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I followed after him, my high-tops squeaking in the puddles his sneakers left. “What are you doing here?”
His big legs swiveled around, his keys in hand. His chest heaved with heavy breath, and the way he breathed, it appeared like he’d sprinted all the way over here. “Well, you texted me, right? To help?”
I had, but I didn’t ask him to come. I approached. “Weren’t you like somewhere else? Out of town or something…”
“Obviously, not now, little,” he snipped. His hand pushed over his hair. “What’s going on with Bru? It sounded serious.”
Reality set in again, that we were here and I was dealing with this current state of events. Air flow thinned, and next thing I knew, I was bending to catch my breath.
Ares’s eyes flashed. “Little, hey.”
I gasped, and Ares waved someone over.
“A little help, please,” he said, but I shrugged it off. I just needed to calm down. I needed…
Ares held the person coming over from reception off, looking at me. “What do you need? You need to sit?”
It was like he read my mind, or we were strangely in sync or something. I nodded, and he joined me over in the waiting area.
“One second. Just stay here,” he said. He sprinted over to the water machine, bought a bottle, then brought it back to me. “This will help.”
It actually did and gave me something to focus on.
Ares folded himself into the chair beside me. “Better?”
Like one hundred percent. I capped the water. “Yeah. Thanks.”
“No problem.” He eyed me. “You need anything else?”
He appeared genuine about the ask and almost worried, which was a new look for him. Ares definitely cared about few people outside himself, and like a million percent not about me. He and his friends were cut from the same cloth.
I rubbed my hands on my shorts, saying nothing. I shook my head, and he sat back.
“Is it that bad?” he asked, sounding worried now. “Bru? He all right?”
I wished I could tell him. I shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“No, they won’t tell me anything.” These people were being assholes, point-blank. I wet my lips. “I rode over in the ambulance with Bru, but when I got here, they took him back and told me I had to wait in the waiting room. He was stable, but they wouldn’t let me go with him because some kind of accident just happened in the area.”
“An accident?”
“Yeah, something on the highway,” I said. “Basically, they aren’t letting a lot of people back there. Just doctors and staff.” That’d been hours ago, hours with no news. “I keep asking for updates, but they aren’t telling me anything.”
I pushed my hands over my face, still in my fucking bed clothes. I’d barely gotten a chance to put shoes on in the middle of all this.
I literally thought I was going to lose my shit, all this too fucking much.
Ares got up. “I’m going to go talk to someone.” He shrugged. “Get some answers.”
I pulled my hands over my head, lacing my fingers behind my neck. “I already tried that. These people are being complete bitches.”
What I said made him chuckle, his hands diving into his hoodie pockets. He leaned forward. “No offense, little, but you’re not me.”
He sauntered away after that, casually striding up to the front desk. I watched in fascination as he chatted up who was easily a college girl behind the reception desk.
Her cheeks colored the tint of a stop sign, and right away, she got up after talking to him. My lips parted when she waved him to follow her.
