Chapter twelve: Changes
On Monday, October 13, 2008, Miley's alarm clock start beeping at five-forty in the morning, Miley wakes up right away. She turns the alarm clock off and then tosses the bedspread off. Miley's sits up in bed and looks down at the gray Donjoy Tri-Panel Immobilizer on her right leg. Also, Miley is thinking to herself I can believe that it been nine full days and ten nights since I hurt my knee. Miley grabs the prescription bottle of Ampicillin 500 mg capsules off the nightstand and opens the bottle. Then take the second to last Ampicillin out of the bottle. Miley puts the Ampicillin 500 mg capsules into her mouth and closes the prescription bottle. She then picks up the bottle of water off the nightstand and take a drink. Miley grabs her purse off the floor and then put the prescription bottle of Ampicillin 500 mg capsules into her purse. So she can take her last dose of Ampicillin at lunch or hopes that it her last dose. However, that depends on what her family doctor says at her doctors' appointment at three-thirty this afternoon. Because she still has a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing, a sore throat, coughing up greenish mucus, hardly has a voice and a fever on and off. However, no longer has a runny nose or nasal congestion. She throws the purse onto the bedroom floor and the purse lands in front of the nightstand. Also, Miley is thinking at five o'clock tonight orthopedic Rosenberg will tell me when I am going to be having surgery on my knee. Simultaneously Miley starts coughing and pulls a tissue out of the box that is sitting on the nightstand. Miley covers her mouth with the tissues and cough up a small amount of greenish mucus. A few moments later Miley tosses the use tissues into her bedroom trash can. Then look down at the pair of pink pajama shorts and pink nightshirt that she is wearing. Miley lay down in bed, wishes that she could stay in bed all day and sleep. For two reasons, the first being the injury right knee is killing her and the second is she still feeling under the weather. Miley looks over at Lilly who is asleep on the sofa in front of her bedroom window. She sees that Lilly kicked the blanket off during the night. Also, notices that the purple tank top that Lilly's wear to bed last night is really tight around the breast and its showing off more cleavage then it used too. Then Miley notices that oversize white pajama pants are fitting tight then normally too. Miley picks up a square decorative pillow off her bed and toss the pillow across the room at Lilly. The pillow hits her best friend in the face. Lilly jumps up and looks around the room. Lilly sees the square decorative pillow laying on the floor and notice that Miley is awake. Lilly lay down on the sofa and warp her arms around her stomach, then start crying.
"Why did you throw a pillow at me?"
"Because it is time to get up!"
"I just want to lie in bed and sleep, because I had a rough night. The bean soup we had for dinner last night did not agree with my stomach and I was in and out of the bathroom throwing up most of the night."
"You started having morning sickness?"
"I think so, but I do not know why its called morning sickness, when it can happen at anytime of the day."
Lilly belch and then rolls over, so she is looking toward the window and her back is to Miley. Then Lilly shuts her eyes hoping that the nauseous will pass, because if it does not pass it will be a very long school day. Simultaneously Miley sits up and then puts her legs over the edge of the bed. Miley stands up from the bed putting all her weight on her left leg, then grabs the lavender underarm crutches off the floor by the bed. Miley puts the crutches under her underarms and then heads over to the sofa that Lilly is laying on.
Once Miley reaches the sofa, she looks at Lilly and at the same time leans on the crutches. There is a knock on Miley's bedroom door. Miley knows from the sound of the knock that it is her dad knocking on the bedroom door.
"Miley and Lilly get up and come downstairs to have breakfast."
"Ahem we will be downstairs shortly dad."
Miley and Lilly hear Robby walk away from the bedroom door and walk up to Jackson's bedroom door and start knocking on Jackson's bedroom door. Simultaneously Lilly sits up on the sofa and puts her leg down, then leans back against the back of the sofa. Lilly looks up at her best friend and gives her a sad look. Miley takes a seat on the sofa next to her best friend and Lilly lays her head on Miley's right shoulder.
"Miley does your dad know that I am pregnant? Because I have not told him and I do not know if he over heard me talking to Oliver about being pregnant on October fifth? Also I do not know if he knows the reason that I had to leave school during the middle of the day last Friday?"
"He knows Lilly, your mother called and told my dad on October eight. He is just wanting for you to bring the pregnancy up to him."
"Let go get breakfast over with Miley, so I have sometime before we have to leave for school to rest and let my stomach settle down. Because I can already can tell you that I'm going to be nauseous after eating because I am nauseous right now."
"I am really hunger let go coughing."
"It is good that you have an appetite again Miley. You must be feeling better?"
"I feel a little better coughing."
Miley covers her mouth with her left hand and turns her head away from Lilly, so not to spread her germs to Lilly. A minute later Miley stops coughing and Lilly and Miley stand up from the sofa, then Miley put her crutches under her underarms. Then the two teenagers walk over to the bedroom door. Lilly open the door and then Miley leave the bedroom. Then Lilly walks out of Miley's bedroom. As the two of them are walking toward the stairs, they hear Jackson stumblers around in his bedroom and sniffling really loudly. Miley goes down the stairs first and Lily walks behind her. Simultaneously Jackson walks into the bathroom that he shares with his sister. He grabs a handful of tissues from the box of tissues that is set on the side table. The side table is on the right side of the pedestal sinks, if standing beside the Clawfoot tub and in front of the sink. The toilet is across from the sink if looking into the mirror that is above the sink and your back is to the toilet. He puts all but one of the tissue in the right pocket of his pajama pant, but leave one tissue in his hands and start sneezes into the tissue.
