[November 4th, 2021]
Farkle's POV
Today is KC's Twenty-Second birthday. I'm glad that she doesn't have classes on Thursday because she can relax today. I let her sleep-in and got Aaron breakfast and started his schooling. I made her breakfast and put it in a heat saving container and put it by our bed for when she wakes up.
Riley's POV
I woke up and remembered it's KC's birthday today. I sent her a text telling her happy birthday.
KC's POV
I woke up to balloons by the bed. I looked on the nightstand and saw crepes with peanut butter and bananas, my favorite. I remembered my first birthday with my family after I moved to New York.
"KC, Wake up!" I woke up to Maya yelling at me.
"Morning," I told her after opening my eyes.
"Happy birthday!"
I looked over and saw crepes with peanut butter and bananas. I smiled like crazy. I had told her they were my favorite breakfast food. Rachel had taught me to make them.
Then I remembered what else happened that day.
"I'm going to get some punch," I said, as I was sitting next to Derrick. I stood up and he forcefully pulled me onto his lap. This hadn't been the first time. I snapped at him to let go, but I had to break free from his grasp on my hips. After I went to the punch, I stayed by it because I didn't want to be around him. My mind wandered, but I snapped back to reality when I heard Lucas tell Derrick to let go of someone. I saw it was Farkle. I told him to let go of him.
"Fine!" Derrick told me. "We need to talk." I was terrified if he meant what he usually did when he said he wanted to talk. He grabbed my arm and pulled me into the hallway. He shoved me against the wall. "You're cheating on me, aren't you?!" He questioned me in an angry whisper. He had his hand on my neck.
"No," I told him. He started choking me.
"You're such a liar!" He yelled at me.
I pushed his hand away.
"No I'm not!" I yelled.
"You're a cheating, lying—"
"I'm not lying to you, Derrick!" I yelled back. "He's one of my friends."
He kept calling me a liar, then left.
I shook my head. I shouldn't be thinking about that, I thought. I grabbed the breakfast Farkle made and ate it happily.
Maya's POV
I put the charm bracelet back in its box and grabbed the wrapping paper. I made sure to use green, her favorite color, for the wrapping paper and put a golden bow.
"I thought she said not to get anything this year," Josh said.
"Yeah, she did, but I'm her sister," I said. "I don't listen to her with stuff like this."
KC's POV
I looked at the clock and saw it was already 10am. I got out of bed and went into the living room.
Farkle's POV
KC came into the living room.
"Shouldn't you already be in class?" She asked.
"I took a sick day," I said.
"Well thank you for the birthday breakfast," she told me, kissing me on the lips.
"No problem," he said. "That's not the end of your present."
"What do you mean?" She asked. There was a knock at the door.
KC's POV
I looked at Farkle, curiously. I walked to the door and opened it.
"Marley!" I yelled happily. We embraced each other. "What are you doing here?!"
"I missed your 21st birthday," she said. "I had to make your 22nd." She looked at my bump. "Apparently I missed a lot." We both laughed.
"Now go have fun!" Farkle said. "I've got Aaron covered."
I walked out with Marley.
"He always does so much for my birthday," I said. "It's so weird, because before I came here, the only ones that made somewhat of an effort on my birthday were the Friars."
"So is it a girl or a boy?" Marley asked.
"A girl," I said. "I actually wanted to ask you, would you be her Godmother?"
"I'd be honored," she said. We went to her car and went to the bowling alley.
When we were bowling, we started talking.
"So there's this live band playing in central park this afternoon," Marley said. "You wanna go?"
"Definitely." I looked over and saw Maya coming our way.
"Hey sis, what are you doing here?"
"Farkle said you'd be here," she said. She handed me a box wrapped in green wrapping paper.
"I told you not to get me anything, Maya," I said.
"You know I never listen," she said. "Hey Marley."
"Hey Maya," Marley greeted her. I opened the present and it was a beautiful charm bracelet.
"Thank you for not listening to me," I joked. "It's beautiful."
"I knew you'd like it."
Farkle's POV
"I think I'm done dad," Aaron said. He was doing addition and subtraction. I checked his work. He got everyone right.
"Great job, Aaron," I said. I looked at the clock, it was 4pm already. "Oh, we went overtime."
"It's fine," he said. "I like school." I smiled. Biological or not, he's definitely my son. Suddenly, he started coughing. He coughed into his sleeve. When he put his arm down, I saw traces of blood on his sleeve. This alarmed me.
"Aaron, has this happened before?" I asked.
"Yeah I coughed last night."
"No I mean the blood," I asked. "The red stuff, buddy."
"That's what I mean," he said. "And at Auggie's house the other day."
"Why didn't you tell me or your mom?"
"I don't know," he said. I realized he wasn't breathing normally either. How could I have missed this? I thought. I grabbed my phone and called 911, requesting an ambulance. I then called KC. No answer. I called her again, still no answer. I called Marley, and she didn't answer. I left them both voicemails.
KC's POV
I looked at my phone in between songs and saw two missed calls and a voicemail from Farkle. I told Marley and she checked her phone. She had one missed call and a voicemail from him. We went away from the crowd and listened to the voicemail he left me.
"KC, Aaron's not breathing normally and is coughing up blood!"I heard Farkle say. "I called an ambulance and they'll be here shortly."I could hear Aaron coughing in the background. "Please call me back or at least meet me at the hospital! I love you."
We immediately got in Marley's car and I called Farkle.
"We're on our way, I just heard your voicemail," I said. "How is he?"
"His oxygen was extremely low," Farkle said. "They have him on oxygen."
We headed for the hospital.
TO BE CONTINUED…