I decided to go ahead and give you this since it was in the same year as the birthday chapter I'm writing.
Hippiechic 81 who requested a chapter about one of the girls getting hurt.
Elijah: 14 years old.
Rosaline: 11 years old.
Emily: 11 years old.
Jenny: 5 years old.
Saturday, June 9th, 1990.
"Eli, let's play tag!" JJ yells jumping up and down.
"Okay, okay." Eli replies laughing. "Who's gonna be it?"
"I will!" Rosa jumps in. "The swings, slide, and trampoline are base. Ready. Set. Go!" She yelled
Eli and JJ take off running.
"You can't catch us!" JJ yells, sticking her tongue out and then screaming and running towards the swing set when Ros gets too close.
Soon, Rosa grabs JJ up and tickles her, the little girl squealing and giggling.
"JJ's it, now!" She yells and runs off.
"Aw! No fair!" JJ whines as her brother and sister run off before she can tag them. "Slow down; I can't tag you!" She whines some more.
Elijah takes pity on his younger sister and walks over to her. He sticks his hand out and when JJ looks suspicious, having been tricked before, he says, "Hurry up before I change my mind."
JJ quickly taps his arm and then runs away yelling, "Eli's it!"
20 minutes later, the game is over and Eli is trying to show Rosa and JJ how to do flips on the trampoline.
"Do a back flip, bubby!" JJ says and watches in amazement as Eli does a perfect back flip.
"Watch Ros." He says. "You have to jump in the air and then immediately go forward." He shows her and then she tries. She succeeds.
"Bubby, look!" JJ yells before she jumps up and tries to do a flip. She gets too close to the edge though and ends up falling off the side. JJ lands on her arm and seconds later Elijah jumps down and runs over to her.
"Ow!" JJ cries as Eli helps her into a sitting position.
"Rosa go get mom. Hurry!" He says and watches Rosaline run inside before turning back to JJ.
Inside the house, Sandy is making some sandwiches for Eli, Ros, and JJ to take outside and have a picnic with. She's in the middle of pouring lemonade when Rosa comes running into the house.
"Mama! Mom!" Rosa yelled, running in the kitchen. "Mom, JJ's hurt. She fell off the trampoline."
Sandy runs outside and sees her oldest son holding her youngest daughter in his lap. She goes over to them and bends down.
"Baby, what happened?" She asked.
"Mommy I felled. My arm hurts." JJ cried.
"Sweetie, I need to see your arm." When Sandy sees her arm, she knew right away that it was broke. "Baby, we need to go to the hospital so the doctor can fix your arm." She started to stand up when JJ yelled,
"No! I want Emmy! I don't wanna go without her!"
"Sweetie, we can call her on the way, okay?"
"Jen, we need to go to the hospital and let the doctor look at our arm, ok? Mama will call Em and she can meet us there." Elijah tries to reason with his baby sister.
When JJ shakes her head, Sandy sighs and nods. "Okay, I'll be right back." She goes inside to phone the little blonde's best friend. Ten minutes later Emily comes running up the sidewalk.
"Emmy!" JJ yells. She's now sitting in her Mom's lap on the back porch. She has an ice pack on her arm which fell to the ground when she jumped up.
"Jenny, what happened?" She asks. She bends down in front of JJ to make it easier for JJ to hug her while still keeping her arm still.
"I falled and hurt my arm. I didn't want to leave without you." JJ says, snuggling into Emily's side.
"Leave?" Emily looks up at Sandy.
"Yes, I think her arm might be broke." Sandy says, whispering the word 'broke' so she doesn't scare JJ.
"Jen, we need to go the doctor's okay? So he can look at your arm." Emily whispers to the scared 5-year-old.
"No, I don't wanna."
"I know you don't, baby, but your mommy can't fix our arm here. We need to let the doctor take a look." When JJ shakes her head again, she says,
"Do you remember what I told you about the hungry caterpillar?"
"You said that he was pro'bly scared when he becomed a butterfly, but then he got brave and 'cided to try sommin new." JJ says.
"Yeah, that's right." She rubs JJ's arms. "Can you be my brave little butterfly and try something new today?"
