Chapter Twenty: First ultrasound!
On March seventh at elven o'clock in the morning, Sara is laying on the exam table in exam room number four and she is having ultrasound. Caitlin is sitting on a chair by the door of the exam room, watching Dr. Moonstar do the ultrasound and Sara, Caitlin and Dr. Moonstar are listing to the babies heartbeats through the ultrasound speakers. Dr. Moon points at the ultrasound screen and looks at Sara with a smile on her face.
"Do you and Gil still want to know the sex of the babies?"
"Yes."
"You are having a baby girl and a baby boy and both babies are health."
"I am having a daughter and a son?"
"Yes."
Dr. Moonstar wipes the extra gel off of Sara's belly and then Sara puts down her blue empire waist blouse that goes past the waist pant of her black dress pant. Sara then looks over at Caitlin who is wearing a pair of black workout pants and pink long sleeve shirt and sees that her niece has started to look tired and flushed, at the same time Dr. Moonstar check to see how big Sara's belly has gown since the last appointment. Ten minutes later Sara and Caitlin walk into the waiting room of office of Dr. Moonstar officer and Warrick and Tina walks over to them. All four of them smile at each other and Caitlin sits down on the first chair of the first row of chairs and then rest her head on the back of the chair and shut her eyes, as Tina start talking to Sara.
"Sara how did your ultrasound go?"
"The ultrasound went great."
"Did you find out what sex the twin are and if so what is the sex of the babies?"
"Yes Warrick and I am having a boy and a girl."
(Tina and Warrick) Congratulate on having a girl and a boy."
"How was your ultrasound Tina?"
"Great Sara, we are have twin too and they are very health and bigger then most sixteen week old fetus."
"That great to hear Tina, I need to get going because I need to get Caitlin home, she still fighting the flu and stomach flu and I think her fever start to go back up."
"She did not want to be home alone?"
"No coughing I want too spent as much time as I can with Sara, o I can get to know her before my cousins are born. Is it I or is the wait area really cold?"
"It you sweetie and you looking feverish."
"I feel feverish to Warrick, coughing (into left hand)."
Tina walks away from Warrick and Sara and up to Caitlin. Tina then put her hand onto Caitlin's forehead, which feels warm to the touch. Tina takes her hand off of Caitlin's forehead and at the same time Warrick and Sara walk up beside Tina, who is looking down at Caitlin with a worried look on her face.
"Caitlin, what was your temperature the last time you check it?"
"99.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
"It feel like your fever has gone up, come downstairs to the ER with me and I will check your temperature?"
Caitlin does not say anything just shut her eyes again, Sara look at her niece and then look over at Tina Brown.
"That sound like a good Idea Tina."
"You work in the ER Tina?
"Yes."
Caitlin stands up from the chair and then the four of them walk downstairs to the ER and Tina has Caitlin sit down on the hospital bed in curtain area one. Tina walks over to the nurse counter and grabs her stethoscope and a thermometer. Then give Warrick a kiss on the lips and she kisses him back.
"I need to get to work and you need to go home to get some sleep Warrick."
"I love you Tina."
"I love you too Tina."
Tina watching Warrick walk out of the hospital and then Tina walks over to Caitlin who is holding Sara's right hand. Tina turns the digital thermometer on and then puts the thermometer into Caitlin' mouth and the three of them wait for the thermometer to beep. When the thermometer beeps thirty second later, Tina takes the thermometer out of Caitlin's mouth then takes a look at the thermometer.
"You running a fever of 102.9 degrees Fahrenheit Caitlin, can you keep anything down yet?"
"I was able to keep some water down today."
"I am going to give you some Tylenol to take with a cup of water and a small cup of jell-O eat and once you eat the Jell-O I am sent you home with Sara to get some rest."
Tina walks out of curtain area one and goes and gets the Tylenol, water and Jell-O's then come back and gives them to Caitlin. Caitlin eats the jell-O first then take the two Tylenol with a drink of water. After she had finish the water Sara and Caitlin head outside to Sara's SUV and then the two of them head home. Fourteen and half minutes later Caitlin is walking upstairs. A minute later Caitlin walks into her bedroom and lays down on the bed. She then pulls the bedspread up and falls right to sleep. At the same time Sara goes into the master bedroom and calls Gil. His cellphone ring three time then he picks up.
"Hi honey, how are you doing?"
"I am doing well and so are your son and daughter."
"We are have one of each Sara?"
"Yes we are Gil."
"That great Sara, me and my mom are just about to leave to come home because
everything is packed into the moving van and the house is now up for sale.
"Ok. I will see you when you get home. I might not go into work tonight because I have to wait and see how Caitlin doing and if see ok with me leave her here with just Sofia.
