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Chapter 9
POV-KARIN
I lay on one of the benches outside of the hospital to let everything sink in. I sighed as a full amount of reminisces came over me.
~~~~ MEMORY ~~~~
Ephram and I jumped out of his father's car with Todd and Doc Brown following in suit. I ran towards the doors and into the hospital. Doc Brown ran up behind me quickly as well.
"We need clearance to see John Dunlapp in ICU." He said quickly.
I gasped as he mentioned the Intensive Care Unit. Ephram and his dad took hold of me and dragged me towards an elevator in the back of the room. We passed people in casts, splints, wheelchairs-you name it, we saw it there. I looked in a corner of the room and saw one of my friends. I recognized her as Lucy.
"Lucy!" I called to her.
She looked up and ran over to me. A look of panic and worry was on her face.
"Did you hear about Delilah?" She asked me.
"No, I'm hear about my brother." I said, wiping a stray tear from my cheek.
"She was involved in the crash too." Lucy said sadly.
"W-What?" I stammered. "Walk with me. Please explain everything." I said. I then noticed the scratches and her right arm hanging slightly limp at her side.
"Well, I was in the car with John and a few of his friends. John was sitting in the back seat at the opposite side from me. One of his friends was, obviously, drunk and getting a little rough. John tried to stop him, but the driver, one of John's friends, was too distracted and hit Del's car which was just coming back through the industrial area. John was standing up in the car trying to get his friend away from me when we hit and he was thrown from the car." Lucy explained as we walked off of the elevator on the ICU floor.
"Quite a story." Doc Brown said.
"Doc Brown, we didn't go to the movies tonight, we went to the party until it was busted." I confessed slowly.
"I figured that. Then how'd Ephram get this cut on his lip?" He asked me.
"John is very protective of me, and saw me with Ephram and later on pulled him out in a fight in the street and busted his lip. I feel like this is all my fault, Andy. If I hadn't gone to the party, then Ephram and I would have been just fine at the theatre, and the party wouldn't have been broken up and all this wouldn't have happened." I said, mentally kicking myself for this.
"It's not your fault, Karin. It probably would have happened anyway." Doc Brown said to me, trying to calm me down.
"I heard from one of the girls that one of the neighbors called because they smelled something like drugs there. I don't know, but they were there awfully fast from when I called." Lucy said, gently touching her arm.
"Lucy, what happened to your arm?" I asked her as I saw a glimpse of her arm
"It was broken in the accident, I haven't been treated for it yet." Lucy said.
"Oh." I said.
~~~~ END MEMORY ~~~~
I sighed as the vivid memory ended. I stood up and walked over to the snack machine to get a soda and some candy to keep me awake.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
I sat in the back of my dad's car in thought. My dad had gone into either the ER or the OR to help the doctors with John. A thought crossed my mind of the look of pain on Karin's face when she saw her brother and her friend.
~~~~ MEMORY ~~~~
My dad, Karin and I slipped into an ER room quickly. Karin's friend, Lucy, had been pulled into an operating room after a doctor saw her arm. It turned out that she would need surgery to get the bones back in place in her wrist. She looked in a lot of pain when we saw her, but I knew that she should have been in much more pain that that of what she showed to us.
We looked around in the small room and saw doctors in the far corner of it. I looked at Karin and saw a face of pain cross her expression. She brought her hands to her face as she was looking in a different corner than I was. I looked where she was and saw a familiar face. It was Delilah. A doctor stood next to her cot with his hand around her wrist. Karin ran over to Delilah's cot quickly and asked the doctor too many questions to comprehend.
"I'm sorry. Are you next of kin to her?" The doctor asked.
"Not really. She was orphaned when she was 16, and I've known her all of her life. She was an only child, and didn't have any close relatives. I'm almost like her sister." Karin said, trying to hold back tears as the realization swept over her.
(A/N: Just want to make sure that, as mean as it sounds, Delilah is dead..I sorry I had to do that, but you might see why I did later.)
