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NINAS TEARS

Chapter two.

Nina fell asleep, her loud cries were nothing more than gentle breaths, now... as she slept at the foot of the hospital bed.

She awoke several hours later, to the quiet whispers of a nurse... who came in and let her know that the doctors would need her out of the room for a while. The nurse held her hand rather tightly, as she walked her down the eerie corridors of the hospital. The floors were covered in a plasticy-looking marble pattern... with hues of cream, brown, and yellow. The walls were aged; they were once white... but long since had the walls faded into a dull, greyish color... But the yellow floors, worst of all; seemed to seep into everything else in the whole entire hospital. Nina clutched her tiny teddybear... even it; looked yellow while she walked through the gloomy hallways of the hospital.

The nurse took her to a quiet room, divided by a curtain. She assumed that a patatient lie behind the curtain in a hospital bed... perhaps a television, too. She wanted to look in, but she didnt. The nurse dailed a number and began talking with someone on the phone. Nina payed very little attention to her, and the conversation. She starred at a wall, coated with pictures. Each in a tiny, card paper frame...

Nina was little, she hadnt attended school yet, little did she know that she would be starting a few years behind. She held her teddybear in one hand, and nurses cold, gloved hand in the other. The nurse hung up the phone. "Sweetie?" she inquired... Nina simply turned and starred at her.
"Your friends Crash and Coco are coming to pick you up."

Nina nodded. "Otay." She said, now looking at the nurses shoes.

Nina was dropped off in a childrens room, minutes later. There were a few hospital beds, all of which were occupied with what appeared to be very sick children... One of them was sleeping, which surprised Nina, because of the loudness of the room. In one corner, a tall, black-haired man sat in a chair and read stories to a bunch of kids. The kids were younger than nina; one of them began to cry, and the nurse let go of nina to go and tend to them. Nina sat down right where she was. She picked up a barbie doll that was lying on the floor, and pulled off its head. A tear fell from her eye, but she was smiling a little... She took the disimbodied head, and began to roll it around, while she sat and listened to the screams of loud children, the cries of babies, and the crashing of lego blocks, as mini-lego kingdoms fell down...

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Meanwhile, cortex was lying; concious in the hospital bed. His eyes were open, but he was completley paralyzed. He watched doctors work on a cast, already on his leg... It must have broken; cortex thought.

"He's also suffered brain damage, and though his leg and arm will heal; he will never move them again."

Cortrex tried to look at his arm but he couldnt. He assumed that there was a cast on it, too. From what he could see; cortex had stitches in his stomach, and left foot. He had a cast on his right leg, and a tensor bandage on his left. He knew that there were more injuries; though he couldnt glance in a different direction to see them...

"You think he'll ever come out of this coma?" A nurse asked, walking in holding a tray with a dozen soups on it..
"I just dont know yet" Said the doctor... "We'll be checking brain waves and heart rate in a little while."

Cortex was shocked that the doctors thought he was in a coma... He felt like screaming at the top of his lungs... a power of rage came over him for a breif moment as he attempted to scream at the doctors; "I'M NOT IN A COMA YOU IDIOTS!" But...after, he realized that he didnt make a sound. He could hear his heart rate bleeping faster on the moniter... or, was that his heart rate? No. It was... brain waves? He watched the doctors pull a brain wave moniter into view.

"If only they could see or hear what I was thinking..." He thought to himself... misery came over him.

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Meanwhile, Crash and coco were at the front desk with Nina. Her face was drying, though she could taste salty tears across her cheeks.

Later, when they reached their home... They brought Nina into a tiny room with a bed, that looked like it was somthing that folded out from a sofa. Nina sat upon it; but it was rock hard. The home was cozy, but somehow she liked the dreary yellow corridors of the hospital better. She felt the creamy grey wallpaper, and the fake yellow marble floors comforting. Now she was starring at pattern-curtains; brown walls, and a white dresser with a vase full of flowers. Coco sat down with her... "You need anything?"
Nina spoke no words, only shook her head slowly... trying to hold in another ocean of tears.

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More coming soon!