Fiesty

"Here" Daniel said quickly as he placed his white foam cup down on a table next to him. Beside the cup was a pitcher of water by a blue see-through plastic cup that looked unused.

The next thing that greeted Chloe's ears was the water being poured into the cup before it was passed to her.

"Your parents came here a few hours ago, they were really worried about you" Daniel commented as Chloe tried to take the cup only it shook in her hands before she lost her grip.

This caused water to soak some of the sheets leaving the distressed girl to bite her lip weakly in frustration.

"Hold on" Daniel said as he took a towel that was resting nearby, not wasting time Daniel tried to get the sheets to dry up quickly.

Even though the blankets absorbed most of the water soaking her leg in the process.

"Why are you doing this?" Chloe asked in between sharp chesty coughs as she stared at him with half lidded eyes.

Daniel turned to look at her with a calm smile that left her slightly shocked.

"You had me worried" Daniel said leaving Chloe annoyed that he was changing the subject.

"The doctors said it was a concussion due to how hard you hit your head, some even said that you might not be able to wake up or hear properly" he added before checking the sheets with his hands.

Once they were acceptably dry did he refill the cup and handed it to her.

"You didn't answer my question" Chloe said weakly as her coughs grew from how dry her throat was.

Daniel smiled still as he this time helped a reluctant Chloe to drink her water.

"Am I not allowed to be worried?" he asked, his voice almost sounded amused and yet calm leaving her almost glaring.

Feeling annoyed that she had to accept the help regardless, mostly thanks to what happened when she tried to hold the cup.

Chloe almost choked and coughed the moment the cold water touched her throat.

As much as it stung due to how dry her parched throat was it also provided her with some relief, which in turn left her wanting to drink even more quickly.

Not caring if she was being greedy nor did she care that it could upset her throat even more or make her cough due to how she was gulping the water down.

"Hey hey take it easy will you" Daniel said as he tried to get her to slow down.

"You'll choke" on cue she spluttered and coughed violently from the fact that she swallowed wrongly for a brief moment, as she coughed did she feel his hand rubbing her back leaving her to almost tense up.

"With what you've been doing it's hard to tell if you are pretending" Daniel nodded a bit as he understood what she was saying.

"You never know, after all you know nothing about me and nor do I know anything about you to make such assumptions" Daniel replied as he watched her coughing grow to a complete stop.

Chloe's eyes remained cautious as she watched him from the corner of her left eye.

"You know you have such nice parents" Chloe blinked from his sudden words.

"Makes me wonder how you became so closed off to begin with" Daniel commented only now he was greeted with a cold glare that would have left shivers down a person's spine.

"Get out" Chloe said darkly, her voice laced with venom thanks to his words whether they were meant to be a joke or not.

It still struck a nerve since he had no idea of what she went through and he had no right to joke about something about that.

Seeing her reaction on the other hand instead of leaving him intimidated had left him to chuckle at her reaction to his words, even after her ordeal she still was feisty and once again on the defensive.

"You sure about that-?" The door was slammed open causing Chloe to wince and place her hands right over her ears to stop them suffering anymore than they already were.

Meanwhile a groan escaped her lips as the noise from the door vibrated in her eardrums to the point that she was sure that her head was going to split from the strain.

"Chloe!" her mother's shrill voice soon entered her ears before she was immediately pulled into a bone-crushing hug as the injured girl continued to whine from the pain.

Seeing the girl's reaction to what was going on had made her father purse his lips, not happy with how his wife was acting when it came to their frail daughter.

Both parents were in a right state, their clothes were slightly wrinkled and looked like they had lost a lot of sleep.

Blane wore a red and grey checkered shirt that had a low collar and messy rolled up sleeves that rested up to his elbow, he wore his grey work trousers since he had rushed out of work and had forgotten to change.

Like Gwen he had spent most of his time in the hospital watching and hoping that his daughter would wake up.

Stubble was also present on his face due to the fact that he hadn't shaved and his hair was slightly messy, signalling that he probably doused off and had forgotten to sort it out.

Gwen on the other hand wore no make up allowing them to see her worried tired eyes.

Her lips were slightly chapped and dry signalling that she hadn't been drinking much, which would have been a cause for concern but her looks were the least of her worries.

Her grey woolly jumper was slightly frayed at the bottom and the sleeves looked as if someone had been picking at the seams, her grey pencil skirt had a few stains which could be identified as coffee or food stains rested on certain parts of the clothing but there were no signs of it being taken care of.

On her feet were black four inched toe high heels that had made a series of clicking noises the moment she had ran into the room in order to hug her child, when she had heard Chloe had woken up all signs of being tired had been wiped from the worried mother.

"Take it easy Gwen, she has just woken up" Chloe's father said with a disapproving look on his face the moment his ears caught the sound of Chloe's weak cry from the sudden hug.

Chloe's mother's grip to her dismay was tighter than she would have liked given that she had just woke up not too long ago.