A Part of Me

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" Anything ? " Kerry leaped up from her seat when Alexander re entered the seating area. Mom , dad and Bradley all braces theirselves for Alexander's answer.

" She's not doing so well " She answered in a very low and sad tone. " She lost a lot of blood , in the crash a part of the car pierced through her left leg into a main artery they are struggling to stop the bleeding and if they can't control it ..... " She stopped and looked over at me still seated. " Is she okay ? " she asked looking in my direction, everyone looked back at me just sitting there.

" Butterfly ? " My dad called out , he waited for me to respond , to even acknowledge in some sort of way that I heard him. " Justine ? " he called out again but still I couldn't react, I heard Alexander as she spoke about Samantha's condition.

" Can I donate blood ? "

" Pardon me ? "

I stood up from my seat " Can I donate blood ? I'm O negative , I can donate "

" Justine " my mom weeping voice crackled.

" Umm that's very possible , please come with me we can get everything together . " Alex held her hand out for me to follow, I walked in her direction and my dad stopped me. I could see the tears welling up on his eyes, dad never really cried I mean never ! He was so strong , every time the family went through something he always held everything together him and Bradley, who I slightly turned my head to look over at who was giving me a soft but hurt smile.

" I love you Justine , I Love Samantha and I Love Bradley ! She's going to be okay and we all are gonna go home and pack our bags for a family get away. No more fighting with each other you guys are siblings and all you got. You're strong butterfly , stronger than you know. " he gave my a kiss on a forehead before releasing me and walking off. This was hurting my dad more than any of us knew.

I gave mom a hug and a kiss and then Bradley , I turned and looked at a very frightened Kerry. " Would you mind coming with me ? "

Kerry looked up at me " Sure " she got up from her seat and followed me and Alexander. I didn't even know why I asked her to come , but Kerry knew how terribly scared of needles I was and she seemed to be the only person who could calm me down whenever I had to get a shot or draw blood. I never got any tattoos because of my fear. I remember we were suppose to get matching tattoos for one of our anniversaries and I convinced her to go first and when she was done I chickened out so she was left with " To infinity .... " tattooed on her shoulder blade with no " and beyond . " to follow the famous saying.

It seem like we were walking forever in total silence, never would I have ever guessed I would be in the same room let alone space with these two people. I just needed to get this done for Samantha, I needed my sister here.

" Okay take a seat here " she pointed to the chair and I sat down. " a nurse is going to come in and explain everything to you and then have you fill out some paperwork. It going to take a while because she is going to run some test on your blood to make sure everything is okay before we transfer it. In the mean time I am going to go see if they are done with surgery and come back and let you know exactly what's going on. " I listened as she spoke.

" Hey " She said touching my shoulder " She's a fighter , as far as I can tell she's going to pull through this " she said before exiting the room.

Kerry took a seat next to me as we waited for the nurse to enter the room.

" Good evening ladies " the nurse greeted us

" Good evening "

" If you could just take a look at this paper work and fill out all the necessary information and then we can proceed from there. " she handed me a clipboard with multiple white sheets of paper on them, I began to read over everything and started filling it out.