Please, Come Here

Princess

He pulled me closer and hugged me again. I cried on his shoulder for a while until I fell asleep in his arms.
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I woke up and saw that Ryder was still next to me. He was sleeping next to me. I looked at him and smiled.

He was a bad boy, but he had a heart for sure. He wasn't in a gang like my brother and completely hated the idea of Luke being in a gang. I'd known him since I started Freshman year. My brother always made me and my friends sit at his table at lunch and of course, my brother being the most popular guy in school by far gave me some recognition.

I had always had a crush on Ryder even though he was my brothers best friend. I don't know what it was about him, but he had such an impact on me.

I looked at him, his light brown hair was messy as usual. He was sleeping on his stomach turned away from me giving me a perfect view of his back. He was shirtless and I figured he just got hot while sleeping. The hospital room was pretty warm. He was definitely a toned muscular guy. Everything about him was perfect. Except for the fact that he smoked. My father died from lung cancer and my mom died from a brain tumor. I hated the idea of anyone smoking.

I took a leap of faith and put my arm around his back and pulled myself closer to him careful I didn't bump my leg. This must have woken him up because he turned around and looked at me with his dark green eyes.

"Hey Em how are you feeling?"

"I'm better, I guess. I can't wait to get out of this cramped hospital room though."
It was true I hated the bland room and the smell of sanitizer.

"Don't worry you're gonna be released in 3 days." He said with a smile while gently stroking my cheek.
"You know you scared the shit out of me Em. I thought you were gonna leave me." A look of worry suddenly burst into his eyes as he looked down to my leg. He looked up and his deep green eyes bore into mine. He finally broke the gaze and ran his hands through his hair. He sat up in the cramped hospital bed and checked his phone.

"Hey Ryder?"

"Yeah?" he said without looking up from his phone.

"Can you please not smoke anymore? I can't loose you too." I said and he instantly turned around and looked into my eyes.

"I promise I will never smoke again."
I sat up and crawled over to the other side of the bed and made sure not to put pressure on my leg.
"Thank you." I said while looking into his eyes
I wrapped my arms around his neck and gave him another long hug until the doctor came in and startled me. I pulled away from him and looked up at the doctor.

"Hello Emma Phillips it's nice to see you awake and alert! I'm Doctor Stone and I'll be doing a basic check on your left leg today."

"Okay."

"Uhm. Sir can you please wait outside of the room?" She said while turning her gaze over to Ryder.

"Nope I'm staying with Em." He said while grabbing onto my hand.

"Sir pleas-"

"Look Doctor Stone was it? This is my girlfriend we're talking about. Now I really care about her and I'd really appreciate you letting me stay in the room with her while you do your... doctor stuff." He gave her a toothy smile and she nodded in agreement and astonishment.

Holy shit. Ryder just called me his girlfriend? We definitely weren't dating I mean, he has just gotten out of a relationship with one of he bitchiest girls I had ever come to know.

I got lost in my thoughts for a moment while Ryder got up off of the bed and kneeled beside me. I almost didn't realize the doctor peeling away the gauze and wrap that was on my leg. I hadn't seen my leg since I went unconscious and I looked down to see stitches.

"Alright so the stitches look good and there's no puss or blood oozing out and since you only got skimmed by the bullet luckily, I'm going to reduce your time in here down to 2 days. You'll only need crutches while you're in here and by the time you've gone out the wound will be healed enough for you to walk on it"

The doctor finished a few more tests wrapped my leg back up and left some crutches by my bed.

I looked over to Ryder who was still holding my had and smiled. Then I remembered the whole "girlfriend" thing.

"What the fuck was that Ryder?" I said as my smile immediately disappeared.

"That's how you talk to your King Princess?"

I looked at him astonished. I dropped his hand immediately. I knew he was a player, but I never thought he would make advances on me right after Luke died. I swung my legs over the side of the bed and grabbed my crutches. I used the crutches to walk over to the door and I grabbed the handle and walked out. I heard the door slam behind me as I was struggling to use the crutches. I got halfway down the hallway and I gave up. I sat down against the wall hoping he wouldn't come out of my room. Of course he did. He ran out of the door and walked over to me.

"What the fuck Em?" He said as he walked over to me. There was an anger in his eyes I had never seen before. A hurt anger. Probably just from his recent break up.
I looked at him and let a tear fall down my face.  His face immediately dropped and he picked me up so fast I didn't even realize what had happened. He left my crutches and carried me to my room and sat me on the bed. He kneeled down next to me and looked down. He started crying and a tear dripped on my lap. He looked up at me with his dark green eyes again full of hurt.
"It'll get better won't it Em?"
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OMG guys did you like it???? I made it extra long just as I promised and I hope it didnt drag out. Anyways comment ideas for the next chapter if you'd like until next time
-K