"Caitlin is still sick?"
"Yes, she kept some water down and so far the Tylenol and Jell-O that Tina Brown, give her at the hospital. But she is still running a fever, achy all over, a sore throat and a cough."
"What was she doing at the hospital?"
"She went to my obgyn appointment with me and by the time it was over she was really cold and look feverish so I take her downstairs to the ER and had Tina took her temperature, she then had Caitlin take some Tylenol and eat some Jell-O with it."
"Ok and I love you."
"I love you too."
Sara flips her cellphone close and set the cellphone on the nightstand. Then Sara's
lies down on the bed and close her eyes. Sara then put her hands on top of her stomach and smiles when she feels her son and daughter kicking. In just the few days that Gil has been gone she has gain ten more pounds and she had to go up to the next size in maternity clothing. Sara slowly starts to fall asleep and at the sometime starts dream about Saturday, September, 19,1987, Sara wakes up her alarm clock going off. She has been dread today because her social worker is coming to take her to a new foster home. She would not mind leave so much if she wasn't sick, but she has not kept anything down for two days now and is still run a fever of 103.9 degrees Fahrenheit. She knows that she will be fine at the new foster home because it where her best friend Katie lives too, who is also in fostered care. She just does not feel up to ride in a car even if it only for two blocks. She hears Beth open up her bedroom door, but does not roll over because she is too nausea to move. Beth walks into the bedroom and walk over to the bed. Mrs. Cat the sits down on the edge of Sara's bed and feels her forehead.
"Sara's your social work just called she going to be here in two minutes to get you and take you to the new home."
" I not up to moving gagging can you talk to her when she gets here and..."
Sara stop talking and put her hand over her mouth and looks at Beth. Who grabs the trash can next to Sara's bed and hands the trash can to Sara, who take her hand off her mouth and grabs the trash can and then start throwing up into the trash can. At the same time Beth pulls Sara's hair out of the way, so it does not get into her mouth.
"I will try Sara."
"Retching."
At the same time Bob walks up to Sara's bedroom door with Mrs. Rich Sara social worker, Beth looks over at Bob and then he leads Mrs. Rich downstairs to the living room. Two minutes later Sara and Beth walk into the living room and Beth has her right arm around Sara who is still hold the trash can and throwing up into the trash can. Sara and Beth walk over to the Lazy boy chair and Sara sat down on the lazy boy. After Sara stops throwing up, Sara rest her head against the back of the chair and closes her eyes. Beth walk over to the social worker with a worried look on her face.
"Mrs. Rich is there anyway that you can change the day Sara goes to the Cooks house, because she is really sick and not up to ride in a car?"
"I am afraid not I have to go out of town after I drop her off because of a family emergency, so this morning the only time I can do it."
"Can one of the other social workers take me over to the Cook house when I feel better Mrs. Rich?"
"Sara's you know that not how it works, now come on we need to get going."
"I will go get you bags Sara."
"Thank you Beth."
Sara goes to stand up but her legs are too weak and she starts to fall forward, Bob catch Sara and picks her up and carry her out to Mrs. Rich car. Mrs. Rich open up the passenger seat door and Bob set Sara onto the front seat and put her seatbelt on just as Beth walk outside and put all four of Sarah's bags into the truck of the car. Beth then walks over to the front seat and heads Sarah her backpack.
"I put your new Forensic Science textbook and fingerprint kit in you backpack."
"Thank you Beth, I forget to park them, by the time I pack everything else last night I was really dizzy and then I start to get sick to my stomach again."
"It is ok and I hope you feel better soon."
Beth close the car door and then Bob and Beth walks toward the house. A few moments later Bob and Beth watch as Mrs. Rich pulls out of the driver, Sara looks out the car window and sees Beth is crying. She can tell my just looking at Bob and Beth face there are thinking did we make the right choice about taking a year off from having a fostered child in the house after the baby born, should we have let her stay. Sara closes her eyes for the rest of the ride because the movement of the car is making her really nausea and she is thinking to herself what Mr. Cook might be like, she has met Mrs. Cook when she went over to study with Katie or bring her homework when she misses School, but Mr. Cook has always been at work when she came over. Katie would not let her into the house if he was home. Sarah starts to cry half way to the Cook house and grab her stomach because it has starts to hurt really badly and she just wants the car ride to be over with. Mrs. Rich stops for a red light and looks over at Sara.
"Sara, you better not throwing up in my car."
"I will try not too."
