Shattered Life: Chapter 10: Startling News

Andy's POV

I woke up and looked over at Ephram's bed. I must have fallen asleep in here and didn't notice.

I walked over to the edge of his bed and felt his forehead; his temperature went down. I checked his pulse; it was back to normal. Everything was okay...I hope...

The phone rang. I looked at the clock, 7:30, isn't it a little early to be calling someone, I thought. I went downstairs to get it.

"Hello?" I said hoarsely.

"Hi, Mr. Lancaster? We have good news for you..." A lady on the other line said happily...I was just confused.

"What?" I said not exactly knowing what was going on.

"Your daughter, Katrina...She is okay. She woke up last night." She said sounding like I was stupid.

"Katrina..." I said quietly to myself...startled.

"I'm sorry what sir?"

"Oh um...okay thank you..." I said slowly putting down the phone, Ephram was standing right there.

"What was that about?" He said grabbing the milk out of the fridge.

"Huh? Oh...your sisters awake..."

Katrina's POV

I felt out of it...Everything around me was fuzzy and unclear. What happened to me? I looked at my hands, they were shaking uncontrollable...my whole body was. I was a nervous wreck.

"Here...this will calm you down a little bit?" Said a lady who had just shoved a needle in my arm.

"What are you doing?" I said looking at the needle go into my skin.

"I'm giving you a little morphine. You seem a little shaken up." She said looking at me with a smile.

"A little?" I said questioning her.

She took the needle out of my arm; "There...Oh I called your dad." She said putting the shot in the garbage.

"What?!" I said literally jumping out of bed. A shooting pain went through my body. "Ow!"

"Be careful.... You do have some fractured ribs and a broken arm. Oh and a leg as well. Also a mild concussion. You didn't think you were going to be able to just get up and leave without anything happening to you. I'm you were hit by a car." She said checking me out and writing things down on a clipboard.

"Hm... That's what happened?" I asked not exactly remembering anything that happened last night.

"Yeah...nobody knows why you ran into on coming traffic, but you did and then you ended up here...unconscious..." She said with a little giggle...and writing more things on her clipboard.

"Oh, I see." I said turning to look out the window. What happened last night? I need to know and the nurse isn't helping me.

"I'll leave you alone for a while so you can sleep." She said putting the clipboard down and walking out the door.

I just laid there thinking...waiting for the morphine to kick in. Something blurry came into my mind. It was someone...Someone familiar. "Mom?" I said not exactly knowing if what I was seeing was true. "Mom?" I kept saying. She didn't say anything, but I see a white light and then everything around me starts to slow down. Slower and slower. I looked around me, I couldn't see anything. Every part of my body was numb. I slowly crawled into a deep sleep, everything around me taking me away. I felt safer this way...everything is okay...