the secret child

chapter 9

matts pov
I quickly check the time and see it 11:20 I go to Hermman and say "hey cover truck for me I got to go do something real quick." "Thanks," I say and I walk out Gabby and Brett are on a call so I went to pick up Sophie and I get there she not downstairs so I walk upstairs to her room to see what she is doing, she's sitting on her bed reading. and I say "hey kiddo how's your day going kiddo?" I asked her "it was good all school work is done and cookies are also done." after she finished talking I chuckled "okay we best be going grab your stuff and make sure you have your face mask and grab the cookies and Meet me at the car, okay?" I say "okay," she said. then she quickly went and grabbed her stuff and met me in the car. on our way there I say to her "hey, I just wanted to make sure you are okay with this and that you know you are going to get a lot of questions at first but you will be okay. okay?" "Okay dad," she said as we pull into 51 and start to walk up to the driveway went I see ambo 61 is back.

Sophie pov

once my dad told me what to expect I grabbed my bag and then me and my dad was walking up to the firehouse you could tell my dad was more nervous than I was. when we got to the area where the trucks are I asked my dad, "dad which one do you work on?" "I work ok truck 81," he said as he pointed to the truck. I have always toke an interest in my mom and dad's jobs. that's when a man was sitting at a table with other people there were like 4 of them. to be honest I was kinda scared so I walked closer to my dad and held his hand as this person talked to my dad. "Casey who is this?" "Severide this is Sophie my daughter, she has come to hang out with us for the day." my dad said. the people at the table we're looking shocked, but I didn't quite know why. that's when I saw my mom and someone else to didn't quite know who and ran over to my mom. "mom!" I said as I ran over to her and hugged her "hey sweetie what's going on." "Nothing much, oh I brought those cookies that I made this morning that you asked me to bring." I said as I pulled them out of my bag. "oh thanks" my mom said I hand them to her and she hands them to the person next to her. "mom who's this?" I say "oh sorry my name Sylvie Brett I work with your mom on ambo 61, I have heard so much about you." "Ohh, so this is the famous Sylvie Brett that you told me about." I say to my mom "well it's nice to meet you, I have also heard so much about you." I said smiling but couldn't tell because of the mask. then my dad came over from talking to those other people then he said "how about we go inside and you meet everyone." to be honest so far I am glad no one tried to huge me because I am not supposed to but for me, I end up hugging back because like how can you resist a hug. "okay, yah lets go inside." my mom said. so all three of us walk into the main area I think it is everyone is doing their own thing some are watching TV some are reading a book or a newspaper and there's one that is cooking that's when dad said "guys can I get you attention" everyone looked at my dad. I kinda go nervous or scared so I grabbed his hand. "I wanted to introduce you to me and gabby daughter Sophie." " Sophie this is Mouch, Herrmann, Otis, Cruz, Stella, Peter Mills." he said pointing to all of them and I gave them a small nod then the other guys came from outside came inside "and this is Kelly Severide, Capp, Tony." he said. "well it nice to meet you all nice to finally put a face to the names." I was still standing there kinda awkward and I remembered I still had my face mask on, so I quickly took it off my one ear so they can see my face. then I saw mom give me the look of 'put it back on.

this is what the mask looks like -now back to the story-

with me having CF and its a chronic breathing condition me and my parents have set rule for if I go anywhere. 1- I always keep the mask on (because if someone coughs or sneezes and they may be sick, I can get extremely sick by it), 2- I have to constantly wash my hands or put hand sanitizer on. and rule 3- if I go anywhere and I eat I can take the mask off and then have to put it back on afterward. which for me I got used to it, it's nothing new for me I do it every day just so I don't get any sicker. I put the mask on after the look mom gave me and before I put it on I gave everyone a quick smile then put it back on. then Stella asked me "hey Sophie do you want a Tour of the firehouse." "yes please," I say. she gets up "let's go then," she said as she puts an arm around me, I can see her flash, my parents, a quick smile. and me and her walk back outside on the apron where the trucks are. and I can Kinda hear my parents but it's just muffled sounds of people talking to them. as she's showing me everything and she said "hey Sophie can I ask you a question." I knew this was going to be about something my dad said before. so I just gave a slight nod. "okay, I was just wounding why are you wear a mask, ever since you got here. you can take it off right." she said to me and I gave her a sight chuckle because I was nervous "well... it's kinda hard to explain but for me, it's just there for protection because I have cystic fibrosis. so I can get sick easier than other people can so, with me I can't be around large groups and I can't be around people that are sick so it just to protect me from getting sick." she smiled and gave me a nod. and continued to show me around and she asked me a bunch of questions that I don't mind answering them, then we walked back to were my parents were. while Stella showed me around we got to know each other and she cool to be around. I saw my mom by other people who I think are Brett and Herrmann and Cruz so I just went up behind her and put my hand on her shoulder to indicate/ tell her I was there. "hey Sophie come sit down and chat with us." she said. I could feel the family bond everyone here had after a while lunch was ready. everyone went and got food and I just stayed seated and mom was the last one with food and sat next to me and passed me an apple. also, my mom sat the cookies I made in the middle of the table too for everyone to have. I could feel some of them staring at me as I take off my mask. then mills said, "hey Sophie there's plenty of food for you to eat." "no, I'm okay with just this." I said smiling. then the chef walked in, I have met him a couple of times before. he sat next to my dad and Severide. when mills said "who made these cookies." as he bit into the cookie. then Herrmann took a cookie from the tray and then bit it and said "yeah who made these?" "guys Sophie made these" my dad said while giving the look of 'you better be nice' I have seen that look way too many times. everyone who hasn't got a cookie got a cookie and tried it and then they stared at me. "so..... are they good?" I say nervous and scared. you can see how scared and nervous I was. "so heck yah, h-how did you make these, these are the best cookies I have ever ate." mills said and I smiled slightly I was so happy "I'm glad you like them." I said with a huge smile with relief "where did you learn how to cook these?" Cruz asked "umm... I am right now taking culinary arts class's online for school, so I cook a lot and these are my teacher's recipes." "do you ever cook for dinner or lunch for you, matt and gabby?" Herrmann asked me. "ummm." I didn't know what to say or do so I stayed silent and look at my mom and then my dad. during the time I am quiet I see my parent eyeing each other like what do we do say something or want for her to talk, then after a few seconds go by and I speak up "I- I've made multiple different types of foods for my mom and dad for dinner before." I say hoping that enough for them. I sit there choking back me coughing. so I finish my apple and put my mask back on. and I turn to my mom and say quickly trying to not throw attention on me but I do "mom I'm going to step out real quick." I get up to grab my bag and throw away the core of my apple and walk away out the side door and as soon as I hit outside I start coughing, and I head down the by the street by the road where a bench is and I sit down and start thinking.