New Beginnings Aren't So Simple.

Chapter One .

I ran as fast I could, my legs starting to ache. Yet I ignored the pain continuing to run.  It was pouring outside,but I didn't care. Loud roars of thunder ripped through the quiet town. It was three in the morning, and the only thing that mattered right now was getting their before it was to late. I dashed out of my house as soon as I got that phone call. The one phone call I'd regret answering.

The wind seem as if it were fighting me back, trying to tell me to turn back. This only caused me to run faster. The hospital came into few and I ran inside ignoring the worried looks of the nurses and patiants, ignoring the questions 'Ma'am, are you ok?' I stopped to a quick halt infront of the elevater, cursing under my breath. I wouldn't make it in time if I took this blasted thing. I searched the hallway for the stairs, there they were at the end of the hallway. I ran down the hall forcefully pushing the door open and dashing up the stairs. I smiled to myself, track was finally paying off.

I finally reached her room, there she was resting peacefully. I couldn't move from my spot in between the door frame, I was frozen in my tracks. This might be the last time I see her, I didn't want to wake her up..Yet I wanted to tell her how much I lover her, and how much she means to me. Without me even noticing, I was slowly walking towards her bedside. I bent down to kiss her cheek. I watched as she seem to be struggling to breathe.

The nurse on the phone earlier said that there wasn't anything anyone could do, the cancer spread throughout her whole body, she tried explaining to me that it was better to let her die then try saving her. But I just couldn't get past the fact they were just going to let her die! I thought hospitals tried saving people! But..I guess the nurse is right in a way, it's better to let her go rather then put her through anymore pain and misery...

Tears overwhelmed me, as much as I tried to fight them back, they slid down my cheeks one by one. This couldn't be happening, she couldn't be dying. No,no!
I stood by her side frozen in shock as the beeps of the montior slowed down,coming to one final beep. I fell to my knees sobbing in grief. She's all that I had left...The one person I could connect to...Gone, forever.

I quickly got up drying my eyes with the ends of my hoodie after hearing someone clear their throat behind me, it was a nurse. "Hello miss, I'm sorry for interrupting you."

 I cleared my throat trying to keep my voice from croaking. "I-It's fine." She gave me a worried glance, yet I lowered my head looking at my converse.

 "I was just going to clean up in here, I didn't know you were, well, uh, here. Would you like more time with her?" Clean up..? Does she mean unhook the wires, and have someone bring her body to some weird lab to cut her open, then investigate the cancer? I shivered at the thought. Just the thought of someone cutting open a dead body to find out what happen to them sickens me. 

"Yes please. Also if you could close the door on your way out." The nurse nodded leaving while closing the door behind her.  The room was dark, I didn't bother to turn on the lights. Without the monitor going the room grew darker then when I first came in. The room was almost pitch black. It was so dark, I swear it seem as if death himself were in the room. Well in this case, he kind of was.

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I'd been here for about an hour so far, I was curled up in a chair by her body. I looked at her, her hair had all fallen out from chemotherapy. I looked off to the right to see her wig my cousin bought her. It wasn't anything close to her real hair. I squirmed in my seat at how pale her body was, but she was dead wasn't she? I didn't expect her to be all rosey pink.

I almost fell right out of my seat scared to death when I heard a knock on the door. It was the nurse again, she was suggesting I go home, it was getting late. I looked at the clock, she was right. It was almost 5 in the moring. I have school in 2 hours. Not that I plan on going, they can't expect me to go to school after witnessing my aunt die. Can they?

"Thanks, your right.Let me just say my last goodbye." I hugged her cold dead body, kissing her pale cheek,and held her ice cold hand. "I love you, I'm going to miss you..Thank you for taking me in. I'll never forget you." My hand let go of hers, tears were streaming down my cheeks. I felt the nurses hand on my shoulder. I shrugged her off and ran, ran out of the room, down the stairs, and out of the hospital.

Reviews

[FocusedAmnesia]

Well written. The emotion behind it definitely gets across in your words. Great beginning.

[Jonathan De Elvira]

Seems promising...
I would like to know what happen in the next chapter...

[BrokenJuliet]

That's such a beautiful story I read the whole thing and...wow your a powerful writer.