Chapter 11
Wishing you all a very happy new year ️
This is another lily one, seem to have based most of them on her lately as I'm struggling to think of ones for Rosie so if I have any ideas please let me know
Lily was sat in class, she'd had a really horrible day so far and she kept feeling like she was going to cry but when the other kids saw her they just started laughing.
It had all started a couple of days ago , when some of the other children that she usually played with wouldn't let her join in any of there games any more so she tried to join I'm with some of the others but they were all same, so she was left standing alone in the cold all of break time and at lunch time too.
Lily was really confused and upset by all of this as she really couldn't understand why all her friends were being like this all of a sudden especially when she couldn't think of anything she'd done that would have made them angry with her, and it was beginning to really upset her
They'd finished doing there work and as usual on a Friday the teacher let them have some extra free time.
Lily decided to go over and see if they would talk to her again now.
"Go away, we don't like you" one of the little girls said as soon as lily came over
"Why not?" Lily said starting to cry
"You lie, and you're really horrible"
"No I don't" lily said feeling really confused
"Yes you do, and you're weird because you don't even have a real mummy and my mummy says that's nso you are really weird and no one wants to talk to weird people "
Lily couldn't stand it any longer she hit her hard before pushing her back and causing her to bang her head really hard against the chair.
Lily's teacher saw this and while the classroom assistant sorted the girl out, she took lily outside
"How dare you behave like that in a classroom" she shouted "that could have been really serious, have you got any idea the amount of trouble you're in"
Lily started to cry when she heard this as she hated being in trouble and being shouted at scared her
"I'm sorry" she sobbed l
"Don't even think that even half covers it young lady, you're in serious trouble"
Lily started to cry even more hearing this
"And don't think turning the waterworks on is going to work either"
Lily's teacher was really shocked about all this, normally lily was so quiet and gentle and she'd never even think about being violent
"I want to go home" lily cried
The teacher actually thought this was a pretty good idea as lily was in in fit state to be in school
"Come with me" she ordered
Lily traipsed behind her feeling nervous
She led her to reception and told her to go in mrs James's office, this made lily really frightened as she knew people only ever got sent their if they'd been really bad.
Once Lily's teacher had explained what had happened, mrs James through lily a really stern look and told her to sit on a chair facing the wall.
Lily's teacher then went out into reception and gave Rachel a call to let her know what had happened, after quite a lot of discussion they decided it was best for Rachel to come and get her now.
After speaking to Rachel she went back into mrs James's office
"I've rang Rachel she's going to come and get her now"
"Did you say what happened?" Lily asked fear evident in her voice
"Well of course I did and I can tell you now she's as angry as we are lily"
Lily felt really scared, Rachel was the one person she hated being in trouble with, even if Rachel had just lightly ticked her off for something small it would still really upset her, so she dreaded to think about what she'd have to say about this.
She began to wish she hadn't ask to come home as she'd rather be at school with all the others than have to face Rachel now.
Mrs james sat in silence for a while before looking at lily and realising just how scared she was and did feel a little sorry for her
"Lily you can turn your chair round and face me now"
Lily didn't really want to but knew not to argue so turned round
"Mrs smith says this is really unlike you" she said "what happened"
"I hit her and pushed her back and she hit her head"
"Yes I know that, but what made you do it, to me you don't seem like the type of girl who'd do something like that out of the blue"
"I don't know why" lily lied as more tears fell and her stomach started to go all funny
Mrs jones sighed before getting her a tissue out of her box
"Wipe your face a bit, we can't have your mummy thinking we've tortured you"
Lily took this tissue and tried to wipe her tears up a bit
"She's not my mummy"
"Ah sorry, I remember now" she said
Lily stayed quiet until she heard a knock on the door, she knew it would be Rachel and she suddenly began to feel really sick.
Mrs James opened the door for Rachel and she walked straight in.
As soon as she looked at her,lily could tell Rachel really wasn't happy at all, in fact she couldn't remember seeing her looking so angry before.
