The Hospital Room – Team 7
The hospital room was empty when she entered. It was dead. All hospital rooms are partly dead, the white walls, the simple beds, the scarce, necessary minimum makes it like this. Yet some hospital rooms are filled with something that gives them just a little bit of life.
Some hospital rooms are filled with food wrappers, empty bags of chips and teasing. Some hospital rooms are filled with muddy paw marks, laugher, and smiles that are so faint that can be barely seen, but definitely felt if one knows they're there anyway. Some hospital rooms finally are filled with broken dreams, determination and traces of hope.
The room Sakura stands in however holds none of these, no sweets, no laughter, and no hopes. The only thing that she finds there is an empty bed, that has been cleanly made. There are no smiles here, no teasing.
No spiky, yellow-haired head that would bound out and smile at her cheerfully, no sour looks thrown at her, the closest she will ever get to a thank you. Not even a quarrel.
So she stands alone, with her shoulders hunched, pink hair falling into her eyes and shading her away. She stands there with only the flower she brought for him as company. The flower he doesn't want and doesn't care about.
And she realizes that they are, each of them, alone.
AN: Well this is it. Made me rather sad, that last part did. Could have team 7 ever worked out? Sometimes I think that it just had to fall apart no matter what…But other times I'm more hopeful.
Well, please leave a comment, and I encourage you to have a look at the artwork that inspired this story. The 4 Rooms by LevyRasputin on Deviantart