Living With NF
Alexas POV:
I woke up the next morning, looking around, I was in the bedroom alone, I was in a lot of pain as well. I go to get up but can barely move, my muscles are super stiff from the fall, I close my eyes as I hear Nate’s voice,
“Alexa?”
“Yeah?” I reply.
I open my eyes and look at the door way seeing Nate standing there, he looks at me reading my face,
“Do you need to go to the hospital? You look like your in rougher shape than last night.”
I take a deep breath, which was a mistake, I groaned in pain,
“Yes I think so,” I reply.
Nate nods, then walks out of the room, then returns a moment later with my sneakers,
“Here you go,” he says handing me my sneakers.
“Thank you,” I say as I take them.
“You’re welcome,” he says with a smile, and oh boy did that smile make my heart skip beats.
I put my sneakers on, then get up off the hotel bed, I walk over to Nate,
“I’m ready to go.”
Nate takes my hand gently, I look up at him with a smile. We leave the hotel, we get into a car that he has rented for his time here, and he drives me to the hosptial. Once we arrive there, we get out and go inside. He grabs a nurse and explains what happened last night, within minutes there’s a doctor walking towards us with a gurney,
“Please lay down Alexa, we will take good care of you,” the doctor says.
I look at him and nod, “Okay.”
The doctor looks at Nate, “You’ll have to wait in the waiting room.”
Nate nods, “Okay I’ll be here.”
I watch Nate look over at me, I can’t quite read his expression, then they are pushing me towards a room.
Nate’s POV:
I watched as they took Alexa into a room, I took a seat in the waiting room, I was slightly nervous, I didn’t know the extent of her injuries, but she was definatly a strong girl. I’m just glad that she didn’t get put in a coma, this Mason guy needs to be taught a lesson. I looked around for a moment, then I took out my phone and started to read some new comments on my videos. Some were hateful, that was normal, then there was the cases of the kids that use my music to stay alive, to connect with something, it always touches my heart to see these kids use my music as a reason to live, that there is way more to life then dying.
After what seems like forever a doctor appears, walking over to me,
“Nate?”
I look up, “Yes?”
“She’s out of surgery, her rotator cuff got torn pretty good, along with some minor pulled muscles, she told us everything that happened to her last night, she’s lucky she’s okay. She should be awake soon, but im sure your the first face she’ll want to see. Follow me and you can wait for her to wake up,” The doctor says.
I nod and get up following him to Alexa’s room, once there I take a seat next to her bed, I look at her, she’s got some bandages and her arm was in a sling, my guess is that it was the shoulder they had to do surgery on. My heart hurt for this girl, damn was I falling for her already? I can’t tell her yet, she just left a bad relationship and maybe I should get to know her more before I do anything, especially since I travel alot and will be going on my tour soon. I place my hand on Alexa’s getting lost in my thoughts.
20 minutes later......
Alexa begins to wake up, I feel her hand moving, I look over at her as she’s opening her eyes, I smile at her,
“Hey there, how do you feel?”
Alexa’s POV:
I begin to wake up, the first thing I see when I open my eyes is Nate, oh man what a feeling that caused, my heart raced a bit, how did I get lucky enough to meet someone who is famous and amazing. I know I barely know him yet, but I’m ready to learn whatever is needed to learn about him.
“Sore, but I’m alive,” I smile at him.
He smiles back, “Good.”
I notice his hand on mine, I smile more, then the doctor walks in,
“Alright Alexa, we are going to keep you for today and tonight for observation make sure nothing else is wrong with you and that nothing is wrong with the surgery, by tomorrow morning you should be able to leave.” The doctor says.
“Okay,” I reply.
“A nurse will be in soon with some pain meds, in the meantime you should order something to eat, we don’t want you taking the meds on an empty stomach, it’ll only make you very nauseous,” The doctor replies back.
I nod then the doctor leaves the room, Nate stands up still holding my hand,
“I’m going to go get us something to eat okay? Is there anything you really want?” Nate asks.
I think for a second, “Chicken ceaser salad wrap.”
Nate smiles, “Is that your favorite food?”
I blush a little bit, “Acutally yes.”
Nate leans down towards me so his face is inches from mine, “Lucky guess, I’ll be back soon, what type of smoothie would you like from the cafe down the street?”
“Peach-Mango,” I reply.
“Sounds good, I’ll be back soon hun rest until then okay?” Nate says, kissing me on the cheek and letting my hand go.
I nod,“Okay.”
He leaves the room, I drift off to sleep, I guess I was more tired then I thought. About 15 minutes later, Nate’s gently waking me up,
“Lexa, wake up hun,” he says softly.
