Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Writing Assignment Two

Ten Topic Suggestions for a descriptive paragraph or essay:
(I am only picking ONE)
A Waiting Room

Joel stood up and began pacing. He looked around himself, it was a basic hospital waiting room. The old plastic chairs, the 3 year old magazines on broken down side tables. He hated this place, he had been here too many times in his life to ever like being here.
There was the time his twin brother, Justin, had climbed a tree to save a kitten, and the kitten had scratched at Justin. That causing Justin to pull back too quickly and he had gone flying out of the tree, hitting his head and getting knocked out. He was in the hospital for nearly a week, they were worried about brain damage, but fortunately, nothing had been damaged.
"Justin, remember the time you tried rescuing that kitten?"
"Actually, I remember very little about it. I just remember you crying over me in my bed!" Justin grinned
"I was not, that was mom and Julie. I kept trying to bring that kitten in, and they wouldn't let me."
"That cat was the devil, it was from hell, and it needed to go back to hell!"
Joel sat down on the falling apart chair, and nearly fell out of it, he was laughing so hard. "You never gave the cat a chance, he was sweet as could be."
"To you maybe, that stupid cat loved you, always finding a way into our room, would take a dump in my underwear drawer, then curl up in your bed as if nothing had happened!" Justin laughed and sat down in a chair similar to Joel's. Ugly as sin, puke green, and the stuffing coming out of it.
Why this hospital did not have a better waiting room was beyond him, it looked like it had been designed in the 40's and never had an update.
"Can you believe this waiting room? It looks like our grandparents were born here!" Justin asked
"Actually, I think Mom was born here," Joel replied "I remember Grandpa saying something about it one time. I think when Julie broke her arm, he and I were sitting here, and he looked at some magazine or something, and said it was the same magazine he read when Mom was born."
Justin coughed and laughed even harder, "Was it Popular Mechanics or a Better Homes and Garden?"
"No, I want to say it was either a Consumers Report or something like that, but who knows, I don't know what magazines they had in 1920." Joel grinned, because he knew if his mom had heard him say that year, she would have smacked him against the back of his head.
"Oh, be glad Mom didn't hear that!"
Just at that moment, their Mom came walking through the door. "Hear what?"
Justin and Joel stood up, Joel gave his Mom a hug, saying, "Oh, that Justin has a new boyfriend." Joel grinned at Justin.
"Are you still going on about that? That was just an embarrasing situation years ago, why you boys can't stop picking on each other, I will never understand. How is Rachel?"
"They aren't saying, and I haven't seen a nurse or a doctor since they sent us in here. And this place is crap, why haven't they updated in here? The entire hospital is beautiful except for this room! There isn't even a coffee station or anything!" Joel banged around and stomped around, taking his frustrations out on the waiting room. "If they are going to make me wait so long, they could at least have something decent here!"
Lola put her arm around Joel, "Honey, its okay, Dad is out there asking questions, you know he will get further than any of us ever would, why don't we go down to the cafeteria?"
"No, I want to be here when they finally tell me something about Rachel, Mom, it isn't fair, I finally found the girl of my dreams, and God wants to take her away from me."
"Joel Robert Magnus! I never want to hear you blaspheme again! You know very well God doesn't take away lives! He gives life, He is NOT and Indian Giver!"
The door to the waiting room opened, his father was standing there, "You can go see Rachel, she is out of surgery, but they say she isn't awake yet."

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