A/N I still don't know how I got suckered into this but here's the next chapter. Oh and thank you Kayla for reviewing.
Chapter II: Owie
When the final bell rang, Andy and Ray sat quietly and waited. A few minutes later Chris and Dan came in the room. Quickly the twins grabbed the backpacks and put on the coats. Each older brother grabbed one of the twins' hands and led them outside. The four silently made their way home. At a small white house they stopped and entered the front door. A black hair woman came forward and took the four's coats.
"So how was your first day?" she asked.
"Fine mom," they said in unison.
"There's a snack for you in the kitchen," she said, "But don't eat it all, an old friend of mine from the orphanage and her two children are coming over soon."
"Yes mom," they chorused.
The four raced into the kitchen and scrambled onto the stools and ate their cheese and crackers. A couple minutes later the doorbell rang. Quickly Dan hopped down from his seat and went to the door, while Andy jumped down and brought two more stools over from the closet. They heard their mom greet Mrs. Hiwatari and her kids. Dan entered the kitchen with two new blue haired kids. Instantly Andy and Ray jumped down and greeted Kayla.
"Hi Kayla," they said in unison.
"Hi guys," Kayla greeted.
Andy looked back at her older brothers to see a shock and an angry face towards their other visitor, Kai. The blue haired boy glared back at Chris. Once he noticed Andy though he almost jumped out of his skin. 'Boys,' she thought, 'always so scared of cooties.'
"Hi Kai," she said politely.
"Hey," he murmured.
"If you hungry there's some cheese and cwakers left for you guys," Ray said.
"No thanks," Kayla said.
"Me neither," Kai agreed.
"More for me," Chris shrugged, taking more onto his plate.
"Bet ya if we ask real nice like, our mums will let us go to the park," Ray suggested.
"You can forget it," Dan said, "I'm not walking you four over, besides ain't got enough hands."
"We can go by ourselves," Ray argued.
"Yeah right, last time mum let you two go on your own squirt here got stuck in the middle of the street," Chris laughed.
"Don't remind me," Andy mumbled.
"We can still ask," Ray argued.
"Fine but she's gonna say no," Dan sighed.
With that Ray stuck his tounge out at his brothers and walked into the living room. What he heard next he would take to his grave.
"Aly, we've been best friends for a long time right?" Mrs. Hiwatari said to his mom.
"What are you getting at Adella?" his mom asked, looking at Mrs. Hiwatari like she did when she wanted the truth from one of her children.
"I'm sick Aly," Mrs. Hiwatari almost whispered.
"You seem fine to me," mom said what Ray himself was thinking.
"What are you doing," Andy whispered.
"Shh," Ray ordered, covering his sister's mouth.
"It's not that kind of illness Aly. I'm dying slowly, it's almost too much to bear," she murmured.
"Stop it, you're scaring me," mom ordered.
"The doctors say I got six months, maybe less…. Aly I want you to watch over the children, will you do that for me?"
"Why are you telling me this?" Aly groaned.
"Because sweet little Aly, you're my best friend."
"No more talking of such things."
"First you have to promise me you'll watch over my children."
"I would've even if you didn't ask."
Andy and Ray stood by the doorway in shock. They watched to two women sit for a long time in silence. Ray spotted a tear trickle down his mother's cheek. As if they heard nothing the twins stepped into the living room.
"Mom, can we go to the park?" Ray asked.
"Whose we?" his mother demanded.
"Me, Andy, Kayla and Kai," he said quickly, hoping she thought she heard Dan's name in there.
"You know perfectly well that last time I let you two walk to the park without Dan that your sister got stuck in the middle of the road," she said sternly.
"Please mom," he begged, "I'll let her hold my elbow and everything. Mrs. Jacobs lets Molly go to the park on her own."
"Mrs. Jacobs doesn't have a five year old that can't see fifteen feet in front of her," she snapped.
"What if Kai walks with her?" Mrs. Hiwatari suggested. "He walks Kayla to the park all the time and our home is farther away. I'm sure if we tell him to he will."
"Please," he begged, "You don't want us to leave her with Chris do ya mum?"
"Alright," she sighed.
"Yeah," both children cried.
"Now when you cross the street make sure she has a good hold onto your elbow," Mrs. Kon said for the fifth time.
"I'll be careful Mrs. Kon," Kai assured.
"And you," she said turning to her daughter.
