New Adventures

The After Effect

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I woke up in a white room with a small TV and a tray next to the bed with a full meal on it. The room was dark except for the lamp and flowing light coming through the window. I heard voices outside the door and looked through the rectangular window that linked the hallway to my room.

I saw a man in a lab coat, who must be my doctor, a petite woman in blue pants and shirt who must have been a nurse, a man in a suit accompanied by three other men in suites, and among them, of course, in jeans and a dark red t-shirt was Nate. When they all dispersed Nate turned around to look in my window.

He saw that I was awake and smiled at me, his green eyes alert and focused, but happy too. He came in the door smiling and took my apple off the tray of food they had provided for me. I glared at him, like I was going to eat the apple, as he took a bite of it.

"Good uh... night," he said with his mouth filled with apple. I looked at him baffled until he pointed to the window.The dark sky was filled with city lights from the skyscrapers that looked as if they were touching the stars.

"Wow," I said with a sigh. "I haven't slept that well since..." my voice trailed off as I remembered my father tucking me in at night and telling me stories about his adventures.

Nate looked at me with worry in his deep green eyes, but didn't ask any questions. I guess he knew that whatever I was thinking, must be a hard topic to talk about. I heard the crunch as he took another giant bite of his/my apple and he held it out to me. I shook my head and looked down at my hands.

My left hand was resting in a black brace and my arms had dark burns on them. "Your wrist is sprained and you broke several ribs." He said when he noticed me examining my arms. "You're covered in burns and bruises, a lot of bruises."

I knew they were from my mother but I didn't want to share that kind of information with Nate. Not yet anyway.

"How's Jack?" I said trying not to think about my life-ruining mother. "Oh, he is perfectly settled." Nate said with a laugh.

I smiled thinking of Jack in front of the TV, eating almost whatever he wanted. He had never gotten that so I was glad that for the time being, even if we were in the hospital, he would have somewhat of a normal time.

"You can go see him... tomorrow." I didn't want to wait but I also knew that if Jack were asleep, I wouldn't want to wake him up. So instead I just rolled over onto my side and snuggled into the pillow as Nate turned off the lamp on the bedside table.

He tucked the covers under my chin, ruffled my hair, and headed toward the door. "Goodnight Nate." I said with a yawn.

"Good morning Jo." He said softly and closed the door with a slight thud

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