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1. You're Gonna Die

1. You're Gonna Die

Anna loves hospitals.

Ever since the first accident that happened 12 years ago, her first visit landed her a first boyfriend and a first kiss at the age of 4. It was a stupid and childish relationship which only lasted until the boy got released from the hospital. Nonetheless, it didn't mean that Anna didn't enjoy it.

Her second visit to the hospital was when she was 8. She broke her leg while trying to swing higher than Marie Piper on the swings. She flew face forward when she accidentally let go of the swing's chains, landing her in a berry bush with a few bones cracked and her skin scratched. She got someone to adopt her at the hospital.

The third visit was memorable. She was at the top of the pyramid in cheerleading when she was thirteen. As the crowd cheered and Parker Middle School's football team scored another goal, Anna stood atop several other cheerleaders, her pompon-gripped hands up in the air and her signature smile shining brightly on her face. Even though it was raining that day, the game resumed, and the cheer team could not have backed down under those circumstances. The rain must have really hated the cheerleaders as they all landed themselves two months stuck in a hospital because of a little mishap including a bunch of teenage girls falling onto each other.

Although Anna didn't admit it at that time, but she was happy. She helped an old lady call the doctor when her machine was beeping in a very suspicious way and got a plane ticket to the US and a free all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland as a thank-you. And another boyfriend, though he died before they had their first kiss together.

Now Anna sits in Dr Chandler's office, waiting patiently for the results to come. Anna did not get her period this month, and she is 100% sure that she is not pregnant. She and her boyfriend barely got pass first base this month, let alone have sex.

She taps her feet on the ground. She is glad to be here; the familiar smell of antiseptics, the soft sound of beating machines that come from all over the hospital and the frantic, running doctors and nurses hurrying to save lives. She finds it amazing, how these people are willing to devote their whole time to treating and saving these random strangers. I mean, sure, there is money involved in the job, but they could've chosen not to spend seven years of their young adult life studying meds in college.

Smiling to herself, Anna twirls the telephone chord she found laying on Dr Chandler's desk a few minutes ago. She thinks about the cute and young doctor she saw in the lobby earlier today, thinking that maybe - just maybe - that doctor could possibly be her lucky coincidence in this time's hospital visit. That'd be a bless; Hans and her weren't really working out as planned.

The wooden door behind her creaks open and the soft sound of Dr Chandler's signature 6-inch heels click on the tiles. The breath in Anna's throat hitches as she anticipates the results. She deeply wishes that she'd get to stay at least one night here; one day free from school and one day to spend seducing a certain male doctor.

Dr Chandler parts her lips, closes them and parts them again. She looks as if she doesn't know where to start from and it's killing every part of Anna so very slowly. She clicks her ballpoint pen out and in and out and in over and over as Anna twirls and twirls and twirls the telephone chord.

"Serenity?" Anna chimes, using Dr Chandler's first name and tugging at the poor telephone chord impatiently. If she had to wait any longer, let's just say the telephone will not be working anymore after this.

"It's Dr Chandler," Dr Chandler corrects, setting down her clipboard and pen to look Anna directly in her light blue eyes. "Ms Loretta," She purses her lips in a thin line. "How do we start this... let's see, okay, this is bad."