Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
Lu's pager went off in an assortment of 10 quick beeps. She looked at her watch and groaned as she forced herself to get out of bed and to get dressed. She had just left the clinic 2 hours earlier. It was 12:30am Lu loved her job, don't get me wrong, but it was times like this she wished she was somewhere else, someone else.
Lu got up and dressed, then she went downstairs to Jamie's room.
"Jamie honey wake up"
"W-what Lu what's the matter?"
"Nothing honey its just that I have to go to work. Will you be OK here by yourself?"
"Sure"
"OK I shouldn't be too long"
Lu started to walk out the door but Jamie stopped her.
"Lu?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks"
"For what?"
"For saving my baby"
"You did that all on your own."
Lu rushed to the break room, grabbed her white coat and clocked in then hurried to ER.
"Who paged me?"
"It was me." Dr. Jackson said as he walked towards Lu
"What happened?"
"Lu it's Dana"
"You called me up here at.." Lu checked her watch "At 12:45am to talk about Dana?" Lu said in an angered tone as she remembered the fight she and Dana had had earlier. She thought of all that had happened and thought of how she refused to allow Jamie to get an abortion.
She thought of how furious Dana was with her, and what Dr. Jackson had just told her had happened to Dana.
"Lu! Lu! Can you hear me?" Bob Jackson was shaking her.
"How, how did I get on the floor?" Lu asked.
"You sunk down about 10 minutes ago. Are you OK? You've been starring straight ahead for the longest time."
"I'm fine" Lu claimed as she tried to stand up but discovered that she was so weak that she could barley stand.
"How could she do that to herself. There is no way that Dana would do that." Lu stated strongly in the best friends defense.
"I don't know Lu it was a spur of the moment thing. She should of gotten help, yes she does work in a hospital you know."
"It must be something else. There is no way Dana would ever do that. She had so much going for her."
"Well she is in ICU Lu, she's in a coma, don't get you hopes up.She is in a coma due to the concussion she got when she hit the ground. The awning broke her fall, but still she's lucky she's not dead. Only 5 of the people in this condition wake up and return to full to function."
"If I know Dana, she'll pull through."
"Not if she has no will to live."
"This is not the Dana that I know, and I know she did not jump! It must have been some kind of accident or something. I spend every day of my life with Dana and she was not suicidal."
"If you say so, then I'll believe you Dr. Delgado."
"Where is she?"
"Lu, I really don't think…"
"Where is she?"
"Cubical 23, section A"
Lu raced to 23 section A but she stopped a short when she came to the door. Could she do this? Could Lu see her best-friend and watch her die? How would Lu handle the pressure? Find out in Chapter 8 of Garden Of Fire.