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.I turn my nose up at it and grab the fruit bowl.I manage to eat the fruit cup and the roll, but the meat.or meat wannabe, stayed nice and dead on the plate.I may be hungry, but I’m notthathungry.I’ll make Heather take me somewhere good tomorrow, when I break free of this place.As I push the table away I hear, a soft knock on my door.“Come in!” I say towards the door.The door creaks open and in walks Dani with a somber look on her face.“Hi Dani! Is Jackson okay?”“Yes, he’s fine, thanks to you.He’s sitting up and been asking about you.I told him I would come up and check on you.”She glances at the remaining “food” on my plate and I know she’s fixing to go all doctor on me and tell me I need to eat.I chuckle though, when she turns her nose up at it and shrugs her shoulders.“What in the hell is that?” She asks, pushing the smelly varmint further away.“Not sure, but I think it moved a while ago,” I laugh.I didn’t feel like what I said was very funny, but Dani breaks out into a fit of the giggles and doesn’t come up for air until there are tears rushing down her face.I’m laughing back at her, but as soon as my stomach muscles clench, I remember about the ribs and suck in a breath.“Are you all right, Ally?” Dani asks, finally shaking off the tears of laughter.“Yeah,” I groan, “Hurts to laugh, but it was great hearing and seeing you laugh.I know you’ve been through hell these last few days, so seeing you let it go, is good.”“Gosh, Ally.I sometimes think you’re too good to be true.Your mother was right, you’re always thinking of others, even when your life is in turmoil.Anyway, I have a surprise for you,” she says, as the turns to the door, it slowly opening.I see a wheelchair roll in to the room and realize its Jackson.“Jackson! What are you doing out of bed? You just woke up from a four day coma, you need to get back downstairs,” I scream at him.Well, not really screaming, but louder that I probably should be speaking.He looks.normal.The swelling has gone down a bunch in the last few hours since I saw him last.“Relax, Alexandra.I’m being moved into the room next door, so I can keep an eye on you.”“Oh no you don’t, Mr.Bentley.The only person that will have an eye on them, is you.Now, get your ass back to your bed before I go ape shit on you,” I say, as I get out of the bed, groaning at the pain.Damn it, I keep forgetting my ribs are fucking broken.“Lay down, Alexandra,” he demands.Yes, Mr.Bossy Pants is back.“Me? Lay down? Jesus, Jack, you’re the one that just came out of a coma.You have.shit, you have a broken head for Christ’s sake! And those internal injuries.damn it, you shouldn’t be out of ICU yet!”“Well, money can sometimes buy you anything you want, Alexandra,” he growls at me.“What? Money? You have got to be kidding me, Jack.It’s is YOU that matters here, not your stinking money.I want you to be able to go home with no side effects of what happened and if you.so help me, Jackson.” And I stop my ranting cause he’s just sitting there smiling at me.“How in the hell can you recover so soon from what you’ve been through, are you Superman or something? Did the doctors inject kryptonite in your IV?”Okay, now he’s laughing.This is so not funny and I glare at him through sleepy eyes.“It’s not funny Jackson!”“Kryptonite? Where do you come up with this stuff?” He chuckles.“Jackson, do you have any idea of your injuries? You.Broke.Your.Head! Damn it! Your fucking head!! You don’t just get up and walk away from that!” I show my frustration, but Dani places her hand on my shoulder, in a feeble attempt to calm me down.“Ally, it was just a hairline fracture.No permanent damage was done.His lung is healing nicely, so we now just wait for him to be released.The doctors ran another scan a little while ago and he’s gonna be fine,” Dani tells me.“Wait, his lung? What happened to his lung?”“His left lung collapsed on impact from the car, but the doctors were able to correct the issue with a quick surgery.You were still unconscious when that occurred, so you didn’t even know.”“Shit, what else do I need to know?” I ask, totally anxious that this was kept from me.Before she could answer, my door opens and Detective Rowland walks in.He didn’t knock or anything.Guess he thinks he owns the place or something.“Chase,” I say quietly.Jackson turns to see him and Chase’s eyes light up when he sees Jackson.“Bentley, damn.How are you? I didn’t even know you had come out of the coma yet,” Chase tells him, while shaking his hand.“Yeah, this beautiful woman came to sit with me and.” He stops mid-sentence, when he sees the expression on Chase’s face.“What is it Rowland?”“Has Ally told you anything about the accident?”Jackson shakes his head and looks at me with a surprised look on his face.“Is there something I should know?”“You don’t remember, do you?” I ask quietly.“I remember seeing you cross the street and that car came speeding down the road.All I could think of was getting you out of the way, so I pushed you away from the car, your body crunching against the pavement.And then I.I., shit, that’s all I remember, before waking up with your head in my lap.”“So you don’t remember much before that?” Chase asks.It is then, that I am positive that Jackson doesn’t remember that he was speaking to Madison, right before she plowed us down with her car.Jackson gets quiet for a minute, like he’s thinking.He shakes his head in confusion.“I can’t remember.All I do remember, is Jason called me from the beach telling me you slipped away, which by the way.you will be punished for,” he says, as he looks my way
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