Dr. Abbott: "Where is everyone?"
Bright: (loudly) "Ephram!"
Ephram: (sleepily) "What?"
Bright: "Where's my sister?"
Ephram: "Room 318."
The Abbotts hurried off to Amy's room and Ephram fell back asleep.
_____________________________
Dr. Abbott knocks on the door to Room 318. Dr. Brown sees Dr. Abbott and opens the door.
Dr. Abbott: "What's wrong with her?"
Amy: "Dad?"
(Amy sits upright)
Amy: "Didn't you leave?"
Rose: "Laynie called. We came right away."
Dr. Abbott: "May I ask, what happened?"
Dr. Brown: "Well, I don't exactly know. It seems to be stress, either that or Amy's tired. Have you gotten any sleep?"
Amy: "Two hours."
Dr. Brown: "That's probably the root of the problem. I'll leave you alone with your family."
Dr. Brown left the room.
Bright: "Amy, um. are you ok? I mean the thing with Colin-"
Amy: "I'm fine."
Rose: "Do you want to go see Colin? I'm sure Dr. Brown wouldn't mind-"
Amy: "I don't think he'd want to see me."
Rose: "Did you have a fight or something?"
Amy: "No. he and I just aren't talking. Can we talk about something else? I really don't want to talk about Colin."
Dr. Brown walked back into the room.
Dr. Brown: "Sorry to interrupt anything but I have some news. It's about Colin. I just told the Harts. Colin's getting weaker. We're not exactly sure what's going on. We thought his recovery was going to well to be true. He's not responding to any medication and his pulse isn't as strong as we'd like it to be. We don't know what's going to happen."
Bright: "He's gonna die?"
(Dr. Brown sighs)
Dr. Brown: "We don't know. Yet."
___________________________
Ephram: "What do you think Amy did?"
Laynie sat and thought about it for a moment.
Laynie: "You know I thought this was weird. Don't tell anyone this, but when I was in there, you know with Colin, he said something. He just didn't look or talk like Colin. It was more of a sullen Colin. Something was wrong, I didn't know what and I know he didn't want to talk about it. When you're usually with him Amy's constantly on his conversation topics list. She wasn't. He was just picking up random topics out of the air. He also said. um.."
Ephram: "What? You can tell me."
(tears start to well up in Laynie's eyes)
Laynie: "He said there was no reason for him to hold on anymore. I mean how would you feel if your brother said that?"
Ephram hugged Laynie and patted her on the back. Just then, Dr. Brown walked into the waiting room.
Dr. Brown: "Ephram? Amy wants to talk to you."
Ephram let go of Laynie and walked to Amy's room. He turned the knob.
Amy: "Oh, Ephram, thanks for coming."
Ephram sat down on the chair next to Amy's bed.
Ephram: "Is it serious?"
Amy: "No."
(awkward silence)
Amy: "I broke up with him."
Ephram: "I know."
Amy: "How?"
Ephram: "Laynie, she said some stuff."
Amy: "Do you think I did the right thing? I mean, what do you think I should've done?"
Ephram: "Doesn't matter, Amy, as long as you're happy."
(Amy smiles)
Ephram: "Does this mean I'll have to ask you out?"
Amy: "Possibly."
Dr. Brown walked into the room.
Dr. Brown: "I hope I didn't interrupt anything."
Amy: "No."
Dr. Brown: "Ephram. no, you should stay. I have some bad news."
Amy: "About my tests?"
Dr. Brown: "No. uh Colin he um. he's-. he's dead."
Amy starts to tear up and Ephram hugs her. Dr. Brown leaves Amy and Ephram alone in the room.
Ephram: "It's ok."
Amy pulls out of the hug and wipes away some tears.
Amy: "I wanna see him."
Ephram: "Fine, I'll go with you."
Amy: "No, thanks Ephram, I need to do this alone."
Ephram nodded.
Ephram: "I'll be right here."
Amy grabbed her jacket and went into Colin's room. She sat down in the chair next to his bed.
Amy: "I should have known this would happen. I still had to tell you."
Amy grabbed Colin's hand, but when she found it was cold, she let go of it and started crying harder.
Amy: "I'm sorry. I killed you. It was all my fault. Not Laynie's, not Ephram's, or anyone else's. I just want you to know that I care- um. cared about you a lot. You gave me my first kiss. and you gave me my nickname. I'm sorry."
Dr. Brown walked into the room, unnoticed.
Dr. Brown: "It wasn't your fault, Amy."
Amy turned around when she heard this. She wiped away some tears.
Amy: "Dr. Brown? I didn't know you were here."
Dr. Brown: "It's natural that you feel guilty-"
Amy: "How'd you know I was in here?"
Dr. Brown: "Ephram-he told me you were most likely in here."
Amy: "I should probably leave."
Dr. Brown: "Yeah, you should get some rest."
Amy picked up her coat and went back into her room. Ephram was still there, but he was asleep in his chair. Amy put down her jacket and sat up in the hospital bed. She took Ephram's hand, which woke him up.
Ephram: "Oh, sorry. You're back."
Amy: "Yeah."
Ephram: "We don't have to talk about it."
Amy: "Yeah, I know. That's why I like you."
(Ephram was speechless.)
Amy: "I mean, you know when to say or when not to say something."
(awkward silence)
Amy: "I don't think they'll let you stay here. You should probably get going."
Ephram: "Ok."
A/N: I do realize that most of my chapters are full of dialogue, I like it that way though. Not many new reviews, please review!