Meanwhile, on the first floor of the house, Lilly and Miley are walking over to the kitchen table. The two of them see bowls, spoons and a milk jug on the table. Miley and Lilly notice that Miley's dad is already dress. He is wearing a pair of light blue jeans, red long sleeve dress shirt and his light brown cowboy boots. Miley takes a seat on the chair that is at the center of the round table. Her back is to the hallway to the downstairs bathroom and the staircase to the second floor. Lilly takes a seat on the chair next to Miley and is looking at the back door of the house. Mr. Stewart set his daughter crutches up against the kitchen island. Then he goes and grabs the boxes of cereals. Robby sets the cereal boxes on the center of the kitchen table.
"Miley's how are you feeling this morning?"
"Ahem I feel a little better. However, I still have a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing and a sore throat. Also, I am still coughing up greenish mucus and hardly have a voice, coughing (into her left hand). However, I no longer have a runny nose or nasal congestion. I am not sure if I am running a fever this morning because I have not taken my temperature."
Robby walks up to his daughter and put his left hand onto Miley's forehead, which does not feel warm. However, the forehead is a little clammy. Lilly belches a few times and then lean back in the chair, thinking I hope I can make it through breakfast without getting sick to my stomach. Simultaneously Robby takes his hand off Miley's forehead and gives her a small smile.
"It does not feel like you are running a fever. However, your forehead is still a little clammy."
"Ahem do I still have to go sees the family doctor after school today Dad, coughing?"
"Yes you still have to go see the family doctors'. The reasons you have to see the doctor is that you still have a wet cough, chest pain when coughing and a sore throat. In addition you are still coughing up greenish mucus and barely have a voice. In addition I do not like the fact that you keep running a fever and the longest you have been fever free is a couple hours at a time!"
"Fine I will go to see the family, coughing, doctor after school."
Miley stop talking to her dad, because she needs to rest her voice and has starts coughing again. Lilly stands up from the chair and walks over to the coffee table and grabs the box of tissues off the coffee table. Lilly then carries the box of tissues over to the kitchen table and takes a seat at the table. Lilly's set the box of tissue down on the table. Miley pulls a tissue out of the box of tissues, then cover her mouth with the tissue and start coughing up mucus into the tissues.
A minute later Miley picks up the box of cornflakes and opens the box. Miley then pours some cornflakes into a bowl and a few moments later Lilly takes the open box of cornflakes from Miley and pours some into her bowl. At the same time Mr. Stewart walks over to the staircase and start yelling up the stairs.
"Jackson's get up and come downstairs for breakfast it is a school day."
Mr. Stewart walks over to the kitchen table and takes a seat on the chair across from Miley and gets himself a bowl of cornflakes. A minute later Jackson comes into the kitchen and living room wearing his blue pajama pants and a blue oversized T-shirt and blowing his nose into a tissue. Jackson walks up to the kitchen table and takes a seat on the chair across from Lilly. Jackson lay his head on the kitchen table and shuts his eyes. Lilly, Miley and Robby stop eating their cereals and look at Jackson, Robby puts his left hand on Jackson's forehead, which does not feel warm, but is a little clammy. Simultaneously Miley goes back to eating her cereal. Lilly start moving the spoon around in the bowl and warps her left arm around her stomach, because eating breakfast is making her stomach very upset. At the same time Jackson lifts his dad hand off his forehand and then sits up. Jackson starts sneezes into his hands and Robby pulls a tissue out of the tissue's box. Robby hands the tissue to his son and Jackson takes the tissue from his dad with his right hand. Then he blows his nose into the tissue.
"Jackson's what do you want for breakfast?"
"I'm not hunger dad, can I go back to bed, ah-choo?"
"No it is a school day!"
"I think that I caught the flu bug or that ah-choo head cold that is going around the school and I feel awful."
"You do not have a fever and you are going to go to school today. You have to save you excuse absent for when you are running a fever, throwing up or there is a family emergency! Now what do you want to eat?"
"I guess that I will have a bowl of ah-choo rice krispies cereal."
"(Miley and Lilly) Bless you Jackson."
"Sniffling thanks."
Mr. Stewart pours his son a bowl of rice krispies cereal and then pour some milk into the bowl. Robby set the bowl in front of Jackson and Jackson's pick up his spoon. Then Jackson starts to eat his cereal. A few minutes later Lilly stands up from the chair. Then pick up her bowl and spoon from the table. Lilly takes her almost full bowl of cereal over to the trash can and throw out the leftover cereal. Then Lilly walks over to the staircase and heads upstairs to Miley's bedroom to get ready for school.
Once in Miley's bedroom Lilly walks over to her open duffel bag and start going through her duffel bag. Lilly pulls out a clean pair of underwear, a bra and a pair of white socks out of the duffel bag. Also, Lilly gets her favorite pair of light blue jeans, orange spaghetti strip tank top and a white zip hoodie jacket out of the duffel bag. The jeans have holes in the knees and the hoodie jacket has orange circles all over the jacket. Lilly throws the clothing onto Miley's bed and a few minutes later Lilly is laying on Miley's bed trying to get the jeans to zips up. However, the jeans will not zip and that makes her start crying. At the same time Miley comes into her bedroom and shut the door behind her. Lilly looks at her best friend and start to talk.
