Page 86 of Crystal Iris
“Thank you for calling them.”
“How are you feeling?”
“I think I’m okay. My head hurts a little.” I look down at my wrapped arm. “Is it... broken?”
“No, sprained. You got lucky.”
A doctor comes in and talks me through everything they did and gave me.
“When can I go home?” I ask.
“We need you to stay overnight. You hit your head pretty hard,” says the nurse.
They bring me food, and I finally realize Hoyt is still wearing the same clothes from earlier.
“You can go,” I tell him. “I’ll be okay.”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
“You need to change and eat. I don’t know, don’t you have places to be?”
“Are you kicking me out?”
“No, of course not. I just hate to be… a burden. I’m fine now.”
“I’m staying.”
“I’ll ask Akira to come babysit.”
I look around. I don’t have a phone.
“I’ll call her,” he says.
Akira arrives in half an hour.
“What happened?” she asks, though she’s not asking me.
Hoyt explains everything to her.
“You are impossible!” she yells at me.
“I thought I?—”
“What?” she demands.
“Improved.”
“You can’t do this again.” This time, it’s Hoyt who gives me the order.
“Fine.”
Both of them just stand there, staring at me.
“I said fine!”
“Next time you want to spy, just call me. I can put you on speaker,” he says before leaving.
“Thank you for everything,” I say as he walks away.
