Chapter twelve: Changes
On Monday, October 13, 2008, Miley alarm clock start beeping at five-forty in the morning, Miley wakes up right away and turns the alarm clock off, she then tosses the bedspread off and sits up in bed. Miley looks down at the gray Donjoy Tri-Panel Immobilizer on her right leg and thinks to herself I can believe that it been nine full days and ten nights since I hurt my knee, Miley grabs the prescription bottle of Ampicillin 500 mg capsules off the nightstand and open up the bottle and take the second to last pills out of the bottle. Miley puts the pill into her mouth and closes the prescription bottle. She then picks up the bottle of water off of the nightstands and take a drink. Miley grabs her purse off the floor and put the prescription bottle of Ampicillin 500 mg capsules into her purse, so she can take her last dose of Ampicillin at lunch or hopes that it her last dose, but that depends on what her family doctor says at her doctors' appointment at three-thirty this afternoon. Because she still has a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing, a sore throat, coughing up greenish mucus, hardly has a voice and a fever on and off, but no longer has a runny nose or nasal congestion. Miley's toss her purse back on the floor and starts thinking I will get to find out when I am going to be having surgery on my knee when I see the orthopedic Rosenberg at five o'clock tonight. At the same time Miley starts coughing and pulls a tissue out of the box that is sitting on the nightstand, Miley covers her mouth with the tissues and cough up a small amount of greenish mucus. A few moments later Miley tosses the use tissues into her bedroom trash can and look down at the pair of pink pajama shorts and pink nightshirt that she is wearing and then lay down in bed, wishes that she could stay in bed all day and sleep. For two reasons the first being the injury right knee is killing her and the second is still feeling under the weather. Miley looks over at Lilly who is asleep on the sofa in front of her bedroom window and sees that Lilly kick the blanket off during the night and notices that the purple tank top that Lilly's wear to bed last night is really tight around the breast and its showing off more cleavage then it used to and Miley also notices that oversize white pajama pants are fitting tight then normally too. Miley grabs a square decorative pillow off of her bed and toss the pillow across the room at Lilly and the pillow hits her best friend in the face. Lilly jumps up and looks around the room and then sees the square decorative pillow laying on the floor and notice that Miley is awake. Lilly lay down on the sofa and warp her arms around her stomach, then start crying.
"Why did you throw a pillow at me?"
"Because it is time to get up Lilly!"
"I just want to lie in bed and sleep, I had a rough night, the bean soup we had for dinner last night did not agree with my stomach and I was in and out of the bathroom throwing up most of the night."
"You started having morning sickness?"
"I think so, but I do not know why its called morning sickness, when it can happen at anytime of the day."
Lilly belch and then rolls over, so she is looking toward the window and her back is to Miley. Lilly shuts her eyes hoping that the nauseous will pass, because if it doesn't pass it will be a very long school day. At the same time Miley sits up and then puts her legs over the edge of the bed. Miley stands up from the bed putting all her weight on her left leg, then grabs the lavender underarm crutches off the floor by the bed. Miley puts the crutches under her underarms and then heads over to the sofa that Lilly is laying on, which is in front of the window that on the left-hand side of the bedroom if standing in the bedroom door.
Once Miley reaches the sofa, she looks at Lilly and at the same time leans on the crutches. There is a knock on Miley's bedroom door. Miley knows from the sound of the knock that it is her dad knocking on the bedroom door.
"Miley and Lilly get up and come downstair to have breakfast."
"Ahem we will be downstairs shortly dad."
Miley and Lilly hear Robby walk away from the bedroom door and walk up to Jackson's bedroom door and start knocking on Jackson's bedroom door. At the same time Lilly sits up on the sofa and puts her leg down, then leans back against the back of the sofa. Lilly looks up at her best friend and gives her a sad look. Miley sits down on the sofa next to her best friend and Lilly lays her head on Miley's right shoulder.
"Miley does your dad know that I am pregnant because I have not told him, but I do not know if he over heard me talking to Oliver about being pregnant on October fifth or know the reason that I had to leave school during the middle of the day because of an appointment with an obgyn last week on Friday?"
"He knows Lilly, your mother called and told my dad on October eight, he is just wanting for you to bring the pregnancy up to him."
"Let go get breakfast over with Miley, so I have some time before we have to leave for school to rest and let my stomach settle down, because I can already can tell you that I'm going to be nauseous after eating because I am nauseous right now."
"I am really hunger let go coughing."
"It's good that you have an appetite again Miley. You must be feeling better?"
"I feel a little better coughing."
