With Just One Look

Prologue

Prologue {September 29th, 2010}

I can't believe I'm here again in this stupid hospital, waiting in this lobby like so many other times. It can't be healthy to spend as much time as I have in this place, just waiting and waiting for the doctors to come and tell me either good news or bad news. I've spent so much of the past couple months in this waiting room just for my brother. I would wait months and months in the worst conditions to make sure he is okay, but I just cant take these white walls anymore. I cant take seeing another pair of blue scrubs passing me by anymore.

My brother, Noah, was diagnosed with leukemia a few months ago and I've spent almost everyday in the hospital just to stay with him. He's only nine years old and he has cancer. My parents raised Noah and I in the church. They were strong Christians, my dad was a pastor and my mom was the all-American pastor's wife. Shortly said, they were killed last summer in a car accident and since I was seventeen at the time, Noah and I were sent to live with our distant aunt Amy and Uncle Tim in Georgia.

Two California kids moving to live with relatives in Georgia after their parents death- what a story. But thats not our story anymore. Noah loves to talk about our parents unlike me. They are dead, gone, I don't need to relive the past to remember them and I sure as hell don't need to remember the years we spent in the church learning about God. How can a God so great, so holy, let a young child suffer from cancer? What kind of God takes two loving parents away from their children?

So here I am, eighteen years old, living on my own with Noah in Georgia. We left the crazy aunt and uncle once I hit eighteen then only a short month after we found a small house, Noah started getting sick.

As his legal guardian now, I took the role of mom. I took him to the doctor just so they could check up on him and he next thing I know they have me going to all different doctors and hospitals before they finally told me, "I'm sorry Miss Evans, but your brother...he has leukemia." I broke down crying once those words came out of the doctors mouth oh do many months ago. Noah had been through so much at such a young age. Both parents were taken away from him and now...leukemia.

Noah, he's strong though. He has taken everything very well and he has hope that we will get better. He hates the hospital much more than I do, but here we are again, only a few months after they told us he was okay and well enough to go home, in another hospital.

Sighing, I leaned back in the chair I was sitting in and slowly looking around at the empty waiting chair around me while playing with a stand of my hair. The lady at the front desk tapping her fingers along the table in front of her was the only noise I could hear. After all, it is two in the morning. Seriously though, when was this stupid doctor going to come out and tell me I could see Noah. Thats really all I want right now is to be with my little brother. This silence was killing me but as the lady at the desk tapped her fingers once more in the middle of the silence, the room was filled with a loud, screeching siren ringing.

I quickly jumped up at the noise and looked out the big glass doors that showed a view to the front of the hospital and saw the red, flashing lights of an ambulance speed past. Well I guess the awkward silence was now ruined.

Within seconds, I heard yelling coming from the hall right across from my waiting room view. I could see nurses and doctors urging people to clear the long hallway that lead down to the ER rooms and in just one blink I saw the figure of someone laying on a stretching chair being rushed into the hall. They must have been the person that just got rushed here by the loud ambulance. I couldn't see clearly but from what I could see, it looked like a young man was lying there and he had his eyes closed with a neck brace around his neck but the one thing that really caught my eye was the blood. There was so much of it smeared on his bare shoulder and arm. His face was so scratched up, how would anyone even be able to recognize him like that? So much blood.

And just like that, the doctors had him rushed down the hallway, still yelling out to other doctors and nurses to clear a room for the clearly injured young man. Even with just one look, I'm not sure if he will be okay.

Shaking my head, I make my way back over to my chair that probably has my butt-print on it and continue to wait to hear if Noah is all right.

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Author's Note: Well, this is my first story that I have ever posted or shared anywhere so please be nice :) I know it may be boring but this was just to get Sophie's background out of the way and to let you guys know about her brother. To clear it us, this is in Sophie's POV. She is the main character and she is 18 and yes, she is the legal guardian of her brother, Noah. And yes i do know that is chapter is very short! sorry!

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