It's raining outside, I wanna go out side and play. Not like I could go outside even if it wasn't raining. I gotta watch my dorky little brother; he's such a pain. Besides I'd proly' kill myself getting down the back steps in this kind of weather, there's no guard railing and the steps are slippery in the rain. We live on the fifth floor so it's a loooooooooong way down if you go sliding off the back porch. Mama doesn't let me and Luigi go out there when it's wet outside.
Stupid Luigi he's always doing something to make Mama worry, like the time he climbed into the dryer to see the lint people. I said they live in the dryer and they build cities out of the lint that comes off of your clothes but I never thought the idiot would actually climb in to check! I got grounded for two weeks when he burned his hands. The dryer was still hot Mama had just used it. The little doofus is hiding somewhere in the house, I don't know where, I told him "lets play hide-and-go-seek," and never went to look for him.
Heh, heh, heh, what a little nerd, believing I'd wanna play with him anyway.
He's always touching my stuff, and asking me stupid questions like "why don't you like me and, will you make me something to eat I'm hungry." Of course I never listen to him. Why should I?
That little brat has done nothing but cause me trouble from the moment Mama brought him home from the hospital five years ago.
Mama says that "he's my brother and I shouldn't treat him badly cause he's the only one I got." He's not going anywhere, so I can treat him any way I want.
It's really raining hard now. I wonder when Mama will get home? She usually comes home from work at about six; it's six fifteen now so it can't be too much longer now.
I'm hungry. Of course I wouldn't be hungry if stupid Luigi hadn't eaten the last bowl of cereal before I got up... And I just know he did that on purpose. He knew good and well there was no other food in the house, and he's gonna go and eat the only thing left. He said he was "really, really hungry" Like I wasn't?! We don't have a lot of money ever since Papa left...
I miss him sometimes... then I remember how he used to hit me and I don't miss him as much.
Luigi said he would share the cereal. Like I really want any of a, half-eaten soggy, bowl of cornflakes! I took the bowl away from him and tossed it in the trashcan. That'll teach `em for eating all of the cereal! If I can't have none, he can't none! He started to bawl like he always does... so to shut him up I told him we'd play hide and go seek... I pretended to count and he went off to hide still sniffling over that stupid bowl of cereal. But, that was hours ago...? I hardly even noticed that he wasn't around to bug me. I look at the clock it's 6:30p. We... Luigi... ate breakfast at 9:00a where has he been all this time? I'd better find him before Mama comes home or I'm going to be in BIG trouble! I call his name.
Hey, Luigi, I give up! you're waaaay too good at this game, you can come on out now! He thinks he's won the game that means he'll have a big smile on his face when Mama comes home any minute now. She'll pat me on the head and tell me I'm her special little boy; and for being so good at watching Luigi she'll give me an extra big hug! (^_^)
Come on out now, did you hear me? You won, you beat me... as if!
He's not answering, See what I mean? Even when I'm trying to be nice to the little geek he tries to get me into trouble. He knows that if he's not around when Mama gets here I'll get grounded! What a rotten brother! Ok no more mister nice guy!
You'd better get your butt out here NOW, cause if I have to come looking for you I'm gonna pound you when I find ya' I'm not really gonna pound him, I'd like to but then I'd get in trouble. Then I might get sent to bed with no dinner and I'm already sooooooo hungry.
I guess I really will have to look for him. I'll look in the living room first.
Behind the couch?
No.
Under the table?
No
Near that really big bushy plant by the window?
Still no!
I've checked every room in the house but the kitchen.
It's 7:00 and Mama's still not home, wonder where she is?
It figures that Luigi would be hiding in the kitchen... there's NO place to hide in the kitchen! the cabinets under the sink would be a good place to hide if they all didn't have child proof locks on them. I can open them but Luigi's to stupid to figure out how to do it. There's lots of poisons and junk under the sink... So I guess it's good that he can't get under there.
That's strange... I can feel a breeze in the hallway on the way to the kitchen... Did Mama leave a window open in there? For once it couldn't have been Luigi, that window's too tall for him to reach... I can't even reach it and I'm almost 3 inches taller than Luigi.
As I come into the kitchen I can see that the window is closed; but the back door is open...
The back door is open?!
I run to the back door and all most go sliding through it onto the porch there's a HUGE puddle in the kitchen floor from the rain. As I finally am able to stand I can hear voices outside... I can't make out what they're saying... it's raining too hard... I can see flashing blue and red lights coming from the ally behind my house... I wish I could see what was going on... It's too wet outside... I'd pobly' slip if I tried to go down the stairs. I can hear a lady crying, she must be crying pretty loudly if I can hear her all the way up here on the fifth floor and over the heavy rain. That's it I can't take it anymore there's something going on down there and I'm missin' it!
Hey Luigi I'm going down stairs for a minute stay in the house and don't open the door for anybody! I call. Naturally when I come back up here he's not gonna let me in the front door cause I just said not to let anybody in. Ugh!
Carefully I make my way down the back stairs clinging to the wall for dear life. Oh, I hope Mama doesn't come home now. If I don't slip off the stairs and die, she's a-gonna kill me!
I'm on the third floor now I can still hear that lady crying and I can some of the things other people are saying too. Some guy is shouting "every body move back, give 'em room, give 'em room!"
