Slam Dunk

"Lauren, babe can you hear me?" Joey's voice echoed through my ears, as I tried desperately so peel open my eyes, yet they seemed to stay firmly shut. My next option was to speak, yet my mouth didn't agree with me as no words could escape my lips.

"Joey, the ambulance is here, you go with her" my Uncles voice now surrounded me, though I couldn't feel anything. Trying my hardest to speak once again, failing miserably before the darkest swamped me like before.

Joey's POV

Grasping tightly onto Laurens hand within the ambulance, my eyes never leaving her face. Small bruising edging around her eye socket and cheekbone from where she was hit. I couldn't quite believe what had happened. It was only meant to be friendly sparring, yet the other girls seemed determined to batter the living daylights out of Lauren. And of course Lauren being who she is wasn't backing down without a fight, yes she won in the end but somehow we were now here in this situation which was possibly the worst. My girlfriend sparks out on a stretcher heading for Walford General Hospital with no understanding of why this had happened.

Sure the paramedics put it down to severe concussion, which was most likely true but I still couldn't face the reality that Lauren hadn't woken up still, she hadn't flickered her eyes or spoke a single word. To see this strong, brave girl so weak and vulnerable almost scared me.

Minutes later we arrived at the hospital, Lauren being immediately wheeled into a side room just off of A&E. The nurses swanning around her, connecting her to different machines, too many machines for my liking. My eyes glanced back over to Lauren who just begun stirring, her eyes drifting from the nurse stood before her to me at the end of her bed. She squinted at the nurse before looking down at the probes attached to her chest, her fingers fumbling clumsy over them.

"Leave them there Lauren, don't pull them off" the nurse peeled Lauren fingers away from them before she had the chance to take them off of her chest.

"Your boyfriend Joey is here Lauren" she commented, moving aside so I could stand closer to Lauren. Once again she squinted at me, her lips parting as if she was about to talk.

"Gonna be sick" she croaked, leaning towards the edge of the bed. The nurse holding a sick bowl near her head before Lauren began vomiting. Placing my hands on her back I rubbed her soothingly as she continued to throw up, tears free flowing down her cheeks.

"Shh it's okay babe" I murmured gently into her ear once she had finished, the nurse excusing herself from the room to dispose of the bowl.

"I feel queasy still" she whispered, rubbing her arm "my arm was tingling".

"Doctor said you have traumatic migraine from where you were hit. He said that you would have numbness in your arms and face, then sickness babe, does your head hurt?" I asked, my fingers lacing through her gorgeous brown hair.

"Pounding headache" she replied, trying to massage her temples.

"Leave it babe, I'll do that" my fingers leaving her hair, moving to her forehead to gently start massaging, her body relaxing at my touch, something that never failed to amaze me.

"You scared me" I whispered.

"I'm sorry, I thought I was okay" she replied, her voice laced with guilt.

"No boxing for a while babe, can't go through that again" I had seen this girl too many times in hospital beds for my own liking.

"Promise Joe" she whispered, before her eyes flew open "Sick" she choked out giving me enough time to reach for the spare bowl before she began her second round of vomiting. Another thing the Doctor unfortunately told me would happen for a few hours.

It was going to be a long night..