Earth's lasts, Tortall's firsts
By: wild MAGIC user
I awoke in a Hospital bed, with an I.V strapped in to my arm. 'What?' I wondered, then it all came back to me.
Flash back
She was running around the soccer field with her friend Jill. Why? Who knows. It had been a rainy day, and school had gotten out early. Shandra's mom had come to pick her and Jill up, and Jill was going to stay over for the weekend. All of the sudden, a sharp pain exploded in Shandra's stonach, and then everything went black.
Now, I was in a hospital, the pain was still there, and no one was with me. I started to panic, and the little machine that I learned later told my heart beat sped up to an amazing pace. A doctor in a white coat came, carrying a clipboard and some pills.
"Calm down Shandra, your going to kill yourself!" he said. It was not unkindly said, but not the politest he could have been to me!
"Easy for you to say," I thought aloud.
"Shandra, you are very sick, and today we are going to take you for some test," he said as he brought out a wheel chair from assumingly no where. "we are going to try to find out if anything is majorly wrong with you, and if there is then we will fix it."
"Ya, whatever, but you do know that I am perfectly capable of walking," and, as if to prove my point, I swung my legs out of the covers, and touched the ground. That little motion used more energy than it should have, and I was breathing heavy by now. I stuck out my chin and stood, wobbled, and fell heavily back on to the bed.
"Now, I will help you in to the wheel chair, if you have no more to say." He helped me up, and dumped me into the wheel chair. We were off, around this and that hallway, and then in to a small room with far more pointy things in it than I needed to see. He placed me on the bed, and stuck a needle in to me. I fell heavily in to a dark sleep, but was jostled awake several hours later by my mom tearing in to the room, screaming in frustration.
"They don't tell you anything these doctors." She said and then read the clip-board at the foot of my bed, and her face paled, then paled, and paled some more. "oh dear." She said, then walked out of the room.. My older sister, Margaret walked in.
"Shan, you have Cancer." She said bluntly. It was then that the pain came back and I fainted, but not before seeing my older brother and younger brother walk in.
I came to in a small room, decorated with nothing more than a few toys. A black cat with purple eyes stared at me, and I stared back.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I am Faithful, as my last owner called me, and you are Shandra."
"No, I am Bobby-Joe," I said. "what am I doing here? What is here? What are you?" It all tumbled out of my mouth before I could stop it.
"I will explain when the rest get here, but take a look at yourself in the mirror over there." He pointed a kitty claw in the general direction of a mirror, and I stood to exaimin it. I gasped at what I saw, it was me, but I was 6 again, and my wavy strawberry-blonde hair was pinned back in a simple ponytail.
One other thing I saw was that I was not alone.