They rush R back to surgery as soon as they get to the hospital.
Juliet paces back and fourth, trying to stay calm.
An hour passes by with not a doctor in sight.
Rose sits down next to Juliet snapping her out of her panicking thoughts.
"What happened in there, no one will tell me anything?" Juliet asks the younger girl, watching her wring her hands nervously.
"R was in the back room doing inventory, I was supposed to be helping him, but Jonathan our new manager demanded I leave him alone and do freight." she wipes a stray tear off her face, " I came to the back on my break and found R under a shelf, his leg was crushed." She hesitates for a second, "He was unconscious and bleeding, I lifted the shelf with help from one of our burly produce guys, while someone called an ambulance, Jonathan threatened to fire me when I suggested calling you, I'm sorry."
The girl sets there sobbing for a few moments in silence.
A sandy haired tan stereotypically hot doctor walks up to the two, "Are you Juliet?"
The blonde stand almost immediately, "Yes."
"I'm doctor Addison, R's surgeon."
"Is my boyfriend okay?" Juliet ask shakily.
"Your boyfriend suffered a spiral fracture to his right tibia, which required surgery, during this procedure; a specially designed metal rod is inserted from the front of the knee down into the marrow canal of the tibia. The rod passes across the fracture to keep it in position. He also has three broken ribs on his right side as well which are wrapped. Overall I would say that your boyfriend is very lucky he would have bled out had no one found him in time. With therapy and some time off that leg, he will make a full recovery."
The doctor finishes with a smile.
"Can I see him?"
"He's being taken to a room in recovery as we speak we will have a nurse take you to him, but he should be still sedated." The doctor says turning to a blonde nurse, "Can you show this woman to room 107, please." He asks walking away.
"Okay, your boyfriend should be still sleeping off the sedatives, but once he's conscious try and keep him immobile, he will be in a fair amount of pain." she says opening the door, then she adds, "If you need any thing push the red button on the side of the bed."
"Thank you."
"No problem sweetheart, feel free to use the bed next to him this room is never used." She adds winking.
Juliet pulls a chair up next to R's bed taking in all of her thin boyfriend's injuries, his right side of his forehead is bruised badly, visible bruises lead down his chest, Juliet is sure that his torso looks just as bad, his leg is also in an elevated contraption.
"Jeez R, why are you always pretending to be superman." She says softly rubbing his hand.
"Oh god." a small voice says from behind Juliet.
The small blonde turns to see Nora standing there in scrubs looking pale.
"Honey I'm so sorry I didn't come sooner, I just found out about what happened from Doctor Addison." The nurse says very quickly.
"It's fine Nora." Juliet says looking back at unconscious R.
"Well, I'm not leaving you here alone," she says pulling up a chair and plopping down in it.
"Are you sure, they said he will be out for a while?" Juliet says looking at her old friend.
She nods, "Positive."
Several hours later
Nora, lightly wakes sleeping Juliet.
"I'm heading to the vending machine down the hall, need anything?"
"A water and granola bar would be awesome, how about I join you I need to stretch my legs." Juliet says standing unsteadily.
Suddenly a wave of dizziness overcomes, her and she has to lean against the bed.
"Woa, you okay girl?" Nora asks giving her a concerned look.
Juliet's face pales and she crumples to the floor.
