This is bad. I've had so many ideas for this story but now I've forgotten them because I left this story in my document manager for so long. Oops.
Ethan woke up in small resus. He really started to ache everywhere, he felt like he was hit by a bus more than falling to the ground from a quite a high drop. He slowly got out of bed, groaning at every movement he made and made his way towards resus.
He saw Lofty on his way there.
"You alright Ethan?" The curly haired nurse asked. "You're looking a little stiff." Lofty tried to joke. Ethan gave a light smile.
"I'm fine thank you. Just going to see Cal. Do you know if he is awake?" Ethan asked.
"I saw him while you were asleep. He's awake but he hasn't said much too me." Lofty frowned. Ethan pondered then continued his walk to resus where he entered it to find Cal just staring into space then looked at Ethan, scrunching his face up a little.
"Jeez you look worse than yesterday." Cal spoke to Ethan flatly.
"You don't look so glamorous yourself." Ethan smiled then frowned when he saw Cal didn't smile at his joke. "You okay?" Ethan asked seriously.
"Never better." Cal replied sarcastically. "Zoe said I have a severely bruised back and a sprained wrist. What about you?"
"Just a bruised leg and obviously already existing injuries." Ethan stated as he held up his bandaged hands.
"Ethan I'm sorry. Truly. I shouldn't of pushed you over like that or at all." Cal whimpered.
"It's okay." Ethan accepted Cal's apology because he just wanted to move on from it.
"How's Christian? Did he see us fall?" Cal asked. Ethan nodded slowly. "Oh God." Cal had tears in his eyes. "Does he think I'm dead?" Ethan shook his head sideways in reply. Cal sighed with relief.
"Cal what was the matter yesterday? Why are you so depressed and angry with yourself and the hospital?" Ethan asked. Hopefully getting a final answer.
"I don't know Ethan. It's not what I signed up for."
"Cal, why did you come to the ED? It clearly wasn't for the locum wage back then." Ethan asked.
"I guess I just wanted too see how you worked maybe see if I could be better than you. But that clearly didn't go to plan." Cal frowned so did Ethan, he knew Cal was actually telling the truth.
"Mum always thought you was better." Ethan said as he looked down then looked back at Cal with a frown. "You was never a waste of space to her or dad even though you never got along with him. Me on the other hand it was always "Cal did this. Cal did that. You should be more like Cal." The whole time as children and teenagers, I always tried to impress them but they were always proud of you more."
Cal felt bad for Ethan but he had no idea that his parents were proud of him more than Ethan. The brothers said nothing for a little while then Cal finally spoke.
"Ethan I've been thinking." Ethan looked up from the bed to Cal. "What if I joined the police?"
Ethan's face showed fear.
Sorry it's a short chapter but yeah since I mentioned: when I first ever wrote this story (about two weeks back) all those upcoming ideas have flown out my head so I thought of a new one to try. It probably won't be good but we shall see.