Then the next thing I knew I was in the ambulance and they were saying that one of my friends had gone to get my boyfriend and take him to the hospital, my groan was misinterpreted as pain- they told me to hang on until as it wasn't long until we got to the hospital. I wasn't able to think particularly clearly but I wondered if James would go with Stefan, it never occurred to me ring him.
At the hospital I was subjected to rather painful prodding and then sent for an x-ray. Then I was put into a cubicle where I lay staring at the curtain around it, I felt alone, isolated and in pain, I hated being alone in hospitals. The curtain suddenly drew back and my pale and anxious boyfriend came in and kissed my forehead as I broke down and cried, while he held my good hand and tried to dry my tears.
"Why didn't you tell me about those two blokes from your books being real? I didn't believe the bloke at first, I was going to hit him for saying such a thing until he told me what happened."
"I didn't think you'd believe me. When they said in the ambulance that Stefan was going to pick you up I was really worried in case you didn't believe him," he just shook his head.
"It was when he said that your lace was undone at the time I knew he was telling the truth. When you get out I'm going to buy you a pair of shorter laces." I tried to smile though the pain, but the drugs were wearing off and there was no sign of the doctor with the results of the x-ray yet.
"Shame I can't tell anyone. Can you imagine people's faces when I say that I was driven down the Hampton Court Road at 60 miles an hour, and round that roundabout at 70 miles an hour in a Ferrari!"
My heart stopped beating for a second and an alarm sounded on the machine as my blood pressure and pulse suddenly shot up. "You were driven here in a Ferrari?! The bloke with really dark eyes, cocky and arrogant almost?" A nurse came in and checked the machine; she switched the alarm off and glared at my boyfriend before walking out again. "Yeah. The one who accidentally stepped on your laces as you walked out of the lift, he's waiting outside until I tell him what's happening." I relaxed a little bit, he probably thought I was going to blab or accuse him of stepping on my laces on purpose. Finally the doctor came in and told me that I had broken my arm in two places, he told me that both breaks were on my radius. And started to explain where my radius was until I snapped "I know where the radius is, I study palaeopathology of Late Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs as a hobby." The doctor opened his mouth and shut it again, I hated people talking to me in a patronising way and I was in a lot of pain as the drugs were wearing off.
"Well, um, Anyway. You're extremely lucky they're both clean breaks and you shouldn't need surgery, I'll give you some more painkillers and then we need to put you in a plaster cast." My boyfriend knew my moods and nipped out to update Damon. By the time he came back I was blissed out and ready to go to the plaster room, in fact I was ready to skip down to the plaster room.
It was another hour in total before I was able to go outside, by the time I was prescribed some painkillers to take home with me and my cast had dried enough for the nurse to put it in a sling. I was very tired when I walked out of the hospital and didn't really take much notice of Damon, he watched as my boyfriend Lee helped me in the Ferrari and did my seatbelt without saying a word. I thanked him as he got in the car but he ignored me. My eyes felt heavy as we drove home, Lee was trying to make conversation about cars with Damon who kept glancing over towards me. Eventually I put my head against the head rest and succumbed to sleep. What seemed like a minute or so later I felt and heard Damon in my head telling me to wake up, I looked round sleepily and found we were at home; Damon helped me out of the car with no effort but barely said a word. I asked Lee to go in the house and put the lights on, he seemed a bit peeved but I knew he trusted me.
When my boyfriend was inside I looked at Damon who was standing there glaring daggers at me. "Thank you for tonight, I'm sorry about what I said earlier."
"I'm not." I sighed, so it was going to be like this then.
"Fine. Whatever you want Damon, I've done my bit and that's all that matters. Night." I turned a bit quickly and felt a slight wave of dizziness, I was aware that he was standing very close to me so that he could catch me if I fell. "I'm fine, thank you. Night Damon." I turned and walked inside the house, only looking back to close the porch door but he was already revving up the engine.
"What was all that about?" asked Lee as I shut the front door with a sour look on my face. "I had a huge row with him before I fell out of the lift, he was annoyed because they're making a pilot show out of the books and he took it out on me. So we ended up having a huge row inside the lift."
Lee shook his head at me; he knew what I was like. "I tried to apologise to him just now, I told him I didn't mean it but he's just said that he's not sorry for the things that he said about me." Lee came over and gave me a gentle hug, "just give him some time," he said.
"Hmm," I said, unconvinced.