Miley covers her mouth with her left hand and turns her head away from Lilly, so not to spread her germs to Lilly. A minute later Miley stops coughing and Lilly and Miley stand up from the sofa, then Miley put her crutches under her underarms and the two teenagers walk over to the bedroom door. Lilly open up the door and then Miley and Lilly leaves the bedroom and as the two of them are walking toward the stairs they hear Jackson stumblers around in his bedroom and sniffling really loudly. Miley goes down the stairs first and Lily walks behind her and at the same time Jackson walks into the bathroom that he shares with his sister. He grabs a handful of tissues from the box of tissues that is set on the side table that is on the right side of the pedestal sinks if standing beside the clawfoot tub that has the shower kit attached to it and in front of the sink. The toilet is across from the sink if looking into the mirror that is above the sink and your back is to the toilet. He puts all but one of the tissue in the right pocket of his pajama pant, but leave one tissue in his hands and start sneezes into the tissue. Meanwhile, Lilly and Miley are walking over to the kitchen table and the two of them see bowls, spoons and a milk jug on the table and Miley and Lilly notices that Miley's dad is all ready dress and is wearing a pair of light blue jeans, a red long sleeve dress shirt and his light brown cowboy boots. Miley sits down on the chair that is at the center of the round table and her back is to the hallway to the downstairs bathroom and the staircase to the second floor. Lilly sits down on the chair next to Miley and is looking at the back door of the house. Mr. Stewart set his daughter crutches up against the kitchen island and then goes and grabs the boxes of cereal and then Robby sets the cereal boxes on the center of the kitchen table.
"How are you feeling this morning Miley?"
"Ahem better then I have been, but I still get a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing, a sore throat, coughing up greenish mucus and hardly get a voice, coughing (into her left hand), but I no longer have a runny nose or nasal congestion. I am not sure if I am running a fever this morning because I have not taken my temperature."
Robby walks up to his daughter and put his left hand onto Miley's forehead, which does not feel warm but is a little clammy. At the same time Lilly belch a few times and then lean back in the chair, thinking I hope I can make it through breakfast without getting sick to my stomach and Robby takes his hand off Miley's forehead and gives her a small smile.
"It does not feel like you are running a fever, but your forehead is still a little clammy."
"Ahem do I still have to go sees the family doctor after school today Dad, coughing?"
"Yes, I do not like the fact that you still have a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing, a sore throat, coughing up greenish mucus and barely have a voice. In addition I do not like the fact that you keep running a fever and the longest you have been fever free is a couple hours at a time!"
"Fine I will go to see the family coughing doctor after school."
Miley stop talking to her dad, because she needs to rest her voice and has starts coughing again. Lilly stands up from the chair and walks over to the coffee table and grabs the box of tissue off of the coffee table. Lilly then carries the box of tissues over to the kitchen table and sits down at the table. Lilly set the box of tissue in front of Miley on the table. Miley pulls a tissue out of the box of tissues, then cover her mouth with the tissue and start coughing up mucus into the tissues. A minute later Miley picks up the box of cornflakes and opens up the box. Miley then pours some cornflakes into a bowl and a few moments later Lilly takes the open box of cornflakes from Miley and pours some into her bowl. At the same time Mr. Stewart walks over to the staircase and start yelling up the stairs.
"Jackson's get up and come downstairs for breakfast it's a school day."
Mr. Stewart walks over to the kitchen table and sits down on the chair across from Miley and gets himself a bowl of cornflakes. A minute later Jackson comes into the kitchen and living room wearing his blue pajama pants and a blue oversized T-shirt and blowing his nose into a tissue. Jackson walks up to the kitchen table and sits down on the chair across from Lilly. Jackson then lays his head on the kitchen table and shuts his eyes. Lilly, Miley and Robby stop eating their cereals and look at Jackson, Robby puts his left hand on Jackson's forehead, which does not feel warm, but is a little clammy.
At the same time Miley goes back to eating her cereal and Lilly start moving the spoon around in the bowl and warps her left arm around her stomach, because eating breakfast is making her stomach very upset. At the same time Jackson lifts his dad hand off his forehand and then sits up and starts sneezes into his hands, Robby pulls a tissue out of the tissue's box and hand the tissues to his son. Jackson takes the tissues and blow his nose into the tissue.
"Jackson what do you want for breakfast?"
"I'm not hunger dad, can I go back ah-choo to bed?"
"No it is a school day Jackson!"
"I think that I caught the flu bug or that ah-choo head cold that is going around the school and I feel awful."
"You do not have a fever Jackson and you are going to go to school because you have to save you excuse absent for when you are running a fever, throwing up or are really sick and can't get out of bed or there is a family emergency! Now what do you want to eat?"
"I guess that I will have a bowl of ah-choo rice krispies cereal."
"(Miley and Lilly) Bless you Jackson."
"Sniffling thanks."
Mr. Stewart pours his son a bowl of rice krispies cereal, then pour some milk into the bowl and Robby set the bowl in front of Jackson. Jackson's pick up his spoon and start to eat his cereal. A few minutes later Lilly stands up from the chair and pick up her bowl and spoon from the table. Lilly then takes her almost full bowl of cereal over to the trash can and throw out the left over cereal. Lilly then walks over to the staircase and heads upstairs to Miley's bedroom to get ready for school.
Once in Miley's bedroom Lilly start going through her duffer bag to find what she wants to wear to school, Lilly pulls out a clean pair of underwear, a bra, a pair of white socks, her favorite pair of lite blue jeans that have holes in the knees, an orange spaghetti strip tank tap and a white zip hoodie jacket, which has orange circles all over the whole hoodie jacket. Lilly throws the clothing onto Miley's bed and a few minutes later Lilly is laying on Miley's bed trying to get the jeans to zips up, but they won't zip and that makes her start crying. At the same time Miley comes into her bedroom and shut the door behind her.
