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Shayla ran her tongue along her lower lip Concern shone in her eyes as she glanced at Josh "I’m not sure, Grace I’m not sure"
Grace
The next few hours with Josh were the hardest so far I just… didn’t knohat to say to hi hi chirpy and cheerful But I felt so down ain, but he didn’t even want me to do that He just turned over on his side, his back facing me, and stared at the opposite wall
When 8 PM cah it killed ot ready for bed But I couldn’t sleep I kept tossing and turning, even as I felt surprised at how affected I was I’d only spent a couple of days with hier to me But… he’d been e If I was doing iver, I re like this I should be losing sleep right along with hi arrived I’d otten a couple of hours of sleep Yet I was relieved that it was ti too rabbed my backpack, and returned to the hospital
I stopped outside Josh’s door and pressed ainst it All was quiet Perhaps he was still sleeping Gently, I pulled down the handle and entered
Every internal alarm bell went off at once as azing around the room
The door to the en suite bathrooht sight of Josh’s legs, flat on the ground I rushed inside He was lying stretched out on the bathrooly motionless
"Oh, God! Josh!"
As I moved to the upper half of him, I realized he had blood s bu with a fallen jar of shaving crealed to ease hiht, the motion seemed to stir him His eyelids flickered, then opened His lips were parched, his eyeballs reddish I could see clearer than ever the throbbing bump on his head
"What happened?" I pressed
He just shut his eyes tight again and clenched his jaw
Then I noticed the edge of the sink It was stained with blood And I put two and two together The razors, the shaving cream He’d tried to reach for them himself to shave That meant he had also pulled himself out of bed and into the wheelchair without assistance
"Oh, Josh," I exclaimed "Why didn’t you call for To downstairs for Tom, as well as Shayla so she could take a look at his bu he needed was a concussion Then I rushed back to the bathrooathered the shavers and foam froain and motioned to help him back into his chair "I can help you shave"
To my shock, he jerked away frolare he shot er back "Let me be a man, damn it!" he snapped