The rest of the ride to the Cook house Sara has her eyes closed and her left hand over her mouth, as soon Mrs. Rich had stopped the car and put the car in parked position Sara open up the car door and get out of the social workers' car. Sara then runs up to the two story house and in through the front door that her friend Katie had just open. Sara then runs upstairs and into the bedroom she and Katie are going to share. Sara then runs right into the connected bathroom and kneels down in front to the toilet and starts vomited. Katie walks into the bedroom and set Sara's bags down on her bed along with her back that Sara left in Mrs. Rich's car.
"Sara are you ok in there?"
"retching."
"Are you still sick?"
"Yes"
"I will put you things away for you."
Katie walks over to Sara's bed and switch her bags onto her bed just as Sara walks out of the bathroom and over to the bed Katie took her bags off. Sara sits down on the bed and slips her shoes off, she stands up longer enough to pull the cover down then get into the bed and Katie pulls the cover up for Sara.
"Thank you for bring up my bags."
"You are welcome and Mrs. Cook will be upstairs to talk to you after she is done talking to Mrs. Rich and you will meet Mr. Cook at dinner to night and you have to sit at the dinner table no matter how sick you are."
"What room does Mr. and Mrs. Cook sleep in?"
"The master bedroom downstairs, we have the old master bedroom they add on to the downstairs last year."
At the same time a group of six children comes run up to the bedroom door and then into the bedroom. Three girls counting Katie and three boys are now siting on Katie's bed looking at Sara beside for the youngest girl who is setting on her toddled bed that is across from Sara's bed and Sara is smile at the little girl. A young boy with light brown hair and blue eyes looks at Sara and then start to talk.
"Katie, so this is Sara?"
"Yes Jimmy."
"Hi Sara."
"Hi Jimmy, how old are you?"
"I turn four years old today along with my twin Sister Jamie, she is the little girl that just crawl into your bed with you."
Sara looks at the little girl that laying beside her on the bed and she looks just like her brother Jamie has light brown hair and blue eyes. Jamie starts to give Sara a hug. Sara takes her arm out from under the covers and hug Jamie back.
"Are you clod Sara?"
"Yes."
"The oldest boy sitting on my left is Ted and the boy sitting on my right is David. The two girls that are sitting on my lap are Star and sunflower."
Sara looks over at Katie's bed and sees that Ted has red hair and brown eyes, David has blonde hair and green eyes. Sara then notices that Sunflower and Star have strawberry hair and hazel eyes and look like the two of them could be sisters, at the same time Ted start to talk to Sara.
"I am fourteen, David id ten and Sunflower and Star are twin sisters and are five years old."
At the same time there is a knock on the bedroom door frame and Mrs. Cooks walks into the room and over to Sara's bed and sit down on the edge of the bed. Mrs. Cook then feels Sara's forehead. Katie stands up from her bed then walks her foster brothers and sisters out of the room and downstairs. Katie comes back into the room three minutes later with the thermometer in her hands and hands the thermometer to Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Cook then hands Sara the thermometer and Sara puts the thermometer into her mouth.
"Are the children playing downstairs in the basement play room Katie?"
"Yes beside Jamie who asleep next to Sara."
It has been long enough so Mrs. Cook takes the thermometer out of Sara's mouth and look at the thermometer to see if Sara is running a fever, as Sara start yawning and Katie sits down on her bed.
"You have a fever of 103.7 degrees Fahrenheit Sara."
"I am sleepy."
"Go to sleep, I will have Katie wake you to come to dinner when Mr. Cook gets home."
"Ok Mrs. Cook."
Mrs. Cook stands up from the bed and walks out of the bedroom and at the same time Sara eyes start to close and a few seconds later Sara is sound asleep. At six o'clock that evening Sara feels Katie lightly shake her. Sara rolls over and at the sometime Jamie jumps up onto Sara's bed cause it to bounce. Katie pick Jaime up right as Sarah put her hand over her mouth. Sara jumps out of bed and then runs into the bathroom. Sara comes back out of the bathroom a minute later and walks over to Jaime.
"It is all Jaime, I am fine I did not have to throw up after all."
"Good."
"We need to go downstairs to the dining room for dinner."
Katie hold Jamie walks out of the bedroom first and Sara follows her best friend downstairs and into the dining room. Five minutes later dinning is going very slow for Sara, who is sitting at the dinning room table stare at a full plate of food, that Mr. Cook had put onto her plate despite the fact she telling him, she was too sick to eat anything. Sara is also try hard not to leave the table, but half way through dinner Sara can't fight the feeling that she is going to get sick to her stomach. Sara jumps out of the chair and runs out of the dining room and into the nearest bathroom. Once in the bathroom Sara drop to her knees in front of the toilet and start throwing up into the toilet, when she gets back to the table Mr. Cook takes Sara by the right arm and pulls her upstair into her, Katie and Jamie's bedroom and then he throws Sara down onto the bed.
