Chapter 5

I was assigned to a room about 20 minutes after our arrival to the ER. I was told to lay on my stomach on the table. The doctor lifted my shirt up, took the gauze off, and placed cloths around the wound. He numbed my back but once he started, I could still feel pain. Joe sat down next to me and let me hold his hand.

"You doing okay?" Joe asked about half way through.

"Yeah." I answered in pain.

Finally, after about 20 minutes, the doctor was done stitching my back. He put some medicine on it and then wrapped some gauze around my waist. He gave me some pills to take so that I wouldn't get infected and told me how to take care of the stitches, then he let us leave.

Joe and I were both silent on the way but it wasn't awkward. I started thinking about this morning and silently broke down. Joe grabbed my hand and held onto it until we got home.

"I'll be right back." Joe said as we were sitting in his room. I layed down on his bed and stuffed my face into his pillow. It smelled so good; it smelled like him. A couple minutes later he returned and shut the door.

"Um, I hope its okay that I told my family what happened." He said.

"Yeah, that's fine. I said, turning to look at him. He came over to the bed and layed down next to me. At this point, we were facing each other. Joe placed his hand on my cheek and wiped away the falling tears.

"I'm so sorry this is happening to you." He whispered. I lightly grabbed his wrist and we just layed there, looking into each other's eyes. Suddenly, Joe started to move closer to me and at that moment, I knew he was going to kiss me. I started to become really nervous because this is the day I had been waiting for. A second later, our lips met and it felt like an electric shock ran throughout my body. He broke the kiss and when our eyes met, I smiled and so did he. I joined our lips together again and the feeling that I got while kissing him was amazing. Joe wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him if that was even possible. The kiss started to become more intense and I ran my fingers through Joe's hair. We broke apart for a second to catch our breaths and then reconnected. His tongue grazed my bottom lip and I opened my mouth, His tongue entered my mouth and then he rolled me on top of him. We started to have a full on make out session but were soon interrupted by the sound of knocking on the door.

"Yeah?" Joe said, answering the knock as I rolled off of him.

"Are you guys going to eat dinner?" Nick asked, opening the door.

"Woah, sorry if I was interrupting something." He continued.

"No, its fine. And I'm not that hungry." I said.

"Me neither." Joe said. Nick replied with an 'okay' and left, shutting the door behind him. After a couple seconds of silence, Joe said,

"You have no idea how long I've wanted to kiss you." I smiled and said,

"Same." He wrapped his arms around my waist and I buried my head in his chest.

"Um, Kenz, I know this isn't the best time to ask you this but I don't know how much longer I can go on without asking you this. Will you be my girlfriend?" I could tell Joe was a little nervous to ask me that. I paused for a second and then looked up at him and kissed him, passionately.

"Does that answer your question?" I asked.

"Yes." Joe smiled and then sweetly kissed my forehead. I buried myself back into Joe's chest and soon fell asleep.