Falling For Mischief - Book One in The Hollywood Gambles Series {UNDER EDITING}

16 - Rocky Road of Recovery

Lani's P.O.V.

------- 1 WEEK LATER -------

Well Tom and I are now out. Out of the hospital that is. It still hurts like hell to breathe which is expected and i can't do a lot with my broken wrist. Luckily i can still write because it was left wrist that broke - or shattered as Chris says - not my right. 

"Hey Tom!" I waited a few minutes before i heard the sound of crutches hitting the floor and the steady rhythmn of his uninjured foot hitting the floor. 

"Yeah?" He had walked out without a shirt on. I looked at his chest and then at his face. Him being slightly more lucky than me only had to recover from 2 broken ribs so his bandaging that was around his chest is not there anymore.

"Come and sit next to me." I pat the spot next to me and he hops over and sits next to me with a slight poof from the cushions as he does.

"It's all my fault isn't it?" I cuddle upto his side still wary of my own ribs that would protest against any major movement.

"Lani. Why would you think that?"

"Well I was the one driving."

"It had nothing to do with your driving. It was that other idiot who was driving on the wrong side of the road."

"I guess." I guess i should explain a few things. For those who were unaware. Tom and I were in a car accident. Not the best of things I know. I was told we were only one street across from Sammy's house when it happened. After that I woke up in a hospital bed, excruciating pain in my chest from those ribs that had been broken and cracked. Apparently I suffered temporary amnesia because i didn't remember that Tom and I had been boyfriend and girlfriend. By the time i was out of the hospital, I had regained the memory I had lost and everything was back to normal..... well as normal as you can be being as battered and brusied as we are.

"When can we go back to London?" I ask with a bit of hope. The one place I've always wanted to go and I have spent a total of 2 or 3 days there out of the planned 3 weeks. Instead I'm now at my mum and dad's place mooching on the couch with Tom.

"When you feel better. At least when your ribs are in the clear."

"But that could be ages!" He shakes his head smiling. He was mocking me. "Don't you shake you head at me."

"I do what I want." He looks at me with a smirk and then leans down and presses his lips to mine. All tension that had been made from the previous conversation gone. 

"Lani!" I pull away from Tom's lips and sit up slowly and turn to look at the source of the noise. It's Sammy and the kids. 

"Hey!" I get up slowly and walk over  to her, hugging her gently. "Glad you could come around. How are you two chipmunks?"

"Good" Ashton and Isabelle reply in unison.

"That's good. Come on. Come and sit." I walk back over to Tom's side and sit beside him. Sammy sits in the recliner across from us as Ashton and Isabelle squeeze onto the small couch on the other wall.

"Your students have missed you."

"I've missed them too." I smile at the thought. I always got along well with the students in my class. They even brought me flowers and a get well soon card while I was in the hospital. Even though they were fake flowers they said that they did that so that the flowers last forever. I just about broke down in tears after that. "I'm glad that they were able to come a see me while i was in hospital."

"Listen there is something i need to talk to you about." Uh Oh. That doesn't sound good.

"What is it?" I sit up a bit straighter getting worried about what she want to talk to me about.

"I've been thinking. I wouldn't do this if it wasn't nessercary."

"Sammy.... Your starting to scare me." That was the truth. I was starting to get a bit freaked out about what this could possibly end up being.

"Lani.... I really don't want to have to do this but I think it is for the best."

"Just say it! Stop beating around the bush!" I didn't mean to yell and i saw Tom jump out of the corner of my eye from my little outburst.

"Lani, calm down Love." Tom started to rub my back to try and calm me down. Calm down? Calm DOWN!? How am i supposed to do that when she won't even spit out the words she wants to say! 

 "I think it might be best if you don't come into work for a while." There was a hint of something in her voice but i couldn't quite pick up what it was.

"No shit! I won't be for a while anyway because of my injuries." 

"No Lani. That's not what I mean." Suddenly it clicked. 

"You don't think i should go back.... do you?" I tried to keep my emotions in check. I was doing a pretty good job so far but i could feel the barrier breaking slowly.

"Lani, I didn't want it to come to this. It's-"

"That is a lie! Look I know I  may not be in the best of physical conditions at the moment but that will heal and I'll be as right as rain." I could see my vision starting to blur as tears welled up in my eyes.

"Its not because of that. I'm not letting you go because of your injuries."

"Then why!?" She seemed to be thinking of the right words. I saw her cast a few glances Tom's way before she looks at me again.

"Because of him." 

"Tom? What is wrong with him?"

"Look. I know that you love him, Lani. I really do. But you can't have him coming in everyday to see you during the class times and I don't think you coming to school hungover was such a smart move either." Damn. I forgot about that.

"Samantha. You can't. I love working there." My voice breaks with emotion and Tom is still rubbing my back, not that it is doing anything to help the current situation.

"I'm sorry Lani."

"Like hell you are! Just get out! Get out that chair, get out of this house and get out of my life!" I get up abruptly ignoring the painful protests from my ribs and storm out of the room. How could she? I just lost the one job I love and she is blaming it on Tom. 

I walk to my bedroom and shut the door behind me. I walk to my bed and sit on it before lying down on it and crying into one of my pillows - which is something i haven't done since i was around 10. Once all the tears were gone, i was practically on sleeps door. My eyes were drooping and I was worn out. I just layed on the bed. I heard the door open slightly but make no move to acknowledge it.

I feel the bed move slightly and i feel a body press upto mine and wrap a hand around my waist. Tom. My Angel. I don't fight what he does but move back ever so slightly so we are closer together.

"I love you Lani. Sammy does too. You know that right?" I nod my head. He sighs. "Just go to sleep Love. I'll be here when you wake up." He kisses the back of my neck which sends a shiver down my spine. I weigh up what i was told by Sammy. It's her loss. I closed my eyes and slowly fell asleep. The last thing on my mind: Tom.

A/N: How's that! I got another double update downpat. Probably helps I've been home sick with the flu and have had time to work on it. Anyway, hope this chapter is alright. I'm not sure what to think of it, hope you guys like it.

~Z