"You never leave the table, no matter what!"
"I had to throw up."
"I do not care, never leave the table."
Sara stands up and starts to walk to the bathroom and Mr. Cook grabs her left arm and punch her in the face with his right hand. Mr. Cook throw Sara back onto her bed, at the same time Jamie and Katie walks into the bedroom, but stays by the bedroom door and Jamie start yelling.
"Stop hitting Sara!"
"Stay out of it Jamie."
"Mr. Cook, Jamie right. Leave Sara alone, she is sick."
"Both of you stay out of it."
With that Mr. Cook walk away from Sara and grabs a hold of Jamie and then Mr. Cook throw Jamie across the room and onto her bed. Jamie hits the wall with a loud bang. Sara gets off the bed and walks over to Jamie side and kneel down beside the little girl at the same time Mr. Cook grab Katie throw her across the room and Katie lands on Sara's bed. Mr. Cook runs over to Katie and start fighting with her. At the same time Jamie hears Sara beside her. Jaime try to stop crying but is in to much pain and the little girl start cry harder.
"Jaime are you ok?"
"(Crying)No it hurts and my leg won't move!"
"Don't move Jamie."
At the same time Ted walks up to the bedroom door and see what Mr. Cook is doing to Katie and sees Sara crawl over to Mr. Cook. Ted sneak into the bedroom and goes over to Sara and Sara start to whisper to him.
"Call 991, he throw Jaime across the room, she hit the wall really hard and she it a lot of pain and can't movie her legs."
"Ok, Sara crawl back over to Jamie before Mr. Cook see you."
"Ok."
Sara crawl back over to Jamie and sing quietly to her to help keep Jamie calm, at the same time Ted sneak back out of the bedroom. The room becomes really quiet when Sara and Jaime hear Mr. Cook hit Katie over the head with a lamp knocking her out. A few moments later Sara Mr. Cook has grab Sara and he throws her onto Katie's bed beside Katie is on Sara's bed knock out. The next think Sara sees is Mr. Cook gets on top of her and then he pulls Sara pants off.
"Get off me, get off."
Mr. Cook does not get off Sara, but three minutes later Sara here loud foot steps out in the hallway and then the foot steps are coming through the bedroom door, Sara looks out of the corner of her eye and see police officers in the bedroom.
"Stop what you are doing to the girl and put your hand behind you back."
Mr. Cook would not get off Sara, so two police men pull him off and Sara stands up from the bed and run over to Jaime. Jamie takes a hold of Sara right hand and Sara start sing to Jamie again. A minute later the EMT walks into the bedroom and put a neck brace on Jamie and then puts the little girl onto a stretcher, but Jamie would not let go of Sara's head.
"Can you come with us seeing that you need to be check out anyway and the girl will not let go off you?"
"Sure."
The EMT carrying the stretcher Jamie on out of the room and Sara walk beside the stretcher still holding Jamie hand. A few minutes later Sara and Jamie are heading to the hospital. The whole ride to the hospital Jamie would not let go of Sara's hand, but once at the hospital the doctor made Jaime let go of Sara.
"No, I want Sara to come with me."
"She can't go back to the operation room with us."
"Sara!"
"I will be here when you come out of surgery."
Sara see the doctor and nurse take Jamie away and then she stop dreaming about the past and start dream about Gil and her on the beach. Sara then feels someone is shaking her left shoulder try to wake her up. She rolls onto her back and then open her eyes to see Caitlin is sit on the edges of the bed stare at her with a very worry look on her face. Sara sit up in bed and runs her hands through her hair.
"Sara who is Jaime you keep shouting her name and saying you will be ok and I will be here when you get out of surgery and did not stop until I shaking you and then you start saying Gil's name."
"She is one of the girls I was in foster care with and our fostered dad threw her across the room and she hit the wall really hard and break her back, the doctor was able to do surgery fixes her back, but she never walks again and has been in a wheelchair since that day. I was only in the Cook home for half a day when that happened. The fostered home I came from Mr. and Mrs. Cat took my friend Katie and Jaime and her Twin brother Jimmy and I in after the police arrest Mr. Cook for physical and sexual abuse fosters children for the past six years. The other six children in the house end up live in the house next to the Mr. and Mrs. Cat's house.
"So you know what fosters care is like?"
"Yes."
Sara and Caitlin start talking to each other about what life was like for them in the different foster homes they're had be in and do not stop talking until it is time for Sara to get ready for work. Caitlin let her aunt go into work because she is feeling better and is ok staying at the house because she is not alone because Sofia says she would hang with her.
