Rissa watched as the ambulance vanished, her feet stuck to the ground. Her dark gray eyes stung from with holding tears since the day Adam was arrested. Now they fell like summer rain, hot ,hopeless tears. She ambled over to the curb and sat trying to think of a way to get to the hospital. It was too far to walk, she didn't drive nor could she afford to take a bus or taxi. Her only chance was hitching a ride with the ducks. So she waited rather impatiently, twenty minutes before the freshly showered hockey team came out the door.
Julie walked over to Larissa a worried expression creasing her face
"Do you know where they took Banks?"
Larissa nodded sniffling her tears
"Fairview."
"He's at Fairview guys." Julie called over her shoulder "Come on Rissa you can come with us."
The freshman followed Julie to the ducks bus with her head down. The team was loading up as the girls approached.
"What do you think you're doing babe?" Portman stuck out his arm to prevent Larissa from boarding the bus
"I'm, I'm going with you. I want… I have to see Adam." She stuttered as the enforcer glared down at her.
Fulton leaned out the window to say
"Oh no you are not getting on this bus."
"You must be loco." Luis brushed past her and got on
"Look guys the more time we spend fighting over this the less time we're with Banks." Suddenly Averman was the voice of reason
"Larissa obviously cares about him or she wouldn't want to go." Julie stated
"Fine get on the god damn bus so we can go!" Charlie wasn't in the mood for this childish none sense his best friend was in the hospital.
Most of the team was sitting anxiously in the waiting room for any word, Charlie was at the desk trying to fill out as many of the forms as he could, Coach Orion was calling the Banks family and Guy had gone to call Jesse. No one said a word because they were at wits end with each other or because there was really nothing they could say.
"They won't let us see him until he's outa I.C.U." Charlie said rather gravely as he walked back from the desk
"Do you guys win?" Larissa didn't know why that mattered but for some reason she wanted to know
"Yeah we did." Russ responded mono tone
"Where is he? Where's Adam?" Nancy raced through the door still dressed in her uniform from Minnesota General.
"Mrs. Banks, he's in the intensive care, they won't let anyone in until he's stable" The coach put his hand on her shoulder
"I should be used to this by now, that boy gets himself hurt all the time." She tried to sound chipper but you could her the desperation. "I'm glad you all came, instead of celebrating your victory. State champs, I heard it on the radio on the way over."
"It wouldn't have been the same without Adam." Charlie wrapped his arms around the women who had become his second mother over the years as she started to cry.
The minutes past in what seemed like days. There was no word on Adam's condition for a long while. When a women in her early thirties wearing a tag that read "Doctor Polk" came up them she was baring news that was both relieving and distressing.
"We have Adam stabilized and he's breathing on his own. There doesn't seem to be any signs of head trauma but he's not responsive to anything. That leads me to believe there is something critically wrong."
Mrs. Banks squeezed her eyes tightly taking a deep breath. That also being the very minute Philip walked in
"How's he doing?" Phil panted out of breath from the run from the car
"Stable." The physician replied "I'll allow visitors, one at a time please. Right this way."
The team and coach followed Nancy and Doctor Polk toward Banksie's room as Mr. Banks pulled Larissa aside.
"I don't want you here Larissa, go home."
"But Mr. Banks…"
"No buts," He cut her off "here's $20 call a cab and leave." He shoved the cash in her hand and left her standing there.
While Banks was laying in the hospital looking dead on the outside but alive on the inside, Larissa was the opposite. To the world around her she looked like an alive vibrant teenage girl, inside she was dying.
Julie walked over to Larissa a worried expression creasing her face
"Do you know where they took Banks?"
Larissa nodded sniffling her tears
"Fairview."
"He's at Fairview guys." Julie called over her shoulder "Come on Rissa you can come with us."
The freshman followed Julie to the ducks bus with her head down. The team was loading up as the girls approached.
"What do you think you're doing babe?" Portman stuck out his arm to prevent Larissa from boarding the bus
"I'm, I'm going with you. I want… I have to see Adam." She stuttered as the enforcer glared down at her.
Fulton leaned out the window to say
"Oh no you are not getting on this bus."
"You must be loco." Luis brushed past her and got on
"Look guys the more time we spend fighting over this the less time we're with Banks." Suddenly Averman was the voice of reason
"Larissa obviously cares about him or she wouldn't want to go." Julie stated
"Fine get on the god damn bus so we can go!" Charlie wasn't in the mood for this childish none sense his best friend was in the hospital.
Most of the team was sitting anxiously in the waiting room for any word, Charlie was at the desk trying to fill out as many of the forms as he could, Coach Orion was calling the Banks family and Guy had gone to call Jesse. No one said a word because they were at wits end with each other or because there was really nothing they could say.
"They won't let us see him until he's outa I.C.U." Charlie said rather gravely as he walked back from the desk
"Do you guys win?" Larissa didn't know why that mattered but for some reason she wanted to know
"Yeah we did." Russ responded mono tone
"Where is he? Where's Adam?" Nancy raced through the door still dressed in her uniform from Minnesota General.
"Mrs. Banks, he's in the intensive care, they won't let anyone in until he's stable" The coach put his hand on her shoulder
"I should be used to this by now, that boy gets himself hurt all the time." She tried to sound chipper but you could her the desperation. "I'm glad you all came, instead of celebrating your victory. State champs, I heard it on the radio on the way over."
"It wouldn't have been the same without Adam." Charlie wrapped his arms around the women who had become his second mother over the years as she started to cry.
The minutes past in what seemed like days. There was no word on Adam's condition for a long while. When a women in her early thirties wearing a tag that read "Doctor Polk" came up them she was baring news that was both relieving and distressing.
"We have Adam stabilized and he's breathing on his own. There doesn't seem to be any signs of head trauma but he's not responsive to anything. That leads me to believe there is something critically wrong."
Mrs. Banks squeezed her eyes tightly taking a deep breath. That also being the very minute Philip walked in
"How's he doing?" Phil panted out of breath from the run from the car
"Stable." The physician replied "I'll allow visitors, one at a time please. Right this way."
The team and coach followed Nancy and Doctor Polk toward Banksie's room as Mr. Banks pulled Larissa aside.
"I don't want you here Larissa, go home."
"But Mr. Banks…"
"No buts," He cut her off "here's $20 call a cab and leave." He shoved the cash in her hand and left her standing there.
While Banks was laying in the hospital looking dead on the outside but alive on the inside, Larissa was the opposite. To the world around her she looked like an alive vibrant teenage girl, inside she was dying.
