Although some people might not believe it, Nick was tougher than most people gave her credit for. Skinned knees and cuts had been a large part of her childhood growing up, she wasn’t a stranger to injures. Still she winced in pain as Bea inspected her wrist and nodded when the other woman told her she couldn’t tell her for sure if it was broken or not. “I know,” she answered softly; well aware that this was going to end in a visit to the infirmary whether she wanted it to or not.
The idea of ending up in the infirmary also brought images of her brother to her mind. Jake was going to be pissed; there was really no way to get out of that. She only hoped he realized that this injury was her own stupid fault and nobody else’s. As much as she and Maddie went after each other, she would never bring down the wrath of her brother on the other girl – in truth because she didn’t deserve it. Maddie hadn’t forced her to do this, she could have always taken the blow to her pride and refused the stupid dare.
“That’s okay,” Nick answered when Bea told her would have to take the pills dry. She wasn’t going to get picky about things like that, not when the other woman was going out of her way to get her back to the compound. It still felt kind of weird that of all the people who could have come upon her, it was the one woman at Sing Sing that always seemed to put up with her – but may not actually like her. Again, she wasn’t going to get picky about who her rescuer was, either.
And now the question she had been hoping to avoid had been asked. Nick sighed softly and shrugged her could shoulder up slightly. “A working lava lamp,” she supplied, well aware of how idiotic it sounded. She wasn’t going to say anything about it being a dare, she didn’t need one more lecture on top of the ones she was likely to receive once she was back at Sing Sing.