"Roy! Pwease give me
bawk my dooll!" A little Korsu called out to her elder brother. The
two were almost identical, but they were 7 years apart. Korsu chased
the young Roy to a crosswalk, still trying to get her doll. They
weren't far from home, and Roy was trying to get her there, but the
young boy did pay attention to the car speeding down the road,
heading straight for his little sister. All he heard was the
screeching of the wheels, and Korsu screaming in pain. He turned to
see his sister on the ground, blood everywhere. The person in the car
didn't get out, all he did was speed off again. Roy rushed over to
his sister side and lifted up her head. The two were alone for at
least 30 seconds until the nearby store clerk came rushing to the
scene.
"Oh dear god! What happened, Roy?" He asked, taking the
little girl into his arms.
"A car came by and hit her!" Roy
replied, tears streaming down his face.
"Oh god… Quickly, go
get your parents, I'll take her into my store and call the
hospital!" The store clerk said, Korsu still tight in his arms. Roy
rushed off, running as fast as he could. The tears becoming ice cold
from the wind. He brushed them away from his face. When he got to the
house and burst through the front door.
"Mom! Dad! Korsu's…
Been… Hit!" He said between gasps. His parents looked at him for
a few seconds. They knew he had a wild imagination but
soon they heard the ambulance coming. The parents and Roy rushed back
out.
When the family got to the store clerk's store, they asked
where Korsu was. He quickly led them to the back, showing the bloody
Korsu on a bed.
Soon the doctors came in and took the young girl.
Roy and his mother rode with the ambulance to the hospital. The
father was staying behind to talk to the store clerk. When they
arrived at the hospital, the doctor came out to Roy and his
mother.
"She's lucky that she survived, but… I don't think
she'll be able to walk again… her legs are too damaged… It will
be impossible for them to repair at all." She said. Roy's mother
sobbed, and for days they stayed at the hospital. Roy sometimes
wondered into a few other rooms and talked to the people there. One
day he saw small store in the hospital, and entered it.
"Oh
hello, little boy… Why are you here?" The store owner
asked.
"Well… I was just walking around… and I found this
place." Roy said to the young woman.
"Ah, so why are you in
the hospital?" She asked, patting his head.
"My little sister
was hit by a car…" Roy answered. The store owner gasped and
walked to the back of the store, when she came back, she was holding
a bear. It was a brown old bear with some parts of the fur faded. The
eyes were the classic buttons and an x for the mouth.
"Here…
give this to your sister…" She said. Roy took the bear from her
hands and stared at it for a moment, and smiled, with a at least two
teeth missing from his mouth. He rushed off out of the store. When he
was near his sister's room, he saw his mother crying, and a nurse
talking to her quietly. He approached and smiled at his mom.
"Look
mom! A nice lady gave me a bear to give to Korsu!" He said. His
mother looked at him, her eyes red.
"Oh, honey! I'm sorry,
but you can't give it to her today…" She said.
"Ok… when
can I?" Roy asked, with his innocent look. A few more tears fell
down his mother's face.
"When she wakes up…" She
said.
"Well, that won't be long! She doesn't sleep that
long!"
"Honey… she'll be asleep for a long time… she's
in a coma…" The nurse said.
"A… coma?" He asked.
"Its
when a person falls asleep for a long time… we are unsure on how
long she will be asleep, but by her signs she will be waking up. Like
I said, we don't know when." The nurse said, walking off. Roy
grabbed his mothers dress, and cried in it. He wanted to know how
long it would take for his sister to wake up. He though she would
wake up in a few days… He was off by a lot. She didn't wake up
for 10 years.
