Mom over me, makeup dripping from her red eyes. “My baby, oh Lord. Baby, are you all right?”
“I’m fine,” I said. “I think I just cracked a rib or something. Dad’s phone is broken.”
“It’s okay. We have everything backed up. They called me and told me you were hurt,
but they didn’t tell me if you were...” she said, and then started crying.
She sort of collapsed into Daisy, which is when I noticed Daisy was there, a red welt on her collarbone.
I turned away from them and looked up at the bright fluorescent light above my bed, feeling the hot tears on my face,
and finally my mom said, “I can’t lose you, too.” A woman came in and took me away to get a CT scan,
and I was sort of relieved to be away from both my mom and Daisy for a while,
not to feel the swirl of fear and guilt over being such a failure as a daughter and a friend.
“Car accident?” the woman asked as she pushed me past the word kindness painted in calligraphy on the wall.
“Yeah,” I said. “Those seat belts will hurt ya while saving your life,” she said.
“Yeah. Am I gonna need antibiotics?” “I’m not your doctor. She’ll be in after we get the test.”
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