James and I are driving to the hospital. He's driving me because he's worried I'm gonna crash and the kill both of us.
"Could I get your phone number so you can text me how it's going with your mom?" he asks pulling up to the hospital.
"Here it is," I say handing my phone over to him.
"Thanks, I'll be waiting in the car, is that ok?" he asks
"Could you come with me please?"
"Sure, I just didn't think you'd want me there"
"I want you there," I tell him, looking deeply into his eyes.
"Ok let's go in," he says
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We walk into the hospital, there seem to be many people there, a busy night for the staff. James and I walk over to the admissions desk.
"Hi, I am here to see Mrs. Montgomery, I am her daughter," I tell the woman at the front desk.
"I am unable to let you see her, orders from Mr Montgomery" she responds.
"Mr Montgomery is my father and he asked me to be here," I tell her.
"If that is the case, I will personally show you to Mrs Montgomery's room, she is one of our VIP patients"
The lady from the front desk leads us to the elevator. The elevator has 20 floors it can access and after the woman scans her card and her fingerprint against the sensor. 5 extra floors appear. I look at James and he is giving me a curious look. She presses floor 24.
We step out of the elevator, the woman leads us to a dark hallway, the end of it has a locked and bolted door.
We walk to the end of the hallway. The woman scans her fingerprint, once again.
"Why the secrecy?" I ask.
"I thought you knew" she replies looking down.
"I don't, my father is not too great at informing me about things," I tell her, the irritation I am feeling is clear in my tone. James notices and touches my arm, somehow calming me down a tad.
"I am not in the position of sharing personal information about my patient, your father will tell you"
She walks us to a dark black door protected by two security guards. The woman whispers something in their ear and they both nod, simultaneously shortly after opening the door for us.
The woman halts at a door numbered 1, she nods at us and shortly after goes back through the door we came in from.
"There's a couch here, I'll wait for you there," James says.
"Okay"
I knock on the hospital door and wait for someone to open it. My dad does. His face looks stricken as if clouded with panic.
"Hello Ivy, she just fell asleep," my dad tells me.
I can not even stare that man in the eye. The actions he has done towards me and my mother are reckless and unacceptable. Sleeping with some whore would have been a different story but my best friend? That's far worse than betrayal.
"You could have at least worn something appropriate for this meeting"
"It is not a meeting, my mother is in the hospital and I am here to see here and instead of complaining about my choice of clothes please tell me what the hell happened to her" I almost yell at him. I can not remove my anger from my tone.
"Behave yourself Ivy, your mother has cancer"
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Perfectionist
RomanceWhen you are both pretty and dangerous everyone wants you and hates you at the same time. This makes you a mystery that no one has ever tried to uncover. No one knows what you are or what you want they just know to stay out of your way. All girls w...