On March seventh at elven o'clock in the morning, Sara is laying on the exam table in exam room number four and she is having ultrasound. Caitlin is sitting on a chair by the door of the exam room, watching Dr. Moonstar do the ultrasound and Sara, Caitlin and Dr. Moonstar are listing to the babies heartbeats through the ultrasound speakers. Dr. Moon points at the ultrasound screen and looks at Sara with a smile on her face.
"Do you and Gil still want to know the sex of the babies?"
"Yes."
"You are having a baby girl and a baby boy and both babies are health."
"I am having a daughter and a son?"
"Yes."
Dr. Moonstar wipes the extra gel off of Sara's belly and then Sara puts down her blue empire waist blouse that goes past the waist pant of her black dress pant. Sara then looks over at Caitlin who is wearing a pair of black workout pants and pink long sleeve shirt and sees that her niece has started to look tired and flushed, at the same time Dr. Moonstar check to see how big Sara's belly has gown since the last appointment. Ten minutes later Sara and Caitlin walk into the waiting room of office of Dr. Moonstar officer and Warrick and Tina walks over to them. All four of them smile at each other and Caitlin sits down on the first chair of the first row of chairs and then rest her head on the back of the chair and shut her eyes, as Tina start talking to Sara.
"Sara how did your ultrasound go?"
"The ultrasound went great."
"Did you find out what sex the twin are and if so what is the sex of the babies?"
"Yes Warrick and I am having a boy and a girl."
(Tina and Warrick) Congratulate on having a girl and a boy."
"How was your ultrasound Tina?"
"Great Sara, we are have twin too and they are very health and bigger then most sixteen week old fetus."
"That great to hear Tina, I need to get going because I need to get Caitlin home, she still fighting the flu and stomach flu and I think her fever start to go back up."
"She did not want to be home alone?"
"No coughing I want too spent as much time as I can with Sara, o I can get to know her before my cousins are born. Is it I or is the wait area really cold?"
"It you sweetie and you looking feverish."
"I feel feverish to Warrick, coughing (into left hand)."
Tina walks away from Warrick and Sara and up to Caitlin. Tina then put her hand onto Caitlin's forehead, which feels warm to the touch. Tina takes her hand off of Caitlin's forehead and at the same time Warrick and Sara walk up beside Tina, who is looking down at Caitlin with a worried look on her face.
"Caitlin, what was your temperature the last time you check it?"
"99.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
"It feel like your fever has gone up, come downstairs to the ER with me and I will check your temperature?"
Caitlin does not say anything just shut her eyes again, Sara look at her niece and then look over at Tina Brown.
"That sound like a good Idea Tina."
"You work in the ER Tina?
"Yes."
Caitlin stands up from the chair and then the four of them walk downstairs to the ER and Tina has Caitlin sit down on the hospital bed in curtain area one. Tina walks over to the nurse counter and grabs her stethoscope and a thermometer. Then give Warrick a kiss on the lips and she kisses him back.
"I need to get to work and you need to go home to get some sleep Warrick."
"I love you Tina."
"I love you too Tina."
Tina watching Warrick walk out of the hospital and then Tina walks over to Caitlin who is holding Sara's right hand. Tina turns the digital thermometer on and then puts the thermometer into Caitlin' mouth and the three of them wait for the thermometer to beep. When the thermometer beeps thirty second later, Tina takes the thermometer out of Caitlin's mouth then takes a look at the thermometer.
"You running a fever of 102.9 degrees Fahrenheit Caitlin, can you keep anything down yet?"
"I was able to keep some water down today."
"I am going to give you some Tylenol to take with a cup of water and a small cup of jell-O eat and once you eat the Jell-O I am sent you home with Sara to get some rest."
Tina walks out of curtain area one and goes and gets the Tylenol, water and Jell-O's then come back and gives them to Caitlin. Caitlin eats the jell-O first then take the two Tylenol with a drink of water. After she had finish the water Sara and Caitlin head outside to Sara's SUV and then the two of them head home. Fourteen and half minutes later Caitlin is walking upstairs. A minute later Caitlin walks into her bedroom and lays down on the bed. She then pulls the bedspread up and falls right to sleep. At the same time Sara goes into the master bedroom and calls Gil. His cellphone ring three time then he picks up.
"Hi honey, how are you doing?"
"I am doing well and so are your son and daughter."
"We are have one of each Sara?"
"Yes we are Gil."
"That great Sara, me and my mom are just about to leave to come home because
everything is packed into the moving van and the house is now up for sale.
"Ok. I will see you when you get home. I might not go into work tonight because I have to wait and see how Caitlin doing and if see ok with me leave her here with just Sofia.
