My brother by Michael Caldwell (story books to read txt) 📕

It was a cold day in December . There was a lot of snow on the ground. I went to visit my brother .When I arrived there ,my sister in law told me that he is in the hospital because he had a traffic accident. We were initially planning to visit him but beforehand, we decided to clean the house a little bit.While we were cleaning the house
,my sister in law told me what happened. It was just an other cold day in December . He was going to a basketball game with some friends. As he was walking out of the door my sister in law said “Drive carefully because it’s awfully slippery out there”, but he ignored her like always and just replied, “Yes,dear, I will!”
The traffic was heavy as the main road was under construction. He was maneuvering his way around the packed roads until he arrived to a two-way stop sign intersection. There were long lines of cars trying to cross the street.He was cursing the cars in the front of him for taking such a long time crossing the small intersection. It seemed like that all the traffic was taking a detour through his neighborhood. I waited for a long time hoping some one in the
passage of cars would be courteous enough to stop and let me cross. I tried many times to make daring moves but the flow of traffic never seemed to stop.
An old man was trying to cross the street in the same direction as my brother was.As he stepped in to the street suddenly the traffic stopped. He decided to make full use of this golden opportunity. He started to cross the street slowly.As he arrived near the center of the intersection he realized that the other side of the traffic was still moving. His old car didn’t have the best brakes in the world. The car went a few inches in to the path of the traffic.
Suddenly from his right side he saw a white van coming towards him like a raging bull set lose. The driver of the van hitted my brother . When we arrived at the hospital, we went to his room . I saw my brother’s face and it was not the same. He had his head tilted to the side with the saddest look on his face.I could see it in his eyes that things were not looking good for him. He did not say a word to us.His stare was indescribable. He stared at me as if everything was over for him. I immediately went up to him and gave him a kiss and asked him if he was okay. When he tried to answer me, all he was doing was stuttering and when I saw that he couldn’t talk right I busted into tears . My sister in law went to talk to the doctors to see what was the condition
on him while I was holding my brother’s hand. The tears were running down my cheek . I couldn’t take it any more, I had to walk out the room. All of a
sudden, as I found myself standing outside, I heard heavy breathing coming from his room. The doctor came rushing in to see if his knowledge could somehow
save my brother.Before the doctor could even get to him, my brother took his last deep breath and soon after passed away. The second his passed away, my
sister in law felt his hand slipping away from her grip. It felt as if we were the saddest people on the face of this earth. We were crying as the doctors
tried to revive him but obviously destiny took its toll. I felt like my life was torn apart. We both had to be sent to another room in order to wait for the doctors to come in to confirm everything. When the doctor opened the door to enter the room, I already knew by the facial expression that the doctor was carrying that it wasn’t any good news. That night ended up being the worst night of my life.

Publication Date: 02-05-2010

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