Sophie pov
I slept a bit early yesterday. Yesterday was fun we both turned the phones off and watched movies all day. And today was going to be a long day, a school where I knew no one. I roll out of bed and take a deep breath and go to the washroom. I step out and get ready for the school day take my bag.

"Dad. Morning. "I say as I get downstairs.

"Morning. I was about to come to wake you up." He says.

"Well, I thought that this is a new school so we could get there early." I say.

"Smart." He says. I smile.

"So, your school is  far from the hospital, so you will go on a school bus as I can't drop you I might pick you up some days but that's it." He said. I nodded. 

He gives me yogurt and fruit. I eat it quickly. He eats his apple.

"Your bus will be here in 10, and I also need to go. So, let's go." Dad says.

"I grab my bag, and my water bottle as we step out and dad grabs his things. 

"Bye Sophie takes care. If you need me call me." Dad says.

"Bye, dad. Have a good day." I say.

"You too." He says sits in the car and drives off.

After 10 minutes, a bus comes. I board it. I sit alone in a seat as I didn't know anyone it goes to my new school named Berry High school. The bus dropped us inside the campus. We all got out. I sigh as I see the school in front of me.  I see someone familiar. I brush it off as I knew no one. I go on with the crowd. Then I see someone who's just standing there.

"Hey I am Sophie, a new student here can you direct me to the office?" I ask.

"Hey, I am Skylar. And you a freshman?" She asks as she starts walking. I follow her.

"Nope, a sophomore," I say.

"Same. Now let's hope we are in the same classes." Skylar says. I nod. 

Soon, we reach the office.

"This will be my cue to leave. You can go in you will find the desk lady tell her your name and she will guide you." Skylar says.

"Okay, see you around Skylar." I say.

"Yeah, Sophie see you around." She says and walks away.

I go in and walk over to the desk lady. 

"Hey can I get the schedule, locker combination, and other stuff for Sophie Walker?" I asked

"Sophie. Sophie". She says searching through the papers on her desk.

"Here you go Sophie your first class is in 20 so you better hurry."She says handing me the papers

"Okay. Thanks." I say and run out the door.

The papers have my schedule, locker number, and other things. I read it and it also contains a map.

First, I had to get to the homeroom. So, after reading the map I got there. As I entered the room, I saw Parker there. Parker was in the same school as me.

"Hey Sophie." He said as walked toward me. He had a school president badge.

"Hey Parker." I say.

"Come on, let's sit the teacher will be here any second," Parker says, and I follow him. There was only one seat empty which was next to him. So I sat there.

In about 10 seconds the teacher came in Parker was right.

"Hello, class good morning I am Ms. Willow." She says.

"Good morning Teacher." The whole says as we stand up to greet her.

"I will be your homeroom teacher this year so let's do the introductions. Shall we?" She says. We nod. 

"You there. Start." She says as she points to the kid to start.

"I am Max. I have been here since freshman year." He says.

All the people introduce themselves one by one and say if they came last year or before that as this school was middle and high school altogether. Then comes Skylar's turn comes.

"Hey, I am Skylar Nelson been here since 6 th grade. So I know my way around and I am also the female school president." She says.

Then Parker.

"Hey. I am Parker Nelson. Male school president. Been here since 7th grade." He says.

"Hey, I am Sophie walker. I am new this year." I say and sit down.

The whole class starts talking.

"Walker, that's the last name of my doctor." One boy says.

That's what I was scared of. Everytime I went somewhere and introduced myself people would start talking about him. Not that I didn't like it but just it was annoying. People know me by Ashton Walker's daughter, not Sophie walker. It was just annoying.

"Class let's just stop talking about this. Let Sophie feel comfortable between us. She is new. Parker, you may give Sophie a tour of the school." Ms. Willow says.

"Alright miss. Come on Sophie let's go. "He says and stands up.

I stand up too. Right now, I was about to cry but I just held it in I didn't want the first impression of me crying. As Parker closed the door. I start crying. The first impression didn't matter here. I already met him and we knew each other.

