Trouble Makers

Hospitalised

*ELI'S POV*

I wake up with a startle. I sit up and look around, despite every muscle in my body aching and telling me not to. I'm in a bright room and it's hurting my eyes. But then I remember the falling. She was falling but I couldn't let her get hurt. So I wrapped myself around her, softening the blow. I hope. But as I look around she's not here. There are wires in my arms connected to a machine next to me, I rip them out quickly.

I have to find her. I stand up and stumble my way out of the door. My head feels so light and I'm dizzy, but I walk. I hang onto the walls for support.

I feel like I've been walking forever when I see her dad. He's walking out of a room and over to a vending machine. His face is upset and serious. I force myself into the door of the room he came from. My vision is so blurry I can barely make out the door frame but I manage. I need to rub my eyes but I need to hold the walls for support.

When I enter the room I can barely make out her figure. She must be laying in the hospital bed. The machine next to her beeped evenly. I sigh. I rub my eyes and they unblur. I walk closer to her and collapse in the chair beside her. I run my hands through the side of my hair, avoiding my mohawk.

"Eli?" I stand up quickly and I turn around, he's standing at the door. His face once shallow and dull now owned a bit of colour. He runs up to me and hugs me. "You looked after her son. I'm so fucking proud of you. Pardon my language." He never swears. He hugs me tighter. "Are you okay? Should you be out of bed?" He says finally pulling out of the hug and looking at me.

There's no point lying to him. "No. I just... just needed to see her." He nods. If anything he'll probably be the only one to understand.

"I'll leave you two alone." He turns around and walks out of the room.

I sit back down in the chair and I stare at her. She's so beautiful. Despite the wires plugged into her arms and the scratch across her head. I tried so hard to prevent her from getting hurt and it didn't work.

"Y/n?" I ask.

She begins to stir and blinks a couple of times. She doesn't look confused. She looks like she's tired and doesn't have any energy. She groans. "Eli... I...Last night." She starts.

"I'm so sorry I couldn't stop you from getting hurt it's all my fault." I stand up and stand next to her bed.

"Eli. Stop." And she slightly sits up and pulls my face to hers. She's kissing me. It's slow but meaningful. I have never been kissed like this. We break apart but put our foreheads to each other. "The doctors say." She says breathing heavily. She kissed me. "That if you didn't save me, I could have broken my neck the way I fell." She kissed me. I saved her life. "You saved my life, Eli." And she kisses me again. I can't say I'm not enjoying this. But she pushes me away quickly. "Oh my gosh. You have a girlfriend." Shit. Moon.

A doctor comes in and is shocked. "Sir, you should be in your room."

***

It's over 4 hours later I can't sleep. And my head has still not pulled around the fact that Y/n kissed me. I'm thinking about how she kissed me. How meaningful it was and how careful.

"Hawk?" It's Moon. She's standing at the door almost not sure if she's allowed in.

I sit up properly quickly. "Hey, Moon." She seems to take this as an invitation and walks around to the chair beside my bed.

"Your mum texted me using your phone." Moon informs me. I love my mum but sometimes she should stop meddling. "I guessed you didn't want everyone from school knowing so I just said you were hungover." I nod at thank you. "I'm guessing this is why you didn't text me back last night after Cobra Kai?"