Unwanted News

The moment I opened my eyes, the bright blinding cold lights made me close them again.  As I slowly reopened them I examined the room. White walls, a TV, a chair and a bedside. It didn’t take much time for me to understand that I was in a hospital room. The beeping sound of the machine started getting louder as I slowly came to my senses. I tried to straighten myself up in the stiff hospital bed. I caught two pair of eyes peeking trough the door, I nodded my head and mouthed “Come in.”

One of them was standing beside the door, leaning on the wall while the other one sat down on the plastic chair next to the bedside. They both had a unpleasding look on their faces which made me feel sick. Before I could ask anything they said the thing i didn’t wanted to hear. As they left the room, what they said was playing over and over like a broken record. She was dead.

At the evening of that day I was already discharged and sent home. I was told that I should rest but I couldn’t even close my eyes for a second without seeing her. After hours of staring at the ceiling, not being able to sleep, I decided to go out to the balcony to smoke.

I reached out for the cigarette pack that was sitting on the bedside. I took the last cigarette that was inside the pack and threw the empty pack in the trash can, that was across the room.

I stuck my hand in my pocket to took my lighter out but there was something else beside my lighter. I found a piece of paper in my pocket that said “Call me now!” On the crumpled paper, there was also a number whose last digit had been wiped out.

I light the cigarette that was already in-between my lips, thinking who could have left this paper and what the wiped  out digit could be. There was no one that came to my mind, I spent hours and hours trying to figure it out but it was all useless.

I grabbed my jacket from the coat hanger and got outside. “Maybe fresh air and a cold breeze would help” I thought. I put my hand in my pocket to get the paper out but before i took my hand out a tear rolled dowm my cheek as I remembered who left that paper there.