I heard a beeping. I slowly opened my eyes to very bright lights. I was in a hospital room. I could tell by all the white and the smell of the sterilizer. The beeping was a monitor, and it was making my head pound so loud. I looked around and no one was there.
I sat up in my bed slowly. I started to panic about where Katie was. The monitor started beeping rapidly. I pulled the wires off and it went flat. Suddenly, three people came rushing in. One in a lab coat, Eric and Katie.
“Mom, are you OK.” Katie cried as she jumped into my lap. She had taken to calling me Mom over the last two years, as kids normally don’t call their parents by their first names.
“Katie.” What I presumed was the doctor said. “You must not overdo it, Miss Carnell is still very weak.”
I glared at the doctor. I ha
