Chapter four

Chapter 4

 

The hospital was only two miles away but, I had never run like I did that night. I ran through the sliding doors without slowing down until I reached the receptionists’ desk.

“Can you please point me in the direction of Ethan Parker’s room?” I asked out of breath

The receptionist gave me a once over and seemed to stop at my shirt over I looked down only to remember I still had my pajamas on, but I didn’t care I just wanted to apologize to Ethan. The receptionist was busy typing on the computer with a puzzled look on her face, she looked up at me there was no Ethan Parker here. I swore under my breath “ He has to be here” and again I took off running I looked in every room on that floor before a doctor caught me and took me into a room that had rows of chairs ,felt like a refrigerator and smelled like hand sanitizer. “Are you okay?” He asked sitting me in a chair near an empty desk.

I looked up at his face he was young probably just out of medical school, he was clean shaven, and his hair was dark and long, he had eyes that were blue like a pool in the summer. “No, he’s dead how can it be okay if he’s dead!” I cried

He looked at me and said something I never expected “It’s not; everyone will tell you that it is but it won’t be.”

“How the hell would you know I bet you’ve never told your brother to go die and then he does.” I spat him

He looked surprised “Well, no I haven’t but everyday for the past week I’ve had to tell families in this hospital that their loved one is dead or dying, I have to ruin someone’s day everyday and its like every time I walk into a room I know that there’s someone in that room whose life I will ruin. It so goddamn depressing to ruin everyone’s day.”

“Yeah, but none of it has any effect on you all you do is tell them and go on your merry way.” Right then I broke down I began sobbing the unnamed doctor pulled me into a hug and held me while I wept.

 

My parents came in some time later. I had fallen asleep from crying and the nice doctor brought me in a blanket and let me sleep in the chair. My mother woke me up by brushing my hair out of my face and saying my name like mothers do to babies. I looked up at her and for just a couple of seconds I was happy, I forgot about what I had found out just hours ago, but then she began to cry and it all came back.

“Baby,” my father said looking at me “why don’t you get in the car and we’ll go home and talk.”

I looked at him he was wearing a white t-shirt with his favorite plaid pajama pants he had dark circles under his eyes and a five o’clock shadow. I then looked at my mother she was wearing jeans and a pink blouse, she had obviously taken the time to change before looking for me and it was a good thing considering she usually wore a pair of  softee shorts and a tank top to bed I can only imagine the kind of looks she would get. I suddenly remembered the doctor and sat upright.

“Where is the doctor?” I asked searching the room

“Oh, you mean Dr. Johnston?” My father asked while shooting a glance a t my mom

“I don’t think he gave me a name but…yeah, sure.” I said trying to remember if he had given a name.

“He had to go check on a patient did you need to speak to him”

“No, no” I said “let’s just go home”

 

The ride home was silent except for the sounds of our tears. When we got home my parents told me what had happened.

 Ethan left the house earlier that afternoon mad at me and went to an abandoned ware house parking lot to cool off, while there he fell asleep when he woke up it was about 1:30 am and he started on his way home he pulled out of the parking lot and went at the intersection across from it his light was green so he went unfortunately so did the drunk driver coming at him from his left he tried to stop but the car was going to fast and he was hit right at the side and died on impact.

 

It was once again silent except for the sounds of noses sniffling and crying. I looked around at my family full of tears and noses running and thought to myself that this is how it was going to be from now on, and it was all my fault.

Author's Note

i switched names so if you see a random name please let me know

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[Daydreamer54]

wow that was so sad, it must be really hard for Alex take evrything in, hey i think i've got u a title! =D