Angel In The ER
Part 5:
Between The Lines
Dave walked to the soda machine, needing to get away from it all
This small outing
His only refuge from the horror waiting for him
In exam five
His daughter was dying
It was happening again
His worst nightmare
Come alive
No money
Damn-locker has money in it
Locker isn't exam five
Locker is safe
Or so he thought
Opened locker-saw pictures taped up
Of happier days in his life
When no one was sick
No one he loved
Everything was perfect
Not anymore
A picture of him kissing wife
Happy
Not anymore
Not anymore
Remembered times they kissed
Not all happy
Memories
But memories all the same
He had to live with them
Had to remember
Seven years old
Being pinned to the ground by her
And kissed
While screaming the plague of cooties
Twelve years old
Sitting on her porch swing
Can I kiss you
Yes
Their first real kiss
Sixteen years old
Looking at her face sleeping
In the wake of passion
Kissed her forehead
Before falling asleep himself
Kissing her lips
Their first child
Sleeping in her arms
Scared for the future
But happy all the same
Eighteen
A kiss at the alter
Binding him to her forever
Happy
Twenty two
Their second child
Kissing her in their small house
In Grenada
Watching them grow
So big
So perfect
Twenty six
Kissing the top of her head
As she died in his arms
Of an uninvited disease
That had no right to be in her
Had no right to be in his daughter
Dave closed his locker
Walked back towards exam five
And impending doom
Oh what he would give
For just one more
Kiss.
~*~Note~*~These are stories that happen during the POV stories that the main character does not witness. Should I write more? Please review. Thanx