Forever Together || Part 2

5 ~ hospital

We arrived to the kitchen and he set me down on a chair.

" You know I could have walked faster if you asked." I playfully slapped his shoulder.

He chuckled. I went to grab to ingredients. I got the pasta sauce, spaghetti, pot, salt, water, and utensils. I poured water into the pot and put it over the stove. I turned the knob to medium and waited for the water to come to a boil. Wait, this ain't no cooking show. I'd better stop saying the instructions.

" Lucas, you want cheese?"

" Sure."

" Can you get it? It's in the fridge."

He nods his head while I start to lift up the pot lid to see if it was boiling. Oh it was boiling alright. One of the bubbles popped on my fingers and it immediately turned red. I dropped the lid and stepped away from the stove, while sucking on my finger that is red. Lucas shut the fridge.

" What happened?!" He yelled and came over to me.

" It burnt me." I mumbled.

He pulled my finger out of my mouth and dried it off with a towel. When he pressed on my finger, I yanked my finger away.

" OW!" I yelled.

" Sorry. Here you dry it off." He hands me the towel.

I slowly start to wipe all my spit off my finger and hand my finger back to Lucas.

" Yup. It's swollen. You know what? Go take a bath. It's been a log day for you. " He smiled.

" What about the spa-"

" I'll make it. Go take a bath."

" Okay. But what about my shoulder?"

" I'll help you with that. Just give me a minute." He smiled.

I smiled back and went to the bathroom. He's so sweet.

I close the door to the bathroom and take off my sweat shirt. The bandages are still there but it also has blood marks on them. I touch it a little bit but immediately feel pain. I sigh. Lucas knocks on the door. I open it and give him a sad smile. He looks at my shoulder and sees the blood bleeding through it.

"Yeah let's take care of this. " He said concerned.

He shuts the door and makes me stand in front of him while he starts to unravel the bandages.

" Ow! OW!" I scream.

I pull away from his reach.

" Riley. I know it hurts. But we need to fix you or you'll bleed yourself to death. "

The way he said that scared me. Death. That's what scared me. I slowly nod my head and walk back up to him. He finished unraveling it and I'm now in tears. It hurt so bad. I can't stop the tears. I can't stop the blood. He takes a towel and wets it with warm water. He dabs it on my shoulder. It actually felt nice. He kept on dabbing it until all of the blood was gone. Then he washed his hand and started to touch my shoulder, to see the cut. I flinch.

" Riley, this is a really deep cut. Either I need to stitch you up or we need to go to the doctor."

I cry even more and shake my head.

" No. I don't want to. Lucas, I don't want to. "

I hug him to try to convince him, but he doesn't budge.

" C'mon."

He carries me and I hook my arms as strong as I can onto his neck. The doctors were only a few blocks away so he walked there.

" Lucas why can't you just do it?" I mumble in his chest.

" Because I don't want to be the one who hurts you but heals you. I don't want to see you cry anymore."

" Do you know how to do it?"

" Yes. I've done it to many of my team members."

I looked stunned. Is football really that dangerous?

He held me like I weighed nothing and I held onto him like my life depended on it.

" Okay, we are here," he whispered.

I shook my head.

" I don't want to Lucas."

I hold onto him tighter. But he keeps walking. We enter and go to the front desk.

" She has a deep cut and she needs stitching." He whispers.

" Right this way."

She holds out her hand for me to take. I shake my head and burry my face into Lucas' chest.

" Riley. This is for you. You need to take care of you. Please." He whispered.

I looked up at him and then to the nurse. I take her hand and Lucas lets me down. We walk past rooms with people coughing, screaming, and crying. I get scared. I look back at Lucas. He is waving at me. I wave back. But then we enter a room.

Doctors come into the room and start the stitching process.

I feel needles stabbing into me and out. And then a feeling that something is I my skin and pulling it together. I screamed. Not just because of the pain, but also the though of what they are doing to me. I am a piece of cloth. They finished and checked up on me.

" Riley Matthews?" They ask.

I nod my head.

" You still have the disorder."

I nod my head once again.

" Yeah, i can tell. You've got skinnier over the year."

I look down and realize that I am wearing my dance bra and high waisted spandex.

" Came from dance?" He asked.

I nod my head.

" Okay. Your good to go." He leaves the room.

I get up and go to Lucas. He was waiting for me .

" Can we go home now?" I take his hand.

" Yes."

He tightens his grip and smiles. I smile back and we exit the hospital. When we get outside, I feel a cold breeze flow though the air. I'm getting cold. I take my hand from Lucas and use it to rub my arms to get warm. Lucas places his warm jacket on me, leaving him with a grey long sleeve shirt, showing his biceps. I slip on his jacket and hold onto his arm.

" I missed this. " I whispered to him.

" Me too." He looked at me.

Even though we aren't officially together, it feels like we are. And. I kinda liked it.

Aww. A cute chapter/ scary chapter. I'm sorry for the scary part guys 😂😂👍🏼. Savor these cute chapter though. Soon, are going to be sad and depressing chapters.