The next few days passed quickly.
Jack stayed with me all the time, except for when I fell asleep and often found him laughing outside with Oriol. I was glad they were becoming friends, they both had a childish side, although Oriol only showed it when we were in class (sometimes) or when we were hanging around.
I’ve been in hospital to repair my damaged organs, although I doubt they’d have let me out because I’d broken a lot of ribs.
Jack and I tried not to have sex anymore, even though we failed a few times, because I really needed to take deep breaths and when I did so, my lungs hurt like hell. Still, we managed to continue having oral sex and I tried to breathe short and a bit faster, so wouldn’t hiss in pain a lot. I knew Jack heard me hiss in pain.
I’d made a few friends, also. When I wasn’t allowed to have visits, and Jack and Oriol hung around, I met Ana and Lucía, but she prefered to be called Lucy, and both were about my age and liked the same music I did.
Ana was tall, like me, and slim. She was tan and had long, wavy, dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. She was in hospital because of some liver problem she had.
Lucy was a bit shorter than us, but she was slim and slightly curvy. She was not as tan as Ana, and had straight and long black hair and hazel eyes. She was in hospital due to a very bad fall, in which she almost died from bleeding.
We soon became best friends and discovered we had a childish side and were now outside the corridor, bored of hanging out in our rooms, and were having fun running around with the serum holders we had. Mine gave me extra food (proteins, some fats, minerals and vitamins), so my ribs and organs healed faster.
We ran across the corridor before suddenly jumping on the serum holder’s wheels and rolling down the hospital corridor.
“Wiiiiiii” Lucy screamed with a big smile on her lips.
“We’re the three musketeers!” Ana shouted chuckling.
“We’re fucking flying!” I let out.
Gloria and few nurses turned when we squeeled happily down the halls, but they didn’t stop us, but smiled instead.
We continued like that, corridor up, corridor down, until we were going super fast and suddenly two nurses were carrying a new matress to a patient, thankfully it was a matress, and we collided against it, bouncing back and falling to the floor on our butts. We looked around in case someone was hurt, the girls looking at me first and we put the serum holders upright again before bursting out laughing uncontrallably on the floor.
“That was fucking awesome!” I cheered.
“Again! Again!” Ana raised her arms.
“We did fly when we bounced back” Lucy laughed.
We looked up and saw Monica, the most ‘undertanding' and ‘nicest' nurse, stepped in front of us.
"Can I help you?" I spat at her. We didn't like each other a lot.
“To your rooms, now” she demanded, not saying a ‘Hello’ or a ‘How are you?’, not even and ‘Excuse me’. She looked down on us with those bright green eyes of hers and I stood up.
“Why should we?” Lucy asked.
“We were having fun-“ Ana started, but she cut her off.
“Yes, I saw that. But this is a hospital, not a park” she spat out, waving her head and her light brown and curly long hair side to side.
“And what is this supposed to be? A depressing shithole?” I spat back at her. She turned to me, narrowing her eyes, “Gloria and the others noticed us and didn’t say anything” she opened her mouth to say something, probably offensive towards Gloria, so I continued, “And they’ve been here for many many years, while you haven’t been here for five years, so shut it” I know it’s not correct to talk like that to a nurse, but that bitch was so fake and so posh and- argh. She was as bad as the preppy equestrian kids, if not worse!
She looked taken back and turned away, clicking her heels- yes, that bitch wore heels to work in a hospital- furiously. I swear if she fell to the floor right now I’d laugh my ass off for the rest of my life.
When she turned around the corner, we exchanged looks and laughed again.

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“Babe, I’m back” Jack walked into my room.
I just came out of the bathroom, after combing my hair again, and I was sitting cross-legged on my bed, not knowing what to do. I smiled widely when I saw him, but I stopped when I saw he was carrying a flower bucket of red roses and white daisies. My face lit up as he walked over to me.
“Oh” I managed to say, speechless. They were my favourite, how did he know? I didn’t remember telling him.
“You like them?” he sat next to me. I pulled myself up to my knees and put my arms around his neck and kissed him deeply.
“They’re perfect, thankyou” I smiled. “How did you know?” I asked. He smirked and pecked my lips.
“That’s top secret” he smirked between kisses.
“Oh, so now we’re playing James Bond?” I giggled.
“Yeah, but be careful. You never know where my gun can end up shooting” he winked at me. He didn’t just make up some sort of pick up line, did he? I giggled again and he grinned at me.
“Good one” I said aganst his lips, but not moving. He bit my lower lip and kissed me softly, but passionately. I kissed him back and we were soon in sync.
He sat on my bed and I continued on my knees on top of the matress whilst he asked for entrance, licking my bottom lip, which I happily granted, and we explored over and over again each other’s mouths. We pulled away to breathe and started into each other’s eyes.
“You’re so beautiful” he gave me a crooked smile.
“You’re so perfect” I said back, and kissing the tip of his nose.
“What did you do today?” Jack asked, putting a bit of hair behind my ear.
“Serum holder races” I grinned. He chuckled and pulled me closer. “By the way, what did you want?”
“Huh?” he seemed confused.
“The flowers” I said like it was obvious.
“Oh!” he blushed slightly. “Why can’t I give my girlfriend flowers without her being suspicious I want something from her?” I looked at him expectantly until he chuckled and kissed me again.
“Okay, okay, you got me there” he said with a chuckle and I smirked a bit and he leaned closer to me.
“Is it bad?” I asked innocently. He shook his head and smiled widely.
“Gloria told me they’re letting you go tomorrow”
“Really?!” I squeeled.
“Really” he pecked my lips, “Will you let me stay with you until we go to Warped?”
“I knew you wanted something” I giggled softly, “and, yes you can stay with me” I kissed his cheek and hugged him from the side, leaning my head against his chest.
“Good, because I already pictured myself at the equestrian centre’s living room, to be honest” he laughed.
Equestrian centre. Stella. Oh, shit. My face went white and I froze in place for a second. Wait, did I fear Stella? No, no, I didn’t, she was my little cutie, I couldn’t possibly fear her.
See, María? This is what happens when you don’t ride again after falling; you start to fear the horse!
Jack saw my frown and shook me softly.
“Hey, baby, you okay?” he asked a bit concerned. I shook my head no. “What’s up?” he held me a bit tighter.
“Stella” I said with a small voice. “I think I’m starting to fear her” I cried.
“Shh, babe, what are you saying? You fearing… Stella?” he sounded confused. I nodded and pulled away slowly, but not completely pulling away.
“One of the things a rider has to do after a fall is get back up on the horse, or the rider will unconciously start fearing the horse and fearing falling again” I explained with a thick voice, “That’s why I always get back up” I started to cry again, "but this time I haven’t, and it’s been almost a week without her and I can’t ride again until my ribs are completely healed and I’m starting to get scared” Jack looked at me carefully and pulled me closer and held me tightly.
“It’s just a shock reaction, that’s all” he tried to calm me down. Wait, what did he just say? I looked up to him “Oriol explained me a few things” he smirked and he went serious again and looked at me, “I know you will get back on her, trust me. You have a very strong bond with Stella, and maybe you’re gaining fear because you haven’t seen her since the competition, but I’m sure you’ll throw yourself at her as soon as you see her again” he smiled and kissed my temple. “I know you will” he then kissed my lips tenderly and slowly.
“Thanks, Jack” I smiled in the kiss. “For everything"
“My pleasure” he smiled back.

Notes

This took me longer because I have no idea how to do proper filler chapters.
Comments are welcomed! ;)

Title credit: The Poets Cry For More by Being As An Ocean.