A Little Ray Of Sunshine by Lani Diane Rich

Author:Lani Diane Rich [Rich, Lani Diane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: StoryWonk House
Published: 2011-07-19T15:00:00+00:00

It’s amazing how numb your butt can get in an ER waiting room. I spent my time re-forming my bubble, watching absently as person after sick person shifted and readjusted, trying to get feeling back in their asses as they waited for their names to be called. I got up and paced every now and again, but I found the bubble was stronger when I was still, so I mostly stayed still.

Then I saw Luke. He was walking down the hall, punching numbers into his cell phone, his face concerned. I swallowed hard, watching him.

Danny was dead. I knew it. Danny was dead and Luke was trying to find me and tell me and if I just stayed still, then he wouldn’t see me and I could live for a little while longer in a world that had Danny in it.

Then Luke stopped suddenly, hesitated, and glanced my way. My heart jumped around in my chest as he stalked toward me, and all I could think was, No. No, no, no, no, no.

“Eejie?” he said softly. “Where have you been?”

I blinked hard, regained my focus, and found the strength somewhere to push myself up from my seat. “Um. You know. Here.”

His eyebrows knit and he looked around. “We’ve been calling your cell all afternoon.”

“Oh. Yeah. I had to turn it off.” I motioned toward the wall with a picture of a cell phone with a big red X over it. “Hospital rules.”

Luke glanced at the sign, then back at me. “You’ve been here? All afternoon? It’s almost eight o’clock.”

I nodded. I must have looked like hell, because there was no trace of anger or tension in his eyes, only deep concern.

“Hey. Are you okay?”

I shook my head and my breath caught in my throat. “He’s dead, isn’t he?”

“Who? Dad?” Luke motioned vaguely over his shoulder and looked at me like I was nuts. “No. He’s playing Scrabble with Lilly. He played q-o-p-h on a triple word score and Lilly sent me out to get a dictionary.”

“Oh.” A cold rush ran over my body and I started to shake. “Oh. Okay. Okay.”

I blinked and tears jumped out of my eyes and ran down my cheeks. A sob escaped me, and I clamped my hand over my mouth. Luke touched me gently on the arm.

“Eejie, he’s fine. He has some kind of reflux, which caused the chest pain, and that made him weak for a minute. They’re going to keep him tonight for observation to be on the safe side but tomorrow he’s going home with a glorified bottle of Tums. He’s fine.”

“He slumped down.” I sniffled and tried to control the rising wave of emotion in my chest, to limited results. “He just... he stopped.”

“Hey.” Luke put both hands on my shoulders. “Hey, it’s okay. He’s okay.”

“He went down,” I said, my voice high and squeaky and panicked. “He just stopped. And I couldn’t hear anything and I couldn’t do anything and—”

“Look at me.” His voice was firm and he shook my shoulders gently as he leaned his face into my line of vision.

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