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Chapter 4
EPOV
"Is everyone okay?" I got up on my knees and looked at them. Garrett and Alec were both safely in Miss. Rose and Miss. Alice's arms.
"No." Miss. Rose sobbed. She held my son her arms and wept. His face was toward her chest, so I couldn't see what happened. He turned to look at me, and there was a huge cut from the left side of his forehead to the right. I gasped, and pulled him into my arms. There was blood all over his face, and matted in his thick brown hair. He started crying, so I held him to my chest and rocked him.
"It's going to be okay, buddy." I whispered into his ear. He nodded slightly, and closed his eyes into slits.
I heard sobs coming from Miss. Alice, Miss. Rose, and Miss. Bella. Miss. Bella now had Alec, and was rocking him. Nothing had happened to him.
"Is Alec okay?" I asked, quietly.
"Yeah, just a few bumps and scraps." Miss. Bella whispered. "We better get Garrett to the hospital. He needs stitches." She stood up with Alec in his arms. Miss. Rose and Miss. Alice stood up, too, and tried to clear the path from where we were sitting and the door. There was wood pieces and tiles everywhere. The pipes must have burst because the water was shooting up from the sinks and toilets. I grabbed a few paper towels from the dispenser, and pressed them lightly on Garrett's forehead. I dabbed at it, and got a little bit of blood up. I lied his head on my shoulder, making sure my shoulder wasn't causing pressure to his forehead.
"Daddy?" He asked quietly.
"Yes?"
"Where are we going?"
"The hospital. Just to get your head fixed." I kissed the top of his head.
"What happened to my head?" He touched his forehead, and brought his finger back, full of blood.
"You don't remember?" I asked, concerned. He shook his head.
"We can't go out there." Miss. Bella said, looking out the front windows. There was hailing falling out of the sky, the size of a quarter. The wind was blowing the trees back and forth.
"You're right. We can't risk getting in the tornado while outside. We'll have to wait a little while, until it dies down." I said, and looked through the window. Miss. Rose and Miss. Alice sat down in the chairs in the lobby, and it looked like they were thinking. Garrett eventually fell asleep in my arms, and so did Alec in Miss. Bella's arms.
"He doesn't remember getting the cut on his head. I don't think he even remembers being in the storm." I told Miss. Bella, avoiding eye contact.
"I was afraid this was going to happen." She whispered, and looked over to me. "Alice? Rose? Can you take Alec and Garrett for a second? They should stay asleep, so you don't have to worry."
"Of course." They both said softly. I handed Garrett to Miss. Rose, as Miss. Bella gave Miss. Alice her Alec. When she handed him over, I noticed a huge cut from her wrist to her elbow.
"Follow me." She stated, and started walking down the hallway, to the kindergarten classroom.
"Miss. Bella?" I asked, and followed her quickly, because she was practically running through the halls.
She laughed at me. "Only my students call me Miss. Bella. You can call me Bella," She rushed to the classroom, and pushed open the door. Everything looked like we hadn't left it.
"Oh thank God." She sighed, relieved that the classroom wasn't hit. She sat down on one of the benches in the reading corner.
"Bella?" I asked, and sat next to her.
"Yes?" She turned and looked up at me.
"What happened to your wrist?" I asked concerned.
"Oh, I just fell on a piece of tile, no big deal." She tried to hide that arm behind her back.
"Can I see it, please?" I held out my hand. She took her arm out from behind her back, and showed me. The cut with think, and matted with blood. "Are you crazy? No big deal?" I lightly brushed my finger over the cut. "Why didn't you tell us?" I looked up at her.
"I wanted you to focus on Garrett, and not worry about me." She sighed, and looked down at her arm.
"This needs serious medical treatment. Believe me I'm a doctor." I said and got up from the bench. I went over to the teachers desk, and grabbed a few tissues. I dabbed them on the cut, and looked back at the cut. It looked a little better, but not much. "I have an emergency kit in my car, let me go run out and grab it." Before she could answer, was running out of the classroom, and down the hall to the lobby. Garrett and Alec were both still sleeping, so I slipped past, and ran out into the hail. I covered my head, the whole way there, and got to my car. I unlocked it and grabbed the emergency kit I carry around, since I'm a doctor. I got out and locked the car. I sprinted back in, and into the kindergarten room, to an awaiting Bella. She was still sitting on the bench, looking curiously down at her arm.
"I got it." I said, and walked to the bench. I knelt down in front of her, and rummaged through the kit. I found a disinfecting wipe, and a needle and thread. "This is going to sting a little bit." I said as I rubbed the disinfecting wipe across the cut. I felt her flinch, but then relax again. I grabbed my needle and thread, and threaded the needle. I heard her catch her breath, as I stuck the needle in her skin.
"Thank you for doing this." She whispered.
"It's my pleasure. I like helping people in need." I smiled up at her.
"Alec experienced what Garrett is going through right now." She said quickly.
"I don't understand what your saying." I whispered.
"Garrett has short term memory loss right now. He won't remember what happened tonight. But he will remember everything else." She searched for my eyes.
"When did you experience this?"
"Two years ago, Alec and I went to the local water park. It was a hot day, and we needed a way to cool off. The place was packed, but we still went anyway. Alec wanted to go in the pool, so I took him into the kiddie pool. I saw one of the mothers from the daycare I took Garrett to and I started to chat with her. I totally forgot about Alec and I noticed he tried to swim, and hit his head on the wall. He had the biggest bruise on his forehead for the next two weeks. I asked him what happened, and he said, 'What? Where are we?'. I, of course, freaked out, and rushed over to the doctor. She said that it was short term memory, and won't remember what happened that day." I forgot about stitching, as I listened to her story.
"I'm sorry." I said softly.
"There's no need to be. He's here, happy and healthy, and that's all that matters." She moved her hair from her left shoulder to her right shoulder, and shrugged down on the bench. I finished the stitches, and wiped a disinfecting wipe over it one more time, and put my supplies away.
"Well, we better get back, so I can stitch up Garrett's head. This should be interesting." I walked toward the door, and motioned for her to follow me. She followed me back down the hall, to the lobby, where Garrett and Alec were still sleeping.
"Rose? Can you turn Garrett around, so I can see his head?" I whispered. She nodded and turned him around in her arms. His eyes were still closed, so I rubbed the disinfecting wipe over his forehead lightly, and made sure it was clean. Then without waking up, I stuck the needle, a different needle then Bella's, and started stitching him up. Surprisingly he didn't wake up not once, until after I finished.
"Daddy, my head hurts." He mumbled, with his eyes half closed.
"I know, honey. It's going to hurt for a while, but in a few days it will be all gone." I said, and pushed his hair back.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"Can I take a shower? I feel dirty." He said, as all of us laughed at him.
"Yes, yes you can. As soon as we get home." I stood up from my kneeling position, and threw the needle and thread in the trash can. I closed the kit back up. I looked out the window, and it looked like the storm was lighting up.
"I think we're going to go home. It's getting better outside." I said, and motioned toward the windows.
"Yeah, I think we should head home, too." Bella said, and picked Alec up from Alice. I picked Garrett up, and grabbed the emergency and walked out the front doors.
"Bye. I'll see you at school tomorrow." I grinned and waved at them. They waved back, as I slipped out the door and into the rain. I walked to the car, and put Garrett in his booster seat.
"Where are we going?" He asked, as I hoped in the front seat.
"Home."
