When the world is falling dowm

Chapter 1

I was in the cafetteria , having lunch, when I thought to myself, why did I want to work in a hospital in the first place? If I'd chosen to do something different with my life, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. It suddenly dawned on me how a tiny decision would have a huge result in the way my life would lead. These sort of thoughts would come to me a lot over the next few days.

In two days my buddy Turk's having a huge test that will show whether or not he can stay at this hospital for much longer. I'm praying he'll get a good result in it, cos it'll be torture not having having Turk near me to keep me sane.

"Newbie!" Dr Cox suddenly woke me out of my thinking trance, and I realised the cafeteria was completely empty except for me, and that my face was about four inches from my still full plate.

" What do you think you're doing sleeping on the job, with Mrs Wilk about to go into go into a Coma! Do you not care about her at all? At her age, if she doesn't get the appropriate care, it is quite likely she will not wake up from it! Now get your ass in their and tend to her!!"

So there I was, changing Mrs Wilk's IV, knowing full well that if I did this wrong she could die. Suddenly that thought about deciding what path to take popped into my head again, I tried to to bat it out of my head, but I just couldn't escape the image of what could be happening if it was say, Elliot or, heaven forbid, Keith doing this now.

"Hey, JD, what the hell are you doing?" Turk had just walked into Mrs Wilk's room.

"I'm changing Mrs wilk's Iv, why, am I doing it wrong?"

"No, it's just-Thats not Mrs Wilk!"

"What! Yes it is, ohhhhh Turk this is serious!"

" I know, I'm just nervous about my test."

" So you loosen your nerves with sick jokes?! I retorted to my best friend, with colour seeping into my face.

"you don't know me at all, do you? I'm insulted." And he walked off. Just like that.

I'd just finished tending Mrs Wilk, and started worrying about Turk and his test again, when Carla walked in.

"Hey Bambi." She said.

"HI Carla. Wait! Shouldn't you be with your dad?" I suddenly remembered that he had been submitted to Sacred Heart with severe Heart disease.

"Yeah... see, that's what I came to talk to you about. My dad died five minutes ago." Great. I did the only thing I could of and said " Carla, I'm so sorry" and tried to hug her-but she backed off. Brilliant. So Mrs Wilk's in a coma, Carla's dad's dead and she wouldn't hug me when She was sad. Could this day get any worse?

"Oh, I forgot to tell you-Mr Stelker's critical" Yes.

At home that night, I was lounging in front of the T.V., half watching it, and half thinking about decisions in life when Turk walked in.

"Turrrk! How many times do I have to tell you, kno- oh yeah, you live here now don't you?" and I looked back at the T.V.

Still looking at the T.V. I said " so Turk, how did your test go?"

Turk who I think was stood behind me watching the T.V. said "JD, you're an idiot" Ok, that hurt.

"Why?" I asked, almost worried. Almost, but not quite.

" Because my test isn't till Friday" It was Monday. I felt dumb. "I almost feel hurt that you haven't got enough interest in me to know the day I have a really important test that will result in whether I get to stay at the hospital or not. That's it JD. Don't bother talking to me any more, cos I'm not gonna talk to you any more!"

"But-"

"Ah-Ah!"

"Tu-"

"BA!" He said, doing that shushing sign. He then stomped off into his room. That hurt even more than being called an idiot. God that hurt.

I think Turk was officially mad at me. I felt lonely, but I didn't know who to go to.

I thought about Dr Cox, but I figured he'd probably take my head off.

I thought about Carla, but that would that would probably make Turk even madder at me, seeing as she's his wife and all.

So I settled on Elliot, though I got the feeling it could be at my own peril. I don't know why, I just got that feeling.

So the next day I went to the hospital in search of Elliot (also to tend to some patients, but mainly to search for Elliot). I found her in Mrs Wilk's room, and as soon as I walked in I realised my funny feeling was right. There was a horrible atmosphere in there. I got the feeling it was something to do with Mrs Wilk's condition.

"Hey, Elliot, what's up?" I asked, going for the happy approach.

"N-nothing, what makes you think anything's wrong?" She said, quickly, in the manner of someone who's upset by something that's gone wrong.

"well, is there?" I asked, hoping for the best.

"Yes." Oh dear. "Mrs Wilk's critical" Oh dear x 30000. First Mr Stelker, and now Mrs Wilk. And Carla' really upset, and Turk's mad at me. I felt like dying.