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Chapter Fourteen

Rory opened her eyes slowly. She rolled over in the bed and regretted it immensely as pain shot through her entire body. A nurse was standing beside the bed looking over the clipboard. Rory moaned and the nurse looked at her with a small sadistic smile.

"Why do I hurt so much?" Rory asked wrapping an arm around her stomach protectively.

"You were shot." The nurse said simply. Rory didn't like this woman.

"I know that but I didn't hurt this much yesterday."

"The doctor has backed down you morphine so as to avoid addiction." Rory rolled her eyes.

"So thoughtful of him," She snarled. The nurse gave a little laugh.

"It will get easier," With that she left Rory alone.

The pain shot through her stomach continually as she lay there staring at the ceiling for lack of anything else to do. Her mind ran over yesterday's events. Warren had told her he loved her and she had said the same back.

Instead of an enormous feeling of joy Rory felt slightly hollow. Maybe it was because she nearly died, or maybe it was because of all the morphine she had been on but maybe telling Warren she loved him had been a bit of a jump.

She ran a hand over her face thinking over the words. Rory had only had one boyfriend and he tried to kill her. She had only known Warren for no more then a week and they hadn't even been on a date and now they were in love?

She sat up in bed. She knew she felt something for Warren… something strong but was it really love? Her grandmother was right; maybe she was in too deep for her own good.

The door opened wrenching Rory from her thoughts. Warren walked into her room.

"Hey," He said quietly coming to a halt beside her bed. She gave him a weak smile.

"Hey yourself."

"How are you feeling?"

"Eh, hard to say really, sore." Rory nodded thinking over her answer. She was more then sore but she didn't want Warren to be worrying her. She looked at him and found him gazing at her. It made her feel funny. The Warren Rory knew could barely hold a glance let alone gaze at someone. He seemed to change personalities right in front of her and she didn't know what to make of it. "Does you dad mind that I am staying here because I could go to my grandma's, it wouldn't be a problem for her."

Warren shook his head, "No, dad says it is fine, seems he's 'seen the light' as he says."

"Oh?"

"Yeah while you were out we got to talking and shared some important stuff."

"Really?" Rory said smiling at Warren.

"Yeah."

"You think things will be okay between you two again?"

"I dunno about that but there has been progress." He nodded at Rory.

"When do the doctors think I will be able to go back to school?"

"Uh in few days," Warren said Rory nodded thinking it was going to be a long few days.