She sighed quietly, holding back a drought of tears inside of her. I watched as her shoulders began to shake from withheld sobs. Her little brother walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder, hoping to try and calm her down. They both sighed as Karin's attention was brought to the other end of the room where the doctors were all standing.
"Karin?" I asked her as I walked behind her.
"Oh my God." She said and strode up to the other cot.
"Excuse me, that's my brother! Is he all right?" I heard her ask amidst the mild clamor of the two doctors talking.
"Yes, ma'am, he is. He just suffered minor head trauma, a broken leg, and a broken arm. Other than that, a few bumps and bruises, but he's fine, miss-?"
"Dunlapp, Karin Dunlapp." She explained.
I felt like I was being introduced to James Bond then when she said her name, but I looked over the shoulders of the doctors and sighed.
"Do you know when he will be dismissed from the hospital?" Karin asked.
"In a good few weeks, Miss Dunlapp. Right now, he is slipping in and out of a coma, but it's nothing really major." The doctor said.
"All right." Karin said and left the room slowly.
I followed her along with Todd. My dad stayed in the ER to help them and bring occasional updates on John's condition. I looked at Karin and saw a tear streak down her tan skin. She sighed and put a brave look on her face and swallowed.
"I'm gonna go think this over, okay?" She told me and walked off in the direction of the elevators.
I nodded and looked down at Todd. He sighed and shook his head. I guessed he was about eight or nine, but was quite tall for his age, he was almost as tall as Karin. I looked around me and idly scratched the back of my head. I swallowed again and finally felt that my throat was parched.
"Todd, do you want to go get a drink from downstairs?" I asked him, not wanting to leave someone his age alone in a hospital.
He nodded and started walking towards the stairs.
"The stairs are better for you." He said simply and jogged down them.
I followed in suit and went down the six flights of stairs. We eventually hit the bottom in the 'cafeteria' if you want to call it that, and then I pulled my wallet out to pay for the drinks.
"What do you want?" I asked him.
"A bottled water is fine. I don't like sodas. They eat away at your stomach lining." He said.
"You're a real smart kid, Todd." I told him as I slipped a dollar bill into the drink machine and pressed the water button.
"I guess. Karin said I'm special. John said I'm a genius, but he was being sarcastic." He said with a grin.
"Well, whatever you are, you're probably smarter than me." I told him as I decided not to drink a soda tonight.
"Do you like her?" Todd asked me suddenly after about five minutes.
"What?" I asked quickly, surprised at his question.
"Do you like my sister?" Todd asked again.
~~~~ END MEMORY ~~~~
I sighed as I heard a knock on my window. I looked up and saw Karin standing there with two sodas and some candy. I sat up and slipped over to the other side of the car as Karin opened the door and sat down beside me. She swallowed and quickly placed a kiss on my lips then turned a crimson color in her cheeks as she pulled away. She grinned and handed me a candy bar.
"Sorry." She mumbled.
I was still flustered, trying to think of something to say, something to do, but I couldn't. I slowly took the candy bar from her and smirked.
"Where's Todd?" She asked me.
"He's asleep in the back-way back." I said, looking behind the seat at Karin's younger brother. His face was buried in his arms slightly.
Karin nodded looked behind the seat as well. When she looked back from the trunk, she opened her soda daintily and sipped it slowly. I looked at my half full bottle of water from earlier and took a chug from my water.
POV CHANGE-KARIN
"Ephram, can I ask you something?" I asked the younger guy sitting next to me. His arm was around my waist whilst I had my head on his shoulder.
"Sure." He responded.
"What do you consider us as? Friends with a very close relationship, or-?" I trailed off.
Ephram shifted positions slightly then said, "I don't know. What about you?"
"I don't know either.
A new voice entered the conversation saying, "I think you guys are in love."
I looked behind me and saw my younger brother sitting up behind us with an ever growing smirk on his face. My jaw dropped as I searched for words.
"How long-how long have you been there?!" I hissed.
"Ever since you got here, Karin." He said, his smirk looking like the Grinch's.
My jaw dropped as memories came to me of earlier. My face turned red again as I smacked my youngest brother on the back of his head.
