Russian Roulette

I wake up and my head is killing me. I notice I’m in a car and I look and see that Geno is driving.

“Geno?” I say weakly.

“Almost at hospital,” he tells me. He holds my hand and I start to remember what happened.

“Where’s Bobby?”

“Who?”

“My boyfriend. He was with me.”

“You alone when I find you.” No fucking way. Bobby trips me then leaves. Unbelievable.
We get to the hospital and I ask them to page Dr. Chase and Dr. Dixon. Matt and Elias eventually find me and they look stunned.

“Quinn what happened?” Matt asks.

“I got in a fight with Bobby and he tripped me. I hit my face on the coffee table on the way down,” I explain. They’re all speechless and I wait for someone to say something. Geno mutters something in Russian and I grab more tissues to stop the bleeding.

“Let me look at your nose,” Elias says. He examines it and shakes his head.

“It’s definitely broken. But lucky for you, your best friend is a plastic surgeon and if it doesn’t set properly I’ll remodel you a brand new nose,” he jokes, trying to lighten the mood.

“So where’s Bobby?” Matt asks angrily.

“Geno said when he found me I was alone which means he left after I was unconscious.”

“What a fucking scumbag,” Elias says angrily.

“Please tell me you’re done with him forever,” Matt says while shining a light into my eyes.

“I am,” I reply squinting. Elias sets my nose and I curse loudly.

“The worst of it is over but it looks like you have a grade 1 concussion so I suggest taking a few days off work,” Matt tells me. Elias puts a nose cast on me and discharges me. Geno drives me home and I’m seething. How could I have let myself get involved with such an asshole? I knew he could be cruel but I never thought he would physically hurt me. Audrina was going to flip when she found out. Geno pulls up to the apartment and I sit there awkwardly.

“Thanks for taking care of me. I didn’t mean for you to get involved in all this shit,” I say quietly.

“Fuck him. Doesn’t deserve beautiful girl,” he says holding my hand. I smile weakly and then head upstairs. When I open the door I see Audrina on the floor with cleaning supplies.

“What the fuck happened?!” she yells. I take a deep breath and relay tonight’s events to her.

“I’m going to fucking kill him I swear to god,” she says fuming.

“Don’t even bother. He’s out of my life for good. This is what you wanted.”

“It had to take him breaking your fucking nose to finally realize it?”

“Audrina can we please not do this right now,” I say while my voice cracks. Tears spill over and I start crying.

“Quinny I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to get mad at you. I’m just so pissed at that piece of shit. I was so scared. I come home and there’s blood everywhere and you weren’t picking up your phone.”

“I’m sorry. I forgot it at home,” I say sniffling.

“Well I’m happy Geno was here. Quinn when I picture you with someone I picture you with someone like Geno. Someone who clearly adores you and treats you the way you should be treated.”

“We’re just friends,” I tell her. She shakes her head and continues cleaning the floor.

I’m home alone the next day when I hear someone knock on the door. I open the door and Geno is standing there holding his hand.

“You have ice?” he asks smiling. I invite him in and grab an icepack from the freezer.

“Geno what happened?” I ask. His knuckles on his right hand were purple and swollen.

“I had talk with boyfriend.”

“Ex-boyfriend. And by talk you mean?”

“Now him know what feels like,” he says shrugging. I examine Geno’s hand and stretch it out. I see him wince and I call Matt and tell him to meet us in the E.R.

“Well you’re lucky, it’s not broken,” Matt tells Geno. Relief washes over me and I shake my head. I don’t know what I would have done if one of Pittsburgh’s star hockey players broke his hand punching my ex. We get back in his car and head towards my apartment.

“You could have gotten hurt,” I tell him, breaking the silence.

“I not scared,” he chuckles.

“How did you even know where to find him?”

“I ask Lazy who ask Audrina,” he says simply. Of course Audrina was in on it.

“What if you had broken your hand? You wouldn’t have been able to play hockey for weeks.”

“Quinn it fine. I’m okay,” he reassures me. He reaches for my hand and I feel weird.

“Look Geno I’m really happy we’re hanging out and all but I just got out of relationship and I’m not quite ready to jump into a new one,” I say awkwardly.

“It fine. I wait,” he says smiling.

“You’re going to wait?” I ask surprised.

“Da.”

“Are we ever going to talk about our one night stand?”

“Was fun.”

“That’s it?”

“Was great. Why? Not good for you?” he asks worriedly.

“No it was,” I say blushing. We get to the apartment and I remind him to ice his hand and he drives away. I go into my room and pull out my old albums. I look at the ones from high school and I smile at a picture of me flipping off the camera. I had always been the rebellious type. I used to party a lot and got into trouble constantly. In the next picture I’m standing up on my motorcycle. For all the trouble I cause I was still every parent’s dream kid. I got straight A’s in school and became a doctor. I may have fucked up a few times as a teenager but I grew up and I got to save lives.

“What’re you doing?” Audrina asks while flopping herself down on my bed.

“Looking at high school pictures. You were hot,” I tell her.

“Wasn’t I? You were so angsty,” she laughs. I flip to the next page where’s there a picture of me and Audrina. She was wearing a cheerleading uniform and I was wearing skinny jeans and a band tee as per usual. She was smiling nicely and I was sticking my tongue out.

“Man we’re like ying and yang,” she says smiling.

“How did we become friends again?”
It was adopt a loner day in kindergarten.” We burst out laughing and I put the album away.

“So how are things with James? I ask.

“Good. We’re just hooking up right now but it’s really fun,” she replies.

“You okay with that?”

“Definitely. And who knows, maybe in the future things will change.” Before Bobby I was queen of having sex with no strings attached. Bobby changed me in a lot of ways but I now that I think about it, but it was usually for the worst. I push him out of my mind and me and Audrina watch a movie

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