JJ nods. "Okay." She whispers. "Don't leave me."
"I won't. I'll stay with you the entire time. I promise." Emily looks to Sandy who nods.
"Okay, let's load up. Elijah, do you want to come or stay here?" Sandy asks the 14-year-old.
"I'll stay, so I can tell Dad what happened." Rosa decides to stay too.
At the hospital, the doctor takes JJ for an X-ray. When they get back to the room, the doctor gives her an ice pack and tells her she would be back soon to put JJ's arm in a cast.
"Emmy, come lay." JJ says. She is sitting in bed, watching cartoons on the TV. Emily comes over and climbs into the bed beside JJ, putting an arm her so the little girl could lean against her side.
"Emmy, my arms hurts." JJ said. She hasn't stopped crying since they left the house and even with the cartoons it is beginning to get harder to occupy the young girl.
"I know sweetheart. But it'll be ok. The doctor will put a cast on and then it'll be healed in no time." Emily promises as she flips through the channels and lands on an episode of Scooby-Doo.
"Will it hurt?" She asks.
"It probably will just a tiny bit, but you can hold my hand, okay?" Emily links her left hand with JJ's and presses a kiss to her forehead.
"Okay." JJ whispers.
"What color do you want?"
"I want you to pick." The kindergartener whispers.
"Okay, how about...blue. To match your eyes." JJ nods.
The doctor comes in then and says, "Okay, Miss JJ, what color cast would you like?"
"She wants blue." Emily tells the doctor.
"Okay. Light blue or dark blue?"
"Which one, sweetie?"
"Dark." The little girl mumbles, her voice muffled by Emily's shirt.
"Dark, please." The doctor nods. "Now, this is only going to hurt a tiny bit," The doctor tells her, repeating Emily's words. "But I see you've got your mommy here with you." He takes out the blue tape and gets to work.
"And who is this young lady sitting with you? Is she your big sister?"
"No," JJ mumbles, slowing turning her head away Emily's shirt. "She's Emmy and she my bestest friend in the whole wo'ld. She eleven years old and is all the way in the fifth grade!"
"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you Emily," The doctor greets, guessing her name. "Am I right? I don't want assume that is your name. I have a daughter who name is Emily. She's about two years younger than you and we've all called her Emmy since the day she was born."
Emily smiles and presses kiss to JJ's forehead, "No, that's right. It's Emily. This one here and my dad are the only two that call me 'Emmy'."
"Oh, is that right?" The doctor gets done with the first layer of the cast and starts with the next one.
"Yep!" JJ beams. "Only me!"
Soon the cast is on and, after the doctor gives Sandy instructions on what JJ is not limited to, (no swimming or taking showers), they head home. The doctor had given her some medicine and now JJ is fighting it's affects to stay awake, not entirely convinced that Emily would be there when she woke up.
"Oh, baby, are you ok?" Michael asks, seeing his youngest daughter walk in with a dark blue cast on it.
"Yeah, Daddy. I'm okay."
"Jen, why don't you go upstairs and lay down. The doctor said that medicine will make you sleepy." Sandy says.
"I don't want to, Mama. I don't want Emmy to leave." The sleepy five-year-old says.
"Emily will still be here when you get up sweetie, unless her mom says she has to go home." Sandy says. "When you wake up, you can eat supper and then take some more medicine."
"Jenny, I'm not going anywhere, all right? I promise." Emily says. She's sitting at the dining room table with JJ on her lap.
"Will you s'eep wid me?" JJ asks, slurring her words, only being half-awake now.
"Sure. Come on, let's go." They go upstairs and Emily climbs into JJ's bed, scooting over for the younger girl. Soon Emily and JJ were both asleep.
Here is the next chapter. :) Please review, it'll mean a lot to me! I know this is the first version, and it's not being worked on anymore, but I'd still love to get reviews!
Did any of you ever break an arm or any other bone? What color cast did you get? What were you doing when you broke it? Skiing, gymnastics, on the jungle gym?
The extended part for this can be found in Fun in the Sun. :)
