Por Favor - Chapter 7

BLOOM

I pull out my phone after Sky leaves and call Anthony.

"Hello?" He answers, sleep laced in his voice.

"It's Bloom. I need you to get me"

"Where you at?"

"In town. I'll meet you by Rosita's" I hang up, grab my bag and head out, closing the front door quietly, making the 10 minute walk.

When I'm there, I see Anthony's car. I get in, throwing my bag in the back. He looks at me and starts up the car. "What did you do to your arm?" He starts off.

"Ugh,might be sprained, might broken, might be a fracture. I dunno. I jumped from my bathroom window" he nods and we get to his place. He opens my door and gets my bag from the back, reaching in his pocket and pulls out his keys, unlocking the door to his house.

"I'll call Karen later. Go to bed" he hands me my bag and goes back to bed. I go to the spare room and pull off the hoodie that was covering the cut up clothes I was wearing. A bruise formed where that crackhead punched me on my stomach. Taking off my shredded clothes, and throwing them away, I put on spandex and the hoodie from earlier, laying down on my right side with a pillow under me, falling asleep quickly.

Waking up the next morning, I could barely move. My entire body hurt so much and felt so exhausted. It hurt to just move my eyes around. A knock on the door reverberated, making my ears bleed. Karen, a close friend who is also a house call doctor, walks in with a duffel bag.

"Hey Bloom. Seems you got yourself in a little bit of trouble" she chirps, setting the bag by the bed and puts gloves on. "Let's take a looksie" she pulls the cover off my legs and feels around them. "Does that hurt any?" She repeats, prodding up and down my calves and thighs.

"Yes" I repeat back to her several times. She helps me roll on my back and pulls up my hoodie, I hear her gasp a second later.

She pulls out a tablet from the bag and scans it over my chest and stomach. "Six broken ribs. My goodness. And all these bruises...we gotta get you to a hospital. Who knows what other injuries you have"

"No! No hospitals" I snap at her, tensing up at the thought even though it hurt so badly.

"There's not much that I can do from here, Bloom. I'll have more equipment and meds at hand. No questions will be asked. I just need to fix you up, ok?" She looks down at me with pleading eyes.

"Fine. But I'm out the second someone asks me anything"

"Fair enough hun" she calls Anthony up to carry me out to his car and straps me in as she gets in hers and we follow her to the hospital. Adrenaline quickly rushes to my head, making my hands shake and my being grow cold.

Once we get there, two guys roll out a stretcher and Anthony lays me on it, but I don't lay down as they so desperately try to coax me into doing before giving up and wheeling me inside. I turn heads as we go in, my body tenses and it the heart monitor starts beeping faster, making them all look at me as we enter one of those bay room.

Anthony moves me from the stretcher onto the bed and Karen hooks me up to an IV tube and blood pressure thing. Everything starts getting loopy and fuzzy and just blends together.

Waking up was sooo terrible. The beeping and bright lights...not ok. I look over and see Anthony looking at me. He grants me a small smile and runs a hand through my hair. Karen walks in and smiles softly at me...I look back at her blankly.

"You're all fixed up hun. It's gonna take about three weeks for your ribs to heal completely and your arm was sprained so we fixed that up too. Gonna take a least a month before it's completely healed." She looked at me sadly. "I suggest you not be in the environment you're in so you recover successfully"

I shake my head. "I'll be fine" it might be the medicine or my stubbornness but I know she's right. Maybe I can refrain from pissing them off in the next month. Maybe.

Anthony let me stay at his house for the next couple of days so the medicine can be completely out of my system before I have to go back. I decided not to go to school this entire time to avoid Jared, but now that it's Tuesday, I know I can't keep avoiding this.

He drives me up to my house and gives me a firm hug, as if this was the last time I'll see him again, before I get out the car and enter the house. No one's home since it's 1 in the afternoon so Jared's at school and dad's at work. I go into my room and see the door's been fixed along with the bathroom. Perfect family reputation needs to be kept up, right?

I shower and change into a hoodie and baggy pants, crawl into bed and fall asleep.