Dramatic Summer Love Story

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I go in and out of consciousness, the first time I wake up after falling unconscious I see the roof of the helicopter, the noise of it makes my head hurt, and as I start to want to look around my eyes close again sending my back into slumber. I wake up again and then I'm in a hospital room, my head is proper up and I open my eyes looking around without moving my head, I see my Mom, Dad, Sarah, Viktor, Brook, and Penny. The time I'm conscious this time is shorter than before.
When I finally wake up fully and feel like opening my eyes I see that in my silent room sit Viktor and Thomas, it's weird seeing them two sitting together peacefully after what happened between them. I decide to ignore it, for now, I try to move but wince loudly making them both look up and rush over to me, I try to move again but pain shoots up my leg, that's when the whole thing floods back into my mind and I remember everything, how could I be so stupid and go off the trail to take some pictures on a cliff with a steep fall, what the fuck's wrong with me?
"Taylor?" Viktor asks, I turn my attention away from my thoughts and to the boys that stand with worried looks on their faces on either side of me.
"Where's Mom and Dad?" I ask, my throat aches, and my voice is rough because of it. Questions start flooding my thoughts and it's so much that I need to know that I'm becoming scared and overwhelmed. I hear Viktor answer me that Mom and Dad are getting something from home but I don't process it, my fingers start fiddling with the hem of the blanket that's on top of me, and my eyes search the room for something, I'm not sure what, my breath quickens and ears block noise until a familiar hand lands on mine.
My eyes go up to Thomas's face, he's watching me attentively, he sits down on the bed careful not to hurt my leg, he takes me into his arms, embracing me in a long and good hug. His strong muscles and familiar smell make me feel safe, he relaxes me, allowing me to really calm down, picking what question I need to ask and getting answers immediately.
After a while, I pull back away and pain shoots up my leg as I move to make myself comfortable in the bed. "What happened to my leg?" I ask first.
"Well you lost a lot of blood so they had to give you some and then stitch you up, you have nine stitches," Viktor explains, Thomas is still on the bed and he holds my hand, he strokes my hand with his thumb, it makes goosebumps rise on my whole body, he cares for me.
"I'm so stupid," I say. "What was I thinking doing what I did, I didn't even get the pictures we took before we fell, so it was not nearly worth it, it wouldn't have been worth it if I had got the pictures still but you get me. What the hell was I thinking?"
"Look, you did do something stupid and du, b, but you can't take it back now, and it's okay because you and Penny are both alright, it was a mistake and you'll both learn from it," Thomas says and Viktor nods in agreement.
"Where's Penny?" I wonder at the mention of her name, I remember seeing her when I was conscious for a few seconds, but she's not here now.
"They sent her home a few hours ago, they just had to check her out to make sure she didn't have anything that wasn't noticeable on the outside," Thomas tells me.
"Do the other girls know then?" They probably do by now.
"Yeah, Chloe called me and told me, that's how I know," Thomas explains.
"I'm sorry," I tell them both, they ask me for what and I say the same thing as I did before, what. Did was so stupid and I could have died and killed Penny too, it's my fault for what happened, I'm sorry that I could have caused them so much pain and that I caused them to worry. They shake their heads and assure me it was a mistake.
The visit is ended when a nurse asks them to leave because the visiting hours are finishing and she also has to take my vitals and do some more blood work. Viktor hugs me and Thomas kisses me, both on my lips and forehead, then they leave. I know no more people are visiting me today because visiting hours are over so I decide to pass the time by sleeping, even though I have been sleeping or passed out for a long time I'm still somehow tired.
When I wake up I'm alone in my room, the sun shines through the small sliver of the curtain that hangs on the window on my left, I smell breakfast from the hallway, I'm about to try and climb out of bed to go find myself something to eat, my stomach is gargling for food, I'm not sure when I ate last, but a nurse with a cart filled with food stops in front of my room.
The nurse smiles as she enters my room with a tray of porridge, fruit, and water. My mouth waters at the sight, she places it on a moveable table and then moves it to me. I thank her and she then leaves. I dig into the food, I take a bite of the porridge then the fruit, now and then I mix it up, taking a bite of both at the same time and other stuff like that.
The same nurse comes back in after twenty minutes, she has some clothes in her hand, she tells me my parents brought them yesterday. She places it on the bed and as she's taking the tray that no longer has any food left on it I speak up.
"Does the hospital have any showers I could use?" I ask her, "And if so could I get help to get into the shower?"
"We have a shower and I'll be back in a minute to help you." She smiles. This nurse is such a sweetheart, I love her, she's so nice.
As she promised she comes back just a minute or two after she left, she has crutches in her hand and my eyes go wide, why does she have them? Do I need them? She tells me that we need to walk a bit and that I'll probably need crutches to help my thigh heal quicker, and properly and the crutches will also make the pain I would experience when walking much smaller.
