He sat there in the car.
'Maybe it's a different funeral home...' He thought to himself. Then something shocked him. His Nana pulled into the hospital parking lot and down to the patient visiting parking area. She was alive and he thought she was dead. The look on his Nana's face had changed when she looked at him and realized that he had confused himself.
"You thought she passed, didn't you?" She smiled as she parked her car. He just nodded his head and they walked inside.
Jesse felt like he was the walking dead, he didn't feel his body moving at all. He felt like he was in a tunnel and Aries was running away from him to the other side, into the light and he had to catch her and he couldn't. It made him want to scream.
Together him and his Nana took the elevator to the third floor. The elevator doors opened revealing the white walls and grey tile. They walked out and turned left. Jesse was about three steps behind his Nana and was taking in everything he was seeing.
A nurse wheel a sick man in a wheel chair, probably a victim of stroke, and a doctor running to the elevator. That's when Jesse saw the small little sign that made is stomach shrivel.
It was small and clear, and virtually unoitcable, but Jesse knew it was there. The white words couldn't click into his brain because it hurt to much to read.
Floor 3: Pshyciatric Ward
"She didn't try to kill herself, it was an accident, they are making a huge mistake..." He thought, wordless to the fact.
His Nana smiled at one of the nurses and walked passed and around a corner where he saw his father standed in the hallway rubbing his hands over his eyes.
Jesse never knew of his father to cry, not ever. He knew it was something bad when his father was red-eyed and could barely talk.
Nana gave his father a hug and she whispered very quietly to him. Jesse just walked slowly into the room. He saw Aries, lying in the bed, her face paler then usual. Her hands were dry and lifeless. Her little body had seemed to shrank about 3 inches and she was hooked up to 10 different machines. Her eyes stared at the window, cold and lifeless. Her arms were bandaged with gauze and medical tape. A little machine beeped slowly. Suddenly her eyes drifted over to Jesse and looked away.
Not a word came from her mouth. Their mother was sitting holding her hand and she looked like she hadn't slept in days. She got up and gave Jesse a hug. She walked out of the room leaving Jesse and Aries there.
The door quietly closed behind her.
"What are you doing here." Here once beautiful voice had turned into a raspy whisper.
"I wanted to see you. See how you are doing."
"Since when did you care?"
"I've always cared Aries."
"Lately it hasn't seemed like it."
He just stayed silent.
"I'm sorry Aries."
"I wish that was enough Jess."
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