Unguarded Heart
Chapter 2:Home
Spinelli was sitting in bed when Leyla came in with a wheelchair. "Are you ready to go home Mr.Spinelli?" She asked,giving him a warm smile.
Spinelli grinned at his friend as she came over to help him out of bed and into the wheelchair. "The Jackal is most thrilled to be able to return to the penthouse and his regretably pink room." He said,holding onto Leyla's shoulder for balance as he softly lowered himself into the chair.
"I'm sure Maxie will be thrilled that your out of the hospital." Leyla said nochantly,walking behind him and resting her slender hands on the handlebars of the wheelchair.
"Maximista told the Jackal that she was going to stay at the penthouse to 'nurse' him back to health." Spinelli said,shrugging his shoulder.
Leyla felt her heart twist at his words. "Oh?" she said lamely. She didn't know what else to say. The girl, the guy she was falling hard for loved was going to be staying with him in his house. Possibly in his room. Anything could happen between the two then. How the hell was she supposed to compete with that? Sure Spinelli flirted with her,but that really didn't mean anything. Spinelli most likely didn't even realize he was doing it.
He nodded nervously. "I guess Maximista feels guilty that I was hit by the car. She always seems to blame herself for everything." He said sadly,keeping his Spinelli speak to a mininium.
Leyla didn't say a word as she pushed his wheelchair out to the nurses' station where Maxie stood talking to Robin.
Maxie looked over Robin's shoulder and caught Spinelli's eye happily. Giving him a big smile, she rushed over to him and wrapped her slender arms around his neck,hugging him.
She straightened back up,blushing with embarassement when she caught everyone staring at her. "What are you all looking at? Haven't you ever seen a girl hug her best friend?" She asked with her hands on her hips.
Everyone turned away and Maxie face Spinelli again. "So are you ready for me to take you back to the penthouse?" She asked brightly as she grabbed his overnight bag from his lap and put it over her shoulder.
"He needs to sign himself out first and get directions for how to change his bandage and to find out when his stitches can be removed." Leyla told Maxie,keeping her hands firmly on the bars of the wheelchair.
"Fine." Maxie said gritting her teeth. "Give him his papers so he can do whatever he has to and I can get him out of here and to his bed." She tapped her foot impatiently,waiting for Leyla to do something.
Leyla walked away,clenching her fist. She really wanted to hit that girl. What right did she have to order her around?
About an hour later,Maxie and Spinelli where at the penthouse. Maxie had made Spinelli a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch,and they where watching television as they ate. They were startled by a loud knock on the door.
"I wonder who that is? Maxie asked Spinelli,curiously.
Spinelli shrugged his shoulder and swallowed a mouth full of ham. "The Jackal does not know." He told her,looking at the door as Maxie went to answer it. He certainly wasn't expecting anyone.
Maxie swung the door open only to come face to face with The Slavic Seductress.