In Omnia Paratus (AU) - Book 2

Full time

"What are you doing?" Richard asked me one morning as I got out of bed really early Saturday morning. It was usually the day when he'd stay at mine or I'd go to him, but recently he's been here to help me out with Lily.

"I have the paper, and I thought I'd check on lil." I smiled as I got ready.

"Alright, let me get her out of bed though. You do it everyday, rest for once yeah?" He smiled across at me as he sat up in bed.

"Yeah." I nodded grabbing my bag and heading for the door to go to Lily. "Heya." I knocked on the door before walking in to her room.

"Hey." Lily said.

"Do you need anything? I'm just going to the paper. Richards here though." I asked quickly.

"I'm fine Jenna. I can basically get out of bed by myself now anyway." She rolled her eyes.

"This afternoon we're going through your daily routine stuff yeah? I'm not doing anything on purpose. So we have time." I said gong around the room quickly and moving her necessities to her desk so she could get them.

"Yes!" She moaned. She was always grouchy in the morning and I'd come to expect it now, it wasn't her fault, she told me once everyday was like waking up from a bad dream to only find out your still in it. I didn't like that comparison.

"Do not get out bed without Richard being here. He's literally next door so just shout." I said going to her door. "See ya later."

"See ya."

- - - - -

Richard got up when he heard Jenna leave and decided to check on Lily so he could help her in anyway or even just get her out of bed. "Everything al--" he stopped as he saw she was asleep and so backed out the room.

Instead, he went to the sofa and laid down whilst watching tv. Got his laptop out and started writing up some essays and things.

He'd been like that for an hour now and was just about to get up and check on Lily when he heard a really large thud come from her room. Richard leaped up to see what it was and when he got to the door he heard her cry out his name.

"Richard!"

Quickly he opened the door to see her in such a mess. She'd tried to get out of bed herself and the wheelchair was next to her bed but it didn't have the breaks on so she she tried to move it slid away from her and now she was laying on the floor in tears.

She wasn't crying because she was hurt, she was crying because of the shock. It was going to take a while of getting used to.

"Hey it alright. I'm here." Richard said scooping her up because she looked really uncomfortable on the floor like that. He sat her on the edge of her bed and she just continued to cry whilst he sorted out her chair.

"I'm sorry." She cried repeatedly.

"Hey hey. It's alright. It's fine." Richard said holding her hand gently and comforting her. "You should have let me help you. Or at least let me watch, I could have caught you."

"I know, I'm sorry. I just wanted to do something on my own for once." She cried more and more.

"I get that. And you will eventually but it's early days huh? Now, how about we get you into that chair and we forget this even happened?" Richard offered. That's exactly what they did.

"Will you tell Jenna?" Lily asked as they went into the lounge.

"Do you want me to?"

"No." She said eagerly. "But you probably will."

"We can have secrets!" He mocked.

"You shouldn't keep secrets from your girlfriend." Lily sighed.

"That's true. If it comes up, I'll have to tell her." He smiled gently. "It's alright though. She's only concerned about you."

"I know."

- - - - -

"How was it this morning?" I asked walking in with loads of folders in my hands. "I stopped by English to do some extra work, I hope that's alright, I just haven't been able to see my teacher outside of class since the accident really."

"Everything's fine. She's with her tutor person now in her room." Richard smiled.

"Cool." I said sitting down. "I still think as weird as it sounds that she should go and see Kate."

"She was assigned a therapist already." He rolled his eyes at me. "Someone who should be going to Kate is you..."

"Don't start--"

"You were doing okay before Christmas. Eating regularly, getting stronger, and I've been letting it go these last few weeks because they have been really tough but you need to get back on track." Richard sighed placing an arm around me.

"I know I do." I said. "And I will, eventually."

- - - - -

"I'm full time from Monday." Lily said coming out of her room after her little tutor thing she's been having whilst on bed rest. She has been to a few lessons but not all.

"Yay, well done." I smiled.

"That's great." Matt said.

"I'm going to be able to go to every lesson. Even dance because they're not doing any practical anymore. They're just doing written exam prep." Lily said all excited.

"That's so good, lil." Richard smiled.

"How do you feel about celebrating? It's Saturday night, we can invite everyone round, order pizza?"

"That sounds like a great idea." Lily nodded. She always agreed to things like this because she was told to stop any depression from getting on top of her that she should try to take part in social events and smile more.

That why most of the time she acted so happy. Even if it was fake, subconsciously she'll start improve without been realising.

"I'll get the guys and Lucy and Olivia." Richard jumped up.

"I will get us some drinks and the pizza menu." I smirked leaving with Richard and letting Matt and Lily have some alone time, they needed it really.