Chapter Eleven: Terrible Tuesday

The night wore on and the only Kinkirk who actually got any sleep was Jennie, oblivious to all that was happening, she sleep peacefully through the night. To say that the night was a preview of what would happen in the morning would be an understatement.

As morning came no one felt like getting up. Kevin called in sick and decided that he would settle all this today. Lucy who had a much different plan awoke as normal made Josh breakfast and Jennie a bottle. She went into Jennie's room and fed the baby before releasing her to play. Carrying the tray of toast, Lucy unlocked Josh's room and made her way inside. To her surprise, he was up.

"Do I have to go to school today." Josh asked, trying to avoid the subject on both their minds.

"No, sweety you were up pretty late and look really tired, so after we talk you can go back to sleep." Lucy replied showing that a talk would not be avoided as he had hoped.

"About what?," Josh asked slyly.

"About what you saw and heard last night, you know whether or not your upset you are not allowed to listen in on mommy and daddy's conversations. It is wrong, we taught you better and you know that when you do something wrong you get punished sweety, so no t.v. for today got it." Lucy said.

"Fine."

"About what you heard, now me and daddy will talk and I'm sure we will be upstairs in a while to talk things over with you."

"Who is Mindy?" Josh asked in a low voice, "and why did she make you cry?"

"Sweety, Uh, um, how bout you stay and enjoy your breakfast while I talk to daddy and he will tell you everything,"

Josh stared into Lucy's teary eyes and gave her a reply that shocked her, "NO, I hate daddy, and I will not talk to him. He made you afraid and then he lied, I bet he does not love any of us, he just wants to be with Mindy and her kids right, Like Stacy's daddy, who only talks to her and not Greg."

Josh struggled to pour out what he thought of his dad, but finally got the words out. Once he was done he ran into his bathroom and locked the door.

Lucy stared silently at the bathroom door, though it took her a while she made sense of all the 7 year old had said. She stayed there for several minutes in what seemed like a trance until Jennie's distant tears broke her out of it. Immediately she ran out of Josh's room and into Jennie's where she found the bloody baby crying in her father's arms.

"What happened," Lucy yelled.

"I have no idea I was in the bedroom and heard her cry so I came in and found her like this." Kevin replied while heading to the car with Jennie in his hands.

"I thought you were watching her Kevin, I can't believe you. What are you trying to do to us. Josh can't stand you, I hate you and Jennie got hurt because of your recklessness. The two climbed in the car along with the kids and continued to argue inside. Finally they made their way into the hospital and Jennie was pulled away by doctors. Josh who could not stand his parents arguing, left to find his Uncle Matt. Leaving only Lucy and Kevin in the waiting room fighting over what had happened.

"What if she is seriously hurt Kevin what will we do, I can't lose her."

"She'll be okay, I'm sure. The doctor will be out soon and we will take her home," Kevin said mostly assuring himself rather than Lucy.

"What do you know, what made you an expert on our kids."

"Luce calm down okay, we're in a bad situation arguing will only makes it worse. Right?"His question went unanswered as Matt and Josh made their way down the hall. "Hey what's going on, what happened to Jennie?" Matt asked because he understood very little of what his fear stricken nephew had said.

Lucy ran into her older brother's arms and cried sobs while telling all that happened. Kevin was now in more pain. How could he at a time like this not be able to calm down his wife. It was his job, so, why did he suck at it so badly?