I climb out of the bed, the injury on my thigh makes pain shoot up and down my leg but I ignore it, the pain isn't as much as it was yesterday when the boys were here, I think I might be drugged with medicine to lessen the pain. The nurse hands me the crutches she has and I take them, she walks slowly before me, she has my clothes in her hands again and after a few turns in this hallway we get into a room with four stalls on the walls opposite each other, there are three sinks in the wall furthest from the door, when I crutch a bit into the room I see that the stalls on one of the walls have toilet seats in them, when I look at the other stalls I see showers.
The nurse brings a stool over to the stall I'm going to shower in, she helps me out of the hospital gown and leaves the rest of my clothes on the stool, I can stand on both feet without much movement, I tell her she can leave if she wants to, she tells me she'll be back in fifteen minutes to check on me and then I'm left alone in the shower.
I turn on the water, I wait until I think the water is hot enough for me to go under, it feels amazing, I don't think I have showered since the accident happened, my hair is dirty and tangled, I begin untangling it and when that's finally done I start using the soaps the hospital provides, first I put shampoo in my hair, the smell of the soaps aren't very good but it's better than being dirty. As I rub the shampoo out of my hair I replay what happened once more to see if I could do anything else to make it not go the way it did, I was so stupid, I knew that standing at the edge of a cliff is dangerous but I still did it for the goddamn Instagram pictures.
My thoughts continue beating myself down but they stop when I'm just finishing the shower and the door to the room opens up.
"It's me." The nurse that was with me announced and I turn off the shower, for a second I was a bit nervous if it was someone else, could men come in here or only women? I open the door of my stall and sit down on the stool and start getting clothed with the help of the very best nurse I have ever met, she's just so nice and kind.
We finish getting me clothed and she hands me a toothbrush and toothpaste.
"You're a lifesaver!" I exclaim and go to the sink to brush my teeth, while I do that I listen to the nurse talk to me about what's going to happen next. She tells me I'm finally going to meet the doctor who's been taking care of me, we're going to sit down and talk a bit, and then I can get checked out. I nod and smile at that idea, I want to go home, into my bed, and sleep there.
We finish up in the bathroom and the more need me to my doctor's office. He thanks the nurse and she leaves us in the room alone, I crutch over to the two armchairs that sit in front of his desk, there's a bookcase beside the door into the office and an examination bed is off to the side, I look back at the doctor and read his nametag which tells me his name is Doctor Fredricks.
"It's good to finally see you awake and semi-well." Fredricks hands out his hand to me over the desk he sits behind. I take his hand and shake it, his hands are too smooth for my liking, and when I draw my hand back to my body I wipe the feeling of his smoothness away.
"Good to see you too," I answer and look around the very white office, it's so bright.
"So how are you feeling, how's the pain in your leg?" He asks me and I think about it for a second before answering that I'm feeling fine other than the pain in my leg which isn't excruciating but is there and is uncomfortable. "Okay, as you might know, we stitched the injury up and you have nine stitches, you can't do much other than keep the wound clean, try to avoid exercise or anything like that, and then in two weeks, you should schedule an appointment to remove the stitches."
"Okay, that doesn't sound too complicated." I smile nervously as I say it.
"It shouldn't be complicated, just take it easy for the next two weeks so the stitches don't split and open the wound back up," Fredericks says and I nod.
"So can I get an appointment anywhere or do I need to come back to you?" I ask when I have no idea what else to say, I already know the answer but the silence was getting very uncomfortable.
"You should be able to ask any doctor or nurse to remove them." He says and stands up. "If you don't have any other questions then I think you can go home after I sign the discharge papers."
"No, I have no other questions." I stand up as well and grab my crutches to support me.
"Great, if you do, here's my card and take care." Fredericks hands me his card and then hand again, I shake it goodbye this time and he leads me to the door of his office, he lets me out and I crutch my way back to my room to wait for someone to tell me when I can go home.
The nurse who I love comes into my room and tells me I can leave, she walks with me to the elevator, and then she and I say our goodbyes. Down to the first floor, I go with the elevator and I crutch outside the air smells like summer and gives me a nostalgic feeling as it does so often, I wonder if someone is already on their way to pick me p or if I have to call someone, I should have called and asked about it while I was waiting in my room for confirmation that I could leave. I step out of the hospital and walk to a bench when I hear my name being called, I look around, and then right in front of my nose is my family.
Mom, Dad, Viktor, and Brook all stand there, the car is behind them, I smile and crutch over to them. Brook hugs me first, and she squeals, I might as well have been away from home for a long time with this greeting from them, Viktor hugs me next and things are still a bit weird between us because he still hasn't said sorry and I don't want to forgive him without him saying sorry, I move on from him to Mom and Dad and they hug me at the same time, both of them tell me how worried they were when they got a call that I was in the hospital. I apologize and then we get in the car to go home.
I feel good except for the pain in my leg but for some reason when they ask me questions about the accident but I don't even want to hear anything about it, I know the reason is that it was stupid and I'm embarrassed but I refuse to say it out loud so when they ask why I don't want to talk about it I don't give them a real reason. However, they finally stop the questions and start a conversation that everyone engages in, except me.