"I am so sorry about all this" Rachel said
"It's fine, I know how unlike her it is"
"Well they'll never be a repeat that's for sure" Rachel said "get your stuff" she said to lily
Lily did as she was told
After Rachel had a quick chat with mrs james she left with lily
Lily waited for Rachel to start to shout but she didn't which made things even more scary
"I'm sorry" lily mumbled glancing up at Rachel
"Don't try saying your sorry, how could you do that to someone"
"I don't know"
"What do you mean you don't know? You have an idea about what's right and wrong don't you" Rachel asked but lily just stared at the ground
"Look at me while I'm talking to you" she said pulling her head towards her
Lily looked at Rachel but just couldn't get any words out and just continued to cry
"And you can stop that crying too it's not going to soften me up"
Lily tried hard to stop her crying, she was shocked at how Rachel was talking to her, she'd never ever spoken to her like this before
"Get in the car" Rachel said icily
Lily got in and Rachel strapped her in
Lily didn't say anything the whole way back and neither did Rachel, they both just sat in silence.
Eventually Rachel said "why did you do it?"
Lily didn't know what to say to this, she really didn't want to explain
"So there's no reason, you just felt like pushing someone back and hitting them"
Lily nodded her head
"You really are in serious trouble lily. You do realise I've had to come away from work because of this"
Lily couldn't get any words out at all, her mouth felt dry and horrible
As there was only 10 minutes left at school Rachel decided to just drive back home with lily.
When they got back they got out and went inside.
Lily waited in the hall not really sure what to do
"Go up to your room and don't even think about coming out"
Lily went up to her bedroom and laid on her bed, and sobbed,she grabbed her teddy and cried into it as this always did make her feel a little comforted.
She closed her eyes as all her crying had worn her out and within moments she was asleep.
Rachel waited about 20 minutes before going up to Lily's room, however when she went in she saw her fast asleep.
She hadn't the heart to wake her up and seeing her now cuddling up to her teddy looking no older than about 3 made her realise she'd handled it way too harshly, after all lily was sill a little kid and didn't deserve to be shouted at like she had, regardless of what she'd done.
Rachel sighed, lily was still in her school stuff so she gently tried to ease her out of them and get her changed into some pyjamas, she was surprised that she'd managed to do this without waking her.
Once she'd done this she chucked her school clothes in the wash before going back into her room and stroking Lily's hair, she knew she couldn't feel her but she felt like she had to soothe her when she looked so upset.
Rachel stayed like that for ages until eventually lily stirred, as soon as she did Rachel stopped as she wasn't prepared to let her get away with it that easily.
She couldn't help but feel bad, when lily opened her eyes and suddenly looked terrified when she saw Rachel next to her.
"Rachel" she whispered
"Yeah"
"I feel sick" lily said truthfully, when she woke up she really did feel terrible
"Lily pretending to be sick isn't going to get you out of trouble"
"I'm not pretending"
"I think you're enough bother already young lady without lying as well"
Lily decided not to say anything else
"Right downstairs with me, joes just got in and he knows all about it too"
Lily got out of bed and noticed she was in pyjamas
"Did you change me?"
"I needed to out your school uniform in the wash so yes I did"
When they were walking across the hallway lily said "Rachel I have to go to the toilet, please can I go"
"Yes go on, but then you come straight downstairs and I mean that"
Lily went inside and as soon as she did she felt really sick and dizzy. She went to the toilet, before leaning against the bath, as she felt poorly and was too scared to go down.
By now Rosie had come back home so joined Rachel and joe in the living room.
Rachel quickly told her what happened and Rosie was quite shocked
"But lily wouldn't do that"
"Well she did" Rachel said "where can she have got to, I'll go up and get her now, she won't want to come downstairs though"
"Rachel can I get her?" Rosie asked
Rachel nodded so Rosie went up
She knocked on the bathroom door
"Lil let me in" Rosie said
When she heard it was her sister lily got up and went to the door
Rosie felt like crying when she saw her sister looking so shaken up.
She took her to the nearest spare room and put her on her knee
It felt nice for lily to have someone being kind to her after the horrible day she'd had and not shout at her.
"Are you mad with me too Rosie"
"Not mad, but what were you thinking lily"
"I don't know"
Lily stayed crying into Rosie for a few minutes before Rosie sat her up
"Go and see Rachel and joe now"
"I can't they'll shout"
"Yeah they probably will, you must know you've been naughty, but they won't hurt you will they?"
Lily shrugged her shoulders
"Lil you know neither of them would ever touch you, just let them get it out their system then come and see me, you'll be fine"
Reluctantly lily got up and went down into the living room.