I'm on the second floor now I can hear the humming of a running engine and I can see the flashing red and blue lights now. there are two people standing on the second floor porch A man and a lady the lady is crying and the man has his arm around her. the lady's saying things; but it's hard to hear exactly what they are since she's crying. I think I heard "He's so young-" before she started sobbing too hard for me to understand all of the words she's saying. The man is rubbing her back and whispering things to her. she nods through her tears. I can still hear that other lady crying. I wonder what happened? As I pass the Man and lady the lady looks at me and starts to really wail I jumped and nearly slid off of their pouch! The man looked kinda scared, I guess he thought I'd fall.
I'm on the ground now in the ally. there is fruit and stuff lying all over the ally. Me and my brother are starving and other people are throwing food around like it's nothing!
There's a crowed of people all standing around something... I'm too short to see what though. There's an ambulance parked in the ally still running. there's some guy holding the lady that was crying really loud, she's a little quieter now. But she's still crying pretty hard. She's got her back turned to me. the guy sees me though and Whispers something in her ear.
She turns around.
It's my Mama?! (Jes: Oh, like you didn't see that coming.)
When she lets go of the guy I can see he's wearing a white uniform with a Red Cross on the pocket of the shirt. there are some words too; but I can't read in English too well yet.
There's something really wrong here... I...I've never seen my Mama cry before.
She grabs me and starts hugging me really tightly, so tightly I can barely breath. She's crying really hard and mumbling things in English, it's very hard to understand what she's saying . My family's native tongue is Italian. I think she knows I don't understand cause she starts speaking in Italian.
She asked me what happened?
I told her I didn't know and that I have to go back up stairs Luigi's up there by himself.
I know I'm going to get yelled at for leaving him up there but anything's better than staying here and seeing my Mama cry.
She sobs and kisses the top of my head and shakes her head no. I was about to ask why when the circle of people broke and two people in uniforms were carrying someone on a stretcher over to the ambulance. My Mama finally lets go of me and asks me in English if the door upstairs is closed. I understood that; and nodded yes. She took me by the ambulance and a guy in a uniform picked me up and put me in and told me to sit down. then helped my Mama in too. I tried to tell my Mama that we couldn't leave, that Luigi was all alone upstairs in the apartment hiding, playing hide-and-go-seek. But she's not paying attention to me. Of all the times not to pay attention this would have to be the worst.
There are two people doing things to the person on the stretcher. one has funny looking mask with a big clear ball on the end. I know what that is, I seen it on TV. It helps you breath... you squeeze the ball at the end and air comes through the mask. I can't see who's on the stretcher- too many people in the way. I can hear them though.
"Mama-" A small voice squeaks I...know that voice
Luigi?! That's Luigi's voice!
Bu-but...
I feel sick, like I gotta throw-up, how could I be so stupid?! I should' a been able to put two and two together the minute I saw the back door open!
I have to see, there's people in the way please don't let it be true. I get up only to get pushed back down in my make shift seat, an over turned bucket. My Mama tells me to SIT.
I'm not a dog ya know.
I try more than once to get up, to see, I don't wanna cause I know it's true I know who's on the stretcher, I have to see for myself. He's speaking again
"M- Mama?" It's followed by a lot of coughing and choking.
Mama tries not to cry and say's "I'm here" in Italian. She leans forward and tries to touch a hand hanging of the stretcher I can see the hand. It's wrapped in a white bandage but there are big red spots on it and some of them are getting bigger. A man in uniform turns his head and sees Mama trying to take Luigi's hand and Shakes his head no.
She's trying so hard not to cry I think it's so Luigi won't be scared. I don't care if she cries or not I know he's scared. He's crying and calling Mama who just keeps saying things like
"It's ok Mama's here" and "everything's going to be all right."
I wanna ask is that really true is everything going to be all right? they sound like just words to me.
I jerk forward as the ambulance stops, I didn't even notice that we'd been moving. But we had been. We were at the hospital. the minute we got there lots of people came out all wearing white coats and sky green baggy pants*. (Scrubs* at least I think that's what there called)
Finally all the people get outta the way and I can see. I really wish I couldn't. There's so much blood. Luigi's face is smeared in it a big white bandage is wrapped around his head. At least I think it was white at one time. Mama can't hold it back any more and starts to cry. when she sees him.
He's not crying anymore he looks like he's sleeping... oh, God I hope, he's sleeping! The Hospital people pull the stretcher out of the ambulance and take it inside. That's the last time I saw my brother.
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OK, OK, Don't kill me there's another part I swear! :Dodges a brick that brakes the window behind Jes:
Jes: Alright, was that really necessary?
All of FFn: YES!
Jes: :Gulp: More bricks.
I have no idea where the hell this came from, so don't ask. This is my very first shot (Well second actually; but the first doesn't count. ) at a first person story, so constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.
It's kind' a sad (; - ;) cross your fingers and hope I can give this a happy ending.
Ok one last thing :Ducks a brick: NOW CUT THAT OUT!! Sheesh.
There are some purposely misspelled words like probly and proly I know that should be "Probably" but that's a word that I frequently hear kids mispronounce and it's cute ^_^