A/N: Sorry it's been almost 3 months. My life got super crazy! I was working 60 hour weeks and my sister had a baby, which is no excuse. But since Hurricane Irma is currently hitting my house and my school I teach at is closed for 2 days, I figured I would write a chapter. I will admit I have been stuck since the last chapter on how to proceed. Lucky for ya'll I pull inspiration from my own life, and since I had a pretty emotional, depressing weekend, I'm using those feelings to write! :) Enjoy! and read and review :) Also if you are or were in the path of Irma, I'm praying for your safety.
If Tomorrow Never Comes
I cannot believe she abandoned me like that. Kinsley sits on her bed picking at a thread on her bedspread. Why didn't she want me? What could have been more important in her life than me?
Kinsley gets up and walks to her mirror. She has always been told she looks like her mother. She has the same red hair and blue-green eyes her mother has. Secretly, she hates this about herself. Every time she looks in a mirror she is reminded of her mother.
Why couldn't I get my dad's looks? I've always been the odd one out. Kennedy, Kollin, and Karson look like siblings. I've always been the "step-child. Kinsley walks toward her door and sticks her head against the door. She could hear her parents fighting from the kitchen. All they do is fight when it's about me. I wonder what would have happened if I never existed.
She walks over to her dresser. Picking up a bottle of prescription pain meds from the accident, she rolls the bottle between her hands. She walks back to her bed, sitting, looking at the bottle of water on her nightstand. This could end it all. This could just remove the problem, me, from this situation. This could fix my mom and dad's problems forever.
She reaches for the bottle of water, unscrewing the cap and sitting it back down on her nightstand. Looking at the bottle, she reads the label - hydrocodone. All it would take is 9…
She opens the bottle and pours the twenty remaining pills into her hand. She puts them in her mouth and reaches for her water bottle. Taking a few swigs of the water, she swallows the pills. Sitting there on her bed, she leans back and lays against her pillows. The problem is solved. I will be out of their hair soon.
Ten minutes later, she realizes what she did was stupid. She reaches for her cell phone to call 911 instead of bothering her stupid, fighting parents. Dialing the number, she waits until the operator answers.
"911. What's your emergency?"
"I've overdosed on…." Before Kinsley could get the sentence out, the world turns black.
"Ma'am? Are you still there? What did you overdose on?" After a pause.. "I have help on the way."
_ Five minutes later, Derek is sitting at the kitchen island with his head in his hands. Meredith turns from the stove where she is cooking dinner. Addison and Henry just left to head back to Los Angeles.
"Are you okay?" Meredith looks at her husband worried.
"I guess. I just can't believe Addison. Why open this can of worms years later? Kinsley's only sixteen. We should have been discussing this with a counselor not in our living room." Derek shakes his head standing up.
Before Meredith can respond, they hear the doorbell ring. Getting up and heading towards the living room, they find Kennedy at an open door with police and paramedics standing there.
"Can I help you?" Meredith asks as she steps towards Kennedy.
"Yes, ma'am. We received a phone call from this residence about an overdose." A paramedic is looking around the house.
"I'm not sure who would have called. Kennedy, have you and your brothers been playing with the phone again?" Derek looks sternly at his teenage daughter.
"No. We've been right here playing video games." Kennedy looks bewildered at her father.
Derek turns from his daughter and back to the paramedics. "I do have another daughter upstairs. Let me go check and see if she's prank calling."
Derek heads up the stairs to Kinsley's room. As he opens the door, he calls out, "Kinsley, I know you're mad, but seriously prank calling the first responders…" Derek gasps and screams down the stairs as he sees his daughter unresponsive with an empty prescription bottle next to her. "Up here! My daughter is unresponsive!"
The paramedics rush up the stairs as Meredith directs Kennedy, Kollin, and Karson into the kitchen.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Kennedy asks. "Why did they run up there when dad called them?"
Meredith puts her hands on Kennedy's shoulders, since she's almost as tall as her mom now. "Sweetheart, I know just as much as you do." She pulls Kennedy into a hug. Thankfully the boys are distracted with the alphabet letters on the refrigerator.
Arizona Robbins and Alex Karev stand outside the ER. They are waiting on a pediatric overdose case. "It's crazy how kids can get into drugs today. I wonder why this child did it." Alex glances down to see his shoe untied. He squats down to tie it.
"Alex, we can't think like that. We don't know this kid's situation. She could be in a bad home and thought this was her only way out. You of all people should know that." Arizona shakes her head at Alex.
Alex stands up when they see the ambulance approaching. They run towards it as it stops and the doors swing open. They stand there in shock when the doors open.
Derek looks out at his two friends. "It's Kinsley. It's Kinsley. I don't know why she would do this!"
A/N: Sorry to leave you in a cliffhanger! But hopefully I will have time to write again soon! Read and review and let me know what you think!
