Doll House | lrh

22.| book bag

With a pink party hat on my head and a treat bag at hand, I sat on the couch of Lola's house, Luke on one side with a back pack in his lap and Liz on the other. Luke had been eating all the candy in his treat bag and continuosly tried to reach over and take mine. Andrew sat on the other side of Liz, their fingers intertwined as they held hands.

A Disney soundtrack was being played from the radio above their television, a song called Hakuna Matata from The Lion King as Luke had informed me.

"Open the next gift Zoe!" Lola sat on the floor beside her daughter and Chris, bags and wrapping paper scattered over the rug as Zoe ran to the table and pulled a box towards her.

"Who it from mummy?" Zoe asked, as Lola looked at the tag and smiled.

"This one's from Luna." The little girl's face lit up, looking between the box and I as she lunged for it, ripping at the wrapping and making everyone in the room laugh. Beside me, Luke stopped chewing on a M&M so he wouldn't choke.

Inside the pretty pink paper was a box with a doll inside. I had tried my best to find one that would replace myself but looking for a doll that looked like you was too uncomfortable. I went through with it anyway and at the end, with the look on Zoe's face, I was glad I did.

"Thank you Luna!" Zoe shouted, hugging the box to herself as she ran towards me and I hugged her. I smiled at the child and shrugged.

"It's no problem princess, you should have all the dolls in the world." I could see Lola watching us fondly, and from beside me, I could see Luke watching us with a smirk on his face. 

"Luke, do you and Luna mind taking Zoe to the attic to play with her new doll?" Chris asked before mouthing the word 'cake' behind Zoe and pointing at her. They had chosen to get an ice cream cake but due to lack of space in the freezer, had waited until now to get it from the grocery store.

"Yeah, sure." After popping another M&M in his mouth, Luke got up with his book bag and lifted Zoe along with the doll. "Come on birthday girl." I stood as well, laughing as Zoe blushed at Luke's name for the day, her little fingers already trying to open the box.

"Let me open it." I offered, Zoe immediately handing me the box as Luke opened the staircase for the attic. Zoe grabbed his hand and followed him up as I struggled a bit to open the damn box. Why were these so hard to open?

"Now you have a new doll to play with, I bet that's exciting." Luke smiled, sitting beside the doll house where Chloe was. I missed having my onesided talks with her, it was abnormal to be looking at her now, with me being a human.

I was finally able to get the doll out, handing the plastic to Zoe as she sat in front of the house and immediately grabbed Chloe. Glancing at Luke, I could see him close his eyes and start breathing through his mouth, rapidly at that.

"Luke, are you okay?" His eyes opened slowly and he smiled, holding a thumbs up.

"Of course babe, just a bit tired." His eyes rolled back and I could see sweat beads forming on his forehead. I began to panic internally, not wanting to make a scene in front of Zoe or she would start crying.

"Luke? Baby, talk to me." I kneeled beside him, hearing Zoe sing a song to herself as I placed a hand on his cheek. His lips were swelling and his eyes shot open, a gasp escaping his mouth. I jumped, the sudden movement scaring me as Luke started to take off his back pack.

"Luke? Luke, what's going on?" I could feel tears on my waterline as he pointed at his bag, grabbing my wrist with his other hand and trying to get me to open it.

"Get my pen!" Pen? Like one you write with? Why the hell would I need a pen right now?

"I'm calling Michael." Quickly taking my phone out of my bag, I could see Zoe staring at Luke with fear in her eyes as his began to close. I called Michael, who picked up on the third ring.

"Hey Luna! I was just going-"

"Michael! I don't know what's going on." Now my tears fell as I began to hear Zoe crying as well. "I don't think Luke's breathing, his lips are all swollen and he doesn't look awake."

"Woah, hold on. Did he eat peanuts?" Michael's voice stopped me from continuing and I looked at the candy bag, eyeing the M&M's from earlier. They weren't in their original packing and I've never seen M&M's before.

"I don't know, he had some M&M's but they're not in the package."

"Are they big?" I looked at the green one in my hand.

"Yeah." I breathed out, throwing it onto the ground.

"Shit, okay, I'm getting Calum now. You need to get his pen, he probably has his book bag on him. Take it, open it, and stick him in the thigh."

"Wait, what?" I opened the bag, seeing a clear tube with yellow covering and a black tip. "Michael, what the fuck, I can't do this!"

"You need to Luna! He's gonna go into shock, I'm going to hang up and call the ambulance. We're on our way." And with that, Michael ended the call. I looked at Luke with tears in my eyes and the pen in my hand.

"Luna? Why is Luke doing that? I don't like it!" Zoe cried, backing away from Luke and I.

"Babe, please." Luke's eyes opened again, and he stared at me, croaking the words and I could tell it hurt.

"I can't do it." I whispered, shaking my head and hiccupping through the tears. "I can't do it!" I started to get angry with myself, fumbling with the top.

"Just fucking do it!" Luke suddenly yelled but it wasn't as loud as he normally screamed, still making me jump. I pulled my arm up over my head, closing my eyes as I brought the needle down onto his thigh, hearing Zoe scream and Luke gasp.

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