Dear readers, all of you must be wondering where I'm going with this story or more importantly what's going to happen to Lily? well what are u waiting for read to find out...

Chapter 3: Ray's Day

"Think we should wake him?" said Mr. Randall, as he stood in the door way of room 456, with his wife.

"We might as well, he slept there all night!" said Mrs. Randall, grabbing her husbands hand and pulling him into the room. "Her surgery is in two hours."

"Ray...Ray...Ray...RAY!" said Mr. Randall his voice growing louder, as he shook Ray, who was lying beside Lily. He was lying on his knees, with his head on the hospital bed, as he held Lily's hand.

"What... She wake yet?" said Ray a little dazed, as he rubbed his eyes and lifted his head.

"No!" said Mrs. Randall

"How'd you sleep?" asked Mr. Randall, as he walked over to a chair in the corner of the room.

"Terrible!" stated Ray, as he stretched.

"Lily's having surgery in two hours Ray." said Mrs. Randall as she knelt down by Lily, grabbed her hand and softly stroked it.

"Here Ray." said Mr. Randall, standing up and handing Ray twenty dollars. "Go get something to eat, okay?"

"Okay!" said Ray, as he grabbed the twenty from Mr. Randall, then he looked at Lily.

"Will watch her, now go get some food." said Mr. Randall, as he made a sweeping motion, to get him out the door.

"Oh Ray! We called your parents last night so they wouldn't worry." said Mrs. Randall, just as Ray walked out the door.

"Okay thank you, Mr and Mrs. Randall." Ray walked down the hall and into the cafeteria. He bought a sandwich, cola and some type of desert. At least he thought it was desert. Ray sat down a an empty table and started to eat, he was about to dig into his desert when he heard a familiar voice talking to him.

"Do you mind if I sit with you?" asked the voice, from behind him. Immediately his heart soared like an eagle, thinking it was Lily. "Do you mind if I sit with you?" called the voice

"What yeah sure, Lily!" said Ray, as he turned to face the person behind him. When he saw who it was his heart sank like a rock.

"I'm not Lily! Its Jamie! Remember!" said the person, sitting down beside Ray.

"Oh yeah I remember!" said Ray, as he started to dig into his desert.

"Look... mum..." said Jamie, looking at Ray for the answer.

"Ray... Ray Brennan!" said Ray, as he stopped eating, and shook her hand.

"Look, Ray, the reason I sat down beside you is because I want to take to you about me and Lily..." Jamie leaned forward.

"What about you and Lily?" asked Ray, dropping his spoon and pushing his desert away, for now, as he also leaned in.

"You've know Lily her whole life, right?"

"Yeah, so what?" Ray took a sip of his cola.

"You can tell Lily from any other girl right?" asked Jamie, eyeing him sternly.

"Well yeah, Lily's the most..." Jamie cut Ray off before he could make a mile long list of things about Lily.

"Yeah, Yeah whatever!" said Jamie, waving her hands at him, "Look at this..." Ray took a sip of his drink and took the document that Jamie had in her hands.

"WHAT!" yelled Ray, spitting his cola that he had in his mouth all over the floor. "Your joking right."

"Look, from the moment I saw you I knew you knew about me and Lily. Just the way you looked at me, with those beautiful eyes. Look you can't tell anyone, okay?" asked Jamie, staring into Ray's eyes.

"Okay!"

"Look if anyone knew... It would kill them... I'll tell them when Lily wakes up. Okay! You promise that you wont tell a soul?" asked Jamie, almost in tears but with such a serious look to her face.

"I promise." said Ray, crossing his heart.

"Good." said Jamie as she grabbed the half wet from cola document from Ray. She started to eat her lunch.

Ray walked back to Lily's room after he had finished his lunch. He walked into the room to find no the room totally empty of people. 'Where could he be?' thought Ray, walking out of the room, 'Surgery... wait it hasn't been two hours yet.' thought Ray, running into the main lobby, and looking at the clock. 'Nope, its only 12:45, Lily has another hour. Where are they?' He started to look around for any nurses but he didn't see any. 'This is to weird!'

"Wait, Jamie!" yelled Ray, as he saw Jamie run past him.

"What Ray?" asked Jamie, out of breath.

"Where is everyone?" asked Ray, as he made her look at him.

"Oh, well most of the nurses are eating lunch," said Jamie, dragging Ray back to the cafeteria, "See, and the other nurses are attending to there patients." Jamie, grabbed Ray's hand and they ran down the hallway, that had a nurse in almost every room. "The secretary nurse over there who manages, the main desk, just switched with one of the other secretary!." continued Jamie, pointing at the nurse who walked by them. Walking back to the main lobby, "You happy Now?"

"But where's Lily?" asked Ray, with concern showing in his voice.

"Relax, she's being prepped for surgery..." She saw that he didn't understand, so she restated the answer. "Their giving her some drugs and medicine to make sure sure doesn't feel pain if she wakes up or wakes up in surgery, Okay? They should be done by one at the least." Jamie looked at her watch that said One. "Damn, got to go, Ray!" Jamie Ran down the hall towards the elevator, "Hold that elevator." screamed Jamie.

Ray walked back to Lily's room, walking in to the empty room, he sat down in the chair in the far corner. He sat in the silent room waiting, he felt sleep over come him. He did his best to stop him self from falling asleep but the erg was to great.

By the time Ray woke, Lily had been in surgery and was still unconscious. Ray rubbed his eyes, and looked around. The hospital room had plain white walls, it made Ray want to gag. friends and family members, sent Lily get well cards, balloons, Parker had even brought Lily's guitar, 'It spices up the room!' thought Ray, Mr and Mrs. Randall had two chairs, at Lily's bed side. Mrs. Randall had fallen asleep while holding Lily's hand. Mr. Randall was awake and talking to Lily.

"Lily, sweaty Pie, please comeback to us. Please!" pleaded Mr. Randall

"So was the surgery successful?" asked Ray, standing up.

"Yes, but the next 24 hours are crucial." said Mr. Randall, startled.

"That's good." said Ray, stretching.

"Your Parents are in the lobby. They're waiting for you." said Mr. Randall, looking dead into Ray's eyes. Ray could see how much concern Mr. Randall had for Lily, because Ray also had that same concern for Lily. The concern was like how much chance a mouse had against a rattle snake.

"Thank you, Mr. Randall." said Ray, walking to the door. He stopped and turn, in the middle of the doorway. "For everything." Ray walked down the hall and into the lobby. He was greeted with his family and they went out for dinner.

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