Unbearable Decisions (boyxboy)

Chapter 23 (Hidden Pain)

Luca's Point of View

I woke up in the hospital bed all alone. I shot up and looked around feeling both scared and abandoned. The only thing keeping me from bolting out of the room were the wires I was hooked up to. I could hear the heart monitor start beeping faster and faster due to my increased nervousness. Nurses started rushing in trying to calm me and hold me down. I felt extremely weak and was easily subdued by two nurses. I still gave a good fight while yelling, "GET OFF OF ME!!" It was then that he ran out of the bathroom, the boy who makes everything better.

"Let him go! You're scaring him!" yelled the boy as he pulled the nurses off me. "Shh Luca, shh, I'm here I'm here" he said as I clung to his body, seeing as how he was shirtless. The nurses walked off, double checking to make sure everything was fine. "What happened?" asked boy. "I.....I-I had a nightmare" I whispered as I tried to keep myself from crying. "Do you want to talk about it" he said, rubbing his hand through my hair to sooth me. "I don't remember, it was all blurry. All I know is that I was afraid, very afraid...........sorry." "Hey shh, you don't have to be sorry."

We stayed like that for a while, me curled up into his chest as he rocked back and forth saying comforting words. Finally, the boy pulled away and asked if I was ok. "Yeah....just one question: What's your name again?" His face fell into a frown before returning to a smile, "Jacob." "Right Jacob, why don't you have a shirt on?" His face turned red as he stuttered, "I-I was in th-the shower when I heard you yelling, s-so I ran out before I finished dressing to get to y-you."

I felt happy that he thought I was important enough to drop everything he are doing to come to my aid, "Oh...thanks." I started to get out of the bed before Jacob pushed me back into it, "Oh no you don't you need to rest!" I rolled my eyes at him, "I also need to use the loo!" He turned slightly red again before saying, "Oh....well then...I'll go get the nurse." He left the room shooting me a smile and a look saying 'stay in bed'. I wasn't going to listen though cause I really had to go, so the second the door closed I pulled out the tubes and wires and rushed into the bathroom.

I had completely forgot about the heart monitor because when I came out of the loo my bed was surrounded by two nurses, a doctor, and Jacob with a stern look on his face. I just grinned shyly while scratching the back of my head. "Really, you couldn't wait 2 minutes?" asked Jacob. "Hehe um.....no?" I said in more of a question way. "You're lucky that I was on my way to release you Mr. Luca" said the doctor. "W-why?" "Because otherwise you would have been in a lot of trouble for pulling out our machines yourself." "Sorry. Wait, you're letting me go?" I asked surprised. "They said you can leave, you just have to follow some rules and take it easy for the next week" said Jacob with a ecstatic look.

"Fine ok lets go!" I said excitedly. "Just come to the front desk after the nurse checks you over one more time" explained the doctor as he left. Then one of the nurses walked out and walked back in a second later with a clipboard. She patted the bed to signal for me to sit down and gave me a quick examination. Her eyes turned bright yellow as the did this and she saw my discomfort. "Don't worry my eyes change color when I use x-ray vision" she explained. She spent a lot of time looking at both of my wrists like she was really worried about that area. "Alright you seem to be well enough to leave" said the nurse regretfully.

"I'll go get your clothes Luca" said Jacob. "What? What's wrong?" I asked the nurse as soon as Jacob was out of hearing range. "I just worry about you" she said with a sad smile. "Why?" "Just promise me one thing hun: when you remember everything... talk to him about it!" she said somewhat desperately. Before I could ask what she meant she walked out just as Jacob returned. Jacob saw my confused face apparently because he asked, "What's wrong?" "Nothing...nothing. Are those for me?" "Um y-yeah I thought you might like to wear these as your fist time wearing normal clothes since your accident" he said with a smile on his face, but something behind his voice told me he wasn't actually happy.