Star (part 2)

The long awaited continuation of 'Star'!

"Your brother? What in the world?" Luke and Star looked at each other blankly. Then Luke suddenly realised that his aunt was bleeding to death.

"Go call an ambulance!" he shouted. Star got up and ran to the phone, crying. Luke hurried to the laundry room and grabbed a clean towel. He ran back to the porch, where his aunt lay unconscious. Star was already there, wiping up the mess with some kitchen rolls.

Luke wrapped the towel around his aunt's bleeding leg and fastened it with a safety pin that was supposed to hold his pants up.

Then the ambulance came, beeping loudly. Paramedics jumped out and came to examine Aunt Blossom. Then they placed her on a stretcher and took her into their white van. Luke and Star locked the house up and climbed into the ambulance.

When the noisy ambulance reached the hospital, Luke and Star climbed out, feeling terribly anxious and extremely exhausted. The paramedics grabbed the stretcher and wheeled it into the emergency room.

Luke and Star badly wanted Aunt Blossom to survive for 2 reasons. Firstly, they really loved her. Secondly, they badly wanted to know what treasure map she was talking about. Was she just babbling or was she revealing some fabulous secret?

The nurses told Luke and Star that they weren't allowed in the emergency ward. Star was too young, they said. So the brother and his sister waited outside, anxious.

After what seemed to be hours, a doctor came out.

Luke stood up. "Luke Gane?" the doctor asked. Luke nodded. "I'm Doctor Webb. Well, I've got some bad news for you." The doctor smiled at them sympathetically. "I'm sorry, but we lost her."

"WHAT?!" Star shrieked. "AUNT BLOSSOM!" Star got up and ran into the emergency ward. Luke and the doctor rushed after her. Oh no where is she? Luke thought anxiously. Soon they found her, sitting in a corner and sobbing.

"Star!" Luke cried, and ran toward her. He picked her up and cradled her like a baby. "Aunt Blossom..." Star whimpered over and over again. Luke kissed Star's forehead and continued to rock her gently, fighting the tears in his eyes.

When everything was over, Luke and Star learned that everything their aunt had owned now belonged to them. After much discussing, they decided to move out of town. It was too painful, living in their old house without Aunt Blossom. Besides, they didn't enjoy living here. Why waste the rest of their lives in a place they didn't like?

So they packed up their things and sold the house. There was a little apartment they could rent in another town six hundred kilometres away. They would be able to live there, comfortably and happily.

They knew they would never get to know what their aunt was talking about as she was dying on their porch, but what was treasure compared to Aunt Blossom? So with nothing else for them to do, they climbed into Aunt Blossom's old car, and drove off to a brand new life far far away.