ELIJAH
HE NEVER LIKED hospitals, as a kid he hated them with a burning passion and as he grew older, he learned to deal with the hatred every time he was forced by his parents to come, but still doesn't like them and doesn't think he will ever do. Certainly not now that he's here because the person he could even love more than his own parents is in the O.R. and nobody knows if she's going to make it. He almost lost it when his mom approached him at the wedding and gave him and his friends the news. Everybody got crazy and alarmed, leaving the banquet hall to go to the hospital. And now the waiting room is full of relatives and friends worried sick about the boy and the girl that has been taken into the O.R.
In between the constant sobbing of his mother, the almost tangible concern of his
