Why Me?

A week had gone by, and Jessie's cough had stayed the same. She wasn't get worse, but she wasn't getting better either.

It was only until the end of the week, Friday night, when Spot came back to the apartment from work, that he found no one home! After searching the apartment, he finally found a letter on the kitchen table that Jessie had left him.

"Dear Spot,
This morning after you left, my cold had gotten even worse then before. I was continuesly coughing, and I was having trouble breathing. I also had a very high fever, so I brought Alex over to be with Kloppman at the lodging house, and went to the hospital.
I should be home by time you get back from work.
Truly, and Always yours,
Jess"

Spot put down the letter, and without a second thought, ran into the living room quickly grabbing his coat and dasing out the door.

Little did he know that after this night, he's life was never going to be the same again!

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It took Spot an hour before he got to the hospital. By the time he got there, it was sleeting heavily, and lightly snowing.

He ran up the stairs and threw open the door. Then he walked up to the woman behide the front desk.

"Excuse me Ma'am, but could ya tell me if Mrs. Jessica Colon is still heah."

"Let me check sir." She said before turning to pick up some papers in a fill, and turning to the C's. A moment later she turned back to him. "Yes sir. She's still here. She's been here since 2 this afternoon." A worried look was on her face. "But, she isn't allowed to have any visitors."

Spot could feel his heart sink. "Why? Is every'd'ing okay?"

"May I ask who you are sir? Are you a relitive, or part of her family?"

"I'se her husband..."

"Well Mr. Conlon....I'm afraid that her condition has gotten worse. She has a very rair desise. We are not sure exactly what it is, but it is very bad, and highly contatuse. When she got here, she wasn't as bad, but it quickly got worse."

Spot's eyes were a dark cold gray.

"I'm glad that you came here sir because, like I said it is highly contatuse and we need to give you some medication to make sure that you don't get it, if you don't already...."

Spot nodded. "Alright....But da ya know if me wife will be alright?"

She just shook her head. "I'm sorry, I can't tell. It's to soon to know anything right away."

After Spot got treated with the medication, he went by Jessie's room to just check on her.

He walked in, and sat at her side, holding her hand in his as she slept peacefully.

Her lips were dry and light, they almost looked blue. Almost all the color was gone in her face.
For the next past hours, Spot just laid there and looked at her, praying quitely to God that she would be alright.

Around 2 in the morning, he finally fell asleep, with his head resting on the bed beside Jessie's still body.

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When Spot awoke, he didn't know what time it was, but he woke by the sounds of lots of people rushing around the room, and a loud buzzing sound.

He looked up and found that, tons of nurses and doctors were standing around Jessie.

A nurse came up to Spot. "Excuse me Mr. Conlon but, we need to ask you to leave the room at this time...."

"What's wrong wid her?"

"She's gone into shock, and..."

Spot cut in. "Is she going to be alright?"

"It's to soon to tell sir, if you would just wait outside in the hall, we will tell you how things are in a little while." She said walking with him to the door, and almost pushing him out.

He passed back and forth in the hall over and over.

"Please God...please...don't let anything happen to her...please?" He muttered under his breath, trying not to cry.

Just then Kloppman came walking in with Alex, crying I his arms.

Spot turned to see him, and hurriedly rushed over to him. "Kloppman, what are ya doin' heah?"

"It's Alex...she wouldn't stop crying, so I called da doctah. I checked, and she had a fevah, and she started to get rases, so he told me ta bring her in...." He paused. "What are ya still doing heah Spot? Is Jessie still heah?"

Spot only nodded, and then took Alex from Kloppman.

Soon, a nurse came and took Alex to go get examed, and she asked Spot to wait in the waiting room still.

He couldn't believe this!!! Not only was his WIFE sick, but now their child was to. Well, it did make sense. Whatever Jessie caught, she was always around Alex, so the baby must of had the same thing.

"Why me God? Why me?" He asked, laying his head in his hands so no one would see him cry. For the next few hours, he just sat there crying and praying.
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