"Miley will you grab my light denim jean skirt for me, because I can't get my jeans to zip up?"
"Sure."
Miley goes over to Lilly's duffer bag and grabs the light denim jean skirt out of the bag and toss the skirt at her best friend, Lilly caught her light denim jean skirt and then stands up from Miley's bed, at the same time Miley using her crutches hops over to her closet. Miley open up the door of the closet and grab a pair of white pants that have baggy legs and will fit over the Donjoy Tri-Panel Immobilizer and a lite blue short sleeve shirt that has a scoop neckline. A few minutes later both Miley and Lilly are dress and are in the bathroom finish getting ready for school, Lilly's has brushed her teeth already and is putting her hair into a ponytail. Miley has already French braid her hair and is now brushing her teeth. At the same time Jackson walks into the bathroom and grabs his toothbrush and toothpaste and a few moments later he is brushing teeth and trying not to sneezes. Once Lilly has her hair up in a ponytail, she walks out of the bathroom and goes into Miley's bedroom. Lilly walks over to the sofa and sits down on the sofa, wishing that her stomach was not upset, Lilly wraps her arms around her stomach and is fighting the urge to throw up. A few minutes later Miley walks into her bedroom and looks at her best friend and can tell that Lilly stomach is really bothering her.
"Jackson say if we want a ride to school, we have to be standing outside by coughing his car in ten minutes."
"Ok belches."
"Lilly that burp smells awful!."
"If it makes you feel better, it was one of these burps that you could taste what you just eat and it did not taste good either."
"No, it does not make me feel better. Let getting going with the mood Jackson in today he might leave without us if will are not outside when he gets out to his car."
"Ok."
Lilly stands up and grabs her backpack and Miley backpack off of the floor. Lilly also grabs her and Miley's purses off the floor and then Miley and Lilly walks over to the bedroom door and leaves Miley's bedroom. A few minutes later Miley and Lily walk into the kitchen/living room and start walking toward the front door and Robby walk up to the two of them.
"Miley's do you remember the celebrity dating auctions you agreed to take part in as Hannah Montana?"
"Yes and it's not this week or this weekend."
"No it is next Friday night on October 24, but you have a dress fitting for the event tomorrow after school and so do your Lilly."
"(Miley and Lilly) ok that should be fun, I love getting new clothing."
"Have a great day at school Miley and Lilly bye."
"(Lilly and Miley) Bye."
Lilly opens up the front door and then Lilly and Miley walks out of the house, Robby shuts the front door of the house once Miley is outside. At the same time Miley and Lilly start walking toward Jackson's car and see he is already sitting in the car waiting for them.
A few minutes later Jackson is driving to the Seaview high school. Miley is sitting on the front passenger seat of Jackson's car and resting her head against the car window, wishing that she was feeling better and that her right knee would stop hurting. Lilly is sitting on the backseat of Jackson's car and is fighting the urge to throw up and is thinking to herself I hope that I can make it through the ride to school without throwing up in Jackson's car. Five minute later Jackson pulls his car into the third parking space in the first row of student parking and once Jackson's has put his car into the park position Lilly open up the car door and grabs her backpack and purse then jumps out of the car and runs toward the school doors. Miley slower gets out of her brothers' car and start to hop on her left leg toward the back of the car to get her crutches, but Jackson walks around to the passenger side of the car and grabs the lavender underarm crutches, purse and backpack out of the back of his car for his sister. Jackson then hands Miley her backpack and purse and Miley puts her purse into her backpack and a few moment's later puts the backpack onto her back and then Jackson hand Miley the crutches. Miley puts the crutches under her underarms and then looks at Jackson who is grabbing his backpack off the backseat.
"Thank you for getting my backpack, purse and crutches out of the car for me."
"Ah-choo you are welcome Miley, do you have any cough drop with ah-choo you my throat has starts to hurt?"
"Yes in the front pocket of my backpack Jackson's!"
Jackson unzips the front pocket of his sisters' backpack and grabs a handful of cough drops out and then puts all, but one of the cough drops into the front pocket of his backpack. Jackson zip up the front pocket of his and Miley backpack and then closes the cars doors and lock up his car.
A minute later Jackson and Miley start walking up to the school and Jackson put a cough drop into his mouth. Miley and Jackson are half way to the doors of the school when Jackson start sneezes and Miley start coughing and she has to stop walking. Miley pulls a travel pack of tissues out of her right pant pocket and open up the pack, then hold the pack out and Jackson grabs a couple tissues from the travel pack of tissues and then Miley pulls a tissue out of the travel pack. Miley covers her mouth with the tissues and starts coughing up mucus and Jackson covers his mouth and nose with one of the tissue and sneezes into the tissues, a few minutes later Jackson and Miley start walking toward the high school.
"Sniffling your cough still sound awful ah-choo."
"Ahem I know that Jackson, I can't seem to shake the cough. How are you feeling, because it looks like you do not feel well?"
