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“Babe? You there?”

I almost jump out of my skin from the sudden noise and start laughing.

“Yeah, where else would I be?”

I can hear the door opening to my left and I look to see Ryan standing in front of it. He seems so worried and it makes my heart skip a beat. Did something happen?

“What is it?”

His throat bobs and he slowly walks closer to me.

“Why don’t you turn the water off and come here, babe?”

Frowning, I turn around and put it off before walking out to where he is standing.

“What’s going on?”

He moves a towel over me, and the feeling of the fabric on my skin burns slightly , making me flinch away.

“You’ve been in the shower for almost two hours, babe. Not to mention your skin is all red. Why did you shower in too hot water? You could really hurt yourself that way.”

What is he talking about? I just got in, it hasn't been that long, has it?

“But I just got in.”

He signs and carefully dabs the towel over my skin. It feels very irritated, and when I lift my arms to look at them, a small gasp leaves me. How did I not notice this?

“I think you need to have an MRI done, babe.”

I don’t answer him and just stare down at my arms in slight alarm. I don’t remember being that long in the shower.

“Earth to Taylor? Are you listening?”

I raise my head until our eyes meet and slowly nod at him. I can feel something wet trail down my cheek, Ryan notices it too and softly grabs my head in his big hands, kissing the small tear away.

“You probably have bad side effects from the medicine they gave you for your concussion. Don’t worry, we’ll figure this out, okay?”

“Y—yeah, okay.”

I don’t think it is actually this, but he’s already been doing so much for me. I just can’t let him down, and if I’m lucky, maybe they will find out what is going on and that I’m actually not losing my mind.