I felt seen as people seemed to like it I should upload another chapter so people could get a good feeling for the story? Okay well here goes nothing! Reviews and messages and such are great fully accepted!
Maura gazed up at the 4 year olds face praying that she wouldn't grow up to resent her. The realisation that there was blood pooling out of her didn't come until there was a ringing noise bouncing off the walls of the living room where the telephone is kept.
Arabella rushed over to the phone as fast as her little legs would take her and pressed the green button to answer the phone which usually her mother would forbid her from but even her 4 year old self could sense this could be an exception.
"Hello?... Grandmother! Please you have to come and help!... Mummy fell down the stairs...Okay I'll put her on"
The little 4 year old couldn't understand what had happened and just wanted her mother to stop bleeding. Arabella managed to get back to her mother as fast as she could and placed the phone in her mothers shaking hand.
Maura knew the minute Arabella answered the house phone it would be her mother and she couldn't be anymore relieved. All Maura wanted now was her mother to cuddle her and tell her everything would be alright.
"Maura darling! How hurt are you?" Constance rushed out without taking a breath, Maura could hear the sound of a car door slamming and keys being shaken around. By this point Maura had managed to pull herself up to sit against the wall next to the stairs, trying not to panic at the amount of blood on the hard wood floor of the corridor.
"Mummy, I need you, please!" Maura sobbed down the phone to her mother, something Maura would never do in front of anyone. Constance's heart felt as though it was in a vice being wound up tighter and tighter the more she heard Maura breaking down in tears down the phone.
"Maura sweetie, I'm on my way right now I'm just 5 minutes away okay? I'm going to phone an ambu-"
"NO! Mother please just hurry here please" Maura cried down the phone. Arabella had shifted so she was tightly curled around Maura, clinging onto Maura's frame so tightly as though if she let go Maura would disappear.
"Okay okay, I'm just a minute away okay? I'll be right there!" Constance could hardly see through her tears but managed to pull into Maura's street.
Constance stayed on the phone but could no longer speak through the lump that had formed in her throat. Constance could hear Arabella trying to calm down Maura but the hyperventilating continued. Constance stumbled out of her car and thanked god she was just staying 5 minutes in a hotel as she had an art installation show this weekend. Running up the path to the front door of her daughters house, Constance steeled herself for what she may was about to witness when she opened the door.
The air was knocked out of Constance's lungs. The scene right before her eyes was the final straw, she couldn't break down now; Maura and Arabella needed her.
"MAURA I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DON'T STOP CRYING I'M GOING T-" Ian screamed as he opened the door of the main bedroom and marched to the top of the stairs only to be confronted with the murderous stare of Constance Isles at the bottom of the stairs.
"YOU!" Constance's finger pointed right at Ian "If you don't get out of this house right now I will have the police here faster than you can click your fingers!" The ice cold tone used by Constance only made the statement ever more threatening.
"Daddy why do you always have to hurt Mummy?" Arabella sobbed into the chest of her mother who she refused to let go despite Constance trying to determine the extent of Maura's injuries which at a glance, she knew they needed to get to the hospital now.
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"Janie I swear it's like your face is a magnet to my elbow!" Frankie jested as Jane sat with a bag of frozen peas to her nose.
All Jane could do was glare at her younger brother as the bag of peas did nothing to alleviate the pain of what she was sure was a broken nose due to a rough game of basketball in her Ma's garden.
"Thank god Ma isn't here, can you imagine?" Jane commented knowing if her Ma was there with them she would be cursing Jane for being too rough with her brothers as always.
"Let me see it" Frankie said even though he was already removing the bag from Janes face.
"OWWWWW! Do you mind? I don't want it to get worse ya jackass" Jane said through gritted teeth as she tried but failed to grin and bear the pain.
"C'mon I'll take you to the hospital, they should be able to pop it back into place right?"
"Ugh I hate hospitals! Let's just get in and out okay."
This should be eventful, Jane thought as she entered Frankies car.