The drive is like that, I'm looking out the window listening with one ear to my family talk, and everyone not really noticing that I want to go home and into bed. I and Dad drop off Mom, Viktor, and Brook at their home in Westminster. Since the car is now empty except for us I move into the passenger seat, Dad starts driving and looks over at me now and then. He finally asks me if I'm okay, knowing I can be one hundred percent honest with him I just shrug and then continue to drive to Hampstead with the rock music we have playing on a high volume.
When we get home Dad helps me out of the car, I don't really need help but let him help me because it's sweet and I appreciate it even though it's not necessary. Dad walks behind me to the front door of our house and then he quickly moves in front of me to open the door, he helps me inside and we're greeted by the smell of baking from the kitchen, I smile and take off my shoes and coat. Dad waits for me to go in before him, I go into the living room because when I walked by the kitchen I saw that it was vacant except for the indication that someone had been baking. In the living room sits Sarah on her phone, around her sit all my friends, Thomas, Gabe, Chloe, Penny, Soph, and Millie.
I'm shocked to find them all here, I thought Sarah was going to be the only one, their shoes weren't even in the foyer, I look around and see all their shoes by the door out to the balcony, and I chuckle and they start standing up. Sarah is the first to hug me and say she's glad I'm okay. The other hugs are pretty much the same until it comes to Penny and Thomas. Thomas hugs me and then kisses me, I've never kissed anyone in front of my parents but it wasn't as uncomfortable as I thought it was going to be, when Penny hugs me we squeeze each other hard.
"Are you okay?" I ask her in a whisper.
"Yeah, I had a mild concussion and Leo's also fine." She tells me to my relief.
We break away from our long hug and everyone sits down to have a slice of cake, people talk and laugh and I just listen, it's good to know I have support but I'm slowly becoming socially tired without interacting much with them. Thomas sits beside me and has his hand on my knee.
"We're wondering if we should hang out after the cake in your bedroom," Thomas says, I think he means everyone and I shrug in agreement, I'll let the come down for a bit so I don't disappoint them, I know they would understand but I want to spend more time with Thomas and use the thought they might get disappointed to have Thomas near me.
We finish the entire cake and go downstairs, it's a slow process because I can't seem to get a hang of how to use crutches on stairs. Thomas helps me down and no one seems to get impatient, or at least they don't let me know it. Finally, we are down on the second floor, I go into my bedroom and sit down, the others gather around my bed sitting and getting themselves comfortable, we decide to play Monopoly, Chloe goes and gets it. She gets back and we set up the game, I get to be the bank manager, so I give every group their money, the first group is Chloe and Soph, next is Gabe and Penny, and then Thomas and Millie are in the last group. We play for a bit of time, probably a half an hour or so and then I feel my eyelids getting heavier and harder to keep open, I start zoning out when I'm supposed to give money and Thomas notices, he says to the other we probably need to leave me alone to rest and then they start cleaning up, I thank them for the company and for cleaning up.
They all leave and I lay in bed staring up at my ceiling not sure if I should go shower or just go straight to sleep, I'm leaning towards the shower when Thomas comes back into my room.
"I thought you left did you forget something?" I sit up.
"No, I just sent everyone home so I could be alone with you for a while before you fell asleep," Thomas explains and I nod, I scoot to the edge of the bed and open my arms for him to hug me. He walks to me and gives me a good long hug, he kisses my head a few times.
"I need help," I say.
"With what?" He asks.
"I want to shower, but I'm tired and don't want to stand," I explain. I don't expect him to say no, but I don't expect him to say yes either. Thomas nods and then slowly and gently picks me up, when I don't make a sound out of pain he continues and walks with me to the bathroom, he turns on the shower and I take my top off, my other clothes I need help with, Thomas provides me with the help and is very careful not to hurt me. Once I'm undressed and naked I feel kind of weird because I've never been naked with a guy without planning to do something sexual, it's not that I'm afraid he's judging me but it's because I'm so vulnerable and he could do whatever he wanted right now, I know he won't but the thought makes me feel weird.
I step into the shower and then sit down, I let Thomas clean me, he's so gentle while doing so I think he might be thinking I'm as fragile as a newborn child. But I don't mind, it also feels pretty nice to have his rough hands gamely rub against my skin and head. He starts by shampooing my hair, and then rinses it out, next is the conditioner and after he gets it in my ends he lets it sit for a bit, he knows exactly what he's doing, while he waits to rinse my hair again he starts cleaning my body, he doesn't do it sexually even though he does touch me in some places that would count as sexual, he cleans my neck, back, boobs and stomach, the rest of my body I have easier access to so I finish that up. I turn around and give Thomas a few kisses before letting him finish up the shower.
Thomas helps me out of the show and sits me down on the toilet, he is definitely turned on, I can see it on the big bulge in his pants, he doesn't try to hide it, and nor does he try to get anything from me. He helps me into panties and a shirt and that's all I get dressed in because I'm going to sleep, he holds me back into my room and set me down on my bed, I crawl under my duvet, and when I notice Thomas is getting ready to say goodbye and leave I sit up.
"Don't leave, stay, until I fall asleep," I say. Thomas lets a smile appear on his face and he crawls beside me, I cuddle up in his arms and quickly feel myself drifting away into slumber.