RankNovelChapter 0246
Hannah
| sat on the edge of my hospital bed, watching Noah fidget uncomfortably in his. We had been placed in the
sroom for overnight observation. The tension between us was palpable, but | couldn’t deny the way that
being close to him gavea bit of relief.
The room was small, with two beds separated by a thin curtain that was currently pulled back. The walls were a
pale green, and the only window offered a view of the dimly lit parking lot. The steady beep of monitors and the
occasional squeak of shoes in the darkened hallway were the only sounds breaking the silence.
“I hate hospitals,” Noah muttered, annoyedly adjusting his arm sling white his eyes darted around the sterile
room.
| was about to chide him for being fidgety when | suddenly remembered-his mother had died in a hospital much
like this one, just days after we had snuck in to see her as teenagers. “I know,” | said with a soft sigh. “But it's
just for one night.”
Noah grunted in response, shifting restlessly in his bed. “We should just leave. I'm fine, you're fine. We don’t
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“The doctors want to make sure we're okay,” | reminded him. “It’s standard procedure after what we've been
through.”
Huffing, Noah sank a bit further down into his bed and grabbed the nearby television remote. | watched for a few
minutes as he flipped through various channels, all of which were filled with nothing but the usual late-night
trashy TV, before he shut it off again and tossed the remote aside.
A brief silence filled the room after that. | nuzzled down beneath my thin blanket, wishing | was back home-back
with my plush pillows and velvet drapes. Goddess, | had gotten spoiled over the years.
Suddenly, Noah grunted softly and prodded at his shoulder-which had gotten dislocated when he had grabbed
the side of the cliff. They had popped it back into place, but he would need to wear a sling for a few days to
reduce movement.
| glanced over at him and furrowed my brow. “How did you keep holding on like that?” | found myself asking.
Noah quirked an eyebrow at me. “What?”
| gestured to his shoulder. “You dislocated your shoulder, but you held onto both of us earlier. How did you do
that?”
“I just did,” he said with a shrug. “Nothing could have madelet go.”
| studied him for a moment, my face flushing ever so slightly as | thought back to tonight's events. The image of
him leaping afterhad seared itself into my mind, even more so than the sound of Jake's screams as he
plummeted into the waterfall.
“You saved me,” | whispered without really meaning to.
Noah snapped his gaze over to mine, his green eyes flickering with something that | couldn’t quite read.”
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And I'd do it again in a heartbeat,” he said simply.
| opened my mouth to respond, although I struggled to cup with the right words. Then, as if on cue, Noah's
stomach let out a loud growl and broke the moment. He looked embarrassed, a rare sight that almost made me
laugh.
“When was the last tyou ate?” | asked.
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Noah shrugged. “I don’t know. This morning, maybe?”
| shook my head, suddenly feeling protective over him in a way that | hadn't felt in a very long time. “That won't
do. I'll be right back.”
Before he could protest, | climbed out of bed, carefully holding my hospital gown so it wouldn't fall open, and
grabbed my wallet. | slipped out of the room and made my way to the vending machines | had spotted earlier.
Truthfully, | just needed a moment to stretch my legs and clear my head. Noah’s admission had leftblushing
deeply, which I could see clearly in a mirror on the wall as | padded down the hall. Thankfully, the hallway was
blissfully quiet, most of the patients already asleep.
Finding the vending machines, | stuck my card into the slot and punched several different numbers: chips,
cookies, a couple of sodas, candy. All decadent junk food that | never would have partaken in before, but
something about almost dying for a second tmaderealize how ridiculous it was to restrict myself -
especially now.
| returned to our room a few minutes later with my arms laden with an assortment of snacks. Noah's eyes
widened as | dumped the haul onto his bed. “What's all this?” he asked, sitting up.
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