Blown Apart

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Bronte POV

I startle suddenly and sit up. I quickly get a bounding pain in my head and feel bad for moving. I'm shaking and covered in sweat, my eyes are streaming with tears. A sleepy Dr Grey sat up and looked at me and pulled my shoulders so I would lie back.

"Hey, it's okay. It was just a bad dream. Lie back down Tiger it's okay." Lexie says putting her arm back around me.

"I can't." I start crying, heavily unaware why exactly I am.

"Ssshhh. I'm right here. You're okay. I've got you." She's more awake now trying to make sure i'm okay and calm down. My breathing starts to even out as I become more aware of if I think I where I am again.

"It was just a bad dream. See you're fine." My tears keep coming just running down my face, but calmly like they are just getting rid of what was left coming out.

"Try and close your eyes again. Go back to sleep." Lexie says closing her eyes again. I can

tell she is tired and is in need of a lot more sleep and in a better way than she is getting here.

"I don't think I can. You can though it's okay." I grab my head. Tensing when I remember where once stood beautiful long brown hair is all good. I wince as more pain shoots in my head. Like a headache but through your whole head that ripples long that necessary.

"You sure. You've got a long day ahead." It was less of a question and much more of a statement when she asked me to sleep. I know I should. I would if I think I could get back to sleep without all the pain getting in the way. Also it feels like my brain is going twenty miles an hour and scared to even attempt to close my eyes.

I shake my head no in answer to her question, instantly regretting it after as my head feels like it was just hit with a ton of bricks.

"Okay. I'll stay up too and wouldn't want you getting bored now would we." She says, still lying down, just turning around to face me.

"Can you put the light on please. Just the lamp. I just don't want to be in complete darkness." I say quietly in hopes she wouldn't think I'm stupid. The dark has never been my thing when I was little. I had to sleep with night lights on around my room so I wouldn't be scared and had to have my moms stay in the room til I fell asleep. But it had been a while since I had done that so unsure why suddenly it was all coming back now. However she turned around and turned on the light not complaining or questioning it either. Which I was thankful for.

"So Tiger. Tell me about you." She says after a few moments she sat in silence. All in all it was a good conversation starter we hadn't actually talked about before. We seem to be comfortable without knowing anything about each other. Like at all.

"I don't know what you want to know." I sigh, really not knowing what to say.

"Just about you. You're family. What you like to do. School. Anything." She finishes and I think for a second. All day I hadn't thought about any of the things I normally would. Haven't thought about anything really. Except not being alone. And not being at home.

"Well I have three siblings. As you know. Cody is the oldest. Then Cece And Brynlee but only be like 2 minutes or something. I don't know, she goes on about it all the time. How about you?" I say not knowing what she wants and if I put it back on her maybe she will just talk to free up time.

"I've two. Both older sisters. It is a bit of a complicated family. The other Dr Grey is my sister. The one who operated on your brain and I... Yeah and it's not a big family but I like it. Everyone here is like a big family. You're family big?" she asks, putting it back onto me.