My first love

Chapter 9

When I woke up I found myself in a hospital bed and Jake, Tasha, Susan and Mike were there. Mike was crying and Tasha was trying to comfort him. He broke out of her embrace once he saw me awake and came to me.

"Alex," he said as he came to hug me.

"What happened?" I asked as I tried to sit down. The sharp pain again cut across my stomach and this time it was much painful.

"Ouch..." I cried touching my stomach. A nurse came in and told all of them to go out.

"Hi. I'm nurse Angie," she said. "We contacted your parents and they are on their way here."

"What? You called them without asking me?" I asked knowing how busy they were.

"We had to considering how serious your case is." She said.

"What do you mean by serious?" I asked.

"You have appendicitis and you might need an operation. You are even lucky that you were brought here earlier," she said

"What do you mean?" I asked.

" Had you delayed for another two hours, you would have died." She said.

I was shocked by the news that I didn't know how to reply to that. Tears fell down my cheeks at the thought that I was almost dying and more so that I was gonna have an operation.

"Hey there," I heard Jake's voice next to me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked. Trying to wipe off my tears.

"Your folks are here, they're talking to the doctor now. I just wanted to check on you before I leave." He said.

"Okay, you can leave now," I said.

" Not until you tell me why you were crying when I got here." He said as he sat beside me.

" I'm sick...the nurse says I would have died if I had delayed for two more hours." I said and started crying.

"So it was better I brought you here earlier." He said.

" Wait, so you're the one who brought me here." I said.

"Yeah, you collapsed when I came to your house and Tasha wasn't there so I just carried you to my car and drove you here." He said.

" Then I owe you my life." I said.

"Hey there," I heard my mom at the door.

" Mom..." I said.

"Am I interrupting something?" She asked.

" No mom, meet Jake. Jake, my mom," I introduced them.

"Hi Miss..." he started, "I don't know Alex's last name so I don't know your name."

"It's ok, I'm Mrs. Jones." She said.

"I'm Jake Miller, nice to meet you Mrs. Jones."

"He is the one who brought me here." I said.

"Oh. Thank you so much Jake, I owe you for saving my daughter" She said.

"No ma'am, anyone else could have done that."

"How did you find her in the first place?" she asked.

"She is my science partner in school so I had come to give her an assignment when she collapsed," he said.

"Thank you so much for bringing her. Mind my asking but are you John Miller's son?" She asked him.

"Yeah. How do you know him?" he asked back.

"He's partners with her dad." She said.

"Speaking of dad, where's he?" I asked.

"He's signing you operation form." She said.

"So it's true I'm having an operation," I said.

"I'm really sorry baby, why didn't you tell us earlier you were having pains?" She asked.

"I didn't wanna bother you guys coz you were sort of busy and I though it was just a stomachache." I said.

"No baby. Being sick is not disturbing. Like in this case what if Jake was not there, and you stayed for long, you would have died."

"I'm sorry mom." I said

"I guess I should go now." Jake said.

"No. You a can stay here and look after her." My mom said.

"Why not Tasha?" I asked.

"She went back with Mike so I have to go and check on him. You must have scared him when you collapsed. He hasn't stopped crying." She said.

"Okay then, bye. See you later." I said as she bent down and kissed my forehead.

Just then, my dad came in.

"Hi dad," I said.

"Hi baby. Are you okay? How're you feeling, " he asked.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Just some little pain." I said.

He hadn't noticed Jake till my mom introduced him.

"I'm so sorry sweetie but I can't stay. I have to go back where I was with your mother and finish some things." He said.

"It's okay dad, at least you're here now." I said.

I've never understood what my dad works on and I've never bothered asking.

"No baby, it's not okay that I'm travelling and my baby is on a hospital bed." He said lifting my hand into his own.

"But mom's gonna be here so there's no problem." I said.