Choices Between Us

Chapter 7

28 Weeks

"Kyle I just want to go for a walk." I whinned to my best friend who was sitting at my bedside, it had been a long morning, I was tired and very cranky. I had been poked and bruised for blood work, the nurse poked me like five times. I was so annoyed I felt like grabbing the stuff from her and taking the blood myself.

"Raya you know you can't go for a walk." Kyle said not looking up from the device in his hand that he was more interested than me, which annoyed me even further. I reached over without him seeing and snatched the device out of his hand. "What the fuck Raya," He asked, frustration clearly showing in his voice.

"Who is so important that you are ignoring me?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"No one, please give it back." He told me with his hand outreached for the device that I held captive.

I looked down at the screen and seen Harry's name flash across it.

"You are talking to Harry?" I asked with some confusion as I hadn't seen Harry in two days. He told me he had to fly to LA for a few days for work.

"Raya please give me the phone?"

I looked at Kyle and back at the name on the screen. "Why is he texting you?"

Kyle went to grab for the phone but I was quicker than him and hid it behind my back. I looked at him and could tell by the look on his face he was stressed.

"What are you not telling me?" I asked, my voice small.

Kyle sighed and looked down at his hands. "He isn't coming back until after the New Year unless something happens."

I felt my heart drop, he told me a few days and he would be back. He promised that we would spend time together over the holidays as I was stuck in this stupid hospital room not able to get out, go anywhere but to the bathroom and most of the time I couldn't even do that alone as I was so off balanced when I stood up. I took a deep breath, tried to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall.

"He told me he was coming back in a few days."

"I know Ray, but things change. Sara wants to spend Christmas in LA with her family. It is the Greyson's first Christmas. Harry didn't want to upset you."

"Well it does upset me." I spat towards Kyle. "It upsets me that you have been hiding this from me for how many days? Did he know all along and just lied to me when he left?"

"Raya you need to calm down." Kyle warned as he watched my monitors, they had put in a arterial line to keep a constant watch on my blood pressure, it was more accurate.

"Did he lie to me?" I asked again.

Kyle put his head down, he wouldn't look at me. I had my answer, I wiped the tears away that started to fall down my face. I had to understand that his family was important to him, his son was important to him. I had to stop acting like a baby. I was beyond angry at that moment.

"Miss Anderson." The nurse said as she came into the room. "You blood pressure sky rocketed in the last ten minutes, you need to clam down."

"Quit telling me to calm down." I said through clenched teeth, could feel my face growing hotter but the minute, my ears were ringing and an instant headache accompanied my other symptoms. "I don't feel so well." I said touching my hand to my forehead not paying attention to what the nurse was doing, but I felt a prick and then a sting. "Ouch."

"I just gave you a sedative." She said her voice was muffled, the room was foggy, my eyes were heavy, then I was engulfed in blackness.

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