The world just seemed to freeze.

I couldn’t believe it, I felt as if she had betrayed me completely, even though we had only known each other for a day and a bit, it felt like a dagger in the heart, why was she so flirty today, she must have known what she was doing, but she still did it even though she had a boyfriend. Not wanting to think about this for a moment longer I closed down the page and the world began to spin again.
“RALPH ARE YOU LISTENING? Yelled the teacher from the front of the class as they do.
“Yeah” I called out lamely not having a clue what had been said for the last 5 minutes. Dan just gave me the look that says ‘BULLLSHIT’ thankfully the teacher didn’t bother to question me. I just signed to myself and listened to the teacher blabber on about taxation…or something.


Class ended, though I didn’t give any thought to anything, I could only think about what I was going to do about Emily, I mean I was going to have to do something, I was going to get food with them soon and I knew I couldn’t just pretend I didn’t know so I thought I would just act cool.
“You Okay Ralph you seem distracted?” Dan said from behind me.
“Yeah sorta mate” I said half heartily.
“Nah I can tell something’s up is it to do with one of the girls in the class?” Dan asked.
“Something like that mate” I muttered and kept walking towards the front door.
“It’s something to do with that Emily girl isn’t it?” called Dan after me, he hadn’t moved.
“How do you know?” I asked generally interested.
“Dude you spent about 20 minutes just staring at her page, you might as well as had a big red badge saying ‘Obsessed’ !” said Dan.
Had I really spent 20 minutes just staring at her facebook page, it felt like minutes. But still Dan had figured out most of it, I thought I might as well be honest.
“It’s a little more complicated than just liking a girl who has a boyfriend.” I told him with a heavy sigh.
“C’mon you can tell me as we walk to town….C’mon.” He beckoned to me to follow.
So I spent the next 10 minutes explaining to him what had happened from the bus stop yesterday to the facebooking moments ago.
“Yea that’s some bullshit, maybe she is just really open, it could be a bet the whole ‘seduction bet’…what…it happens” he said as I raised an eyebrow at him questionably.
“Hey all I’m saying is that maybe your blowing it all out of proportion, guys do it all the time” He continued, he had a point, it wasn’t like we had been in love for months, let’s be honest I met her yesterday and was hooked like a fish on the line, and boy was I moaning about it.
“okay, yea you probably right.” I started. “she probably just wants to be…”

SMASH!

The last thing I remember was Dan shouting in panic, and then the world just faded to blackness.
“Ralph, RALPH mate, cmon Ralph can you hear me!?”
“OH MY GOD, HIS HE OKAY, I’M SORRY I DIDN’T SEE HIM”
“DOES HE LOOK OKAY TO YOU?”
“DONT YELL AT ME!”

BLACKNESS

The next thing I remember was being pushed around a hospital with a crowd of people around me, and a lot of shouting. What had happened?
I tried to speak but I could only make a groan escape my lips, but it seemed that all it took.
“Ralph mate, its okay man, yo had abit of a knock your gunna be fine okay…Ralph, look at me. GUNNA. BE. FINE.”
Was that Dan? What did he mean “abit of a knock”, and why the FUCK did my head hurt so much. I began to lose consciousness again, but I was starting to wish that it would hurry the fuck up, my head started to become more and more painful by the second and all this shouting was not helping. And soon enough I was out like a light.
Meanwhile as Dan had to wait in the waiting room he decided to help his friend out, at least abit, He took Ralph’s phone from his pocket and quickly typed up a text, considered it, deleted it and re-wrote it, and sent it.
“Ralph has had a nasty accident and is in hospital, you may want to come down as soon as you can.” He then switched the phone off and placed it in his pocket and took a seat, trying to keep his mind off what he had caused.


Louise was in the middle of a lecture, struggling to take down notes.