“Ugh. I can’t wait to get out of here.”
I leaned back on the hard, foam hospital mattress and tried to stretch the restlessness out of my legs. Two nights in the hospital made me stir crazy.
“They want to keep you one more night,” Mom informed me.
She had arrived the morning after I checked into the hospital.
“Remember, you need to take it easy even after you get home. A concussion is nothing to play around with,” Jeff admonished, entwining our hands and turning my engagement ring around my finger.
“Did you decide to stay at Jeff’s? I don’t feel good about your being at home in that high-rise building all by yourself.”
“I have neighbors, Mom.”
“Tell me you’re staying with Jeff,” my mother pressed.
“She’s staying with me,” Jeff answered. “We decided that last night.”
“We did,” I ag
