She held Keira next to her body, feeling the glass hitting her in the back,
shoulders and arms. As long as nothing happened to her daughter that's all
that mattered. As soon as she could hear herself think she screamed for
Bobby, not wanting to move from where she was incase another explosion hit.
She had no clue what was going on outside, but knew something had happened.
Her ears were still ringing from the blast and she felt the building
eventually stop rumbling from the force of the shock wave the explosion had
caused. She sank to the ground in front of the bookcase trembling, trying
to calm her thoroughly frightened daughter as well as trying to collect her
own thoughts.
Bobby had been jerked awake when everything began to shake violently. Seeing Kim gone added to the fear, but when he heard her piercing scream from across the hall, his heart just about stopped.
"Were Kim and Keira ok? What the hell had happened outside?" he asked himself, rushing across the hall.
He burst into the room, seeing Kim on the floor, still holding Keira close to her incase there was another explosion. Seeing the window had been blown out and the building across the street partially demolished from some sort of blast. Glass from the window had been blown about 4.5 yards across the room.
"Kim! Are you ok?" he called out rushing over to her, noticing the cuts she'd received from the shards of glass.
"I'll be fine." She replied, her voice shaking as she spoke rising to her feet unsteadily.
He gently helped her up, wrapping an arm around her waist and helped her out of the room and headed towards the living room.
As they sat together, trying to calm Keira who had been scared half out of her mind the phone began to ring. Bobby headed into their bedroom and picked up the cordless while Kim worked on calming down Keira. When he answered he found Kim's mother on the other end.
"Are you all ok?" she asked, pacing the floor of her bedroom after having looked at what had happened outside.
"I'm just now calming down, Kim's shaken up quite a bit since she was checking on Keira when the explosion hit, knocking out the window." Bobby replied, heading back down the hall.
"Did either of them get hurt from the glass?" her mother asked anxiously.
"Keira's fine just scared, Kim got some cuts from the glass though that I'm getting ready to start working on." He replied, getting the supplies together to start cleaning the cuts she had received from the glass.
"Do you want me to come up and watch Keira?" she asked, grabbing some clothes from the closet to put on.
"If you want to that's fine," he replied, heading towards the living room.
"I'll be up shortly as soon as I change." She said back, laying the clothes on the bed.
"Ok, I'll tell her your coming." Bobby replied before hanging up the phone.
After getting everything laid out on the coffee table he said, "That was your mom, she's gonna come up and watch Keira while I work on these cuts you got."
"Ok," she replied, still shaking like a leaf as she sat on the couch.
When Kim's mother arrived, Bobby let her in and they headed to where Kim sat on the couch.
"You ok?" her mother asked, sitting next to her on the couch working on settling down Keira.
"Shaken up but fine," she replied, wincing as Bobby began to work on cleaning the cuts on her back.
Jimmy's phone began to ring in the early hours of the morning after the explosion had hit. He reached out sleepily, picking up the phone and answering in a half asleep voice, "Hello."
"Jimmy, this is Lt. Johnson. I hate to bother you this time of morning but we need everyone we can to come help with a building that was partially demolished when it exploded downtown." Came Lieu's voice over the phone.
"I'll have to see if my mother can come watch Joey, so give me a bit and I'll be down." He replied, stumbling out of bed.
"Just get here as soon as you can," Lieu responded giving Jimmy the address of the building that had exploded.
After hanging up with Lt. Johnson he called his mother to see if she could come watch Joey so he wouldn't have to wake him up. She agreed to come over and watch him and arrived about fifteen minutes later. He left promptly and picked up his gear from the station and drove to the address Lieu had given him.
Carlos was pulling the double with Alex and when they arrived at the scene, they were shocked to see the remnants of the building that had exploded. As Alex turned her head to tell Carlos something she saw Bobby's car parked across the street.
"Shit!" she cursed, looking at the building again and back to Bobby's car.
"What?" asked Carlos, trying to figure out why she'd said that.
"Kim and Bobby live right across the street from what's left of this building!" she exclaimed, digging for her cell phone.
"Are you sure?" Carlos questioned, anxiety building up from finding that bit of information out.
"Yes I'm sure Carlos!" she replied, dialing the number to their apartment.
Bobby heard the phone ringing and answered it, finding Alex on the other end.
