So far I've been thinking abut which character I'm most like, and I think I've decided on Rena, who I find very optimistic, cute, and a killer (Happiness). In this chapter you get to meet Sam's brother, who doesn't have any dialogue… I'll remember to pencil that in for the next chapter. -Miki
Part 3- Waking up
In my dream my skull was being pushed against dry crisp paper covered pillows, and sheets that really needed to be ironed. In my dream, I didn't fall. In my dream I wasn't so clumsy, and it wasn't raining so hard I couldn't see my face.
Rolling over, I inhaled deeply to smell a strong sense of cleaning material, and metal, and I swear to god, I could smell the needles. Of course I don't swear to god because I'm an atheist and by doing so I would be backstabbing my dad so hard it would be like saying I ate the last piece of mom's apple pie. A total backstab.
I opened my eyes slightly, large enough to take in that this in fact was a hospital- rats- and totally my worst nightmare. Two chairs shoved against a yellow wall (vomit anyone?) and a book about the philosophers stone resting on the edge of one of them, a coat slung over the back.
To my side I could see the faint outline of my wrist covered in white bandages and an IV hanging on a wire full of liquid, just in case. I groaned and pulled the stiff hospital pillow over my head, ignoring the searing pain in my wrist, ankle, and head.
"Your awake!"
A second - maybe less- later all the wind in my body was knocked out when Rena jumped on top of me, hugging me tightly. How the heck she knew I was awake was waaaaaay beyond me, I mean I obviously had the pillow over my head so you couldn't see my eyes.
"Careful Sparky, you may kill her," Iaso said, just as I pulled the pillow down from my eyes so I tasted paper and a careful outlining of cotton. He had his hands in his pockets and grabbing the book I had noticed earlier, sliding it out of view from Rena and me. He caught me looking and quirked a quick smile, dropping the book and putting his hair into a ponytail.
Rena slithered off my bed and dropped to the floor. "I thought you died!"
"No you didn't." Iaso was back in the conversation, leaning against the vomit walls carefully. Inoticed a large burn mark across his arm, he never goes anywhere without his coat so why….
I looked back to Rena who was quivering, wearing only her black tank top. Iaso must have gave her his coat and when they got into the hospital and she dried the glove, she must have burned Iaso for a still unknown reason.
"Ok, so I lied, sorry god, and by the way-"
"Well, looks like you have quite a lot of visitors, now doesn't it?" A nurse, about five feet two inches, female and wearing a hospital coat. The woman held a new roll of white bandages and bottle of pain killers, for some odd reason, I have a pit feeling it's for me.
"Hello! Welcome, please don't kill me!" I said sarcastically with a touch of optimistic. Rena took this as an opportunity to start unwrapping bandages from my ankle. Iaso followed in suit, unwrapping them from my wrist, tugging on it slightly.
The nurse, her name tag glaring against the florescence light bulbs so it was unreadable, was dubbed Goldilocks in my mind. Her hair was curly and a blondish brown, with blue eyes to match and small brown freckles dotting her button nose. Pure definition of Goldilocks.
Goldilocks unwrapped the bandages from my head kindly, accidentally bumping her hand against my forehead so I felt a rush of pain flow through my body.
Rena finished first, and she threw away a large bandage into a small garbage next to my bed, that had a bag stuffed roughly in it. Goldilocks threw the bandages over to Rena, and Rena quickly wrapped my ankle and my leg splintered with pain.
"Well honey, I have good news and bad news," said Goldilocks, setting two pink pills and a cup water by the bed stand. It took me a second to register the fact that they were done bandaging me up.
"Well, go on, don't make me wait," I said, picking up one of the pills and putting it my mouth. It tasted like flour. Iaso whacked my back so hard the pill came flying out of my mouth. "Jeez, trying to make me throw up my lungs too?" I asked, coughing hard.
Iaso picked up the saliva pill and held it close to his face. "What kind of medicine is this?" he asked, tossing it back at Goldilocks. She looked mildly surprised, catching the pill and putting it back on my table. "I made it myself, it's a home remedy."
Goldilocks cleared her throat, glared daggers at Iaso, and looked back at me. "Well Miss. Elric you see, you have a mild concussion and a fractured wrist."
"That's not to bad," implied Rena, scratching at the bedside table with a stick she got from who knows where, so far she had made a inch deep hole.
"Um… well, her leg also happens to be… well, to put it simply, her bone has been splintered and she'll have to wear bandages for about a month and a half, and use crutches too," Goldilocks explained, walking backwards towards the halls. "And Eliza, your family is here to visit you… yours too Rena, and don't forget to take those pills."
Then she was gone, slipping out of the room like she was some criminal who had just been caught on film by a few lonely five year olds with lollipops.
Axis, my loud obnoxious, loud (the list goes on and on, trust me) burst into the room, blindly attacking me for a hug. I'm pretty sure I mentioned blindly right? Well, he had his eyes screwed tightly shut, so instead of hugging me he had a grasp on Iaso, who was currently kicking him.
A minute later mom came in, wrapping her arms around me, her soft lemon colored hair falling on me. From behind her, I could see dad prying Axis off Iaso. Mom brushed some of my hair back, before whispering in my ear "You can pierce your ears tomorrow," and I felt a surge of happiness.
I saw Rena being attacked by her father, being hugged so hard she was crying tears of joy and hugging him back. Out of the corner of her dad's eye you could see him giving Iaso a dirty look. I felt a tear slide down my cheek and I wiped it away happily.
This is what it meant to be a family.