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Chapter Twenty-Seven
When they appeared at the hospital, luckily a nurse was walking past and the family instantly told her what was wrong, she rushed Ethel of for emergency treatment because right now she was still infected with the allergic reaction.
"I am sorry you can't come in right now" the nurse said as Esmerelda and Sybil tried to follow. Mr and Mrs Hallow sat down and apologised to their friends for this but Esmerelda felt the anger rise inside her chest and she could barely contain herself.
"Why do you never flaming listen?" Esmerelda asked turning towards her parents and yelling at them.
"Esmerelda, lower your voice" Ursulla said, looking at her friends embarrassed.
"NO! I have told you time and time again Ethel is allergic to raspberry and it should be avoided at all costs, so what possessed you to serve it to her?" Esmerelda asked, her normally calm eyes blazing with anger.
"We forgot" Triton replied, looking at her and shaking his head.
"YOU FORGOT!? You are our parents, you should know our allergies of the top of your heads, this is not about us being fussy because we don't like something this is about us having the risk of dying if we eat it!" Esmerelda shouted frustrated and upset and worried all mixed in one.
"Mistakes happen Esmerelda! We have three children it is not always easy to remember everything" Ursulla replied and Esmerelda scoffed. If she could remember so could they, and plus as far as they were aware only Ethel had an allergy so they only had to remember one snippet it of information.
"MISTAKES WOULDN'T HAPPEN IF YOU WEREN'T BAD PARENTS, YOU DON'T LOVE ANY OF US, I HATE YOU" Esmerelda shouted and Sybil looked at her sister, biting her lip. She knew Esmerelda was being risky and even with their friends there their parents would not be able to stop themselves and might end up attacking her like they did Sybil a few months ago at Christmas when they had slapped her.
"I WILL NOT BE SPOKEN TO LIKE THAT" Triton replied standing up and getting close to his eldest daughter's face, she glared back at him not breaking eye contact, not wanting to show she was intimated by him.
"I think it will be best for us to go" one of the parents said with an awkward smile before she transferred her and her family away, before long all the other guests were disappearing into thin air, leaving only the Hallow family there.
"OUR REPUTATION IS ON THE LINE BECAUSE OF THIS BEHAVIOUR ESMERELDA" Mrs Hallow shouted as she stood up to join her husband.
"SO YOU CARE ABOUT THAT BUT YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE FACT YOUR DAUGHTER IS LYING IN A HOSPITAL BED WITH HER AIRWAYS NOT WORKING AND UNABLE TO BREATHE? YOU MAKE ME SICK" Esmerelda said as she turned around, grabbed Sybil's arm and walked away.
"GET BACK HERE" Triton shouted but not wanting to make anymore of a scene in the hospital he gave up and let them walk off.
"Where are we going Esmie?" Sybil asked fearfully s they walked down the hospital corridor.
"To see Ethie, we are going to wait outside the room until they let us in" Esmerelda told her as she asked a nurse which ward her sister was in and then led Sybil by the hand down the corridors to that ward. Sybil did not say much to her sister, she knew she would never hurt her but she could tell she was still furious and thought it was best to leave her.
After a few minutes of getting lost they found the right ward and room number and Esmerelda took a seat in the chairs that were outside it to wait. Sybil saw sparks shooting out her sisters fingers because she was still so angry. This was normal for witches, sometimes when one was really angry they couldn't control their magic as much and sparks would come out, Sybil was not sure exactly why but she knew it was common. That was why young witches who had not being trained in witchcraft yet were dangerous to be around when they were truly angry, they would cause sparks to shoot out and cause all sorts of magic to happen, Sybil gently sat next to her sister concerned, she had never seen her so angry before. Esmerelda was calm most of the time and even the rare times she was angry it was not so bad.
"Are you okay?" Sybil asked as she hugged her sister, knowing she was upset and angry.
"Yes sorry Sybil" Esmerelda replied, taking some deep breathes and trying to calm herself down.
"You are right though, mum and dad should have known better" Sybil said with a sigh wondering how they could be so stupid. If they wanted cheesecake so bad they should have ordered Strawberry, no-one can really taste the difference anyway but it would have made a massive difference to Ethel.
"They don't care Sybil, they don't listen so they know nothing about us" Esmerelda told her hugging her tighter. Sybil smiled slightly before speaking.
"Do you think Ethel will be okay?" Sybil asked, praying and hoping they were able to treat the reaction. She didn't think many people understood how allergic to Raspberry Ethel actually was, if she touched something raspberry by accident in a shop and then ate some food she could have a reaction just a severe which is why they all had to be so careful. The slightest little bit of raspberry could kill her.
"I don't know..." Esmerelda said, taking deep breathes because she was trying to stop herself from losing it "I have never seen her have such a bad reaction" Esmerelda admitted knowing this one had been as bad as it could get but Esmerelda could not think of the alternative to Ethel not being okay so she said nothing more and only hugged her sister.
The girls waited for an hour and no-one entered or exited the room Ethel was in, there was also no sign of their parents and Esmerelda would not be surprised if they had left, but she didn't care anymore, she was going to care and love Ethel even if they weren't, and she for one was not leaving until she knew her sister was okay and breathing again.
As the time came up to an hour and ten minutes a man left the room. Esmerelda tried to read his expression, was it solemn? Happy? She couldn't tell, but that might be because of the fact doctors and nurses were professionals at keeping their own feelings at bay. Esmerelda stood up and looked at the man.
"How is our sister?" she asked the man, not wanting to hear the answer but needing to know at the same time.
"She is fine, she is one lucky child, just a minute or so longer and her organs would have started to shut down, we got to her just in time" the man told them looking around as if looking for an adult.
"Can we see her?" Sybil asked desperately. The man bit his lip as if trying to decide.
"I am not really supposed to let you in without an adult" he told them, knowing he could get in trouble.
"Please we won't cause trouble" Esmerelda said and seeing how desperate she was he nodded.
"Alright but no touching, there is some dangerous equipment in there" he told them as he led them inside. Ethel was sat up on the bed awake and looking around.
"ETHIE!" Esmerelda screamed running to hug her "Oh thank god you are alright" the girl said clutching her heart. Ethel coughed a little, her throat sore as it always was after a reaction, plus she had been choking so her throat was in a way bruised.
"Thanks to your two's quick thinking" Ethel replied as she hugged her younger sister as well.
"We just did what we had to Ethel" Sybil told her knowing it had just come naturally when Ethel was in trouble.
"Where are mum and dad?" Ethel asked before she jumped as she saw Esmerelda's eyes turn to daggers.
"I don't care, hopefully they fell inside a hole" Esmerelda replied, her anger returning at the mention of her parents.
"Esmie had a fight with them" Sybil whispered and Ethel nodded and gulped as she kept watching her sister.
"Anyway don't worry about them, they are not worth your time Ethie, the main thing is you are okay" Esmerelda replied changing the subject.
"Thank you for saving me" Ethel said
"When can you come home?" Sybil asked, hoping it was soon.
"I have to stay in overnight so they can make sure my breathing doesn't go again" Ethel told her and Esmerelda smiled.
"Then we will stay too" she told her sister, knowing she was going to stay even if she had to hide in a wardrobe to do so.