"Hey are you all ok up there?" she asked, fidgeting nervously in her seat as she talked to him.
"We're shaken up but fine." He replied, still working on the cuts Kim had gotten from the glass.
"Is the baby ok?" she asked, realizing the nursery was facing the building that had exploded.
"She's scared but fine. Kim was checking on her when the explosion hit." He replied.
"Do you all need anything?" she asked, getting out of the bus, hearing Kim say something about stopping in the background.
"Not at the moment," he said back.
"What's she talking about?" Alex asked, not sure what Kim had meant by that.
"Oh, she got cut up a bit from the glass in the window when it got blown out in the explosion and I was working on cleaning them up but I think she's reached her wits end with the stinging from the antiseptic." He replied, heading back towards the nursery and looking out the window seeing all the emergency vehicles filling the street; "You all need any help down there?"
"Not at the moment, if we do I'll give you a call though." She replied, getting stuff out of the back of the ambulance.
"Ok, I'll talk to you later then," he said, leaving the room and heading back down the hall.
"Ok. Bye," Alex replied, putting her cell phone back in her pocket and heading towards Carlos.
Carlos saw her coming and said, "Are they ok up there?"
"Yeah, they're fine. Except Kim got hit with some shards of glass when the window to the nursery got blown out during the explosion." She replied.
"The baby ok?" he asked.
"Scared but not hurt." Alex said back, heading towards the building seeing where they were needed.
When Jimmy arrived at the address he had to park down the street and walk there were so many emergency vehicles that had responded. As he walked he saw the remnants of the building and asked aloud, "What the hell happened here?"
He caught sight of Alex and Carlos and said, "Hey Alex! What on earth happened?"
While talking to Alex he saw Bobby's car parked across the street and said, "Please don't tell me that's his car."
"It is. I've already talked to them and they're all fine." Alex replied.
Jimmy sighed with relief and headed towards the rest of the group from the 55.
Keira finally settled down and went back to sleep after the hair-raising ordeal she'd been through. Kim's mother headed back home relieved that everyone was ok. Bobby finished up working on the cuts Kim had gotten and said, "Why don't we try and go back to sleep."
"I don't know if I can go to sleep after having gone through that," she replied, as he pulled her up off the couch.
"Everything will be fine, you'll see." He said softly.
They moved the crib into Joey's room since he was staying with Jimmy for the weekend, since for obvious reasons they didn't feel comfortable leaving her in the nursery after what had happened. As she tried to go back to sleep, she lay on her right side, since the left side of her arm and back took the brunt force of the glass from the explosion. She couldn't sleep; she kept replaying what had happened earlier in her head. The fear that had been coursing through her returning whenever she thought about it.
The group from the 55 worked on as the sun came up in the sky. The true extent of the damage to the building was becoming evident during the daylight hours. It looked like a war zone, debris all over the streets, rescue workers working tirelessly going through the building since they didn't know if anyone had been in it when it exploded. Jimmy and several of the guys were combing through the building when they found what caused the explosion. Lying amongst the wreckage were the remnants of a ring of explosives that had been wired in the room. They radioed back letting Lieu know what they'd found and apparently several other guys found the same set up in several other rooms.
It was around noon when they finished searching the building, not finding traces of anyone being in it when it exploded. Everyone headed out and let the arson investigators take over, since its obvious someone had deliberately done this. They stood back and surveyed what the rings of explosives had caused, wondering what else whoever had set this up had in store for them. Would it become a frequent occurrence being called to explosions like this? They all hoped not but only time would tell that one. Before leaving the site, Jimmy headed across the street to check and make sure Kim and the baby were ok.
Kim had gotten up, unable to sleep and looked through the doorway of the nursery looking at the building still smoking from where the flames had been extinguished. She was still shaking a bit when she heard a knock at the door, jumping at the sound.
"Damn girl, get a grip." She told herself as she headed towards the door.
When she opened the door and saw Jimmy on the other side she said, "Jimmy! What are you doing here? Who's with Joey?"
"I came by to see if you were ok. Lt. Johnson called me in the early hours of the morning say they needed extra hands to come help with what was going on across the street so my mom came over to watch Joey so I wouldn't have to get him up." He replied, noticing the cuts she had on the left side of her face and arms.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Shaken up a bit but fine." She replied, seeing him looking at the cuts she'd sustained.
