Dreamer ~ A Daniel Seavey Fanfiction

Chapter 9

HARPER'S POV

It takes everything in me to hold onto my phone. "What did you just say?"

"My family and I are moving back!" Kaylee's voice is high with excitement. "Dad never sold our house because he knew that he'd eventually be coming back, but I didn't want to tell you just in case something fell through and we had to move away permanently."

My jaw is on the floor. "Oh my God, you're...you're coming back?"

"Yes!" Kaylee says. "We're moving back at the beginning of October."

I feel happy for the first time since my birthday. "I can't wait!"

"Harper?" Clara knocks on the door. "We have Kaylee's parents on the phone with us, and we're going to go over everything with you, okay?"

I nod. Coincidentally, Clara's husband is a lawyer, and she puts him, Kaylee's family, and the two of us in a conference call.

The plan we come up with seems fairly simple. After being kept in the hospital for another three weeks in the hospital, I'll go back to my parents' house to pack my stuff and get it out of there. Dr. Nelson's wife is a real estate agent, and she gets patched into the conference call as well, saying that she'd be happy to take care of selling the house so I didn't have to worry. After I'm moved out, I'll move in with Kaylee's family, and never have to worry about my parents ever again.

I can be normal. Well, as normal as it gets, I guess.

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The next two and a half weeks in the hospital are hard, but not because I'm having any medical issues. I can't sit still and just be in a bed all day long. I feel useless, and I can't stand it.

Luckily for me, Clara is just about the only nurse who comes into my room, and I couldn't be happier about it. She sits with me and tells me stories about her husband and their busy lives, and shows me pictures of her four-year-old son, Carson. He's got the biggest brown eyes I've ever seen, and seeing his smile makes me want to smile too.

But there are some days, like today, that I go almost completely crazy.

"Are you sure I can't get out of here just a tiny bit earlier?" I ask for the millionth time. "I feel like a useless blob."

Clara laughs. "You are not a useless blob," she tells me. "And Dr. Nelson was very adamant about you staying here for the entire three week period. I think, of everyone who was monitoring you after the accident, he was the most invested in your survival."

That made my heart swell a little. Dr. Nelson was a sweet man, and though his hair may be graying and his laugh lines are a little more apparent, the light in his eyes resembles someone younger and full of life.

"I think I'm actually going to miss it here," I say. Clara gives me a weird look, and I laugh. "Okay, maybe I won't miss the hospital, but I'll miss you and Dr. Nelson. It's been nice having people who actually care around."

Clara smiles, and says, "That's what we're here for." She closes the blinds and turns off the light in my room. "Goodnight Harper."

"Goodnight."

I turn over and check off another day in my mind, knowing that, in just two more days, I'll be reunited with my best friend, starting a new life in a new home with no parents to get in the way and destroy that.

In two days, I can finally be happy. And nothing, not even my parents, can ruin it this time.

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