Fated reborn - Chapter 95: Chapter 95

I wanted the ground to open and chug me up right there. I didn't look at Trini as she helped my useless body off the bed and into the awaiting wheelchair.
I didn't say anything either as my face burned from embarrassment. And the ever plastered smirk she had on didn't make things easier for me.
"Embarrassment got your tongue?" She muttered as she stood behind the wheelchair, but I kept my gaze head on, my back rigid as though I hadn't heard her.
She sighed, but not in an "I'm tired" sort of way, it sounded more like a "it feels good to be right" sort of sigh. At least that was how it sounded to me.
"I am so not going to let you hear the end of this," she added, proving my point.
"We are only going to be out of your room for at most an hour," she started to say, but the gasp I let out caught her off.
"That wasn't what we agreed."
"If my memory serves me right, we didn't agree on any time to begin with. And you did say it would only be a few hallways. That certainly shouldn't take more than an hour," she stated, throwing my words back at me.
I bit my lip, shit. I had only said that to get her to agree, I didn't think she would actually take it seriously.
"I was only joking." I tried to laugh it off but it wasn't working. Even a fly buzzing by sounded more amusing.
"Well, boohoo. I make the rules and I say we are going to be out of your room for one hour."
"Trini-"
"Nope, not hearing it. I'm not about to agree to something that will make Doctor Maya eat me alive." She had her game face on, so I knew she wasn't budging.
My mouth parted and Trini rambled out before I could say something else.
"I'm not going to change my mind, it doesn't matter what you say."
"I was only going to sigh," I said, playing it off. A lie.
Trini gave me a look, then bit out, "fine. Then sigh quietly." She drew out the "sigh" as if to mock me and I turned my gaze away from her so fast that my neck muscles strained.
Our conversation died there, and I fell back on the wheelchair as Trini dutifully pushed me.
We went out the door and I forgot all about the one hour time limit as my eyes leeched in on the walls, floors, everywhere, at the new stimulation. To be fair, it wasn't much different from the hospital room but it was still somewhere else and that was good enough for me.
The same pale white hallways, but the floors weren't tiled like they had been in the room. Instead it had more of a stone look to it and reminded me of polished marble.
We had been strolling, more like Trini was strolling while I was wheeled down the hallways,for about ten minutes when i pointed out we hadn't come across anyone.
"You came out to see the scenery, not meet new people," she deadpanned shutting me down, but I didn't want to give up so easily.
"But isn't it odd, I mean okay we may not come across other patients but what about other doctors and members of stuff?"
"It's probably not a popular shift time," she mumbled and my face scrunched.
"That makes no sense."
"I don't know what to tell you Wyn, it's odd to me as well." And for the first time, I noticed her forehead ruffle as lines formed on them, but I couldn't help thinking she looked like an angry baby. It was a miracle I didn't laugh out loud at my own silly thoughts. She glanced behind us, her dark curls bouncing before turning her head to gaze ahead again, and the lines on her head deepened.
"It's odd that no one is here," she muttered under her breath which made me think she didn't mean for me to hear.
She made a sharp turn to the right, and I came across a well lit hall, and rooms lined it on both sides. Numbers hung over the doorframes which made me know we were in some kind of ward and as we passed the first two doors, the steady beep of the machines inside let me know that they did have other patients besides me.
It was a crazy thought, but I had gone a day or two thinking I was the only one in the hospital. It had been irrational, but I had thought it all the same.
We came to the end of the hallway and Trini spun us around.
"So what else do you want to see? We still have thirty- five minutes."
"What about that other hallway,... Right there." I pointed towards another hallway, that wasn't as well lit and I thought it had been abandoned. But one quick question to Trini and I found out it wasn't. So why did it look abandoned?
Trini's eyes followed where I pointed to and she sighed.
"Why do you always have to be so curious?"
"It's in my blood," I chirped, and Trini gave the wheelchair a playful nudge that sent me a foot or so away from her.
"So are you taking me or not?... Never mind, I can wheel myself there." I took hold of the wheels even as my arms felt like jello and started a slow rotation of them. I had gotten at most, three feet away from her when my arm strength abandoned me, and it turned into more of me pressing my sweaty, tired fingers against the wheels.
Trini hadn't moved from where she stood, and now, she had her hands on her hips with that knowing glint in her eye that I wanted to ignore.
"Need some help?" The words drew out of her slowly and I tried my best to act nonchalant.
"I'm fine," I let out, the white lie slipping through my tongue easily, and I even pressed a smile for good measure. But now I was second guessing my decision.
"Are you sure?"
"I am, but since you keep offering, you can come help me," I said, and I wanted to high five myself for making it seem like I was accepting her offer.
"Right." The words came out like grit but I ignored them and looked ahead.
I celebrated in my mind when I heard her slow footsteps approach me.
"Have I told you you're insufferable?"
I smiled. "All the time."