"Will you grab my light denim jean skirt for me, because I can't get my jeans to zip up?"
"Sure."
Miley goes over to Lilly's duffel bag and grabs the light denim jean skirt out of the bag and toss the skirt at her best friend. Lilly caught her light denim jean skirt and then stands up from Miley's bed. Simultaneously Miley using her crutches hops over to her closet and then open the door of the closet. Then grab a pair of white pants and light blue short sleeve shirt out of the closet. The pants have baggy legs, which allows them to fit over the immobilizer and the shirt has a scoop neckline.
A few minutes later Miley and Lilly are dress and are in the bathroom finish getting ready for school. Lilly's has brushed her teeth already and is putting her hair into a ponytail. Miley has already French braid her hair and is now brushing her teeth. Simultaneously Jackson walks into the bathroom and grabs his toothbrush and toothpaste and a few moments later he is brushing teeth and trying not to sneezes. Once Lilly has her hair up in a ponytail, she walks out of the bathroom and goes into Miley's bedroom. Lilly walks over to the sofa and takes a seat on the sofa, wishing that her stomach were not upset. Lilly wraps her arms around her stomach and is fighting the urge to throw up. A few minutes later Miley walks into her bedroom and looks at her best friend and can tell that Lilly stomach is really bothering her.
"Jackson's say if we want a ride to school, we have to be standing outside by, coughing, his car in ten minutes."
"Ok belches."
"Lilly that burp smells awful!"
"If it makes you feel better, it was one of these burps that you could taste what you just eat and it did not taste good either."
"No, it does not make me feel better. Let getting going with the mood Jackson in today he might leave without us if will are not outside when he gets out to his car."
"Ok."
Lilly stands up from the sofa and grabs her backpack and Miley backpack off the floor. Also, Lilly grabs her and Miley's purses off the floor. Then Miley and Lilly walk over to the bedroom door and leaves Miley's bedroom. A few minutes later Miley and Lily walk into the kitchen/living room. Then two of them start walking toward the front door and Robby walk up to the two of them.
"Miley's do you remember the celebrity dating auctions you agreed to take part in as Hannah Montana?"
"Yes and it is not this week or this weekend."
"No it is next Friday night on October 24. However, you have a dress fitting for the event tomorrow after school and so do your Lilly."
"(Miley and Lilly) ok that should be fun, I love getting new clothing."
"Have a great day at school Miley and Lilly bye."
"(Lilly and Miley) Bye."
Lilly opens the front door of the house and then Lilly walks out of the house. Miley follows Lilly out of the house and Robby shuts the front door of the house, once Miley is outside. Simultaneously Miley and Lilly start walking toward Jackson's car and see he is already sitting in the car waiting for them. A few minutes later Jackson is driving to the Seaview high school. Miley is sitting on the front passenger seat of Jackson's car. Also, Miley is resting her head against the car window and wishing that she felt better. Miley wishing that her right knee would stop hurting, because the pain is only making her feel miserable. Lilly is sitting on the backseat of Jackson's car and she is fighting the urge to vomiting. During the ride to school Lilly is thinking to herself I hope that I can make it to school without throwing up in Jackson's car.
Five minute later Jackson pulls the car into the entrance of the student parking lot and then he drives over to the first row of parking. He pulls the car into the third parking space and once Jackson's has put his car into the park position, Lilly open the car door. Lilly grabs her backpack and purse, as jumping out of the car. Lilly then runs toward the high school doors. Miley slower gets out of her brothers' car and start to hop on her left leg toward the back of the car to get her crutches. However, Jackson walks around to the passenger side of the car and grabs the lavender underarm crutches, purse and backpack out of the back of his car for his sister. Jackson then hands Miley her backpack and purse. Miley puts the purse into her backpack and a few moment's later puts the backpack onto her back, then Jackson's hand Miley the crutches. Miley puts the crutches under her underarms and then looks at Jackson who is grabbing his backpack off the backseat.
"Thank you for getting my backpack, purse and crutches out of the car."
"Ah-choo you are welcome Miley. Do you have any cough drop, because my throat has starts to hurt, ah-choo?"
"Yes in the front pocket of my backpack!"
Jackson unzips the front pocket of his sisters' backpack and grabs a handful of cough drops out of the pocket. Then he puts all, but one of the cough drops into the front pocket of his backpack. Jackson zip up the front pocket of his and Miley backpack and then closes the cars doors and lock up his car.
A minute later Jackson and Miley start walking up to the school and Jackson put a cough drop into his mouth. Miley and Jackson are half way to the doors of the school when Jackson start sneezes and Miley start coughing and she has to stop walking. Miley pulls a travel pack of tissues out of her right pant pocket and opens the pack, then hold the pack out. Jackson grabs a couple tissues from the travel pack of tissues and then Miley pulls a tissue out of the travel pack. Miley covers her mouth with the tissues and starts coughing up mucus. Simultaneously Jackson covers his mouth and nose with one of the tissue. He sneezes into the tissues and a few minutes later Jackson and Miley start walking toward the high school.
"Sniffling your cough still sound awful, ah-choo."
"Ahem I know that Jackson, I can't seem to shake the cough. How are you feeling, because it looks like you do not feel well?"
