Okay in the last chapter things weren't exactly very happy, and well things
are still gonna be kinda sad...but things will get happy soon I hope.
Chapter 13
Jou lay almost lifeless in the large hospital bed; the only sign of life was slow constant moving of his chest. Tubes and cords hung from his body, the breathing tube that connected to the mask also connected to a machine with a monitor, this large monitor screen showed his breathing rate. Nice and slow it stayed never moving showing no sign of self- breathing. This monitor also showed his heart rate, his heart rate was taken by a small clip like object that was placed over his index finger on his right hand. That made the only sound in the pale hospital room. The constant bleep filled the almost empty room. Mai looked through the window at the ill boy; a sigh escaped her lips for the thousandth time that morning. The doctors were still doing tests, and nothing was getting to her but the same old stuff. "He's still in a limbo state he could go up or down...there is no for sure thing yet"
Well when did they plan to have a for sure thing to say, this was killing her inside and what made it worse was she did not know what she was expecting. She wanted to hear he was going to be ok he was going to wake up...he was coming back to her. Mai pushed herself away from the image placed before her and decided to take a walk through the hospital, she needed to get away from that horribly un-comfortable chair that was placed beside Jou. Mai let her feet walk her down the white halls, watching as the many nurses fussed over patients and Doctors scribble things as they remerged from the rooms. Mia felt her heart sink when she watched the looks some of those doctors had on their old or young faces. It was something they should be used to, but how can you really get used to telling somebody that they might die or to tell the loved ones that or that they are dead? Mai didn't know if she could handle something like that...how could she, if someone told her that Jou was gone she could never picture that. Never see his bright smile again; never get to hear his sarcasm, his slack job style. She would never see it again. Yet was she now? There he stayed in a vegetation state and he was showing no responding signs anything.
"Miss Valentine" Mai turned a little surprised to hear her name being called
It was Jou's doctor he emerged from the office she had just passed, when she turned to face him she saw as his eyes went downcast. The look on his face made her heart race and her palms become um comfortably sweaty.
"Yes" she finally croaked
"We have not had the succession in contacting young Jou's father...and well we must give this information to someone to pass onto the mother who we also have had no succession in contacting"
"You mean..." Mai started "What about Serenity have you not seen her" Mai asked
"No sorry to say but Miss. Serenity has been absent from her brothers side since the day before yesterday and this information must be passed on as quickly as I can" He said rather softly
He was right, Mai had been there everyday for the past week and she had not seen nor heard from Serenity in a couple of days. However Yugi had been there everyday, same with Honda and Anzu. Otogi also showed up a few times accompanied by Ryo.
He took a deep breath before continuing with what seemed like something that was tearing him up inside.
"Young Jou has shown no signs of recovery...nothing vital has been found, we can give him another few days, but with the way his body is recovering this state may be come permanent," He said
The words he spoke seemed to wash over her, leaving her whole body go numb. Had she registered what he said correctly? Was he saying...was he saying that Jou might never recover? Finally her eyes focused on the distant looking doctor and her voice caught.
"What are you leaving this choice at then?" Mai said in a deadly quiet tone
"His mother preferably father, but I doubt we will find him have the choice to continue with his treatment and being watched within the hospital...however the other choice would be that of pulling the plug, or in other words taking Jou off the life support" He answered
Mai grabbed as her chest with a gasp, take him off. He couldn't be serious Jou was going to be ok, he was going to come back she knew it. But the way this man talked it sounded as it that was wishful thinking. Mai felt her throat tighten as she tried to speak again.
"But...there is nothing else we can do for him?" Mai asked as the tears formed in her violet eyes
"We can leave him for a few more days like I had pointed out earlier, but other than that there really is nothing more we can do" He said as he stared down at a notebook her found her carried in his hands
Mai couldn't stand the way he talked then could not even bare to face her, she felt enraged at the world. This was not fair why should this happen to her, why should this have happened to Jou. This was wrong it was not the way things were supposed to go it just was not.
"THIS IS NOT RIGHT!" Mai screamed through the practically empty hall of the hospital
The young Doctor looked around himself and Mai to find a few people looking at them from their rooms or placement behind the desk.