"I can't stop sneezes, have a sore throat and I am really tired, but dad right I have to save my excuse absents for when ah-choo I am too sick to go to school or there is a family emergency Ah. Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah-choo!"
Miley and Jackson stop talking and when they get into the school Jackson hands to his locker, at the same time Miley sees Oliver sitting on the bench outside of the girl's restroom that is at the front of the school and Oliver is wearing a pair of dark blue jean and a white long sleeve shirt with a green short sleeve polo shirt over the long sleeve shirt and he is coughing into his right elbow. Miley heads over to the bench and sits down on the bench on Oliver's left-hand side.
"Good to see you are back in school Oliver, how are you feeling?"
"A lot better Miley, my fever break Friday night and then I started to feel better. When I wake up on Saturday my runny nose and nasal congestion was gone, but I still have a cough and a sore throat, but I used all my excuse absents so I coughing had to come back to school today. How are you feeling Miley because you look like you are in a lot of pain and you are still a little pale, hardly have a voice and it also sound like you have a sore throat?"
"My right knee is killing me and I am still feeling under the weather because of a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing, a sore throat, coughing up greenish mucus coughing (into left hand) and as you say I hardly have a voice, but no longer have a runny nose or nasal congestion. But I have been running a fever on and off the last few days, but my dad says that I was not runny a fever this morning. Have you seen Lilly?"
"She ran into the school and right into the girl's restroom with her left hand over her mouth and has not come out of the restroom yet. Miley is Jackson sick, because he seems to be sneezing a lot when he walked past me and he looks a little pale?"
"He thinks that he caught the flu or the head cold that going around because he can't stop sneezes, has a sore throat and is really tired, but he does not have a fever so dad made him come to school."
"Sounds like Jackson's is coming down with that head cold that is going around the school."
At the same time Lilly walks out of the restroom with her backpack and purse on her left shoulder and walk over to Miley and Olive with her arms wrapped around her stomach. She sits down on the bench on Oliver's right-hand side and lays her head down on his shoulder, then shuts her eyes. Oliver puts his right arm around his girlfriend shoulders. At the same time Miley looks over at her two best friends and know that they life have changes forever.
"Ahem Lilly and Oliver I am going to head to the history classroom. I will see the two of you when you get to class."
"(Lilly and Oliver) that fine sees you in a few minutes and try not to talk today, you need to get your voice back."
"Ahem I'll try."
Miley stands up and puts her crutches under her underarms and then start to walk down the hall with the aid of the crutches and not putting any weight on her right leg. Lilly and Oliver watch Miley until she is out of sight and then Lilly set her backpack and purse on the floor and lay down on the bench and rest her head on Oliver's lap.
"Ahem Lilly how are you coughing (into his left elbow) feeling this morning?"
"I felt awful since I eat bean soup for dinner last night, I spent most of the night in the bathroom throwing up and when I get to school I threw up the six spoonfuls of cereal I eat for breakfast. How are you feeling Oliver?"
"I have started to feel better, my fever break Friday night then I started to feel better and when I wake up on Saturday my runny nose and nasal congestion was gone, but I still have a cough and a sore throat, but I used all my excuse absents so I had to come back to school today. That not good that you can't keep anything down, did you catch the stomach flu Lilly?"
"(Whisper so only Oliver can hear her) no I have morning sickness."
"Oh, sorry."
"It's not your fault."
"(Whisper so only Lilly his him) It is my fault Lilly, you would not be with children if we did not have intercourse."
"(Whisper so only Oliver can hear her) It is both of belch faults and the unborn baby fault too."
Lilly hops off the bench cover her mouth with her left hand and runs into the girl's restroom. At the same time Oliver pulls a cough drop out of his left jean pocket. He unwraps the cough drop and puts the cough drop into his mouth. Lilly walks out of the girl's restroom right as the bell to tell them to head to first hour start ringing. Lilly walks over to the bench Oliver's sitting on and grabs her purse and backpack off the floor. Oliver stands up from the bench and puts his right arm around Lilly's waist. Lilly lays her head on Oliver shoulder and then the two of them start walking down the hallway and toward the history classroom.
Meanwhile in the history classroom Miley has got out her history textbook and notebook and has already starts to take down the notes that are on the classroom chalkboards. Lilly and Oliver walk into the history classroom with a minute to go before class starts. Oliver sits down at the desk on Miley right-hand side and Lily sits down at the desk on Miley's left-hand side and at the same time Mrs. Web walks into the classroom and walks up to the front of the classroom. Miley looks up from taking down the notes on chapter seven Manifest destiny 1820-1848 and chapter eight sectional conflict intensifies 1848-1861 and sees that Mrs. Web has cut off her long blonde hair over the weekend and now has a short bob cut and is wearing a pair of black dress pants and a white long sleeve blouse.
"Class takes down the notes for chapter seven and eight that are on the chalkboards and once you have finished writing starts to read chapter seven. Oliver Oken came up to my desk so I can get you caught up on what the class has been during."
