Deeper than a cut
Chapter 3
So the next day after school while Alvin, Brittany, Theodore and Eleanor went back to the boys house to baby-sit Claire's 6 year old cousin, Simon and Jeanette headed up to the hospital, after telling their siblings that they were going to the library. "Jeanette Miller and Simon Seville… the doctor will see you now" the nurse called out into the waiting room.
Jeanette and Simon stood up and followed the nurse into Dr. Skinner's office "ah hello Simon, hello Jeanette…I haven't seen you two since Alvin split his head open…is everything ok"? Dr. Skinner asked "not really" Jeanette answered "ok…care to tell me what's wrong" Dr. Skinner enquired "yeah sure" Simon said, he then went on to explain what happened yesterday at school and on Saturday night a week ago, after he had finished, he and Jeanette sat and waited to see what Dr. Skinner was going to do.
"Come on Daniela please get down" Alvin and Brittany begged the little girl who was running them ragged "NO" Daniela laughed as she continued to climb all over the sofa, all of a sudden Eleanor walked into the room and announced that dinner was ready, Alvin and Brittany mumbled their gratitude as they walked out to the kitchen, when Daniela looked down at her plate she found nothing in front of her "auntie Ellie…where's mine"? she asked "well I don't know what you are having yet because I am going to give you a choice…you can either have yummy toad in the hole, if you promise to be good or you can have steamed broccoli if you want to carry on being naughty" Eleanor told her "I'll be good I promise" Daniela said giving Eleanor a butter wouldn't melt look "there you are then" Eleanor said giving Daniela a motherly smile putting Daniela's plate of toad in the hole down in front of her. After dinner Eleanor left Alvin and Brittany to tidy up the kitchen while she went off to get Daniela ready for bed.
Back at the hospital, Jeanette and Simon were sat back in Dr. Skinners office, waiting for him to come back with Jeanette's test results, after about 10 minutes he returned with a stack of papers tucked under his arm "Jeanette…I have your pregnancy test results here and I can confirm that you are pregnant" Dr. Skinner told her, he then went on to explain about keeping the baby, putting the baby up for adoption and also abortion, while for the second time in 24 hours Simon found himself comforting a sobbing Jeanette while trying to stop his own tears from flowing.