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TEXTS
"you gave me something to be forever grateful for"

~lyla~

i opened my eyes to the blinding hospital lights above me. i searched the room slowly and found meredith and harper passed out in the chairs beside the bed i was currently in.

everything that had happened came flooding back and i don't know what happened after my dad left, but i really hope i didn't cause anybody trouble.

meredith began to move beside me and when she looked up and saw my eyes were open i swear she almost jumped through the roof.

i don't know how long i have been asleep for, but im tired enough to go back to bed. meredith leaped up from her chair to embrace me and i smile at her touch and somehow get my stiff arms to wrap around her back.

but then i noticed the large black cast on my wrist and immediatly push her away from me. "meredith!" she gasped and then smiled knowing i wasn't hurt and was only being dramatic. "what the fuck is this."

i clawed at the hard black material which extended up my wrist to my elbow. "the doctors said your temporary cast hasn't been working so they put on a real one." she shrugged, amused.

i couldn't really say anything because i knew it was my fault since i hadn't been wearing the plastic one, but it didn't help the situation. i pick at the soft, white material on the inside. "how long do i have to wear it?"

"are you serious lyla!" meredith laughs throwing her arms around me again. "your in the hospital and all you care about is a stupid cast."

"oh yea." all the memories from my apartment flood back to my mind and i have a million questions. how did i get here? where is my dad? is my forehead okay? is joão here?

wait. why would i care. i don't.

not anymore.

"what happened?" i ask. i'm scared for what meredith is gonna say. i don't remember anything from after my dad left. what if he came back or something?

"harper came home and you were passed out on the floor. she called an ambulance immediately and you got taken here and stitched up but you haven't been awake since then." she pauses like what she's gonna say next is gonna be worse.

"what?"

"because there was nobody in your apartment and harper and i aren't technically considered your guardians, the hospital had to call your first emergency contact."

she scratches the back of her neck and i don't understand what the big deal is. "okay?"

"nate's here." fuck.

i completely forgot nate was my emergency contact. my emergency contact was my mom for years but whenever i was dating nate he made me change it just in case anything happened. i knew he would always be there.

nate for the most part was a good boyfriend to me until his mom died and he got stuck up in the habits of snorting the disastrous white powder. it will never give him an excuse for what he did, but i know he was struggling.

but i know he cared about me and still does, so i wouldn't be surprised if he showed up no matter if he was my emergency contact or not.

"but micah and joão are coming too we called them as soon as we-"

"wait joão's coming?" i ask. i don't know how it's possible for him to say all that shit and then have the audacity to show up after something bad happens.