"You little-!"
"Genius?" He cut in.
"Not the word I was looking for." I said. "Get out." I added as Todd started to crawl over the seat and out of the car.
"Thanks!" He said as he grabbed a candy bar.
I rolled my eyes as I resumed my previous position before we were interrupted by my brother. I sighed as I closed my eyes slowly. Ephram's arm was still around my waist. I scooted a bit closer to him with a sly grin on my face. Amidst everything that had happened today, I still found a happy ending. Delilah was in a better place and wouldn't have to worry about all of this, John was going to get better considering he was a fighter; Ephram knew that first hand, and Lucy was in the OR having her arm fixed. I was at ease now.
"Karin, my turn to ask you something." Ephram said quietly.
"Sure." I said gently, almost lost in the moment.
"In that story earlier, was that girl supposed to be you?" Ephram asked slowly, as if dreading the answer to his question.
I sighed then said, "Yes, that was me. It was four months ago. I lost most of my friends. Delilah didn't come that night, and I thank God that she didn't, and the rest of the girls heard the story from me after a few months-about two weeks ago I told them."
"Oh." Ephram said. I felt him wince when I said it was me.
I sighed as I sat up to face Ephram. I cleared my throat as I unconsciously pushed my face closer to Ephram's slowly. Before I knew it, our lips were almost touching. I closed my eyes and not a moment later, our lips met.
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HAHA!! Happy? I finally put a kiss in there for ya! Two in fact! Well, sorry all for the long wait. I had school work, and as I mentioned last chapter, my parents just got back from Hawaii last Monday, so we're pretty busy getting the house clean and all for them, then my mom just started working more at the church, blah blah blah. But anyhoo...atleast I finished the chapter! Yay!! Well, I'm gonna try to get the next update in soon, but don't expect it too soon because my grades aren't as perfect as my mom wants them to be, so I might put this on hold for a while, mind you, so *shrugs* . I hope you enjoyed the suspense of this chapter!! Bye all!
Chapter 9
POV-KARIN
I lay on one of the benches outside of the hospital to let everything sink in. I sighed as a full amount of reminisces came over me.
~~~~ MEMORY ~~~~
Ephram and I jumped out of his father's car with Todd and Doc Brown following in suit. I ran towards the doors and into the hospital. Doc Brown ran up behind me quickly as well.
"We need clearance to see John Dunlapp in ICU." He said quickly.
I gasped as he mentioned the Intensive Care Unit. Ephram and his dad took hold of me and dragged me towards an elevator in the back of the room. We passed people in casts, splints, wheelchairs-you name it, we saw it there. I looked in a corner of the room and saw one of my friends. I recognized her as Lucy.
"Lucy!" I called to her.
She looked up and ran over to me. A look of panic and worry was on her face.
"Did you hear about Delilah?" She asked me.
"No, I'm hear about my brother." I said, wiping a stray tear from my cheek.
"She was involved in the crash too." Lucy said sadly.
"W-What?" I stammered. "Walk with me. Please explain everything." I said. I then noticed the scratches and her right arm hanging slightly limp at her side.
"Well, I was in the car with John and a few of his friends. John was sitting in the back seat at the opposite side from me. One of his friends was, obviously, drunk and getting a little rough. John tried to stop him, but the driver, one of John's friends, was too distracted and hit Del's car which was just coming back through the industrial area. John was standing up in the car trying to get his friend away from me when we hit and he was thrown from the car." Lucy explained as we walked off of the elevator on the ICU floor.
"Quite a story." Doc Brown said.
"Doc Brown, we didn't go to the movies tonight, we went to the party until it was busted." I confessed slowly.
"I figured that. Then how'd Ephram get this cut on his lip?" He asked me.
"John is very protective of me, and saw me with Ephram and later on pulled him out in a fight in the street and busted his lip. I feel like this is all my fault, Andy. If I hadn't gone to the party, then Ephram and I would have been just fine at the theatre, and the party wouldn't have been broken up and all this wouldn't have happened." I said, mentally kicking myself for this.
