Tragic Harmony

Chapter twenty-six

When we got to the hospital Luke’s nose had stopped bleeding and Emma was awake and alert. She sat in her bed crying and shaking. We got news that Ryan was in the intensive care unit but we hadn’t told Emma yet. We tried to calm her down the best that we could. It hurt so much seeing the pain she was going through. I knew she loved Robb.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” Emma whispered to Luke

“I… I don’t know… I’m sorry mom.” Luke said with a pained expression on his face.

“You have nothing to be sorry about, you can’t blame yourself for this, your father is an idiot and as soon as we get out of here I’m calling a divorce attorney.” Emma said grabbing Luke’s hand.

“Good for you!” Luke and I chorused trying to make her feel better.

“What happened anyway?”

“Dad went for Ryan and pushed you to the ground in the process of trying to grab him.” Luke explained.

“RYAN!” Emma screamed sitting up in the hospital bed. “Where is he? Where is my baby?! Is he okay?!”

“Emma you have to relax you don’t want to draw attention.” I said in a calm soothing tone rubbing her back.

“Where is my baby?” She whimpered.

“he is in the intensive care unit, when Robb threw him back he smacked his head against the counter and fell unconscious. That’s when Luke lunged at Robb and the whole messy fight broke out before the cops showed up.” I said still trying to keep my emotions in check. Ryan was going to be okay. He had to be.

“Oh my…” Emma whispered while tears rolled down her face “I am so sorry Luke and Ali. I’m so sorry!” She sobbed.

“Shh its okay. It’s not your fault Emma! Don’t you ever think that!” I said to her.

Luke came over and grabbed his mom’s hand. “Mom it’s okay. This was all Robb, but it’s over now. We DON’T need him in our life. We have you.” He pulled Emma into a hug and I almost lost it. Luke was too nice and sweet to ever have to go through something like this.

After a moment of silence a thought occurred to me. “What’s going to happen with Robb?” I whispered.

Luke turned to me and said, “he will probably be in jail until a trial date is set, that’s when we all have to go and probably be on the stand and say what happened starting from when he first started abusing me…”

Just then the doctor came in and introduced himself as doctor Gladstone and asked Emma a few typical doctory questions.

“How is my baby?” She said.

“he just woke up, we had to do a few stiches in the back of the head but he is doing much better. So far there are no signs of a concussion but that will be determined at a later date.”

“Can I see him?” Emma asked eagerly.

“Yes, the nurse is going to roll you into the same room as him so that way you can be next to him. He’s been asking for you.”

The nurse came in and rolled Emma down the hallway to another room where Ryan was while me and Luke stayed back in the hallway to give them some time alone.

We sat on the bench in silence.

“Luke?” I whispered staring at the wall in front of me.

“Yeah Ali?”

“Are you ok?” I turned to him.

“I could be better but yeah I’m aright. You?”  He smiled. Looking into his face made all my emotions spill over.

“I’m alright. Just a little freaked out still.” I said through the tears.

Luke wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me down onto the bench next to him. He just held me. Rubbing my back and arm. I felt so safe in his arms. We sat there like that for a good 10 minutes until we decided that we should go in and see when we could all leave.

“Hey little man, you were very brave. How are you feeling?” Luke said with a smile on his face.

“Lukey! I is good, my heads hurts.” He said grabbing Luke and pulling him down next to him.

“That’s ok it will feel better soon.” Luke said holding his hand.

“Hey buddy!” I said kissing him on the cheek.

“Ali!” He said kissing me right back on the lips. I laughed and then had a thought.

“Hey Ryan I have a question.” I said smiling.

“Yews? Ali?”

“Do you know who the gaze is?”

“yeahz.” He then stood up in his hospital bed and started singing and dancing. We pulled him back down laughing.

“Do you maybe want them to come and sing to you?” I asked.

“Yes! Yes! Yes!” He screamed.

“Ok I’ll give them a call and see if they will come in tomorrow morning alright?”

“Okay!”

The doctor told us that Ryan would need to stay the night just to make sure his head injuries weren’t serious. I climbed in bed with Emma and Luke laid with Ryan. After all the events of today I was exhausted. I fell asleep quickly.