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Chapter 7

It's been about forty minutes since the nurse went in and she has not come out yet. Elijah, Daniel and I we were sitting outside the room waiting for someone to tell us something. It felt like we've been sitting here for hours, and with every nurse that walks out, our heads lifts up in unison expecting answers. I stop one of the nurses as she's making her way back into the room "what's going on?" I ask her.
"just wait out here, we'll tell you soon enough" she  says as she turns to walk away, I grab a hold of her arm pleading "please, tell me he's gonna be okay, that's all I need to know"

"we don't know yet, but we'll let you know if anything happens" she tells me nodding slightly with this static smile on her face. I had started crying again, slumping in my seat, letting my head drop. As I was about to close my eyes, I heard someone call out to me. 'Katie' it sounded like. I lift up my head looking in the direction of the voice to see Katie running towards me and my brothers.

"Katie, oh my God, you're here" I said opening my arms to embrace her. She crouched down accepting my embrace. I sobbed softly on her shoulders as she hugged me tightly. "Faith" Katie says softly "Faith, i missed you so much... I'm so sorry I'm late"
"It's okay, I missed you too, Katie, you have no idea how much I'm happy to see you right now, I know I may not look it" I replied.
"How's everyone doing, where's auntie" she asks me.
"Kate.... mom is gone" I say softly "and dad.... well dad, we don't know yet how is doing"
She tightened her arms around me, her heart beating really fast in panic as she starts herself to cry.
"I'm so so sorry, Faith..... I didn't know..... Faith, I'm so sorry I wasn't here for you..... I can't believe this, I'm so sorry" she cries "I didn't know"

"it's okay, I'll be fine" I try to reassure her.

"Faith... I'm sorry" she repeats herself

"Mmmm" i groaned in acknowledgement of her apology.

After hugging each other we both let go of each other feeling just a little awkward. Kate trying to break the awkwardness continued with her questions.
"so when are you gotta going back home"

"Well I'm not sure how all that is going to go, especially since we are still unaware of Dad's condition" I answer her sighing out loud.
"Worst case scenario, we'll be moving in with our grandma" Elijah chimed in.

"No way, really, does not mean I won't see you"

"Well we don't know yet, but most likely you will" i reply smiling softly.

"But it's not guaranteed, what am I suppose to do without you Faith, how am I suppose to comfort you if you're not around"

"It's not like we won't ever see each other again, besides you can comfort me through FaceTime" I say laughing a little.

She hit my shoulder softly laughing along "you're so mean" she says as she pretend to whine.
"If we do end up moving to grandmas, I'm sure we won't be there long, because Elijah gonna work his butt off to get us back here in no time" I say sticking my tongue out at Elijah "right Elijah".

"yeah, she's right Kate, we'll be back in no time"

"I sure hope so" Katie replies smiling.

As we were laughing and cracking jokes at each other, the doctor walked outside the room and cleared his throat to get our attention.

"Dr. how is he?" Elijah asked.

"he's just fine, we were able to get him back, but some parts of his brain are still trying to process the shock, so that will take sometime and also his own willingness in order for him to get better" the doctor explained.

"so, he's fine?" i say questioning the doctor as I was not I understanding a word he was saying.

"Well he's going to be okay" the Doctor replies.

"Dr. What do you mean?" Elijah questions him this time around.

"I said, he's going to be okay" the doctor paused before continuing "but, the shock paralyzed him from the waist down and although his vocal cords have not been damaged he's not talking, so to say, he's still mentally shocked, so I would recommend for you guys to go to this psychologist" he says handing us a card.

"a psychologist...." I say laughing loudly all of a sudden.

"yes a psychologist, the patient need psychological attention and his own willingness in order to be able to talk again, because physically there's nothing with his vocal words and he should be able to talk but he isn't" the doctor says explaining himself as he smiles softly and walks away.

I felt crushed, devastated. There was no way that this was happening to me. God is not serious right, this must of been a joke, some kind of process I had to go through in order to have a breakthrough in faith. Because just when I thought this was all over, that I had nothing to worry about, this weight comes falling on my shoulders.

What is wrong with You, God? God have You not done enough to me in the last few days, You already took my mom, and now You paralyze my dad, what do You want from me? If You wanted me to be orphan, You should of just take my dad too. My thoughts were running rampant, I started blaming God, and then blaming my faith and then myself. I had no explanation for what had happened to me and I did not want to hear one. Despite my feelings and thoughts, I still did one last prayer, a prayer for my father for he was all I had left.

"I'm so sorry Lord, Please don't take my dad too" I prayed in between tears not really sure if I still believed.

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