As I began to open my eyes they were blinded by the light, I heard a monitor beep right next to my head and strange, anxious voices “April, can you hear me?” “April?” For what seemed like forever I stared back at the blurred woman in confusion, “ Where am I? Why am I here?” I asked. Before the blonde-haired women could reply, I felt a sharp pain under my right rib... That answered my questions I thought, but how did this happen? The last thing I remember was being in the back of the car with mum and dad.
As my parents entered the room, the doctor gave me a reassuring look. She explained to me that I had been in a car accident with my parents, however it wasn't very serious. Mum was perfectly fine, dad had a broken arm and I had the worst injury of, a bruised liver. The doctor continued to speak "Your bruised liver can easily recover if you have a blood transfusion.”
“That's great, when can I start?” My heart began to sink, and my head began to throb as the doctor and my parents gave me a concerned look. “Why are you all looking at me like that? Mum? Dad? Can't one of you give me your blood?” My parents took a big gulp and the doctor gave me a hopeless smile and left.
“Sweetie,” mum paused and took a big breath of air, then continued.
“Your father and I didn't want you to find out this way but you deserve to know the truth, please remember that we love you so much.”
“Mum, you're scaring me. What haven't you told me?” I laughed nervously.
“You are our daughter by law, but by
The sun was high in the sky, gleaming down on us. The air was breezy, but not cold. The day was ordinary, or so it seemed. But what was out of place? That would be my brother, the only person who could possibly get himself into such a situation, with his impossible ability to almost die, but just miss the mark. As he sat there on the ground with his back to us, legs sprawled out in front of him, we didn’t even realize that there was anything wrong. Hold on a second. Let’s rewind this just a little.
“I had to do some finagling to get the approval to see you,” Dr. Wilkinson said. “But I managed. I had your nurse draw blood and I ordered some blood tests. Your blood tests revealed some striking results. The reason you are so tired is because you lost over half of the blood in your body. It’s a miracle you didn’t die. And the reason you probably didn’t die is because you lost the blood very, very slowly. For your extensive blood loss, I can give you a blood transfusion, and you’ll feel better almost instantly. Or I can have you take iron pills. But with iron pills it take a few months for you iron level to get back to normal, and for you to feel better. So which would you prefer?”
In the hypothesis of an allegorical version of the Seven-Sorrows, the signification could be very different. Thus, the old man thinking would not be a philosopher, but the prophet Simeon, who announces to Mary that a sword shall pierce her soul: first sorrow. The young couple would not be the Barbarians frightened by the Religion, but Joseph and Mary during the flight into Egypt: second sorrow. The third sorrow, the loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple, could be represented by the worried expression of Joseph and Mary. The four others sorrows would be symbolized by the cross holding by the Virgin: the meeting of Jesus and Mary on the way of the cross (fourth sorrow), the crucifixion (fifth sorrow), the taking down of the body of Jesus from
He realized I had blood gushing all over and that I was really not okay. He picked me up and rushed me inside to my mom. “What happened?!” “Aaron and I were playing hockey in the driveway, and she got in the way
“Because after the ambulance left and we went to the hospital I or Him must've stepped in her blood can we go now we have to get back to our house
“Let’s get him to the ambulance.” I heard the doctor say. With help from he and my dad, I walked over to the ambulance, parked just around the
I smiled back at him as my parents who were sleeping on the floor and on the couch next to me woke up as well. The doctor greeted all of us and said “ok so I have found a way to see If your kidneys will recover” I looked at him eagerly and excited a big smile appeared on my face for the first time since the news of my kidney’s failing.
“You grew a new liver while starving and bleeding out. You bled more than I probably could without dying, and I am almost twice your size… You shouldn’t have had that much blood in your whole
“But you’re not human, correct? Do you want to scared your parents, by trying to drink their blood?”
As Jenna stood there drenched in the oniony stench of the cafeteria's chili, all she could think about was how she was going to get revenge on Taylor Everly.
Athena was terrified. It was almost as if the wind was screaming at her as she was walking into the Forest. She was only going to take a few steps into the Forest. At least that’s whatshe thought. Athena could feel her heart beating in her chest so fast that she thought for a moment it was going to fly out. Slowly, she turned around, prepared to go back to her best friend. As soon as Athena turned around, the only thing she saw was shadowy trees, surrounding her, almost as if they were going to kill her.
Sunny patches of sunlight touched my face. I felt warm and sheltered. Snug as a bug in a rug. I thought. No one could ruin this moment. Across the room, I heard a noise. Knock knock. I slowly rose from my comfy bed and opened the door. There dressed in the usual white dress and flats was a fairy. Her wings gleamed with the sun. “Good morning Charm.” Her voice was friendly and sweet. “Time to wake up. You know what day it is.” I gathered my thoughts before speaking, “Yes I didn’t forget. Thank you for reminding me.” She smiled big before flying away. Sigh, I guess no more sleeping.
It had been little over a week since they arrived at what remained of the ark. Though Raven couldn’t really be sure how long they had been in the sky, she was keeping track of the days, not the way she should have been. She was preoccupied working on what need to be fixed. There was no way in hell she was going to let this fail, not after everything they had been through, not after Clarke sacrificed herself to make sure they got here. Taking in a deep breath she glanced out the window catching site of the earth a frown formed on her parted lips. She still couldn’t believe what happened, it didn’t seem like that long ago she crash landed on the earth, it was so green now it was in flames. With a shake of the head she turned her gaze from the plant, there was no time for sitting around doing nothing. She had to much to do to day to just sit around and do nothing. She wished she had more hours to get everything done, or at least more people to help out with what need to be done.
I knew this was it, nothing else matter. I felt out of my body in this moment. The water turn on by itself. The water was the most beautiful thing I have seen in so long. Nothing could compare to the release the water will bring me. The way I will feel no more pain, because the water came me the release I’ve been craving. I lower myself into the tub. I lay down and took my last breath of air. I then submerged my head into the water.
It was a perfect day to be outside. No breeze to blow clouds in front of the sun that was making my brother and I faces bead with sweat as we hopped out of his SUV. The drive through the gravel backroads was harsh. We were bouncing everywhere because he needed to replace his shocks on his red 4 runner.