Promises To Keep

Chapter 2, pt4 - Gossip

"Well, I still think her friend did it." Mrs. O'Leary said as she worked on a garishly pink scarf for her third grandchild. She shifted uncomfortably in the stiff hospital waiting chairs. Dottie O'Malley was like a sister to her, but she did not enjoy the way the old hag insisted on bringing an entourage to the hospital with her every time she needed to visit her old windbag of an ex-husband in the ICU. Honestly, what an attention seeker that woman was.

Mrs. Espinosa rolled her eyes as she ferociously picked at a knot that had disrupted her yarn, she was happy to give Dottie emotional support but she hated the hospital waiting chairs even more than she hated knots in her yarn. "Oh, come on, really why would she be the one to call 911 then?"

"Why else would she bail after a month?"

"Oh, now you're just being nasty! Maybe the girls just a flake!"

"Oh, now who's being nasty!" Mrs. O'Malley cackled.

"Hush!" Mrs. Espinosa hissed, batting at her companion and frowning disapprovingly.

Mrs. O'Malley opened her mouth to respond when quite a commotion started down the hall. The intercom blared on and a nurse said something she couldn't quite make out. Several nurses and a Doctor were hurrying to the room at the end of the hall. Her interest was piqued. That was her room. She leaned forward in her chair hoping to get a look in past the curtains.

Mrs. Espinosa gripped her arm tightly "Oh... dios! You don't think the poor dear died, finally do you? I heard the nurses talking about her peculiar condition earlier when I was getting coffee."

Mrs. O'leary gasped and paused in her incessant neck craning "And you only share now?" She huffed "Oh fudge it lets move closer."

Mrs. Espinosa kept her in her chair with the iron grip she had on her arm "Oh dios, you are loca you know that? We are not getting kicked out of the hospital again. We will wait right here and eavesdrop later like respectable ladies.

Mrs. O'Leary grumbled but acquiesced. "Honestly that Mae girl has been peculiar her whole life, that doesn't surprise me. But I almost didn't believe it when little miss Ellis skipped town with her still in a coma." She clicked her tongue in mock sympathy, still straining her neck at the commotion going on in Holly's room.

Mrs. Espinosa couldn't help but peer with her, giving the pair of them the look of two chickens with how they were bobbing their heads around so much. "It's not like it's the first time she's run away."

Mrs. O'Leary sighed "I suppose... I just always thought I saw wedding bells in those two's future. Even two freaks can have a cute wedding you know. You remember John and Carla's wedding last fall? It was precious. If those two loons could make it..." she trailed off as the commotion seemed to finally die down at the end of the hall. No one had come out yet that she could pester with concerned questions though. So, she sighed and continued "Oh well, I guess sometimes it's just not meant to be."