The monitor beeped, over and over again. The same deafening sound pumping through my head as everything else was quiet almost peaceful. I looked up from my crouched position my hands balled up in fists as I looked around. The limp body on the white bed breathed slowly in and out as if it were alive but it wasn't, she wasn't alive. I reached up and touched the pale soft face that belonged to my sister, my one and only family. Her nose was bandaged and her head had three deep gashes in it but no one had told me not until today. A coma? Its when your dreaming and you wont wake up. She isn't there, the social worker had told me. I had today these slow restless hours to say goodbye to the only person who has ever been there for me.
Slowly I stand up looking down at her, she seems so small so fragile. Reaching down I peck her on the cheek then turn around. The tears fall but I don't feel them because in reality it isn't that sad. Things come and go and you never get them back but I knew before it happened that it would end. I knew that I had to let her go even if she didn't give me the o.k. I felt someone move behind me and I spun around she twitched and I closed my eyes as her body thrashed again and again against the restrains that kept her put. When I opened my eyes she coughed up blood that re-stained the already blood stained bed. I pressed the button that would change my life forever.
"Go ahead." I whispered into the speaker as the monitor beeped again and again. A doctor came in and unplugged the machines. My sister was no longer on life support. I was now, my own murderer.