(AN I know that they are too young to donate organs like that, but just bare with me here)
The next day the results came in. Me and Beck were the only two who had the same blood type as Jade. We didn't exactly know how to settle this. Beck's kidney was just as good as mine. But then, the nurse came up to us to tell us some shocking news. Shocking to me at least.
"Mr. Oliver," The nurse said, looking at her blue see through clipboard. "You've already donated a kidney… you need that other one."
"I did?"
Beck didn't know that he donated an organ? How could that be possible? You'd think that if you donated something like that, you would remember about it.
"Yes, back in 2008? You gave it to your grandfather. Remember?"
Beck looked a little bit puzzled for a few moments, but then I saw the light bulb go off in his head.
"Oh, yeah! Has it been that long already?" he said and ran a hand through his hair.
"Beck, how come you've never told me that?" I asked him.
"I guess it slipped my mind." He chuckled. Oh Beck…
I looked at Beck with a little bit of a confused look. This was not a time for joking around. I don't understand how he was so calm about all of this. His girlfriend is in desperate need of a new kidney, and he's over here laughing his head off. Poor confused Beck.
"Well, I guess I'll be giving Jade some of my body."
Beck and the blonde nurse gave me a funny look. Don't look at me that way, you should be looking at Beck! He's the one who forgot that he already gave away his kidney!
"Is later today ok with you?
"Sure, why not?"
"Can we see her now?" Beck asked.
"Sure, follow me."
We followed the nurse, whose name turned out to be Gina, into a brightly lit room. It was just like all the other hospital rooms, white. Jade won't be liking this too much. Nope. Jade was sitting in the hospital bed and was covered in blankets. She was wearing the same kind of hospital robe that I was. When she saw me and Beck, a little smile crossed her face.
Poor Jade. She looked really, really pale. Like, paler than usual. She looked really fragile, too. As if you could touch and she would just fall to itty bitty pieces. I guess that's what happens when you lose a lot of blood.
"Hey, Jade." Beck said and walked over to Jade. He kissed her on her pale forehead.
"Hi." I said, still standing in the doorway.
"Come in. I won't bite."
She was acting so smooth about this all. I thought for sure that she would hate me after what my dad did to her. Maybe she wasn't mad at me. But I don't see how that's possible. I just… felt so bad seeing her hooked up to that stupid beepy machine. That machine that I didn't understand in the first place. But know, seeing Jade hooked up to it, I had this whole entire new found respect for it. It's telling me that my bestest friend in the whole wide world was still alive. As if the beeping noise was pulling us back into reality.
"Are you feeling any better?" I asked her, walking in.
"Yeah, much. They gave me some cookies, like they do when you donate blood."
Woah. That was not like Jade to get excited over cookies like that. That was more me like.
"But I asked them if I could keep the blood… they said no…"
There we go. There was the Jade we all knew and love. Whew, I thought I was losing her for a second there.
Beck reached down and grabbed her hand. I could tell that he never wanted to let go of her. It was the way they were looking at each other that gave it away. But they always had that look for each other. It was so cool to watch their little relationship grow before my eyes.
"So guess what Cat's going to do for you."
"Mmm. Is she going to bring me some coffee with 2 sugars?"
"Well, no… and I thought that was my job."
"It is. But then what is she doing for me?"
"She's gonna give you a kidney. Isn't that exciting?"
Jade looked at me with this very, very, very shocked look on her face. I'm not sur if she was happy, scared, or just dumbfounded. I just hope she wasn't mad at me.
"Cat… That's… amazing. I don't think I know how to thank you for something like this!"
We stayed in the room with Jade for a couple more hours until Gina came back into the room.
"Ms. Valentine, we're prepping for your surgery, are you ready?"
I nodded my head and Gina took me away.