Grace just didn't let go of me. She hugged me like I was a soft teddy bear. I didn't stop giving her kisses. "Okay Belker", Grace put me on the bed and grabbed a small book from her nightstand. She turned a few pages. On the cover it wrote The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
Emily who? I never knew Grace liked poetry. Grace started reading the poem for me as if I was a small child.
"NATURE, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,-
Her admonition mild",
It sounded quite peaceful. I learned a new fact about Grace although I have never seen her read poetry.
"In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird".
How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon,-
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down
Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.
Grace stopped. The poem wasn't finished. I looked over at her. She was heavily breathing. She couldn't speak. She let go of the book. She started coughing.
"He- Hel". Grace tried to gather up her breath. "HELP".
The nurse came running inside. So did her mother and father.They tried to straighten her. They didn't seem to understand what happened. The doctor came and quickly took her to the X-Ray room. Turns out when she got hit by the car it affected her lungs as well. Not just her lungs. Her bones and it could've easily damaged her heart. The axe was getting even more serious.
"I've...I...." the doctor began. Instructed her parents to the other corner of the room. "I don't know if she will heal." he whispered. Meanwhile the nurse was giving her treatment.
Mrs. Carter wiped away her tears and looked up with a surprised face.
"Wait, you think or did you knew". The doctor was standing there struck dumb. "You knew that she wasn't savable, you didn't tell us did you"? Her voice was slowly getting louder.
"YOU KNEW, YOU AND EVERYONE IN THIS DAMN HOSPITAL".
Mrs. Carter was acting like a wild animal but she had a right too.
"LIE, JUST LIE TO EVERY CHILD WHO HAS HOPE AND JUST LIE TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO TRUSTED YOU AND YOUR DAMN STAFF". Her hands were on him. She and Mr. Carter were pulled out of the room. He had no expression. His face was blank.
"GRAAACCCCEE"! Mrs. Carter was yelling as they closed the door.
Grace didn't notice any thing. She just fell back asleep with the Emily Dickinson book in her hand.
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The Bond
הומורHow I look never defines me When I have someone to love Belker was an ugly mutt that never had an owner because he wasn't "cute" in of.. Will all that change?