Oliver stands up and walks up to the front of the classroom and the teachers' desk and sees a pile of papers that has a post it note on top of it with his name on it. Mrs. Web start going over the notes and assignments' he miss when he was out sick last week. At the same time Miley looks over at Lilly who has laid her head down on the desk and shut her eyes. Miley lean toward Lilly and starts whispers into Lilly's ear.
"Lilly you need to sit up and start to write down the notes."
"Gagging, when the nausea passes in a few minutes gagging I will start taking the notes."
Miley goes back to taking the notes, but after a few minutes she starts coughing. Miley stops writing and pulls a couple tissues out off the travel pack of tissues that is setting on the desk, then Miley covers her mouth with the tissues. At the same time Oliver walks to the back of the classroom and Oliver sits down at the desk that he sits at and set the pile of class handouts and worksheets onto his desk. Oliver then he looks over at Miley and Lilly and notices that Lilly has starts to take down the notes, but has a green hue to her skin tone and can hear Miley coughing up mucus into the tissues that is cover her mouth. Oliver stops looking at his girlfriend and Miley and starts to take down the notes that are on the chalkboards.
When first hours ends Lilly, Miley and Oliver say bye to each other and go to they second hour class. When Miley gets to music class she sits down on the second chair in the back row of chairs, then lean back in the chair and shuts her eyes. Miley puts her right hand onto her forehead, which feels clammy to the touch and at the same time Ashley and Amber who are both wearing black jean skirts and pink tank top sits down on the chairs in front of Miley. Amber and Ashley turn in there sits and looks at Miley and start laughing.
"Ahem what so funny Amber and Ashley?"
"(Amber and Ashley) The way you are sitting leaning back in the chair with your eyes shut, hand on your forehead and right leg straight and unable too bent."
"Coughing, I do not feel well leave me alone."
"(Amber and Ashley) If you are sick, you should have stays at home, because none of us what to catches what you have!"
The music teacher walks into the classroom and Amber and Ashley turns so they are facing the front of the classroom. At the same time in the Audio Engineering classroom Oliver is already busy working on the class assignments that he misses when out sick last week.
Meanwhile, in the Health classroom Lilly who is sitting at the desk in front of the classroom door that is at the back of the classroom and Lilly has open up her textbook to chapter five: Preventing Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pairing, Commitment and then Marriage and Family Life, which is the chapter the class is going to start reading and working on when the class start. Lilly start reading the first unit of the chapter, which is Preventing Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases and after reading a few sentence Lilly starts feeling nauseous again and stand up and runs out of the classroom and across the hall to the girl's restroom. Lilly walks back into the classroom as the bell for second hour to start rings. Lilly sits down at her desk and at the same time the teacher Mr. Wolf start passes out packages of worksheets for the chapter to the class, when Mr. Wolf walks up to Lilly he notices that she is lean back is the seat and has her arms wrapped around her stomach and look pale. He set the package of worksheets down on the desk, but does not walk to the next row of desk, but taps Lilly on her left shoulder. Lilly looks up at Mr. Wolf who is six feet tall, with dark-brown hair that has starts to thin out and dark brown eyes. Lilly gives the teacher a little smile and then looks at the packages of worksheets that is on her desk.
"Lilly Truscott's are you feeling all right, because you holding your stomach and look pale?"
"Yeah I feel fine Mr. Wolf gagging."
"Are you sure because it sounds like you are going to be sick?"
"Yeah I am fine."
"All right, but if you start feeling bad and want to go see the nurse just raise your hand and let me know."
"All right, but I won't need to go see the nurse."
Mr. Wolf goes back to passes out the packages of worksheets to the students and Lilly goes back to reading the chapter and working on the worksheets as she reads the chapter, despite feeling like she might throw up at any second.
At the same time Jackson is sitting in twelfth grade English class trying to pay attention to Mrs. Johnson who is lecturing about metaphors, but he is having a hard time pay attention because he keeps sneezes and his throat is really sore. Second hour goes by very slowly for Miley, Lilly and Jackson, but goes by to fast for Oliver who is really enjoy doing the make up assailments for the classes he missed last week. When the bell for second hour to end rings Jackson heads to U.S. Government class and at the same time Oliver, Miley and Lilly head to English class.
Miley and Lilly get to Mrs. Johnson's classroom at the same time and Lilly is eating a nutri-grain cereal bar and drinking a bottle of twelve oz apple juices. Lilly sits down at the desk right in front of the classroom door that is at the back of the classroom and Miley sits down at the desk on Lilly's right-hand side. A few moments later Oliver walks into the classroom and sits down at the desk on Lilly's left-hand side. Oliver sets his backpack on the floor and then looks over at Lilly who just put the last bite of the nutri-grain cereal bar into her mouth and Lilly is throwing the breakfast bar wrapper into the classroom trash can. Oliver lean forward and tap his girlfriend on the shoulder.
"I take it that your stomach is feeling better since you just eat a cereal bar and are drinking apple juice?"
"No, my stomach is still upset, but I was feeling shaking and it felt like my blood sugar was dropping so I went to the vending machines and get something to eat and drink before coming to class."
