Falling for a goodbye

Truths

Ryan's POV

I told her my story, service, injury, here, everything and I could see that she was feeling bad for me, I hate it when people feel like that towards me but with her I couldn't seem to be mad about it

"I love it, war hero who now can barely tie his own shoelaces" she mocks wth a little giggle that made my whole world spin, I had to laugh too, it was a pretty good irony-1

"I know right?" I joke with her

"So when you say they keep trying to do stuff to fix your back what do you mean?" She asks

Ah this one, this ones a cracker of a story

"I've had surgery 3 times for them to try and sort my spine out but they aren't having much luck" I tell her and her eyes go wide

"3 times?!" She gasps

"Yep" I just act like it's no big deal, as far as I'm concerned it isn't really

"Wow" she mutters

"Kinda sucks but I did what I've always wanted to do, I served, I wanted to do more than 2 tours but I'll get over it" I hope I sound convincing because I'm honestly still trying to convince myself

*a few hours later, after lunch*

My door opened and one of the nurses popped her head in the door

"Ryan, meds time" she reminds me as if I'm not already aware

"Yeah I know" I reply, she smiles at me and then leaves

"Meds?" Chloe asks

"Yeah they like to try and keep me hyped up on painkillers and stuff, not that the painkillers have much effect but whatever" I explain

"Oh so where are they then?" She asks getting up, I'd usually just get them myself but my back really hurts so I let her do it

I pointed to the cabinet where they're kept and she goes to get them, they assess you before they'll actually leave you with your meds in your room in case you're suicidal and try to overdose but I was so uncooperative that they just gave them to me so they didn't have to deal with me

"How come you're just allowed to have them I mean surely that could go really wrong" she asks as though she's reading my mind and I explain it to her in short

"I didn't cooperate so they just gave up and gave hem to me, I'm not gonna do anything stupid so there wasn't much reason to worry" I explained with a chuckle as she grabbed a glass of water for me

"Which ones?" She asked

"All of them" I reply and she looks at me like I'm kidding

"Yeah I'm on that many different medications" I acknowledged smiling at the disbelief on her face

"How are you not high all the time?" She joked as she brought everything over to me

I leaned in and whispered my response to her

"How d'you know I'm not?" He laughed as she looked at me nervously then started laughing too when she realised I wasn't being serious

"They're low doses" I promise her because I can see the uncertainty in her face

"This is gonna take some getting used to" she muttered

"Well it'll be nice to have you around" I tell her with a smile, she smiles back and oh my god she's so gorgeous

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Sorry I didn't update yesterday, hoping to do another one today but no promises xoxo