After what felt like a couple of hours the doors to the room opened with a fizz. Looking to it, Lou wasn’t sure how he felt when a figure dressed in an airtight suit entered, it looked like the ones scientists wear while handling dangerous chemicals, but it was white in colour instead of yellow. The figure made their way towards Lou with a strange device, it was held over him. As the device emitted a blue light, it appeared to be scanning his whole body. Once the scan was done, the figure gave a thumb up, Lou was barely able to give a thumb up back before the figure left the room. ‘What was that about’ Lou though before he begun to smell something oddly sweet. Yawning, Lou rubbed his eyes before placing them back down, his body was feeling heavy to the point he couldn’t move, and his eyelids closed. Coming to, Lou was bac inside of his hospital room, it appeared as if nothing had changed. ‘Was that a dream but it felt so real’ Lou thought before deciding to leave the thought behind. The door opened and his father’s butler quickly made his way inside.
“Young master are you ok? Do you feel well?” he asked in concern.
“Sir, I am feeling well. Do you know what is happening?” Lou asked confused.
“The doctors have decided to keep you here for a few days to ensure your condition improves. I have talked to your parents, and they have decided that I will stay with you until you are discharged!”
“Thank you, sir!”’
Hearing knocking on the door they both turned around to look. There stood a doctor with a man dressed in a business suit.
“I have good and bad news!” the doctor stated. “What do you want to hear first?”
“Is young master even in a good condition to hear anything stressful?”
“I think I can handle it!” Lou stated. “Can we start with the good news?”
“Yes, we can!” the doctor stated. “The good news is that your condition is improving much faster than we though possible and you have been moved up on the list for a new heart!”
“The bad news?”
“It still may take a few months to a year before you can have the heart transplant operation and till then need to take some pills to assist your heart till then!”
“I see, its sill good because the transplant can happen sooner!”
“Yes, but it also means that your heart is slowly failing, and it could speed up with more stress and damage!” the doctor said. “The man beside me is going to go over the details with your guardians so when there is a heart compatible and it’s your turn, we will be able to begin immediately!”
“That’s great news young master, I’ll inform your parents so that they can come here quickly to go over and sign the papers!”
“That’s great, we will be able to get everything signed today!” the doctor said before he and the man in the suit left the room. The doctor came back in quickly.
“By the way Lou is allowed to eat food, a nurse will come with a menu for you to choose from!” the doctor stated before leaving the room once again.
“Young master, do you want me to put a movie on, fluff your pillow and give you a stuff toy for comfort?”
“Yes please, sir!” Lou stated as he watched his father’s butler went to the side of the bed and pulled out a large bag. His father’s butler was kind of insane with how he was able to get everything prepared for majority of cases. As his father’s butler went through the bag, he pulled out a large teddy bear, a spray bottle and two DVDS. When Lou was showed the two DVDS, he chose one that was about a bender going on a journey to find himself. After the movie was put on, Lou was assisted into a sitting position so that his father’s butler could fluff his pillow, it felt more comfortable afterwards.
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“Do you feel better, young master?”
“Yes sir, thank you very much!”
Just then the door opened, and a nurse came in.
“Hello, I’m here to provide the menu for loss. Do you want me to read them out for you?” the nurse asked joyfully, trying to lighter her patients’ days.
“Yes, I think that would be great!” his father’s butler stated as he took a seat and begun pouring the liquid into the toy.
“What are you doing?” the nurse asked confused.
“Preparing the toy for my young master, this will allow him to stay calm and lessen the chance of him having a panic attack!”
“I see” the nurse said before reading off the menu. “Today for lunch there is three different items. This includes a light burger with fries, baked potato roast with gravy, and tomato soup with bread. The drinks on offer are orange juice, water, milk, tea, and coffee. What do you want?”
“I’ll go with the potato roast with gravy and milk tea!”
“And you sir, since you are staying with Lou until he is discharged, we need to make sure you eat as well!”
“I understand miss, I’ll have the tomato soup with bread and black coffee!”
“Thank you, the food should arrive at 12:01 am” the nurse said before leaving the room.
Taking a quick glance at his father’s butler it was clear that he wanted to say something, but his phone begun to ring.
“I’ll take this call quickly and come right back!”
“Take your time, I feel much better already!” Lou replied as he watched is father’s butler leave the room.
Once Lou was sure that he was left alone, he carefully sat up and checked his surroundings. Everything looks the same beside the fact he had much less tubes attached to him. Carefully Lou crawled to the end of his bed and saw that the doctor’s notes were not there but instead a folder.
Opening the folder there was a colouring book, a puzzle book, coloured pencils, and a simple note. The note read ‘we know that you have been constantly looking at the notes so having something else to keep you busy.’
“Great” Lou muttered to himself as he went and sat back in the bed. Placing the folder to the side he decided to wait before using them since having a solid surface would be much useful. When no one came in Lou looked around and saw a clock above the door, that was new. It wasn’t a normal round clock but one that was a rectangle, displaying the current time. It was 10:20am, still a long time before lunch and maybe before someone would come in. ‘Its odd, didn’t he said that the call wouldn’t be long. What’s taking him?’ Lou thought before deciding to watch what left of the movie before worrying. At the moment the movie wasn’t really enjoyable but helped the time even though he wasn’t really sure what he story was really about nor what was happening. Hearing a knock non the door Lou looked up and saw that it was the nurse.
“May I come in? Lunch have just arrived!” the nurse said cheerfully. “Where is your friend?”
“You can come in. I don’t know where he went but he should be back soon!”
“Ok then I shall assist you in being able to eat and I’ll leave your friend’s food on the chair for when he comes back!”
“Thaks” Lou replied while he watched the nurse pushed a cart in before coming over and lifted a tabletop in front of Lou. She then placed a tray on it and removed the lid.
“Here is your lunch, I shall return later to collect the empty dishes!”
“Thank you!”
Once the nurse left, Lou begun to slowly eat his food. The potato roast was so good. ‘I wonder if my father’s butler would be able to cook something like this later’ Lou thought happily. Once done Lou looked around him to realise that he had not returned, and it has already been a few hours. ‘What is going on?’ Lou thought as he moved the tray to the side. Opening the folder, Lou pulled out the colouring book and the colouring pencils, he begun to slowly colour in the first page. ‘To bad that I don’t have my phone or I could call my parents and my father’s butler but oh well’ Lou thought as he placed his focus on colouring the page.