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Chapter Fifty-Two: Alex's P.O.V.
I leaned my head back against the wall as Adam and I sat in the waiting room at the hospital. Amy was down in the cafeteria getting drinks and Randy was with Jayda while she was getting her x-rays. I sighed as I tried to shake the light headed feeling I had had ever since I smacked my head on the hardwood floor of the courtroom.
"You okay?" Adam asked quietly.
"Just pissed as hell," I lied to him. "What the fuck is that bitch's problem?"
"You can't see?" he questioned. I tilted my head up and looked at him, puzzled. "She's obviously jealous of you."
I rolled my eyes and laughed, lightly.
"Don't laugh, Alex," Adam said, his face showing no signs of joking. "I think she is envious of, not only the way you are with Jayda, but how you act with Randy as well."
"What? You think Michelle is after Randy? She hates him with a passion."
"Now, that's funny, because so did you," he said, his lips forming into a small smile.
I opened my mouth to say something but then I realized that he was right. Silence overwhelmed the waiting room until Amy had come back with our drinks and even then, she and Adam only made small talk here and there. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly as my vision began to blur a little bit.
"Lex, you sure you're okay?" Adam repeated.
I shook my head and leaned down to get some aspirin out of my purse. Before I knew it, I was on the floor, having lost my balance. Adam hurried to my side as Amy ran to get a doctor. He lifted my head up and must've felt the knot on the back of my head.
"Alex, I need you to keep your eyes open. Don't go to sleep, okay?"
I struggled to do as he said and after what seemed like forever a doctor had arrived with a couple of EMTs and a stretcher.
"What happened?" the doctor asked.
"She just collapsed from her chair. She took a pretty nasty fall earlier today and I think she hit her head," Adam told him as they took over.
"What's going on?" I heard a voice coming down the hall.
"Randy?" I questioned weakly, feeling my eyelids getting heavier by the minute. Within seconds, he appeared at my side, holding Jayda who was sporting a bright pink cast on her left arm.
"What the hell happened?" Randy asked the doctor as I was being taking down the hall.
"She needs to have a cat scan. It appears…" I heard the voices fading as my eyes finally closed.
"When is Alex going to wake up, Daddy?" I heard Jayda's soft voice.
"I don't know, munchkin, but we have to be quiet. She'll wake up when she wants to. Right now, we need to let her rest."
"But I'm bored. Can we watch Spongebob?"
"No, Jayda. Now sit and be quiet."
I opened my eyes and took in my surroundings. I was in a hospital room and looked over to where I heard voices. Randy was sitting in a chair, his head tilt back and his eyes closed while Jayda sat on the floor in front of him, her arms crossed and a pout on her face. That is, until she noticed me.
"Alex!" she screamed and ran over to the bed.
"Jayda, I told you to be quiet," Randy said not even bothering to look up.
"Somebody needs their beauty sleep," I joked.
Randy looked up and came over to my bed as fast as Jayda had. "How are you feeling?" he asked.
"I want to go home. I feel absolutely ridiculous being in this bed. I should've known that I had to be careful after hitting my head like that."
"There was so much stuff going on, it wasn't your fault," he said, sitting on my bed and then setting Jayda on his lap.
"Are you okay, Little Miss?" I asked her.
"Yeah, look, Amy and Adam signed my cast," she said and held her arm out to show me.
"That was nice. Where are they?"
"They caught a cab back to my place. Amy's going to fix dinner for when you come home," Randy answered.
"That's nice, but I would really rather just go to my house and relax."
"The doctor said you have a minor concussion and that you need someone with you for at least twenty four hours. So, like it or not, you're coming home with us," Randy said as the doctor came in.
"What Mr. Orton says is true. I don't want you by yourself tonight. But, I do have your release papers if you are ready to go," the doctor said, handing me a clipboard with my papers on it.
"Oh, I'm more than ready," I told him and took them from him. He left after that and I filled out the forms. I sat up in bed, but apparently did so a little too quickly as a sharp pain rang through my skull.
"Here, babe, let me help you," Randy said, setting Jayda down and rushing to my side. "Nice and slow," he told me as he pulled me up. "There's no need to hurry."
After several minutes, I was finally ready to go to Randy's house and just relax the rest of the night. Adam met us out in the driveway and took Jayda in the house while Randy walked with me.
"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you when this happened," Randy said, softly as we reached the porch.
"Randy, if you were there with me instead of with your little girl, I would've killed you. She comes first no matter what," I told him as he smiled.
"You're the perfect woman, you know that?"
"Yeah, right, Randy."
"Well, damn near it. You don't need all of the attention on you all of the time. You're not an attention whore," he said, laughing. "Or any type of whore."
"I'm glad you think that," I replied, laughing along with him. "So what else am I?"
"You're humorous, sexy, stubborn, caring, loving," he continued but I interrupted.
"You better stop or I'm going to have a bigger ego than yours."
"That's what I am talking about," he said, before placing a kiss on my lips. He then picked me up and carried me through the doorway and set me on the couch before smiling down at me. "Hopefully, the next time I do that, we'll be married."
This was a kind of sweet and fluffy chapter there toward the end and this chapter basically had no purpose except to kind of fill in. Next chapter: we'll be back in the courtroom and then I am hoping the trial will be done in the chapter after that. So, please review and check out my myspace.
