A few minutes later, Ema could hear a voice very far away.
“Ema, wake up! Ema! ... Oh come on, Fräulein!”
The last word made Ema open her eyes immediately. She was still lying on the road. She wanted to say something, but suddenly she began to feel so much pain, that she didn’t dare to move anything except for her eyes, not even her mouth. Even eating Snackoos would be painful now, Ema thought sadly.
“Thank God, you’re alive. Considering the way you were flying just a while ago, I think you have been very lucky,” Klavier told her.
Ema tried to speak, but first she could only moan. Then she managed to say:
“Ed... where’s... he’s...dead?”
“Ed? The idiot who brought you in this state? No, he’s still alive unfortunately, and he’s even doing better than you. He was apologising to you – as if you were listening – until the police arrested him.”
Ema nodded slowly. “So... how did you... get here? And where’s... your girlfriend?”
Klavier laughed. “My girlfriend?” he began, but suddenly they heard the ambulance arrive and Ema was carried onto a brancard and into the ambulance. Since she was lying on her back, she didn’t notice Klavier going into the ambulance with her.
As Ema was contemplating about everything that happened that evening, she slowly fell asleep. When Klavier saw that she was sleeping, he silently took his mobile phone out of his jacket and pushed some buttons. Then he held the phone right next to Ema’s ear and pressed one final button. ‘Guilty Love’ started blasting into Ema’s ears, causing Ema to be sitting upstraight in just a moment, looking in the eyes of a laughing Klavier.
“Ouch!” she said, because she suddenly felt her wounds again. Then, annoyed: “Cut it out, stupid glimmerous fop!” Then, surprised: “Wait, what are you doing here?!”
“Well, I’m sitting and I’m annoying you,” Klavier said.
Ema rolled her eyes. “No, I mean, why are you here, in this ambulance in the first place? Or even more important, how could you be on the place of the accident so quickly?”
Klavier smiled faintly and said: “The accident happened right in front of the TV studio where I was having an interview.”
“An interview?” said Ema, who was now starting to feel comfortable with sitting upstraight.
“Yes... about my ‘girlfriend’.”
As Ema didn’t notice the sarcasm in Klavier’s voice, she started to freak out.
“So you do have a girlfriend! And still you ask me out on a date! That’s so inappropriate, you fop!”
Klavier couldn’t help but laugh. Of course, Ema got offended.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because you’re funny when you get angry.”
“Oh, I hate it when people say such things.”
“And because she isn’t even my girlfriend.”
“She isn’t? Wait... who isn’t?”
“The woman who stole your date of course.”
Ema nodded, and then said: “So, what did she steal you for?”
“Well, for the TV interview of course. Linda, that’s her name, is my manager. I told her to cancel the interview, because of my date,” Klavier said, smiling at Ema. “She is new in the managing world, so when the TV company told her they wouldn’t accept a cancellation, she didn’t try to push them, she tried to push me to go anyway. She didn’t succeed at first, but when she yelled at me at the restaurant, she looked so scary! But you know that I have this thing for woman who yell at me, don’t you Fräulein?”
Ema huffed, but laughed on the inside. “And why did you follow me into the ambulance?”
“Because you’re still my date this evening and I’m not done bothering you,” Klavier said.
Ten minutes later the ambulance arrived at the hospital. After they did some tests with Ema, Klavier stayed at her bedside. They chatted a bit about the cases they had been through together, when Klavier suddenly said:
“Did you know that our last kiss is already three days ago?”
“Oh really?” Ema said sarcastically. As if I’d forget such a thing, she thought.
“Hmm hmm,” Klavier said, and looked Ema in the eyes. Oh no, don’t stare at me with your amazing blue eyes. And don’t bring your lips closer to mine! Don’t –
Being disobedient to Ema’s thoughts, Klavier kissed Ema. And not caring about her own thoughts either, Ema kissed him back.
Suddenly a doctor came in and coughed, interrupting the ‘magic moment’.
“Miss Skye?” he said, raising an eyebrow meaningfully.
“Err, yes,” Ema stammered.
“You have a concussion and some big abrasions. You will have to rest for two weeks and make sure you rub in your abrasions every day for a week. Mainly in the beginning someone will have to take care of you, because we want to make sure you rest enough. That’s it. Any questions?”
“Er no, that’s OK,” Ema said. And here I was, thinking I was feeling light-headed because of Klavier, when the real cause was a concussion... Or was it?
The doctor made a grumpy face, mumbled: “Go on, have a love life together even though my wife just cheated on me,” and walked out of the room.
Klavier said smiling: “So, someone’s going to have to take care of you, hm?”
Oh, he’s going to take care of me, how sweet! Ema thought.
“What’s Lana’s phone number?”
“What?! I thought –”
Klavier grinned. “Don’t worry, Fräulein, I was just teasing you!”