"How'd you get those?" he asked, referring to the cuts.
"I was checking on Keira when the building exploded. I had just picked her up and was flipping through CD's to put one on when the window to the room was blown out." She replied, pushing images of earlier that morning out of her head.
She saw Jimmy's eyes get wide as dinner plates as he asked, "Is the baby ok?"
"She's fine. I took the brunt of the force from the glass, she didn't get a scratch on her." Kim said back.
"Have you slept at all?" he asked in concern.
She shook her head no and replied, "I keep replaying what happened over and over in my head. There's no way I could sleep thinking about that."
Jimmy sighed and said, "Well at least try to get some rest. I'd better be heading out; Joey's probably worried about what's taking so long. He'll probably call over here to make sure you all are ok since this is probably all over the news."
"Ok, I'll see you later," she replied, feeling her eyes getting heavy.
"Take care Kimmy," he said back, heading to go home.
"I will," he heard her reply as he headed for the stairs.
He stopped off at the firehouse and changed clothes and headed home. He called his mother enroute to let her know he was on his way back. He heard Joey talking in the background and could tell he'd seen what had happened during the morning hours on the news when he was flipping channels going to watch some cartoons. When he got home Joey turned to look at him as he came through the door and said, "Is everyone ok at home?"
"Yeah, they all are ok. I checked on them before I left to come home." He replied, seeing the worry not completely gone from Joey's eyes.
"Even Keira?" he asked, searching his father's eyes for an answer.
"She's fine. Your mom wouldn't let anything happen to her." Jimmy replied trying to ease his sons fears, thinking about the cuts she'd received from shielding Keira from the glass.
"Can I call mom and talk to her?" he asked.
"Sure, go ahead." Jimmy replied, heading to talk to his mother.
He found her in the kitchen sipping a cup of coffee at the table.
"Is everything ok? Joey's been worried sick but wouldn't explain why." She told her son as he fixed a cup of coffee for himself.
"Yeah, everything's fine. He's worried because Kim and Bobby live right across the street from where that explosion took place, he was also scared something might have happened to his sister." Jimmy replied sitting down at the table.
"Are they ok?" his mother asked.
"Yeah, Kim got some cuts when the window to the nursery was blown out but the baby's fine. She didn't get a scratch on her." He said back to his mother, looking at Joey sitting on the couch with the phone.
Joey quickly dialed the number on the phone and waited for his mom to pick up. Several rings later, Kim finally answered the phone, responding with hints of exhaustion in her voice.
"Hello," she said into the phone, feeling herself about ready to fall asleep, unable to go on without some kind of sleep.
"Mommy! Are you all ok?" she heard her son exclaim into the phone.
"Yeah baby, were ok." She replied, hearing the fear in his voice.
"What happened?" Joey asked, trying to make sense of what he'd seen on TV.
"I don't know. All I do know is that this morning the building across the street exploded when I went to check on your sister." She replied quietly.
"Is Keira ok?" Joey asked softly.
"She's fine. Everything that happened earlier gave her a big scare but she's sound asleep right now. There's not a scratch on her." Kim replied to her son, hearing him sigh with relief.
Joey could hear the tiredness in his mother's voice and said, "I'd better go. Dad's got lunch ready."
"Ok, baby. Behave for your dad, and I'll see you on Monday. I love you," she said to her son.
"I will. I love you too," Joey replied smiling, relieved that everyone was ok and joined his dad for lunch.
Jimmy's mother had left to go back home and Joey headed into the kitchen, seeing his dad putting cheese pizza bread on plates for the two of them. Jimmy looked over his shoulder, seeing his son coming into the room and said, "How's your mother doing?"
"She said she was fine but she sounded really tired." Joey replied, taking a seat at the table.
"I imagine she is tired, she's been up since the explosion this morning. I don't know what time that happened, but I'm sure she could tell us approximately what time it happened." Jimmy said, putting the plate down in front of his son.
Joey sighed and began to dig into the pizza bread his dad had put in front of him. The two talked back and forth, trying to avoid thinking of the events of this morning.
"What do you want to do for the rest of the day?" Jimmy asked.
"I dunno," Joey replied, finishing up the last bit of pizza bread on his plate.
