After Joan and Luke saw their big brother, they all sat together in the waiting room. Luke tried his best to keep his genius of a mind busy so he read a magazines. Joan rested on her father's lap trying to dream away from everything. Helen rested her head on Will's well built tense shoulder.
When a doctor came out of the room Kevin was in and made his way towards them, everyone jumped. They all sat straight up and gave all their attention. The doctor looked around for a small chair and pulled it up close.
Everyone braced themselves for the worse news as the doctor fixated on what and how he was going to say.
"We took many x-rays, they all revealed one major problem. Kevin has broken his back in three different places and many of his vertebrates are deeply fracture."
"Meaning?" Joan questioned with a puzzled look on her face.
The doctor sucked in a breath of air and shook his head. "It means, he paralyzed from the waist down. And he'll NEVER walk again!"
Helen let out a sob as she let go of the glass frame. The small inanimate object bounced off her lap and flung in the air. It spiraled down towards its death. Once the glass touched the laminate floor, it shattered in a million pieces.
The picture survived the fall and under all the shattered glass. The photograph was of Kevin posing with a baseball bat in his grasp. Like the photo frame, everyone's life was shattered.