The distance from the gym to the school clinic wasn’t that far but for Alex, it felt like an eternity had passed before he got there.
His hands were clammy, his back was sweaty and his heart was pounding.
It was the second time Eliza was in the clinic and once was far more than enough. Why the heck was she back there and so soon? What happened to her this time? His best friend had looked pale and terrified then. In his mind’s eye, he saw her hurt and crying and the image burned a hole through him.
He didn’t want to think like this but every time he thought she was alright, she wasn’t. So when he burst into the doors of the clinic, he was expecting and dreading to see his best friend looking like hell again.
But she wasn’t.
She was sitting on one of the cots, her ankle wrapped in a t
