Arielle
I lost track of time. I didn’t know how long I had been unconscious or what had happened after everything went dark.
None of us knew. We just……woke up.
The first thing I felt was pain, a deep pain. The kind that lived in bones. My back throbbed relentlessly, every breath reminded me that something had gone terribly wrong.
The smell of antiseptic filled my nose. Hospital.
I opened my eyes slowly. White walls. Beeping machines. And beside me was another bed.
Darius.
His legs were elevated, wrapped thickly in bandages. His right arm was strapped and immobilized. A white cloth circled his head. He looked fragile in a way I had never seen before.
My head was wrapped too, aching, but it was my back that hurt the most. Our eyes met briefly, then we both looked away. I couldn’t
