Wild Ride - The Alternative Version (Book 2)

Chapter 37~Abbie Stands Up To Danika

*Friday*

Tomorrow would be the last day that Abbie would have to be on bed rest, and today I was helping her make up some homework that Elise had picked up for her from the school last night. Really the last thing she wanted to do was school work, but I told her that the sooner she got it done, the soon she could just go back to doing absolutely nothing like she has been for the last three days, because really she has no choice at the moment.

Abbie saved math for last, and now they were learning to multiply bigger numbers. She was sitting on the opposite end of the couch from me, and she sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, frustrated. She dropped her pencil and groaned.

"Ugh, I give up!" 

I gave her a dirty look. "Hey, that's not the kind of thing I want to hear. Let me look at it." I motioned for her to give me the paper, and she sighed and held it out to me. I leaned over a little and took it, turning it so that I could see it. My eyes fell upon the problem she was currently working on. I'd say she's been stuck on this one for a while because there are a bunch of erase marks. I could instantly see where she'd gone wrong as I studied the numbers. 

"Well, it seems like you forgot what you were doing and started adding halfway through the problem instead of multiplying. You don't add until the very end." I told her, and handed the paper back so she could see for herself.

"Oh." She frowned, looking like she was wondering how she missed that.

"Abbie, you're intelligent enough to do this without a problem. Stop stressing over it so much, I know that you can do it and so do you." I said, and she nodded and smiled a little before going back to fix her mistakes. 

When she finished the last of the problems, she had me check it again to make sure there were no mistakes. I looked them all over carefully, including the one she'd been stuck on before, and I was impressed with what I saw. 

I looked up from the paper at her and smiled. "Good job, kiddo." I gave the paper back to her, and she took it in shock.

"They're right?" She asked, and I nodded. "All of them!?" 

"Every single one." I told her, and she looked surprised for a moment before she grinned brightly. 

"Cool." She breathed, and I chuckled. Abbie reached down and stuck her work into her backpack after getting it into her math folder. 

"It's amazing what happens when you multiply instead of add, isn't it?" I teased, and she stuck her tongue out at me. I just laughed at her. 

After a while of us both watching TV, she said, "Daddy, my back hurts." 

"Do you need to stand up for a moment?" I asked, thinking maybe she needed to stretch.

Abbie shook her head, "No, I mean it aches." 

"Do you want me to get you some medicine, then?" 

"Yeah." 

I got up from the couch and and walked into the kitchen, where the medicine was one the counter with the measuring cup. By now, since she's needed it a lot in the last three days, I already know how many teaspoons someone her age takes without having to look at the side of the box. She can only take this every six hours, and on the first night she took some in the morning, and then again in the evening, and had to wake Elise up in the middle of the night because she'd woken up with it hurting badly. This was the first time she's needed it today, which means her pain is lessening. 

I poured the blue liquid into the small cup and brought it in to her, using the last of it. She took it carefully and then downed it, handing the empty cup out to me after swallowing. I took it back into the kitchen, placing it in the sink. I grabbed a bottle of water for her because I know that the medicine scratches her throat after going down because it's thick, and she has the need to cough when it does.