"Caitlin is still sick?"
"Yes, she kept some water down and so far the Tylenol and Jell-O that Tina Brown, give her at the hospital. But she is still running a fever, achy all over, a sore throat and a cough."
"What was she doing at the hospital?"
"She went to my obgyn appointment with me and by the time it was over she was really cold and look feverish so I take her downstairs to the ER and had Tina took her temperature, she then had Caitlin take some Tylenol and eat some Jell-O with it."
"Ok and I love you."
"I love you too."
Sara flips her cellphone close and set the cellphone on the nightstand. Then Sara's
lies down on the bed and close her eyes. Sara then put her hands on top of her stomach and smiles when she feels her son and daughter kicking. In just the few days that Gil has been gone she has gain ten more pounds and she had to go up to the next size in maternity clothing. Sara slowly starts to fall asleep and at the sometime starts dream about Saturday, September, 19,1987, Sara wakes up her alarm clock going off. She has been dread today because her social worker is coming to take her to a new foster home. She would not mind leave so much if she wasn't sick, but she has not kept anything down for two days now and is still run a fever of 103.9 degrees Fahrenheit. She knows that she will be fine at the new foster home because it where her best friend Katie lives too, who is also in fostered care. She just does not feel up to ride in a car even if it only for two blocks. She hears Beth open up her bedroom door, but does not roll over because she is too nausea to move. Beth walks into the bedroom and walk over to the bed. Mrs. Cat the sits down on the edge of Sara's bed and feels her forehead.
"Sara's your social work just called she going to be here in two minutes to get you and take you to the new home."
" I not up to moving gagging can you talk to her when she gets here and..."
Sara stop talking and put her hand over her mouth and looks at Beth. Who grabs the trash can next to Sara's bed and hands the trash can to Sara, who take her hand off her mouth and grabs the trash can and then start throwing up into the trash can. At the same time Beth pulls Sara's hair out of the way, so it does not get into her mouth.
"I will try Sara."
"Retching."
At the same time Bob walks up to Sara's bedroom door with Mrs. Rich Sara social worker, Beth looks over at Bob and then he leads Mrs. Rich downstairs to the living room. Two minutes later Sara and Beth walk into the living room and Beth has her right arm around Sara who is still hold the trash can and throwing up into the trash can. Sara and Beth walk over to the Lazy boy chair and Sara sat down on the lazy boy. After Sara stops throwing up, Sara rest her head against the back of the chair and closes her eyes. Beth walk over to the social worker with a worried look on her face.
"Mrs. Rich is there anyway that you can change the day Sara goes to the Cooks house, because she is really sick and not up to ride in a car?"
"I am afraid not I have to go out of town after I drop her off because of a family emergency, so this morning the only time I can do it."
"Can one of the other social workers take me over to the Cook house when I feel better Mrs. Rich?"
"Sara's you know that not how it works, now come on we need to get going."
"I will go get you bags Sara."
"Thank you Beth."
Sara goes to stand up but her legs are too weak and she starts to fall forward, Bob catch Sara and picks her up and carry her out to Mrs. Rich car. Mrs. Rich open up the passenger seat door and Bob set Sara onto the front seat and put her seatbelt on just as Beth walk outside and put all four of Sarah's bags into the truck of the car. Beth then walks over to the front seat and heads Sarah her backpack.
"I put your new Forensic Science textbook and fingerprint kit in you backpack."
"Thank you Beth, I forget to park them, by the time I pack everything else last night I was really dizzy and then I start to get sick to my stomach again."
"It is ok and I hope you feel better soon."
Beth close the car door and then Bob and Beth walks toward the house. A few moments later Bob and Beth watch as Mrs. Rich pulls out of the driver, Sara looks out the car window and sees Beth is crying. She can tell my just looking at Bob and Beth face there are thinking did we make the right choice about taking a year off from having a fostered child in the house after the baby born, should we have let her stay. Sara closes her eyes for the rest of the ride because the movement of the car is making her really nausea and she is thinking to herself what Mr. Cook might be like, she has met Mrs. Cook when she went over to study with Katie or bring her homework when she misses School, but Mr. Cook has always been at work when she came over. Katie would not let her into the house if he was home. Sarah starts to cry half way to the Cook house and grab her stomach because it has starts to hurt really badly and she just wants the car ride to be over with. Mrs. Rich stops for a red light and looks over at Sara.
"Sara, you better not throwing up in my car."
"I will try not too."
