Chapter 2

"What?" Rory practically yelled. She was sure that everyone outside in the waiting room could hear her but she didn't care. "Are you kidding me? You have to be joking!"

"Now, calm down, Rory let's hear what the doctor has to say." Rory quickly brushed off her mother's attempt to sit her down and waited impatiently for the doctor's answer.

"I assure you and your mother that this step is only a precaution, just to perform some tests in order to get to the bottom of this," Dr. Ritchie explained calmly. It didn't matter to her what the doctor said to try to pacify her. It was not going to work. She was annoyed that she was wasting a Saturday here but now she is going to have to waste… who knows how many days at a stupid hospital. It was so unfair. A couple of minutes later she stormed out of his office with her mother trailing behind. When at last they got into their car her mother tried to pacify her.

"It's only for testing, honey. In a couple of days you'll be back in school and back to your normal routine. Don't worry everything is going to be fine." And with that said they were on their way back to their house long enough to inform her dad, 10 year-old sister Trisha and 18 year-old brother Chris on what's happening. They also had to pack Rory's small suitcase with her things, since Dr. Ritchie had advised that she check into their closest major hospital, which was Sandylion General Hospital immediately, which was what her parents had decided to do against her wishes.

When they arrived at SG hospital she took the elevator with her parents, her siblings, and a nurse to the fifth floor and accompanied them to the hospital room, where two beds, two small dressers, and two nightstands filled the room. All that separated the two beds a flimsy, pale blue curtain. Rory was the only occupant, but the nurse told them that another patient could be checked in at any time. While Rory settled in the nurse told them about the hospital routine, meals, TV, visiting hours. She said that lab technicians would be coming in later that evening to draw blood and do simple routine procedures. When she started telling them about how to find a Ronald McDonald House, the facility where families of sick children could stay to be near their kids Rory cut her off.

"I'm not a child. And I don't plan to be here too long." When the overhead PA system announced that visiting hours were over her parents went over and hugged Rory goodbye promising to return tomorrow. When they left she flipped through the channels aimlessly for a while before giving up and turning it off and realized that this was her first night in a hospital alone. How am I ever going to survive? She asked herself.

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