"I cannot stop sneezes and I have a sore throat. Also, I am exhaust. However, dad is right and I need to save my excuse absent for the days that I am too sick to go to school. Or there is a family emergency ah, ah, ah, ah, ah-choo!"
Miley and Jackson stop talking to each other and walk up to the high school doors. When they get into the high school Jackson hands to his locker and at the same time Miley sees Oliver. He is sitting on the bench outside of the girl's restroom that is at the front of the school. Oliver is wearing a pair of dark blue jean and a white long sleeve shirt with a green short sleeve polo shirt over the long sleeve shirt. In addition he is coughing into his right elbow. Miley heads over to the bench and takes a seat on the bench on Oliver's left-hand side.
"Good to see you are back in school Oliver, how are you feeling?"
"A lot better Miley, my fever break Friday night and then I started to feel better. When I wake up on Saturday my runny nose and nasal congestion was gone, but I still have a cough and a sore throat. However, I used all my excuse absents so I coughing had to come back to school today. How are you feeling Miley? It looks like you are in a lot of pain and you are still a little pale, hardly have a voice and it sound like you have a sore throat."
"My right knee is killing me. I am still feeling under the weather because of a nasty wet cough, chest pain when coughing and a sore throat. Also I am still coughing up tons of greenish mucus, coughing (into left hand) and as you said I hardly got a voice. I no longer have a runny nose or nasal congestion. However, I have been running a fever on and off the last few days, but my dad says that I was not runny a fever this morning. Have you seen Lilly?"
"She ran into the school and she right into the girl's restroom. In addition Lilly had her left hand over her mouth and has not come out of the restroom yet. Miley is Jackson sick, because he seems to be sneezing a lot when he walked past me and he looks a little pale?"
"He thinks that he caught the flu or the head cold that going around because he cannot stop sneezes, has a sore throat and is really tired. However, he does not have a fever so dad made him come to school."
"Sounds like he is coming down with that head cold that is going around the school."
At the same time Lilly walks out of the restroom and Lilly got her backpack and purse on her left shoulder. Lilly walks over to Miley and Olive with her arms wrapped around her stomach. She takes a seat on the bench on Oliver's right-hand side and lays her head down on his shoulder, then shuts her eyes. Oliver puts his right arm around his girlfriend shoulders. Simultaneously Miley looks over at her two best friends and knows that they life have changes forever.
"Ahem Lilly and Oliver I am going to head to the history classroom. I will see the two of you when you get to class."
"(Lilly and Oliver) that fine and I will see you in a few minutes. Also, try not to talk today because you need to get your voice back."
"Ahem I'll try."
Miley stands up and puts her crutches under her underarms. Then start to walk down the hall with the aid of the crutches and not putting any weight on her right leg. Lilly and Oliver watch Miley until she is out of sight and then Lilly set her backpack and purse on the floor. Lilly lies down on the bench and rest her head on Oliver's lap.
"Ahem Lilly how are you coughing (into his left elbow) feeling this morning?"
"I felt awful since I ate the bean soup for dinner last night, I spent most of the night in the bathroom throwing up. Also, when I get to school I threw up the six spoonfuls of cereal I eat for breakfast. How are you feeling Oliver?"
"I have started to feel better, my fever break Friday night and then I started to feel better. When I wake up on Saturday my runny nose and nasal congestion was gone. However, I still have a cough and a sore throat, but I used all my excuse absents so I had to come back to school today. Also, that not good that you can't keep anything down, did you catch the stomach flu Lilly?"
"(Whisper so only Oliver can hear her) no I have morning sickness."
"Oh, sorry."
"It is not your fault."
"(Whisper so only Lilly his him) It is my fault Lilly, you would not be with children if we did not have intercourse."
"(Whisper so only Oliver can hear her) belch it is both of our faults and the unborn baby fault too."
Lilly hops off the bench cover her mouth with her left hand and runs into the girl's restroom. Simultaneously Oliver pulls a cough drop out of his left jean pocket. He unwraps the cough drop and puts the cough drop into his mouth. Lilly walks out of the girl's restroom right as the warning bell that tells the students to head to first hour start ringing. Lilly walks over to the bench Oliver's sitting on and grabs her purse and backpack off the floor. Oliver stands up from the bench and puts his right arm around Lilly's waist. Lilly lies her head on Oliver shoulder and then the two of them start walking down the hallway and toward the history classroom.
Meanwhile, in the history classroom Miley has got out her history textbook and notebook. In addition she has already starts to take down the notes that are on the classroom chalkboards. Lilly and Oliver walk into the history classroom with a minute to go before class starts. Oliver takes a seat at the desk on Miley right-hand side and Lily takes a seat at the desk on Miley's left-hand side. Simultaneously Mrs. Web walks into the classroom and walks up to the front of the classroom. Miley looks up from taking down the notes on chapter seven Manifest destiny 1820-1848 and chapter eight sectional conflict intensifies 1848-1861. She sees that Mrs. Web has cut off her long blonde hair over the weekend and now has a short bob cut. In addition the teacher is wearing a pair of black dress pants and a white long sleeve blouse.
"Class takes down the notes for chapter seven and eight that are on the chalkboards and once you have finished writing starts to read chapter seven. Oliver Oken came up to my desk so I can get you caught up on what the class has been working on."
