21
XAVIER
Hospitals were my least favorite place in the world. I hated them. I didn’t know many people who loved them, especially as a patient, but sitting there and wishing I wasn’t alone was the worst feeling in the entire f*****g world.
I shifted and winced at the pain that shot through my body. I was lucky, and I knew it, but it didn’t make the whole thing suck any less.
A knock on my door brought my head up off the pillow and hope into me. It only took half a second for that hope to be shattered, like my leg nearly was.
“Hey,” Trent said with a lopsided smile. He glanced at the bed next to me and softened his voice when he noticed McJenna sleeping. “How are you feeling?”
“Like the biggest i***t on the planet.”
“We all do dumb things like that. You thought you could move it. How
