Broken

Chapter 17

I see the nurse come out while looking at her notepad and goes into the left hallway. I keep watching as she stops in front of a room and enters it.

Thank goodness!

After that, I quickly begin my search for room 206. Finally finding it few rooms away, I enter the room through the white metal door with '206' written on it in lime-green.

The inside of the room is really adorable and fun looking. Colourful walls with cartoon characters, toys, bright furniture etc. There's medical equipment right next to the hospital bed.

After locking the room door, I walk over to the bed and look at the person on it. Liam, I think that's his name. This is my first time seeing him in the flesh. He's a little 5-year-old boy, with freckles and brown hair, sleeping soundly under the blanket. There's an IV tube attached to his right hand. The IV drip and stand are next to his bed.

I sigh and sit down on a nearby blue sofa. I think I could spare a little time.

"Do they blame you for being stuck here?" I ask him, even though I know he's sleeping.

"Life's really unfair isn't it." I say as I unzip my bag.

"Things happen to us and we don't even know why or did we deserve it." After taking out the lunchbox and opening it, I take out the tiny bottle of poison along with the syringe.

"It really is a shame to die so young. But...on the bright side I'm saving you from all the wicked in this world, kiddo." I say as I fill up the syringe with the poison.

Suddenly he moves which causes me to flinch. Oh no, was I too loud?

He frowns and slowly opens his eyes. He blankly stares at me for a moment as I hold onto the syringe and place the bottle of poison back into the lunchbox, then groans and sits upon his bed.

"Am I going to get a shot again? I already got one" he says in a sweet voice and shows me his hand with the IV tube attached.

Phew! He doesn't suspect me. This really would have been easier if he was asleep. Why the heck was I even blabbering!?

"No, sweetie, I'm just going to put this in the IV drip." I smile as I stand up.

"Wait...your not a nurse, are you?" He asks looking at me with big curious eyes. Well, I'm not dressed as a nurse AND I'm a high school student so it's highly obvious.

"No actually...I'm your cousin." I blurt out without thinking.

"My cousin?...but I've never seen you before. What's your name? " He says as he smiles and takes out two toy cars from under his pillow.

"It's Lydia and Well, we lived very far away and were very busy so we couldn't come. But now we're here! I remember seeing you when you were just a baby." I say nicely as I go towards the IV drip with the syringe.

"Cool! Did you bring me anything?" He exclaims and looks at me with sparkling eyes.

Don't make this hard for me...

"What?" I say in confusion.

"You brought me a toy, didn't you. Yay! Where is it!?" He says and looks around the room.

"Hey, I didn't-" I begin to say when he looks back at me with an innocent face.

"I mean...yeah, it's...at home." I end up saying. I look towards the IV drip. Hmm, it's half full. I just gotta insert the needle and empty the poison into it. Easy pesy.

"Really! Oooh, I can't wait to go home! " He exclaims and starts playing with his toy cars.

As I grab hold of the drip, he starts talking again.