Hefty by Jessa Kane

Author:Jessa Kane [Kane, Jessa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

6

Zach

I pace back and forth in front of the bed in the nurse’s office, watching as the woman shines a pen light in Jill’s eyes to determine if she has a concussion.

I’m a cross between sick to my stomach and livid beyond words.

Racing. They were racing near my Jill.

If they’d hit her…

A bellow lodges in my throat and I press a fist to my lips, keeping it from escaping. I’ve already revealed way too much about how I feel today. I need to calm down. Stop walking the office like a caged animal, my hands poised to rip the bars off if something serious is wrong with her. If I’d stopped to talk to her in the hallway, she wouldn’t have been in the parking lot at the exact wrong time. This is my fault. I didn’t want her friends to laugh at her for talking to me, but I didn’t know the alternative was her nearly getting run over. Goddammit.

What is taking the nurse so long?

“Is it a concussion?” I ask, unable to stand the suspense any longer. If she has a head injury, I’m taking her to the hospital immediately.

The nurse looks back at me with speculation. “No. No concussion.” Her smile is tight as she stands. “Let’s get that knee cleaned and bandaged, then you can sit here for a while and rest, all right?”

“That sounds perfect, thank you,” Jill murmurs.

I try not to stare over the nurse’s shoulder while she’s cleaning up Jill’s knee, but I can’t help it. I wince every time Jill does, a vein beating in my forehead at the sight of gravel pieces embedded in her beautiful skin. God, I should have killed those little shits for what they did. What if I’d run into the parking lot and seen Jill lying still in the middle of the lane? I don’t even think I’d be here right now. I think I immediately would have left earth, unable to bear a second without her alive.

“Okay, you’re all set,” the nurse is saying. “Keep the ice pack on for fifteen minutes, then I’ll send you back to class.” The older woman gives me the side eye. “I assume you’re going to stand guard over her?”

I grunt. Nod once.

The nurse leaves, pulling the partition curtain behind her, and Jill smiles up at me from her prone position, her blonde hair fanned out around her. “Will you text Harper and let her know I’m okay?” She licks her lips almost nervously. “I-I mean she might have heard by now that you…came to get me. But just in case.”

“Sure,” I say, tugging out my phone and firing off a text to my sister.

I’ve got Jill.

In other words, she’s fine. She’s safe. And I won’t let it be any other way.

“How do you feel?” I ask, stowing my phone and kneeling down beside the bed.

“Good.” Is she looking at my mouth or it that my imagination? “Thank you for coming to get me.”

Her gratitude makes the tips of my ears burn.

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