SURPRISE! I'M BACK FROM CAMP! :) IT WAS A LOT OF FUN BUT I'M GLAD TO BE BACK HOME. ALSO... I WATCHED THE CATCHING FIRE SECOND TRAILER... I CRIED... I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT IT LATER!
SO IF ANYONE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF READING OR IS PLANNING TO READ 'THE FAULT IN OUR STARS' DO NOT READ THIS CONVERSATION I HAD WITH MY OLDER SISTER, ELLE.
ELLE: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS IS SO SAD.
ME: WHY, BECAUSE AUGUSTOUS DIES?
ELLE: WHAT?! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!
ME: OH NO. YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT FAR, HAVE YOU? SORRY.
ELLE: THIS IS WHY I DON'T READ THE SAME BOOKS AS YOU DO. YOU SPOILER.
OKAY... STILL OWN NOTHING, OBVIOUSLY...
We arrive at the hospital waiting room. Mom runs up and Aunt Marina cries into her shoulder. Madge's dad is here, too. I'm supposed to call him Uncle Tim.
Aunt Marina mumbles to Mom between sobs, "I didn't see it coming... It happened so fast... And..." She burst into tears again. When she recovers she goes on. "He was one the wrong side of the road... I tried to get out of the way... but th-there was no place to go."
I go and sit down and Prim climbs onto my lap and covers her face. I don't know if she's crying or not.
Aunt Marina calms down a little. "Dying young runs in our family. It's not fair. It's not!"
"Don't say that. We don't know what's wrong yet." Mom tells her gently. Uncle Tim looks like he isn't sure what to do. He isn't the kind of person who is good with words.
"You didn't see her." Aunt Marina says, sobbing again.
The doctor walks in with his clip-board. "Is this the family and friends of Madge Undersee?
"Yes." Mom says because it's obvious that Aunt Marina and Uncle Tim are in no mood to talk.
"Well, she's doing just fine. Slight concussion. She has a few dozen stitches. A broken arm. Twisted ankle. Other than that she's fine. She's resting now, but she'll be awake in a few minutes."
Aunt Marina let's out a huge sigh.
"Would you like to see her?" The doctor asks. Aunt Marina and Uncle Tim go and see her while we wait in the waiting room.
A preppy looking nurse says that we are allowed to see her and takes us to her room. Madge is lying on the hospital bed awake. She smiles but it looks more like a grimace.
"Hey Madge." I go and sit at the side of her hospital bed. Her right arm is in a cast and the top of her head has been shaved to make room for the long row of stitches. Her arms are bruised but otherwise she looks fine.
"Hi." Madge says, her voice is rusty.
"Hey, honey. How are you?" Mom smiles and takes the seat next the bed and Prim goes to sit on her lap.
Madge smiles, this time a real smile. "I've been better, but it hurts a little. Nothing I can't handle."
"How long do you think you'll be in here?" I ask.
She thinks for a moment. "I'm not sure yet. That's what they're talking to my parents about right now. Hopefully a week or so. You know, because of my concussion."
"Okay." I say.
"But will you make sure to tell the group about what happened? I don't want them thinking I died or something like that." Madge asks.
"I got your back." I say and she smiles.
The nurse from before comes in and chirps. "Alright, it's time for Miss Undersee to get some rest."
I reach over and awkwardly hug Madge. "Bye,"
"Bye, will you come back tomorrow?" Madge asks.
I look at Mom and she nods. "Yes."
We go home and Prim falls asleep in the car.
When we get home I pull out my phone and text everyone in the group, 'Madge was in a car accident.'
To tired to explain the rest, I collapse into bed and fall into a dreamless sleep.
Mom says I don't have to go to school today so I'll just laze around the house until 12 o'clock when we can see Madge.
I watch SpongeBob with Prim. It's the one where SpongeBob runs away to live in the wild with the jellyfish. I'm not really in the mood for eating but I force myself to eat some left over lasagna and a glass of milk. I heat up a plate of lasagna for Prim, too, and put a chocolate chip cookie along with it.
It feels like an eternity before Mom calls for us to get ready to go. I stay in my pajamas but put my Hollister sweatshirt over it and flip flops. Prim is still in her footie pajama's with kittens on them so I zip her into her sparkly jacket and her pink Uggs. There's no point to getting dressed because we're going to a hospital. They probably don't care and a few nurses know my mom.
We stop by Wal-Mart and by a bouquet of pink roses and three purple balloons.
When we arrive at the hospital we head up to the second floor which Madge's on. When we enter the room, it's filled with flowers and balloons from everyone in Madge's family. Aunt Marina and Uncle Tim are in good spirits and enthusiastically tell us that Madge will be going home in less than a week. Mom and them begin to talk.
I go and sit on the edge of Madge's bed. "Hey," I lean over and hug her.
"What's up?" Madge asks.
"Um, the sky?" We laugh.
"Besides that, anything?" She asks.
I think. "I told the group you were in a car accident."
Prim jumps up onto the bed holding the roses, "We got you some roses and balloons, aren't they pretty."
"Yes, thank you." Madge takes the bouquet of roses from Prim and smells them.
Prim leans forward. "Do they smell like bubble-gum? Or maybe cotton-candy? How about strawberries?"
Madge laughs. "They smell like... Well, smell them for yourself."
Prim stuffs her face into the bouquet. "They smell like the outdoors."
"Let me have a sniff." I lean over and smell the roses. "Words can't describe."
"I wonder of bubble-gum smelling roses exist." Madge says.
"Oh! I hope they do, that would be awesome!" Prim pulls my braid. "Would you buy me some?"
I laugh. "Maybe."
Bubble-gum smelling roses is probably the strangest thing I've ever heard. But whatever. As long as everything is going to be alright.
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THE SECOND CATCHING FIRE TRAILER IS SO AMAZING! IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, REVIEW WHAT YOU THOUGHT! ALSO, PLEASE, WITH A CHERRY ON TOP, REVIEW WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THIS CHAPTER :) PLEASE?
THANKS BUNCHES OF OATS TO MY AMAZING READERS!