More Than A Game

Chapter 68

Silence. That's all I could hear as I stood anxiously near the window to the hospital room. My mind was blank as my eyes stung from what could have possibly been fear.

A million thoughts rushed through my mind as I started to question whether or not Chad was going to survive. He was a strong man and I knew it was wrong for thinking the worst but when it comes football, sometimes it really does become a game of life and death.

Ken had already down to check on Chad's progress which we both knew wasn't much as well as to interview me on the incident. I told him what I knew and spent a couple of minutes talking to him about the situation. Travis and Hamish visited me earlier before since they were on their way to club conference. Many of the other boys came down to see how everything was going but I wasn't really interesting in socialising with any of them.

I could feel people making their way past me, their eyes trailing onto me as I continued my emotional state but right now I couldn't care less about the public's opinion of me. Right now, the man who I truly love is fighting for his life in that hospital bed and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.

It had already been at least half and hour since I arrived at the hospital and still there was no word on Chad's condition. Looking through the glass window, I kept replaying the dangerous bump over and over in my mind.

A patch of yellow and brown was hot on his heels causing my heart beat rapidly. I watched in silence holding my breath as Tristan cornered him near the goalpost, staring straight at his target as he launched himself at Chad. Without any warning, he forced his elbow straight near his head causing Chad to drop right onto the ground.

I stared through the glass window watching Chad's body laying still on the hospital. I watched him still keeping his eyes closed, his body frozen with the seconds slowly passing by. I slowly placed my hand against cold glass still keeping my eyes on Chad. Oh how desperately I wanted him to be alright and just to see his beautiful face smiling once again.

My eyes began to water as I kept visualising the moment I witnessed Chad coming straight onto the field. I forced myself to hold myself together as I didn't want to cause a scene, not after what had just happened. I wiped my eyes, my hands starting to shake as I saw Jessica and my mum making their way to me. The moment I saw the pair, I could feel more tears emerging from my eyes.

"Mum? Jess?" I muttered aloud as I moved in closer to give them both hugs. I let out a loud choke as I covered my mouth to once again try and hold myself together.

"How is Chad going?" Mum asked as I shyly looked down at the ground. I knew what to tell them but it wasn't exactly the news I wanted to tell them. I didn't want to tell them that he was still unresponsive, I just wanted him to wake up and just be alright.

"He's uh, he's still the same as when he's arrived here." I said, sniffling in between the sentence. I glanced around the hospital room and saw Ollie rushing over to us. Great, this was just what I needed right now.

"Have the doctors said anything yet Carmen?" Jess asked ignoring Ollie's existence as he stood in the gap between herself and me. I shook my head and looked down once again still waiting to see if I would be able to see him once again.

"Excuse me ma'am." 

I turned around and could see a short woman with her hair tied in a bun and holding a clipboard standing in front of me. I stayed quiet since I thought that I had little to be spoken to about but realised I was wrong when she turned her attention onto me.