Emotional

Chp. 11

Orion's POV
I sat in the waiting room waiting for literally hours. (I had stopped counting after 3.) I was left alone to my thoughts. "How..How is he alive? He died! He was gone for almost half an hour. I saw him flatline!" The noise replayed over and over in my mind.

Beeeeeeeeeepppppppp!

I shook my head as an attempt to shut the noise up.
"Orion....um?" I heard someone call.
I looked up to see a young female nurse with long curly brown hair and pink scrubs with little cheerleaders and pompom designs on them. She was looking down at a clipboard she had in her hands.
"Major?" I ask even though I know there's a slim chance of someone else in the room named Orion.
"Yes. Orion Major?" the nurse asks sounding unsure.
"That's me." I say.
"Come with me. Your brother is ready to see you."
We walk out of the room and down the hall.
After a few seconds of silence she talks.
"You and your brother have strange names."she says.
I raise an eyebrow and looked at her.
"No offense!" she says quickly. Her face slowly turns red and she waves her hands in front of herself.
"It's just.." she says her face returning to a normal color.
"I've never met or heard of anyone named Emo or Orion. Especially not children."
"Yeah I'll admit we have...different names then most but we love them and wouldn't change them for any reason."
She gave me a look of confusion.
"Our parents were scientists. My mother was a zoologist (someone who studies animals) and my father was an astronomer.(someone who studies stars) They fell in love because they had a similar fascination with the stars."
"Big vocabulary for a little boy." the nurse said. I chuckled.
"Yeah when you have brilliant parents and a smart big brother you pick up on some things. Anyway my parents love for each other grew. They got married and had Emo and I. They named Emo after three of their favorite constellations and me after Emo's favorite."
"Where are your parents?" the nurse asked.The smile I was wearing faded.
"They..." I swallowed "They died. My uncle killed them. Right in front of Emo and I." I choked out as I felt tears sting my eyes.
"That's why we won't ever dare change our names because that's all we have left to remember them by."

~~~~flashback~~~~

"Emo!Orion!Run!" yelled my father. I stood still as a statue as my uncle stabbed my mother to death. Her screams. The metallic smell of blood in the air.
"Orion come on!" Emo yelled pulling on my arm. He had just finished off my father as he stalked toward us.
"You ain't goin anywhere." he growled.

~~end flashback~~

I felt something touch my arm and I instinctively flinch away.
I blinked and saw the nurse knelling in front of me with a concerned look on her face.
"What happened?" I ask.
"You were talking about your parents....deaths then you blanked out and started crying." She said.
"You poor child." she whispered as she pulled me into a hug. I didn't flinch away at her touch this time I decided to embrace it. I wrapped my arms around her and cried....again. We pulled away and she opened a door we were next to. Inside sat someone on a hospital bed with bandages covering his entire face besides one eye.
"Emo!" I said as I ran into the room. He looked at me and the light in his eye told me that he was smiling under the bandages.
"I'll leave you two alone but if you need anything don't forget to call for me." the nurse said as she turned and walked out of the room. I looked at Emo and then remembered something. I lept from my brothers side and out the door.
"Wait!" I called to the nurse. She was half way down the hall but still heard because she whipped around and looked at me.
"What's your name!" I called.
"Emily!" she yelled back as she turned and continued walking down the hall. I smiled and ran back into the room.
"Who was that?" Emo asked his voice slightly muffled by the bandages but I was still able to hear that his voice has gotten deeper since the last time I heard him.
I looked in his eye and saw that the normal brown had small silver flecks in them.
'Strange' I thought.
"So..." I say
"What's it like to die?"
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Sry for long wait.
Hope you guys still like the story.
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