Fred's turn out at the accident's news was more like a madness than being shocked, he fiercely grabbed his key and without going for a change or a pick of coat and dashed out of the room
"Why the hell will she turn down my offer to drive her" he cursed under his breath more to himself but Lucy could hear him as she scrambled forward to him. There's no time to call or involve Carl in this as he's still in his room probably taking shower in his bathroom.
Fred spent his time cursing under his breath, muttering to himself as the elevator slide down with both him and Lucy inside it. Lucy was equally shocked and too confused to say anything but think about iris' safety. Fred eyed the interior of the elevator once again as if it's taking a whole year to land and opened, as long as he can remember this will be the longest lift in this elevator ever.
Finally, it stopped and screeched open and Fred did not waste his time to rush out into the garage, sliding inside the car, he pulled out of the garage and stopped to wait a second before Lucy hopped in the other side then he sped up and out into the street.
Just as he was driving out, he asked Lucy of the name of the hospital and she told him the name the caller had told her earlier before disconnecting the line.
"That's where she works" Fred muttered, his voice dark and deep before swerving the car suddenly to the right and Lucy almost screamed, This is unlike him or this is just like him when someone that he love or cherishes is in danger. Lucy thought. She'd seen this part from him when Doris had fainted after witnessing their house being burnt, she couldn't act out of it then cause her mind was also in disarray of imagining their mother dying but now? Is Fred falling for Iris or already in love with her. Has he been keeping this this while?
Lucy's attention was jerked back as Fred pulled up the car and she was surprised they were already in the hospital' compound. Fred doesn't waste much time before he removed the key and got out of the car while Lucy followed hurriedly. They rushed into the hospital and finding the welcoming room luxuriously built and bigger than her expectation, Lucy's mouth flung open with the sight of the crowded room with some patients being led in by nurses, some moving around alone probably to exercise themselves or receive fresh air while some are being led out by those that seems to be their families.
"Excuse me nurse please I asked of Doctor Iris, Iris Gold" Lucy heard Fred's voice asked a nurse over the counter impatiently and the nurse seeming to understand him quickly bade him with the reply of her Ward's number and before the nurse could add anything Fred had left and Lucy scurried after him.
They had just come to the end of the wards number but couldn't find the number the nurse had given to them, only elevator lays at the end of the passage.
"What number does she called it " Lucy asked the worried Fred
"F11" he said raking his hands through his hair
"But it's nowhere here" he added and Lucy's eye swayed to the elevator
"Maybe it is" she half consciously said pointing at the elevator
"Maybe we should take that to another hall?" She asked, her eyes furrowed at Fred then his common sense hitted him.
Iris is a doctor here so she might not be in a common ward room, maybe a special one
"Yeah, maybe we should" he swiftly said and they scampered up to it and tried their best up only for a smile to flicker at Lucy's face when the elevator opened and they sighted the number, F01 at the first ward.
"Good" Fred muttered under his breath as he walked out, faster and ahead of Lucy who scampered up to him again. Finally they saw the number F11 and Fred seemed to breathe in heavily before opening and entering which Lucy followed and this time she ran ahead of Fred and up to Iris whose forehead was banded across.
"Oh my God! Iris" she gasped at the sight of her and Iris weakly pulled her head towards her and a smile flickered on her face
"Oh goodness! How did it happened? Are you okay now? Does it hurt? Are you in pain?" She rushed the questions over rhetorically as if her life depends on it and as she was about touching the bandage Iris winced in him so she stopped and looking sorry she said "I'm sorry" and the smile came from her face again. What an innocent sweet smile.
"You shouldn't be sorry Lucy" she managed to say but her voice came out weak"
Lucy could hear Fred's breathe racing as he was behind her already and he wondered what next is coming from him, he was obviously angry at the sight of things but she was surprised when he spoke out,
"How are you feeling?"
it was calm and unlike the desperate worried Fred that has stormed out of the house fiercely and worriedly searching nook and cranny just to find her, he'd not even wait for the nurse to finish with her direction the other time before venturing in to see her and now this is how he could react before her? Lucy thought. Or could he be shy? Haha no. Shyness doesn't seem to be Fred thing
"I am alright" Iris said with a slight nod and smile but that didn't quite bribe away Fred's worry as it appeared on his face again
"Seriously you know this would have not happen if you had accept my offer to drive you and how the hell did this happen? How the hell do you have your head hurt and got into an accident?"
Whoo!. Fred's voice is raising now, this is what Lucy had thought will first happen cause she knows if she was to be the victim Fred would have do just like that but, nevertheless it's not right to raise voice at a patient
"Hey, Fred it's okay now. You shouldn't raise your voice at a patient" Lucy said holding him by his wrist
"It's just a minor accident, I was too in haste to quickly realise a truck was pulling up before me" she explained pathetically
"Though we barely collide but I guess I hit my forehead on the wheel while trying to pull up the car" she added and stopped, looking gloomy
"Oh, I'm sorry Iris" Lucy said covering her hand in hers
"It's okay" she said almost in a whisper and just when Fred was about talking the door opened and a woman who will be in her fifties came in follow by a guy who will be in his late twenties, merely looking at the woman, she look exactly like the old Iris, three of them sharing a striking familiarities of brown hair and while Iris and the woman possessed brown eyes, the guy's was striking blue but they looked so official and smell of wealth.
"Oh my God! Iris" the woman gasped as she quickly rushed towards Iris
"Mom" Iris called as she sat up to her mom's embrace
"Oh what have you done?" She asked cupping her face in her hand and staring at her forehead.
Lucy had been staring at the guy all the while, seems she'd seen him before but can't remember. Just then her phone rang, interrupting the mother and daughter's conversation and diverting everybody's attention to her, especially the woman and guy's attention to Fred and Lucy.
She slide the phone to realise Doris had video called her, she decided to disconnect it cause to pick the video call, she has to be in her room not in the hospital so as not to start answering different questions which may lead her to narrating an unnecessary story, and not with these people's eyes on her so she quickly called her Mom back, she pressed the phone to her hear and half covered her mouth from the strangers staring at her, to her phone
"Hey Mom, I'm at work I'll call you back" she lied and disconnected but she could felt the woman's stare widened at her and for no reason her leg shook but she quickly caught herself
"You're a pretty good liar" the guy's voice came at her and her head tilted at him.
What.
Oh it's the Gold's int. Company's CEO, now she could remember where she'd see him, it was when she'd finished school and wanted to take up a job, she'd had an interview, though not only her but some other successful employees, they'd had a public meeting in which he briefly headed them before welcoming them to working in the company before Fred later bring an end to her dream of working in one of the biggest company in America.
"I... I only did that to..."
The woman's laugh cut her off and she replied "I understand my dear, mothers can be sometimes too inquisitive, disturbing and crazy when it comes to their children... Just like me" she smiled and Lucy can't help but smile back, she likes the woman and even being her first impression? She guess she's going to go along better with Iris' Mom
"Are you guys her friend" she asked nudging at her and Fred and Lucy nodded
"Thanks for being with her when she needed you most" she smiled again, seems Iris had gotten this special qualities from her. She had the most pleasant smile a mother would have just like Iris had the one a sweet lady like her would have.
"You must be Fred then" Iris' brother, Walker said as he approached Fred. There was an hint of surprise on Fred's face even though he tried to brush it off as he could
"I'm Walker, Iris' brother and she has told me a lot about you" he said offering an handshake which Fred took with his surprised look turned into a confused one or more or less, a frown.
TBC...
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