"Wanna go out to the park and pass a football for a bit?" Jimmy suggested.
"That sounds fun," he replied, putting his plate in the sink.
"Go get ready and we'll head out." Jimmy replied, rinsing off the two plates in the sink.
After Joey was ready, Jimmy grabbed a football from the closet and tucked it under his arm and they headed out to the park for a while.
Upon finishing her conversation with her son, she slowly headed towards his room to check on Keira since that's where they had moved her crib to after the explosion. She was still asleep, and Kim had stretched out across Joey's bed, feeling that she couldn't move any further, her body shutting down due to lack of sleep. Lying on her stomach was the most comfortable position she could find. With the wounds on her left arm and back she couldn't lay on that side, due to the pain that was caused when pressure was applied to the cuts.
Bobby woke up a couple of hours later, seeing Kim not with him made him panic thinking back to this morning. He could still hear her scream echoing in his ears. Instinct told him to look in Joey's room since that was where Keira was, and sure enough there she was. He left the room and grabbed a blanket from the living room and returned, placing it over her as she slept. He gently rubbed his sleeping daughter's stomach and placed a tender kiss on Kim's cheek before going and fixing something to eat.
When Keira began to cry three hours later, Kim woke up thinking of this morning.
"I have got to get a grip on myself." She said to herself, picking Keira up out of the crib. She stretched out on her right side and began to nurse Keira, talking softly to her and gently rubbing her back. Bobby had begun to vacuum up the small pieces of glass on the floor of the nursery after having picked up the larger pieces. He was fortunate Kim hadn't sat down in the rocking chair by the window, because if she had both she and the baby would have been hurt and things would have ended up worse than what they were at the moment.
He knew it would take both of them a while to get over what had happened that morning because neither of them had expected it. Things had been amazing last night, he'd found her going through salsa dance steps and they'd ended up dancing the salsa together for the first time. Not only that, she danced it incredibly well. Like her it had been a while since he'd done the salsa but she moved like no one else he'd ever danced with. Lying together discussing the routine they were going to put together brought a smile to his face, wondering what they would come up with. Then the unthinkable had happened. He'd never been so scared in his life. He couldn't imagine the hurt he would have felt if something had happened to her and Keira, two of the most important people in his life. Hearing her scream combined with the uncontrollable cries of his daughter that morning would be something he would never forget because it had been etched into his memory and knew it had been a miracle neither of them was seriously hurt.
Bobby had been jerked awake when everything began to shake violently. Seeing Kim gone added to the fear, but when he heard her piercing scream from across the hall, his heart just about stopped.
"Were Kim and Keira ok? What the hell had happened outside?" he asked himself, rushing across the hall.
He burst into the room, seeing Kim on the floor, still holding Keira close to her incase there was another explosion. Seeing the window had been blown out and the building across the street partially demolished from some sort of blast. Glass from the window had been blown about 4.5 yards across the room.
"Kim! Are you ok?" he called out rushing over to her, noticing the cuts she'd received from the shards of glass.
"I'll be fine." She replied, her voice shaking as she spoke rising to her feet unsteadily.
He gently helped her up, wrapping an arm around her waist and helped her out of the room and headed towards the living room.
As they sat together, trying to calm Keira who had been scared half out of her mind the phone began to ring. Bobby headed into their bedroom and picked up the cordless while Kim worked on calming down Keira. When he answered he found Kim's mother on the other end.
"Are you all ok?" she asked, pacing the floor of her bedroom after having looked at what had happened outside.
"I'm just now calming down, Kim's shaken up quite a bit since she was checking on Keira when the explosion hit, knocking out the window." Bobby replied, heading back down the hall.
"Did either of them get hurt from the glass?" her mother asked anxiously.
"Keira's fine just scared, Kim got some cuts from the glass though that I'm getting ready to start working on." He replied, getting the supplies together to start cleaning the cuts she had received from the glass.
"Do you want me to come up and watch Keira?" she asked, grabbing some clothes from the closet to put on.
"If you want to that's fine," he replied, heading towards the living room.
"I'll be up shortly as soon as I change." She said back, laying the clothes on the bed.
"Ok, I'll tell her your coming." Bobby replied before hanging up the phone.
After getting everything laid out on the coffee table he said, "That was your mom, she's gonna come up and watch Keira while I work on these cuts you got."
