Chapter 2 Two Girls One prayer

Like many of the other patients, Jesse's days were bland. She mostly stayed in bed and watched people go by her room. Or, sometimes, she would flip through the channels of the television. The hospital had and extravagant garden, but Jesse was too scared she wouldnt be able to breathe when she went for a walk.

Jesse became sad and lonely over the course of her time at the hospital. Jesse's happiest moments were when the nurses came to check up on her. They would change her IV's or give her her daily medicine. But when the nurses left, the lonliness would return stronger than ever.

Nicole one of the nurses responsible for checking in on Jesse, saw that Jesse was quickly loosing her spunk. Nicole, being the wonderful nurse she is, searched her heart for a solution to Jesse's lonliness. She tried checking in every chance she got, but found she got behind in her work when she did. Nicole was deeply disturbed that she had not found a way to cure Jesse's lonliness. She had tried so hard to be with Jesse to keep her spirits up, while doing her job all at once. One day, Nicole realized that this strategy would not work for much longer.

"Hey Nicole, Whats wrong hun?" said Anita. Anita was another nurse at Nicole's station.

"You've been falling behind in your work, and you've been leaving your station a lot lately."

"Nothing is wrong with me. Its just...there is a patient that has been getting lonely and sad a lot lately. So i've been trying to visit with her as much as possible. It's wearing me out, my job as well."

"Have you contacted her family?" said Anita.

"Yes, but they've been so busy working to pay the bill that they don't have time to visit her."

Suddenly, the solution came to Nicole like a ton of bricks. Skylar, a kind and caring teenager that has been doing some volunteer work for the hospital, comes into the hospital everyday right after school. Mabey, just mabey, she could visit Jesse.

Nicole glanced at the clock, 3:15 pm. Skylar would be getting here any minute. It was also time for Nicole to change Jesse's IV. Nicole jogged to the east wing to tell Jesse she would be back in a moment, then took off to where Skylar was just entering in the hospital doors.

"SKYLAR!" Nicole screeched down the long narrow hall.

Skylar, taken aback, stopped and waited for the nurse running towards her.

Skylar was a pleasent girl that was always polite. She was an excellent student in school, but she hadn't many friends. She is very shy and never really talks to any of the other girls. Speaking of which, she never really talked at all. Skylar was a book fanatic. She loves to read everything from mysteries to spiritual books alike. Another one of Skylar's hobbies are drawing funny cartoons. She even had her own crazy cartoon collum in the local newspaper. Skylar lived a very relaxing and tamed life. (talk to skylar about that <----tamed life)

"Hi..could..you..do..." Nicole has mild asthma and did not realize that she would get that much out of breath when she ran down the hall. After Nicole caught her breath she started again.

"Hi. My name is Nicole, and I am a nurse in the east-side wing. I have a patient that is very sad and lonely. I've been trying my best to keep her company but I keep getting behind in my work. Is there anyway that you could visit her for like half an hour before you leave?"

"Sure, I would be happy to visit with her." Skylar said very politley as usual.

"Thank you, thank you very, very much. Stop at my Station when your ready to visit with her and I will fill you in on the details on our way there."

"Ok. Fine with me." Skylar put on a sweet smile and went into Mr. Evan's room.

Nicole was estatic that Skylar had agreed to visit with Jesse. Finally, Jesse could be happy, and she could get her work done.