Disclaimer: Ann M. Martin owns Dawn, Mary Anne, Jeff, Logan, Sharon and Richard and the Baby-sitters Club (and Pizza Express i believe). I own the other characters
I lifted my head up. "Mom?"
I could see my mom open eyes.
"Alex?" she asked again.
"I'm sorry Mom," I said. "I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry you were in the accident. I'm sorry I'm always fighting with you. I'm sorry that I told you hated you. I didn't mean it. I was just mad."
"I know Alex," my mom said carefully. "I know you didn't mean what you said. And the accident wasn't your fault. But right now I need you to go get a nurse okay?"
"Why?" I asked quickly. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," she said smiling. "You just need to go let a nurse now that I'm awake, okay?"
I nodded my head. "I'll be back in a second."
I ran out into the hallway but before I could tell a nurse that my mom was awake I saw the rest of my family. I ran into Dad's arms and hugged him.
"Mom's awake!" I told them excitedly.
Dad rushed to tell a nurse that Mom was awake. He followed the nurse into Mom's room while the rest of us stayed out in the hallway, waiting anxiously.
The nurse left the room as soon as she was finished examining Mom. Dad stayed in to talk to Mom for a bit before coming out.
"How is she?" Dawn asked as soon as Dad came out of the room.
"She's a bit tired but other than that she's doing fine," Dad answered. "You can all take turns going in to see her. One at a time."
Dawn went in first, then Jeff and then Mary Anne.
"Sharon wants to talk to you now," Mary Anne said to me when she came out of Mom's room."
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't know," Mary Anne said. "She told me to ask you to go in."
I walked in to Mom's room
"Mary Anne said you wanted to talk to me," I said.
"Yes, I did," she replied. "You said earlier that you were sorry that you were mad."
I nodded my head.
"But I don't know why you were mad," she continued. "You never said."
"I was mad with you," I replied.
"Why?" she asked. "What did I do that caused you to be so angry."
"I always felt that you don't love me as much as you love Dawn and Jeff," I answered.
"That's not true. Why would you feel that way."
"Because you always treated me differently," I told her. "You let Dawn and Jeff do things at my age that you won't let me do."
"Like what?" she asked me.
"Like fly to California," I said. "I asked you if I could go to California this summer to visit Jeff and you told me you didn't want me flying across the country by myself. Dawn and Jeff used to do it all the time."
"Alex," Mom started to say. "I didn't want you to fly across the country by yourself because your still my little girl. And I worry about you constantly."
"You never worried about Dawn and Jeff that much," I said.
"I know," Mom replied. "I didn't realize that it bothered you that much. You never told me before."
I shrugged my shoulders. "And you didn't believe me when I told you I didn't start the fight that I'm being suspended for."
"Yes, I did."
"Then why were you mad at me?" I asked her.
"I wasn't mad. I was just upset that you chose to stay and fight instead of walking away from it," Mom answered. "I want you to promise me that you won't fight in anymore. One of these days you're going to get seriously hurt."
"I promise," I said to her.
Mom wrapped me in a big hug until the nurse told me it was time to leave because Mom needed some rest. I told my Mom I would see her later that night before I went to bed.
I went out into the hallway.
"I'm hungry," I said to Mary Anne smiling.
"Why don't I drive you to get something to eat before we go home," she suggested. "Jeff is going to stay here with Dad, but Dawn and I were going to go home to be with our kids."
"Okay," I said.
"Where would you like to go?" Dawn asked me when we got in the car.
"Pizza Express," I said.
"Remember when we used to go there with the Baby-Sitters Club?" Mary Anne asked Dawn.
"Yeah," she replied. "That was the only place to get a pizza."
It didn't take us long to get there. I ordered my pizza before we even found a place to sit down.
"I'll have a twelve inch pizza with pepperoni, salami, bacon, green peppers, onions and mushrooms on it, please," I ordered. "And extra cheese, too"
We found a place to sit and it didn't take long before my pizza was ready.
"Are you hungry, Alex?" Dawn asked staring wide-eyed at my pizza.
I laughed a little. "You guys can have some if you want." Dawn tries not to eat too much meat, but every now and then she'll have some. Although she still refuses to touch a steak.
They each reached out to grab a slice.
"So, Alex," Mary Anne said with a slice of steaming hot pizza poised in front of your mouth. "Tell us about your boyfriend."
And so for the first time ever, I started talking about boys with my sisters.