"Ok," she replied, still shaking like a leaf as she sat on the couch.
When Kim's mother arrived, Bobby let her in and they headed to where Kim sat on the couch.
"You ok?" her mother asked, sitting next to her on the couch working on settling down Keira.
"Shaken up but fine," she replied, wincing as Bobby began to work on cleaning the cuts on her back.
Jimmy's phone began to ring in the early hours of the morning after the explosion had hit. He reached out sleepily, picking up the phone and answering in a half asleep voice, "Hello."
"Jimmy, this is Lt. Johnson. I hate to bother you this time of morning but we need everyone we can to come help with a building that was partially demolished when it exploded downtown." Came Lieu's voice over the phone.
"I'll have to see if my mother can come watch Joey, so give me a bit and I'll be down." He replied, stumbling out of bed.
"Just get here as soon as you can," Lieu responded giving Jimmy the address of the building that had exploded.
After hanging up with Lt. Johnson he called his mother to see if she could come watch Joey so he wouldn't have to wake him up. She agreed to come over and watch him and arrived about fifteen minutes later. He left promptly and picked up his gear from the station and drove to the address Lieu had given him.
Carlos was pulling the double with Alex and when they arrived at the scene, they were shocked to see the remnants of the building that had exploded. As Alex turned her head to tell Carlos something she saw Bobby's car parked across the street.
"Shit!" she cursed, looking at the building again and back to Bobby's car.
"What?" asked Carlos, trying to figure out why she'd said that.
"Kim and Bobby live right across the street from what's left of this building!" she exclaimed, digging for her cell phone.
"Are you sure?" Carlos questioned, anxiety building up from finding that bit of information out.
"Yes I'm sure Carlos!" she replied, dialing the number to their apartment.
Bobby heard the phone ringing and answered it, finding Alex on the other end.
"Hey are you all ok up there?" she asked, fidgeting nervously in her seat as she talked to him.
"We're shaken up but fine." He replied, still working on the cuts Kim had gotten from the glass.
"Is the baby ok?" she asked, realizing the nursery was facing the building that had exploded.
"She's scared but fine. Kim was checking on her when the explosion hit." He replied.
"Do you all need anything?" she asked, getting out of the bus, hearing Kim say something about stopping in the background.
"Not at the moment," he said back.
"What's she talking about?" Alex asked, not sure what Kim had meant by that.
"Oh, she got cut up a bit from the glass in the window when it got blown out in the explosion and I was working on cleaning them up but I think she's reached her wits end with the stinging from the antiseptic." He replied, heading back towards the nursery and looking out the window seeing all the emergency vehicles filling the street; "You all need any help down there?"
"Not at the moment, if we do I'll give you a call though." She replied, getting stuff out of the back of the ambulance.
"Ok, I'll talk to you later then," he said, leaving the room and heading back down the hall.
"Ok. Bye," Alex replied, putting her cell phone back in her pocket and heading towards Carlos.
Carlos saw her coming and said, "Are they ok up there?"
"Yeah, they're fine. Except Kim got hit with some shards of glass when the window to the nursery got blown out during the explosion." She replied.
"The baby ok?" he asked.
"Scared but not hurt." Alex said back, heading towards the building seeing where they were needed.
When Jimmy arrived at the address he had to park down the street and walk there were so many emergency vehicles that had responded. As he walked he saw the remnants of the building and asked aloud, "What the hell happened here?"
He caught sight of Alex and Carlos and said, "Hey Alex! What on earth happened?"
While talking to Alex he saw Bobby's car parked across the street and said, "Please don't tell me that's his car."
"It is. I've already talked to them and they're all fine." Alex replied.
Jimmy sighed with relief and headed towards the rest of the group from the 55.
Keira finally settled down and went back to sleep after the hair-raising ordeal she'd been through. Kim's mother headed back home relieved that everyone was ok. Bobby finished up working on the cuts Kim had gotten and said, "Why don't we try and go back to sleep."
"I don't know if I can go to sleep after having gone through that," she replied, as he pulled her up off the couch.
"Everything will be fine, you'll see." He said softly.
