2:00 AM

The door opens and Leo slips in as if I were asleep, he sets down the blankets and pillows, then he goes on his phone

“Hello.”

“Kel! Jesus Christ you scared me.”

“Why did you just leave me like that?”

“I’m sorry, Nurse Libby and I were catching up and we lost track of time.”

“Oh, okay.” Leo lays down and tries to get comfy on the couch.

“This sucks ass”

“What does?”

“Everything, you being in the hospital, having a shattered shoulder, this couch,” He grabs a blanket from the pile Nurse Libby gave to him and tries to get on the bed. The bed is small so there wasn’t enough room for both of us, but instead of trying to squish his way into a spot, he lay on top of me, his head on my chest, his arms around me, his legs intertwined with mine.

“I should have done this first, it’s much better.” I let out a small chuckle. I can feel his heartbeat on my stomach, it’s soothing, Ba-dum, Ba-dum, Ba-dum. I soon drift to sleep.

10:00 AM

When I woke up I didn’t feel Leo’s heartbeat, my eyes shot open and Leo was nowhere to be found, about 20 seconds later Leo and the doctor walk in. 

“Good morning Kelliger”

“Good morning doctor”

“So today we can go into the OR and get your shoulder fixed, but if you don’t want the surgery today, you will have to wait weeks till the next opportunity. I’m sorry to do this but please make your choice as soon as possible.”

“Seriously? Minutes notice?”

“Kel, shouldn’t you just get your shoulder fixed? The sooner the better right?”

“I guess.”

“Is that a yes?”

“Yea.”

“Alright, I’ll get everything ready, some nurses will be here in a few to take you to the OR so please be ready.”

“Thanks” I look over to Leo and see his face covered in worry.

“Leo, what’s wrong?”

“I’m worried about you.”

“Why? It’s just a shoulder replacement.”
“‘Just a shoulder replacement’? So many things could go wrong! What if you are never able to use your arm again?”

“Don’t be a worrywart, I’ll be fine.”

“How do you know that!”

“Because I have you by my side. Even if the surgery goes wrong I’ll have you with me through the whole process, I would have never said yes if I knew you wouldn’t be here to help.” Leo sighs and pinches his nose bridge.

“I hate that you know me so well. You know exactly what to say.”

“Of course I do. You're my boyfriend.” Leo gives me a look

“Hey what did I say wrong?”

“I'm giving you this look because you didn’t say anything wrong, you just want me to shut up and stop worrying, right?”

“I don’t want you to shut up, but you not worrying would be nice.” Leo comes over and kisses me, 

“The nurses will be here soon.” When he said that, about 5 nurses came in and started to wheel my bed out of the room and to the OR at an efficient pace, but I’m super nervous, I look to see if Leo had come with me, but he wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I’m scared.

10:15 AM

The nurses wheeled my bed to the OR room, put a bunch of things on my body, and then a mask. I fall into a sleepish state, I can’t move or do anything at all, but I can hear and feel. I hear the door open and a person who sounds like my doctor walks in, and he starts talking to the nurses, but I can’t understand what he’s saying, it’s almost like my mind can’t understand English. I hear gloves and the clanking of medical instruments. Suddenly I feel a knife being pushed into my skin, it hurts so much I would scream if I could, but my body just lay there, lifeless. This goes on until I feel something go into the incision, it felt weird, as if someone were touching my bone, it made me shiver. 

“Nurse I think he’s still awake.”

“What? How?”

“His body just shook”

“How…”

“I don’t know, give him another dose”

“Okay”

When the conversation ended I felt a mask back on my face, and this time I was knocked out.

12:00 PM

My eyes flutter open to see Leo on his phone right next to me, when he noticed I was up he put his phone away and dragged his chair closer.

“Doctors said you were awake for the first five minutes, are they right?”

“Yeah, I guess that’s true, I felt them poke at my bone,”

“Ew, sounds gross, are you okay though I bet that hurt” I looked down at

my arm and saw about 16 stitches running from my shoulder to the beginning of my tricep. My arm was in a sling. It didn’t hurt when I tried to touch it, a large amount of pain shot down my arm. 

“Ow! Fuck!” 

“What did you expect, a sense of warmth when you touched it?” I looked at him, he diverted his eyes as soon as ours met.

“What’s wrong Leo?”

“Your dad is in town, and he's planning on suing you”

“What?”

“Yea” I sigh and lay back down. 

“My god, what a shitshow” That managed a laugh out of Leo

“You can say that again” and he gave me the sweetest smile. 

12:15 PM

Nurse Libby walks in. 

“Kelliger, you're free to go. The police will be waiting for you at the

front, please cooperate with them.”

“Alright, thanks.” I get out of bed and reach for my clothes but Leo 

stops me, 

“I have clean clothes for you.”

“Really? Sweet.” I grab the clothes from him but he pulls his arm out of my reach

“I’ll give them to you if you promise to never do something so stupid. Please.” At that moment Leo looked pissed like he would kill me himself if I did something stupid again.

“Alright, I’m sorry Leo.” he gave me my clothes 

“You better be sorry.” I took the clothes and went to the bathroom to change but Leo grabbed my wrist

“Where are you going?”

“To the bathroom”

“No you are not, just change in here, I don’t want you out of my sight for the next week.”

“Oh.” I start stripping, Leo is turning his head away but I can see his eyes looking directly at me.

“Stop staring.”

“No.” I sigh, I don’t like being stared at while I’m changing, I just feel like he’s judging me, and I don’t like it. I get my clothes and open the door to leave, Leo follows right behind me, with his hands in his pockets and his fluffy hair hanging in front of his face. I stop walking and he runs into me just like I thought he would, I brush his hair out of his face, his eyes are puffy and red and he has tear streaks on his face.

“Were you crying?” he brushes his face with his sleeve, wiping away any trace of the mess he was.

“No…”

“Yes you were, why?”

“Why do you think dumbass, you nearly got your sorry ass killed, what am I supposed to do? Cheer in excitement?”

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t even, just leave me alone right now.”

“I love you, Leo”

“Mhm.”