"Please Miss. Valentine things don't always work the way we want...life does not last forever" The Young said trying to calm the hysterical Mai
"IT WAS NOT SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN TO HIM...JOU WAS NOT MENT TO DIE LIKE THIS!' Tears now poured freely from her eyes racing down her burning red cheeks
"Please" He whispered still trying to regain the peacefulness she had interrupted
"Don't you please me" Mai hissed "You don't understand what he means to me...I don't ...I don't even think he knows what he meant to me" Mai looked down tears dripping from her eyes hitting the tiled floor
Mai turned sharply from the doctor as he walked briskly back to Jou's room, Mai peeked in through the crack between the door and the wall. Yugi could be found there, swinging his legs back and forth talking to the unconscious. She stopped herself from going in when she heard the pint- sized boy talking to his best friend.
"Jou you missed Honda and Anzu today" Yugi said cheerfully "Honda asked her out, she was really happy I've never seen her get so excited over anything else besides shoes" Yugi gave a little laugh
Mai had to smile he had no idea, none of them did. They all thought Jou was going to be ok. With a shuddering sigh, Mai stood up straight pulled her shirt down and straightened her hair. She roughly wiped the tears from her face and put on the best smile she could muster at the moment in time. Mai then grasped the door handle and pulled it open catching the attention of the small spiky haired boy before her.
"Oh Mai hello" Yugi chirped
"Hey Yugi" Mai smiled
"The doctor came in here looking for you, did he end up finding you" Yugi asked
"Ah yeah he did" Mai answered before she took the hard plastic seat on Jou's other side
"What did he have to say?" Yugi pressed on his eyes now on Jou as well as Mai's
Mai looked up suddenly she couldn't tell the young boy what the doctor had actually said, it would break his heart. And Mai was having trouble keeping her own heart from breaking, but the truth was it was breaking weather she wanted to admit it or not. Being strong was always easy for her, but for some reason this time things were different.
"He was just letting me know that he was not able to contact Jou's father" Mai answered as truthfully as she would allow herself
"Oh...he's still out then" Yugi looked dismayed "He should really know what going on"
"I agree, but here really isn't much we can do to help that. And I don't really think he would help much anyhow" Mia like all of Jou's friends knew that Jou's father was irresponsible
"Yeah I guess" Yugi said with a slight sigh "Just too bad"
"Yeah a lot of things in this world are just too bad" Mai mumbled
Ok I'm done for this chapter a little short but I have been a little preoccupied please R&R! BYE BYE!
Chapter 13
Jou lay almost lifeless in the large hospital bed; the only sign of life was slow constant moving of his chest. Tubes and cords hung from his body, the breathing tube that connected to the mask also connected to a machine with a monitor, this large monitor screen showed his breathing rate. Nice and slow it stayed never moving showing no sign of self- breathing. This monitor also showed his heart rate, his heart rate was taken by a small clip like object that was placed over his index finger on his right hand. That made the only sound in the pale hospital room. The constant bleep filled the almost empty room. Mai looked through the window at the ill boy; a sigh escaped her lips for the thousandth time that morning. The doctors were still doing tests, and nothing was getting to her but the same old stuff. "He's still in a limbo state he could go up or down...there is no for sure thing yet"
Well when did they plan to have a for sure thing to say, this was killing her inside and what made it worse was she did not know what she was expecting. She wanted to hear he was going to be ok he was going to wake up...he was coming back to her. Mai pushed herself away from the image placed before her and decided to take a walk through the hospital, she needed to get away from that horribly un-comfortable chair that was placed beside Jou. Mai let her feet walk her down the white halls, watching as the many nurses fussed over patients and Doctors scribble things as they remerged from the rooms. Mia felt her heart sink when she watched the looks some of those doctors had on their old or young faces. It was something they should be used to, but how can you really get used to telling somebody that they might die or to tell the loved ones that or that they are dead? Mai didn't know if she could handle something like that...how could she, if someone told her that Jou was gone she could never picture that. Never see his bright smile again; never get to hear his sarcasm, his slack job style. She would never see it again. Yet was she now? There he stayed in a vegetation state and he was showing no responding signs anything.
"Miss Valentine" Mai turned a little surprised to hear her name being called
It was Jou's doctor he emerged from the office she had just passed, when she turned to face him she saw as his eyes went downcast. The look on his face made her heart race and her palms become um comfortably sweaty.
