Hey. I really just needed a fun chapter for this story so i decided what the heck. This is a random chap... that is all.
xoxo Jules
Chapter 23: "I know exactly how this works"
After leaving lunch with Marissa Summer decided to go to the hospital to visit Seth. She checked in at the hotel and then cautiously entered the room. It was the first time that she had seen Seth since the accident.
He was lying in the bed, very bruised looking. He had tubes coming out of every where. A big monitor stood next to him that kept track of his heart rate. Summer was a little hesitant about approaching him… he looked so fragile…
"Seth." She said pulling a chair beside his bed. "It's me, Summer." She said now unsure what else to say.
"Ella is at school, I am going to go pick her up soon. She misses you. You've been a great dad Seth. It doesn't seem fair, you in that bed and me here… you have done so much more good then I ever will."
The doctor entered the room.
"Hi." The woman said smiling at Summer.
"How is he?" She asked
"He is doing better than we expected. We expect to be able to let him come out of the coma in a week or two, after which he will stay in the hospital in recovery for awhile, and then he can go home. He'll be as good as new."
"I was thinking about bringing his daughter by." Summer said
"I'm sorry, it's against hospital policy to have children in the ICU." She said sympathetically. "But when Seth is in more stable condition she can visit him as she pleases."
Summer nodded. She visited with Seth awhile longer until she had to go pick up Ella from school. She saw Ella sitting outside of the building on the curb waiting for her. Her curly hair was a tangled mass on her head. She shot Summer an angry glare as she got out of her car.
"Ella, I'm so sorry I'm late." Summer said
"Dad, Marissa, and Noah are never late to pick me up!" She said through gritted teeth
"I am sorry! It won't happen again!" Summer tried to insist to the small girl.
"I want to go home! I want to go see my dad!" Ella yelled.
"You can't do that right now. Your dad is in the hospital Ella!" Summer said
"No! I'm not going to go with you! I want my dad!" She yelled, the two were beginning to cause a scene.
"Ella I can not do this with you right now, get in the car, we have to go." Summer said picking up Ella who fought in her arms. "ELLA!" Summer yelled to the girl tossing her into the backseat.
Summer drove to the apartment trying to ignore the angry child's screams that were coming from the backseat.
That whole night Ella spent ignoring Summer. She refused to look at her, and she resfused to talk to her. Summer got to the point where she couldn't take it anymore. It was about 9:00 when she went into Ellas room to find her lying in the bed with her eyes squeezed shut.
"What are you doing Bam?" Summer asked Ella as she sat down on the bed next to her.
"Sush." Ella snapped silently
"Not until you tell me what you're doing." Summer said
"I am putting myself in a coma." Ella said turning over looking at her mother. "You said it was like fallin' asleep right?"
"I said kind of Ella. You can't… put yourself in a coma."
"Well then how did daddy get in one?" She asked looking up at Summer, their dark eyes meeting.
"Remember, we talked about it, the car accident." Summer explained.
"Was you in a coma all the time you was gone that's why you didn't see me?" Ella asked seriously
"I guess that you could say so." Summer said beginning to get kind of uncomfortable
"Where'd you get me from?" Ella asked
Summers thoughts stopped, had Ella really just asked… the question
"What do you mean?"
"Where did I come from?" She asked more clearly
"The stork." She said shortly
"No I didn't. Their mouths aren't big enough to carry babies." Ella pointed out
Summer sighed.
"You came from my tummy like Marissa has babies in her tummy now." Summer tried to reason so that a six-year-old could understand.
"How did I get in your tummy?"
"You grew there." Summer said.
"Like a seed?" Ella asked
"EXACTLY!" Summer said glad that the little girl had found the words for her.
"Well then who planted me?" Ella asked
Summer paused again
"Daddy right?" She asked
"Yeah, your daddy planted you in me…" Summer said thinking that that would be the end of it
"How?" Ella asked.
Summer figured that there was no way of getting around this.
"Bam, have you ever heard of the word sex before?" She said as the little girl looked up at her quizzically
The next morning Marissa came over to pick up Ella and take her to school. Ella and Summer had done better that morning. She had her hair in two curly pig tails and looked completely dressed by Summer in a yellow polo shirt, and tan shorts, and as usual a skateboard under her arm. When Marissa knocked at the door Ella answered.
"Hi!" Ella said smiling brightly, a huge transition from the day before.
"Hi!" Marissa said as Ella felt her belly. Ella leaned closer to it. "Hi babies!" She whispered. "Aunt 'Rissa, cause you have two babies in your tummy does that mean you had more sex with Uncle Ryan?"
"WHAT!" Marissa asked in shock
"Did you?" Ella asked
"SUMMER!" Marissa yelled, "what the hell did you do with your daughter."
"What, why?" Summer said walking into the room.
"Because she just asked me how much I sleep with Ryan." Marissa said laughing
Ella tugged on Marissa shirt.
"Mom said that you don't gotta be 'shamed of your sex'ality." She said proud that she had learned a new word.
Marissa and Summer busted out in laughter.
No, It can't get much more random. Anyway for anyone that read "Teach me to Believe in Something," one of my older stories I have decided to continue the sequal. Ther next chapter should be up by the end of the week. I am typing it now. Anyone who has read it or has any feelings or w.e about that tell me in a review. Oh yeah, also R&R this chapter.
xoxo Jules