Obese // Ashton Irwin [On Hold]

A Week and A Half

My sincerely apologies. Here's the second half of the last chapter.

A Week and A Half

I come back into consciousness not long after the crash. I was going in and out, hearing bits and pieces. I was slowly taken out and set out on a gurney. They checked my heartbeat and listened in on my belly. Orders were yelled out. "17 to 18 year old female about six months pregnant. Unsconcious..." I groaned lightly and that seemed to catch their attention. "What's your name, sweetheart?" A soft voice speaks to me.

"Mere... Mered-dith." She stroked my hair. "Meredith what, baby girl stay with me."

"H—" and I knocked out after that. I'm guessing a few minutes later, I woke up to a mask on my face while oxygen was released. I heard the sounds of a helicopter. A stethoscope was once again pressed against my stomach. "Meredith?" A woman different from the one in the ambulance, calls. I whimper, feeling more scared. "Acceleration in heartbeat." They start to speak to me and tell me to calm down. I hyperventilate and am too scared to open my eyes.

"Meredith, listen to me," the lady speaks again. "Everything is fine. Your babies are okay. You're being taken to a different hospital to treat you." I take deep breaths and focus on the voice of the woman calming down. Soon after, I fell asleep once again. 

When I wake up again, I'm in the ICU of some hospital. It's dark except for the light of the hallway where I see a nurse. I see my arm hooked up to an IV and my finger wrapped in some sort of device to count my heartbeat. I see a remote beside me and debate on calling the nurse. I lean back and sigh, looking down at my stomach. I finally grab the remote and press the red one with a plus sign. I watch as the nurse looks forwards the blinking light near her then over to me. She grabs the desk phone and her voice appears on the intercom. The nurse calls for my doctor twice then walks into the room smiling.

"Hello!" She softly says. I recognize her voice. "How are you feeling?" I smirk softly. "My head hurts." I raise my hand to touch the side of my head then I feel a bandage. I begin to freak out. She steadies me. "You hit your head in the crash and we had to bandage it."

I see my doctor over the nurse's shoulder, walking in with a rushed face. "Meredith?" She sighs in relief. The nurse fills her on what I just said. "Are you hungry?" At the mention, my babies squirm and I get the feeling of hunger. I nod. "Bring her the meal." She says to the nurse and looks back at me with a concerned look.

"What happened, Meredith?" I gulp and look away. I begin to tell her about me leaving school and everything before the crash, leaving out the way I was feeling, physically. "You know what I mean, honey." She stares me down until my eyes gloss over and I look away. I look at the window and look out at the dark night. "Meredith?"

I blink and let a tear roll down my cheek before I wipe it away. I tell her. About the voice that sounds like my first foster parents and what she says and used to say to me. I tell her about my attempts to consume any types of food. About how I attempt to eat, forcing myself and my stomach just ends up rejecting the food. I tell her about the constant dizziness and nausea I've been feeling. How it started and ended. What I felt on my way to her clinic.

She writes it all down, sighing after wards. I slowly grab my food, and consume it. I don't hear the voice. At all. Till she leaves after explaining the dangers to me when I don't eat and what may happen to my twins. I turn on the tv and try to drown out the voice. Then my mother walks in. Her eyes are filled with concern and almost tear up at the sight of me awake. "Meredith." She engulfs me in a hug, silently sobbing into my shoulder, I hug her back and bite my lip. She looks at my bandaged wrist and kisses it, then stroking my hair. "You should've told me you weren't feeling well. I could've driven you!"

My brother walks in and he sighs in relief. "You little shit!" Is the first thing he says before hugging me. "Don't ever fucking do that shit again." He pulls away and I see the tears in his eyes. He covers it up and wipes the tears away. "You crashed mom's only car." My lips twitch and I laugh lightly. They talk to me and tell me the horrors and what they did to me and how long I've been asleep. Apparently a week and a half. They tell me how they've notified my friends and Michael and Ashton are on their way with Luke and Calum.

Oh boy.

Yay. The kiddos are fine.