On the road to recovery (Marree)

'Patience comes with pratice' I hear her words and they make sense but I'm so sure I will not learn patience. "I'm the most impatient person in district 7, let me tell you." I admit. It's good to know that she knows what I'm going through right now. She's been there and somehow managed to remain calm and patient and look where it got her. She had fully recovered.
"Yeah I wouldn't know anything about fixing my hair." A smile plays on my lips since my hair is less than a cm long.
"But I sure would have paid to see your bad hair days." I cannot imagine that Kalina would look bad even if her hair was a birds nest. "You probably still looked gorgeous."

Obviously Kalina is good at reading people because she decides to go get a nurse for some pain killers, which I could truly use. As we're speaking my pain increases and even small moves send showwaves up into my hip.
What she says before that is what truly catches my attention "A date." I repeat. "Sounds good."

Then she's gone and I can't help but stare at the door, that she has just passed through. What a girl. And who would have thought that I'd meet somebody like here under unfortunate circumstances like these?

It takes her a while so I finally look around the room. Some of the others are sleeping, some groaning, one is reading a book. As I shift my weight in bed pain flares up in my leg again so I grit my teeth and hope she'll come back soon.
Closing my eyes I try to focus on something else and the only thing I can think of is going through the last order list on the construction site, adding up parts, money....until I doze off.

I don't know that I've fallen asleep until I wake with a start because I almost fell out of bed but my leg catches on the chair Kalina had been sitting on. A short yelp escapes me before I catch myself really close to the edge of the bed.
Groaning loudly I'm instantly wide awake and bite back another scream before I struggle away from the edge by pulling the cast back with both hands.
It hurts. Plain and simple. Breathing in a few shallow breaths I let my head fall back. If the next few days are going to be like this I really don't look forward to them.

For a while I lay awake in the dark room. One of the others has woken up from the noise I caused and is asking me. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah." I kid myself but he offers to ring for a nurse. I wave my hand at him and fake a smile.
"It's okay. Don't."
"Suit yourself." He turns his back towards me and tries to go back to sleep.

I do the same but it takes a while until I manage to. Funnily enough I dream about Kalina afterwards. How she and her little sister a climbing up in some trees with birds flying around their heads singing songs.

When I wake up at the crack of dawn I need to get out of bed because I really need to go to the bathroom so I struggle out of bed very slowly and painfully but eventually I make my way outside holding on to whatever i can find. "I refuse to use a bowl in my bed!" I tell the nurse on duty.

On my way back I can't resist the urge to look up and down the hallway for Kalina. Would she be here this early? Most likely not. And why can I only think about that dark haired girl?
"Have you seen Kalina, dark hair, this tall? She came to see me yesterday." I question the nice nurse on duty, who looks like she could use some more sleep.