I know, I know! This isn't part of the schedule but I wanted to get this idea out of my head. So, just bear with me. This will only be a two-part and I'll substitute for another chapter set in '92.

This is Spring Break of 1992. JJ is almost done with 2nd grade and the other three are almost down with junior high.

Monday, March 20th, 1992.

Elijah: 16

Rosa: 12

Emily: 13

JJ: 7

"Ros?" JJ shakes Rosa awake. It's nearly two in the morning and Spring Break starts today.

"JJ? What's wrong? What are you doing in here at 2 in the morning?"

"My tummy hurts really bad sissy." JJ tells her with tears streaming down her face.

"Do you feel like you're going to throw up?" Rosa asks, sitting up and taking a closer look at JJ. She has tears streaming down her face and her arms are wrapped around her stomach.

"Yes."

"Ok, lets go get you to the bathroom and I'll go wake mom and dad up. ok?"

"Ok." JJ lets Rosa lead her to the bathroom and then Ros went to her parents' bedroom.

"Mom, Dad." Rosa goes to Sandy's side of the bed and shakes her mother awake.

"Ros? What's wrong, honey?"

"JJ's in the bathroom. She says her stomach hurts."

"Ok. I'll handle it. You can go back to bed, ok."

"Ok." Sandy stands and goes to the bathroom where JJ is sitting.

"Oh, baby." Sandy sits down and pulls JJ into her lap. "What's wrong?"

"My tummy hurts, Mommy"

"Ok. Does it hurt all over or just in one spot?" Sandy asks, immediately remember when Rosa was this sick.

"It hurts right here." She points to a spot on her right side. Suddenly she leans towards the toilet and starts throwing up. Sandy held her hair off her face and rubbed her back.

"Ok, ok. Alright. Breath JJ, breath sweetie." When JJ was done being sick, Sandy grabbed a cold wash cloth and picked the young girl up. She took her back to her room, promising to come right back, and then went to her bedroom.

"Michael, get up." She tells her husband, flipping on the light and grabbing some clothes.

"What? Honey, what's worng?" Michael asks as he sits up.

"Put this on.. Sandy throws a shirt at him which he puts on without questioning it.

"JJ is sick. She has the same symptoms Rosalyn did. Fever, throwing up, and she looks pale."

"Hey, hey…baby you don't know if it's the same thing though. It could just be the stomach bug."

"She said her side hurt, Michael."

"Dammit." Michael mutters. He couldn't deny the possibility of it being the same when that was one of the symptoms.

"Ok, ok. Go make sure she's ok and I'll wake Eli and Ros up. Go." He repeats when Sandy hesitates. She nods and then runs back down the hall to JJ's room.

"Hey, baby. How are you?" She asks, sitting down on the younger blonde's bed.

"My tummy still hurts, Mommy." JJ says through her tears.

"I know it does, baby. But Daddy and I are going to take you the doctor and he's going to make you feel a lot better. Ok?"

"Emily come too?"

"Oh, sweetie, it's realy early in the morning. She won't be awake." Just then Michael came back inside and into JJ's room.

"Ros and Eli are in the car." He comes over to JJ's bed. "Come on, let's get you in the car."

At the Hospital

At the hospital JJ was set up in a room.

"Where is that doctor? We've been waiting here for over half an hour. The least they could have done was give her some pain meds." Sayd says as she strokes JJ's hair. The little girl is curled up on her side, tears streaming down her face.

"Oh, sweetie, tell what I can do to help you."

"I want Em'ly, Momma." JJ says for the tenth time since they arrived.

Sandy looks at Michael who sighs. "There's a phone by the nurse's desk. I'll go and give her a call." He starts to leave but is stopped by Rosa.

"Dad wait." She digs a piece of paper out of her pocket and hands to Michael. "This number will go straight to Emily's phone in her room. She said to call when we only need her."

"Ok." Michael takes the paper and leaves the room. A few minutes later he comes back.

"I'm going to go pick her up."

"Ok, we'll be here." Sandy says.

Twenty Minutes Later.

Finally, the doctor comes in and checks on JJ.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Riley. What seems to be the problem?"

"She has a fever and has been throwing up." Sandy replies. "She has the same symptoms as my other daughter…who had appendicitis."

"Ok, let's see." She sticks a thermometer in her month and waits for it to beep. "100.1. Ok, now I'm going to feel your stomach and I need to tell me if it hurts any where ok?"

JJ just nods. The doctor starts her exam and when she gets to the right side JJ winces in pain.

"Ok, JJ does it hurt anywhere else?"

"No, just there."

Just then Emily and Michael walk back into the room. "Emmy!"

"Hey, Jen. What happened?" Emily asks, rushing over to JJ.

"Doctor, what's going on. Is it what we thought?" Michael asks.

"Yes, sir, I'm afraid it is. JJ has appendicitis."

One more chapter and I'll wrap this up.

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