Bound to You (Literally)

Chapter 29

Chapter 29

My heart pounds eratically in my chest at one thousand beats a minute as I look at a guy I once thought was someone I could trust. 

Someone I once called my friend. 

Someone who whenever I was sad or upset would sit with me for hours and listen to what I had to say and make me laugh. 

But he is not that guy anymore. 

No, he is not someone I can recognise. 

I slowly itched my hand towards the call button, afraid that if he catches me that he will flip big time. 

"ANSWER ME!" He screams in my face. 

"You want to know why I don't want to be with you?! It is not because of Jett! IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU! JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF RIGHT NOW!" I scream my fear is still there but anger starts to bubble again to the surface. "I AM SCARED! I HAVE BEEN TOLD I'M ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU PICK AN ARGUMENT WITH ME!" I jesture with my hands at him and turn my face away the second tears start pouring down my face.

"Lianna-" Alex takes a step back towards my bed.

"No! Alex, you are the one that was pushing me towards Jett! And look at you now! You don't care about me and you just think of me as a possession, something to have, and you don't like the fact that I have been MADE, not by choice, to spend time with Jett." I look at him with disgust, not caring that I have told a little lie that it wasn't him that was pushing me and Jett together, and I turn my head away from him.

"Lianna please don't say that!" He begs me.

"Just go Alex." I whisper, fighting against tears because I know I am losing a person that has been my only friend since I was little.

"No! I am not leaving you, not until we've sorted this out!"

"Don't you understand?! There is nothing to sort out because it wasn't Jett or the Burke's who ruined this; it was you! You are the one who ruined our relationship!"

"I am not giving up!"

"JUST GO! I DON'T WANT YOU ANYWHERE NEAR ME!" He looks like he is about to argue with me but he clenches his jaw and walks out of the door with his head bent. And only when the door closer behind him with a resounding click echoing in the silence of my hospital room, do I slump against me bed defeated and exhausted, and slowly drifting into a dreamless sleep. 

*****

I wake up to people chattering in my room.

Seriously? Can they not talk outside?

"I think we should wake her up; she might have trouble sleeping tonight." What am I, three?

"Lianna? Sweetie, you need to wake up." I feel my mum place a kiss on my forehead as she gently shakes my arm.

"I would rather not." I groan and turn my head away squeezing my eyes shut.

"Sweetie, we are going to take you home; you've been discharged." At this my eyes shoot open because it means that I can get out of this hell hole.

"Please don't be lying to me." I grumble giving her a suspiscious look.

"No," she laughs even though I can see unshed tears in her eyes, "I'm not lying, all the doctor needs to do is check you and prescribe you some medication to stop the seizures and to hopefully slow the rate of growth." Her voice cracks at her final words and my dad walks over to her and places his arm around her shoulders. My mum turns into my dad's chest to hide her tears from me as my dad lays a hand on my shoulder squeezing tightly as if at any moment I'm going to go.