Chapter Three

All my fault

"This is all my fault!" Derek stated sitting on the couch next to Casey.

"No it's not. It was an accident. It's no one's fault, not even Marti's." Casey said to Derek.

"Yeah, but if we had watched her more carefully then she could be home right now." Derek argued.

"She'll be fine don't worry. Ok? Tomorrow after school we'll go back to the hospital." Casey said reassuringly.

"Whatever." Derek said glumly.

The Next Day at School

"Any news on Marti?" Sam asked Derek at his locker.

"No, not yet. I can't believe this happened. I'm so irresponsible." Derek said slamming his head into his locker.

"Dude, it's all my fault, too. I was helping remember?" Sam replied.

"No, it's no one's fault, according to Casey." Derek said.

Sam nods. "I'm going to class. Bye." Sam stated.

"Bye." Derek said walking off to his own class.

In the middle of Derek's math class there was a knock at the door. Derek's teacher got up and answered to find the principal at the door.

"Is a Derek Venturi in here?" The principal asked.

"Yeah, I'm here. What's wrong?" Derek asked nervously.

"It's about your younger sister Marti. Your parents are here to pick you up along with your sister Casey." The principal replied.

Derek nodded gathering up all his books getting concerned looks from his classmates. Derek walked into the hallway to find, Nora, his dad, Lizzie, Edwin, and Casey with smiles on their faces.

"What's up?" Derek asked.

"Marti, woke up. She's going to be fine." Nora said smiling.

A wide smile spread over Derek's face. After one tough week of Marti being in a terrible coma with slim chances of survival this was the best news he'd heard all week.

"I have to go tell Sam." Derek said while running off to his English class. Derek calmly knocked on the door excitement building up inside of him.

"Derek? Shouldn't you be in class?" The teacher asked.

"Can I talk to Sam for a minute? It's an emergency." Derek said quickly.

"One minute." The teacher said.

Sam got out of his seat and swept by the teacher into the hallway with Derek.

"Is everything ok?" Sam asked nervously wondering if this had to do with Marti.

"Marti woke up! Nora says that the doctors said that she'll be ok!" Derek said happily.

"Dude that's great. I wish I could get out of school, but I obviously can't. I'll be there though right after school, ok?" Sam asked glad that Marti was finally going to be ok.

"Yeah, that's fine. I have to go to the hospital now." Derek said running down the hall to where is family was at.

"Sam is going to come by after school, let' go to the hospital."

The happy family walked down the halls towards the lobby. Marti is ok, everyone though to themselves cheerfully. They don't know what they'd do without that cheerful six year old in there lives.

AN: Well, Marti is ok! Yay! Lol I hoped you liked it and that it wasn't too cheesy, I wasn't about to kill of Marti. Some reviews would be nice ! 5 or so? Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far! You guys rock! haha