Chapter 3 – Hospital

5 hours later…
I start to wake. “Mmmmah” I mumble.

I wake more and more up and I realise I’m in hospital on a chair next to a lady on a hospital bed. I look and realise that the lady is my mum.

“ Mum” I call to her quietly cause I’m not sure what time it is.
“Mmmmfth” she slurs at me.
“I’m kinda smart yet I don’t know what you said” I said jokingly.
“Oh Jacquie I love you” she replies and gives me a big hug. As she was a doctor comes in.
“ Hello Ms Valkyrie and umm Miss Valkyrie” he says with a warm smile. At the same time mum and I reply “Hey” we both smile at each other. He smiles too.
“Well you guys are free to go when you want we checked you for any broken bones or fractures and nothing showed up if you feel any pain at all please do tell me” he says and leaves the room. “Oh mum I’m so happy your alright we better get home and finish packing” I say. “Yeah let me go sign out,” She says with a smile.

It amazes me that after all we have gone though she still manages to smile she must be hurting so bad inside I better keep my eye on her just in case she does something drastic.

3 hours later (at home)
I put the last of my boxes in the car. I walk back into our place and get my drawing pad with all the drawings I have done around here.

“ Hey mum I need to get a new drawing pad for New Jersey” I yell to my mum. “Okay honey we’ll get one on the way” she yells back at me.

Iget into the car squished and squash against boxes of random stuff. I pull my bag out from under the seat and get out my old drawing pad and go through it and decide I may as well do one last picture in it.

I decide to look at my house one last time and draw it and make some random caption about my house.

“ Are you ready to leave” mum asks.
“ Oh yeah HERE I COME NJ” I yell to her with excitement.

It had been about 2 years since I had seen Aunt Kerrie even though I never call her Aunt Kerrie cause she says it makes her feel old. I start to draw my house.

1 hour later…
I had finished my drawing ages ago and I was thinking of a caption. I thought long and hard if it should be a funny caption or just a normal one. Hmm how about cya crappy house of broken dreams nah hmm “House I will never forget”.
“What honey?”.
“Oh sorry mum I was thinking of a caption” I reply.
“Oh ok. Oh yeah you want a new one of those umm drawing thingys”.
I laugh, “ Yes mum I want another of these thingys”.

She smiles and pulls over at a shop, gets out the car and goes inside while I wait in the car. I feel kinda bad putting my dad in jail and then I realise mum hasn’t said anything about what they are gonna do with him. Well she probably doesn’t want to tell me thinking it might upset me oh well.

Mum returns to the car with three drawing pads. “I got you three I have a feeling we are gonna be in New Jersey for a long time”. I smile. I wish I could believe her but after all the times she has said this to me and then we have moved I really can’t. We drive off and I drift to sleep.