“Hey stonehead,” Sidney greeted me as soon as my eyes fleeted open. “Heard you asked the nurse to up your morphine dosage.”
The faint streak of light emanating from the slits in the window blinds told me that it was already after noon.
I rolled my eyes at her, chuckling a little. “Yeah, she didn’t comply. I might have to murder her in her sleep tonight.”
She chortled as the intense concern in her eyes began to dissipate. “You good, Clar?”
I nodded and gave her a reassuring smile. “Yeah, I’m good.”
“What the hell happened yesterday?” She asked. “The girls are all worried.”
“It was stupid, really. A huge spider came from nowhere and I panicked and then fell over the edge.” I joked, not wanting to tell her the truth… that it was pure bad luck that the part I was standing on was the o
