For what it's worth

Chapter 53

Once I had a few drinks I started to feel more comfortable and less socially awkward. Emily forced me to talk to a group of girls with her, she was a lot better at making than I was, she would literally talk to the wall if it talked back to her. The girls where nice though so I was happy she picked these ones and not a group of up tight bitchs. There where 5 of them, but I only got two names. Maria and Layla. They where sweet, and more like me than the other 3, they only came out because they're friends wanted to to. They where shy and quite but after a few more drinks we all started to open up to each other a little more. Soon I found out that Maria was the same Maria that I had met the night before I started working for McLaren. She was basically the reason I met Lando when I did. If I hadn't talked to her that night I wouldn't have stayed out so late, meaning I wouldn't have met Lando until the morning after in the McLaren motor home. After remembering each other we update one another on what has happened in our life's since. I found out she finally applied to go to medal school, and her daughter turned 12 last week. She moved to London not long ago to be closer to school, which makes sense. I told her about how after she left Lando showed up and sat in her seat, and how we couldn't be together because of work, and how we are now secretly together. I think she got a little confused but I don't blame her, I get confused trying to keep up with my own life I don't expect anyone else to understand it. After talking to each other for what was probably an hour we both got dragged onto the dance floor by Emily and one of the other girls. I wasn't a good dancer but I was drunk and didn't care. Being pulled by Emily caused me to drop my glass though, I saw blood when I briefly looked down but I didn't feel any pain so I brushed it off and continue to follow Emily's lead.
"Your bleeding" Emily yells over the loud music.
"I can't feel the pain I'm ok" I yell back.
"Eh no, I think your too drunk to feel it but it's pretty bad come on" she says dragging me to a quieter place.
"No I'm really fine" I say reassuring her, still not feeling any pain.
"Your in shock, you can't feel it right now but trust me it's bad" she says guiding me out of the club.
"Where are you taking me I don't want to go home yet" I ask getting annoyed, I couldn't feel it so surly it wasn't that bad? How dramatic could she be.
"To the hospital, I think you need stitches" she explains while ordering an Uber.
"I don't need stitches your so dramatic I'm barely even cut" I laugh.
"Look down" she says in a serious tone.
So I do. Ok so maybe she wasn't being dramatic, it's a little bad, well it's actually really bad. There was a deep cut going to from the top of my knee to near my ankle with small pieces of broken glass still in it , there was glass still in my hand too, and there was blood everywhere.
"Ok so maybe it's a little worse than I thought, but it's not that bad is it?" I say kind of worried.
"Yes it is" she says pulling me towards the Uber that had showed up while I was examining my injuries.
Once we got in my phone started to ring while Emily was typing vastly on her phone. I look at the screen and see that it was Maria, I got so drunk I basically forgot I had even swapped numbers with her.
"Hey I saw you leave with a lot of blood on your leg Are you ok" she asked. It sounded like she was outside because the music in the back was muffled and I could hear people talking and moving around her.
"All good don't worry, can I call you later I'm kind of busy right now" I say honestly as I tried to clean the blood off of me with tissues the under driver had kindly offered me. It was hopeless though because every time I whipped some it was replaced with what seemed double the amount.
"Ya for sure I was just making sure you where ok" she says and I hang up without saying any thing back.
"Your boyfriends going to murder me, and then sell my body on the black market and I'll never be found again, and if he doesn't he'll pay someone to do it, I'm sure he has people that have done things like that before on speed dial" Emily says in a state of panic before I even put my phone down, I think she thought just because Lando was rich and famous he had people to do everything.
I can see the drivers face go pale and his eyes widen at her comment. I think he though I was dating someone out of the mafia or something, I mean the way she described him it sounded like he did.
"No he won't" I reassure her. "I'm boyfriends a really nice guy" I smile at the driver hoping to make him a little more comfortable and less scared of who we where.
"He's worth millions, he literally has millions of pounds just laying around, and for you he would probably die himself, so I'm sure spending money to kill me for not protecting you wouldn't bother him" she says still in a panicked tone.
"She's being really dramatic, he's a really cool guy, he won't kill someone, or eh pay for someone to kill someone" I reassure the scared looking driver trying not to laugh while talking. The alcohol in my system wasn't helping this situation because all I wanted to do was laugh but I couldn't because the driver might think I am involved in some illegal mafia gang.
"Well erm, we're here, and I hope your ok, and I hope you don't die or whatever" he says as we stop outside the hospitals emergency unit.
"I'll be fine, and she won't die. Thank you" I say getting out and dragging Emily with me. As the alcohol started to whereof I started to feel the pain in my leg and my hand. I limped towards the doors and sat on a waiting chair for a doctor to come and take care of me. Emily sat next to me and worked up the courage to calm Lando and tell him. I immediately took my phone out and turned on his stream wanting to see his reaction. I couldn't help but laugh at how scared Emily was when the phone started to ring. Her leg was bouncing like crazy and her hands got all sweaty. Lando muted his mic on the stream as he picked up the phone. He looked very confused when he say Emily's name on his screen and the whole chat was full of comments like

"who's he talking to". "He doesn't look happy". "He looks very confused right now".

Emily frozen when he picked up and she couldn't speak. I couldn't hear lando but I saw him talking on the stream. All of a sudden Emily took a deep breath.
"Erm so you might kill me and that's ok I get it but me and y/n are in the hospital because I was stupid and didn't take care of her and now she's like bleeding from everywhere and I don't know what to do. She dropped a glass and it broke and cut her really badly and she's lost like I don't know but way way way too much blood and if she dies please don't blame me" she blurts out all in one breath.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing as Landos facial expressions changed from confused to worried to confused again. Everyone in chat was laughing too. Again I couldn't hear him but I was his lips move showing he was talking.
"No I'm not in a private fucking hospital I'm not made of money like you, we came to a normal person hospital" I heard Emily say annoyed.
Ya, being an F1 driver was pretty dangerous so of course Lando has his weird private health care system paid for. I on the other hand don't care considering health care in the Uk is free so why would I pay for it. Once the phone call ended Lando unmuted his stream and looked around the room with a confused expression. I think Emily definitely could have been a lot calmer on the phone. She didn't really explain anything very well.
"Eh ok chat, I'm leaving I have to go somewhere." Was the first and last thing he said after unmuting himself as he ended the stream seconds later.
"He's on his way" Emily says letting out a deep breath and calming down.
"He might kill you, I'm not sure it's safe for you here" I laugh joking with her.
"Not the time for jokes" she says whipping the blood off my face. I didn't realize I even had blood in my face, I think it was from moving my hair out of my face, maybe it rubbed off from my hand.
"Ok I'm going to stop I'm making it way worse" she said as she moved her hands away from my face. Instead of whipping it off she just whipped it across making it look even worse than before.
At this point I was basically sober again, I think I was scared into a sober state of mind as Emily's panicky moment shocked me. I could feel the pain growing and growing but tried my best to ignore it. I was also getting light headed but that was because of the amount of blood i was losing.