CHAPTER 4: THE HOSPITAL

Nat's Pov

"Do you know that guy?"Leo asks me as I get up from the sofa where we were earlier sitting.

"Yes, "I think for a minute and say.

"Do you?"I hesitantly ask him.

He seems to think for a minute before he says, "Yes. I'm afraid I do"

"Oh?How?"

"Too many questions," he says and goes to what I presume is his room and shuts the door.

He's rude.

As soon as I get up, pain shoots up in my wrist and I groan in pain. That sounds seems to have called him outside his room and to me. He rushes towards me and holds my injured wrist in his hand and carefully examines.

"We have to go to the hospital" he firmly says.

"No, I'm fine. Really"I assure him and remove my wrist slowly from his hands.

He looks at me for a moment and sighs.

"He's weird. He helps me and is rude at the same time" I say more to myself but he hears it and arches an eyebrow at me.

I shake my head slowly, saying no.

He disappears into the kitchen and comes out a second later with a glass of water in one hand and painkillers in the other.

"Here," he says and places the glass and painkillers in my hands and goes back to his room.

I stay there for a moment and weigh the chances of me getting hurt here.

He literally lives next door and he helped me with the wound so the chances of him hurting me are pretty slim. Still, for the sake of it, I go to the kitchen and take a sharp knife with me. As soon as I place it in my pocket I hear a chuckle behind me. I turn around and see him standing behind me.

"I thought you went to sleep?"

"I won't hurt you," he says and maintains an eye contact while he takes the knife out of my pocket and places it in the drawer where it earlier was.

"You can go now," he says and tilts his head towards the guest room.

I nod and go to the guest room.

I reach the door and open it but before going in, I turn around and say, "Thank you" to him and shut the door behind.

I enter the room and see that it is huge with a queen-sized bed in the middle and the bathroom on the left side of the room. There's not anything else there and it's probably because he just moved in.

I sit on the bed and take my shoes off. It hurts to do that simple action because of my injured wrist.

Damn Nick!

Damn my heart!

Damn everything!

I sigh and lay down on the bed. The bed's really comfortable and I'm asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow.

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I wake up to the sound of my phone's ringtone.

"Yes?"I say into the phone with a sleepy voice.

"Where the hell are you?"I ear my mother shouting.

"Oh, it's you, mom," I say and hang up.

I try to fall asleep again but can't as my mother's yelling has woken me up.

"Ughhhhhh" I groan and get up from the bed.

I open the bandage on my wrist and look at it.

I definitely need stitches.

I should have listened to Leo.

I put my shoes on and get out of the guest room.

"Hey" I call out to Leo and he nods in reply.

"Do you think you could maybe take me to the hospital?"I meekly ask him.

"So now you want to go?" he asks me with a smirk on his face.

"Yes," I say.

"You look like shit. You would want to change" he says and crinkles his nose as though I reek.

This asshole.

"Fine!"I say and go to the front door and slam it after I step out.

I turn around and open the door and say, "I'll meet you in five"

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Half an hour later, I get into his car and see a very angry Leo sitting on the driver's seat.

"You said five minutes!" he angrily says.

"I'm sorry, but it takes time to bathe and then change into clothes and then make my hair and then eat--"

"Shut up," he says and I keep quiet the whole ride.

"We're here," he says and I look around.

It's the same hospital.

Shit.

This is the very hospital where I was taken to after that huge fight and this hospital is exactly where Luca had been declared dead.

"Aren't there any other hospitals?"I ask him.

"This one's the best," he says and gets out of the car.

"But--"I start and get out of the car and follow him but he's already ten steps ahead of me.

A shiver runs up my spine as I enter the familiar hallways.

Leo goes straight up to the reception and asks for a doctor while I lurk behind him and try not to think of the time when I was here before.

Leo makes me sit on a chair and stands himself.

"The doctor will arrive in five minutes," he says and I nod.

I play with my phone for a while and Leo's busy on his phone too.

"Doctor Wood is ready to see you," a nurse informs us.

Leo helps me stand up from the chair and leads me to the doctor.

"Good morning. What's the problem dear?" the doctor asks me in a kind voice as soon as we enter her room.

"I-uh- accidentally cut my wrist while I was washing the knives, "I say and Leo snorts behind me.

"Let me look at it," she says and takes my wrist in her hand and examines it.

"It's a very deep cut. Are you sure you got it by washing knives? It looks like someone intentionally--"

"Ma'am it happened by washing knives. I told her to leave it but she washed them anyway and look what happened" he answers her before me.

"Hmm okay. This will need stitches" she says and I cringe.

I hate stitches.

She presses a button and a nurse comes in.

I recognize her as the nurse who fed me food while I was here for a week.

"Oh! It's you! Are you okay now? How are your ribs?" she asks me and Leo sharply looks at me.

"I'm fine thank you" I reply and avoid Leo's gaze.

The nurse merrily nods.

The doctor stitches the wound , covers it with a bandage and prescribes me some medicines.

I thank her and leave.

Leo follows behind me.

"What was that?" he asks.

"Nothing"

"It was something--"

"Can you drop it please?"I ask him and he sighs.

We go to the chemist and buy medicines.

I refuse Leo to pay and pay for the stitches and medicines myself.

I can't take more of his generosity.

"Before we go him I need to go somewhere important," he says as we sit in the car.

"Where?"I ask him.

"The graveyard"