I wake up in a rough hospital bed, having no memory of the accident. I see my mother leaning over me calling to the nurse, "She's awake! She's awake!"
"Mom?" I say bewildered. My head hurts a lot it feels like a hammer is hammering down my brain.
"Yes April I'm here."
I see the nurse come in. Its a male nurse. He has brown wavy hair, piercing dark blue eyes, lightly tanned skin, and is about six feet tall. He's handsome.
"How are you feeling?" He asks.
"My head kills and my jaw hurts when I move it. What happened?"
"Well that's normal considering that you fell down the stairs and landed on the side of your head, lucky your neck didn't break. My names Steve."
"Yes I am lucky." I turn to my mom and ask, "Where's dad?" I don't bother asking about where my brothers and sisters are because I am an only child.
"He went to fill out some medical papers. He should be here very soon." She says.
"Mrs.Loke I would suggest that you go home or go back to work while we take care of April." Steve says.
"Would you mind if I left?"
"Mom-" Before I can say anything else he interrupts me and says,"She will be fine I will personally take care of her. Don't worry." He reassures her.
"Okay bye sweetie." She kisses my forehead so lightly it feels like a feather brushing across my forehead.
"I'll see you soon." I say to my mom and watch her leave and see Steve grin a bit like he knows something I don't. I should relax and not worry about it. I hope that's not a mistake and I shut my eyes.
"Wake up." Someone beside me says.
I open my eyes and squint to see and I see Steve.
"I said get up." He repeats.
"Okay I'm coming." It feels weird wearing the hospital gown and just my underwear underneath.
"Lets go."
"Where are we going?"
"Level 12."
"Can I get dressed?" I ask hoping that he will at least let me do that.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because your in a hospital therefor you wear hospital cloths."
I don't say anything back. I don't have the strength I can barley stand up right and my head ache never went away. He leads me to an elevator that's silver. We step in and he pushes the button that has a 12 on it. I realize there are only 13 floors.
"Only 13 floors? I thought people didn't include it because it was unlucky?" I say.
He looks straight ahead then grins and says, "It is."
I don't know what he means by that and he is starting to scare me.
We walk out of the elevator and takes me down a hall there's no color but white. White everywhere. He stops at a door and I read the sign on it. It says 'Recovery Center'. He opens the door and we sit down on rusty metal chairs.
"What are you going to do? Nurse me back to health?"
"Well I am a nurse, come on."
For the rest of the day he asks me memory questions like how old I am and where I grew up.
"This is pointless I know who I am." I say.
"This is part of recovery,April, relax we are almost done." Steve says while rolling his eyes. His voice monotone.
