Someone Like you by stephanie lyon (novels to read txt) 📕

stained cheeks making my heart skip a beat. He shakes his head and hits the steering wheel in anger as we come to the hospital entrance before I can say something he jumps out of the car and runs to my door throwing it open and reaching in to grab me. I try to tell him to stop but as usual he chooses to be stubborn and not listen. 

 

“Dakotah I hurt my wrist not my legs, I can walk” I say as he runs towards the entrance. He ignores me and is almost to the doors when a nurse comes out with a wheel chair.

 

“She uh punched m- my wall” he says as he sets me down in the wheel chair. I look up at him and see his eyes filled with regret and anger. I flinch at the pain, this time the pain wasn’t cause of my arm it was from my heart finally breaking. He regretted being with me and getting me pregnant and he was pissed I came back here. And in this moment I felt the same way, coming back thinking things hadn’t changed. Assuming we could just go back to the relationship we had before, I was so stupid.

 

I look back and watch as Dakotah stands there as the nurse wheels me down the hall at a fast rate. With every step I get further away from him, the world becomes blurry.

 

Then it turned black.

 

 

Chapter Five

 

 

I stare up at the ceiling.  I focus on counting the ceiling tiles as I wait for the doctor to come back. After spending six hours in the hospital getting a cast then getting tests because you black out could make anyone irritable. All I wanted to do is get the hell out of here and get back to my son. I didn’t have my phone to call Chris because I left it in Dakotah’s truck. I felt a pressure on my chest as I remind myself about Dakotah and the fact I hadn’t seen him sense the nurse wheeled me away from him. I sit straight up as I hear a couple knocks on the door. I was surprised to see it wasn’t the doctor.

 

“I thought you left” I mumble. He shakes his head and holds out a teddy bear wearing a cute little t-shirt that says get well soon. I hold back the tears as they threaten to escape. Now this is something the Dakotah I fell in love with would do. Not the Dakotah I’ve come to know sense I came back.

 

“Thanks” I reply as another series of knocks comes from the door. I look up to see the doctor walk back in. he looked like Paul walker but instead a little older with salt and pepper hair. I would be lying if I said he wasn’t attractive for his age. He smiles at me then Dakotah.

 

“Ok Mrs. Montgomery”

 

“Actually it’s Ms.” I correct looking up at Dakotah he looked like he was depressed. I bite my lip and turn back to the doctor.

 

“Ok Ms. Montgomery well I’ve written you a prescription for some pain medicine which you can get filled at the pharmacy down on Thirteenth Street. The test came back all negative so I’m pretty sure it was just do to stress that you blacked out “

 

“You blacked out” Dakotah asked. I shrug my shoulders and continue to focus on the doctor.

 

“So your good to go, be careful to punching any more walls Ms. Montgomery” he jokes holding his hand out to me. I force a week smile and shake his hand.  Then he shakes Dakotah’s hand and without another word leaves the room. I turn to Dakotah who was staring at me, I could tell he was about to flip out on me for not telling him I blacked out.

 

“don’t even start Dakotah you were gone and when you came back we were only alone for a few seconds before the doctor came, I had no chance to tell you” I say standing up trying my best to be careful so I didn’t hurt my arm any more. The numbing medicine only worked so long.  

 

“I wasn’t going to say anything” he says opening the door and holding it for me.

 

“Yeah you not talking my ass you’re forgetting we were together for years, I knew you better then you knew yourself.”

 

He remained silent not saying anything as we walked back to his truck. It was uncomfortable like a first date awkward. Neither one of us knowing what to say. that feeling of not knowing someone that’s how it felt. 

 

I was relieved to say the least when we reached his tuck. The sun was setting, the air was becoming colder and I was wearing a sundress. Like always Dakotah opened my door and helped me get into it at first I wished he wouldn’t of it reminded me of the old him, the one that was so easy  to love then I was thankful he did because being near the new Dakotah ended with me in a cast.

 

“Let’s go get your meds before we find a hotel for the night” he says turning on the truck.

 

“What we were supposed to drive through the-“

 

“Yeah but you can’t drive heavy machinery and I’m to the point where I’m about to pass out. Trust me I want to get there just as bad, but we’ll never make it if we die before we get there.”