"It's not your fault, Karin. It probably would have happened anyway." Doc Brown said to me, trying to calm me down.
"I heard from one of the girls that one of the neighbors called because they smelled something like drugs there. I don't know, but they were there awfully fast from when I called." Lucy said, gently touching her arm.
"Lucy, what happened to your arm?" I asked her as I saw a glimpse of her arm
"It was broken in the accident, I haven't been treated for it yet." Lucy said.
"Oh." I said.
~~~~ END MEMORY ~~~~
I sighed as the vivid memory ended. I stood up and walked over to the snack machine to get a soda and some candy to keep me awake.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
I sat in the back of my dad's car in thought. My dad had gone into either the ER or the OR to help the doctors with John. A thought crossed my mind of the look of pain on Karin's face when she saw her brother and her friend.
~~~~ MEMORY ~~~~
My dad, Karin and I slipped into an ER room quickly. Karin's friend, Lucy, had been pulled into an operating room after a doctor saw her arm. It turned out that she would need surgery to get the bones back in place in her wrist. She looked in a lot of pain when we saw her, but I knew that she should have been in much more pain that that of what she showed to us.
We looked around in the small room and saw doctors in the far corner of it. I looked at Karin and saw a face of pain cross her expression. She brought her hands to her face as she was looking in a different corner than I was. I looked where she was and saw a familiar face. It was Delilah. A doctor stood next to her cot with his hand around her wrist. Karin ran over to Delilah's cot quickly and asked the doctor too many questions to comprehend.
"I'm sorry. Are you next of kin to her?" The doctor asked.
"Not really. She was orphaned when she was 16, and I've known her all of her life. She was an only child, and didn't have any close relatives. I'm almost like her sister." Karin said, trying to hold back tears as the realization swept over her.
(A/N: Just want to make sure that, as mean as it sounds, Delilah is dead..I sorry I had to do that, but you might see why I did later.)
She sighed quietly, holding back a drought of tears inside of her. I watched as her shoulders began to shake from withheld sobs. Her little brother walked up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder, hoping to try and calm her down. They both sighed as Karin's attention was brought to the other end of the room where the doctors were all standing.
"Karin?" I asked her as I walked behind her.
"Oh my God." She said and strode up to the other cot.
"Excuse me, that's my brother! Is he all right?" I heard her ask amidst the mild clamor of the two doctors talking.
"Yes, ma'am, he is. He just suffered minor head trauma, a broken leg, and a broken arm. Other than that, a few bumps and bruises, but he's fine, miss-?"
"Dunlapp, Karin Dunlapp." She explained.
I felt like I was being introduced to James Bond then when she said her name, but I looked over the shoulders of the doctors and sighed.
"Do you know when he will be dismissed from the hospital?" Karin asked.
"In a good few weeks, Miss Dunlapp. Right now, he is slipping in and out of a coma, but it's nothing really major." The doctor said.
"All right." Karin said and left the room slowly.
I followed her along with Todd. My dad stayed in the ER to help them and bring occasional updates on John's condition. I looked at Karin and saw a tear streak down her tan skin. She sighed and put a brave look on her face and swallowed.
"I'm gonna go think this over, okay?" She told me and walked off in the direction of the elevators.
I nodded and looked down at Todd. He sighed and shook his head. I guessed he was about eight or nine, but was quite tall for his age, he was almost as tall as Karin. I looked around me and idly scratched the back of my head. I swallowed again and finally felt that my throat was parched.
"Todd, do you want to go get a drink from downstairs?" I asked him, not wanting to leave someone his age alone in a hospital.
He nodded and started walking towards the stairs.
"The stairs are better for you." He said simply and jogged down them.
I followed in suit and went down the six flights of stairs. We eventually hit the bottom in the 'cafeteria' if you want to call it that, and then I pulled my wallet out to pay for the drinks.
"What do you want?" I asked him.
"A bottled water is fine. I don't like sodas. They eat away at your stomach lining." He said.
