I reached room 205 in no time and quietly knocked on the door. A tall, wide built man answered the door and let me in. "Hi," I stuck out my hand "My name is Alana and I will be taking care of Mr. Nathan Gray." The man shook my hand with a smile. "Hello, I'm Mr. Gray, but you may call me Paul." I returned his smile. Just then a woman came up next to Mr. Gray and placed one hand on his back while sticking out her other one for me. "Why, hello there. I'm Mrs. Gray, but please call me Denise." I smiled at her and shook her hand as well.
"How is he feeling?" I whispered to both of them. Mrs. Gray smiled a little. "Well he did get a good night's rest, so that's wonderful. He's just been working so hard. I should have stopped him, all of them. I blame myself." She looked down.
I placed a hand gently on her arm. "Mrs. Gray," I started and she looked at me with a slight smile, "um, Denise, I just want to inform you that hypoglycemia can occur even if he was just sitting at home playing video games all day. This is no one's fault. Things like this happen, ma'am, but I promise you that we will take the best care of him. We are the best hospital in the state." I told her, smiling proudly.
She gently pulled me into a hug. "Thank you so much, Alana. That has helped tremendously." I looked over and saw Mr. Gray smiling at me, silently thanking me.
I walked over to Nate's bed to see him slowly waking up. "Good Morning, Sunshine!" I said with a smile. "My name is Alana, and I am here for anything you need…non-medical wise." I said laughing quietly. "How are you feeling this morning" I asked him.
"Tired," he groaned. I just smiled, trying not to laugh. "Yes, it is quite early. How about I get you some nice warm breakfast? Sound good?"
"Sounds amazing."
"Anything in particular?" I asked.
"Nah, anything sounds good right about now," he replied. I could tell he was still groggy from some meds the hospital must have given him last night.
"Alright, I'll be back in a jiffy!" He groaned and rolled over facing the other side. I turned to his mother and father. "May I bring you two back anything?"
"Oh, no thank you dear. We will probably be gone when you get back. We have a younger son who needs us for part of the day. Our other sons will be here with Nate though. Don't worry, they will find their own food honey. Thank you so much for taking care of one of our baby boys." I smiled again at Mrs. Gray. This lady had to be one of the sweetest women I have ever met.
I shook their hands and went to the café to get Nate some breakfast.
When I returned to Nate's room I quietly knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" I heard someone ask in an unusually high pitched voice.
"Um, Alana with food," I replied hesitantly.
"Alana with food, who?" The voice asked again.
"What? I'm confused,"
"What?! You told me your name was Alana!" I sighed. The tray was getting very heavy.
"Shane!! Just open the door and let the poor girl in!" I heard someone yell in my defense.
Slowly the door opened and I sort of pushed my way in. In a hurry I walked over to Nate, ignoring the other two. I sat the tray down on his lap and sighed. Then I turned around to see two other boys who looked almost just like Nate, but only older.
I glared. "Which one of you wouldn't let me in? That tray was very heavy and I almost dropped all of his food." The younger looking of the two stepped forward. "Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were carrying the food." I noticed he looked sincerely sorry so I just smiled.
"It's alright…This time." I said trying to keep a serious look on my face. The boy actually looked kinda scared. I just laughed and stuck out my hand. "The name's Alana." He looked at my hand like it was some foreign object.
"Shane! Don't be rude." The older boy came up next to the one I now assumed was Shane. He smiled at me and took my hand that was still left there hanging.
"My name is Jason," he told me smiling, and gently squeezing my hand.
I don't know what came over me, but I started to blush! I smiled like a shy little school girl. "I'm Alana," I told him kind of quietly.
"This guy next to me is my brother Shane. Sorry about him. He means only good, but sometimes it can get out of hand. Can't it Shane?" Jason gave his brother a stern look. Shane just looked at the ground ashamed.
"Alana, I am sorry," Shane said to me and stuck out his hand. I smiled and took his hand. "No worries. I have a sense of humor, you don't have to be scared of me…well, you don't have to be scared of me all the time that is," I told him with a serious look on my face, but I couldn't hold it in any longer then I started laughing.
As soon as I got over my dumb little joke with Shane I heard Nate put his fork down. "Are you full? I could go get you some more if you would like," I informed him. He just smiled. "No thank you. I'm stuffed," he said, rubbing his belly. Everyone laughed a little. "Well, do you need anything else?" He thought for a minute. "I don't think so. Wait! Do you have like a radio or anything?"
"Hmm. I don't think there is a radio, but I do have my iPod. I need to go see two other children before my shift is up today. You can borrow it while I'm with them if you would like."
"You don't mind?" He asked me.
"Of course not. It's not like I can listen to it while I'm working anyways," I told him grinning. I pulled my iPod out of my pants pocket. "If anyone asks where you got that, it wasn't me. I think I could get in trouble for that."
"OOO…You gonna get in troubleeee!!!!" I heard Shane yell at me. I spun around to face him, pouting. "No! Please don't tell anyone."
"Haha!!" He busted out laughing. "Your face!!...Priceless!" he had trouble breathing he was laughing so hard. I glared at him, while turning to face Nate.
"Anyways…here you go Nate," I showed him a switch on the side of his bed. "Jason you should probably look at this too." Jason walked over and stood right next to me. I could feel his presence so close, for some reason my knees starting getting weak. Why was he having this effect on me? I told myself I was never gonna have this feeling again. No man will hurt me again…I promised myself.
"What is it?" Jason asked looking me in the eyes
I forgot everything I was just thinking, and smiled at him then shook my head slightly.
"There are two buttons on this switch. The red one is for medical assistance, and the green one is for anything else. It will contact me." I smiled at Nate and Jason. "I will come back whenever you need me." I waved at all of them while walking out the door to go find Holly and Colt.