She Needs Me
I walked into the hospital and I found my way to the ward. The hospital is like a maze, hallways everywhere, signs leading one way to another, when I reached the ward the doors were very secured and locked, there was a button I needed to press, coming out of the speaker above the button I heard a voice, it was a woman asking for my name and a reason for why I was there,
“My name is Callum, I got a phone call from Daisy’s mother saying she’s in here, I would like to visit her.” The doors opened, I walked through and there was another set of doors, I waited a few seconds and those doors opened, they shut behind me with a big slam that made me jumped. There was another hallway with doors going into rooms that looked like bedrooms, I saw Daisy’s name on one of the doors, it made my heart pump knowing she’s here, she’s somewhere in here. I reached a desk and asked the woman that let me in where Daisy is, she pointed to a room and said she was in the arts and crafts. When I opened the door to the room it must’ve made her jump and she dropped her tin of pencils, I picked them up and said “my bad”. Daisy. It was her. She smiled, the most beautiful smile, it wasn’t just her smile that was beautiful, she was beautiful.
“Who are you and why are you looking at me weirdly?” She asked.
“Callum, it’s Callum, you must be Daisy”
“OH MY GOSH CALLUM” she jumped up and hugged me. She hugged me, I have never been hugged by a girl before besides my mum but she doesn’t count, I could feel my cheeks getting hot, oh no… Don’t blush.
“What a great place to meet huh? First time we meet is in a mental ward.” Daisy said smiling.
“Oh well at least it happened”
“How did you find out I’m here?”
“Your mother rang me up, I was so worried Daisy, I rung up so many times, left so many voicemails sent so many letters and got nothing back, you scared me, but now that I know you’re here, it’s all okay now”
“I’m so sorry, I just got so bad that I didn’t have the energy to do… Well, anything, I’m happy you’re here… You’re so tall though”
“I hope that’s not a bad thing ha-ha”
Daisy smiled, took my hand and lead me to a table, the table had thousands of lined paper stacked on top of one another, and 4 tins of blunt pencils and erasers.
“We have to ask to use the sharpeners, just in case… You know”
“Yeah, that’s understandable… Have you been in here before?”
“Oh yes, so many times I can’t count and you’re my first ever visitor so thank you”
“Maybe because I care”
I smiled at her and she smiled back, I know it’s only early days but I think I have a crush on her.
“So why did you take me to this table?” I asked.
“You like to write, I like to write, we should write a story, it’s just a suggestion since there is nothing else to do in here”
I took a pencil, grabbed my keys out of my pocket and sharpened it with one of the keys, I handed it over to Daisy and I took another one to do it again for me. We both sat at the table together, moving the pencils about with our fingers wondering what we should write about. She got out of her chair and yelled out,
“US!”
“Huh?”
“Let’s write about us”
Daisy handed me a sheet of paper, I wasn’t sure what to write but Daisy, wow, she already had half a page of dot points.
“Not only are you terrible at talking, you’re terrible at thinking” Daisy said stirring me up.
“Very funny” I smirked.
A woman walked up behind us and told me my visiting times were over, I’ve got to admit, I was a little heart broken and Daisy looked a little sad. We both got up from our seats and she looked me in the eyes, I saw tears building up, she hugged me tight,
“I don’t want you to leave, I don’t want you to leave me alone” she said letting the tears fall on my shirt, the cracking sound in her voice hurt so much, I can’t stand seeing and hearing people cry, especially Daisy. I was going to ask her why she is in the hospital but she seemed so happy, I didn’t want to upset her.
“Please don’t cry, I’ll be here tomorrow, I will try and be as early as I can”
“Try?”
“Sorry, scrap that, I WILL be here as early as I can”
“Visiting times start at 8am- 8:30pm”
“So I’ll be here in 7 and a half hours”
“Drive home safe”
“I will, you keep safe”
“I’ll try”
I walked out of the ward, I had mixed emotions going around in my head. I was happy we met and surprised of how beautiful she is and annoyed and angry that I had to leave so soon, but I’ll see her tomorrow, I’ll see that beautiful face again tomorrow.
