I'm a bit scared of going that way coz of the state she is in" Doctor Reed
said looking up at Dylan. "He might not make it, anyway, Like I said he is
in a real critical condition, you haven't by any chance spoken to his
parents have you?" "Well....I haven't but one of our Best friends went down
to the reception to phone them, as Brenda isn't in a stable enough
condition to talk to them on the phone" Dylan said looking outside of the
doctors windows to where Brenda sat staring at the wall. "I've never seen
her like this" Dylan said on the verge of tears himself. "Well I don't
blame her, they say twins have a real strong bond that almost never gets
broken, no matter what" The doctor said looking in Brenda's direction. "But
Dylan, you know you gotta tell the condition he's in" Doctor Reed said
looking back at Dylan. "But How do I tell her, that her twin brother whom
she adores, is dying, it's going to kill her" Dylan said sighing, and the
last thing he expected happened. He found himself crying. A few minutes
later Dylan and Doctor Reed left his office, and walked back to the gang,
"Well thanks Doctor Reed" Dylan said stretching out his hand, to shake it.
"As soon as you've filled everyone in on what's happening, you can see him,
he is in Ward 2 room 1" Doctor Reed said and turned away to go check on
everyone else. Dylan filled everyone in and Brenda took it better then
anyone else, All Brenda said was "He's gonna make it, I know that" and she
turned to go visit him. "Hey....Big Brother," She said smiling "Told you I
would be back, you aint gonna get rid of me by pretending to be sleeping"
she said laughing a little. "Well Thanks, you saved my life for the
what....millionth time, in the 18 years We've been alive" She said softly
as she sat down besides him,
Just under an hour later her parents came, and they tried to reason with Brenda to go back to the Walsh house, but she wasn't interested. Minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days, days turned into weeks and eventually weeks turned into a month. The gang had been here for 4 weeks, and had missed two weeks of school, everyone tried reasoning with them, to go back home for at least a few days. But they weren't interested, "If it were us here, Brandon would stand at our bed 24/7, so that's what we doing, if you don't have school, its not the end of the world, but if you don't have friends you can rely on in bad times as well as good, then it is" that is what Dylan always used to say. "And anyway" Kelly would pipe in, "Brenda needs us, and if someone in our group needs us, were there no matter what" Donna would agree. "Uh Brandon....okay its time you got up, you came in here in November and tomorrow is the 1st December" Brenda said, She was so sick of Hospitals, of not sleeping, of crying, but most of all She was sick of being sad and not having her brother to comfort her, and tell her she meant the world to him. She was so scared of losing him, that she had to be put on tranquilisers. "Good Morning" Donna and Kelly said walking into the room with a few plastic bags. "Morning" Brenda said back with a small smile, "So...what's in the bags?" she asked back interested. " Oh just Christmas decorations, We thought it would make it easier and more homey, not to mention put a smile on Brandon's face when he wakes up to a Christmas decorated Room" Kelly said standing next to Brenda just staring down at Brandon's pale face. "Well" Donna started "Lets start decorating" They all three said. By the time everyone came back to visit Brandon, the room was looking for like a bed room then a hospital room. Nights went so slowly, and finally Christmas had come, the doctors said they were giving him till the 1st January, if nothing changed, the best thing would be to put the machines off, as that was a sign he would be brain-damaged. Brenda couldn't remember a time she had cried so much, she always knew that no matter what happened, as long as she had Brandon, everything would turn out right. But she never once stopped to think what would happen if she lost Brandon. Till now that is, that's all she could think about, and it hurt so badly, she often thought it would kill her. "Brandon....I can't believe its Christmas eve already" She said sitting in the chair next to Brandon's Bed, as she usually did. She started to remember all the times when they were little, and they woke up on Christmas day with a whole lot of presents, under the tree. "Remember Last Christmas" Brenda asked to Brandon, even though he couldn't answer her, she knew he was thinking of it now. "Yeah...everything that could go wrong went wrong" Said a voice from the door. "Fist we got into a fight, then the dog ate the supper, they stereo decided not to work, and the lights went off, everyone was so pissed off with each other for a while, but when we thought of it, we were all together, spending Christmas with the ones we loved the most" Dylan said as he pulled the chair out and sat on the other side of Brandon. "C'mon man.....you gotta remember the chicks who stole my car" Steve stepped in. "or the time when we ALL had to bail Steve out, as he was caught in the Deans office" By now the whole gang had gathered in Brandon's room.
Brandon could hear the talking since day one, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get to the voices. He could hear Brenda crying time and time again, and every time he heard her crying it broke his heart. He called and called, but she never answered, he didn't know what to do or where to go. All he knew was he had to get out of there before he caused more pain and suffering to the people who he cared the most about.
