SIN

Chapter 21: Miracles

(Following Day at 9 a.m. at the Hospital)

Wally woke up and stretched his arms. Or at least he could feel himself trying to. Something was hindering him.

"Huh?" Wally asked groggily then remembered he was at hospital and his body was badly damaged and most of him was bandaged and cast.

But wait a minute. Usually when I try really hard to move I feel pain. But I felt none when I tried to move my arms and before I couldn't even MOVE them. It must've have worked! That minister prayed and healed me! I wonder about my legs? OWW! Okay I guess not. But the upper half of my body seems cured. YES! (Wally's thoughts)

"Doctor! Doctor!" Wally cried and soon a nurse hurried in, "call Dr. Lincoln!" he shouted to the nurse, "I think I can move my arms!"

The nurse hurried out and soon Dr. Trey and three other doctors rushed into Wally's room.

"Where's Dr. Lincoln?" Wally immediately asked.

"Oh he went back to his usual hospital," Dr. Trey explained, "he was only just to stay here for a week you know," he added.

"Oh yeah," Wally said, "well I think I can move my arms and the upper half of me isn't hurting anymore," he told Dr. Trey who looked confused, "the minister?" he added and Dr. Trey understood.

"I don't personally believe in that nonsense," Dr. Trey said dismissively, "but we'll run some tests," he added.

But after two hours of testing Wally's healing couldn't be denied.

"Coincidence," Dr. Trey said still unconvinced, "well your cast and bandages will be removed from the upper half of your body," he told Wally, "but be careful," he warned, "the lower half of your body is still damaged and I frankly doubt that this so called miracle will be repeated," he stated and left.

Half an hour later Wally was sitting up and sipping orange juice when his parents entered.

"Hi W….WALLY!" Mr. Beetles started calmly but screamed when he saw his son sitting up on his own and the upper half of his body free of bandages, cast and bruises, "your better!" he cried and hurried to hug his son.

Unnoticed Mrs. Beetles had fainted.

"Thanks but um Dad," Wally said, "mom fainted," he added and pointed at the unconscious Mrs. Beetles.

"Oh my!" Mr. Beetles declared and hurried over to his wife, "wake up honey," he said kindly and lightly slapped her face to wake her.

"Huh?" Mrs. Beetles asked as her eyes opened, "my baby!" she cried and pushed her husband away, "I can't believe your better," she said tearfully and hugged him.

"Well my upper half is," Wally told her and showed her his still bandaged and cast lower half, "but I can actually do some stuff on my own now," he declared happily, "plus now I'll most likely have to spend only four months or less here since initially when they said 'a year' it was because they claimed that the upper half my body would take eight months to heal well enough to remove the cast and bandages alone," he reminded his mother, "Dr. Trey isn't hopeful but I hope the rest of my body gets healed too," he said hopefully.

"Well be grateful that at least the healings started," Mr. Beetles told him.

"I am," Wally said softly, "I am," he repeated a smile spreading across his face.

(12pm at Lizzie's Residence)

"We didn't do anything!" Lizzie cried as Abby and Mary Jane glared at her, "I can't believe you'd think I'd purposely make moves on a taken man!" she shouted in reference to Hoagie.

"Abby seriously thinks you mean to say boy," Abby said frankly.

"I'm not a boy!" Hoagie cried in offence, "I'm a teenager," he told her.

"More a teenage BOY to me," Abby muttered angrily.

"Hey!" Hoagie cried angrily ready to argue with Abby.

"Quit it!" Lizzie screamed and everyone became quiet, "Hoagie and I did nothing!" she shouted, "would this accusation thing be happening if he were left alone with Kuki or I was left alone with Wally?" she demanded.

"Wally would never cheat on me!" Kuki declared in his defence.

"And I would never let Hoagie cheat on Mary Jane with me," Lizzie argued, "I respect her," she added.

"Really?" Mary Jane asked surprise.

"Yeah," Lizzie said, "you're not like those typical rich kids who snob those who aren't of your status."

"Well I wasn't always like that," Mary Jane said recalling how she was when she was younger.

"But you changed for the better," Lizzie pointed out, "that's all that matters".

"Well thank you," Mary Jane said happily.

"So you and Hoagie didn't….?" Abby started to ask.

"NO!" Hoagie and Lizzie cried in unison.

"Okay," Abby said with a release of breath, "I'm sorry for being…"

"It's okay," Hoagie said kindly, "you care about her."

"Well I'm not too happy that you found out," Abby said frankly, "but I know that I can trust you Hoagie," she said and gave him a hug, "but call me a dyke again and I'll kill you," she added.

Hoagie laughed nervously.

"Yeah," Hoagie said looking rather scared.

Everyone else burst out laughing.

Done.

Death's Soulmate: Sorry for the late update. Blame the 'plague' and our phone company who took away our service. Worse yet it turned out that they had sent us a bill with the WRONG total and had knocked off our service for non payment of bills (the bills total was less than the correct total). We just got back our service last night (Thursday June 16). Please Review.