"Hey, Sophie don't cry. It's fine people talk ignore them. You can make a reputation for yourself just don't cry. I'm not really good at comforting people." He said as he hugged me. 

I didn't pull back from the hug. I needed it. 

"Thanks Parker." I say.

"No biggie." He says and wipes my tears off and makes a funny face.

"Who knew a girl like you could cry this much." He says. I laugh.

"Now that's what I like to see this laugh and smile." Now come on. He says and starts to walk.

I follow him. He takes me to each room and tells me about every teacher, making jokes in between.

"Wear off the smile. If she sees this. She will for sure doubt us." Parker says as we start to get near the class.

I pinch myself and the smile goes off on its own as I pinched myself hard.

"Pinch yourself hard?" He asks.

"Yeah". I say and smile again.

We both pinch ourselves this time I did it a bit slowly so I wouldn't start to smile or cry again.

"Welcome back. How was the tour, Sophie?" Ms. Willow asks.

"It was a great one miss." I say.

"Get back to your seats. She says.

The class goes on for like another ten mins.

When the bell rings. All the kids go off their separate ways. Me and Parker had chemistry, physics, English and French together. Three of them were daily classes. So I knew my days at this school were going to be fun.

Now it was lunch. As I reach the cafeteria I take my phone out and see dad's text:

Dad: How's the first day going? 

It was like 10 am when he texted that and now it was 12 pm I quickly texted back an "it's good!"   I didn't get a text back he must be in surgery or with a patient I put my phone in my pocket.

"Sorry, dad texted me," I say to Parker.

"It's fine. So, everyone sees me and Skylar as school presidents so will you have lunch with us as no one else wants to?" He asked. 

"Yeah, sure I will be happy too. I have no friends. So yeah, this works." I say and sit down at the table with Skylar and Parker.

"So tell us something about yourself. I and Parker know each other and you seem to know Parker. So, first, you tell about yourself, then me, and then Parker." Skylar says.

"Alright, so you know my full name is Sophie walker. My dad is a doctor, and I just changed schools." I say.

"What about your mom?" She asks.

"She died when I was 4." I say. That was also the first time I could say that or anything about mom without tearing up and hearing her say something. I guess those were the stages of grief.

"Oh, I am sorry." Skylar says.

"Thanks, I am fine Skylar People die it happens." I say.

"We are friends. And no friend calls me Skylar call me sky." She says.

"Okay sky. Tell me about yourself." I say.

"So I am Skylar Nelson. My dad is a manager at some company, and mom is an administrator." She says.

"Wait for a second, Nelson you both are siblings?" I ask.

"Yeah we are cousins. Our parents aren't that close but we are." Parker says.

"I had no idea." I say.

"There is no chance. No one knows this. No one has ever noticed our last names are the same." Sky says.

"Alright." I say.

We finish lunch and proceed to our classes.

Soon, the school day was over. Dad didn't tell me if he was coming to pick me up or by bus. So I called him. He doesn't pick up and it straight goes to voicemail.

"Hey, You have reached Ashton Walker. Leave your message and I will get back to you as soon as possible." It says.

I just leave it thinking he was busy. I just texted him that I was taking the bus.

Ashton pov

"No. No, we have to save him. He can't die." I said. It was Dr. William. 

"Dr. Walker calm down. You can't save him, he's gone."A nurse says as my phone starts ringing.

"Leave it be. It will go to voicemail." I say. I was trying my best not to tear up. 

There was a lot of internal bleeding. We had already used 13 units of blood but it wasn't stopping. No matter what I did clamping, suturing anything it wasn't working. 

"Dr. Walker, he's lost a lot of blood and even if he's alive he'll suffer. You have to call it." Neil said. 

"Time of death 15 08." I said trying to hold myself together. 

He was. Neil was right I couldn't save him. He was a father figure to me. I wasn't being rational here. Sophie also knew him really well I wasn't sure if she would be able to handle one more death.

"Alright, close.  Let's make him presentable for his daughter. She wouldn't like to see him in this state."I say and walk away. I drop my gown, gloves, and mask in the bin.

I step out of the O.R. He had a daughter who wasn't even here. I step into the scrub room.