...di-did y’all break your legs consecutively?
When you’re falling in a forest, and there’s nobody around, do you ever really crash or even hit the ground?
All three of them became frantic when you shuffled through the door, your leg bent unnaturally and blood leaking from the back of your head. They were instantly all over you, questioning where you were and what happened. Asking if someone did this to you or if you knew said person’s address. When you could finally calm them down and say you merely fell out of a tree it didn’t ease their worries.
They immediately started arguing over the next plan of action. Whether or not they should take you to one of those ‘human’ hospitals or try to find Steven. They continued squabbling as you began to feel lightheaded, and eventually passed out from the pain as the adrenaline it took to get home ran out.
When you reopened your eyes, you were surrounded by white walls and the smell of disinfectant. All three pearls stood by the side of your bed, Yellow was sitting in the chair trying to conceal her worry with fake boredom. Pink was pacing and Blue was sitting on the end of the hospital bed. When Pink saw you looking at her she immediately dashed over to hold your hand, apologising profusely for the prior argument. Yellow rolled her eyes but you could see embarrassment written across her face. Blue just looked happy you were awake.
When you were released from hospital, you braces yourself for a lecture from Yellow, but to your surprise she seemed content to shower you in affection like Pink and Blue. All three of them were overjoyed you were safe again, but warned you about leaving their sight again, for fear you might do something stupid like that again. They also forbade you from climbing trees. However they certainly looked smug upon mention of your limited ability to move, however hard they tried to hide it.
Thus begun several weeks of shifts of being watched by one of the Pearls. They claimed it was for your safety, that it was only until your leg healed completely, but you couldn’t help but feel like it was more than that...