The Arrangement

Chapter 9

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Chapter 9

I woke up early, before my alarm. My side was hurting especially bad this morning. I dragged myself down to the kitchen. Jason was making breakfast and I made a mental note not to eat.

"Why are you up so early?"

"I must have slept wrong on my side. Every time I moved it woke me up." I offered.

"How's it looking?"

"I need Meri to change the bandages to see."

"Is she up?"

"Not when I left. Let her sleep."

"Jason laughed. "I'm not about to wake Meri up."

I laughed too then winced. "Ow, don't make me laugh." I groaned out through clenched teeth. "It hurts!"

Jason laughed harder at this. "Sorry, I don't mean to laugh,"

"Yeah, yeah,"

Rory walked in, his hair tousled from sleep. "Hey Kae. What are you doing up so early?"

"Just am."

"Alright. Jason, you're cooking?"

"Yeah,"

"Damn."

"What?"

"Dude, you can't cook to save your life."

"Don't hate."

"I'm not, I just don't want to die. Move over, I'll make something."

"Hey!" I watched these two grown men fight over who was cooking like toddlers, shoving one another here and there and then laughing about it afterwards. Rory eventually won and stepped in front of the stove and started adding this and that and suddenly it smelt amazing. Then a plume of smoke arose from the stove.

"And I'm the crappy cook," Jason pouted.

"Rory, I think you killed it." I looked at it and jabbed it with a fork. "Yup, it's officially dead." I laughed then gripped my ribs, which only made them hurt more.

"Mikaela, you alright?"

"I'm fine," I grimaced.

"How're the ribs?"

"Peachy."

"That bad?"

"Rory, I have broken ribs. It sucks, and it's that simple."

"I'm sorry,"

I shook my head. "Rory, stop. We can talk about this when we're on land. Until then, we have work to do and not much time to do it. I suggest you go and prepare yourself."

I walked out of the room, but Jason stopped me just outside the door. "Don't you remember that little chat we had last night?"

"Yes."

"Then you just aren't going to listen, then?"

"What?"

"Whatever, Mikaela."