After what feels like an eternity the ambulance stops and the back doors fly open. They move the stretcher out and everyone piles out of the van. I follow them completely stuck in my own head, I try to tell them to be careful with her, she's hurt they can't jostle her gurney around like that. My fee
I'm sitting on a picnic blanket on a grassy knoll, our new backyard, only I'm not alone. I can see three children just in the distance, running through a set of sprinklers all dressed in white. An older boy, a younger girl and a smaller boy chase one another through the water, I can faintly hear the
I'm asleep. Why am I asleep? The last I remember we were showing Poppy and Ambrose around the new house, and now I'm asleep? My eyes are heavy, I must be really tired. Pain all of a sudden starts to radiate from my bones, my hips, my leg, my arm, my head, all on one side. Fuck it hurts to bad, I tr
"We have been so worried about you darling, how are you feeling?" She asks in a soft and nurturing tone. Seeing her as she worriedly rushes over to me triggers my tears all over again and they flow freely as she leans down to kiss the top of my head."Pain..." Is all I manage to choke out between my
"Good Morning Miss Kendrick?" An enthusiastic man in his mid forties dressed in a long white coat walks into the room with an open chart in his hands and asks. Rhode and Eloise both step off to the side as he approaches my bed side."I'm in a lot of pain" I say quietly as he looks briefly at one of
"I'm in a hospital" I say, proud that I know I have that one definitely in the bag."You were at your new house, how did you get there?" He asks. I remember the drive there, Poppy and I had just been to a birthing class which was interesting and slightly traumatic. Rhode was in the front seat but
"The kids don't need to see Santa on Christmas Day, I think it's just a waste of time" I hear Rhode distantly say as the world seems to be slowly forming itself around me again."But Peter already has the costume so we figured in the morning he'll come and give the kids their gifts, we'll take some
"Another fucking surgery" Rhode says with a defeated sigh, leaning back in his chair."Sorry I'm super broken" I say lightly, trying to wrestle a smile out of his frustrated expression. It works, it's small but it's certainly there."Luckily they can fix it" He sighs again, this time sounding sligh