𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲

eighty-seven: Help

JJ PARKED the truck and honked the horn repeatedly. "Ricky! Ricky! Hey! Bro! Ricky! Ricky! Hey, Ricky!" He kept shouting as he walked up to the front door as Kai helped Kie. "No! Please! We need help!" Sarah shouts when she saw the man close the door on JJ.

"He got stung by a wasp! He's having a reaction! Please help!" Sarah shouts as Kai and Kie bring Pope over to the front door. "He can't breathe, Ricky! Ricky!" JJ kept knocking on the window beside the front door now.

"Who can't breathe?" Ricky opened up the door. "Look at him! Help my friend!" John B says, standing on the left side of Kai at the door as Pope is wheezing heavily. "Alright, Jesus Christ." Ricky opens the door which John B now holds open for Kai and Kie. "Hi! Nice to meet you. Sorry." Sarah rushed in first to clear the table which had a laundry basket on it with folded towels which she shoves off.

"You know, I wouldn't come to you if it wasn't an emergency." JJ said as they get Pope onto the table. "Hang in there, buddy. Hang in there." JJ said, standing next to Ricky. "What's wrong with him?" The man asked them. "Wasps!" Kai says, looking at him. "Wasps?"

"Yes!"

"Is he allergic to wasps?" He asked next and Kai looks at him. "Hmm, now that I think of it, no." He said sarcastically as he shakes his head. "Lynch, don't be a smartass." Ricky says before looking at Pope. "Raise his legs!" JJ says as he and John B lift up Pope's legs. "What's his name?" Ricky asked them next.

"Pope."

"Hey, Pope? Uh, hang tight. I gotta get my kit."

"Hang tight? Hang tight? Ricky!"

"He's looking for a kit, go help." John B tells JJ who walks around him, "kit?" He says as Kai looks down at Pope, walking over to John B to lift up Pope's leg that JJ had been holding. "Breathe a little, okay? Like a little bit." Kie says as she sounds worried. "I need you to focus. Focus on your breathing, okay?" She said to him with her hand on his face.

"What does it look like?!"

"It's like a duffel bag!"

"Where's your kit?!" Kiara yelled suddenly at the man running by who did not have his kit. "Out in the garage, maybe." John B says as Kai simply shook his head. "Okay! Okay! I got it! I got it! I got it." Ricky came running back in.

He brings it over, "okay, what do we do now?" JJ asked, looking at him. "You don't do anything because you're not a paramedic. Okay. Hey, Pope, how you doing, man? You look like shit." Ricky said and looked at the others. "Here's the thing. This is a pediatric dose of epinephrine." He tells them. "Is that gonna be enough?"

"He's not a kid!"

"It is ten times a normal dose. So if... if it doesn't stop his heart, it'll help him. But I gotta use the whole thing, or it won't work. And I'm not going down if he dies." Ricky turns to JJ and Kai. "Okay! Fine! Do it! Hit it! Come on, hurry up." JJ said as he runs his hands through his hair and Kai puts his hand to JJ's waist, pulling him closer as they watch Ricky give him the shot. "Alright, Pope, hang in there, buddy."

"I hate needles, man."

When it's over, he puts away the needle. "Okay, that's it." He said as he closed up his bag. "Now what?" Sarah asked and Kai steps closer with JJ, the boy's arms around each other as they look at Pope with worry. "Now we wait."

They all look at Pope with worry and nothing happens. "You killed him." Kie says. "No." Ricky says immediately. "Yes, you did!" She looked at the man. "I didn't do shit." He said as Kie raised her voice, "what did you do?!"

"I did exactly what you asked me to do."

"Please! Please! Pope, please, come on!"

JJ grabs Pope's shirt and begins shaking his arm. "Pope, come on, bro!" He said as Kai stared worriedly, standing behind his boyfriend. Suddenly, he gasped for air, "wait, wait, wait, he--" "Pope? Pope? Pope?" Kiara says and Pope just coughs, lifting his head slightly.

Pope sat up and JJ pointed. "There he is. That's my boy right there!" He said as Kai laughed, rushing to his side. "It's hot. I'm like really hot, guys." He said, taking off his sweater. "It's okay. Take it easy." JJ said as Kai holds his shoulder. "I gotta get outside." He brushed past JJ and John B. "Simmer down."

"I owe you."

John B and Kiara rush after the boy running outside. "Thank you so much. Are there any side effects we should be concerned about?" Sarah asked as they head out the door next. "He'll have a rocket up his ass for about half an hour, then he'll be fine." Ricky tells them.

"Let's go get that cross! Whoo!"

Kai, JJ and Sarah walk towards John B and Kie trying to get Pope. "Game six! I'm Michael Jordan!" The boy was shouting. "Yeah! Game six!" John B tries to catch him.

  

   

  

  

   

   

   

   

  

    

   

AUTHORS NOTE
sort of short chapter but idc