Amara Chapman, an extraordinarily beautiful yet shy, unassuming girl, is torn from her home and all she'd ever known when her grandmother suddenly passes away.
Reluctantly sent to live with her estranged father in Chicago, he wants nothing to do wi...
Aiming for incognito, I have to improvise. I reach in my bag for my beanie and quickly pull it onto my head, tucking my thick, dark hair as I go. This, coupled with my Schott leather jacket that I zip up all of the way will help me to blend in, look like a visitor, and hopefully go undetected. Despite still wearing scrubs, all you can see now are the bottoms which could pass for regular blue pants, I suppose.
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On second thought, I probably look like the Unabomber.
I shake that thought away and place the strap of my bag over my right shoulder, draping it across my chest so that the bag rests on my left hip as I always do.
Then, I stealthily make my way down the hall to room 1041, making sure not to draw any attention my way.
The ICU is a relatively quiet floor, save for the whirring, dripping, humming, hissing, and beeping of the life-support machines and various other life monitoring and sustaining devices.
Most of the rooms are dimly lit to allow the patients their rest, and there aren't many visitors around due to the strict rules and policies here.
As I arrive, the door is closed. I'm glad that there aren't many nurses or doctors milling about, but I also know that I don't have a lot of time either since room 1041 is closest to the nurse's station.
I open the door, quietly creep in, and then close it without making a sound.
As I turn to face the bed, the curtains are drawn and the over-head lights are off, but a small light above the bed is on, and it is enough...enough to see her...to finally see what all the fuss is about. I actually gasp.
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