The Klutz

Chapter 5: Friends

I wake up groggily and try to rub the sleep out of my eyes. I feel very drained like all my energy just left me in one second. I feel around me. I'm in somewhere warm. Good. I feel around me again there's a warm towel on my head. There's a table next to me. It has scissors, bandages, some type of medicines, I see cotton balls and other things with blood on it. I gulp. I look down as I look down the towel falls off my head.I look at my arm and see that it's heavily wrapped in a bandage. I try to move it. It's manageable but it's extremely sore. The door opens and Gretta walks in carrying a tray of cookies and milk.

She sees me and smiles," Glad to see your awake. You had us scared for a second,"she says sweetly and continues.

"You're at the Atlin's house. Mark took you here because you were hurt. You fainted from too much blood loss. You also got a little bit of frostbite in your fingertips and nearly risked hypothermia from your clothes getting wet from the snow. Can you please tell me how you cut your forearm," she says. I had never heard her talk like this. She was talking like she was a real doctor.

I was still a little out of it. I kept trying to remember what happened and it slowly came back to me.

"I uh I fell and a um tree branch cut my arm," I responded.

"Well sweetie, that was a very sharp tree branch because it punctured a vein and you were bleeding very badly. The amount of blood loss took a great deal of you. It's surprising how long you stayed awake with the blood loss. Anyways I stitched you up deary. But for now that your awake you'll have to stay here for a while. I don't want you to stand up. Eat these it'll help you gain your strength back and help you not faint again," Gretta finally finished.

I smile at her. She's being so nice! She pats my shoulder,"Eat up," she says," oh and there's also this," she hands me a tv remote. I just tell her thank you. I don't know what to watch. I never watch tv. I've never really watched tv so I don't know what to watch. I switch to a show called "The Walking Dead" it's actually pretty good. I ate my cookies and milk and devoured it. We never really have too many groceries either. I've been living off takeout for years. So this was delicious. The bed was so comfortable too. The bed spread was a turquoise blue and white and had a million comfortable pillows on it. It was warm. So warm.

About thirty minutes later and after finishing my cookies Mark came in. He looked like a wreck. And then it occurred to me. He looks bad. Imagine how I look. The klutz who almost froze to death and or who almost bleed to death. He runs his fingers through his hair then sticks his hands into his pockets. His facial expression looks really puzzled and I think he's trying to figure out what to say. There was kind of an awkward silence. I was just awkwardly sitting in a bedroom of the hottest guy in schools and he's in it with me. This could go many ways... Yikes.

To stop whatever may happen and whatever ideas he has I clear my throat.

"Hi," is all I say.

"Oh my god Constance," is all he says.

His face floods with relief. He walks from the closed door behind him to the bed and I tense up. But then there's no need to because he just hugs me. And he hugs me for a few seconds.

"I'm really glad you're alright," he says.

"No," I say.

He looks confused.

"You can't just do that. You have to decide wether you like me or don't. I've been working here for weeks and you act like you can't stand me! And now your hugging me and acting like I'm you're most favorite person in the world! So don't," I say sternly.

He looks taken back and a little hurt. Which I still don't understand. I also don't understand how even when I'm mad at him and he's a wreck he can still look totally attractive.

"It's a little complicated Constance," he says.

"Then un complicate it."

"I want us to be friends I really do. But I'm scared people will pick on you. They really don't like you especially Jean. And if we started being friends or if she saw we were cool together she'd get really jealous. Don't get me wrong I really like my girlfriend. I just don't want to do anything to jeopardize anyone's relationship here. Plus other people at school don't like you as the new girl and I don't want to give them more of a reason to," he says.

I take a minute to process this and then I have a small smile.

"Well incase you haven't noticed I can take care of myself. And my brothers always got my back at school. No matter how much of an ass he can be at times. And I don't care what everyone else thinks so if they have a problem. Then it's their problem not mine. Other people don't control my life. And I don't think I could stand another day of thinking you hate me. It's awful especially at school. So I say let's be friends," I say and hold my hand out as a gesture to complete our friendship.

He takes my hand and shakes it,"Friends," he says.

The rest of the day we hung out at his place. We played Xbox in the room I was staying in (which I failed miserably at). We watched horror movies like The Purge and Insidious. We also watched some great movies that I've actually know about since I don't own a tv but I've read the book. So we watched Harry Potter and another horror movie called It. It was so much fun. We would have the cook sneak up ice cream for us. We would joke around and make fun of little things. He was fun to be around. He could lighten up a mood in a split second. He was funny too. Really funny. That day he became one of my best friends. And I became his.

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