unexpected

unexpected pt 1

"Hey, are you alright Amelia?" Link gently shook her shoulder trying to wake her up.

"No, I'm dying leave me alone." Amelia snapped, pulling the covers over her head.

"Ooookay then, we'll I'm gonna take Scout to school. Then I'm going to head into work, do you want me to pick you up?"

"No, I'm sleeping. I'm not leaving bed today."

"It's Ellis' birthday, you promised Mer you'd help her this afternoon." This caused an irritated groan from the woman.

"Scouts gonna be late. You better get moving and leave me alone."

"Okay, okay I'll get going. Feel better."

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"You look like crap." Meredith said as she opened the door for Amelia.

"Why thank you." Amelia bitterly responded petting the dog who was jumping up looking for attention.

"I needed you to bake the cake, if your sick you can't do it though. I don't need people getting sick."

"I'm fine Mer." She made her way to the kitchen to begin baking.

"Oooookay then. Well I need to go find this book Ellis has been dying to read. I went to one book store after dropping the kids off and couldn't find it so I'm going to try another. Are you good here?"

"Yep don't worry about it Mer." Amelia smiled as her sister left her alone with the dog. She began to pull out the ingredients and cooking utensils she needed. Once she put the mixture into the pan and put it in the oven before she headed over to the couch.

"Hey." Maggie said tiredly as she came into the house after a night shift. She sat herself down next to Amelia. "I'm exhausted, I just want to sleep. But you know it's Ellis' birthday."

"Hmm." Amelia hummed, the beeping of the oven then startling her. "I gotta go get that."

"Why were you put in charge of baking?" Maggie questioned following her into the kitchen.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because last time you baked a birthday cake you almost caught the house on fire." Amelia sarcastically said, starting to feel more like herself. "How was your shift?"

"It was alright. Nothing to exciting I didn't operate just consults and monitoring a patient. Why didn't you come into work this morning?"

"I wasn't feeling too good." She carefully slid the cake from out of the pan and onto a baking sheet.

"Are you better now?"

"Yeah" She said as she took the icing from out of the fridge.

"I'm starving." Maggie said walking towards the fridge. "I'm gonna make some pizza want some?"

"Sure" Amelia answered distractedly, she was trying to ice the cake without making a huge mess.

"Okay I'll make this cheese one since you hate pepperoni."

"It's fine just make the pepperoni." Maggie turned around and looked at Amelia very confused. She would always refuse to eat any pizza with pepperoni on it.

"Umm okay then."

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"Well I think that was a success." Meredith commented starting to wash the dishes in the sink. It was a small get together with a couple of Ellis' friends and the family.

"Yeah." Amelia yawned taking down the streamers in the living room.

"We can finish up here if you want to go home Amelia." Maggie said as she was picking up miscellaneous items on the floor.