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"You're still on the leh

The light for pedestrians turns green and I take a step off the curb along with a guy to my left I chastise Jules as I step into the street "Don't s"

"I wouldn't dare dreah

I start to laugh too, but then I notice frouy tothat way and I see the car too late It's already bearing down ontoward , "Get back"

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A beeping sound penetrates and I groan, wanting it to go away I'm so tired and sleep is so lovely But then I hear voices and I struggle to open my eyes

Thenear me, it all comes back

Me stepping into the street

The car co

Aat me

And then I was in an ambulance I re, but I re worse

And my head

I lift a hand up and gingerly touch the bandage starting near the top ofinto my hair

"You okay on the pain?" the nurse asks me, and I nod

"I' to the roof of my mouth

"We know," she says with a smile "You told us several times"

I nod again, because I think I remember that "Is the baby"

"The baby appears to be fine Strong heartbeat"

"Thank God" I exhale with relief

"Do you remember why you're here?" the nurse asks as she leans over my bed and places a Styrofoarateful sip of cold water

"Car was co hit my arm And then I hit my head somehow," I rasp out, then take another sip of water

"That man probably saved your life," the nurse tells me "The car's side-view ot thrown into the light pole and hit your head"

I nod again and griback"

"You're a little groggy," she says with a sot you on some morphine for the pain"

"And that's okay with the baby?" I ask

"It's fine," she says "You're only getting a sive you a safe pain medication to take hoot ato adht, just for observation"

"Okay," I whisper, ain

Then they pop back open when I hear Jules's voice "I' for Stephanie Frazier"

"She's in there," an unknown voice says, and then Jules is rushing intoin the bed She looks at the cast on e on my head, and tears well up in her eyes

"I'm fine," I say with a smile, and then wave her closer to me She comes to the bed and takes my hand in hers "How did you even knoas here?"

"We were on the phone and I heard screeching tires and yelling before the call disconnected I kept trying to call you back and got no answer, but then about five uy calls me and told me you'd been hit by a car"

"Must have been the guy that pulled me back," I muse "Guess my phone's okay"

"He dialed the last number, as he'd seen you were on the phone," she says "I had to wait to get a baby-sitter then I got here as soon as I could"

"You shouldn't have coently as I shift up in the bed a little, wincing becauseto adet out tomorrow"