Just One Night: Part 5 (10 page)
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Authors: Elle Casey
“I’m calling the ambulance straight away,” I say, leaning down and kissing her once quickly on the nose. “Be all right, Jennifer, please be all right.” My fingers shake as I try to press the buttons. It’s the stuff of nightmares, how I try to hit the nine and instead hit the eight and have to start all over.
She moans again as I wait for the call to connect.
“What happened?” she asks, her voice groggy.
“You’ve been injured, my darling. Just wait right here, don’t move. I’m ringing the hospital.” It’s then that I notice she has those deformed birds on her feet again. I can picture her wearing them the other night, not that long ago. Ridiculous birds, but somehow, when they are on her feet, I can’t help but find them … cute. One is coming partially off her foot, so I crawl over to fix it. If my lady wants to wear hydrocephalic birds on her feet, then that’s what she shall do, damn it all!
“Is that bitch still here?” she asks, sounding sleepy. “She got the jump on me.”
“She surely did,” I say, moving back to her head and patting her shoulder. “She did to me as well. She’s gone now. We’ll sort it out later. First we have to get you seen to.”
“Okay … get me seen to,” she says, before she stops talking and goes limp.
“Good God, what is wrong with this fucking cellular system!” I scream, staring down at the phone that Jennifer insisted I get this afternoon for work purposes.
“Nine-one-one, what’s your emergency?” a pinched voice says from somewhere down near my wrist.
I take a deep breath in and let it out, putting the phone to my ear so I can play the knight in shining armor. “Help me, please, madam. I need an ambulance. The love of my life has been injured and if anything should happen to her, I cannot …” I’m unable to finish the sentence. All the emotions jumbling about in my chest and brain mix with the realization that I love this woman. I well and truly
love
her and it might be too late to tell her.
Tears spring from my eyes and trace down my cheeks as I stare at the pale white face of Jennifer Moorehouse, the girl whose last name I didn’t know, then I learnt, then I discovered I wanted to change to my own. Good god … I’ve fallen in love. When did that happen?
I look up at the ceiling and address my mother the angel. Perhaps she has some pull up there in heaven. I surely hope she does. “I know I said just one night, Mum, but I lied. It’s that simple, really. Mum, could you tell him? Tell God for me? I told a whale of a lie. See, I need a lifetime with her, not just one night … so if The Big Cheese could see his way clear to granting me this one request, I will endeavor my entire life to be the man you hoped for me to be. Tell him, Mum … you know me … I always keep my promises.”
“Sir, are you talking to me?” the woman on the other end of the line says to me. “I need your address sir. And don’t worry, we’ll get someone out there right away.”
Part 6
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