Left for Dead

Chapter 8

Left for Dead Chapter 8

GABE’S POV

Holy shit. It felt like my arm was falling off, and I needed to get to a hospital, fast. I walked back into the room behind the counter, and went to his computer. I searched where the nearest hospital was, and it was only two miles.

I walked back into the main room of the gas station, and started to look for keys to a car, or anything of the sort.

I was beginning to lose hope, when I found a set of keys under the counter, behind a box. I opened the cash register, and took all of the money out of the slots.

I grabbed the keys, and ran out of the store. I unlocked a large pick up truck, and then opened the door.

I hopped in, and then turned on the truck. It roared to life, and I put the car in reverse. I pulled out the gas station, and drove out of the gas station parking lot.

I was driving to the emergency room, and then my arm had a strange spasm.

I jerked the wheel, and the truck swerved off into a ditch, and the front windshield shattered all over me, and glass stuck into my skin.

Great, another thing to go to the emergency room for.

I got out of the broken truck, and walked the half mile left to the hospital.

When I walked in, a few people glanced, and a nurse screamed.

“Come here, and we’re going to help you!” one nurse yelled to me.

I walked over to her, the shards of glass sinking father into my skin.

I turned into a room, and a few more nurses came in, and started to pry the sharp pieces of glass from my skin.

“What happened?” one asked me.

“Well, first, I actually have a bullet in my arm, my friend was shooting some targets at his house, one ricocheted and hit me in the arm, and on the way over here, my arm had a spasm, and then I crashed into a ditch and the windshield broke, and then I had to walk a half mile here to the hospital.” I halfway lied.

“Okay, well we might have to go into minor surgery right now, so I’ll give you some Novocain to numb the pain.” She gave me a few shots around the bullet, and then sliced open my arm with a scalpel. She retrieved the bullet, and placed it in a bin by her tools.

She took out her suture and sewed up the hole in my arm.

“I might need an X-Ray really fast to see if it broke any bones. Follow me.” She said.

I walked behind her, and she led me to a room with a large machine type thing.

I placed my arm in a mold that the nurse prepared for me, and then laid it under the scanner.

I waited for about another ten minutes, then she told me it was almost done.

I waited for another minute, then the whirring and the noises stopped abruptly.

The nurse led me back to the room I was in earlier, and told me she was going to get the X-Rays developed.

I sat on the doctor’s table and waited for her to come back.

Another nurse opened the door gingerly, and walked in with her head down, and seemed very sheepish.

“I need to check something in your wound; I thought I saw something earlier when I was observing….” She said.

“Sure, just do what you need to do.” I replied to her.

She pulled out the scalpel, and cut open the stitches. She didn’t bother with any painkillers, I still had the Novocain in my system.

She looked close then pulled back and sewed my arm up for a second time.

“I’ll be back.” She said.

I sat on the table, and waited for her to come back, and also waited for my X-Ray’s to come back.

When the main doctor came in, he talked to me about what happened.

“I’m Dr. Samuels, and I’m here to tell you what happened to your body during all of this.” He said reaching out his hand.

“Okay, thanks a lot, doc.” I said grasping his outstretched hand and giving it a firm shake.

“We’ll have your results back in about twenty minutes, so sit tight, and I’ll be back!” he pronounced, and then opened the door, left, and shut it softly.

‘I have a bad feeling about this… I don’t think you’re okay, Gabe. You need fucking surgery to fix this, and it’s not minor, and I can tell. And I don’t trust this guy here; he just acts too… happy.’

I could tell she was right, he tried to act like everything was right, when something was wrong.

I started to fidget, and get very nervous. Why was this happening?

My arm also started to spasm and fidget more than usual, and I was starting to get freaked out.

Dr. Samuels walked in, and he looked very nervous, and uneasy.

“Okay, so we have your results in. Let’s start with the X-Ray.” He said.

He clipped the X-Rays up on the lighted boards, and it showed my bones, and the inside of my arm.

He pointed to the bone.

“This was fine, and so was everything else. Nothing was wrong with your bones, or anything like that.”

“Okay, so what else is going on then, doc?” I asked.

“Well, when one of the other nurses came in to check on your cut, she noticed something that was extreme.” He uttered.

“Which was..?” I asked.

“The bullet hit your major artery.” He said.

“Go on….” I stated.

“You could potentially lose your arm.”

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A/N: Another cliffhanger! Well this is a short author’s note, but I had nothing to say! Vote, comment, fan! And also, thanks for reading!