Mathew
I waited and waited. After we realized Lilly was awake, we tried everything to keep her that way. She eventually stopped responding, so we figured it was enough. She was awake.
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I was in a restless sleep when something nudged me. At first, I didnt know what it was. Then I thought about where I was. In the hospital room with Lilly. Only Lilly. I shot up, confirming what I though.

She was there, looking at me with her big, beautiful eyes.

"Ma-" but she was cut off by coughing. I sprang up, quickly getting her a glass of water. I pressed to her lips and she stopped coughing.

"Don't try to talk, you'll go back into the coughing," I said. She nodded, looking at me intently. I couldn't help it, I practically jumped on top of her. I wrapped my arms around her small figure, being careful of all the wires. She seemed shock, but wrapped her arms around me.

"Who do you think you are," I said, pulling away. I didn't notice the tears till I couldn't see. "Scaring me like that,"

She smiled and reached up to my face with her little hand. I pressed my cheek into her hand and she blushed, making me chuckle.

I talked to her for a while, telling her that everyone was worried and visited her every once in a while. I told her about school, and how the teachers put aside her homework for her. At this point, her eyes widened and she looked panicked. I told her not to worry, and that I would help her. She calmed after I said that, which made me feel good.

After a while, she eventually fell back asleep. I took her hand in mine and watched her small breaths. She was perfection, even with messy hair and an ugly hospital gown.

After she went to sleep, I texted Mom. She had been here the first time Lilly woke up, and wanted me to contact her if anything happened.

She immediately texted back that she would visit in the morning. I smiled. She loved Lilly like a daughter. She was happy for me. That I had found someone to calm me down and make me smile at the same time. Lilly does that to people.

She can make you feel on cloud nine with just her personality. It's how she was created. She's kind, but feisty. She can pick a fight, but will instantly feel sorry about it, no matter who you are. It's just her nature.

After that, I soon fell asleep, my head on her tiny hand.
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"Mathew," someone said, knocking me from my sleep. I looked up, seeing my mother.

"Hey mom," I said, letting go of Lilly ls hand and wiping my eyes, focusing them to the light.

"How was she when she woke up?" She asked, pulling a chair over to mine and sitting down.

"She wanted to talk, but as soon as she made a noise she began to cough a lot," I said. She nodded, looking to Lolly who was fast asleep.

"She looks so much better from when the got her here..." Mom said. She was right. When they got the call that a car had crashed, they rushed to the scene. Then they called me, saying it had been Lilly. I rushed to the hospital, and they were bringing her into the ER. She was all bruised up and a little bloody. Turns out she had a gash in her abdomen. Nothing to severe. It still pained me to see her like that.

"Have you told the doctor she woke up?" She asked. I shook my head. "I'll tell them," she said, getting up and going out of the room.

I looked back to Lilly. Seeing her like this, in the hospital, kills me. She should be out with Kelly and Jess. She should be having fun. She should be with her brothers. She should be with a loving family. She should be enjoying life. She doesn't deserve the life she's got, but she pushed through anyway.

It's what I admire about her. The ability to move past anything that life puts in her way. She walks past it, shining her light down. She should be out, showing the world who she is!

But that's not how things happened. Her brothers were taken away. She gets bullied. She got into a car crash. Seems like everything in her life has gone the total opposite way, yet somehow, someway, she smiles. And when she smiles, I smile.

Hia everyone! I'm trying here alright. I think I'm going to get back into this book, stir up a fresh pot of ideas and write them out. Well, goodnight!
---Maddie