“I think you should go to bed,” he said.
“The movie’s not over.”
“Were you watching?Or were you just sitting here shivering?”
I sighed.He’d pissed me off now, but I didn’t want to argue with him, so I pulled myself up and went to the bedroom.The doctor said I needed to sleep sitting upright.That meant getting another pillow out, and the linen cupboard was in the hallway, and I was so tired from walking up the hallway I couldn’t do anything else.
“Eddie?”
I heard him from the living room.“Yeah?”
“Can you give me a hand?”
“Sure.”
He got me an extra pillow and blanket and helped me into bed and covered me with the blanket, like he’d done this before.
He went off to the bathroom, and I lay there shivering.
When he came out, I said, “Eddie, I know it’s not that late, but could you join me?”
“Sure,” he said, and he took off his jeans and socks and climbed into bed beside me carefully so he didn’t jostle me.
“Thanks.”
“No problem,” he said.
“I’m freezing, Eddie.Keep me warm?”
I was sitting up, and he was lying down, so it was awkward, but he moved closer to me and put his arm around my waist.His arm was warm, and everything felt easier when he touched me, and I stopped shivering, and I felt tingling across my body where his arm was lying, and when it subsided, all the tension in my muscles had relaxed.
I hadn’t slept much the night before, and after everything, I was wiped out.Even though I was sitting up, I dozed off.
Chapter Eleven: Our First Fight
Iwoke up to an emptybed, feeling worse than yesterday.I panicked until I heard the shower.I put my hand under my shirt and felt my ribs.They hurt everywhere.Even breathing hurt.I needed another ten hours of sleep.