Oliver stands up from the attached desk chair and then he walks up to the front of the classroom. Once at the front of the classroom, he walks over to the teachers' desk. He sees a pile of papers that has a post-it-note on top of it and his name is on the post-it-note. Mrs. Web start going over the notes and assignments' he miss when he was out sick last week. Simultaneously Miley looks over at Lilly who has laid her head down on the desk and shut her eyes. Miley lean toward Lilly and starts whispers into Lilly's ear.
" You need to sit up and start to write down the notes."
"Gagging, when the nausea passes in a few minutes gagging I will start taking the notes."
Miley goes back to taking the notes, but after a few minutes she starts coughing. Miley stops writing and pulls a couple tissues out off the travel pack of tissues that is setting on the desk, then Miley covers her mouth with the tissues. Simultaneously Oliver walks to the back of the classroom and then he takes a seat at his desk. Then he set the pile of class handouts and worksheets onto his desk. Oliver looks over at Miley and Lilly. He notices that Lilly has starts to take down the notes, but has a green hue to her skin tone. Also, he can hear Miley coughing up mucus into the tissues that is cover her mouth. Oliver stops looking at his girlfriend and Miley and starts to take down the notes that are on the chalkboards.
When first hours ends Lilly, Miley and Oliver say bye to each other and go to they second hour class. When Miley gets to music class she takes a seat on the second chair in the back row of chairs, then lean back in the chair and shuts her eyes. Miley puts her right hand onto her forehead and it feels clammy to the touch. Simultaneously Ashley and Amber take seats on the chairs in front of Miley. Ashley and Amber are both wearing black jean skirts and pink tank tops. Amber and Ashley turn in their seats and looks at Miley and start laughing.
"Ahem what so funny Amber and Ashley?"
"(Amber and Ashley) The way you are sitting leaning back in the chair with your eyes shut, hand on your forehead and right leg straight and unable too bent."
"Coughing, I do not feel well leave me alone."
"(Amber and Ashley) If you are sick, you should have stays at home, because none of us what to catches what you have!"
The music teacher walks into the classroom and Amber and Ashley turns so the two of them are facing the front of the classroom. Simultaneously in the Audio Engineering classroom Oliver is already busy working on the class assignments that he misses when out sick last week.
Meanwhile, in the Health classroom Lilly is sitting at the desk in front of the classroom door and that is at the back of the classroom. Lilly has open her textbook to chapter five: preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, pairing, commitment and then marriage and family life, which is the chapter the class is going to start reading and working on when the class start. Lilly start reading the first unit of the chapter and the first unit is about preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. After reading a few sentence Lilly starts feeling nauseous again and the feeling is not going away. She stands up and then runs out of the classroom. She runs across the hall to the girl's restroom. Lilly walks back into the classroom as the bell for second hour to start rings and take a seat at her desk. Simultaneously the teacher Mr. Wolf start passes out packages of worksheets for the chapter to the class. When Mr. Wolf walks up to Lilly, he notices that she is lean back is the seat and has her arms wrapped around her stomach and look pale. He set the package of worksheets down on the desk. However, he does not walk to the next row of desks. He taps Lilly on her left shoulder. Lilly looks up at Mr. Wolf, who is six feet tall. In addition the teacher has dark-brown hair that has starts to thin out and has dark brown eyes. Lilly gives the teacher a little smile and then looks at the packages of worksheets that is on her desk.
"Lilly Truscott's are you feeling all right, because you holding your stomach and look pale?"
"Yeah I feel fine Mr. Wolf gagging."
"Are you sure because it sounds like you are going to be sick?"
"Yeah I am fine."
"If you start feeling bad and want to go see the nurse just raise your hand and let me know."
"All right, but I won't need to go see the nurse."
Mr. Wolf goes back to passes out the packages of worksheets to the students. Lilly goes back to reading the chapter and working on the worksheets, as she reads the chapter. Despite feeling like she might throw up at any second.
At the same time Jackson is sitting in twelfth grade English class trying to pay attention to Mrs. Johnson who is lecturing about metaphors. However, he is having a hard time pay attention because he keeps sneezes and his throat is really sore. Second hour goes by very slowly for Miley, Lilly and Jackson. However, goes by to fast for Oliver who is really enjoy doing the make up assailments for the classes he missed last week. When the bell for second hour to end rings Jackson heads to U.S. Government class and simultaneously Oliver, Miley and Lilly head to English class.
Miley and Lilly get to Mrs. Johnson's classroom at the same time and Lilly is eating a nutri-grain cereal bar and drinking a bottle of twelve oz apple juices. Lilly takes a seat at the desk right in front of the classroom door that is at the back of the classroom. Miley takes a seat at the desk on Lilly's right-hand side. A few moments later Oliver walks into the classroom and takes a seat at the desk on Lilly's left-hand side. Oliver sets his backpack on the floor and then looks over at Lilly, who just put the last bite of the nutri-grain cereal bar into her mouth. Lilly is throwing the breakfast bar wrapper into the classroom trash can. Oliver lean forward and tap his girlfriend on the shoulder.
"I take it that your stomach is feeling better since you just eat a cereal bar and are drinking apple juice?"
"No, my stomach is still upset. However, I was feeling really shaking and it felt like my blood sugar was dropping. So I went to the vending machines and got something to eat and drink before coming to class."