The rest of the ride to the Cook house Sara has her eyes closed and her left hand over her mouth, as soon Mrs. Rich had stopped the car and put the car in parked position Sara open up the car door and get out of the social workers' car. Sara then runs up to the two story house and in through the front door that her friend Katie had just open. Sara then runs upstairs and into the bedroom she and Katie are going to share. Sara then runs right into the connected bathroom and kneels down in front to the toilet and starts vomited. Katie walks into the bedroom and set Sara's bags down on her bed along with her back that Sara left in Mrs. Rich's car.
"Sara are you ok in there?"
"retching."
"Are you still sick?"
"Yes"
"I will put you things away for you."
Katie walks over to Sara's bed and switch her bags onto her bed just as Sara walks out of the bathroom and over to the bed Katie took her bags off. Sara sits down on the bed and slips her shoes off, she stands up longer enough to pull the cover down then get into the bed and Katie pulls the cover up for Sara.
"Thank you for bring up my bags."
"You are welcome and Mrs. Cook will be upstairs to talk to you after she is done talking to Mrs. Rich and you will meet Mr. Cook at dinner to night and you have to sit at the dinner table no matter how sick you are."
"What room does Mr. and Mrs. Cook sleep in?"
"The master bedroom downstairs, we have the old master bedroom they add on to the downstairs last year."
At the same time a group of six children comes run up to the bedroom door and then into the bedroom. Three girls counting Katie and three boys are now siting on Katie's bed looking at Sara beside for the youngest girl who is setting on her toddled bed that is across from Sara's bed and Sara is smile at the little girl. A young boy with light brown hair and blue eyes looks at Sara and then start to talk.
"Katie, so this is Sara?"
"Yes Jimmy."
"Hi Sara."
"Hi Jimmy, how old are you?"
"I turn four years old today along with my twin Sister Jamie, she is the little girl that just crawl into your bed with you."
Sara looks at the little girl that laying beside her on the bed and she looks just like her brother Jamie has light brown hair and blue eyes. Jamie starts to give Sara a hug. Sara takes her arm out from under the covers and hug Jamie back.
"Are you clod Sara?"
"Yes."
"The oldest boy sitting on my left is Ted and the boy sitting on my right is David. The two girls that are sitting on my lap are Star and sunflower."
Sara looks over at Katie's bed and sees that Ted has red hair and brown eyes, David has blonde hair and green eyes. Sara then notices that Sunflower and Star have strawberry hair and hazel eyes and look like the two of them could be sisters, at the same time Ted start to talk to Sara.
"I am fourteen, David id ten and Sunflower and Star are twin sisters and are five years old."
At the same time there is a knock on the bedroom door frame and Mrs. Cooks walks into the room and over to Sara's bed and sit down on the edge of the bed. Mrs. Cook then feels Sara's forehead. Katie stands up from her bed then walks her foster brothers and sisters out of the room and downstairs. Katie comes back into the room three minutes later with the thermometer in her hands and hands the thermometer to Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Cook then hands Sara the thermometer and Sara puts the thermometer into her mouth.
"Are the children playing downstairs in the basement play room Katie?"
"Yes beside Jamie who asleep next to Sara."
It has been long enough so Mrs. Cook takes the thermometer out of Sara's mouth and look at the thermometer to see if Sara is running a fever, as Sara start yawning and Katie sits down on her bed.
"You have a fever of 103.7 degrees Fahrenheit Sara."
"I am sleepy."
"Go to sleep, I will have Katie wake you to come to dinner when Mr. Cook gets home."
"Ok Mrs. Cook."
Mrs. Cook stands up from the bed and walks out of the bedroom and at the same time Sara eyes start to close and a few seconds later Sara is sound asleep. At six o'clock that evening Sara feels Katie lightly shake her. Sara rolls over and at the sometime Jamie jumps up onto Sara's bed cause it to bounce. Katie pick Jaime up right as Sarah put her hand over her mouth. Sara jumps out of bed and then runs into the bathroom. Sara comes back out of the bathroom a minute later and walks over to Jaime.
"It is all Jaime, I am fine I did not have to throw up after all."
"Good."
"We need to go downstairs to the dining room for dinner."
Katie hold Jamie walks out of the bedroom first and Sara follows her best friend downstairs and into the dining room. Five minutes later dinning is going very slow for Sara, who is sitting at the dinning room table stare at a full plate of food, that Mr. Cook had put onto her plate despite the fact she telling him, she was too sick to eat anything. Sara is also try hard not to leave the table, but half way through dinner Sara can't fight the feeling that she is going to get sick to her stomach. Sara jumps out of the chair and runs out of the dining room and into the nearest bathroom. Once in the bathroom Sara drop to her knees in front of the toilet and start throwing up into the toilet, when she gets back to the table Mr. Cook takes Sara by the right arm and pulls her upstair into her, Katie and Jamie's bedroom and then he throws Sara down onto the bed.
