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“You’re going to be discharged?” I ask Ted quietly once the doctor goes to get his papers “That’s good news”

The fact that he isn’t hurt so bad he has to stay the night again I wouldn’t want hie, no matter what he did to me in the past I didn’t become a nurse because I want people to suffer

“R… right,” Ted sta out of here”

I narrow ht? Do you knohat you’ll do without your bike? I would offer you a ride soht now I don’t need one here You kno it is, everything that you need is within walking distance from my house, so I just… well, I don’t have one”

I feel silly in this small town I can drive, I have a license, but no car I wonder what he thinks about that, rew up

“Yeah, I don’t really have anywhere to go,” he replies in a voice even littler than mine “It doesn’t o My home is… well, out of the question And not really a home”

“H far too much about him “So, there isn’t anyone that you can stay with? I take it you don’t want to go back to the city” This isn’t even a question I can see it all over his face “Okay, you can co to do I have the rooured it out yet, I’land noith her boyfriend, so…”

It’s the right thing to do, since he’s an old friend of my family But it feels weird Aard, I mean, he’s my ex… but not really We shared ten ht now is so thick you could cut it with a knife

“No, thank you,” he shoots back “I can’t coht now”

“Oh” I don’t kno to take this To be honest, it feels like old rejection all over again I feel like I’etting rejected yet again Seriously, how et pushed away?

“I didn’t mean that to sound rude,” he counters when he sees how this affects me “I just have stuff that I need to do I don’t want to… you know, involve you… that’s all”