The Boy In The Hospital

Chapter two - Who is he

All of that happened a few weeks ago, like I said, and nothing out of the ordinary has happened since, but unlike when it first happened I can't stop thinking about it. What if he isn't just some little ass who hasn't learned what funny is, what if he really is a ghost? I mean when he tapped my shoulder it felt so cold so....dead. The only super cold rooms I've been in are the OR and morgue, but there's no way he'd get into any of those rooms, the other rooms in the hospital did get chilly at times, but he was so cold, it reminded me of when I would go to check up on a patient only to find out they had died a few minutes ago. He wasn't just a cold ass kid, he was so goddamn cold, he was dead body cold.

I worked the next few days as normal, but I still couldn't stop thinking about that kid. Well he didn't make it any easier because a few days after finding out he was either dead or an ass he showed up again, but this time he started up conversation first. "Do you know my father? He was the principle of this school when it was still a school. Want me to show you where his office was?" I didn't know what to say, but I wanted to know where he'd take me, what if he really was a ghost and knew where Krimms office was? Like I knew where it was, he could make something up and I'd believe him, what was the worst that could happen? "Sure, would love to see where he worked, I bet it's real different now!" The boy took me to...the OR. Well great, the OR was a pretty big room for a principles office, but it also wasn't especially for a school of this size. I just told the kid that it must be pretty weird to imagine that people get cut open in the room his father used to work in, but he didn't say anything, he just turned around and left leaving me looking like an idiot standing at the locked OR so I went back to work now not having any more evidence to prove any of the two theories on this kid, he could've at least chosen a room that was obviously too big to be the principal's office to ease my nerves a big, but I guess that's too much to ask for.

When I had a little bit of free time I asked Martha if she knew where the principal's office was before the school got shut down and of course she said it was the exact OR that kid had showed me. I guess I hide my shock too well since Martha asked if I had seen that kid again, I said yes and explained everything to her, but now she looked just a scared as me. "That fact is only known by a few people here, I only know it because Tina's grandpa apparently used to be the dean of the school and she couldn't shut her mouth about it when she found out. I don't even think you can find it online so that kid is either somehow related to someone who used to work at the school or make a lucky guess. Or is a ghost."

"Yeah, that's the thing, Martha. I think that kid's dead, when he tapped me on the shoulder I swear he was as cold as a dead body, he didn't feel alive." Martha didn't say anything after, she just stared at me as if I had 50 ghosts behind me.

I got a new patient that day, she was a nice little old woman who had come down with a heavier case of the flu. She was a nice woman, she always talked to me about my day when I came into her room and she seemed to be getting better over the days, but there was one question I couldn't stop thinking about. "Did you know this building used to be a school?"

"Yes. I think it can be a little creepy to think about at times though."

"Oh, why do you think that, nurse Wendy?"

"I don't know...why do you bring it up, Nancy?"

"Well, my father was the last principle of the school before they shut it down. He and my mother had me a year after the war ended to give my older brother some company. My father died with my brother after some crazy drunk people shot them down....I still think about if people remember the history of this building, I bet the kids had so much fun in such a big school, too bad my brother didn't get too much time to experience it."

"I'm so sorry, Nancy. I didn't know you were the daughter of Krimms Marshal."

"You know his name? Wow, I guess people know more of the history than I thought haha"