Emergency Cells: A Short Story

Sirens wailing in the darkness of night, cars stop, sound still, everything frozen. It was 9 o’clock, of the night after Christmas… Megan, a twenty three year old free spirited, goofy girl was shoved into an ambulance, blood falling from her face, tears rolling down her cheeks, a face unrecognizable, yet not one memory will stick. Cells are ringing, and vibrating off the chains at 12 in the morning… Michele Patton wakes up to an eager call from the emergency room stating that her daughter was in critical condition. Michele jumped into her car with her husband, racing down eisenhower like a bee running from the rain. She parks the car and storms through the emergency room doors, frantic, scared, distraught… life was an instant blur for everyone.

They both came from Loveland high school, yet fell from two perfectly different worlds. She was a city girl born in Las Angeles and raised in the diversity of Las Vegas, Nevada. He was from country covered, small town Idaho, but moved to Colorado at only 8 years old. Two souls, two pasts, two futures, became one after Adam came to Georges to see Megan work every day for two weeks. There were sparks from a grill, yet those were not the sparks filling the air. Adam asked Megan on a date to see if he could win over a girl years younger than him. She said yes and two weeks later, sparks became the flame of love. Their story together grew from there. Moments and memories, time together and time apart, kisses and hugs, together forever like names carved into a tree. Adam became part of the family, one big family. Michele was a new mom once again, a caring, loving mother with five of

The group of friends had a couple of drinks not knowing the pasts, and hauntings of each other. Adam was crashed on the couch and was awaken with a boot on his face. Hungover, confused, and scared he gets up to an angry Nicole… She was yelling and hitting, with no control in hand. Megan was curled up in a ball in the corner of a bedroom scared, shaking, clueless on what to do. Adam roared out of the house, crazed by the energy that Nicole was portraying… Nicole ran after him, but jumped into her car, in a blacked out phase of wanting to hit him. In the sight of headlights, Adam jumped off the dirt road just in time to miss the whip of a two ton SUV. However as Nicole came back up the drive she hit a scared twenty three year old girl looking for her man to be. Her face plastered on the windshield of an SUV, and body tossed like a rag doll. Nicole tried to cover the scene, to cover her drunken mistake, but there was no hiding behind the broken body of Megan Patton. Adam rushed to her side with 911 on the dial, they rushed to the seen and were present by 9 o’clock. Megan was expeditiously put into the ambulance and taken away. Adam was being questioned and was not allowed to go with her so she entered the hospital doors as a jane doe… scared for his fiancé Adam told the police that someone, anyone needs to call Michele so that Megan had a familiar face to wake up