These kids will be the death of me

Chapter 18 ( Now is the kids turn)

Ruby's POV

Mommy borrowed me her mp3 because I was bored and there was nothing good on TV. I wasn't paying much attention to mommy and daddy but for the away they acted it seemed like they were fighting about something. I think it was probably about our little sister; they were weird about it since this morning.

Then I see mommy with a horror expression in her face and take off the headphones. I can understand something about her bleeding and I see the blood spread down her legs staining her bed sheets. When I was about to get up from the cot mommy passes out and a really annoying sound replaces her panic and wakes up Gracie.

I see Tyler, Ely and another nurse I don't know rush in and take her away, daddy let's go of mommy's and whispers "goodbye" and "I love you; we love you. Don't ever forget that."

I try to run to her but daddy stops me. His eyes are turning red now because he's starting to cry. He's holding Gracie in he's other arm since she tried to reach mommy like I did.

"Daddy is mommy gonna die?" I ask him while a tear slides down my face.

"I don't now honey; she loves all of us. That's all I know."

Gracie's POV

Today day there was a huge thunderstorm. We kept seeing lightings outside from the windows. We went to the cafeteria for lunch like we always do. After lunch we played with our dolls in mommy's bed and she and daddy played with us too, but they didn't seemed okay. They looked angry.

Anyway they told me and Gracie to take a nap around two o'clock. I did what I was told to.

I wake up to hear an annoying beeping and see mommy passed out and her sheets bloodied. The nurses quickly take her away and daddy lets go of her hand after whispering words I didn't quite understood because I was far from him trying to reach mommy.

Before I can reach her, daddy grabs my arm and pulls me back into he's arms. He did the same to Ruby.

Then she starts to cry and asks him if mommy will die. He says this "I don't know honey; she loves all of us. That's all I know."

I start to cry wetting daddy's shirt. I don't only cry because my arm hurts from daddy pulling it but also because I understand that today may have been the last time I saw mommy alive. According to the wall clock at the nurse's station it was 7 PM. I wish I hadn't overslept until so late. Maybe I could have said goodbye to her if this is the last time I saw her. Why didn't I think about this sooner? I knew mommy could die. Aunt Lucy had been telling mommy and daddy that from months thinking that I didn't heard her. I did. And now my head keeps thinking about how much that awful and mean word "death" may come to mommy and Ellen. And it can come to daddy one day; and Ruby; and me.

Why do we have to live just to miss somebody?

Again I wish I could have said goodbye, maybe give her a kiss and tell her how important she was to me and my sisters.