Chapter 2

A man sits in a Nebraskan hospital waiting room, he looks nervous, he's shaking his knees up and down at a fast pace and he's got his hands covering his face. Greg is his name, he's waiting on the doctors to come let him back into his daughters room. Over past year, he's laid the love of his life to rest and watched his daughter slowly drown herself in depression from the event, which ultimately led them to this place.

Her mother passed away by a heart attack, brought on by stress. Selena, the daughter, had just yelled at her mother basically calling her every name in the book and some that were unheard of. After the fight Selena left the house in fury, Greg was at work Dianne, her mother, was on the verge of having a heart attack anyway, her heart was over worked she was an obese woman. About 5 minutes after Selena left, Dianne had made her way, regardless of the pain, to the living room couch clutching her chest where her heart was, trying to calm down, but her heart had, had to much and finally it shut down. Greg found her when he got home from work. After that day Selena changed. She blamed herself and couldn't get past it.

The pain and guilt she felt was to much to bear. She turned to drugs and alcohol, at night sh'ed swallow 3 or 4 sleeping pills just to get some rest. About 2 weeks ago 3 or 4 pills wasn't working by the end of it she had taken 14 pills luckily her dad came in to check on her and found her lying face down on the bed with the pill bottle in her hand. He rushed her to the hospital and they've both been here since.

A doctor walks into the waiting room,

"Greg?"

Greg looks up at him and stands up and walks over to him, the doctor looks at him with sad eyes,

"Have you been home, Greg?"

"No," Greg answered, "And I'm not going, can I go back in?"

"Not yet, you and I need to talk first."

The doctor turns and leads Greg out of the waiting room. As they approach his office, Greg asks,

"What do we need to talk about?"
The doctor opens the door and lets Greg enter first, he follows behind and shuts the door. Greg walks over to the chair, he see the name plate on Dr. Johnson's desk and looks at him, who is now walking around his desk. Dr. Johnson sits down and says,

"Greg, I wanna talk about your situation."

"What situation?"

"We are not going to force anything on you, but I think it's time to start thinking of moving on."

"What do you mean move on?"

"Your daughter has been in a coma for two weeks, I don't see her situation getting better."

"Then it's a good thing your not her father."

"Greg, listen...."

"No! What would you do if it were your daughter? Would you give up after just 2 weeks?"

"Probably not, but what I'm saying is, you need to try?"

"Well I'm not going to, I will stay here until my daughter wakes up or dies!"

"After so long they will move her."

"And I'll be going with her, giving up on her is not an option for me and for you to suggest it makes me sad for your children."

"Greg..."

"No, the fact that you would just so easily come in here and tell me that I need to move on from my daughter says a lot about you Dr. Johnson, I do not give a damn how long it takes if you wont do what it takes to bring her back then I will find someone else, someone who actually cares about the patient instead of the fat check i'm going to have to write."

Dr. Johnson is quiet he has no reply. Greg stands from his chair and walks toward the door. As he leaves the office he hears a woman over the intercom say,

"Dr. Johnson to room 312 please."

Greg realizes that's Selena's room and he rushes there noticing Dr. Johnson is right behind him. They come to the room and they both see a nurse standing outside waiting on them. Dr. Johnson passes Greg and enters the room looking at the monitor. Her heart has stopped beating, he quickly demands the defibrillator from a nurse as he begins to press down on her chest beginning CPR. He bends over and blows into her mouth and goes back to pressing on her chest. The nurse pushes the defibrillator to him and he grabs the pads and yells "Clear!" and slams them down on her chest, they look at the monitor and nothing he waits for the device to charge and then yells "Clear!" again and slams them on her chest again. Selena raises up gasping for breath and her eyes open. 

Author's Note

look for the more tense mistakes and if you find anything else please let me know thanks