More than family by Emily Alter

Author:Emily Alter [Alter, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

He would’ve kicked his ass, or found a way to do it –maybe a symbolic one since the nurse had warned him that to stand up wouldn’t be a great idea–, but the bastard hurried to leave with his mother. Apparently, she’d be better off not walking alone to the parking lot.

If he was being fair, his mother did look close to a breakdown at the thought that he was spending the night in the hospital. He hadn’t thought it was such a big deal, but it seemed to be, and he found it unsettling. Of course, he wouldn’t be angry with his mother for the sake of being a mother; it was stupid, but he didn’t know how to act around her or anyone that felt like was about to break if he didn’t say the right thing or make the nice gesture. It made him uncomfortable, like it was his fault they weren’t blooming happiness and cheerfulness, and he felt guilty about it.

Doctors were good at not making him feel like that. So was Jake, although he didn’t quite know why yet, how he did it. He didn’t have much time to think about him, though, with the doctors running all kinds of tests on him even before they let him have breakfast, from CATs to other fancier scans to check whatever had to be fine was fine. He only crossed fingers that he was as lucky with it as he’d been so far (if you erase the last two months out of existence, preferably).

It wasn’t a surprise that Jake didn’t show up, and he preferred it this way since they’d put him in more painkillers when the stab across his torso increased. Dr Simons said it was to be expected and ordered a nurse to add them to his drip, which solved the pain problem but didn’t clear his mind much more.

In the end, however, it was boring, to have to stand there with nothing to do. He tried to rest, like one of the nurses walking by advised him to do, but he couldn’t stop thinking about everything, from the shooting to Jake to his father to his whole life, since he had not much more to do than to think through every step he’d taken. No revelation came out of it like it happened in the movies, but it helped time fly (somewhat).

He was only starting to drift off when a doctor walked in with a couple of cops behind him. He sighed inwardly. This was a moment he’d begun to dread. He didn’t have any prejudices of such or bad experiences of discrimination against the police department, but he wasn’t blind to what was happening around him, and to the fact that it was hard to believe he somehow managed to get a sight of a swastika shaved into the shooter’s head with the flag, and all the movement, on top of his concussion.

Since Jake and he started to put it all together

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