Lilly's pick up the bottle of apple juice and finish drinking the juice. She tosses the empty bottle of apple juice into the trash can and simultaneously the ball start ringing and it time for class to start. Rico runs into the classroom and runs up to the front of the classroom. Rico takes a seat at the desk right in front of the teachers' desk. Mrs. Johnson's stand up from her desk chair and then she walks to the front of the desk and tap the desk to get the class attention. Everyone in the classroom look up at Mrs. Jackson, beside for Henrietta Laverne (a.k.a. the cracker), who has her head down on her desk. Also, Henrietta has been coughing and sneezes all morning. Henrietta raises her right hand in the air and simultaneously puts her left hand on her forehead.
"What do you need Henrietta Laverne?"
"Ah-choo I cannot stop sneezes or coughing and I think that I am running a fever can I go see the school nurse?"
"Yes you can go see the school nurse and I will write you a nurse pass. I want the rest of the class to get out your William Shakespeare books and spend the class time reading."
Mrs. Jackson walks behind her desk and takes a seat on the desk chair. The teacher grabs the pad of nurse passes and a pen from her desk, then start writing out a pass to the nurse office for Henrietta Laverne. Simultaneously Henrietta stands up from her desk chair. Henrietta grabs her backpack off the floor and then walks up to the teachers' desk coughing into her right hand and still has her left hand on her forehead. When Henrietta reaches the teachers' desk, she grabs a tissue out of the box of tissues on the teachers' desk and start blowing her nose. Mrs. Jackson hand Henrietta the pass to the nurse and she take the pass from the teacher. Then Henrietta walks to the classroom door and walks out of the classroom without give a mean looks at Rico, Miley, Lilley and Oliver who she normally bullies. Once the door of the classroom shut Miley lean toward Lily and start whispers into her best friend ear.
"Henrietta must really feel bad, because she was not mean to us on the way out of class or all morning."
"She looks unwell too, gagging."
Lilly stands up and runs over to the trash can by the door and starts vomiting into the trash can. Mrs. Jackson looks up from grading papers and sees Lilly hold the trash can and walking over up to the desk she sits at. Lilly takes a seat at her desk and then lean over the trash can and start throwing up again. Mrs. Jackson stands up from her desk chair and grabs a pen and the pad of nurse passes and walks to the back off the classroom and over to Lilly. Simultaneously Lilly stops vomiting and set the trash can on the floor by her desk. Then lean back in her seat and shut her eyes. Mrs. Jackson reaches Lilly desk and tap the top of the desk to get Lilly attention, Lilly open her eyes and looks at the teacher.
"Lilly Truscott's I am writing you a pass to go see the school nurse, because you cannot be in school if you are vomiting.
"I do not need to see the nurse. I am not sick."
"You just vomit into the classroom trash can twice."
"I'm fine now I think that apple juice was bad, I will be able to make through the rest of class without vomiting."
"You are going to see the school nurse. If the nurse says you can come back to class and write a note saying you can be in class, then I will let you back into class."
"Ok Mrs. Jackson."
Mrs. Jackson writes a pass and quick note on the pass to the school nurse and then hands the pass to Lilly. Lilly stands up from her desk chair, simultaneously grabs her backpack and purse off the floor. Lilly then walks over to the classroom door with her left arm warp around her stomach. Lilly opens the classroom door and then walks out of the classroom. Once in the hallway Lilly sees Jackson walking down the hall with his backpack on his left shoulder and blowing his nose into a tissue. Jackson walks up beside Lilly and gives her a worried look when he sees that Lilly has her backpack, purse and a nurse pass in her hands.
"Jackson's where are you going?"
"Mr. Smith's the U.S. Government teacher is sending ah-choo me to the school nurse and why are you out of class?"
"I throw up into the classroom trash can twice."
"That not good, you should have told my dad that your stomach was ah-choo bothering you this morning and he would have let you ah-choo stay home and rest."
"I'm pregnant Jackson and have morning sickness. Staying home and resting or going to see the nurse is not going to help me! Because there is nothing that the nurse can do for me."
Lilly and Jackson stop talking and Lilly puts her left hand over her mouth. She runs into the girl's restroom. Jackson continues to walk down the hallway and to the nurse office. He hopes the nurse will let home go home sick.
Ten minutes later Lilly walks into the nurse office and see the nurse taking Jackson's temperature and Henrietta Laverne laying on the recovered couch sleeping. Lilly walks up to the nurse and hands her the pass. Also, Lilly pulls a note from her obgyn out of her purse and hand that to the school nurse too. Lilly then goes and takes a seat on a chair by the door to wait her turn. A few minutes later Jackson leaves the nurse office to go back to class because he does not have a fever. Also, the nurse says that he is not sick enough to go home sick. Nurse Piglet walks over to Lilly reading the note that Mrs. Jackson wrote on the nurse pass.
"Lilly Truscott's, you are the only students I know that want to stay in school when they cannot keep anything down. Let check to see if you are running a fever."
Nurse Piglet goes and gets the ear thermometer and puts a probe cover onto the thermometer. Then the nurse walks over to Lilly. Nurse Piglet put the thermometer into Lilly right ear and thirty second later the thermometer start beep and Nurse Piglet takes the thermometer out of Lilly's ear. She looks at the display to see that Lilly is temperature is 98.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Do I have a fever?"
"The thermometer says your temperature is 98.9 degrees Fahrenheit, which is in the normal range and that means that you do not have a fever. However, since you have been vomiting, I should send you home, because school rules say you cannot be in school if you are vomiting."