"Remember the camp, last year before the twins moved." Donna asked looking at the girls. "You girls will never let us live that down would you" David asked. "Well you wanted to go Skinny dipping," Brenda replied with a real smile, this time, one that they hadn't seen since the airport, and Dylan thought that as much as he hated them bringing up the Skinny dipping part, if it took Brenda's mind off everything for 5 secs it was all worth it. "What Skinny dipping thing?" Valerie asked looking at all the smiling and laughing faces, it sure was a nice change from all the sad, crying faces, not that she blamed them, she never cried, and now she couldn't stop the tears when they started, and she couldn't even begin to imagine the pain that Brenda must have been going through.
"We all went camping, just before we moved here," Brenda started as Kelly carried on, "And the guys were dying to try skinny dipping in the river, the only problem was, that the police drove by, and demanded they got as ASAP, as there were crocodile in the river," "The guys jumped out totally forgetting the only thing that they had were there towels." Andrea finished giggling so hard she had to sit down, "Okay but we decided to play a prank and steal the towels from the guys, you should have seen them" Brenda said laughing so hard, David had to stop her from falling off the chair. By now even Valerie and Janet were laughing hysterically. As the night went on, the group remembered and told Val, and Jan, all the memories they had, from the pranks, to the fun to even the more serious things they had gone through. And Brenda thought that if they could get threw this together, then no matter what passed their way, whether it was Big or small, they would be Friends forever. One by One they left the room, till it was just Brenda and Brandon again.
Brandon couldn't help but laugh at the memories of their friendship, and he knew then, he couldn't just give up. There were way to many people in his life who he cared about, and who cared about him, for him to leave them, and he knew he was running out of time, before they put him off the machine, He didn't know what machine they were talking about, but he knew he couldn't let them do that, so he made up his mind.
"Brandon.....Just remembering all those things we've been through with the gang...but we've been through more, and I've always known that no-matter what happened, as long as you were by my side, we would get threw it. But I'm scared.....scared you don't wake up, and I'm all alone, you don't know how much I miss you. Please wake up soon Brandon, Mom and Dad asked what I wanted for Christmas, they so upset that they went shopping to get away from everything for a while, and I told them, I ONLY want one thing this Christmas.....and that's for you to wake up" and soon after that Brenda fell asleep on Brandon's arms, What she didn't know was, that Brandon had just woken up, He looked around the room, and realised that he was THE luckiest guy on earth.. Despite, being in I.C.U, he had the best family and friends in the world. "Merry Christmas Brenda" He whispered as he watched his sister move about. He looked at the clock and it was 12:00 exactly, he tried to shake her as much as he could, when she finally started to wake up, he grabbed her arm and squeezed her hand, at this she suddenly sat up and looked at her Brother. "Merry Christmas Brenda." Brandon said. "OMG.....Doctors, Nurses, Dylan, MOM, DAD, GUYS QUICK BRANDONS AWAKE" Brenda screamed running back into Brandon's room with a big grin on her face, as she realised her prayers had come true and she had her brother back again.
THE END
Just under an hour later her parents came, and they tried to reason with Brenda to go back to the Walsh house, but she wasn't interested. Minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days, days turned into weeks and eventually weeks turned into a month. The gang had been here for 4 weeks, and had missed two weeks of school, everyone tried reasoning with them, to go back home for at least a few days. But they weren't interested, "If it were us here, Brandon would stand at our bed 24/7, so that's what we doing, if you don't have school, its not the end of the world, but if you don't have friends you can rely on in bad times as well as good, then it is" that is what Dylan always used to say. "And anyway" Kelly would pipe in, "Brenda needs us, and if someone in our group needs us, were there no matter what" Donna would agree. "Uh Brandon....okay its time you got up, you came in here in November and tomorrow is the 1st December" Brenda said, She was so sick of Hospitals, of not sleeping, of crying, but most of all She was sick of being sad and not having her brother to comfort her, and tell her she meant the world to him. She was so scared of losing him, that she had to be put on tranquilisers. "Good Morning" Donna and Kelly said walking into the room with a few plastic bags. "Morning" Brenda said back with a small smile, "So...what's in the bags?" she asked back interested. " Oh just Christmas decorations, We thought it would make it easier and more homey, not to mention put a smile on Brandon's face when he wakes up to a Christmas decorated Room" Kelly said standing next to Brenda just staring down at Brandon's pale face. "Well" Donna started "Lets start decorating" They all three said. By the time everyone came back to visit Brandon, the room was looking for like a bed room then a hospital room. Nights went so slowly, and finally Christmas had come, the doctors said they were giving him till the 1st January, if nothing changed, the best thing would be to put the machines off, as that was a sign he would be brain-damaged. Brenda couldn't remember a time she had cried so much, she always knew that no matter what happened, as long as she had Brandon, everything would turn out right. But she never once stopped to think what would happen if she lost Brandon. Till now that is, that's all she could think about, and it hurt so badly, she often thought it would kill her. "Brandon....I can't believe its Christmas eve already" She said sitting in the chair next to Brandon's Bed, as she usually did. She started to remember all the times when they were little, and they woke up on Christmas day with a whole lot of presents, under the tree. "Remember Last Christmas" Brenda asked to Brandon, even though he couldn't answer her, she knew he was thinking of it now. "Yeah...everything that could go wrong went wrong" Said a voice from the door. "Fist we got into a fight, then the dog ate the supper, they stereo decided not to work, and the lights went off, everyone was so pissed off with each other for a while, but when we thought of it, we were all together, spending Christmas with the ones we loved the most" Dylan said as he pulled the chair out and sat on the other side of Brandon. "C'mon man.....you gotta remember the chicks who stole my car" Steve stepped in. "or the time when we ALL had to bail Steve out, as he was caught in the Deans office" By now the whole gang had gathered in Brandon's room.