They moved the crib into Joey's room since he was staying with Jimmy for the weekend, since for obvious reasons they didn't feel comfortable leaving her in the nursery after what had happened. As she tried to go back to sleep, she lay on her right side, since the left side of her arm and back took the brunt force of the glass from the explosion. She couldn't sleep; she kept replaying what had happened earlier in her head. The fear that had been coursing through her returning whenever she thought about it.
The group from the 55 worked on as the sun came up in the sky. The true extent of the damage to the building was becoming evident during the daylight hours. It looked like a war zone, debris all over the streets, rescue workers working tirelessly going through the building since they didn't know if anyone had been in it when it exploded. Jimmy and several of the guys were combing through the building when they found what caused the explosion. Lying amongst the wreckage were the remnants of a ring of explosives that had been wired in the room. They radioed back letting Lieu know what they'd found and apparently several other guys found the same set up in several other rooms.
It was around noon when they finished searching the building, not finding traces of anyone being in it when it exploded. Everyone headed out and let the arson investigators take over, since its obvious someone had deliberately done this. They stood back and surveyed what the rings of explosives had caused, wondering what else whoever had set this up had in store for them. Would it become a frequent occurrence being called to explosions like this? They all hoped not but only time would tell that one. Before leaving the site, Jimmy headed across the street to check and make sure Kim and the baby were ok.
Kim had gotten up, unable to sleep and looked through the doorway of the nursery looking at the building still smoking from where the flames had been extinguished. She was still shaking a bit when she heard a knock at the door, jumping at the sound.
"Damn girl, get a grip." She told herself as she headed towards the door.
When she opened the door and saw Jimmy on the other side she said, "Jimmy! What are you doing here? Who's with Joey?"
"I came by to see if you were ok. Lt. Johnson called me in the early hours of the morning say they needed extra hands to come help with what was going on across the street so my mom came over to watch Joey so I wouldn't have to get him up." He replied, noticing the cuts she had on the left side of her face and arms.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Shaken up a bit but fine." She replied, seeing him looking at the cuts she'd sustained.
"How'd you get those?" he asked, referring to the cuts.
"I was checking on Keira when the building exploded. I had just picked her up and was flipping through CD's to put one on when the window to the room was blown out." She replied, pushing images of earlier that morning out of her head.
She saw Jimmy's eyes get wide as dinner plates as he asked, "Is the baby ok?"
"She's fine. I took the brunt of the force from the glass, she didn't get a scratch on her." Kim said back.
"Have you slept at all?" he asked in concern.
She shook her head no and replied, "I keep replaying what happened over and over in my head. There's no way I could sleep thinking about that."
Jimmy sighed and said, "Well at least try to get some rest. I'd better be heading out; Joey's probably worried about what's taking so long. He'll probably call over here to make sure you all are ok since this is probably all over the news."
"Ok, I'll see you later," she replied, feeling her eyes getting heavy.
"Take care Kimmy," he said back, heading to go home.
"I will," he heard her reply as he headed for the stairs.
He stopped off at the firehouse and changed clothes and headed home. He called his mother enroute to let her know he was on his way back. He heard Joey talking in the background and could tell he'd seen what had happened during the morning hours on the news when he was flipping channels going to watch some cartoons. When he got home Joey turned to look at him as he came through the door and said, "Is everyone ok at home?"
"Yeah, they all are ok. I checked on them before I left to come home." He replied, seeing the worry not completely gone from Joey's eyes.
"Even Keira?" he asked, searching his father's eyes for an answer.
"She's fine. Your mom wouldn't let anything happen to her." Jimmy replied trying to ease his sons fears, thinking about the cuts she'd received from shielding Keira from the glass.
"Can I call mom and talk to her?" he asked.
"Sure, go ahead." Jimmy replied, heading to talk to his mother.
He found her in the kitchen sipping a cup of coffee at the table.
"Is everything ok? Joey's been worried sick but wouldn't explain why." She told her son as he fixed a cup of coffee for himself.
"Yeah, everything's fine. He's worried because Kim and Bobby live right across the street from where that explosion took place, he was also scared something might have happened to his sister." Jimmy replied sitting down at the table.
"Are they ok?" his mother asked.
"Yeah, Kim got some cuts when the window to the nursery was blown out but the baby's fine. She didn't get a scratch on her." He said back to his mother, looking at Joey sitting on the couch with the phone.
