A Diamond In The Rough

Day 1

We were there on Friday. Nine a.m. Sharp.
My mother was never late anywhere, she called it ill-mannered. We were always ten to fifteen minutes early due to us leaving so early for anywhere that way held plenty of time in case there was traffic, an accident or if our car was to break down. Not that had ever happened.

"Welcome back Diamond, Mrs. Jones"  Our Doctor greeted us, I never remembered there names I was referred to so many that I gave up trying to remember in the end.
"Thank you for this Dr. Shaws, you don't know how much this means to my family especially Diamond for trying so hard to find the best possible solution"

Kiss ass.

I contained rolling my eyes, smiling fakely at the Doctor and my mother. We walked down corridors whilst he explained exactly what treatment and tests I'd be going through. I aimlessly looked at people.

One thing I did enjoy about hospitals was people watching and then making up stories about their lives.
For example the small child looking lost sitting in a waiting room corridor clinging onto a small toy, his name is Jonathon. He's eight. He hates cheese and loves his cat. He's here for his mom's check up after surgery after she was bitten by a shark on his fathers private island. It's simple and that's why I love it. Especially in a hospital, there's so many different people from all over and I enjoy making up there lives as much as I try to reinvent my own.

"And this is where you'll be staying" I snapped out of my watching and looked over where we'd stopped. I'd been on this ward last time, I was stationed outside of the nurses desk where they could observe and act fast if I did go into a seizure.

It was a shared room with two beds currently no one was in there with me but I'm sure there would be throughout the night, they not only used this ward for observing and treatments but also for recovery after emergency surgery's. Normally of a mix of men and women although they did try to put them in separate rooms and corridors however if a bed was free, it was free and you had to make do.

My mother turned to the doctor, "are you sure there's no single rooms? I'm not complaining I know how hard it must of been to even fit us in-"
I re-zoned out and walked into the room placing myself on the bed furthest from the door,

"This is Fine. Thank you" I cut my mom off,  Doctor...? What was his name again. God my memory was awful I concentrated hard to focus on the name that I could feel in my brain but I couldn't quite grasp.

Does anyone else get that? They know something or heard someone's name and it's in their brain somewhere but they couldn't quite reach it to find it? Like in an exam you've revised and revised even looked over notes before going in and then blank. No not a blank because you know it but you don't.
God it was so frustrating.

"Don't do that with your face you'll get wrinkles" my mother ran her fingers between my eyebrows trying to smooth out my skin creases. The Doctor was gone.
I smiled dryly at her,
"Are wrinkles really our biggest worry right now?"
She frowns at me, "You know we could of moved Diamond, now you may end up with a roommate and dare I say it" she lowered her voice leaning in closer to me "a male roommate"

I couldn't stop myself. I burst out laughing I couldn't hold it in, it started as a small twitch on my mouth before hysteria left laughing so hard at my mothers expression.

I wiped tears away noticing she was frowning even harder if that was possible, "Mother Don't worry it's not like I'll be in here that often with all the tests and sh-stuff, I'll be in here to sleep and eat meals. That's it." I caught myself on my bad language slip up. I held her hands I could see the furrows deep becoming small wrinkles and the uneasy look of discontent in her eyes.

I smirked running my fingers over her scrunched up skin,
"Don't do that with your face you'll get wrinkles" I mocked with a cheeky grin.