New girl

New Girl Chapter 7

[CHAPTER 7]

I wake up. The hospital is dead silent. Cameron isn't next to me. I look around trying to find him. I am to scared to leave the little bed area that was set out for him. "Cameron?" I whisper. My heart is racing. "Hello?" I asking a little louder hoping someone will find me. I get off the bed. I put my bare feet on the freezing cold linoleum floor. I tip toe to the door. I peek my head out. "Hello?" I ask again.

I step out into the hallway. I cross my arms around my chest tightly. It's freezing cold in here. I look to my left and then my right. Nobody.

I remember I went to my left when I was trying to find the cafeteria but ran into the maternity ward. *Maybe people will be there.* I thought. I turned to my left and started walking. I looked at the signs on the walls trying to find my way back to the maternity ward. I took a right. At the end if the hall there was a big window. *There it is!* I thought.

I ran to the window. The little carts where the babies lay are empty an thrown around the room. Baby blankets were all lover the room. It looked like a bunch of people ran in there, grabbed their baby and ran out. But why? What happened? Where is everyone? I decide that this area is a dead end. Let's try the cafeteria.

I wasn't sure how to get the cafeteria but I followed the sings agin and got there after a few minutes. "Hello?" I asked. "Hello?" I almost yelled. No response. "Dad?.... Nash?.... Cameron?" I am desperate to find someone. It's freezing cold and I'm practically naked. I have no shoes on, short shorts, and I tank-top with a light sweatshirt.

I walked through the cafeteria. The tables and chairs where thrown everywhere. Some even broken. "What happened?" I whispered to no one. Just as I was about to leave the cafeteria I heard a small child laughing. I whipped my head around looking for who it was. "Hello!?" I said again. I was really scared now. This is usually what happens in those horror movies just before someone gets killed. I waited for a response. I didn't get one so I called out again, "Hello? Is anyone out there?"

The laughing started again. I started to walk in the direction of the laughing. It was leading back toward the maternity ward. I slowed my pace down. "Hello....?" My heart is racing so fast now.

"Is anyone there?" I whispered.

I saw a shadow move. I ran and tried to follow it but it lead to a dead end hallway. I looked in all the rooms to see where the shadow came from. "Cameron? Come on this isn't funny!" I said really hoping it was him.

There was a mother laugh. "Hush now, little one." Said a woman's voice. I knew that voice. It sounds so familiar. I feel it in my heart. It is like I've been striving for that voice for years. And maybe I have. The child starts laughing again. It was now behind me. "Come now darling. We've been waiting." It was her. She was calling to me. She is waiting for me. It is her. I know it.

My mother.

"Laurie," she sang my name, "come now sweet heart. You have to meet your brother, we've been waiting." She said.

"Where are you!? MOM?! Where are you!" I yelled. I was crying now. How could she be here? I stopped walking. I froze. How is it possible I'm hearing her? *What happened to everyone in the hospital. Am... Am I dead?* I thought. It is possible. This is the hospital my mom died in so what if I did too. I could be seeing her in the after life. "Mom..?" I said with a wobbly voice.

"Come sweetie!" She said. She sounded so far away. I don't want her to go. I want to see her. To be with her!

"MOM!" I screamed! I couldn't see past the tears spilling out of my eyes. I feel down on my knees. "Mom..." I whispered over the lump in my throat. "Help me."

I sat there on the floor crying for a few minutes. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I whipped around to see who it was. "Hush now, little one." She said like she did before. My eyes got huge. She was here. Right in front of me. She was real. I got up as fast as I could and wrapped my arm around her. I never want to let go. She let me hug her tightly for a little bit. Then she pulled me off of her and put her hand on my cheek and brushes away the tears. "Hi honey." She said in her sweet voice like she did every day when I got home from school all those years ago. I couldn't find any words to say to her. "Here," she said grabbing my hand, "come meet your brother." She said leading me down a hallway and into a room.

It was a rather small room. There was a door that lead to the bathroom in the back left corner. The bed was in the middle of the room, taking up most of the space. Against the wall was two brown chairs. It was weird standing in here. I had this strange feeling of déjà vu. Then it hit me. This was my mothers room. After she was shot. She was in this room for a while when she was shot. She died here.

"Carter..." She sang his name like she sang mine. Then a little boy dressed in a blue shirt that says momma's boy on it came out. He was a wobbly walker. Just like a young child would do. He is beautiful. He has red hair like my father and blue eyes like my mother. He is almost a spitting image of my father it is crazy.

He walked to me with arms open wide like he hasn't seen me in a long time, even though we've never even met. I open my arms so that I could give him a big hug. I picked him up and hugged him tight. My little brother. My little brother that died. Along with my mother. How is this possible.

"What happened to me mom? Am I dead?" I asked.

"Oh sweetie. I wouldn't let you leave your father all alone." She said in she sweet concerned voice.

"Then... Why am I here?" I ask. I am really confused.

"Oh Hun. Your just dreaming. And you need to wake up."

"NO! I don't want to! I want to stay with you!" I almost screamed again, but I didn't want to startle Carter.

"Laurie..." She said. "Laurie, wake up." Her voice started to change. It got deeper. "Laurie!" She was disappearing. "Come on, wake up." It was Cameron's voice now.

"No!" I screamed.

But it was to late and she was gone.

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"Laurie, are you okay?!" Cameron asked very confused.

I have tears streaming down my face and I probably look like a mess. "What happened?" I was thinking about my dream with my mom.

"You where having a nightmare and you were talking in your sleep. Then you started thrashing." He looked at with with so much concern in his eyes. "What happened?"