Yikes. I hadn't meant to post that chapter as the last one. I did a really good rewrite of it and am not at all happy with the version that went up. Oh well, too late. :(
xoxo Jules
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Chapter 10: "I just need to get over"
"What do you mean sick?" Jessie asked becoming worried looking over at Katie holding the little boy.
"What do you mean what do I mean sick?" Katie snapped. "Sorry." She said, she must not have gotten enough sleep. "It's just that he's really warm and he won't take his bottle." Katie said
"What should we do?" Jessie asked
"I don't know! I hadn't even held a baby until Ethan!"
"Um…" Jessie said looking around an grabbing a piece of paper off of the counter. "The pediatrician." She said as she dialed the number from the paper. "Um hi, … alright I'll hold." Katie watched as Jessie twirled the phone cord between her fingers. "yeah, alright…. Thanks…. I think my little brother has a fever and he is really hot…. No he didn't take a bottle…. 3 weeks old… oh no, my parents aren't home…. Hold on I'll ask," Jessie turned to Katie, "is his nose running?" She asked
"No!" Katie yelled "Oh wait!" She said looking closer. "No, never mind!" She said
"No his nose isn't running…. I don't know how long he's been crying like this, I just got home….. He was born premature… About a month I guess…. Oh okay, alright…. I will. Thank you." Jessie said hanging up the phone.
"What did they say?" Katie asked shifting the baby over her shoulder.
"They said to watch him carefully for the next couple of hours and give him medicine. We also have to try to get him to drink formula so that he doesn't dehydrate." Jessie rattled off.
"Where do you keep the medicine?" Katie asked
"Um, I don't think that we have any!" Jessie said bouncing Ethan around the room trying to get him to calm down.
"I'll run to the store and get some." Katie said kissing Jessie's cheek quickly before dashing outside.
---- Katie was sitting on the floor of the grocery store in frustration trying to read the small print on the back of all of the medicine boxes. She was receiving weird stares from everyone that passed.
"Katie?" A male voice said from behind her
"Tad! Thank god." She said "Do you know anything about babies and medicine?"
"Do I look like I do?" Tad asked staring down at Katie.
"Good point!" Katie said focusing once again on the boxes.
"So what's wrong with the kid anyway?" Tad asked joining Katie on the floor.
"I have no idea." Katie said looking up at Tad with big blue eyes.
---- Katie ended up buying three different kinds of medicine, as she passed her house on the way to Jessie's she noticed that the red flag was up on her mailbox. She stopped quickly and got the mail, not even bothering to get out of the car.
"George Washington University." Katie said looking down at the package that was in her hand
She had applied there some time ago, before anything happened with Jessie, before she even knew her even… Katie fumbled with the package before she finally got it open… She took a deep breath before she read
"Congratulations on your acceptance to George Washington University…" Katie gasped. She walked slowly back into the Sammler house… what was she going to do? Jessie was in no position to be left alone, but college was her future… but Jessie was her future too, at least she hoped. "Billie?" Katie called when she entered
"Hey Katie." Jessie said coming out of the kitchen, Ethan balanced in one arm.
"How is he?" Katie asked as Jessie handed her the infant.
"Alright, he's been eating a little." Jessie said.
"Good." Katie said
Jessie looked at Katie, she could tell that there was something wrong. Katie Singer was never quiet. Her big blues eyes seemed to be focused on nothing, and something at the same time.
"Katie, are you okay?"
"Yeah Billie. I'm fine." Katie said nodding trying to assure Jessie, but she wasn't convinced.
"You're quiet." Jessie said
"Yeah, I'm just tired." Katie said
"Hey, did you get the medicine?" Jessie asked looking around seeing no bag
"Oh yeah, I think that I left it in the car."
"I'm going to go get it." Jessie said kissing Katie quickly before she went out to the car.
"What am I going to do Ethan?" Katie asked lying the baby down in the living room in the bassinet that Lily and Rick had set up there.
She walked out the bag door and pulled a cigarette out of her pocket. She drew in her breath deeply. The moon was as full as ever. The full moon never brought Katie good luck. It was under a full moon that she broke her wrist when she slipped on black ice, and got lost with her brothers in the woods and nearly froze to death. It was under a full moon that her father disowned her for being gay… No, for Katherine Singer the full moon was not a good thing.
"Katie." Jessie said coming up from behind her.
"Jess!" Katie said swinging around dropping her cigarette. Jessie was holding the letter in her hand.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jessie asked
"It's no big deal." Katie said shrugging
"If it was no big deal you would have told me and you WOULDN'T be out here smoking. Katie, something's going on. Talk to me."