She felt really dizzy when she saw them both staring at her when she walked in and sat down
"Lily Rachel told me what happened" joe said "you must have known why it was wrong"
"I'm really really sorry"
"Lily but saying sorry doesn't change what's happened does it"
Lily shook her head
They both tried talking to her for a while though neither of them were really shouting but it was obvious lily was too frightened to say anything so they decided to leave it.
"Go on then lily, back to your room" Rachel sighed
Lily went back upstairs and stayed in bed till about 6 when Rachel came up
She gently stirred her awake again
"Do you want some tea"
"No"
"Look I know you think everyone's mad with you and you're in lots of trouble, and I guess in some ways that's true, but you do need to eat"
"I'm not hungry"
"Are you sure, you didn't eat any of your lunch either I checked in your bag"
Lily turned away from Rachel but she could hear her sobbing again
"Come on, come and have some diner I promise no one will say anything about it over diner"
"I'm okay"
Rachel sighed but realised that she couldn't exactly force her to eat
"Right, I'll be up to do your bath shortly"
Once they'd had tea Rachel ran Lily's bath and shouted her through"
Lily got out of bed and went into the bathroom.
Rachel took her pyjamas off for her and got her in
"Look lily, I'm sorry for shouting so much earlier it was wrong of me okay"
Lily didn't say anything just stared in the bath
"You can talk to me or joe even if you are in trouble if you're worried you know"
"I know"
Rachel finished washing her before getting her out and back into some pyjamas before getting her sorted for bed
"Oh lily please don't be so frightened of me" Rachel begged as she out the covers over lily
"Okay" lily mumbled
"Do you want a story before bed, or a drink of warm milk or something" Rachel asked as she really did feel terrible sending her to bed in this state
"No thank you"
Rachel sighed before giving her a soft kiss on the cheek and turning out the light.
At about 11 lily woke up again she had a really bad tummy ache now, normally she would have gone and asked Rachel for some medicine but she was too scared so she got out of bed and went downstairs realising she'd have to find it herself.
She tried jumping up to reach the handle of the medicine cupboard but she couldn't so she dragged a chair and climbed up herself.
She couldn't read properly yet but she recognised the calpol bottle and somehow managed to undo the childproof lock on it, it was nearly a full bottle she put it to her lips and had few sips, it tasted really nice to her and whenever Rachel gave it to her she'd always beg her for more, but this time nothing was stopping her so she finished up having about 3/4 of the bottle.
Lily then went back to bed and went to sleep straight away.
She woke again in a few hours but this time her stomach really was terrible and she could barely walk.
She staggered across to Rachel's room as tears ran down her face.
She felt scared of her still but didn't know what else to do.
She shook her hoping she'd wake up
Rachel woke with a start and jumped when she saw lily next to her.
"Lily?" Rachel said gently "what you doing in here?"
Lily stood there crying and shivering unable to respond, a few moments later she was sick all over Rachel's bed
Rachel quickly flicked the light on and saw how pale and sweaty she was
"Oh my god, lily what's wrong, where does it hurt"
"My tummy and I feel sick and horrible and I'm cold" lily sobbed
"Joe wake up" Rachel shouted
Joe quickly woke up and saw what was going on
"Lily is this because you've got yourself all worked up" Rachel asked
"No, I just feel really poorly" lily cried
Rachel put her hand to Lily's forehead
"Oh joe she's burning up"
"Let's get her downstairs, it's cooler"
Rachel lifted lily up in her arms and carried her down
"Joe get some calpol"
Joe went in the medicine cupboard and got the bottle out but then realised it was basically empty
"Is there another bottle, it's empty"
"It can't be I bought it just last week and she hadn't been sick since then" Rachel said, she then walked over to joe and saw that it was empty
"I had some earlier. I was too scared to get you so I got it myself"
"Bloody hell" Rachel whispered "did you drink the whole bottle, you didn't spill any"
"Yes"
"We need to get her to hospital and quickly" joe said
"You stay, I'll take her down" Rachel said
Before long she had lily in the car and they were driving off
"Oh lily" Rachel sighed "why on earth didn't you get me to get the medicine for you"
"I was scared" lily sobbed "am I going to die"
"No sweetheart, but medicine can be very very dangerous if you have too much that's why you must always get me"
"I thought you were mad with me"
"Darling do you really think I have it in me to actually stay mad at you, even if I'm acting it" Rachel Said "let's concentrate on getting you better"
They were getting pretty close to the hospital when lily suddenly started feeling really bad
"I feel like I'm going to be sick"she said
Rachel had brought a lot of bags with her in case this happened so quickly passed her one and she started being sick.
