Chance Encounter by Alex Tempera

Author:Alex Tempera [Tempera, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

21

Chance woke up and looked around the room. He noticed he was in the same room as before, but he couldn’t move. His side was in severe pain, even when he took a deep breath. The room was eerily empty and Evan’s things were gone from the table. Had it been a dream? He wondered but the pain told him that it had been real. He prevented Evan from being stabbed.

Chance closed his eyes as tears streamed down his face. At that moment, he felt extremely alone. Evan promised he’d be there and he wasn’t. It didn’t feel like he just stepped out of the room for a minute. He wasn’t there. Chance opened his eyes as he heard the door open, but was soon disappointed.

The nurse walked into the room and smiled lightly. “I’m glad to see you’re awake. You’ve been asleep for quite a while,” she smiled. “I’m Mona. I’m your new nurse. Are you in pain?”

Chance nodded, not wanting to say a word for fear he would sob instead.

“I’ll increase your morphine,” she smiled as she patted his hand. She noticed Chance’s eyes and she lightly dabbed the tears. “Oh, I’m sorry. I have a message from your friend.”

Chance gulped as he watched her pull a note from her pocket.

“Now, you’re not supposed to move and this is probably private, but I can either read it to you or wait another few days before you can read it to yourself. Now or wait?” she asked.

“Now,” he gulped, fearing the words that Evan wrote for him.

“All right,” she smiled. “Remember, this is from Mayor Manetti, and not me.”

Chance nodded without speaking. He was terrified that he was now a totally broken man and Evan wouldn’t want him. Evan was strong and powerful. Chance was weak, now, he was truly weak and pathetic.

Mona smiled. “Baby, if you wake up and I’m not there, it’s because the town called a city meeting and I had to attend. I’m sorry that I’m not there. I love you, Baby, and I’ll be back soon. I promise. Hopefully, you won’t even know I was gone. Love you, Evan.” Mona folded up the paper and set it on the tray beside the bed. “He was afraid you’d be worried when he wasn’t here. He took most of his paperwork because it was confidential.”

Chance smiled and pressed his head back into the pillow. He was relieved but he now felt bad that he doubted Evan and his love. He had a lot of things to work through completely before Evan thoroughly deserved him, but he didn’t want to lose Evan in the process.

Mona pressed the button on the automatic medication dispenser that was connected to his IV. “This will help the pain. Now, you aren’t allowed to sit up at all.”

“How long?” he managed to say through his dry throat.

“Long?”

“Asleep?”

“Four days,” she smiled. “Your body really needed to rest. I’ll let Dr. Westphall know that you’re awake and he will explain everything to you. I can raise your head but you can’t sit.

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