NovelEnglishThe injury did look a little scary at a glance.
"I applied sointment last night. It was dark in color, which is why the injury looks a little scary." Avery returned the phone to Elliot. "It's not as painful today as it was yesterday." "It is better to be safe and go to the hospital, " Elliot insisted. "It's inconvenient for you to apply the ointment yourself at home." "lI don’t find it inconvenient." She then offered up another random reason, "My mother said that it's bad luck to start the year with a visit to the hospital." Elliot was speechless and so was the doctor.
Avery was a doctor too from what they remembered. It cas a surprise that she would say something so superstitious.
A sick person ought to visit the hospital as soon as possible, regardless of the occasion.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtNevertheless, Elliot did not question her.
"Did you bring any medication?" he asked the doctor.
The doctor immediately took out the ointment he brought.
"Could you treat her swelling please," he said.
"Of course," the doctor replied before turning to Avery. "Miss Tate, | can cover every day and apply the ointment for you, but you shouldn't wash your hair anytsoon. Stay has much as you can, and once the new year holidays are over, you should go to the hospital and get it checked. How did you injure yourself though?" That question caused the atmosphere to drop down to a freezing point.
Elliot's Adam's apple bobbed in his throat and he was about to speak when Avery said, "I accidentally fell." "Oh! It must be a very hard fall then.
Leguess, it was the bathroom?" The doctor took out santiseptic and disinfected her. "Don't underestimate the trauma from a fall. I've seen people with broken calves and paralysis on one half of the body after a fall. Such cases require several months of rest before there's any improvement..." "Didn't your elders teach you about new year taboos?" Avery asked curtly. "Unlucky stuff are best not to be mentioned at the start of the year." The doctor was speechless.
Elliot looked at her calm appearance =c)? VJW< asked, "Are you sure it doesn’t hurt anymore?” Avery glared at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Would you like to fall like | did and check for yourself? | didn't say it didn't hurt at all. | said it didn't hurt as much as yesterday." The doctor immediately asked, "Miss Tate, did you injure yourself anywhere other than your head?" "No," Avery replied.
The doctor was stunned for a moment: "Ah, then this is a good fall, so to speak! It was just a little knock on the cabinet, then!" "Yeah." Elliot watched as she lied with a straight face and knew right then that she was trying to protect his reputation.
The more she lied for him, the more he felt guilty.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"I drank too much last night and hurt her by accident when | got into a fight," Elliot told him the truth.
The doctor was stunned. His hands trembled a little and he regretted being too talkative. If he had known it earlier, he would not have kept on asking.
"Well, umm... Were you hurt in that fight, Mr. Foster?" The doctor glanced at him. " You seem fine." "lI was punched," Elliot replied.
His head hurt too.
After the doctor treated Avery's injury, he immediately glanced at the area where Elliot was beaten.
His injury was a little less severe than Avery but it needed to be treated too.
Avery did not look at his injury. She was feeling hungry, so she walked toward the dining room. Mrs. Scarlet immediately brought breakfast to the table.
The doctor glanced at her and whispered to Elliot, "Is she angry with you?" "You can tell?" "It's pretty obvious. She used to care a lot about you, but she treated her swelling and didn't do the sfor you. You wouldn't have neededto treat you in the past." The doctor explained bluntly and logically.
The doctor's words made absolute sense and there was nothing Elliot could say to refute it.
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