My God Be With Us

LUKE

I watch as nurse Melanie turns around and walks out of the room and returns within seconds. She takes out something in her purse and opens it. Then she turns it around and put it in front of my face. It is a mirror. I can see myself and I look like death itself.

There are dark circles around my eyes and my skin is pale white. I can not believe that this is how I look like and now, more than ever, I am convinced that Mikayla can never see me like this.

"Your body needs sleep and you can not get better if you do not sleep"

Then she sees the phone in my hand and then takes it out of my hand.

"Hey! That is mine!"

"I am sorry, sir, but by the power that is invested in me by the hospital to make my patients feel better, I will now confiscate this cell phone until you have slept. You have a good night, sir"

"But it is the day!"

She turns around and waves her hand in the air and says.

"Not to you, it isn't"