The Great Escape

4

I woke up back in the hospital room. I glanced around and saw Jamie asleep in one of the 2 provided recliners.
I tried to sit up a little before I had to stop as I had felt a tugging sensation in my stomach. Not a good one.
I remembered the stitches and held my hand against them as I moved to sit up.
The clock on the wall above the TV read 8:01. Had I really been asleep for 13 hours? Give or take a little.
I reached up and pushed the button of above, summoning a nurse.
Jane had entered the room a minute later.
"Oh hi Sean!" The older woman said enthusiastically.
I held up my finger to my lips as if to shush her and nodded my head to a still snoring Jamie.
She nodded her head and walked over to me.
"I suppose you'd like to see your daughter huh?" She whispered. I nodded happily. She held up the 'one moment' sign with her hand and left the room. Coming back seconds later with a wheelchair and a blanket.
Jane helped me into the wheelchair then tucked me in.
We left and wound our way through the awakening hospital to where Anna was, talking about her on the way.
When we arrived, Jane left me in the hallway and went to a closed off room.
A few impatient minutes later, she reappeared with a pink bundle in her arms.
She handed Anna to me, telling me how I should hold her.
Anna woke up happily when she saw me holding her.
"Hi there cutie. Did you sleep well?" I asked her in a baby voice. As if she was answering me, the baby made an adorable noise and held out her hand to me, wanting to touch me I suppose. I balanced her against my chest with one arm and stuck my hand in front of her so she could hold me. She tried to pull my 2nd finger towards her mouth.
"No silly girl!" Jane stepped in with a pacifier instead and popped it into the baby's mouth.
Her eyes opened completely and I saw the eye color. They were an icy blue, like mine. I smiled lovingly as Anna closed her eyes again, holding my finger.
"Now I would like to show you something." Jane grabbed the chairs handles behind me and wheeled me further down the hall.
"Ok." I acknowledged.
We stopped at a private room decorated with baby supplies. There, Jane taught me how to take care of Anna. You know, feeding her, burping her, changing her diaper, how to calm her down and such.

Before we knew it, an hour had passed and the cafeteria had opened for breakfast.
"Ready for breakfast?" Jane asked.
"Just a few more minutes?" I whined like a child.
"Alright. But we better hurry or it'll close."
"Hey." I said after a minute. I set Anna down in the swing next to me. "Why are you showing me all this stuff? Like how to take care of her?"
"Because I doubt your deadbeat boyfriend will be of any help." She rolled her eyes.
"H-how did you know?" I asked, suddenly very scared. She got up from her seat across from me and stood next to me.
"Because people don't just get bruises like this Sean." She pulled down the neck of the gown, exposing the left side of my chest. "Or scars like that." She pointed at my legs.
I had nothing to say. And if I did try to talk it would come out as me crying.
"Trust me. Look what my ex boyfriend did." She rolled up her sleeve and I saw a long scar starting at her shoulder, down to her elbow.
Tears bubbled up behind my eyes.
"You need to get away from him."
"I am." I said quietly as tears rolled down my face.
"Really?" She inquired.
"I am. I'm planning on leaving with Anna when she's a month old." I sniffled.
Jane wiped my tears away while saying, "Where will you go?"
"I'm going to the states, where my secret boyfriend is."
"How do you know he won't hurt you?" She countered.
"I know he wouldn't!" I buried my head in my hands as I felt arms wrapping around me.
"It's ok it's ok." She shushed.
"Mark would never hurt me." I murmured.
"Is that his name? Like Markiplier?" Jane pulled away.
"Ya." I lifted my head up. "How did you know that?"
"I didn't. But I watch his videos all the time. Not to mention yours too!" The elderly woman said happily.
"That means a lot." I dried my tears and leaned over to grab Anna.
"Septiplier away!" The woman said giddily.
"Shut up." I smiled while looking down in my lap at my daughter, sucking away on her pacifier.
"I'm kidding. Let's go get some food." Jane smiled and wheeled me out of the room.