I wake up, seeing him and a nurse standing near me, I slowly sit up, using the button on the bed to help me. Nate puts my food in front of me, along with my smoothie, the nurse hands me my meds and I take them, she walks out, Nate takes a seat at the table in my hospital room,
“Thank you Nate,” I say as I begin to eat.
“You’re welcome Lexa,” he says.
I didn’t mind that he used my nickname, noone had called me that expect my best friends, Mason never did, always called me Alexa, no cute nicknames they all stopped when the drinking picked up, I get lost in my thoughts as we eat, and watch Grey’s Anatomy on tv. I can feel Nate looking at me once in a while, I peek over at him as well, we lock eyes a few times, which causes me to look away, last time i stared into someone’s eye’s I was about to be pushed down a flight of stairs. At this moment I know I can trust Nate, but I trust noone and this is hard and nerve racking, so far since I’ve met him, hes been nothing but nice.
After we finish eating, the meds kick in knocking me out cold.
Nate’s POV:
Alexa’s meds kicked in after we finished eating, I watched her fall asleep, she fell into a deep sleep thanks to the pain meds working their magic, I pull out my phone as it rings, I look at the caller ID seeing its my manager, I answer
“Hello?”
“Hey Nate, how’s things going? You ready for tour next month?” my manager asks.
“Yes of course, I acutally have someone that I want to tag along with us this time, she’s a close friend and could use the distance from this place she lives,” I say.
“Of course Nate, she’s welcome along, I’ll have her passes made up what’s her name?” He asks.
“Alexa Booth,” I reply.
“Alright Nate, you got is Ms. Booth will be all set with all access passes including the stage if you want her up there with you at any time, is this the girl you were telling me about from that party?” he asks
“Actually yes it is,” I say.
“She still with that abusive guy?” my manager asks.
“No, she left him last night, they got into a bad psychical fight, she’s in the hosptial right now, she just had surgery done on her shoulder, we leave tomorrow morning or afternoon. I really want to give this Mason a piece of my mind, she didn’t deserve to be treated the way Mason did, she did nothing wrong.” I reply.
“Where is she staying?” he asks.
“With me, I won’t leave her if I leave this state, she’s coming with me. I think I’m falling for this girl but right now isn’t the time to act on my feelings, she just got out of a bad relationship, I’m not pushing her into another relationship even if this one would be better for her.” I say.
“Nate you got a good heart, despite what you went through,” he says.
“Yeah well, I know what it feels like to be beat up it’s not fun and she doesn’t deserve to be hit and thrown down stairs.” I say.
“You’re right, well I’ll let you go, see you in a few weeks, I look forward to meeting Alexa.” he says
“Sounds good, you’ll love her, bye,” I say smiling as I look at Alexa asleep.
“Bye Nate,” he says then hangs up.
I lay on the couch in Alexa’s hosptial room and fall asleep.
The Next Morning.......
Alexa’s POV:
I awake to the voices of a nurse, doctor and Nate all talking,
“She is clear to go home Nate, no signs of infection, make sure she takes her meds and gets alot of rest, she can shower but needs to be careful not to tear anything else, it’s all very fragile right now.” the doctor says.
“I promise she’ll be fine in my care, I will take care of her,” Nate says.
“Okay you have my number if you need anything,” the doctor says then looks at me, “Looks like shes awake.”
Nate turns around and walks over to me, giving me a gentle hug,
“Hey you ready to go home?” he asks.
I nod, “Yes.”
He smiles, grabbing me the clean clothes he must have left to get,
“Get dressed, I’ll be on the other side of the curtain if you need me,” he replies.
I nod as they all walk away, closing the curtain behind them, I turn looking at the clothes smiling, a pair of grey sweatpants and a black NF shirt, Nate’s clothes. I get the sweatpants on and my sneakers before calling out to Nate,
“Hey Nate, I need your help.”
He moves the curtain, then closes it again,
“Sure what do you need help with?”
“Getting this shirt on,” I reply standing in my bra and his sweatpants.
He turns to face me, I watch his eyes look me up and down, which causes me to blush, he walks towards me, stopping in front of me, he carefully takes the sling off and then he grabs the black tshirt that belonged to him and carefull put it on me. After it was on he carefully helped me back into the sling as the doctors voice was heard at the door,
“Can I come in?”
“Yes,” I reply.
The doctor walks in, “Just need you to sign these and you’re good to go!”
“Sounds good,” I reply as the doctor hands me the clipboard, I sign then he hands me my prescriptions.
“If the pain is super unbareable come back right away, or go to the nearest ER wherever you are okay?” he says
I nod, “Okay.”
Nate puts his arm around me and we leave the hospital. We stop at Rite Aid to fill my meds before heading back to the hotel. Once back at the hotel, Nate helps me settle onto the couch, he puts on some Netflix and orders us some food. The rest of that day was mostly me sleeping or watching TV.