The Big Ol' family

Chapter 3:- Farewell Blue-Jay

The next morning I woke up with ear-piercing sound of siren blasting outside the house, the thought of Grandma Egnes and Ruth came to me and I jump out of my bed and ran to their bedroom, It was open ajar, I hounded downstairs to the hall only to discover the police standing outside talking to mom and beside her were my two grandma.

Mom was about to collapse but Grandma Egnes and Ruth hold her tight and kept her standing, I slowly started walking toward them, thinking any moment now I will wake up from this dream.

Grandma Egnes turn back hearing my sound and nudge Mom to look back, she turns back to see me and now I could see there were tears in her eyes.

"What happened, mom?" I ask in a nervous voice.

"Your dad..." Her voice started breaking, "Your dad is in the hospital now, he had an accident and it was pretty bad..." I stood still and started pinching myself, trying to wake myself up from this bad dream.

Grandma Ruth left mom side and came up to me to give me a hug and I let myself collapse against her, I didn't know what happened after then but within half an hour I found myself standing in the hospital corridor while dad was having his operation just a few feet's away.

I could hear mom sobbing but I didn't have the energy to turn around and look at her or to console her cause honestly, she hasn't done anything to earn my sympathy. My dad is laying there fighting a battle between death and alive and it's all because of her. If she hadn't cheated on us it's all wouldn't happen, we all would be in New York right now being a normal happy family.

I peer through the glass in the door and I could see all the doctors frantically running around him, the surgeon took out some pieces of metal from dad's body.

"Marnie, come here." Grandma Egnes said she forcefully turn me and embrace my limb body tightly.

I just stayed there standing, not hugging her back while she hugs me, I couldn't actually comprehend the thought that was brewing inside my mind, should I tell everything to Grandmas, should I tell them the reason my dad was in the car during the accident was my mother, her very own daughter or I keep quiet and only focus on my dad's recovery. What would he want me to do?

In the end, I didn't do anything but kept quiet, Grandma made me sit beside the woman whom I started to hate from the very core of my being, I sat upright and excuse myself to the washroom.

If Grandmas notice something weird they didn't say anything, I open the tap and started washing my face furiously, dad wouldn't want me to cry and I am not going too, it's just a minor accident nothing much, he would be up and about in no time.

I walk back to the corridor only to see the doctor coming out of the operating theatre.

Everyone hounded up at him and started asking questions, he cast his eyes down and I knew something was bad.

"I am sorry, Mrs Crawford but we couldn't save him..."

And suddenly there was a ringing sound in my ears.