"Yes" she finally croaked
"We have not had the succession in contacting young Jou's father...and well we must give this information to someone to pass onto the mother who we also have had no succession in contacting"
"You mean..." Mai started "What about Serenity have you not seen her" Mai asked
"No sorry to say but Miss. Serenity has been absent from her brothers side since the day before yesterday and this information must be passed on as quickly as I can" He said rather softly
He was right, Mai had been there everyday for the past week and she had not seen nor heard from Serenity in a couple of days. However Yugi had been there everyday, same with Honda and Anzu. Otogi also showed up a few times accompanied by Ryo.
He took a deep breath before continuing with what seemed like something that was tearing him up inside.
"Young Jou has shown no signs of recovery...nothing vital has been found, we can give him another few days, but with the way his body is recovering this state may be come permanent," He said
The words he spoke seemed to wash over her, leaving her whole body go numb. Had she registered what he said correctly? Was he saying...was he saying that Jou might never recover? Finally her eyes focused on the distant looking doctor and her voice caught.
"What are you leaving this choice at then?" Mai said in a deadly quiet tone
"His mother preferably father, but I doubt we will find him have the choice to continue with his treatment and being watched within the hospital...however the other choice would be that of pulling the plug, or in other words taking Jou off the life support" He answered
Mai grabbed as her chest with a gasp, take him off. He couldn't be serious Jou was going to be ok, he was going to come back she knew it. But the way this man talked it sounded as it that was wishful thinking. Mai felt her throat tighten as she tried to speak again.
"But...there is nothing else we can do for him?" Mai asked as the tears formed in her violet eyes
"We can leave him for a few more days like I had pointed out earlier, but other than that there really is nothing more we can do" He said as he stared down at a notebook her found her carried in his hands
Mai couldn't stand the way he talked then could not even bare to face her, she felt enraged at the world. This was not fair why should this happen to her, why should this have happened to Jou. This was wrong it was not the way things were supposed to go it just was not.
"THIS IS NOT RIGHT!" Mai screamed through the practically empty hall of the hospital
The young Doctor looked around himself and Mai to find a few people looking at them from their rooms or placement behind the desk.
"Please Miss. Valentine things don't always work the way we want...life does not last forever" The Young said trying to calm the hysterical Mai
"IT WAS NOT SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN TO HIM...JOU WAS NOT MENT TO DIE LIKE THIS!' Tears now poured freely from her eyes racing down her burning red cheeks
"Please" He whispered still trying to regain the peacefulness she had interrupted
"Don't you please me" Mai hissed "You don't understand what he means to me...I don't ...I don't even think he knows what he meant to me" Mai looked down tears dripping from her eyes hitting the tiled floor
Mai turned sharply from the doctor as he walked briskly back to Jou's room, Mai peeked in through the crack between the door and the wall. Yugi could be found there, swinging his legs back and forth talking to the unconscious. She stopped herself from going in when she heard the pint- sized boy talking to his best friend.
"Jou you missed Honda and Anzu today" Yugi said cheerfully "Honda asked her out, she was really happy I've never seen her get so excited over anything else besides shoes" Yugi gave a little laugh
Mai had to smile he had no idea, none of them did. They all thought Jou was going to be ok. With a shuddering sigh, Mai stood up straight pulled her shirt down and straightened her hair. She roughly wiped the tears from her face and put on the best smile she could muster at the moment in time. Mai then grasped the door handle and pulled it open catching the attention of the small spiky haired boy before her.
"Oh Mai hello" Yugi chirped
"Hey Yugi" Mai smiled
"The doctor came in here looking for you, did he end up finding you" Yugi asked
"Ah yeah he did" Mai answered before she took the hard plastic seat on Jou's other side
"What did he have to say?" Yugi pressed on his eyes now on Jou as well as Mai's
Mai looked up suddenly she couldn't tell the young boy what the doctor had actually said, it would break his heart. And Mai was having trouble keeping her own heart from breaking, but the truth was it was breaking weather she wanted to admit it or not. Being strong was always easy for her, but for some reason this time things were different.
"He was just letting me know that he was not able to contact Jou's father" Mai answered as truthfully as she would allow herself
"Oh...he's still out then" Yugi looked dismayed "He should really know what going on"
"I agree, but here really isn't much we can do to help that. And I don't really think he would help much anyhow" Mia like all of Jou's friends knew that Jou's father was irresponsible
"Yeah I guess" Yugi said with a slight sigh "Just too bad"
"Yeah a lot of things in this world are just too bad" Mai mumbled
Ok I'm done for this chapter a little short but I have been a little preoccupied please R&R! BYE BYE!