Joey quickly dialed the number on the phone and waited for his mom to pick up. Several rings later, Kim finally answered the phone, responding with hints of exhaustion in her voice.
"Hello," she said into the phone, feeling herself about ready to fall asleep, unable to go on without some kind of sleep.
"Mommy! Are you all ok?" she heard her son exclaim into the phone.
"Yeah baby, were ok." She replied, hearing the fear in his voice.
"What happened?" Joey asked, trying to make sense of what he'd seen on TV.
"I don't know. All I do know is that this morning the building across the street exploded when I went to check on your sister." She replied quietly.
"Is Keira ok?" Joey asked softly.
"She's fine. Everything that happened earlier gave her a big scare but she's sound asleep right now. There's not a scratch on her." Kim replied to her son, hearing him sigh with relief.
Joey could hear the tiredness in his mother's voice and said, "I'd better go. Dad's got lunch ready."
"Ok, baby. Behave for your dad, and I'll see you on Monday. I love you," she said to her son.
"I will. I love you too," Joey replied smiling, relieved that everyone was ok and joined his dad for lunch.
Jimmy's mother had left to go back home and Joey headed into the kitchen, seeing his dad putting cheese pizza bread on plates for the two of them. Jimmy looked over his shoulder, seeing his son coming into the room and said, "How's your mother doing?"
"She said she was fine but she sounded really tired." Joey replied, taking a seat at the table.
"I imagine she is tired, she's been up since the explosion this morning. I don't know what time that happened, but I'm sure she could tell us approximately what time it happened." Jimmy said, putting the plate down in front of his son.
Joey sighed and began to dig into the pizza bread his dad had put in front of him. The two talked back and forth, trying to avoid thinking of the events of this morning.
"What do you want to do for the rest of the day?" Jimmy asked.
"I dunno," Joey replied, finishing up the last bit of pizza bread on his plate.
"Wanna go out to the park and pass a football for a bit?" Jimmy suggested.
"That sounds fun," he replied, putting his plate in the sink.
"Go get ready and we'll head out." Jimmy replied, rinsing off the two plates in the sink.
After Joey was ready, Jimmy grabbed a football from the closet and tucked it under his arm and they headed out to the park for a while.
Upon finishing her conversation with her son, she slowly headed towards his room to check on Keira since that's where they had moved her crib to after the explosion. She was still asleep, and Kim had stretched out across Joey's bed, feeling that she couldn't move any further, her body shutting down due to lack of sleep. Lying on her stomach was the most comfortable position she could find. With the wounds on her left arm and back she couldn't lay on that side, due to the pain that was caused when pressure was applied to the cuts.
Bobby woke up a couple of hours later, seeing Kim not with him made him panic thinking back to this morning. He could still hear her scream echoing in his ears. Instinct told him to look in Joey's room since that was where Keira was, and sure enough there she was. He left the room and grabbed a blanket from the living room and returned, placing it over her as she slept. He gently rubbed his sleeping daughter's stomach and placed a tender kiss on Kim's cheek before going and fixing something to eat.
When Keira began to cry three hours later, Kim woke up thinking of this morning.
"I have got to get a grip on myself." She said to herself, picking Keira up out of the crib. She stretched out on her right side and began to nurse Keira, talking softly to her and gently rubbing her back. Bobby had begun to vacuum up the small pieces of glass on the floor of the nursery after having picked up the larger pieces. He was fortunate Kim hadn't sat down in the rocking chair by the window, because if she had both she and the baby would have been hurt and things would have ended up worse than what they were at the moment.
He knew it would take both of them a while to get over what had happened that morning because neither of them had expected it. Things had been amazing last night, he'd found her going through salsa dance steps and they'd ended up dancing the salsa together for the first time. Not only that, she danced it incredibly well. Like her it had been a while since he'd done the salsa but she moved like no one else he'd ever danced with. Lying together discussing the routine they were going to put together brought a smile to his face, wondering what they would come up with. Then the unthinkable had happened. He'd never been so scared in his life. He couldn't imagine the hurt he would have felt if something had happened to her and Keira, two of the most important people in his life. Hearing her scream combined with the uncontrollable cries of his daughter that morning would be something he would never forget because it had been etched into his memory and knew it had been a miracle neither of them was seriously hurt.