The heart monitor kept on beeping. The annoying beeps seemed to have waken her up from her nap.
Brooklyn blinked a couple of times as her eyes got accustomed to the bright hospital lights. When she lifted her right arm, she gasped in pain since she had abruptly pulled at the needle drip on her hand.
She forced herself to sit up straight on the hospital bed. She was placing her feet in the fluffy slippers when the door suddenly yanked open.
"What're you doing? You shouldn't be up!" Valerie rushed to Brooklyn's side to help her back in bed.
Brooklyn swatted her hand away with a scrowl on her face. She made an attempt to stand on heer ooown but failed. With her weakness, she plopped back down on the bed.
Valerie sighed. "That's why I said you shouldn't get up. You're still weak."
"Why're you here?" Brooklyn asked while not facing her mother. Her gaze was at the wall across her.
Valerie sighed. "Why wouldn't I be here? What kind of mother doesn't visit her child in hospital?"
Brooklyn scoffed. She decided to try to get up once more on her own.
"What're you doing?" Felix asked when he saw Brooklyn our of her hospital bed.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" She glared at him as she dabbed her wound with cotton wool. She had forcefully removed the IV drip needle from her hand.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm going home. I'm fine now. So what's the point if staying here?"
Brooklyn continued with her slow strides to the door.
"You overdosed yourself for crying out loud!" Felix exclaimed. Brooklyn stopped in her tracks with her hand that was stretched out to the door handle.
Brooklyn's shoulders shook. She turned around to face him.
"So?" She smirked.
"You need help."
"I'm not sick!" She yelled. "I'm not crazy!"
"I never said that. But you're just be proving me right with how you're acting."
The room fell silent.
"Who cares what you think? I'm outta here." She made her way out, leaving Valerie and Felix behind.
Brooklyn's hand was suddenly yanked back as she made her way to the elevator.
"Do you just love making everyone around you worried?! Is this fun to you?"
He had pressed the pause button of the elevator to stop the doors from closing.
"Why? Are you finally reconsidering that ridiculous arrangement between us?" She snickered behind her hand. "Don't make me laugh."
Felix clenched his teeth. "Risking your life just to prove a point? That's so childlike of you. What else was I expecting?" He smirked when he saw her fuming.
"I hate you!" She said through gritted teeth.
"The feeling's mutual, darling." He smirked as he released the pause button, allowing the elevator doors to close, separating them.