Paris, Sienna, Reece, Cameron and Riley (riley, boy)
Lori sat nervously in the waiting room. She had checked into a normal hospital instead of a private one so she would be less easy to find. Most of the other people In the waiting room were giving her stares and one guy in particular was undressing her with his eyes. She always rubbed the ring Ben had given her when she was nervous and now was one of those times. Paige was sitting next to her reading an old copy of Vogue. Lori studied her younger sister. She really did suit dark brown hair she had recently been on holiday with her friends and had tanned well. Her blue eyes stood out against the darker skin. Lori decided to take her mind off her pending operation.
"So what's going on with you and Cameron?" Lori asked referring to Paige's on/off boyfriend who she had been on holiday with. Paige was like the female version of Logan before he met Rory. She could never make her mind up if she wanted to commit or if she wanted to be a free spirit. Paige sighed and threw the magazine back onto the table and rubbed her face.
"To be honest I really don't know" she admitted.
"Well what's confusing you? I mean I've seen you together. He cant keep his eyes off you"
"I know, I know. I'm just not sure if I want to settle down yet"
"Paige your 18 you might as well give it a try if you don't you'll never know" Lori told her.
"Miss. Huntzberger we're ready for you now" said a nurse. Lori hugged Paige and then followed the nurse into a prep room. Paige watched as her sister went into the room alone. She could tell how nervous she was and she shouldn't have to face it alone. So she exited the hospital, got into her Porsche and drove off to a certain destination.
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Paige slammed her car door shut and made her way into the football field. She got to the field and saw the team practicing hard. She saw Ben in his shirt, number 44 Lori had one to match. The coach called a 5 minute break and the team made their way over to the bench. Ben hadn't seen her yet. She walked across the field, in her Jimmy Choo's, and over to the bench. Some of the guys saw her approaching and wolf whistled at her. On a normal day she would have flashed them a million dollar smile but today however she had to get something out of her way.
"Paige?"
"That's my name don't wear it out" Paige said quickly. Lori was going to kill her.
Ben laughed lightly and took a drink from his sport bottle.
"So was there a reason you're here or did you just want to watch?" Ben asked.
"You can watch me anytime babe" one of the players said which made her smile.
"As much as I would truly love to I'm here about Lori"
Panic immediately spread across Ben's face as he pictured all the bad things that could have happened to her while she was visiting her friend.
"Where did she tell you she was going today?" Paige asked taking a seat in-between Ben and another player.
"She told me she was going to visit a friend why?" Ben asked confused.
"Well that's not exactly true"
"What do you mean?" Ben asked getting more anxious by the second. By now everyone, including the coach, was listening.
"Umm. Well, she is so gonna kill me for this, she's In hospital" Paige blurted out.
"WHAT?" Ben said getting to his feet.
"She's having an operation"
"On what?"
"Well a few months ago she sprained her ankle badly and they said they could perform an operation to put metal plates in her foot to stop It breaking so easily" Paige watched the reaction on Ben's face change from shock into concern and worry.
"Where is she?"
"Connecticut general"
"Why isn't she at Connecticut private?"
"She didn't want to be found" Paige answered feeling guilty.
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Lori woke up in a strange bed in a strange room. She glanced left and looked at the clock 3pm. It all came back to her after she had followed the nurse she had been prepped and had been put under anaesthesia. 5 hours later she had woken up. Wait 5 hours the doctor said that it would take a maximum of 3. She pressed a button and moments later a doctor entered.
"Ah Miss. Huntzberger you're awake. I would like to have a chat with you about surgery" he shut the door and pulled a chair up to the side of the bed. He flipped open a chart and studied it before looking up at her.
"My, my, my you do have a colourful medical record. It says here when you lived in Italy you came in 3 times with cracked ribs, were admitted into rehabilitation for anorexia and came in with slit wrists" Lori looked anywhere at the doctor. She could remember the night when Alessandro had slit her wrists all to well.
"I was messed up and missed my family that's all" More like Alessandro was messed up Lori thought to herself.
"Yes well. Anyway I'm sure your wondering why the surgery took so long" Lori nodded and the doctor continued. "Well while we were putting the plates in place we accidentally cut a major blood vessel. You lost a lot of blood but we did manage to repair the damage. You will need to come in every few weeks to make sure all is well but other than that everything is fine. May I ask you something miss?"
Still shocked by the recent announcement Lori nodded slowly.
"How long has It been since you beat the anorexia?" the doctor asked softly.
"About a year. Why?" Lori asked not sure where this was leading.
"Just make sure you don't slip into that pattern again. I hope you don't take offence to this but the other doctors and I couldn't help but notice that your ribs are beginning to slightly show" Lori reached down and ran a hand up and down her ribs. He was right.
"Thanks for the advice but I'm great."
"Well that's all then I'll come and check on you later and hopefully you should be out by tomorrow morning. We'll try to keep the press at bay and throw them off. I explained the situation to your family and at first they were outraged and threatened to sue but I think they have calmed down now" the doctor laughed.
"Wait. You said they don't you mean she as in my sister" Lori asked.
"Well yes but your boyfriend, his family, yours and their partners are all waiting in the family room. We had to move them, they were causing quite the stir. After all you don't have 2 pro basketball players, a football player, a talk show host, 2 newspaper writers and the richest man in the world in your hospital everyday" The doctor laughed once again before exiting the room and making his rounds.
Oh God, this was going to be fun. I'm going to kill that sister of mine Lori thought as she grabbed the crutches from the chair and got dressed.
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"Hey" Ben said as he entered the room. Lori was sitting in a chair and had her foot, which was in a cast, resting on a stool.
"Hey" Lori replied too afraid to look at him. An awkward moment of silence followed.
"Why didn't you tell me Lori?" Ben asked sitting on the stool so he could look her in the eyes.
"I knew you had a game coming up and I didn't want to worry you and stress you out" Lori said still avoiding his gaze.
"Lori I'm your boyfriend I'm supposed to care for you but how can I when you keep things like this from me?" Ben asked slightly raising his voice.
"I'm sorry Ben" she said as a few tears trickled down her face.
"That's ok. Just promise me you'll tell me something this important when it come up no matter what it is"
"Deal" Lori breathed out. She had been holding her breath. He grabbed her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers.
"So how badly does that thing hurt?" he asked gesturing towards her foot.
"Hurts like hell" she replied before they started laughing. Two by two each family member and their friends came traipsing in with gifts. There was some advantages to this then.
A.N PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE R.R I'M OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS. PS WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NAMES PARIS, SIENNA, REECE, CAMERON, RILEY?