Beautiful Chaos by Alex Tully

Author:Alex Tully [Tully, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

Eight Years Before…

Today Brady had Nurse Gina, one of the day nurses in the ICU. She had been working in the pediatric trauma unit for sixteen years and she had a son named Diego. He knew all of this because Gina liked to talk—a lot.

“How are you doing, Mr. Brady?” she asked in her upbeat, singsong voice.

Not good, Gina, not good at all.

“That’s good.” She fluffed his pillows, and he could feel her hot cigarette breath on his face. “It’s beautiful outside today. It looks like summer is in full swing.”

That’s great, Gina, thanks for the weather update, but obviously I don’t give a turd.

Brady shouldn’t be so hard on Gina. She was one of only two people who actually talked to him—Mom being the other. No one thought he could hear them, but he could. He could hear everything.

And he heard a lot of things he probably wasn’t supposed to hear.

Like how if he was in this coma for more than three weeks, the chances of him coming out weren’t good. And how the contusions on his cerebellum would likely cause cognitive complications—the C words were all over the place. And how when he woke up—if he woke up—he probably wouldn’t remember anything that had happened.

But he did remember. He remembered everything.

Visiting hours would begin soon and that’s when Mom would come. She stayed all day long until they pretty much kicked her out. She begged and pleaded to sleep in his room overnight, but the doctors wouldn’t allow it until he was released from the ICU.

It was funny how Mom would sit with him and mumble things like, “Those dumbass bastards won’t let me sleep here with you…dumbass hospitals and their dumbass rules. It’s ridiculous.”

She swore a lot in front of him, which she had never done before. Which made him think—that she was thinking—he couldn’t really hear her at all.

Mom also liked to tell him about things she’d bought for him, maybe thinking he needed some extra incentive. “Brady, I found that Lego spaceship you wanted, the one with the limited-edition alien minifig, and it’s here waiting for you when you wake up.”

God, he wished he could wake up. And he didn’t need the motivation of Legos or anything else Mom promised. He had the crying. Holy crap, the crying. Like nonstop. Every time someone new came to visit, more crying. The crying was the worst part of the whole thing.

Except for Dad—that was the worst. Brady knew his dad was in pretty bad shape too. Brady heard the nurses talking about the accident. “Just heartbreaking…they say his dad might never walk again.”

Just like everything else, it seemed, Brady remembered the accident clearly. They were late for baseball practice. Dad was sitting in the kitchen eating a sandwich. “You can be a couple minutes late, Brady. This is Little League, for Christ’s sake.” Dad had just gotten home from his job at the steel plant, and he was in a bad mood. Brady knew he would

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