Fiction: Group 4
over the room. Rina sat on the small, uncomfortable plastic chair. Keith stood by the door. The doctor
came out a while ago, telling her with the rib fractures and the blood loss, there is only a small chance she
might make it. Rina, pale and shocked just nodded and drifted over to the hospital seats and sat down. She
took in Xina’s sleeping face, hoping that she’d make it through.
“Hey, sissy?”
Rina was a little surprised, her sister was awake, and she was fine! Wasn’t she?
“Sissy, I… I don’t think I’m going to make it…”
Rina doesn’t want to hear it. Rina doesn’t want to hear it from her.
“Hush, Xina. You’re gonna make it through, just like that. Don’t say things like that again, okay?” She
whispered.
Xina gulped and looked at the ceiling. “It hurt.” She said
“Huh?” She was surprised, ready to call the doctors “What hurt?”
“Being hit by that truck, it hurt so much… I was so afraid that I might die. I was more afraid that I’d never
see you again-“
“Please Xina, don’t talk about it. You’re going to be fine.”
“Sissy, can you help me get some Water? I would like to talk to Keith for a while and my throat feels kinda
parched.”
“Sure,” “I’ll come back to check on you later, don’t miss me too much, kay?
“Ha-ha~ Oh, and one thing:”
“I love you”
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She should’ve known when the doctors all suddenly rushed past her into the small room. Frozen in shock,
she could hear the faint, dull single beep from the heartbeat monitor outside the room. The water she
brought spilt over the floor; she could care less about that. When the doctors gently placed a cloth over
Xina’s head, the thread snapped. She was screaming, pounding at the doors. Tears streamed out of her eyes
like two rivers. She begged and pounded on the doors for the doctors to let her in the room. Her sister was
in the room, she needed her.
That’s why. Why would she send her out of the room, Xina must’ve known all along that she wasn’t going
to make it past tonight, knowing her sister won’t accept the fact that she’s not going to make past tonight.
Keith, who saw Rina slumping made his way over to Rina and hugged her tight,
When finally she was allowed in, Rina made way and caressed her sister’s cold cheeks, as warm tears made
their way on her own. Even on Keith’s face, tears were threatening to spill on their own. Stroking her
sister’s hair, she could only imagine how life would be without her sister: Colorless and Empty. The thought
only made her cry harder.
And that night, she cried all night long.
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