After the Braids
Breathing deeply Laura sat in a hospital chair with her head between her legs.
"Oh my god, oh my god" was all that you heard from her little body. A nurse brought in a glass filled with water.
"Drink this dear." Laura didn't want to drink, she wanted to die. Her sister, her SISTER! How could this happen? She prayed every night, she loved and tried not to hate. She thought of all the wrong things she had done. Boy, now did she regret them. Like the time when she put a raw egg in her lunch box, he came home with a yellow shirt. Or the time at Christmas when she went down stairs and stole the candy canes out of her stocking. The look on his face was too much. She would do anything, anything to go back in time now, to redo it.
"Oh my god, Oh my god." The nurses huddled in the corner whispering. There eyes looked at her, looked through her. Just then a doctor walked in.
"She is sleeping now." Laura looked slightly up at the doctor, his face was grave. She looked back down at the tile floor; it was green with red spots. Red spots, blood. Laura let out a moan.
"Where are your parents?" The doctor questioned. She stared in to his wrinkled face.
"They have gone to visit my aunt in South Dakota. Laura suddenly lost her mind.
"I think."
"Well you can see her now if you wish."
"Well I don't…" Laura stammered
"You had better, she might not live through the night." At that Laura stood up, and regained her balance at the doorway. She took a step, another, another. She was there. She saw her sister.
"Oh my god." Was all that came out. Laura just stared at her sister that was embedded in tubes. The last thing she heard before she lost her vision, hearing, and balance was,
"She has typhus."
Just so you all know typhus is a disease carried by rats. REVIEWS PLEASE!! Thanks for no flames!