Emma Johansson

Hospital heart to heart.

Emma
"God dammit I sad wake up you lazy piece of shit!" someone yells at me. My eyes feel to heavy to open and my throat is sore. 

"Quite the yelling I've got a massive headache" I manage to whisper. I slowly try to open my eyes but the light is way to bright, causing me to close them immediately. 

"Emma you're awake" I hear as I get hit in my shoulder.

"auw" I say brace. 

"Quick someone get a doctor in here" someone who I can now make out as a woman yells.

"seriously quite the yelling my head is spinning already." I say as the doctor walks in. 

"Good afternoon Florence and Emma" the doctor says.

what the hell is florence doing here? 

"Emma? Florence here says you're awake can you open your eyes for me?"

I try again a little slower this time, giving my eyes the time to adjust to brightness of the room. Eventually managing to open them, I see Florence standing at the end of my bed and a doctor right beside me doing some checks with a light. 

"Emma can you follow the light for me?" the doctor asks.

As if on cue my Mom storms into the room, completely out of breath. 

"Good morning Scarlett, Emma seems to be doing just fine, we want her to stay till friday evening, so we can keep an close eye on her at all times. If everything is fine after that we will let her go home with you. If and only If she comes back regularly for the next few months for checkups." 

"Thank you doctor Renner" Mom says, as the doctor leaves

"Uhm I will give you some privacy" Florence says leaving the room

"I'm so glad you're okay. We thought you might die on us." Mom says hugging the little life that's left out of me. 

"Mom please everything hurts, I'm so sore." 

"Right sorry. How are you feeling?"

"Mostly okay, but very very sore, and my head feels like I've been hit by a truck. What happened why am I in the hospital? " 

"You don't remember? You've been drugged darling. Florence was the one to find you and bring you to safety. She called 911, without here you would not have been here."

Again, she saved my life again. What day is it even?

"It's wednesday you've been out for five days."Mom says as if reading my mind.

Just then Tom, Lizzie and Chlo run in jumping on the bed. 

"You're alive" they yell in unison.

"sssshssssh" mom says before I get the chance.

"she's got a headache and she is very sore, Please be careful with her, I am going to talk to the doctors for a while so you guys can catch up." Scarlett says leaving the room.

"how are you, how do you feel, do you remember anything, how is your head, wat was it like?" my friends say bombarding me with questions. 

***

After answering all of their questions I'm exhausted but just as I'm about to tell them off so I can go to sleep Florence walks back into the room. Kind of looking like a lost puppy. 

"uhm Em, Happy is here to pick us up. See you tomorrow afternoon." Tom says as he motions to the others to go, leaving Florence and I alone. 

It's quiet for some time and the suspense is killing me.

"Sooo... I guess I now owe you?" I say.

"Don't be ridiculous, you don't owe me anything." Florence says snapping out of her daze. She starts walking towards me and sits down on the end of the bed. 

 I was shocked at how her sudden change in behaviour appealed to me. She wasn't being a bitch anymore and she seemed to have let her guard down. And all I had to do was almost die. Twice

"So, Tom told me you've been here everyday?" 

"Was that a question?" Flo asks me smirking.

"Why are you here Flo? We never liked each other." I asked confused jumping to the point exhausted from today.

"Wow hold the hostility if you want me gone all you have to do is ask." She jokes back.

"Seriously Flo, why are you here? And what's with the joking attitude" 

"I'm here for you Emma don't you get that. You probably don't remember but when you were drugged you told me some pretty nasty stories about your childhood. I just wanted to make sure you're okay. Besides, the fact that you just called me Flo instead of Florence proves that what you just said was a lie. You do care about me, and I'm staying here for as long as it takes to convince you that I do too care about you. " 

"Flo, I don't know what to say but you saved my life so can we maybe go to being friends?" I say heasently. 

"If that's what you want that that's fine, but I'm going to prove to you that there is something special between us. I know it's sounds crazy but we are actually quite alike. maybe if you give me the chance I will tell you some more about myself." 

"Florence it's time to go, visiting hours are almost over and I really like some alone time with my daughter if you don't mind." Scarlett says walking back into the room. Saving me from having to tell her off. 

***

It's been a few days at the hospital, I will be released this evening but until then I'm stuck watching some boring tv. Scarlett had to go to work and couldn't stay at my bedside allday entertaining me. The others got school. So to say I was ready to leave was an understatement. 

Only then I witness Flo walking in, "FLO? what are you doing here?" I ask surprised.

" O nothing just brought you some good food" She says handing me deliciously looking breakfast. 

Florence has been visiting me everyday, I really like hanging out with this new and improved Florence, she is really kind. We talked a lot, since that was kind of the only thing we could do. I found out that Florence has liked me from the first moment I walked into class. It scared her so much that she didn't know what to do. She thought that if she would just be mean to me, her feelings would eventually go away. spoiler alert:  they don't. Maybe people sometimes just need a reminder that the world isn't all bad. And even thought that's not an excuse for how she acted, I do understand. I mean hell Lizzie and I went through some heavy rollercoaster as well, most people forget how hard it is to come out to yourself, and even if you manage to do that acceptance is till a far road ahead. 

A/N
Just a heads up this book is almost at its end. 

don't forget to drink your water.