《 shy ~ greece, nhc 》{COMPLETED}

Ch. 29

George's POV~

Finally, after a few very long days, I'm being allowed to leave the hospital. I mean, I'm still on bed rest, but anything beats the constant feeling of being trapped in between those overwhelming white walls, and don't even get me started on the food... if you could even call it food. Reece has been amazing, helping me get to places and making sure I wasn't in pain; thankfully, his mum let him stay off school for a few days, but now that I'm out of hospital he needs to go back. I, on the other hand, don't need to go back, since there is only like two weeks left before summer starts and I definitely won't be healed in time.

I groan out in pain as I try to get up from my bed in my room, my ribs feeling like they are cracking all over again. I'm currently alone in my bedroom room, since Reece has gone to get some fresh clothes for me. He told me not to move, but I'm getting a little sick of being babied and fussed over; I thought, it couldn't hurt to try. Well damn, that's not true, it hurts a hell of a lot. I stay in my half-lifted position, letting out light pants as I try to stay calm despite the excruciating pain coarsing through my upper body, until I hear the door open.

"George!" Reece immediately gasps, running towards me. He grabs me softly by the waist and pulls me into a sitting position, causing me to groan and let a few tears slip out of my eyes.

"Hey, hey, I'm sorry." He cooes, wiping the tears from under my eyes with his thumb. He leaves his hands on my cheeks and gently kisses my forehead before going back to looking in my eyes.

"There we go. Are you in a lot of pain?" I quickly nod, wheezing slightly since I hadn't realised this change of position would make it harder to breathe. Reece immediately reaches for the night stand and grabs my pain medication, making me take one of the small pills. Once I've had it, I sit back against the wall and sigh.

"This sucks Reece." I pout.

"I know baby." Reece says as he crawls into the bed beside me.

"I'm just going to be stuck in this boring bedroom until I can move again. God knows when that's going to be. I'm almost jealous that you're going to school." When I see Reece raise his eyebrows at me, I quickly repeat the word 'almost', making the older boy chuckle.

"Well I'm sorry that I can't do anything to help. If I could I would, honestly." Reece frowns, running his hand softly through my blonde hair. I sigh, cuddling into his side.

"Let's just cuddle for a while." I murmur and of course Reece doesn't complain. He drapes his arm over my shoulder and pulls me even closer, if that's even possible. I feel his breath fan over the top of my head and I sigh happily.

***

It took a full week and a half until I could successfully sit up by myself without feeling any pain. I grin triumphantly as I do so, Reece watching me from the side with a proud look on his face.

"There you go, babe, you did it!" Reece cheers; I don't say anything as I attempt to go even further, to stand up. I feel a slight twinge of pain that stops me for a second, but as soon as it comes it goes, allowing me to stand up, once again triumphantly. Reece has now changed his position to right next to me, having seen that I was trying to stand up and panicking slightly. He sighs in relief when I successfully stand up.

"Hey, you did it!" He exclaims, pulling me in to kiss me lightly on the lips. I smile at the familiar feeling of his lips against mine, moving softly. I go to grab at his hair with my hand, completely forgetting my cast, and I end up softly bashing his head. Reece parts and mutters an "ouch" before he cracks up laughing. I groan in embarrassment.

"I'm so sorry Reece, I forgot I had this thing on." I mutter, looking at Reece who is still laughing.

"It's okay baby. It didn't hurt at all, I promise." Reece chuckles, dropping his hand from his head and pulling me into his arms softly. He wraps his arms around my waist and leans his forehead against mine.

"This sucks Reece. I just wanna get better already." I whine, sighing softly.

"I know you do, and you will, I promise. You just need to hold on a little longer and soon enough you'll be back to your usual self." Reece says quietly, his eyes darting around my face before he sighs.

"I'm just so glad you're okay." He whispers. We both close our eyes, our foreheads still leaning against each other. Reece doesn't want to admit to me how scared he was, and how scared he still is, since he doesn't want me to feel worse, but Blake told me. I knew he was terrified that day, when I woke up and he started sobbing; the guilt of it having been my own fault I was in that accident is eating me alive.

"Reece... I love you." I murmur, watching a smile take place on Reece's face.

"I love you more Georgie." He whispers.

"Let's not get into this again." I tut, making Reece laugh. We finally let go of each other and Reece checks his watch.

"Right, time to take your medicine and change your bandages." Reece claps, going over to the nightstand and grabbing both the pills and the roll of bandages. I groan.

"Reece, I can do this myself, I'm not a baby." I whine. Reece shakes his head and hands me the pills and a glass of water.

"Nope, I'm here to help so I'm going to do so." Reece watches me take the pills and a thoughtful look takes over his face.

"Besides, that's complete bullshit. You physically can't put on the bandage by yourself." Reece chuckles. I roll my eyes, placing the glass of water on the counter.

"Right, now take off your shirt." Yeah, I think Reece probably enjoys this a little more than he should.

Hi guys,
I know this is super short and I'm sorry, but we're almost at the end of the story! There's only the epilogue left.
I'm actually sad tbh
Thank you for reading, commenting, voting, all that stuff, it means a lot xxx
I'll upload the last chapter as soon as I can x