Beating again

Chapter twenty one

Sasha's POV

I knock on the door and wait for some minutes before it opens. I enter and hug my mom.

"Oh dear, I missed you." She says while rubbing my hair.

"Yeah, I missed you too Mom." I hold her tighter. My eyes then fly over to the bed where Lance is laying..... No, sitting and gawking unpleasantly at us.

"Why are you here? You are the last person I thought would come."

Wow, nice way to welcome visitors.

"After I heard that you were here, I couldn't pretend I don't care." I let go of mom and start walking towards him.

"The fact that I didn't call you could have been a clear indication that you are not needed."

What? Seriously, I have seen a lot of pricks but this dude is the fuckin' cactus. He will get onto your nerves even if it's the last thing he will do.

"Lance, you have the rest of your life to be an asshole. Can't you just take today off?" Yeah, his rudeness needed a sweet come back. I then move to the side of his bed and make a quick visual check up on him. "So, how are you feeling?"

"As you can see." He says gesturing on his whole body with his good hand. His other hand is resting on his stomach with a tone of bandages and one of his legs raised a bit higher than the other also with bandages.

"How did this happen?" I ask curiously while I sit on the side of his bed.

"Had taken my new Lamborghini for a race and then creeeee-bam." He clenches his teeth while making a screeching sound, then a bam spreading his fingers in air. I wince at the gestures but then remember. A new Lamborghini? This guy had just bought himself a 1964 chevy impala not many months back.

"So, what happened to the Lamborghini?" I ask and he pulls out his phone. He goes through it and retrieves a picture and the shows it to me. I wince some more at the looks of the car. It was destroyed to pulp. I wonder even how he managed to get out of it alive.

"Does dad know about this?"

"He doesn't need to know." He says putting back his phone. Sure he doesn't. Moment dad knows about this, Lance will be dead meat. Sure enough he used the company's money for his extravagant luxarious car. He is surely a spoilt brat.

Suddenly there is a knock on the door and my heart flatters. Do you realize this is the same hospital where Dr. Grayson works? My mom rushes to open the door and in comes another good looking doctor, making my shoulders drop.

What were you expecting?

I can see my subconscious chuckle. Are you laughing at me? I pray you don't get in this situation once.

Oh, I will not. I am not even human!

I try my best to return the doctors bright smile, while I envy my subconscious for not being human, and not having to wait for something you can't have.

"Mr. Avelino, I need to check your response to the medication. May I?" He says to Lance but gesturing me to give him room to do his job. I get up from the bed and walk to mom.

"Mom, I've got to get going."

"Already?" My mom asks.

"You are leaving?" Lance peeks over the doctors shoulder raising his eyebrows with concern...I think. Isn't that what he wants?

"Yeah! I've got to go to work." I say to both of them and I see Lance give a quick raise to his eyebrows trying to cover the concern in his eyes and saying an "okay" before looking back at the doctor.

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"Mom, you should go home and rest. I can stay here with him for a while." I say eyeing Lance for any disagreements but he is too busy with his phone.

I woke up today on the bright side, feeling I should help my mom. I haven't come back since the first time I visited and I think it's way too long.

Or do you suddenly like hospitals.

Never. I hate hospitals. Periodt.

"I am fine. Really." She refuses again. "Your dad slept here last night, so I had enough rest."

"But you have not eaten yet, have you?" I look for another excuse to put her at ease for sometime while I help her look after Lance.

"Okay. I will get some food at the canteen. Will be back in an hour." She finally gives in and leaves me with her naughty son. Yeah! I asked for this.

Many boring Minutes later

I look at my reflection in the mirror and stretch my neck front and back, then sideways. I didn't know babysitting my big brother without arguing could actually be more tiring than having to fight with him all day.

I finally get out of the washroom and return to the hospital ward. I find a nurse working to remove the IV needle from his arm. She spares me a glance and then back to the needle. Then she approaches me when she is done.

"Miss, you will need to go the doctor's office. He wishes to see you regarding Mr. Avelino's discharge matters." So, he was about to get discharged.

"You should wait for___"

"Dr. Grayson is about to get off work. I think you should see him now."

Dr. Grayson? Was that the name of the doctor in charge of Lance? No. I clearly read his name tag and it was Dr. Joe C If I remember correctly.

"Dr. Joe?" I correct her with a question.

"Actually, Dr. Joe got caught up with some matters so he asked Dr. Grayson to fill in for him. We are so sorry we didn't inform you before." Well, you should be sorry. Because you have just added a non planned event to my whole life.

Wait, could it be that Dr. Grayson asked for this, so he could have an excuse to see me in private?

Are you not just being overly optimistic?

Right. How would he have known that Lance and I are siblings. We don't even share the same last name.

I take a deep sigh and start my journey to the center of the universe. My universe.