"I am so glad today is over. I feel like I've been hit by a train." Ethan sighed.
"And why would that be?" Lily replied, smiling at Ethan.
"Its been one of those days. You know, when you just cant think like you normally would. Maybe I'm having a crisis of confidence. Not quite the day to be tasked with a series of particularly tricky patients. You know I couldn't spot a systolic murmur that Cal could?" Ethan had rambled, and Lily stayed still, looking at Ethan.
"Well we all have those days. You're an ED doctor Ethan, not a cardiologist. The murmur might have been quiet." The raven haired girl replied, and the blond boy simply continued.
"But you don't understand Lily! I'm not doing as well as I usually would... And don't even get me started on Dr Keogh; the man just makes me feel so... Stupid. He's a diagnostic hurricane. I am a mere drizzle."
As his anger and frustration grew, Lily seemed to be paying less attention. In Ethan's eyes everything became an blur emotion, everything becoming all too much. Within seconds, the familiar surroundings around him had changed to that of a cemetery. Lily was nowhere to be seen, but in her place lay a gravestone.
"W-What... Where did you go?" He stuttered, and read the name of the gravestone in front of him.
It was Lily's grave. Ethan was always a daydreamer, and it appeared all this time he was talking to Lily's grave. Distraught, the tears built behind his glasses and filled his dull eyes. A small "sorry" was the only thing that he could muster. He put down the bouquet of vibrant flowers, a bunch of pinks, reds, purples and blues contrasting the green of the grass and the dark marbled black of the stone. Alone, tears still in his eyes, he wandered away into the slowly fading day, where he would only be bitterly reminded of Lily at home.
She had seemed all too real to Ethan, and the way home was one he just couldn't comprehend. He walked back home, not caring about the cold or the slow drizzle beginning to dampen his tired skin. When he finally arrived at home, Cal was waiting and saw the younger boys red eyes. The boys pulled into a comforting hug, and the only words that were said were by Ethan, quietly and weakly.
"I cant stand this anymore, Cal. I don't want to be here."