Strike One

Chapter 15

Beep.......beep.......beep.......beep

I woke up to this annoying beeping sound. I opened my eyes only to be met with a bright light. Once my eyes adjusted I looked around to see I was in a hospital. I looked to my left to see my parents and then looked to my right to see Eliot and Tyler. Everyone was asleep in the chairs except for Eliot he was holding my hand and.... crying? Why would he be crying. I rubbed my thumb on the back of his hand in a comforting way. He shot his head towards me and looked shocked and scared all at the same time. He started crying more and jumped up to hug me. He had a death grip on me.

"Can't...... breath.....!" I managed to choke out.

"Sorry." He said as he let go of me. "I was so scared we were gonna lose you. You were fine then collapsed out of nowhere."

"Why would you lose me? Is there something wrong with me? Why are you crying? Why am I in a hospital? What happened?" I kept asking questions as I was starting to panic. My breathing started to quicken and I think Eliot could tell because he started to calm me down.

"Hey, it's ok. You're fine. You just passed out at your game and we were all worried, that's all. Calm down. You'll be fine." He climbed onto the hospital bed next to me and hugged me close to him and rubbed my head to calm me down. It was working until a doctor came in. That scared me.

"Hello Elizabeth. My Doctor Montgomery. I am going to have to run a few tests to see what caused you to pass out. I'm going to need to draw you blood alright?" She asked as she walked in. I just nodded in response. I hate needles. I'm petrified of them. I clung onto Eliot as she got the needle ready and I squeezed my eyes shut. Eliot knew I was scared of them so he was trying to calm me down by hugging me and rubbing my arm while whispering in my ear, "you can do this" "it'll be fine" and "you're so brave". This somewhat help but it wasn't enough to stop me from crying when she injected to needle. It was in my arm for about two minutes. When she was done she bandaged it up and walked out of the room. I hugged Eliot and buried my head into his chest and cried because it hurt. I'm a wimp when it comes to needles.

After crying for about ten minutes, I started to get tired. I soon fell asleep clinging to my brother.

When I woke up, everyone was awake and the doctor was in here. They were talking and my family and Tyler looked like someone just died. When they noticed I was awake they all stopped talking and stared at me.

"What? What happened? Did someone die?" I questioned. No answer. "Please tell me!" I pleaded. Everyone looked down, including the doctor. I was getting mad now. What is so important that they need to hide it from me? "Is something wrong? Why are you guys ignoring me?" After I said that they all looked into my eyes, everyone with tears.

"Would you like to explain it to her? I already gave you all the information." The doctor said. My mom nodded and walked over to me and sat on the opposite side of me as Eliot. "If you need anything just press the buttons and that will get you a nurse and if you need me tell the nurse to get. I am terribly sorry. Have a good day." And with that the doctor walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

"What's wrong with me? Why am I still here?" I was about to cry because now I know it's serious.

"Elizabeth..." my mom started. She only ever uses my real name when somethings wrong. I started to panic a bit but kept it under control. "You have cancer." My mom said starting to cry again.

I sat there for a second in shock then pulled my knees to my chest and hugged them while I hurried my head in them. Why? Why me? I continued to think. Well there goes my dreams of ever making it in the big leagues. Might as well kiss my dreams of ever playing softball again goodbye. Life can't get much worst. Can it?