Lilly's pick up the bottle of apple juice and finish drinking it and then tosses the empty bottle into the trash can and at the same time the bell for class to start rings and Rico runs into the classroom and up to the front of the classroom and sit down at the desk right in front of the teachers' desk. Mrs. Johnson's stands up and then walks to the front of her desk and tap the desk to get the class attention everyone in the class look up at Mrs. Jackson, beside Henrietta Laverne (a.k.a. The Cracker) who has her head down on her desk and has been coughing and sneezes all morning. Henrietta raises her right hand in the air and at the same time puts her left hand on her forehead.
"What do you need Henrietta Laverne?"
"Ah-choo I can stop sneezes or coughing and I think that I am running a fever can I go see the school nurse?"
"Sure, I will write you a pass to go see the school nurse and I want the rest of the class to get out your William Shakespeare books and spend the class time reading."
Mrs. Jackson walks behind her desk and sits down on her desk chair, then start writing out a pass to the nurse office for Henrietta Laverne. At the same time Henrietta stands up from her desk chair and grabs her backpack and walks up to the teachers' desk coughing into her right hand and Henrietta's still has her left hand on her forehead. When Henrietta reaches the teachers' desk, she grabs a tissue out of the box of tissues on the teachers' desk and start blowing her nose. Mrs. Jackson hand Henrietta the pass to the nurse and then Henrietta walks to the classroom door and out of the classroom without give a mean looks at Rico, Miley, Lilley and Oliver who she normally bullies. Once the door of the classroom shut Miley lean toward Lily and start whispers into her best friend ear.
"Henrietta must really feel bad, because she was not mean to us on the way out of class or all morning."
"She looks unwell gagging too."
Lilly stands up and runs over to the trash can by the door and starts throwing up into the trash can. Mrs. Jackson looks up from grading papers and sees Lilly hold the trash can and walking over up to the desk she sits at. Lilly sits down at her desk and then lean over the trash can and start throwing up again. Mrs. Jackson stands up from her desk chair and grabs a pen and the pad of nurse passes and walks to the back off the classroom and over to Lilly. At the same time Lilly stops throwing up and set the trash can on the floor by her desk and then leans back in her seat and shut her eyes. Mrs. Jackson reaches Lilly desk and tap the top of the desk to get Lilly attention, Lilly open up her eyes and looks at the teacher.
"Lilly Truscott's I am writing you a pass to go see the school nurse, because you can't be in school if you are vomiting.
"I do not need to see the nurse. I am not sick."
"You just vomit into the classroom trash can twice."
"I'm fine now I think that apple juice was bad, I will be able to make through the rest of class without throwing up."
"You are going to see the school nurse, if the nurse says you can come back to class and gives you a note for me that say you can be in class then I will let you back into class."
"Ok Mrs. Jackson."
Mrs. Jackson writes a pass and quick note on the pass to the school nurse and then hands the pass to Lilly. Lilly stands up from her desk chair, at the same time grabs her backpack and purse and then walks over to the classroom door with her left arm warp around her stomach. Lilly opens the classroom door and then walks out of the classroom. Once in the hallway Lilly sees Jackson walking down the hall with his backpack on his left shoulder and blowing his nose into a tissue. Jackson walks up beside Lilly and gives her a worried look when he sees that Lilly has her backpack, purse and a nurse pass in her hands.
"Where are you going Jackson?"
"Mr. Smith the U.S. Government teacher is sending ah-choo me to the school nurse and why are you out of class Lilly?"
"I throw up into the classroom trash can twice."
"That not good, Lilly you should have told my dad that your stomach was ah-choo bothering you this morning and he would have let you ah-choo stay home and rest."
"I'm pregnant Jackson and have morning sickness staying home and resting or going to see the nurse is not going to help me and there is nothing the nurse can do for me."
Lilly and Jackson stop talking and Lilly puts her left hand over her mouth and runs into the girl's restroom, Jackson continues to walk down the hallway and to the nurse office, hope the nurse will let home go home sick.
Ten minutes later Lilly walks into the nurse office and see the nurse taking Jackson temperature and Henrietta Laverne laying on the recovered couch sleeping. Lilly walks up to the nurse and hands her the pass and Lilly also pull a note from her obgyn out of her purse and hand that to the school nurse too. Lilly then goes and sits down on a chair by the door to wait her turn. A few minutes later Jackson leaves the nurse office to go back to class because he does not have a fever and the nurse says that he is not sick enough to be sent home. Nurse Piglet walks over to Lilly reading the note that Mrs. Jackson wrote on the nurse pass.
"Lilly Truscott's you are the only students I know that want to stay in school when they can't keep anything down. Let check to see if you are running a fever."
Nurse Piglet goes and gets the ear thermometer and puts a probe cover onto the thermometer and then the nurse walks over to Lilly. Nurse Piglet put the thermometer into Lilly right ear and thirty second later the thermometer start beep and Nurse Piglet takes the thermometer out of Lilly's ear and looks at the display to see that Lilly is temperature is 98.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Do I have a fever?"
"The thermometer says your temperature is 98.9 degrees Fahrenheit, which is in the normal range and that means that you do not have a fever. But since you have been vomiting, I should send you home, because school rules say you cannot be in school if you are vomiting."
