Tongue Tied

Chapter 2

"Paging Dr. Johns to the OR, paging Dr. Johns to the OR."

All I see is white, white floors, white walls, white shirts, white shoes, white pants, white chairs, God all I see is white. White is meant to be pure, sacred. So why do I feel anything but? That disgusting man, duke, didn't do anything to me, besides break my wrist, and ruin the way I feel about myself.

"Hadaleigh Summers?" A stern voice broke my thoughts, looking up I saw more white, a lady, mid 30's with brown curly hair, covered in a white outfit, white shoes.

"That's me Ma'am." I said as I stood up, grabbing the chair next to me to keep my balance.

"Follow me" she said, and took off. I looked at Mel and sighed. She shrugged her shoulders and we started after the lady in white. Walking for what felt like hours, in reality was 3 minutes to a little exam room not far from the waiting room we'd been in for hours, the nurse opened the door, and let me in. I sat on the bed, and Melissa sat on the chair in the left corner by the computer.

"Now, can you tell me what happened?" The nurse said, as she typed in what I assumed was her username and code to get into the computer to fill out a report. Glancing slightly at my friend stuck in the corner looking like she was ready to cry, I recalled the nights events, leaving out shadow man for some reason, as I held my swollen and bruised wrist.

"Well, miss, you are going to have to get X-rayed, and wait for Dr. Harley, but in the mean I'm going to give you pain meds to obviously help subdue the pain and swelling. I'll come back in after getting your meds when X-Ray is ready for you okay? Also, we do have to notify the police, what happened to you is attempted rape, sexual harassment, and this man did break a bone in your body. So if you can, can you please write out a statement." I nodded as she handed me a piece of paper and a pen for the drawer in the counter next to her. As she closed the door, I looked at Melissa who was about to lose her cool.

"Haddie, god I'm sorry." Mel sobbed slightly. I looked at her like she was crazy. Why is she sorry? She didn't do this to me.

"Now why in the hell are you sorry? Only reason you should be saying sorry is if you didn't get that damn blonde's number." I joked, "I mean seriously, you worked your ass of in that club for at least two hours before he finally bit the bait, and bought you a drink. If you didn't get that number, I might kick your ass myself, and I'll have a cast it'll be even more painful" I giggled at her as she laughed with me. I started to write my statement because I knew an outburst from her was coming.

"I know that hads, but God, you're hurt, and your parents are going to kill us!! We weren't supposed to be at that club, how are we going to explain it to them? Now the police are coming? I'm fucking drunk! We're going to be killed when we get home. And the fact that you got hurt, how did you even get away?! You're tiny, like absolutely tiny!" She burst all at once. I sighed and laid back on the uncomfortable cot in the bleached white room, throwing the pen and paper to the ground. I stared up at, yes you guessed it, a white ceiling. God does everything here have to be white? There are other colors you know.

"A guy stopped them, he pulled the guy off me, and yeah" I muttered, looking anywhere but her.

"Wait, a guy? Like, a guy, guy? How old? Height? Was he cute? Did he smell good? What's his name, is he hot or was he ugly? Oh my--" I jumped off the cot and put my non-broken hand over her mouth.

"Will you shut up? It was dark. I didn't see what he looked like, yes he smelt good, he had an earring and tattoos, I didn't get his name, he was very tall, and I know I'm short but he was tall. Now will you shut up, please? Ugh. You're boy crazy." She laughed slightly, and licked my hand, I pulled it back disgusted.

"You little whore, I have a broken wrist and herpes now!!" I yelled at her with a smile, before she could respond the nurse came back looking flustered.

"I'm really sorry it took so long, the waiting room became hectic. 4 men came in beaten to a pulp, I swear people are so violent! Anyways, I have your medication, it's a shot of a morphine. Please do not drive for the next 12 hours, you will become very sleepy and feeling loopy. With in the next two hours I might add, it's completely normal. We're giving you the morphine for the pain instead of anything you could get over the counter because it clearly is broken from just looking at it. However, X-Ray is ready for you, so I'll give you this shot, you're going to go out to the lobby, take a right, and follow the blue line down the hall to the elevators, X-Ray is on the 3rd floor, to the right. If you need any help, find a nurse. I'll see you back here in an hour. Also please try to finish your statement before the police get here, so you're not too high on pain meds to speak" The nurse rambled on quickly, so quick I barely caught it because has she was talking, she jabbed the needle in my arm and put a bandaid on me; sending us on our way. Little did I know, history tends to repeat itself; even in a hospital.

Hey guys! So, this is the second official update of TT!! I have so much in store for this story, I can't wait! Thank you guys for reading it, it means a lot to me! So please, comment on what you like, or don't like, vote, and share, please!! Thank you!!
-J