Come Closer

It’s been a week since the accident and I was feeling a lot better, I was totally alert and feeling like myself again and the bruises were slowly going away.

“Dr. Jones, are there going to be permanent scars on my face from the stitches?” I asked him, oh yeah sexy bride with scars on my face I thought to myself.

“Your face should be totally back to normal, the glass was not that deep to leave scares, but there will probably be some on your neck through.” Dr. Jones came over and looking at the stitches. “You have come a long way Meghan, when you came in after the accident I thought we were going to lose you, you are a fighter.”

I sent James back to Pittsburgh two days ago, he was amazing with me. He only left the hospital to shower back at my house. He calls me once a day, and we text throughout the day.

“When am I allowed to go home?”

“I want to keep you here for another week just to be sure, I don’t want you going home and something happen especially with you moving to the states.” Dr. Jones said about to leave. “I’ll be back in a while to check on you.”

“Well that’s just great, I still need to pack all my shit and go down to Pittsburgh.” I said to my mom who was reading a magazine sitting beside me.

“Oh… your father didn’t tell you?” mom looked up.

“Tell me what?

“All your stuff has been packed, it should be going to Pittsburgh tomorrow.” She smiled.
“How much stuff did you pack?”

“Mostly all your clothes, shoes, jewelry and some small furniture that will be flown down tomorrow.”

“MEGHAN MEGHAN MEGHAN” Khloe came bursting into my room hugging me.

“Ouch, my arm Khloe.”

“Omg I’m sorry…how are you feeling today. I haven’t seen you in forever.”

“I’m the same as I was yesterday when you came.” Laughing. “I am getting really cranky because I can’t go home for another week and I am sick of eating jello because the food here tastes like asshole.”

“Look what I brought!” she held up a Taco Time bag.

“WOO! Taco so good in my tummy yummy!” I grabbed the bag from her and pulled out my tacos.

“You have been watching too much South Park.”

Mom left and gave us some space.

“Well I have nothing else better to do; the remote is over there turn it to the hockey game.”
Pittsburgh was playing Philadelphia tonight so Khloe and I decided to watch it together.

“How is everything with the team?” I asked Khloe taking a bite from one my tacos.

“Since they heard about the accident everything has been great, I don’t want to kill anyone anymore.”

“Brendan came to see me earlier.”

“What did he say?”

“Just asked how I was doing and if I needed anything he was only a phone call away, he brought me those red roses over there.” Motioning my head to the desk by the window.

“That’s nice of him.” Opening her taco wrapper.
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After the game Khloe left because she had practice in the morning.

“Honey, we are going to go home for the night.” Mom, dad and my two siblings came in to say goodbye. “We will be back tomorrow.” Kissing my head.

“Alright, see you tomorrow.”

This is the time of day where I feel really lonely.

James called me right was I was falling asleep.

“How many packages of jello have you had today?”

“About 800 of them, it was meat loaf and potatoes on the menu today…my favorite.” Being sarcastic.

“What did you do today?” he asked me.

“Watched about a million episodes of South Park, played flappy bird on my phone until I got pissed off and quit and watched the game of course. Flyers suck…”

“Tell me about it, super shitty but there is always next time.”

“Anyway, did you talk to the doctor about when you can leave?” James asked.

“He wants me to stay another week…unfortunately.” Taking a sip of my juice. “I am sick of this hospital, and I want to go home, to Pittsburgh.”

“Your mom told you about your stuff coming down here tomorrow.”

“Yeah, I am so surprised that they did that for me.” Putting my juice down.

“You have been through a lot lately and the last thing you need to do is pack up your stuff, it will all be here and ready for you when you come home.”

“Meghan, do you need to go to the bathroom” Kourtney, my night nurse walked in.

It is still hard for me to move since my ribs got broken, the healing time is quite a while so I need help walking and going to the washroom.

James I got to go, I’ll talk to you tomorrow ok? I love you.”

“I love you too babe, good night.”
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“Alright Meghan, you ready to go home?” Dr. Jones came in while I was being unhooked from all the IV’s and changed out of my hospital gown to my regular clothes.

“You bet I am, and thank you for everything DR.”

McKenzie, one of the nurses rolled me out of the room in a wheel chair to the front entrance of the hospital where my mom’s car was waiting outside.

All of the stitches were taken out and the bruises went away, so I looked totally normal again, but my arm was still in a sling. Other than the odd pain either in my wrist, shoulder or waist I felt pretty good for almost dying 3 weeks earlier.

“Mom, I want junk food, I have eaten nothing but toast and jello cups for 3 weeks.”

“Jalapeno kettle chips and iced tea?” Mom and I pulled into a gas station.

“You know me too well mom.” I sent her a smile before going into the store.

After about 10 minutes , she came out carrying a bag of goodies including chips, chocolate and pop.

“Here, I picked this up for you.” She handed me a bridal magazine.

“Thanks mom! I haven’t thought about the wedding since the accident.”

“We haven’t talked about the wedding, do you and James have something in mind?” putting the car into reverse.

“We went to see a travel agent about doing a destination wedding; we are thinking Bahamas next summer.” Trying to open the magazine with one hand and reading the first page. “We want something small, like 50 people.”

“Oh, I was hoping you would have it here in Whitby.” Mom’s face went from happy to sad in a matter of seconds. “Not everyone can afford to fly to the Bahamas Meghan; we are not all rich hockey players.”

“We can still come home and have a party when we get back; it’s not a big deal.” I closed the magazine. “It’s what James and I want, I don’t want a bunch of people I barely know being there and getting slammed, we want just close friends and family.”

“Just tell me you and James will think about having it here, for my sake.”
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“Jesus Christ Jennifer, I am not watching this soap opera shit, I don’t care who cheated on their wife with their sister and all that fucked up bull shit.” I said trying to take the remote from my sister when mom and I got home from the hospital.

I finally sat down when the doorbell rang.

“Go get the door stupid” I took the remote away from her to change the channel to something better.

“Deborah! Omg I haven’t seen you in forever!” Jennifer yelled.

I immediately stood up and slowly walked over to the door.

“Meghan, how are you?” She came in hugging me tight. “Sorry we didn’t come see you earlier when you were in the hospital, we were in Hawaii.”

All of James’ family came in, and hugged me one by one.

“We are so happy you are ok!”

Yeah me too.
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Deborah and I were sitting alone on my deck catching up.

“I know you and James just got engaged but since he is my first to get married and I want to help plan as much as possible.” She crossed her legs. “Have you thought about a date? Venue? How many people?”

“July 16 of next year, we are actually we are probably going to do a destination wedding; we want to get married in the Bahamas, just something small, close friends and family.”

“That’s a great idea, even for the people who can’t come, we could throw a party here, I think it’s an awesome idea.”

“I’m glad you like the idea, my mom hates it.” Shifting myself in the chair trying to get comfortable. “She wants us to get married here, I don’t want people who I barely know just showing up and getting piss drunk…you know what I mean?”

“Yeah, I love the idea. Something personal, perfect for you guys!” We both got up at the same time and hugged each other. “I am coming down to Pittsburgh next week; I was thinking we could do some dress shopping even though it's a little early we can still look.”

“Absolutely, it will be great having you down there for a few days!”

I am going to have the best mother in law.

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