Home from the hospital

One month later

I was finally being discharged today and could finally get out of here. I am grateful for everything they have done for me but I definitely miss sleeping in a bed where you are not awoken at five thirty in the morning asking you whether you would like coffee or tea and taking your blood pressure each and every two hours during the night. 

I waited after I had signed the documentation releasing me from the hospital and with some final care instructions from the doctor and the nurses, I stood outside the hospital with no one waiting to pick me up and take me home. Not dad like he promised. Hell not even mum not that I would have gone with her if she was here but still. 

I decided to see if Kyle would be able to have someone come and get me and if his parents would mind me staying with them for a while until I found dad. It was probably my own fault because I don't have an address or a phone number or anything of him because I never asked and didn't see the need to have it because he promised that he would come and get me from the hospital when I would be discharged. 

Kyle answered the call and promised me that his mum and him would be there in no less than ten minutes. When they arrived, he opened the car door for me and took my bag before helping me get into the car. 

"Where to milady?"

I honestly didn't have anywhere to go. 

"Would it be possible if I could stay with you for a little while? I know I haven't been the bestie I used to be so if you have another bestie that has replaced me with someone else that you like more then I will understand." 

I jokily said to him. 

Geeezzee, you’re my bestie, yes you can crash at my house and yes I still like you." His cheeks turned a little pink on the last part. When we stopped at his house I went straight inside. He first got my bags and then put them in the spare room where I spend many nights when I was scared of Carl. I turned the tv on thinking that maybe we could watch a movie or something until it was time for bed. I was just browsing through the options when he came back with two plates of food. It smelt amazing. He gave me one and kept the other one which didn’t last long. I didn’t even know that he could cook and even if I had he had never cooked for me before so how I would have found out.

I started digging in as soon as he had handed me the cutlery and the plate of food not realizing how hungry I truly was. When the movie and half of the next one had passed, I said my goodnights and went up to the spare bedroom where I would be spending the night. He had placed my bag just on the bed and I didn’t really have a lot of things so there was no need for me to even pack it out as it would fit perfectly in the suitcase if I would be living out of it.

I had struggled to fall asleep and when that had finally happened that also didn’t last very long before the nightmares started again, and I woke up screaming my lungs out. I have had the same nightmare ever since he had started beating me, but I swear this time it was the worst part and continuation of it as of yet.

I must have woken Kyle up because he came into the room with his baseball bat in tow to hit the living daylights out of the person who scared me enough to have screamed the way that I had screamed. I really hope that I didn’t wake his parents as well. They both have high stress jobs and would need to be up early to be on time for work. I would hate to be the reason that they would be late to work.

I started crying as the dream kept replaying in my head, never leaving me alone. He let the bat fall to the ground and came over to the bed to come and console me. He asked if it was another one of my nightmares and I just nodded my head yes. He knew all about them. He was there for me when I started having them way back and he would have me call him every time I had one so that he could console me and try and make me smile again after that awful dream.

He knew the dream almost as good as I do because each time something new is added on to the end of it, I tend to tell him, and he would just sit with me in his arms until I felt better. I had to tell him the new part that was added on to the nightmare tonight.

“I was alone in the woods like it usually ended but this time he wasn’t only chasing me but never getting me he was right in front of me every way that I turned, and he had that wicked grin on his face the whole time. I ran and ran but never could seem to get rid of him and he kept on following me and wherever I would turn he would be there also going in that direction.

I ran and ran until I hit a wall only it wasn’t a wall, but it was him. He started raising his fists and he was about to…”

I couldn’t continue as the tears that had started was falling again nonstop and I was out of breath from both talking and the crying. He started rubbing my back and tightened the hug he had me in.

“Shhhs, you don’t have to worry about him anymore. He is where he belongs and if he ever comes near you again, I will make sure that he is not alive to see the raising sun the next day even if that is the last thing that I do.”

He must have thought that I was asleep when he said the last part because he wasn’t even looking at me but at the wall behind us. I wasn’t going to say anything, so I closed my eyes and basked in the fact that there was in fact someone out there who was nice and friendly towards me and not just when it suited him or when he needed something.