Unconditionally*ON HOLD*

‘’Dovie?’’ I heard a woman’s voice say followed by the door opening.

I turn around to see a nurse standing in the doorway. I had been talking to Dovie some more, I wasn’t sitting though.

We were a little more personal than just sitting. She had been holding my hand, until now though, and I had my other hand on the back of the chair, leaning down to her so I could focus more than just standing straight up.

‘’Yes?’’ She asks as I step out of her way, I was blocking her view of the woman.

‘’The doctor ordered that if you could, you needed to walk again.. Just around the hospital.’’ She tells her.

From the corner of my eye, I see James and Emily look over at Dovie and I.

‘’Um. Yeah.. I guess.’’ Dovie sighs with a nod before the woman exits the room.

‘’Um.. Dovie.. Would you like Harry to accompany you?’’ Emily says and Dovie and I both look over at her.

‘’I.. um.. Well… um-‘’ I cut her off, not rudely, but I just decided the answer to that question.

‘’I’d be honored to.’’ I smile gently as she looks up at me with a shocked expression.

‘’Are you sure? You might get mobbed.’’ James laughs lightly as he looks at me too.

‘’I take Dovie to places that aren’t crowded.. just the hallways, never the lobby.’’ Emily states.

‘’Then perhaps that’s what I’ll do, as long as Dovie’s okay with it.’’ I say as I look at them.

Dovie smiles as she looks up at me and nods lightly.

‘’Okay, it’s a plan then.’’ I wink and she looks back down to lap, blushing.

‘’I gotta warn you Harry, its not as easy.. as it seems.’’ James sighs as he stands up and walks over to us.

‘’Oh.. yeah.. I forgot about.. that.’’ Dovie mumbles.

‘’What do you mean?’’ I ask curiously.

‘’She has to walk with a crutch. And you have to keep a hold of her or she’ll fall.’’ James tells me.

I nod, understanding and focusing on what he’s saying. I didn’t want to screw up and let my new best friend’s face be smushed by the floor.

‘’Harry’s not stupid, James.’’ Dovie laughs lightly.

‘’I’m just trying to help, Dovie.’’ He replies with no expression on his face, just straight forward.

‘’Once again, he’s not stupid.’’ She repeats.

‘’Stop showing out just because he’s here, Dovie.’’ James says, staring down at her.

‘’I’m not showing off, and if I were it wouldn’t matter. You’re not my father, nor my mother, and you can’t tell me what to do.’’ She snaps suddenly.

Then I realize, perhaps James was serious about the bipolar thing he had mentioned in one of the emails he sent.

‘’I have to be that. You don’t have it anymore. What the fuck else am I supposed to be?’’ He snaps too, perhaps they both are.

‘’James. Stop.’’ Emily sighs as she stands and joins us.

‘’You’re the one showing out.’’ Dovie says.

‘’I’m trying to help.’’ He sighs, not very pleased at her behavior. I was confused actually, why was she trying to argue with him? All he done was tell me to be careful.

‘’You’re not-‘’ I cut her off again, but this time I meant to.

‘’Dovie, its okay.’’ I say and she sighs before glancing up to me just to look back at her hands in her lap. It was silent for a few minutes.

But then thankfully, Emily broke the harsh quietness in the room.

‘’I’ll get your brace, Dovie.’’ She mumbles as she steps away and I watch as she walks on the other side of the hospital bed.

‘’Sorry you had to hear that.’’ James mumbles as he looks at me.

‘’Its okay, I understand. I have a sister, too.’’ I say and he nods.

‘’Gemma, right? I remember Dovie telling me about your life or whatever.’’ He shrugs, slightly smiling.

‘’Yeah. That’s her.’’ I smile and he just laughs under his breath, probably embarrassed that he knew that.

Emily soon returns with a black leg brace and she kneels down, ‘’James.’’ She mumbles and he takes that as a cue and he bends down to watch.

I watch as James holds up Dovie’s leg my holding his hand under her heel. Emily unbuckles the brace and then slides it on Dovie’s leg once James moves his hand for her, but soon puts it back to support it.

Emily straps it up, and buckles it and all these other secure straps and soon, they were done. Could Dovie even feel her leg? I wanted to ask her what happened, how she felt, but I tried to keep this about her, and not about what happened to her.

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