Hospital memories

Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9

Day... okay I don't know

I'm getting bored of writing everything about Astrid in here, I'd better focus on the present more than writing this stupid thing.

It had been one week since Sarah met Toothless, Sarah still looked perfectly fine but I always kept an eye on her.

I was on the street, in front of the hospital main doors, the weather was nice because it was already may so instead of being with Astrid in the library we talked outside. We were getting closer or at least I thought that, but she still didn't trust me very much. We never talked about why she was at the hospital, everytime that I tried to make her tell me something she changed the subject or other times she simply left.

"Stalker tell me something about you." Astrid said, she was sitting on a bench by my side, the bench was surronded by flowers amd bushes. In front of the hospital there were a lot of benchs like the one we were sitting on. It was nice, you could have a little bit of privacy, something that inside the hospital wasn't very common.

"Like what." I said looking at her.

"I don't know... something." I rolled my eyes.

"Wow thanks, that helped a lot. Okay let me think..." I frowned trying to think of something. "I KNOW! Okay it's not something about me, it's just a little story. Okay so when I was six I used to believe that trolls exists, so one day when I was with my father fishing in a lake I started searching for them. My father didn't realized that I was gone until he heard something falling in the water. He looked at he saw me in the other side of the lake. He started to run in my direction and he jumped on the water. He thought that I had fell, he put me out the water and asked me if I was okay. I started crying and obviously my dad thought that I was hurt. When I stopped crying I told him that I almost caught a troll, and I showed him what I think was the troll's hair. When my father saw it he laughed at me because it was only some kind of seaweed. Oh! And later he got a cold and punish me with one month without dessert." When I finished telling Astrid my story I realized that she laughing. She rarely laughed so I felt good, I didn't care she was laughing because I was pathetic when I was younger. Her eyes were sparkling.

"You were an idiot." She said, but I knew she didn't said that in a bad way. "Good story by the way." When Astrid said that I chuckled.

"Thanks, it's an honour to entertain you with the stories of my awesome life." I said while making a reverance, Astrid rose her eyebrow and punched me on the arm.

"Shut up." We sat in silence for a couple of minutes until Astrid broke the silence. "What's your favourite colour?" I was surprised by the sudden question.

"What? Oh! Yeah favourite colour... I'm not sure, it could be blue. Yours?" She thought the answer for a moment.

"It's... green. It's relaxing and as people say it's the colour of hope. What blue?" She said. I was tempted of answering 'The blue of your eyes' but I prefered preserve all my limbs.

"Ocean blue... when the sun is setting off and all the ocean has that light blue. In my opinion it's amazing." She looked at the horizon, like of she was trying to imagine the ocean blue I was talking about.

"Yeah, that's a great colour. So... favourite food?" I smiled, that question was veeery easy.

"PIZZA!" I shouted, she chuckled.

"Yougurt ice cream." She said, I looked at her.

"That's not a food, that's a dessert." I said

"Desserts are food you idiot!" I looked at her perplexed.

"So... are you saying that your favourite food... is your favourite dessert? Weird." She looked at me and took a deep breath.

"I better ask you another thing... do you have a girlfriend?" When Astrid asked me that I blushed, I didn't knew why I was blushing.

"What?" I answered in a high pitch tone. "Isn't the answer obvious? I'll just say that I spent all my free time here and that beside you I only have another friend. Girls don't exactly make a line in front of me, it looks like they don't like all this viking fury." I said while flexing my imaginary muscles, she smiled lightly.

"Hey! It was just a question. And... is there some girl out there that you... found interesting?" She said while moving her eyebrows up and down, again I blushed. The difference was that I knew perfectly why I was blushing.

"Why are you so interested? Anyway it was my turn to ask. What about you?" I said.

"Well... I think that here, in the hospital, I have more important things to worry about than what old men or little boy is more... interesting." Astrid said while smiling fakely.

"Henry used to be a heart robber when he was young." Astrid looked at me with a 'seriously?' face. "Hey! just saying." I said while putting my hands on the air.

"Good for Henry." I didn't knew what to said so we stood there in silence until I remember something that I wanted to asked Astrid.

"Astrid, do you have a phone?" She rolled her eyes (it was kind of a stupid question) and instead of answering she showed me her iPhone.

"I was wondering if you could give me your number or I could give me mine... I'm just asking because you're in the hospital all day and maybe you could keep an eye on Sarah and if she is worse or something you could call or text me and I could came her... just if you want." She looked disappointed, like if she was expecting me to say something else.

"Sure, why not." We exanged numbers and after that Astrid stood up.

"I'm tired." She returned to the hospital. I stood up too and headed to my house where Toothless was waiting for his daily walk.

I looked at my iPhone and smiled. I had her number, it looked like a progress.