Silvermist Cup

Hospital round 2

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
The sound of the heart monitor awoke Maddy. She gasped for air as she took in her surroundings. "Huh?" She groaned and rolled over slightly only to stop abruptly because of the pain she felt in her head, chest, legs, arms, her whole entire body!

She felt a hand grasp her wrist. Out of the corner of her eye Maddy could see her mum sitting in a chair watching her with a worried look plastered to her face. She attempted a reassuring smile to tell her mum "It's ok, I'm ok. We will be okay." But it turned into a grimace at the scorching pain on her left side of her face.

"Oh my baby!" Exclaimed her mother. "I thought you wouldn't come around. I thought you were... You were..." Her mum gulped, tears escaping from her eyes.

"W-what happened?" Maddy croaked. Horror flashed across her mothers tear streaked face as she began to tell the story of how Maddy had ended up in hospital. Again.

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"I rang Annabel to check if everything was going smoothly and also to let you know I was coming home early. When Annabel answered the phone she sounded frantic and panicked. She was rambling on about how you never came home and how it was late and that a lightning storm had started and she was worried about you and that it wasn't her fault-" her mum took a deep breath to calm her rising panic. "When she said that you hadn't come home I started to worry. When she said a thunderstorm had started, that's when I began to panic. I know how you like to adventure off course when you walk home and, usually I'm fine with that. But that day... well that day was different."

That day? What does that mean? How long have I been here unconscious? Thought Maddy.

"I told Annabel that 'it's okay' and to go home. I didn't want her to worry... Oh god. You know what? I'm just glad you're ok." Her mum sighed breathily and looked down at her feet. Maddy took a deep breath and formed the words she'd been trying to say ever since she woke - even though it heard like hell.

"I'm fine mum. Really. Stop worrying. It's ok." She comforted.

"But you almost - " her mum got cut off.

"Mum. Seriously. I'm ok." Maddy interrupted.

Her mum gave in and nodded, accepting Maddy's reasoning. She reached forward and hugged her daughter tightly, carefully avoiding the menacing wound on Maddy's face.

"So," her mum started "what happened?"

Maddy contemplated telling her mum everything, just to get it off her chest but decided against it. Her mum would probably ban her from ever going to see the horse again, and she absolutely could not let that happen. She decided on a half truth, beginning to tell her mother that she had been dawdling along the country lane close to her house - so lost in her thoughts that she didn't see the storm coming - when suddenly she slipped in a muddy puddle and how as soon as she gathered her wits together, lighting struck and she couldn't remember anything more.

Her mum seemed to accept that as a suitable answer and began to ramble on again about how worried she was and how Maddy needed to reign in her daydreams when she's supposed to be concentrating.

Maddy began to zone out but came to focus again at the mention of her dad. How could I have forgotten? Maddy thought frantically. He was in hospital! 

"Oh god, Mum! Is Dad ok?" Exclaimed Maddy.

"He's alright now. Actually, he's in the waiting room. I'll go and get him." Her mum started for the door.