It's two more hours before a doctor comes over to us. Once again he takes me aside and I prepare for the worst. "Your sister is stable, her lung was ruptured but we were able to repair it. I expect her to make a full recovery." I let out the breath I didn't realize I was holding. "You can go on in and sit with her but she won't be waking up for a couple more hours."
"Thanks Doc. Listen I know you gotta call the state but is there any chance you can hold off til the morning? I need at least one more night with her."
He looked at me with sympathy, "Sure. Sorry about your loss." He walked away and I turn back to the guys.
"She's gonna be okay." Pony's eyes light up. Two-bit lights a celebratory cigarette. I walk into her room and sit in the chair next to her. "Hey Kimmie. You had me real worried there." I know she can't hear me but talking to her makes me feel better.
She's all cut up everywhere. There are tubes in her nose giving her air. She looks so broken and I swear to myself I'll never let her get hurt like this again. No way in hell the state is taking her away from me.
Soda and Ponyboy walk into the room and stand on either side of me. Pony reaches down to touch her hand. Soda puts his on my shoulder. "How do you think she'll take it?" He asks.
"Not good. Even with the shit he put us through she still loved him." I drop my head. My baby sister who almost just died is gonna wake up to her world falling apart around her. I ain't never been so emotionally before this big mess.
"Darry's calling our social worker now, asking her what we can do. We're gonna figure this out."
"I sure hope so."
X
I feel something pulling at my hand. Opening my eyes I see Kimmie's brown ones staring right at me. I realize my grasp on her hand must have been hurting her. "Hey Kimmie. Glad to see you're awake."
She looks at me confused, "What happened?" I was terrified that she'd forget the accident. Her doctor told me there was a good chance she'd have no idea what happened and I wasn't looking forward to explaining it.
I took a deep breath ready to break the news when Pony walked into her room. "Kimmie you're up!" His eyes were shining bright and he ran over to her bed.
"Hey Pone. Where am I?" He looked at me. I nodded for the door and he took my hint, squeezing her hand and walking out.
"Kim, you were in an accident."
"What kind of accident?" Her voice was hoarse and I felt awful about what I was about to tell her.
"A car accident. You and Dad."
Her eyes opened wide, "Is he alright?" I felt bad for her, I didn't know how to be upset about him. She was gonna be devastated.
"No, I'm sorry. He didn't make it." She clenched her eyes shut. "Kimmie, I know it's a lot to handle right now but the state's gonna try and take you tomorrow so we gotta do everything we can not to let it happen."
"Daddy's dead?" I simply nodded my head. She burst into tears and I rubbed her forehead not too sure how to comfort her. "Can I have a minute?"
"Sure thing. I'm gonna go get some coffee." She didn't reply so I left without another word.
Kimmie's POV
Daddy is dead. Just like that. I cry and cry until I finally have no tears. I know he was awful but there's something about being an orphan that hurts so hard I can't help it.
Not only am I an orphan but I'll probably get put in some foster home. All that trouble just to get taken from Steve anyway. He's been gone real long and now I really want him to come back in. I don't want to waste another second we got together. Much to my argument though, the stress of my crying has my eyelids drooping and I can't help but fall right back to sleep.
Gave you the tiniest taste of Kimmie back haha. The story will most likely be told from her POV from here on out unless you guys like switching it up, let me know! & like I said, don't worry there just wasn't a random car accident for no reason I'm going somewhere with this. Thanks for reading, review for me please :]