"You're a real smart kid, Todd." I told him as I slipped a dollar bill into the drink machine and pressed the water button.
"I guess. Karin said I'm special. John said I'm a genius, but he was being sarcastic." He said with a grin.
"Well, whatever you are, you're probably smarter than me." I told him as I decided not to drink a soda tonight.
"Do you like her?" Todd asked me suddenly after about five minutes.
"What?" I asked quickly, surprised at his question.
"Do you like my sister?" Todd asked again.
~~~~ END MEMORY ~~~~
I sighed as I heard a knock on my window. I looked up and saw Karin standing there with two sodas and some candy. I sat up and slipped over to the other side of the car as Karin opened the door and sat down beside me. She swallowed and quickly placed a kiss on my lips then turned a crimson color in her cheeks as she pulled away. She grinned and handed me a candy bar.
"Sorry." She mumbled.
I was still flustered, trying to think of something to say, something to do, but I couldn't. I slowly took the candy bar from her and smirked.
"Where's Todd?" She asked me.
"He's asleep in the back-way back." I said, looking behind the seat at Karin's younger brother. His face was buried in his arms slightly.
Karin nodded looked behind the seat as well. When she looked back from the trunk, she opened her soda daintily and sipped it slowly. I looked at my half full bottle of water from earlier and took a chug from my water.
POV CHANGE-KARIN
"Ephram, can I ask you something?" I asked the younger guy sitting next to me. His arm was around my waist whilst I had my head on his shoulder.
"Sure." He responded.
"What do you consider us as? Friends with a very close relationship, or-?" I trailed off.
Ephram shifted positions slightly then said, "I don't know. What about you?"
"I don't know either.
A new voice entered the conversation saying, "I think you guys are in love."
I looked behind me and saw my younger brother sitting up behind us with an ever growing smirk on his face. My jaw dropped as I searched for words.
"How long-how long have you been there?!" I hissed.
"Ever since you got here, Karin." He said, his smirk looking like the Grinch's.
My jaw dropped as memories came to me of earlier. My face turned red again as I smacked my youngest brother on the back of his head.
"You little-!"
"Genius?" He cut in.
"Not the word I was looking for." I said. "Get out." I added as Todd started to crawl over the seat and out of the car.
"Thanks!" He said as he grabbed a candy bar.
I rolled my eyes as I resumed my previous position before we were interrupted by my brother. I sighed as I closed my eyes slowly. Ephram's arm was still around my waist. I scooted a bit closer to him with a sly grin on my face. Amidst everything that had happened today, I still found a happy ending. Delilah was in a better place and wouldn't have to worry about all of this, John was going to get better considering he was a fighter; Ephram knew that first hand, and Lucy was in the OR having her arm fixed. I was at ease now.
"Karin, my turn to ask you something." Ephram said quietly.
"Sure." I said gently, almost lost in the moment.
"In that story earlier, was that girl supposed to be you?" Ephram asked slowly, as if dreading the answer to his question.
I sighed then said, "Yes, that was me. It was four months ago. I lost most of my friends. Delilah didn't come that night, and I thank God that she didn't, and the rest of the girls heard the story from me after a few months-about two weeks ago I told them."
"Oh." Ephram said. I felt him wince when I said it was me.
I sighed as I sat up to face Ephram. I cleared my throat as I unconsciously pushed my face closer to Ephram's slowly. Before I knew it, our lips were almost touching. I closed my eyes and not a moment later, our lips met.
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HAHA!! Happy? I finally put a kiss in there for ya! Two in fact! Well, sorry all for the long wait. I had school work, and as I mentioned last chapter, my parents just got back from Hawaii last Monday, so we're pretty busy getting the house clean and all for them, then my mom just started working more at the church, blah blah blah. But anyhoo...atleast I finished the chapter! Yay!! Well, I'm gonna try to get the next update in soon, but don't expect it too soon because my grades aren't as perfect as my mom wants them to be, so I might put this on hold for a while, mind you, so *shrugs* . I hope you enjoyed the suspense of this chapter!! Bye all!
