Sinead Hutchinson - Waterloo Road

Chapter 28 - The End?

I woke up and I felt like I'd slept forever, I barely knew the date anyway and it fel tlike I was in a different year. However, it was still the 23rd January. The televison was still on but I couldn't hear it. I found the remote and turned the volume right up and there was still nothing, I got up and walked into the bathroom. My ear was bleeding again, dribbling out of my ear and onto my face. 

"I can't hear," I whispered to myself and I got a bit of toilet roll and wrapped it around my hand and wiping the blood from down my face. It kept dribbling back down my ear and futher down my face and onto my chin. I walked out the bathroom door and closed it behind me. My hands were covered in blood and I stained the white walls when I placed my hands on the wall to get me down the stairs without falling over. I picked my house key up from the key hook in the kitchen, I kept wiping the blood away with my hand and that was staining more and more things as I touched them. I didn't mean to get everthing bloody, I was holding onto things for support, I was going to collapse if I didn't. I had no time to grab my coat or shoes, I just simply wore my socks instead. stained the copper handle with blood and began walking down the street, nobody was out and even the motorway that was beside our house. I walked over the bridge that was for the public and cyclists, the school was only a five-ten minuet walk away and I needed help really fast. Once I was over the bridge, I was passing through the center of town and this is when wealthy business men and woman, with their smart suits and expensive bags, were looking at me with a horrible glare in their eyes. I paused outside the local shop, the one I bought my breakfast from the other morning, I needed to sit down but I was frightened that if I sat down I would never sit back up.

An old lady asked me something, she was facing away from the side of my face which was bleeding and I don't think she relised.

"Yeah thanks, just out of breath," I laughed, carrying on walking before anyone else asked me if I was alright. I was nearly at the bottom of the hill, Waterloo Road School was in the middle of the hill and you could see it from where I was standing. I guessed Mum, Grandma and Callum would be out for lunch since it was lunch time right now and you could see all the studens laughing and playing around in the yard. I grabbed a hold of the black metal poles and started pulling myself up the hill. The people seem to be spinny and blurry which I knew wasn't right. I was almost there, a few more steps away and someone would be able to help me. I could see Justin and Bonnie, they were sitting together on the step where we usually sat together. The blood was everywhere by now, it looked like someone had shot my brains out. I tried to get them to notice me but they were too busy texting on their phones.

"Justin," I shouted but since I couldn't hear myself I didn't know whether they could hear me. Nobody seem to notice and I pulled myself up the hill a little bit more.

"Bonnie," I shouted, again not knowing whether anyone could hear me. By this time I was litterally at the school gates, I held onto the big brick posts and looked directly at Justin and Bonnie, hoping they would notice me. Suddenly they both waved and I waved them over to me and I knew they seen the blood dripping down my body when they began running. They were both shouting things at me and I could slightly what they were saying.

"Sinead, Sinead what happened?" Bonnie screamed.

"I'll go and get Mulgrew," Justin screamed running off behind the building where Mrs Mulgrew was clearly on duty. People were gathering around and Darren and Rhiannon were telling them to give me space, while they took me up the drive way towards the school. Mrs Mulgrew came running after Justin and she bent down beside me.

"I can't hear, there's blood." I cried, I was layed on the a couple of meters before the stairs begun. 

"Someone go and get Miss Hutchinson from the staff room," Mrs shouted and Justin ran off into the building. Miss told everyone to back off, even Bonnie. 

"I've seen so many of these things on tv," I began before Mrs Mulgrew cut me off.

"You're going to be fine, everythings alright. Think of your beautiful little boy and how he needs him Mummy," Miss shouted, she had a look of panic and sickness in her eyes. Both Mum and Grandma came running out the school building, Grandma still had Callum in his arms and Justin was on the phone to the ambulance.

"Sinead," They both screamed leaning down beside me. My eyes were feeling heavier and all over the floor was bleeding.

"My ear, it was bleeding a few days ago." I stuttered and Mum picked my head up from the floor.

"Look at me Sinead, look," Mum screamed and Grandma held my hand.

"The ambulance is coming and you're going to be alright," Grandma shouted, the only person that was crying was Bonnie because she's a whimp. Justin was standing with Bonnie and Scott was twiddling with his thumbs nearby them.

"Don't lie," I whispered.

"Be strong Sinead, you can do this," Mum smiled, gripping my hand tighter than what Mum was doing.

"Don't let Callum forget me," I sniffed and Grandma had a slight tear dripping down his face.

"I'll let you two talk, I love you," Grandma said, kissing my hand and walking away. A few tears slipped out of my eyes and Mum's were still dry.

"Don't talk stupid," Mum shouted, looking down at me.

"I'm not," I smiled.

"Sinead," Mum shouted, shaking me to stay awake.

"I can't do this," I whispered. "When you bleed from your ear you die Mum, surely you know that," I laughed, pretending this was all a joke or a nightmare and I would wake up tomorrow morning. But in reality I wasn't going to wake up, not tomorrow morning, not the next day or the day after. I wasn't going to wake up, ever.

I was sweatting and I felt like I was about to black out even more than I already was.  

"Sinead," Mum screamed louder.

"Don't please," I begged.

"I've just got you back, I don't want to lose you again," Mum hysterically cried this time, tears were rolling down her face like a waterfall and she was screaming for help. Nobody could help though, not the paramedics not nobody.

"Sometimes you've just got to let go," I whispered, trying to smile as much as possible.

"Look, you can hear the ambulance coming, you're going to be fine," Mum shouted, I closed my eyes and they didn't open again for what felt like ages.

"I've got a brain injury, you can't help that," I smiled. Neither of us said anything for ages and I felt Mum's tears pitter patter on my cheeks.

"I love you," I whispered, tears rolling down my face.

"I love you too," Mum cried and I closed my eyes purposly this time. I had no intention to open then, I was ready to go this time. I should have knew something was wrong, all the headaches and the bleeding of my ear a few days ago, I should have told someone and maybe I wouldn't be in the mess I'm in now if I had. 

The ambulance pulled into the drive no more than three minuets later, I suppose I will never know whether Mum could actually hear the ambulance syrons when she told me she could, or if she was just trying to feel better about herself. Three paramedics jumped out the ambulance and brought a black bag over to me. They pushed the people in the way out of my way and started placing oxygen masks over my face and measuring my pulse. Nobody accpet the paramedics were near me, not even Mum. Her and Grandma were holding hands and Mrs Mulgrew was standing in the middle of the rest of the pupils and teachers. The paramedics looked at eachother and then one walked over to Mum and Grandma, where as the other two walked back to the ambulance to get some supplies.

"Time of death, 13:07 on the 23rd January 2015," He said.