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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