 

“Fine” I give in reluctantly

 

 

 ****

 

 

 

“We have no choice, there’s not another motel for miles faith, and it’ll be fine I’ll sleep on the floor if it’s that big of a deal”

 

“That’s not the problem, they don’t even have a heater or phones what kind of hotel is this” I hiss as I follow behind him. The temperature was dropping every minute and these rooms didn’t have freaking heaters I’m surprised they even had two beds, we’ll technically a bed and a hide a bed.

 

“Faith we’ll figure it out ok just calm down” he says sliding in the room key. I look around at the surroundings and it felt like it was straight out of a horror movie set. I follow him into the room making sure to lock the door latch before anything else. I watched as Dakotah set my medicine down on a nightstand before observing the room they, although cheap, a huge rip off.

 

“sleeping in the truck might have been more comfortable then this” I say looking over at the bed, there was no way it was a queen like the guy said, it was barely a double. 

 

“I’m sorry” Dakotah says sitting on the edge of the bed, his eyes looked sad and angry.

 

“it’s fine Dakotah, we’ll make it work” I say running my jands through my tangled hair over and over.

 

“ no I mean I’m sorry for letting you go that night” he whisphers barely loud enough for me to hear. My heart starts to race as the words sunk in. “I should have came after you, and maybe everything would be different. We could have been a family I could of proposed to  you but instead I just let you go I just didn’t know why you left, I thought-“ he says before pausing. My heart drops to the pit of my stomach as the silence filled the room. He thought what? Why did he think I left! I watch as he inhales sharply. “I thought you fell out of love with me” he added his voice cracking causing my chest to feel tight yet again. Even with barely any light I could see a tear as it ran down his cheek.

 

Before I even realized it I was crying too. I shake my head as he looks at me.

 

“that’s not true I never stopped loving you I told myself it was better-“

 

“losing you and my son almost killed me” he says standing up and walking towards me. my heart speeds up with every step he takes.  He stopped when he was an arm length away. I caught my breath and looked up at the ceiling trying to hold back the tears that so badly wanted to come.

 

“I’m sorry”

 

“me too faith, me too” he mumbles running his hands through his brown hair. I use to love doing that, his hair was just to irrisistable not to touch. He looks at me, and I mean really looks at me. like he was meeting me for the first time and was trying to figure me out. Then he was gone, he brushed past me, and I forced myself not to look. I knew he was leaving, just like I kept leaving him everytime I got scared. Up until I left he was always there to stop me, but now he was the one leaving.

 

My chest tightened, it felt like someone was suffocating me. so this was how it felt when someone you love leaves you. Like everything was collapsing, your whole world caving in on you. I turn around to stop him but I was to late. The door slams just as I turn around leaving me in this empty cold room alone. I drop to my knees and finally let the sobs out, the crys I’ve held in ffor fourteen months. I let myself lay on the dirty floor not thinking about anything not even how dirty this carpet probably was.

 

All I wanted to do was cry. And cry some more until I couldn’t cry anymore.

 

So that’s what I did I curled myself into the fedal position and let myself cry for the first time in  almost a year and a half. I let more time pass as I cried until I heard a beep signaling a text message on my phone. I wiped my face with and stifled my tears before reaching for my phone.

 

It was chris.

 

 

They’re keeping bently overnight to run tests and watch him, no idea whats causing him to be sick have you left yet Bentley keeps asking for you.

 

              

 

  I wipe my eyes again before responding to him.

               

 

Yeah, be there A.S.A.P tell him mommy loves him

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I wait for the text to send then make myself get up of the ground using the bed as a support. I decide to wait until the morning to take a shower, I just didn’t have it in me at this point to take a shower. So instead I crawl onto the bed making sure not to use my right arm. Without bothering to put the blankets over me I lay down and pick up my phone. Bently’s picture showed up on my phone making me smile and cry at the same time.

 

I thought I did the right thing leaving to live with chris, but I didn’t I was thinking about what was best for Dakotah and I, not Bentley. If I was thinking about bently I should of stayed, but instead I took him away from his dad.

 

I was just as bad as my dad.

 

 I promised I would never be like him, but I was turning out to be just like him.

 

“I’m so sorry” I cry to bently’s picture before burying my face into the pillow  and letting myself fall apart yet again. After what seemed like hours I felt myself fall into a deep sleep