Chapter 7 Sick and shopping
Hige ran down the stairs as fast as his legs would carry him. He saw his mother sitting at the kitchen table. She looked his way- somehow she can always tell when he enters the room.
"Honey, the birthday-boy has finally woken up." she said cheerfully to her husband across the room at the stove.
"Hey there Champ." said the husband looking at the four-year-old boy in the doorway. "You had your mother and me thinking that you'd never wake up for your presents." the man said pointing over to a huge stack of rapped presents on the table. The boy's eyes light up and he jumped all over the kitchen.
"Yey, presents, presents, presents!" the boy said in a sing-song voice. The father laughed at the young boy's energy and pure joy over something so simple as a few presents. The man's laughing and the room slowly faded into darkness as the boy now seventeen opened his eyes to see his mother oldered and more expirenced with life turning off his alarm clock. He sat up feeling a ringing unbareable pain in his head. He grabbed hi head and winced in pain as his mother came rushing to him with a worried expression on her face.
"Lay back down, Honey." she said placing a hand on his shoulder. He lied back down under his mother's touch. "Feels like you still have a fever." she said now with her hadne on hie forehead.
"What do you mean still?" Hige questioned with his eyes begining to widen.
"You've been sick for a week now, don't you remember?" she said not knowing how someone could forget laying in bed all day with a fever that burned your hand to the touch.
"A whole WEEk?" He said a little to loudly for his aching head.
"Hush, now please get some sleep." she said leaving the room and closing the door behind her. Hige drifted off to sleep thinking of only his promise to Blue.
Blue walked through the mall along with Khiana, Callie, and Jackie. She was slightly upset that she hadn't seen Hige yet. She kept telling herself that He probably couldn't find her or that he was still sleeping even though it was already ten o'clock and most people got out of bed berore that. They walked past a bench with a boy who had redish-brown hair was sitting next to a girl with dark brown hair.
"Hey Blue." the boy yelled who Blue knew to be Toboe Hige's cousin, but the girl who held onto his hand she had never seen before.
"What is it Toboe?" she asked kindly.
"It's about Hige. He sick and he can't get out of the house. I just thought you should know." He said. This piece of information made blue happier because she knew that Toboe wasn't the type of person to lie for someone.
"Thank you for telling me Toboe. I hope he gets better soon." Blue said and nodded to the younger boy before going off with her friends.
"Wasn't that Leara?" Jackie asked Khiana.
"Yeah I think it was but who was that boy with her." Khiana said looking back at the boy and the girl.
"That was Toboe. He's my bofriend's cousin." Blue informed them. "WHo Leara?"
"She Khiana's old roommate. Her perants let her go to a regular school right before you came along." Jackie told Blue.
"Come on. Let's go." said a rather annoied Callie.
Hige woke up a few hours later hearing someone walking in the hallway. The door opened a in came Toboe.
"Hige?" Toboe said. Hige looked at him to acknowledge him. "I told Blue about you being sick."
"Thanks Toboe." Hige said happy that Blue wouldn't be mad at him for breaking his promise to her.
"Anyway, Aunt Karen said that dinner done and you can come and get it." Hige nodded anf followed his cousin down the stairs. Once he reached the botoom he saw a man with sandy blonde hair sitting in the living room with his mother. The man looked at him and smiled warmly.
"Hey there Hige." He said getting up from his seat.
"Dad?"
Blue, Jackie, and Khiana were dragged by Callie into a gothic clothing store. Callie claimed that she was just going to take a look but the minute they stepped in the store she ran to every clothes rack and grabbed almost everything on it to try it out. Which left everyone else to sit around and watch her come out saying that one didn't look good or that it was perfect. After about an hour of this they ghot tried of it.
"Callie hurry up or we'll leave you behind." Jackie said dully.
"Fine, fine just let me pay for this stuff and we can go." Callie said bring a huge pile of clothes to the lady at the cash reguisiter. They left the mall soon after carring five bags each- not every bag was Callie's. Blue and Khiana retreated to their room throwing the bags on the floor to sort out later.
"Chrisimas break is coming soon any plans?" Khiana asked Blue.
"No not really. You?" Blue said sitting down on her bed.
"Not a one. I'm not going home. I talked it out with the principal and they agreed to let me stay here. I thik that Callie is staying as well."
"I'll come visit you if pops will let me." Blue said.
"Thanks you're so sweet Blue."
"Yeah." Blue said and fell asleep/
A/N: Sorry if it's shorter than the others but I'm lucky to have this much of the story done. Just so you know I planning to have only three more chapters. I know It's almost done so sad. :( Tear. Please Review. Intill next time. See Ya.