"If you read the note from gagging my obgyn you know that I am pregnant and I have morning sickness."
"I will write you a pass to go back to class and I will write a note for your teacher."
"Thanks."
The nurse walks over to her desk and writes out a pass and a note for Lilly teachers. A few minutes later Lilly walks back into English class to find Miley has laid her head down on her desk and her eyes are shut. Lilly walks up to the teachers' desk and hand the note and the pass from the nurse to the teacher and then walks over to the desk she sits at. Lilly puts her backpack and purse on the floor by her desk and then tap Miley on the shoulder. Miley opens her eyes and looks at Lilly.
"The nurse let you come back coughing to class?"
"Yes Miley, but you do not look good at all. How are you feeling?"
"I think my fever come back, because I am burning up, is it hot in the classroom or is it just me?"
"It is a little warm, but not that hot."
"Great my fever must be back coughing, gagging."
Miley stops talking and grabs a handful of tissues and cover up her mouth and starts coughing up thick mucus into the tissues. Lilly hears Miley making a wheezing sound when coughing and taking a breath, which is not good. When Miley stop coughing she raises her left hand in the air, but Mrs. Jackson does not see what Miley wants because the class is almost over. After a few minute Miley puts her hand down and lies her head down on the desk until the bell for class to end rings.
Once third hour is over Oliver, Lilly and Miley hands to their fourth hour class. When fourth hour is over the Oliver, Lilly and Miley walks to the gym, Oliver heads to the locker room to changes for gym. However, Miley and Lilly head into the gym and take seats on the first row of the stands because neither of them is going to take part in class. Mr. Rock walks over to Miley and Lilly and crosses his arms over his chest.
"Lilly's go get change for gym class, Miley has a valid reason for sitting out of gym but you do not."
Lilly open her purse and pulls out a fold sheet of paper. She unfolds the piece of paper and hand the piece of paper to the gym teacher. Mr. Rock sees that it is a doctor note for Dr. Weiss obgyn office. The note says Lilly Truscott is pregnant and due around June 29, 2009. Also, the note says that Lilly should be excuse from gym class for the rest of the year.
"You can sit out of gym class for the rest of the year."
The bell for class to start rings and the gym teachers walks away from Lilly and Miley and start teaching gym class to the rest of the students. The rest of the school day goes by slower for Lilly who is fighting morning sickness and Jackson and Miley because they are both sick and feel awful. Jackson's nose has started running and he still cannot stop sneezes and his throat is really sore. In addition he has started to look flush too. Miley is tired and ends up spent fifth, six and seventh hour in the nurse office coughing up think mucus and is running a fever of 102.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Lilly was able to keep her lunch down and is feeling a little better, but she is tire. Once school gets out Jackson gives Lilly and Oliver a ride to his house. Simultaneously Miley leaves the school with her father to go to the first of two doctor appointments.
At three-thirty on the dot Miley gets call back for her doctors' appointment, she follows the nurse back to exam room one. Once in the exam room Miley take a seat on the chair across from the exam table. She looks at the pictures on the walls of the exam room, as waiting for the doctor to come into the room. Also, the nurse is taking Miley temperature. Twenty minutes later Miley comes into the waiting room and walks over to her dad with a prescription for the Z-Pak. Miley hands the prescription to her dad. Then Miley lean on her crutches, but keep her right leg off the ground.
"What take so long and what did the doctor say?"
"Sorry coughing my fault I keep coughing up mucus, which kept the doctor from listening to my lungs. The doctors say that I still have double pneumonia. However, it is not as bad as when I went to Crowley Corners Urgent Care Center. The doctor gave me a prescription for the Z-Pak and I have to take two pills today and one pill for the next fours day, coughing. He says the Z-pak should clear up the double pneumonia and after a few days I should start to feel better."
"That is good, let go get the prescription filled and then go get something to eat before head to your orthopedic appointment."
"Ahem that sound like a great idea to me, I am start coughing to get a little hunger."
Miley using her crutches hops to the doors of the doctors office. Robby follows his daughter to the door of the doctors' office. Also, he can tell that she is tired and her knee is really hurting.
Meanwhile, Oliver and Lilly are sitting in the Stewart living room and are sitting on the couch. The two of them are on Lilly laptop looking up open adoption. The more Lilly reads about open adoption the more she cries. Oliver close the internet down and then shut Lilly's laptop off. He set the laptop on the coffee table. Then Oliver hugs Lilly and she lays her head on his right shoulder and continues to cry.
"Lilly if reading about giving a baby up for adoption is making you cry maybe, adoption is not the right choice for you. If you want to keep the baby, I will be there to support you. Also, I will help raise the child and pay for the child clothing, food, doctors' appointments, diapers and anything else the child will need."
"You will be there for me and the baby?"
"Ahem yes I will, because it is my child too."
"Good because I do not think I can give a baby up for adoption. I want to have the baby and raise the baby with you."
"We should look into getting after school job coughing because raise a child is not cheap and we should start save money before the baby comes."
"That sound like a great idea, I will start looking for a job this weekend."
"We need to decide if you are going to continue living with your mom or do you want to come live at my parents' house. Or do you want me to move in with you at your mom house or, coughing, do you want to get an apartment together."
