The last few days had gone by quickly, inviting the late autumn breeze. It was only 4 o'clock and the sky was already turning a light pumpkin orange. The next few blocks I walked were to my house and I was exited. For dinner we were having teriyaki BBQ shrimp. As I stopped to take in the scenery my phone played the theme song to a popular anime show, meaning I had a call. I looked at the caller ID and saw it to be my mom. I flipped it open but before I could say anything
"Rani? Rani! Are you there? Its hiro, he's gotten worse! Come to the hospital now!"
"What? Mom where are you!" but just than the sound of a car screeching as it made a sharp turn and made me turn my head. The brakes were forced down causing me to jump out of the way just in time as I saw it was my moms green Honda pulling up next to me.
"Come on hurry up!" she said the phone in her hand. I quickly disconnected and threw open the door, shoving her things to the side making room for myself.
"What happened! What did-?"
"Hiro had a seizure, he fell unconscious" she responded automatically as we took the turn onto the freeway. I leaned back against the seat and rubbed my temples.
"How could this be happening! He was fine when I went to see him on Tuesday…" I thought. My head slammed against the seat as we stopped in traffic. My mom honked her horn at the "son-of-a-bitch" in front of us before moving into a new lane and speeding on. We spent the rest of the ride in silence.
We ran through the door and up the stairs before the nurse at the reception could say anything. And found the doctor in hiro's room marking something on a sheet of paper.
"Where is he!" my mom frantically asked.
"We moved him to the intensive care room, right now he's unconscious and we don't know when he will wake up." I stood there tears coming to my eyes. Hiros been to the hospital before since he had a rare disease but he's never been this sick before. The last time he had a seizure was when he was six, and I was only 2 than.
"Do you know what caused it?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"Ms. Namine ill give you the details of hiros current treatment. She stood there than wiped her eyes.
"Rani wait down in the waiting room for me please" she grasped my hands and looked my in the eyes. I nodded and ran off.
It's been 20 minutes and she still hadn't come down. But I knew better than to look for her. I've always gotten lost in big buildings and ended up somewhere strange. So I sat there and waited till she came down. I was hungry but too sad to eat, just as my stomach rumbled I saw her step out of the elevator. She walked over to me and kneeled down.
"Come on rani, they said we could se hiro now. He's sleeping so try not to wake him" whenever sad situation happened she always talked to me like when I was little. I stood up.
"Here's a tissue" she said pulling one out of her purse and handing it to me. I wiped my eyes than held her hand as we walked to the elevator to get up to the intensive care unit.
The drive back home was quiet. No traffic no road rage, no talking. She didn't even put on the symphony like she usually did. When I got back I got into my pjs and went straight to bed.