Chapter 53 Golden Blood

• Time passed in a whirl. She left at once, numb and in shock, to the hospital. Before that, Josh made her change into something more sensible; a pair of jeans and a hoodie he had thoughtfully picked up from his meagre wardrobe. She obeyed him like a child, changing in the girl’s room. Some of the girls who had dropped by for a smoke and heard the news, looked at her and then looked away quickly, sympathetically. But Roxanne was oblivious ot it all.
• “How did it happen?” she whispered through stiff lips as Josh drove her to the tiny hospital that was bang in the centre of the town, a small place with just two doctors and a couple of ageing nurses on hand. She was sitting behind Josh on his bike and he said nothing as they weaved their way along the deserted streets.
• When he was alighting, he gripped her hand.