Once they were at the hospital she quickly got rid of it and lifted lily inside
Once they'd signed In they sat down
She sat on Rachel's knee and Rachel gave her a big cuddle
"Rachel I think I have to go to the toilet"
"Come on then let's go" she carried her out and took her to the nearest ones
She took her inside the cubicle
"Can you go out?" Lily asked
Rachel didn't really want to leave her when she was so poorly in case she collapsed or something but knew what lily was like and she'd Be really embarrassed with her their especially if she did have an upset stomach
A couple of minutes later lily came out looking really pale, once she'd washed her hands they sat back down in the waiting room.
Lily stayed on Rachel's knee, after earlier it felt so nice just snuggling into her and feeling safe
Eventually they were called through.
After Rachel explained what had happened and Lily's symptoms they decided to admit her on the wards and put her on observation while she was on a drip.
Rachel had packed some stuff for her and lily in case she was admitted so as soon as they got shown to the ward, and lily was on her drip Rachel got herself and lily changed into pyjamas
"Rachel I'm scared" lily whispered "there's loads of other children in here"
"I know darling there all poorly too, there's no need to be frightened my love I'm right here"
After a while lily drifted off to sleep, though it took Rachel ages to drop off and been when she did she had an awful nights sleep as she kept waking up
By the time morning came lily was feeling a lot better and when the doctor did his round she eventually decided to discharge her, though they were told to bring her straight back if she showed any symptoms again.
Both Rachel and lily were very relieved to be allowed to go home again.
Once they were In the car they started driving back home
"Love the last thing I want to do is give you a lecture after everything, but I really need you to understand why having the medicine was so dangerous"
"I do"
"And you promise me you'll never even touch any of the stuff in my medicine cupboard, without me being there"
"I promise"
"Though I do know I'm partly to blame for last night, I really am sorry for being so horrid to you, I wasn't fair in you at all was I"
"I am sorry for it"
"I know you are love" Rachel sighed
They'd been driving a little while when Rachel decided now might be a good opportunity to have a little chat to lily about yesterday while it was just the two of them
"So do you think you're maybe ready to say why you did what you did yesterday"
Lily shook her head and started crying again
"Oh love I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you, I just want to help that's all"
"They were all being so horrible to me" lily cried "they said I was weird because I don't have a real mummy and no one wanted to sit with me anymore so I was all by myself and they're never going to be friends with me ever again" lily sobbed
After she'd heard lily say this Rachel pulled in as soon as she could and put lily on her knee
She rocked her for a while and tried to soothe her
"Did your teacher see what was going on"
"No she just saw me hit her and then she got really angry"
"Well you see lily, if you'd told me or your teacher all this yesterday, do you think we'd have still been so angry with you"
"I don't know"
"Well obviously we'd have still been a bit angry, because by now you're a big girl so you're old enough to know what's right and what's wrong" Rachel said "and I think you're well aware that hitting people is wrong no matter how badly you were provoked"
"I know"
"But what they did to you was also completely unacceptable, and they should know that"
Lily snuggled into Rachel properly and suddenly started to feel a bit more relaxed
"So on Monday I'm going to have a few words okay, make sure everyone knows exactly what's been going on, I don't think it's fair you get all the blame for what's happened when it never would have happened without them provoking you"
"Thanks Rachel"
"That's alright darling" she said before giving her a gentle kiss on the forehead "how are you feeling have you got any pain"
"No"
"Good, you must tell me of you do though"
"I will"
"And remember me and joe and Rosie, we all love you lots and lots lily"
"I love you too" lily mumbled
"Even if we shout and get angry, you must remember it doesn't mean we love you any less and chances are we're not going to stay angry for very long"
Lily snuggled into her for a bit longer before getting back into her seat, so they d I've back.
Please review, I would really appreciate some ideas especially some stories I could do for Rosie xxxxxxxx