Thanks for all the reviews! Most of y'all voted for me to post 3 & 4 together so that's what I'm going to do! I figured I'll post it now before I go get my cavity filled at the Dentist.. (Jaws music plays ominously because I have a phobia of dentists pretty much) Anyways I don't own Girl Meets World, it's characters, Disney, or anything else mentioned in the story! Enjoy the update!
The first thing Riley did when she woke up was call Maya. She didn't answer. Riley texted her as she got ready and still got no answers.
7am rolled around and Maya still hadn't called, texted, or rang her doorbell.
"I'm really worried about Maya." Riley announced to her family at the breakfast table. "She hasn't answered any of my calls or texts and she's not here yet. I think something maybe wrong."
Topanga and Cory exchanged nervous looks. Those two were constantly calling and texting each other and Maya wouldn't still be asleep.
"If it would make you feel better, why don't you go check on her before school?" Cory said as he put his plate in the sink and gave everyone goodbye kisses.
Riley nodded. She grabbed her backpack and took the elevator up to Maya's floor. She knocked on the door and no one answered. She knew she shouldn't, but she twisted the doorknob and found the door unlocked.
"Maya?" Maya?" Riley called out as she looked around the seemingly empty apartment. She opened the door to Maya's room and gasped at the sight. Maya was still in bed asleep and you could see her shivering underneath a huge pile of blankets.
Riley called the first person she could think of. Her dad.
Cory glanced down at his ringing phone and saw that it was his daughter calling. Why would she be calling? He just left the apartment. "You okay, Riley?"
"I'm fine, it's Maya, I think she's really sick." Riley sounded like she was on the verge of tears.
Hearing his daughter's frightened voice, he knew it must be bad and he took off back into the apartment complex. "Riley, feel her forehead and tell me if she feels warm to you."
Riley went over and gently placed a hand on Maya's forehead. She hissed as she pulled back her hand. "She feels like she's on fire, dad!"
"Okay, your mom and I will be there in a second." Cory hung up the phone and then dialed their home number. He told Topanga to see if one of their neighbors could take Auggie to school and then to meet him at Maya's apartment.
Cory walked in and hollered out, "Riley? Maya?"
"In here, dad!" Riley called from the back bedroom. He found Riley hovering over Maya, unsure of what to do to help her.
"Riley, back away some, please." Cory walked over and placed his hand on Maya's burning forehead. "Crap, she's really burning up." Cory tried to shake Maya awake, but she wasn't waking. Panicking, he felt for a pulse and was relieved when he found one.
Topanga had rushed in as he was feeling for a pulse. "Topi, stay here with Maya and Riley. I'm going to go look for a thermometer, she's burning up."
Cory headed to the bathroom beside Maya's room. He recoiled slightly as the stench of puke his his nose. Poor Maya. He thought. She shouldn't have had to suffer alone. He dug around in the drawers until he found an ear thermometer. Perfect. He headed back into the room and stuck the cool metal tip in Maya's ear, waiting for the beep.
His worry grew deeper when the thermometer beeped and flashed the numbers "103.4"
He knew all the blankets weren't helping her fever in the slightest, so he ripped them all off of her. Maya shivered.
"Cory! Why did you do that? She's obviously freezing!" Topanga rubbed Maya's shivering back, hoping to calm her down some.
"No, she's burning. Look." He showed her the thermometer. Knowing, that a simple stomach bug wouldn't cause a fever this high, and that she wasn't getting better like she should after a bug he thought about what it could be. Only one answer came to his mind and he didn't like it in the slightest. Appendicitis. He turned Maya so that she was lying flat on her back and then pressed on the lower right part of her abdomen.
"Owwww!" Maya whined and curled back up into a shivering ball, not even opening her eyes.
Topanga gave Cory a worried look. "We gotta get her to the hospital!" She exclaimed.
"Hospital?" Riley shouted.
"Yeah, she needs surgery. It'll be fine though, we just have to go, right now." Cory replied as comfortingly as he could. He bundled Maya up in a blanket. "I'll meet you at the hospital. Call the school for me and tell them I won't be there."
Topanga nodded and told Riley to pack a bag of pajamas, sweats, and other things Maya might want while at the hospital, while she called the school. They had to take the subway to the hospital, which was fine because it gave Topanga time to try and get a hold of Maya's mom. She wasn't answering. She knew Maya's mom had to sign off on the hospital admittance forms and it was making her nervous that her mom wasn't answering.
They made it to the hospital and were directed to a back room where they found Cory pacing the floor beside Maya's bed. She was sleeping fitfully, the only things the nurses could do for her without the signed form was put a cool washcloth on her forehead.
"The doctor said it's definitely her appendix. They need some forms signed to confirm and operate, but if you can't get Maya's mom to sign all of these forms, because it's a lot, then get her to sign this form." Cory held out a smaller form. "If she signs this then we can sign off on her treatment and make medical decisions for her as her guardians." Topanga took the forms and left the hospital, knowing the only way to get to Maya's mom was to go see her at the diner.
The diner was called "New Yorkers 24hr Diner" and it was located on 5th street, near the hospital. She walked in to the slightly run down restaurant and went straight to the counter. "Hi, is Ms. Hart here?"
"She's in the back. It's her break." The lady working the counter chewed loudly on her gum.
Topanga smiled politely, but her voice showed that she was a little irritated, " Can you go get her? Her daughter's in the hospital." That caused the lady to go get Ms. Hart, she knew it was probably something serious if someone was here about it.
"Topanga? What are you doing here?" Ms. Hart asked, surprised to see her daughter's best friend's mom here.
"My daughter found Maya sick in bed and we took her to the hospital-"
"Oh, she doesn't need a hospital. It's probably just one of those bugs kids get every now and then. Now if you'll excuse me-"
"No! Listen you're daughter has appendicitis. They need to operate on her immediately or she could die. So can you just sign these forms?" Topanga held out the stack of papers.
"Look, I don't have time for all this. Maybe when I get off tonight I will."
"Well, here. At least sign this one." Topanga held out the single sheet of paper. "If you sign it, it will allow Cory and I to make medical decisions for her in emergency situations when you can't be reached or you're too busy. Cory and I will sign all the forms for her if you let us."
"Fine, but I don't have insurance and I'm not paying for this stupid operation with my hard earned money. She's probably just faking it anyways."
Topanga was taken aback. Did Maya's mom really feel that way about her own daughter? "Please just sign the form, here's the pen." Topanga handed her the pen and allowed her to sign. "Thank you, I have to be going now." Topanga gathered up the papers and quickly walked back to the hospital and showed Cory the signed form.
"Great!" He said. Cory and Topanga split up the treatment forms and each signed them before handing them back to the doctor so they could start treatment.
The stuck an IV drip of morphine and saline solution to her, so that she would hopefully get rehydrated and not be in so much pain. Once the treatment started working, they prepped her for surgery and whisked her down to the OR.
