The Dark Days

Chapter 18

When I awoke again I was in an unbearably bright room with all sorts of contraptions beeping and surrounding me. I became aware of the fact that someone was holding on to my hand. When I looked over I saw him hunched over my bed, asleep. His body was limp, head resting on his arms. But even in his sleep he hadn't released my hand from his grip.

I took advantage of the situation and had a good look at his visible tattoos. He had so many small ones on his inner forearm. I pulled my hand from his in an attempt to trace what I could reach. Unfortunately, my removing my hand awoke him and I was wrapped in a painful hug,

"Ow, ow, ow!" I mumbled, causing him to pull away.

"Sorry! Let me call the doctor!" He pressed the call button and was rewarded with multiple nurses and a doctor rushing in. After the nurses checked my vitals and left the doctor finally explained.

"Peyton, you were extremely lucky in the sense that you have no brain damage, but you do have some other things you will need to let time heal. Your busted lip and bruised cheek are merely superficial. You have major concussion and a cracked rib. The rib should heal fairly quickly, in about one or two weeks. Your concussion mainly is gone, you've slept it off. In case you aren't sure, you have been here for two days. Now, the police is going to come in and talk to you and then you just need to stay overnight. You will be released tomorrow." He left the room, but was quickly replaced with a police officer.

"Hi Peyton, I'm Officer Johnson. I'm just going to ask you some questions and you need to answer truthfully, okay?" he spoke. He seemed pretty nice.

"Yes." I responded.

"Good! First question. Who did this to you?" Simple enough.

"My ex-boyfriend Noah Jacob Brown."

"Okay, now I need you to tell me exactly what happened. Tell me everything you remember." Maybe this won't be as easy as I thought it would.

"Well, on Thursday I came home from work to see Noah was home, which was strange because he works later than me. He told me he cheated so I broke up with him and asked him to have his stuff out of my house by Friday. I told him I would spend the night at a friend's and I left. I stayed the night at Louis's house. When he dropped me off at home on Friday I went inside and was immediately yelled at. All of his screaming made me cry, which angered him. Then everything went black, and I awoke in a pool of blood and broken glass. So I called Louis, but blacked out right after I told him I needed help. And now I'm here." I was crying just the slightest, Louis looked pissed, and the office just nodded.

"Louis, I'll need your help for the last bit of information I need. If you'll come with me out to the hall I have some questions, then I need you to take me to the scene of the crime so I can collect evidence." I played a game on my phone for a while before falling asleep again.