Note: I do not own 'The Black Donnellys'. I do own Teegan. I take liberties throughout the story.
"Sean Donnelly's room?"
"Down the hall. His family is in the waiting room, though," a nurse said.
I found the waiting room. There was a guy my age sitting next to an older lady, who I assumed to be his mother. There were two girls sitting there too.
"Are you the Donnellys?" I asked.
"Who wants to know?" the guy asked.
The mother looked up at me. In an instant, I saw surprise and then hatred in her eyes. She got up and came over to me.
"Get out. You're not welcome here."
"But Sean…"
She slapped me and told me to leave again.
"Bitch," I muttered as I walked away.
I grabbed my earphones from my bag and put them in. I pressed the button from the elevator and the play button on my iPod. My cheek was red and it stung. I got on the elevator and waited for it to close.
As the doors were about to close, a hand came out and stopped it. It was the guy from the waiting room.
"What?" I asked as I pulled my earphones out.
"You tell me."
"I'm the one who got slapped. Maybe you should ask your mother."
"She wouldn't tell me. So talk."
"I get into town and find someone who knew where I could find you. I go to the bar and some guy, Joey something, is there."
"Yeah. I know him."
"He tells me about Sean so I come over here to the hospital. Then your mother slaps me."
"Why were you looking for us?" he said, his free hand going behind his back, probably going to the gun that he had there. I knew the type.
"I'm your sister so don't shoot."
He dropped his hand away from the elevator door and it closed. I put my earphones back in and rode the elevator down. I half expected him to be waiting for me in the lobby but he wasn't. I walked out of the hospital and grabbed a taxi that was there.
As the taxi took off, he came out of the hospital. I rolled down the window and yelled to him.
"I'll be at the bar in an hour, if you want to talk. Bring Jimmy and Kevin. It'll be like a family reunion."