Not So Normal
•Chapter Six•
Kaitlin’s Point Of View.
After I second, I became weak, and I fell in a heap on the floor, but I never lost consciousness. I was able to keep Kaelyn in my arms, and she smiled a goofy grin. I ignored her and focused back on the situation. Aunt Lisa suddenly jerked into action. It only took her a few steps before she vanished into her room. She emerged a second later with her phone pressed to her ear.
“Yes, I think my brother just had—I—he—”
I knew the words she meant to say were lost in the adrenaline rushing through her body. She took a deep breath.
“My brother just passed out on the floor. Please, come quickly,” she gasped, her shaking hands barely gripping the phone. After a pause, she gave her address and hung up the phone. She sunk down to the floor, where I was still sitting.
“They’re coming,” she said slowly and quietly, not directly to me. I took a moment to take in her expression. She looked like she was in a trance. Her face was pale, and her knuckles were clenched. Her mouth was slightly open, and her whole personality was gone. She looked at me, and a bit of expression returned to her face. I could tell she didn’t like me seeing her in her current emotional state.
“The ambulance is on its way,” she told me, and a bit of color returned to her face and knuckles. “The man I talked to told me not to do anything. He said that in your father’s state, anything could change something vital.”
I nodded, and she stood up slowly. She held out a hand to me, and I took it, balancing Kaelyn in my other arm. No sooner had we gotten downstairs than we heard police sirens. A minute later, we held open the doors to two doctors, followed by two men carrying a stretcher.
“Where is he?” one of the doctors asked urgently, and Aunt Lisa gave him directions to the room where my father was located. The four men ran up the stairs, and a fifth man walked briskly into the house. He directed me and Aunt Lisa to stand outside by the ambulance unless we wanted to follow the ambulance to the hospital. Aunt Lisa and I turned off the over, loaded her car, and drove until we were behind the ambulance. We watched as my dad was loaded into the ambulance on the stretcher, and we followed him closely to the hospital.
By the time we got to the hospital, all of the color had returned to Aunt Lisa’s face. We sat in a waiting room for hours, playing with Kaelyn and eating hospital food. A man came out to the waiting room and looked at us.
“You must be Kaitlin and Lisa?” he asked.
“Obviously,” I muttered under my breath, because there wasn’t anyone else in the room.
“Yes,” Aunt Lisa said, standing up. I followed her lead as the man started talking.
“Your brother is going to have to stay here for the night. We’re going to run some tests, and see if we can figure out what’s going on. It’s too early to know how sever the problem is,” the man said to Aunt Lisa.
Aunt Lisa looked disappointed, but she just nodded and lead me out of the hospital. It was going to be a very long night.
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