"I know I know, don't let go of his elbow, always look both ways before crossing even if someone is guiding me, keep my ears open and always cross when the light is red," Andy said.
"Andrea," Mrs. Kon warned.
"Just kidding mum," she said quickly.
"Kai," his mother said, "We're trusting you, so be careful."
"Yes mom," he answered.
"Where's your cane?" Mrs. Kon demanded, just as they were about to leave.
"Do I have to bring it," Andy whined.
"Yes," both mothers said in unison.
Grumbling Andy went to the closet and brought out the same stick Kai had seen earlier that day. Quietly she returned to his side and held gently onto his elbow. Finally the left the house. It wasn't so bad having someone holding on to his elbow, the problem was that it was a girl… a girl that had kissed him. In no time they were at the playground. Ray and Kayla immediately went to the swings. Andy on the other hand went towards the slide. As she reached out for the fireman's pole a boy bumped into her as he ran towards the slide.
Kai stood and watched as Andy lost her balance and began to fall. On her way down she looked like she did a summersault, banging her head against the pole. Her left hand went out to cushion her fall but it seemed to do no good. 'Ouch,' he thought as he saw the impact. Suddenly him, Ray, Kayla and the kid that started it all were crowding around her.
"Klutz," Ray mumbled.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," the kid apologized.
But she didn't move. Worried Ray reached down and shook his sister hard, but still she didn't wake. The four of them continued to try to wake her as blood trickled down from where she hit her head. A few minutes later a man walked up behind them.
"What happened?" he asked.
"She fell from up there," Kayla squeaked, pointing to the top of the playground.
The man kneeled down and with two of his fingers touched her neck. Quickly he took out his cell phone and called someone. Once he was off the phone he turned to Kai and said,
"Where's you mom?"
"Back at her house," Kai answered.
"Tweebs!" someone called. A second later Chris and Dan walked up behind the man.
"Klutz," Chris mumbled.
"Is this your sister?" the man asked.
"Yeah," Dan said, "we just came to get them home."
"You better go and tell you mom that she needs to go to the hospital," he said.
"Great," all three Kons groaned.
"That's okay," Andy murmured, waking up, "I'm fine."
"Lay still," the man ordered, "you may have a broken wrist."
"I'm fine, really," she said sitting up.
"Well then you won't mind the paramedics taking a look at you," he said.
"Para what dics?" she repeated.
"Don't say," Dan warned.
"Paramedics," the man repeated, "their doctors that drive in the big white truck."
At the word doctor Andy jumped to her feet and hid behind her brother. "No, no, no! No doctor, I'm okay, I'm okay," she whined.
Dan looked at Chris and silently commanded his younger brother to return home. With a sigh Chris began the run back. A few minutes later the sound of sirens was heard, a man and a woman in a blue uniform ran up towards them.
"Where's the victim?" the man asked gruffly.
"Behind her brother," the other man said.
Quickly Andy hid even more behind her brother's leg. The woman in knelt down to the five year old's level and held out her hand. This only made her retract from the adult and hit her left arm against Dan's leg, Andy's face suddenly when pale from the pain.
"Hi there sweetie, my name's Cindy," the lady said kindly. "I just want to have a look at your arm."
"No," Andy squeaked.
"Come on squirt," Dan said.
The eight year old pick up his little sister and sat her on his lap. The paramedic gently took her left arm and began to feel her arm from the armpit down. While Cindy checked her arm the man that had came with her examined her cut on the head. Just as he was about to put a bandage on the cut Cindy touched her wrist and Andy passed out.
"She may have a concussion," the man said.
"And she definitely has a broken wrist," Cindy added, and then turning to the other man she asked, "Are you the girl's father?"
"No, but her other brother went to get her mother I think," he answered.
"We need get her to the hospital, could you tell her that when she gets here?" Cindy asked.
"Sure," the man said.
"How would you like to ride in an ambulance?" the male paramedic asked Dan.
"Uh sure," Dan agreed, looking back at the younger children. "Stay here and wait for mom."
Carefully the male paramedic reached out and took Andy from her brother's arms. Dan followed the paramedics to the big white truck and hopped into the back. They watched the ambulance drive away as Mrs. Kon, Chris and Kai's mom run up towards them. The man that had helped them told Ray's mother everything. Then Mrs. Kon took Ray and Chris by the hand and led them away.
A/N I hpled you guys like it, how about you let me know though a review please.