15. Drive Me Crazy

~ CARA ~

I sat very stiffly in the back of the fancy car, praying I didn’t bleed on the cream leather, or touch anything that would break. I’d never been in a real town car before. Back at the hospital, I’d tried to ask the driver to bring a more normal vehicle, but he’d become a little impatient and insisted that he had another job to go to after this. So I’d levered myself into the spacious backseat with my strapped knee and crutches as quickly as I could, then refused to move for the entire drive.

As the driver took the final turn before we reached campus I could breathe a little easier… sort of. I felt strange. My chest was tight and I kept seeing sparkling lights at the edge of my vision.

The nurse told me it was probably lack of sleep, and that my blood pressure was up from the adrenalin of the attack. She’d been sympathetic, but firm.

“I know this was hard, Cara, but the best thing you can do for yourself is return to your life and get back into a normal routine. That knee will