Just Our Life

Chapter 2

I wake up laying in a hospital bed, John pacing back and forth by my bed.  I feel my head pounding but not as bad as before, "Please tell me I didn't get amnesia and you're not my husband," I joke, "What happened?" I ask not realizing how groggy my voice was until I spoke.  He turns to me and his eyes widen.

"Thank God!  You've been a sleep for hours, the doctors don't know what happened to you."  

"Typical," I say plainly.  He looks at me with his eyebrows furrowed and tilts his head, asking for an explaination, "When I was young, my dad had a disease, they didnt know what to do so they let it devour him."  I look down at the ground, tears starting to well in my eyes but I stop them before they become noticable.  I look up at John and notice his hair is messed up, I ask, "Did you stay here this whole time?"

"Well yeah," he says with a little laugh.  He looks in the mirror by the door and turns back to me, "I'm still sexy as ever," he jokes as he motions down to his body.  I laugh and say, "But not as sexy as me, in this hospital gown and groggy as hell."  He grins and says, "Are you trying to turn me on?"  I laugh and at his joke and motion him to sit in the chair next to the bed.  

"You'd be lucky to be married to the sexiest man alive," he says with a grin.

"Yeah, Channing Tatum is pretty sexy.  I mean if I was Rachel McAdams, when he told me we we're married, I wouldn't question it."  We laugh.

"So when can I get out of here?" I ask as I fold my arms on my chest.

"They said you could go home whenever but...." 

"Let's go," I interrupt as I sling the blanket off of me and stand on the opposite side of the bed.  He stares at me and laughs, he stands up and gets his coat from the back of the chair.  "Let's go," he says as he opens the door for me.

We're walking out of the front doors of the hospital, it's 4 o'clock.  I changed into my clothes I was wearing before my accident.  "So what do want to do?" he asks as he turns to me.  

"You don't have to hang out with me, I mean you stayed in the hospital with me for hours..." I start to say before he interrupts me, "Are you going to deny me the pleasure of hanging out with you?"  I laugh and start to shake my head, I say, "No one deserves that."  He laughs and we continue our walk on the hospital grounds.  We walk past the giant fountain in front of the hospital and past all the flowers towards the parking lot, I have no idea where he parked so I just follow his lead.  He presses the button on his car keys and I hear a loud horn coming from the pale blue Ford truck infront of us.  He rushes to the passenger side and opens my door for me, I get into the car that smells of John and look around.  I see a John Deere hat resting on the dash board, he's a real country boy isn't he?  

The driver's door opens and John hops in the car, "So, where too?" he asks as he puts the keys in the ignition.  I shrug.  He thinks for a moment and then his face lights up, "I know the perfect place."

We drive for about half an hour until we come up to a parking lot.  We get out of his truck and head down the parking lot and down a hill, at the bottom of the hill lies a big white screen and people all around on the blankets.  The credits of a movie began to roll on the screen and walk to a free spot.  He takes of his jacket and lays it down on the damp grass for me to sit on.  I see the beginning of a movie I have seen a thousand times, The Vow!  I turn to John and shoot him a smile, "The Vow? I love this movie!" I enthusiatically whisper to him, he laughs and nodds hims head, "I had a feeling you did, I mean who else would think of a love story when they wake up a damn hospital bed?!?" he jokingly whispers back.  

We quiet down and watch the movie, he sits beside me with his knees bent up infront of him, I sit in the same position.  I look around, I see couples kissing, people with their arms slung around other people, these people came here with the person they care about the most and I came here with a guy I just met. This is kind of awkward but he took me to see my favorite movie so I'm not complaining. 

As we watch the movie, Channing Tatum's guitar scene comes up.  I let a tear fall by accident as I hear him say that he gives up on his wife.  That if they were meant to be together then they would, that it took two weeks for them to fall in love the first time so he thinks it won't happen again.  I look over at John who is staring at me, oh shit.  I am crying infront of a really hot guy that I just met.  Well it's not my fault, he brought me to a movie that makes me baul my eyes out so he just has to deal with it.  I turn back to the screen and watch the movie.  I can feel his eyes burning into me.  

The movie ends.  The sun is setting and we get up and walk back to his car.  He opens the door for me and I get in.  "So, what did you think?" I ask him as he gets into the car.

"It was good.  I myself am more of horror guy, but as far as romances go that was pretty good."

I nod my head and he starts the car.  And I give him the directions to my house, we get there in about 20 minutes.  He pulls outside my white, two-story house.  He walks me up to my front door and I fish out my house keys.  "Do you want to come in?" I ask as I open the door, he nods his head and follows me in.  I set my keys on the table by the door and walk into the living room, "So what now?" I ask.  He shrugs.  I walk over to my movies. I search for a scary one and find exactly what I was looking for.  I pop it in the blue ray player and sit down on my brown sectional.  I motion him to sit down next to me and he does. The credits begin to roll for the original Exorcist.  A big smile forms on his face and he looks at me.

"Is this?" he asks and I finish the sentence for him, "1973 Exorcist? Yes, sir, it is."  He smiles and turns his head back to the television screen.  I know this movie is going to make me piss my pants so I just stare below the tv.  I let my mind wonder.  I am not one of those girls that puts in a scary movie just so she can act scared and the guy will put his arm around her.  I put this movie in because he sat through a movie with me that I don't think he was really into and now I am going to sit through a scary movie for him that will make me shit my pants.  Who knows?  This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.