Chapter fourteen Convulsing

Mike´s POV

"Mike," I heard Carmen´s voice scream and she came in to the staff room. You have to come, fast. Emma lies on the floor, it looks like she´s having some kind of seizure.

I ran by Carmen out of the room, and to the kitchen. Gina was short after me. On the kitchen floor, Emma lied, convulsing.

"Make sure, the other children get out of this room." I said to Gina. "I´ll take care of Emma." I then started to move away chairs from where she lied. Then I pulled my shirt over my head, and convoluted it into a pillow and putted it under Emma´s head. And then I sat down on the floor, behind Emma and waited for her to stop convulsing. Just a few seconds after that her body stopped convulsing.

Emma´s POV

"Emma, Emma." Mike´s voice reached my head. "Are you with me?"

I noticed I layed on my back so I rolled over to my side and threw up. Then I opened my eyes, and saw Mike´s worried face, just above mine.

"Are you okay" he asked.

"Dumb question." I answered, cause my whole body hurted like, I´d been hit by a truck. A couple of times…or something like that.

"Do you feel like, you want to go to your room?" Mike asked.

I nodded

"Can you stand up.

"No." I said, almost crying. Cause my head and my body hurted so bad.

"Well come on then." Mike said, and lifted me up. Out in the lounge the others were with Gina. They all looked very worried.

"Guys." I said. "Don´t worry about me. I´m okay" Then I couldn´t say anymore. Cause I was to tired.

When I lay in my bed, just a minute after that. I took my medication, and then fell asleep, right away.

I didn´t woke up until the next morning. And when I did, the others were eating breakfast. I went down to the kitchen. And as soon as I came there, all the others turned to stare at me. It was drop dead quiet, until Tracy broke the silence.

"Are you okay Emma? You frightened us yesterday"

"Yeah, I´m fine" I said.

"We told the others, about…your disease." Mike said. "We thought it was the best thing to do. Let ´em know I mean."

"I suppose so." I said. "Anyway, after what happened yesterday they would have figured it out sooner or later."

"What is it like actually?" Carmen asked. "To have a seizure I mean?"

"Oh, ehm, that´s actually a very hard question." I said. "During the seizure I don´t feel anything at all. Just before I get a headache, and a feeling that I have no control over my body. And after the seizure, I feel very tired, and sick. And my whole body hurts, like I´d been hit by a truck. Especially my head. I suppose that´s it."

"do you feel anything now." Gina asked.

"Nope." I said, "It´s all gone."

"Why didn´t you want to tell us about your epilepsy by the way?" Tee asked. "We could´ve helped."