Family

In the car

I'm not mad though. I am just worried about Christina.

Katherine's POV

The paramedics arrive and take Christina to the ambulance.

"Girls!!! We have to get in the car NOW!"

I shout hoping to leave for the hospital quickly.

Amy, Lauren, and Dani rundown quickly.

"Where are we going? Where is mommy?"

"We are going to the hospital, mommy just had a panic attack. She is going to be fine though."

Lauren looks at me with fear in her eyes and Dani brushes it off.

"Oh, that's it? We all have panic attacks all the time. Why is she going to the hospital?"

"Well, mommy passed out this time so, I wanted to get her to the hospital in case she goes into... shock"

"Oh. Wait why did she have a panic attack?"

I look nervously at Dani. Should I tell her it was her?  I should tell the truth but, I don't want her to take it out on herself.

"Umm, she was, freaking out about, umm..."

"What was she freaking out about?"

"I am not exactly sure, she didn't let me into the bathroom and when I finally got there she was near passing out."

It wasn't exactly a lie, I was just, withholding the truth.

"Oh."

"Lisa!"

I don't hear a response.

"Can you two get in the car? I'm going to check on Lise."

Dani nods.

"Come on sugar. We have to go and Ames too!"

Lauren looks scared and she is nervously following Dani. I give her a reassuring smile. I see Amy already running to the car.

I then run upstairs to Lisa's room and see her looking in beauty magazines with headphones in.

I quickly shake her to snap her out of her thoughts.

"Hmm?"

"We have to go to the hospital. Ok?"

Lisa nods and quickly goes downstairs. I quickly grab Lisa's magazines and put them on the bookshelf outside of the garage. I will have to talk to Lisa and Christina later about these.

I quickly get into the driver's side of the car. Lisa is in the passenger seat while Amy, Lauren, and Dani are in the middle of our minivan.

I buckle my seat belt and give Lisa my phone. I look at her expectantly.

"I solemnly swear to respect my duties as designated texter and to never judge or hate on any text I receive or must write"

"Thank you. Now, off to the hospital."

"I have one question about that though"

"Go ahead"

"Why doesn't mother have to say that speech?"

"I trust her... And she has the right to say anything about it. We are married so..."

"Oh."

"So, since our morning kind of got interrupted why don't we do this now.  What are our goals for this week? Mine is to clean the orphanage up and organize everything for the kids."

I then look to Lisa. Oldest to youngest.

"Oh, umm I want to be healthy physically. Not like skinny but, umm actually healthy. You know?"

"Good goal. I like it."

"Oh, My GOSH!!! My goal is to get 100% on my sign language test. Last time I got a 92%."

"Always aiming for the stars Amy."

"I... I... umm... I want to... I want to try and get through a night without waking you guys up"

"Baby, that is a good goal but, remember to not push yourself too far. Sure, push yourself but, I don't want you freaking out too much."

"Ok."

"Ohh. I want to finish ASL this week... I want to do it quickly so that I can finally understand mommy"

I give her a smile.

"Good idea honey. Good idea"

We arrive at the hospital and I help the kids out.

"Can... Can you hold me?"

Lauren looks at her feet while she speaks. I crouch down to her level.

"Hey, honey can you look at me?"

She looks up, the fear evident in her eyes.

"Of course I will pick you up but, can you tell me why you are scared?"

"In... In my dreams you... you gots mad"

"Baby, I will never be mad. Now, let's go"

I pick up Lauren and rest her on my hip. I grab Dani's hand and Lisa grabs Amy hand.

We walk into the hospital and I go up to the front desk.

"May I help you?"

A rude man looks up at me with annoyance.

"Umm, yes. I am looking for Christina Cimorelli?"

He looks through some papers.

"Yes. She already filled out the paperwork. What is your relationship with the patient?"

"I am her spouse and these are our children."

"Did I hear you wrong?"

"Well, what did you hear?"

"That you were her wife and that these were your children."

"No, you heard me right."

"That. Is. Disgusting."

"What?"

"That is disgusting. Who is going to be the father figure for your children? Your children will grow up to be delinquents because you don't have a father figure. You will go to hell for this, God will punish you for your sins. How did you even have children?"

"We adopted. The only thing that matters in a family is that we have a loving relationship with each other. The only one who is going to... that place will be you. In the bible, it states 'love your neighbor as you love yourself' and I also believe that God accepts everyone for who they are because, if you believe in God you would know that we are ALL God's children and, he makes us in the image of himself. Therefore, he would love us no matter what because he MADE US THIS WAY. Now, what is my WIFE's room number?"

K then...

I just went on a mini-rant... I deleted a lot of it because it didn't make sense in the story but, if you want to know what it was then... Oh, well.