Take a Look by Gene Taylor

Author:Gene Taylor [Taylor, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

TO JORDAN, it felt like a very long time before he was finally released from the hospital emergency room and allowed to return with Grant to the apartment they were sharing.

“All right, let’s have the real story, Jordan. That was some fairy tale you told the police at the hospital after the ambulance hauled you there and the doctor worked on you. Tell me the truth!”

They were sitting in Grant’s living room cuddled together on the sofa. Jordan’s face had a large red blotch with purple signs of bruising underneath all along the jaw line. His purple-and-red nose, still stuffed with a few small strips of bloodstained gauze, matched the color of his jaw.

“Uh… I think I need to change this gauze for some fresh strips. But I think the bleeding has pretty much stopped. The doctor said there wasn’t any permanent damage. He compared it to getting tackled real hard in a football game. You stay here, and I’ll be right back.”

“You’re stalling, but I’ll wait here. Does it hurt?”

Jordan paused at the hallway leading to the bathroom. “Not as much as it did at first. It’s kind of like a dull ache now. And yes, I’m going to take another Tylenol like the doctor said. It’ll just be a few minutes.”

Once inside the bathroom, he looked in the mirror above the sink and saw that there wasn’t much blood anymore, but he changed the gauze anyway. Then he took a Tylenol out of the bottle in the medicine cabinet and swallowed it down with a swig of water in a paper cup from the dispenser on the wall.

Hmmm. I don’t want to tell him everything, but I think I’m going to have to… for his own protection.

“Hurry up in there!” Grant yelled from the living room.

“I’m coming… I’m coming….”

“That’s what you said last night when we were in bed….” Grant said when Jordan returned to sit by him on the sofa. “I liked it better when you said it then.”

“I’m glad to hear you haven’t lost your sense of humor.”

Grant giggled. “I was just trying to help you keep up your spirits. That’s all. Now let’s get back to my question.”

“What makes you think I was just telling a made-up story to the police?”

“Oh, I don’t know. I guess it’s just a little hard to swallow that you accidentally got into the wrong car when you were going to walk to work—not ride in a car—and the people in the back seat helped you out of the car when you realized your mistake, but you stumbled and rolled onto the sidewalk and hit your jaw and your nose when you landed… after you closed the car door. But now that I think about it, I guess you’re right. There’s nothing fishy about that story!” he finished sarcastically. “Nothing whatsoever.”

Jordan sat quietly for a moment, trying to decide how much to tell Grant. Finally he sighed and took Grant’s hands into his so he could hold them while he talked.

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