"If you read the note from gagging my obgyn you know that I am pregnant and I have morning sickness."
"I will write you a pass to go back to class and I will also write a note for your teacher."
"Thanks."
The nurse walks over to her desk and writes out a pass and a note for Lilly teachers and a few minutes later Lilly walks back into English class to find Miley has laid her head down on her desk and her eyes are shut. Lilly walks up to the teachers' desk and hand the note and the pass from the nurse to the teacher and then walks over to the desk she sits at and puts her backpack and purse on the floor by her desk and then tap Miley on the shoulder. Miley opens up her eyes and looks at Lilly.
"The nurse let you come back coughing to class?"
"Yes Miley, but you do not look good at all. How are you feeling?"
"I think my fever come back, because I am burning up, is it hot in the classroom or is it just I?"
"It's a little warm, but not that hot Miley."
"Great my fever must be back coughing, gagging."
Miley stops talking and grabs a handful of tissues and cover up her mouth and starts coughing up thick mucus into the tissues and Lilly hears Miley making a wheezing sound when coughing and taking a breath, which is not good. When Miley stop coughing she raises her left hand in the air, but Mrs. Jackson does not see what Miley wants because the class is almost over. After a few minute Miley puts her hand down and lays her head down on the desk until the bell for class to end rings.
Once third hour is over Oliver, Lilly and Miley hands to hands to they fourth hour class and when fourth hour is over they head to fifth hour gym class, Oliver heads to the locker room to changes for gym but Miley and Lilly head into the gym and sits down on the first row of the stands because neither of them is going to take part in class. Mr. Rock walks over to Miley and Lilly and crosses his arms over his chest.
"Lilly you need to go get change for gym class, Miley has a valid reason for sitting out of gym but you do not."
Lilly open up her purse and pulls out a fold sheet of paper and unfold the piece of paper and hand the piece of paper to the gym teacher and Mr. Rock sees that it's a doctor note for Dr. Weiss obgyn office that says Lilly Truscott is pregnant and due around June 29, 2009 and should be excuse from gym class for the rest of the year.
"You are allowed to sit out of gym class Lilly."
The bell for class to start rings and the gym teachers walks away from Lilly and Miley and start teaching gym class to the rest of the students. The rest of the school day goes by slower for Lilly who is fighting morning sickness and Jackson and Miley because they are both sick and feel awful. Jackson's nose has started running and he still can't stop sneezes and his throat is really sore and he has started to look flush too. Miley is tired and ends up spent fifth, six and seventh hour in the nurse office coughing up think mucus and is running a fever of 102.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Lilly was able to keep her lunch down and is feeling a little better, but is tried.
Once school gets out Jackson gives Lilly and Oliver a ride to his house and Miley leaves the school with her father to go to the first of two doctor appointments. At three-thirty on the dot Miley gets call back for her doctors' appointment, she follows the nurse back to exam room one and sits down in the chair across from the exam table. Twenty minutes later Miley comes into the waiting room and over to her dad with a prescription for the Z-Pak. Miley hand the prescription to her dad and then lean on her crutches, but keep her right leg off the ground.
"What take so long and what did the doctor say Miley?"
"Sorry coughing my fault I keep coughing up mucus, which kept the doctor from listening to my lungs and the doctors say that I still have double pneumonia, but it not as bad as when I went to Crowley Corners Urgent Care Center. The doctor gave me a prescription for the Z-Pak and I have to take two pills today and one pill for the next fours day coughing and he says the Z-pak should clear the double pneumonia up and after a few days I should start to feel better."
"That is good, let go get the prescription filled and then go get something to eat before head to your orthopedic appointment."
"Ahem that sound like a great idea to me, I am start coughing to get a little hunger."
Miley using her crutches hops to the doors of the doctors office and Robby follows his daughter to the door and he can tell that she is tired and her knee is really hurting. Meanwhile Oliver and Lilly are sitting in the Stewart living room on the couch and are on Lilly laptop looking up open adoption and the more Lilly reads about open adoption the more she cries. Oliver close the internet down and shut Lilly's laptop off and then set the laptop on the coffee table. Oliver hugs Lilly and she lay her head on his right shoulder and continues to cry.
"Lilly if just reading about giving a baby up for adoption is making you cry maybe, adoption is not the right choice for you, if you want to keep the baby I will be there to support you and to help rise and pay for the child clothing, food, doctors' appointments, diapers and anything else the child will need."
"You will be Oliver?"
"Ahem yes I will Lilly it is my child too."
"Good because I do not think I can give a baby up for adoption, I want to have the baby and raise the baby with you."
"We should look into getting after school job coughing because rise a child is not cheap and we should start save money before the baby comes."
"That sound like a great idea, I will start looking for a job this weekend."
"We need to decide if you are going to continue living with your mom or do you want to come live at my parents or me to move in with you at your mom house or coughing do you want to get an apartment together."