"You never leave the table, no matter what!"
"I had to throw up."
"I do not care, never leave the table."
Sara stands up and starts to walk to the bathroom and Mr. Cook grabs her left arm and punch her in the face with his right hand. Mr. Cook throw Sara back onto her bed, at the same time Jamie and Katie walks into the bedroom, but stays by the bedroom door and Jamie start yelling.
"Stop hitting Sara!"
"Stay out of it Jamie."
"Mr. Cook, Jamie right. Leave Sara alone, she is sick."
"Both of you stay out of it."
With that Mr. Cook walk away from Sara and grabs a hold of Jamie and then Mr. Cook throw Jamie across the room and onto her bed. Jamie hits the wall with a loud bang. Sara gets off the bed and walks over to Jamie side and kneel down beside the little girl at the same time Mr. Cook grab Katie throw her across the room and Katie lands on Sara's bed. Mr. Cook runs over to Katie and start fighting with her. At the same time Jamie hears Sara beside her. Jaime try to stop crying but is in to much pain and the little girl start cry harder.
"Jaime are you ok?"
"(Crying)No it hurts and my leg won't move!"
"Don't move Jamie."
At the same time Ted walks up to the bedroom door and see what Mr. Cook is doing to Katie and sees Sara crawl over to Mr. Cook. Ted sneak into the bedroom and goes over to Sara and Sara start to whisper to him.
"Call 991, he throw Jaime across the room, she hit the wall really hard and she it a lot of pain and can't movie her legs."
"Ok, Sara crawl back over to Jamie before Mr. Cook see you."
"Ok."
Sara crawl back over to Jamie and sing quietly to her to help keep Jamie calm, at the same time Ted sneak back out of the bedroom. The room becomes really quiet when Sara and Jaime hear Mr. Cook hit Katie over the head with a lamp knocking her out. A few moments later Sara Mr. Cook has grab Sara and he throws her onto Katie's bed beside Katie is on Sara's bed knock out. The next think Sara sees is Mr. Cook gets on top of her and then he pulls Sara pants off.
"Get off me, get off."
Mr. Cook does not get off Sara, but three minutes later Sara here loud foot steps out in the hallway and then the foot steps are coming through the bedroom door, Sara looks out of the corner of her eye and see police officers in the bedroom.
"Stop what you are doing to the girl and put your hand behind you back."
Mr. Cook would not get off Sara, so two police men pull him off and Sara stands up from the bed and run over to Jaime. Jamie takes a hold of Sara right hand and Sara start sing to Jamie again. A minute later the EMT walks into the bedroom and put a neck brace on Jamie and then puts the little girl onto a stretcher, but Jamie would not let go of Sara's head.
"Can you come with us seeing that you need to be check out anyway and the girl will not let go off you?"
"Sure."
The EMT carrying the stretcher Jamie on out of the room and Sara walk beside the stretcher still holding Jamie hand. A few minutes later Sara and Jamie are heading to the hospital. The whole ride to the hospital Jamie would not let go of Sara's hand, but once at the hospital the doctor made Jaime let go of Sara.
"No, I want Sara to come with me."
"She can't go back to the operation room with us."
"Sara!"
"I will be here when you come out of surgery."
Sara see the doctor and nurse take Jamie away and then she stop dreaming about the past and start dream about Gil and her on the beach. Sara then feels someone is shaking her left shoulder try to wake her up. She rolls onto her back and then open her eyes to see Caitlin is sit on the edges of the bed stare at her with a very worry look on her face. Sara sit up in bed and runs her hands through her hair.
"Sara who is Jaime you keep shouting her name and saying you will be ok and I will be here when you get out of surgery and did not stop until I shaking you and then you start saying Gil's name."
"She is one of the girls I was in foster care with and our fostered dad threw her across the room and she hit the wall really hard and break her back, the doctor was able to do surgery fixes her back, but she never walks again and has been in a wheelchair since that day. I was only in the Cook home for half a day when that happened. The fostered home I came from Mr. and Mrs. Cat took my friend Katie and Jaime and her Twin brother Jimmy and I in after the police arrest Mr. Cook for physical and sexual abuse fosters children for the past six years. The other six children in the house end up live in the house next to the Mr. and Mrs. Cat's house.
"So you know what fosters care is like?"
"Yes."
Sara and Caitlin start talking to each other about what life was like for them in the different foster homes they're had be in and do not stop talking until it is time for Sara to get ready for work. Caitlin let her aunt go into work because she is feeling better and is ok staying at the house because she is not alone because Sofia says she would hang with her.