He Is Not Alone

“Willy, it’s momma, time to wake up!”

“Come on, baby, rise and shine.”

As I open my eyes, the room slowly comes into focus, but, this isn’t my bedroom! The walls are the wrong color, the room is cold, the bed is feels uncomfortable and I feel restrained. Something is in my mouth. I’m in a hospital room! The monitor above my head is beeping and that brings in the nurse.

My name is Will Smythe; I am an African American Male, 30 years old. I am about 6 feet tall with an average build. Some people say I look like a young Morgan Freeman. My hair is kept in a short Afro. I could stand to lose a few pounds but that comes from being behind a desk most of the day. I have no brothers or sisters. My family was not a very close family. My parents passed away years ago. There are no family get together or even exchanges of Christmas cards. I don’t remember the last time I received a birthday card. I am a Database Consultant working with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, mainly with growing businesses in the Philadelphia area. I prefer to work with computers rather than to work with people. That is one of the reasons that I am a consultant rather than working in the corporate world. For most of my clients, I can log into their networks, see what the symptoms and indications are and fix them without ever stepping foot into the office. I like my New Age music, reading and the outdoors. I think I would love to camp, but my wife is not the outdoor type.

My wife is Sandy and she is my dream girl. She is about 5 feet 9 inches, 120 lbs., light brown skin, long silky brown hair. Many nights she would sit on the floor at my feet while I brushed her hair and we would watch TV. Sandy has beautiful brown eyes. They sparkle when she smiles. Her smile is something else. She could melt any heart and light up any room when she smiles. She keeps her body trim by her weekly routine of running 5 miles a day, weight lifting and calisthenics. Sandy is a lawyer, practicing with Lou Pickerelli and Associates in center city Philadelphia. She handles the City of Philadelphia account for the firm. She is an up and coming lawyer and she is good at her job. She recently got a BMW as a bonus. I know now why they call them Beamers. She beams every time she sees it. Hers is a 4 Series Convertible, silver with tan interior.

If it weren’t for Sandy, I would be a loner. Her beauty and intelligence bring a lot of people into our lives. She is very outgoing where I am a loner. Sandy is the center of my life. Most of our friends are co-workers of Sandy’s. We have a couple of neighbors we talk to, but being new to the neighborhood, have limited the number of people we have met.

Jennifer has been working the ICU for several years. She is a techie and a nurse which is one of the reasons she loves working in the ICU. Everything is state of the art. Jennifer is Caucasian, about 5 feet 7 in, light brown hair and slim build. She is divorced with no children. She loves to fly and owns a 2005 Cessna 185T that she keeps at Wings Field in Blue Bell, PA. She can be found on her days off, flying up and down the coast or doing Flights for Life missions which is a volunteer outfit flying donor organs and patients where needed.

Jennifer is half way through her 12-hour shift when the first alarm goes off for Will Smythe. She has been watching over him since he arrived in the ICU. She thought he was a good-looking man.