Cut in Half

Chapter 4

Eric woke up. He sat up and looked at where his Mom was where he last saw her. She had pulled up a few chairs and lay on them to sleep. And there she was snoring away, and drooling. Eric chuckled.

He wondered how Luke was doing.

Luke.

His hands started shaking. Blood rushed to his head, making his shoulder hurt." Ow, ow ow." He said. " Ok calm down Eric, he'll be fine." He told himself." He looked around. He saw that there was a T.V in the top right corner of the room. He looked for a remote. There was one right to his left on a table. He reached to get it. " Ow, ow, ow, ow." He said as he reached.

Finally he grabbed the remote. He looked for the power button. " Ah hah." he said. He pressed the power button and the T.V came to life. The channel had automatically went to the news. It showed two news people talking. Eric turned up the volume.

" Now we're going to a bus crash on a highway in the town called Oakville. The screen went to a camera viewing the bus that had rolled over that Eric and Luke had been in. A person talked while they kept showing the bus. " One death, and and 1 critically injured, and 30 other children with minor injuries so far." The voice said. Another person talked, " after the break, we'll tell you what caused the crash."

Eric's mom grumbled, Eric quickly turned the T.V off. And covered up and lay down. His mom snorted quit loudly and sat up. And just then Dr.Marcus came into the hospital room with a glum face. " Ah good Eric your up." He said. Eric got suspicious. " I'm fine, but my shoulder still hurts."

Dr.Marcus nodded. " You'll recover, and ahh, about your brother Luke. W-" Dr.Marcus was about to say something but Eric's Mom interrupted him. " How is he?" She said. His face went terribly dark. "Well, we tried our best but-"

"No, No , No, NO!" Eric's mom said, and she started crying. Dr.Marcus kept talking. " But we were- we were too late." Eric's Mom started balling. " NOOOO! My Luke! My Luke!!!!" Eric got a lump in his throat and tears streamed from his eyes. Luke is dead, My twin brother, all of our plans, down the drain, he's dead, he died and I lived.

Dead.

Eric sniffled and cried harder. Dr.Marcus looked at Eric. " I am so so sorry. His injuries were too severe. I am truly sorry for you loss." Eric looked at Dr.Marcus as the doctor walked out of the room and left them crying, grieving, mourning.