you happy?" She asked in a questioned tone. Finn shook his head as if coming out of a daze,
"I have to go." He quickly stated and turned to walk out of the room. He closed the door and walked to the canteen. Meanwhile in Rachel's room, Hayley turned around and looked at Rachel. She shook her head, looked at the ground, and closed her eyes. She let out a little laugh and looked at Rachel.
"Did that just happen?" She asked in confusion and pointed at the door. She walked over to the side of Rachel's bed.
Rachel couldn't resist smiling a little, "I honestly don't know..He's never been like that before?" She said through little silent giggles. Hayley just shook her head. All Rachel knew was that she had to talk to Finn.
End of chapter. Please review. :)