Brandon could hear the talking since day one, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get to the voices. He could hear Brenda crying time and time again, and every time he heard her crying it broke his heart. He called and called, but she never answered, he didn't know what to do or where to go. All he knew was he had to get out of there before he caused more pain and suffering to the people who he cared the most about.
"Remember the camp, last year before the twins moved." Donna asked looking at the girls. "You girls will never let us live that down would you" David asked. "Well you wanted to go Skinny dipping," Brenda replied with a real smile, this time, one that they hadn't seen since the airport, and Dylan thought that as much as he hated them bringing up the Skinny dipping part, if it took Brenda's mind off everything for 5 secs it was all worth it. "What Skinny dipping thing?" Valerie asked looking at all the smiling and laughing faces, it sure was a nice change from all the sad, crying faces, not that she blamed them, she never cried, and now she couldn't stop the tears when they started, and she couldn't even begin to imagine the pain that Brenda must have been going through.
"We all went camping, just before we moved here," Brenda started as Kelly carried on, "And the guys were dying to try skinny dipping in the river, the only problem was, that the police drove by, and demanded they got as ASAP, as there were crocodile in the river," "The guys jumped out totally forgetting the only thing that they had were there towels." Andrea finished giggling so hard she had to sit down, "Okay but we decided to play a prank and steal the towels from the guys, you should have seen them" Brenda said laughing so hard, David had to stop her from falling off the chair. By now even Valerie and Janet were laughing hysterically. As the night went on, the group remembered and told Val, and Jan, all the memories they had, from the pranks, to the fun to even the more serious things they had gone through. And Brenda thought that if they could get threw this together, then no matter what passed their way, whether it was Big or small, they would be Friends forever. One by One they left the room, till it was just Brenda and Brandon again.
Brandon couldn't help but laugh at the memories of their friendship, and he knew then, he couldn't just give up. There were way to many people in his life who he cared about, and who cared about him, for him to leave them, and he knew he was running out of time, before they put him off the machine, He didn't know what machine they were talking about, but he knew he couldn't let them do that, so he made up his mind.
"Brandon.....Just remembering all those things we've been through with the gang...but we've been through more, and I've always known that no-matter what happened, as long as you were by my side, we would get threw it. But I'm scared.....scared you don't wake up, and I'm all alone, you don't know how much I miss you. Please wake up soon Brandon, Mom and Dad asked what I wanted for Christmas, they so upset that they went shopping to get away from everything for a while, and I told them, I ONLY want one thing this Christmas.....and that's for you to wake up" and soon after that Brenda fell asleep on Brandon's arms, What she didn't know was, that Brandon had just woken up, He looked around the room, and realised that he was THE luckiest guy on earth.. Despite, being in I.C.U, he had the best family and friends in the world. "Merry Christmas Brenda" He whispered as he watched his sister move about. He looked at the clock and it was 12:00 exactly, he tried to shake her as much as he could, when she finally started to wake up, he grabbed her arm and squeezed her hand, at this she suddenly sat up and looked at her Brother. "Merry Christmas Brenda." Brandon said. "OMG.....Doctors, Nurses, Dylan, MOM, DAD, GUYS QUICK BRANDONS AWAKE" Brenda screamed running back into Brandon's room with a big grin on her face, as she realised her prayers had come true and she had her brother back again.
THE END