Oliver stops talking and he pulls away from Lilly and turns his head away from her. Oliver then starts coughing into his left elbow and pulls a cough drop out of his jean pocket with his hand. When he stops coughing, Oliver unwraps the cough drop and puts the cough drop into his mouth. Lilly looks at her boyfriend and can tell by just looking at him that he is exhaust and at the same time Oliver start coughing again and cover his mouth with his left hand.
"Oliver's go home and takes some cold medicine and get some rest."
"I am fine Lilly and we have a lot of choices that have to be made coughing."
"We do not have to make then today Oliver. You getting well is more important to me right now."
"I guess you are right. I am starting to feel exhaust Lilly. I will see you in school tomorrow."
"Love you Oliver and bye."
"Love you too and bye."
Oliver stands up from the couch and start walking toward the front door coughing into his left elbow, wishing that the sore throat and cough would go away. Lilly stands up and walks over to the door with Oliver and sees her boyfriend out and then shut and locks the front door behind him. Lilly watching Oliver walking down the driveway and also watching him walking down the sidewalk until he is out of sight.
Lilly turns around and walks over to the couch and sits down on the center of the couch. She then open up her backpack and gets out her copy of Helmet, school textbooks, notebooks and folders and then gets a pen out of the front pocket of her backpack. Lilly open up her health folder first and gets out the package of worksheets, then Lilly opens up the health textbooks and turns to the chapter the class is working on. Lilly has just start working on her homework for health class when Jackson comes down the stairs sneezing into his hands. Jackson walks over to the couch and he sits down beside Lilly. Lilly stops working on her homework and looks up at Jackson and sees that his nose is red and that he also tried and flush.
"My dad called my Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah-choo cellphone and say that the two of us are own for dinner tonight, he also says to help yourself to the left oven bean soup for dinner Lilly and that he ah-choo and Miley are getting pizza before going ah-choo to Miley orthopedic appointment."
"Thanks for letting me know. How are you feeling?"
"Awful and I now have a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Sound like you caught the head cold that is going around the high school."
"I am going to go to bed Lilly ah-choo see you in the morning."
"Ok feel better Jackson."
Jackson stands up and walks over to the staircase sneezes into his hands. Lilly goes back to working on her homework for twenty minutes then goes into the kitchen and makes herself a Peanut butter and jelly sandwich to eat for dinner, hoping that will not upset her stomach like the bean soup did last night. Once her sandwich is made Lilly take the sandwich into the living room and eats the sandwich as she works on her homework.
At five o'clock in the evening Miley and her dad are sitting in exam room one for doctor appointment number two at the orthopedic office. Miley is sitting on the exam table with her legs up on the table and her back up against the tan wall and Robby is sitting on the chair next to the exam table. At the same time a male doctor that is five feet eleven inches tall with thin gray hair and hazel eyes and has his back to Miley and Robby is looking at Miley X-rays and MRI images that are up on the light box. Dr. Rosenberg turns and looks at Miley and Robby.
"I have read the notes that Doctor Black sent me about your injury knee and after looking at the X-rays and MRI images I agree that you did dislocation your kneecap and complete tears your quadriceps tendon and patellar tendon. In addition I agree with the note that Dr. Black wrote about the post reduction MRI that points out a few bone chips that break off the knee cap and a small meniscus tear."
"Ahem she did not say anything about that to me or my dad."
"No, she wanting the doctor that was going to do your surgery in L.A. to confirm the bone chips and a small meniscus tear, do you have any other question Miley?"
"No."
"Dr. Rosenberg's when is the earliest date that you could do the knee surgery on my daughter right knee?"
"I have an opening for next Monday, October 20, 2008 at nine o'clock in the morning at St. Mary Hospital and I am going to put her down in the books for that day and time. Miley when you wake up from surgery you will be wearing a Breg EPO Post-Op Knee Brace in a long length, which features a full black foam thigh and lower leg coverage with two black velcro straps above the knee and two black velcro straps below the knee to keep the brace close and the straps can be tight or loosen when needed. It also has quick set hinges that allow for easy control of the range of motion and in addition the brace has spring loaded set pins that allow easy setting for range of motion. Right after surgery the brace will be lock in a straight position and I will slower increase the range of motion on the brace on your post surgical visit to my office."
"Ahem Dr. Rosenberg how long will I have to use crutches after the surgery?"
"Four to six weeks, it will depend on how long it takes you to be able to bend the knee ninety degrees, at the being of the fourth week I will set the brace to allow you to bend the knee a full ninety degrees, but when you get off of the crutches will depend on when you can bend the knee a full ninety degrees. The shorter length of time you will be on crutches is four weeks and the longest is normal six, but for some people it takes a little longer. It is going to be a long and slow recover from the surgery and for you to have a full and successful recover you are going to have to do physical therapy on your right knee everyday starting a few weeks after surgery."
"Ok Dr. Rosenberg."
"That all for today, talk to the nurse at the check out desk on your way out and she will give you paperwork about the surgery I will be performing and what to do and not do the night before the surgery."
Dr. Rosenberg hands the X-rays and MRI Images to Robby and then walks out of the exam room. Robby helps his daughter off the exam table and ten minutes later Miley and Robby are walking out of Dr. Rosenberg office and head out to Robby SUV in the parking lot to go home for the night.