Oliver stops talking and he pulls away from Lilly and turns his head away from her. Oliver then starts coughing into his left elbow and pulls a cough drop out of his jean pocket with his hand. When he stops coughing, Oliver unwraps the cough drop and puts the cough drop into his mouth. Lilly looks at her boyfriend and can tell by just looking at him that he is exhaust. Simultaneously Oliver start coughing again and cover his mouth with his left hand.
"Oliver's go home and takes some cold medicine and get some rest."
"I am fine Lilly and we have a lot of choices that we need to make, coughing."
"We do not have to make then today Oliver and you getting well is more important."
"I guess you are right. I am starting to feel exhaust Lilly. I will see you in school tomorrow."
"Love you Oliver and bye."
"Love you too and bye."
Oliver stands up from the couch and start walking toward the front door coughing into his left elbow, wishing that the sore throat and cough would go away. Lilly stands up from the couch and walks over to the door with Oliver. Lilly sees her boyfriend out of the house. Then she shut and locks the front door behind him. Lilly watching Oliver walking down the driveway and watching him walking down the sidewalk until he is out of sight.
A few minutes later Lilly turns around and walks over to the couch. Lilly takes a seat on the center of the couch. Then open her backpack and gets out her copy of Helmet, school textbooks, notebooks and folders out of her backpack. Then Lilly gets a pen out of the front pocket of her backpack. Lilly open her health folder first and gets out the package of worksheets. Then Lilly opens the health textbooks and turns to the chapter the class is working on. Lilly has just start working on her homework for health class when Jackson comes down the stairs sneezing into his hands. Jackson walks over to the couch and he takes a seat beside Lilly. Lilly stops working on her homework and looks up at Jackson. She sees that his nose is red and that he looks tire and flush.
"My dads' call my cellphone ah, ah, ah, ah-choo, the two of us have to get our own dinner tonight. Also, he says we could have the left oven bean soup for dinner. Ah-choo he and Miley are getting pizza before going ah-choo to Miley orthopedic appointment."
"Thanks for letting me know. How are you feeling?"
"Awful and I now have a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit."
"Sound like you caught the head cold that is going around the high school."
"I am going to go to bed Lilly. Ah-choo sees you in the morning."
"Ok feel better Jackson."
Jackson stands up from the couch and then he walks over to the staircase sneezes into his hands. Lilly goes back to working on her homework for twenty minutes. Then goes into the kitchen and makes herself a Peanut butter and jelly sandwich to eat for dinner. Hoping that will not upset her stomach like the bean soup did last night. Once the sandwich is made Lilly take the sandwich into the living room and eats the sandwich as working on her homework.
At five o'clock in the evening Miley and her dad are sitting in exam room one, for doctor appointment number two, which is at the orthopedic office. Miley is sitting on the exam table with her legs up on the table and her back up against the tan wall. Robby is sitting on the chair next to the exam table. Simultaneously a male doctor is looking at Miley X-rays and MRI images that are up on the light box and his back to Miley and Robby. The doctor is five feet eleven inches tall with thin gray hair and hazel eyes. Dr. Rosenberg turns around and he looks at Miley.
"I have read the notes that Doctor Black sent me about your injury knee. After looking at the X-rays and MRI images I agree that you did dislocation your kneecap and complete tears your quadriceps tendon and patellar tendon. In addition I agree with the note that Dr. Black wrote. That said that the post reduction MRI showed a few bone chips that break off the knee cap and a small meniscus tear."
"Ahem she did not say anything about that to me or my dad."
"No, she did not say anything to you or your dad. She wanting the doctor that was going to do your surgery in L.A. to confirm the bone chips and a small meniscus tear, Miley's do you have any questions?"
"No."
"Dr. Rosenberg's when is the earliest date that you could do the knee surgery on my daughter right knee?"
"I have an opening for next Monday, October 20, 2008 at nine o'clock in the morning at St. Mary Hospital. I am going to put her down in the books for that day and time. Miley when you wake up from surgery you will be wearing a Breg EPO Post-Op Knee Brace in a long length. The brace features a full black foam thigh and lower leg coverage. The brace has two black velcro straps above the knee and two black velcro straps below the knee to keep the brace close. The straps can be tight or loosen when needed. Also, the brace has quick set hinges that allow for easy control of the range of motion. In addition the brace has spring loaded set pins that allow easy setting for range of motion. Right after surgery the brace will be lock in a straight position. I will slower increase the range of motion on the brace on your post surgical visits to my office."
"Ahem Dr. Rosenberg how long will I have to use crutches after the surgery?"
"Four to six weeks, it will depend on how long it takes you to be able to bend the knee ninety degrees. At the start of the fourth week I will set the brace to allow you to bend the knee a full ninety degrees. However, as I said before when you get off the crutches will depend on when you can bend the knee a full ninety degrees. The shorter length of time you will be on crutches is four weeks and the longest is normal six, but for some people it takes a little longer. It is going to be a long and slow recovery from the surgery. Also, for you to have a full and successful recover you are going to have to do physical therapy on your right knee everyday starting a few weeks after surgery."
"Ok Dr. Rosenberg."
"That all for today. Talk to the nurse at the check-out-desk on your way out and she will give you the paperwork about the surgery that I will be doing. The paperwork will tell you what to do and not do the night before the surgery."
Dr. Rosenberg hands the X-rays and MRI Images to Robby and then walks out of the exam room. Robby helps his daughter off the exam table. Ten minutes later Miley and Robby are walking out of Dr. Rosenberg office.
