The Little Sister

Chapter 49

Mike's Point of View

I was sitting in the hospital waiting room holding Sam against my chest. "It's okay buddy Mommy's gonna be okay." I said to him. He was asleep but it made me feel better to talk to him. "Mike! Is Karen okay?" my mom and Mama Perry came running into the hospital waiting room. I shrugged "I don't know yet." I answered them "What did Karen do this time?" Mama Perry asked sitting down on my left my mom sat down on my right. "She came home crying and went to bed so I went up to make sure she didn't do anything stupid. At like 3 in the morning I heard her crying again, she was sitting by the stairs chugging a bottle of vodka and she fell down the stairs." I answered her. "Wasn't she pregnant?" my mom's face fell when she asked already knowing the answer to her own question. I nodded, "She's gonna be okay." I tried to reassure my mom. Sam squirmed against my chest and I put him back into his car seat baby carrier thingy and wrapped him up in his blanket.

After what seemed like days a doctor walked over to us. "Mr. Fuentes, if I could talk to you in the other room?" I nodded and reached down for Sam "Go ahead baby we'll watch him." my mom said patting my butt. I rolled my eyes. I'm 28 and my mom still does that. "I'll be back buddy." I said to Sam before following the doctor into the hall way where Karen's room was.

"Is she going to be okay doctor?" I asked as we stood outside her room. "Your wife suffered a slight concussion when she fell down the stairs along with a small cut on her upper forehead near her hairline." "What about the baby?" I asked him quickly. "Since your wife was drunk when she fell down the stairs the baby didn't make it." "If she wasn't drunk would the baby have been okay?" the doctor shook his head "Since she wasn't very far along the baby still wouldn't have made it." I nodded "Thank you sir, can I go in and talk to her?" he nodded "Go ahead."

"Hey Karen." I said plainly. "You're mad aren't you?" I nodded "Little bit." Karen sighed "Mike-" "What happened to it doesn't matter who the father is we'll love the baby no matter what? I thought we agreed to that Karen." I felt my blood starting to boil. "That's when I thought the baby might be yours Mike, I want the baby to be yours but it wasn't." "So you get drunk in an attempt to do an at home abortion?!" I was really starting to get angry at this point "Mike, please I-" "No Karen. You were being selfish. I got NO say in what happened to that baby. I love being a dad, I didn't care that baby wasn't half me half you like Sam, I was going to love it as much as I love the both of you guys." Karen didn't say anything, I saw tears welling up in her eyes. "Karen I love you, but I can't look at you right now. I'm leaving with my son." "MIKE!" she yelled after me as I walked out of the hospital room and back into the waiting room. My mom was smiling down at Sam making him laugh and flap his arms up and down. "Thanks for watching him." I smiled at the ladies. "It's fine baby, how's Karen?" "You can go ask her yourselves. I'm leaving." I picked up Sam's carrier and left the hospital. I heard my mom and Mama Perry yelling after me but I ignored them and put Sam in the car before getting in on the driver's side.

Sam was asleep in the car and I was sitting on the hood with a sweater on. I just need to think for a little while.

~Later~

Karen's Point of View

I signed the release papers and pulled on the sleeves of my hoodies, and the nurse turned around to grabbed something for me. I pulled at the bottom of my shorts, and pulled at the straps of my purse. My mom was standing next to me with her arms crossed against her chest. Mama Fuentes had left hours ago, I pulled my pig tails out from under my hoodie. "Here you go Mrs.Fuentes." the nurse handed me a paper. I looked at it and handed it back to her "I'm not going to therapy." "Karen le va a hacer lo que dice la enfermera!" she whisper-yelled at me. I rolled my eyes and pulled my sleeves over my hands again. "Are you sure Mrs.Fuentes?" I nodded "I'm sure I don't want to go." "Okay, your next appointment is in 2 weeks on Friday May 23 at 9:45." I nodded "Thank you." "No problem." I took the paper with my appointment reminder on it and walked out of the hospital my mom hot on my trail.

I got in the front seat and my mom got in the drivers seat. "I can't believe you would do something so selfish Karen!" I ignored her and stared out the window. She kept nagging me, I was pretty annoyed. "THE BABY WASN'T MIKE'S! VIC RAPED ME! I DID NOT WANT THE FUCKING BABY SO I TOOK CARE OF IT!" I screamed at her. My mom pulled over. "What?" my mom asked me turning to face me. "I can't talk to you about this right now mom." I unbuckled my seat belt and grabbed my bag before getting out of her car. I put in my headphones and took the shortcut you couldn't see from the street unless you drove to Mike and I's house everyday.

I got up to the house and saw that Mike's car wasn't there. I knew he wouldn't be here when I got back. I walked into the house and locked the door behind me. "Can I just not be happy!" I screamed. I felt tears rolling down my cheeks. Where did Mike go with my baby... I got my phone out of my purse and called Mike's phone. "Hey it's Mike's phone. Probably on stage right now I'll get back to you at one point." I heard Mike's voice mail say. I sighed and hung up.

Mike's Point of View

"Well looks like you had fun hu buddy?" I asked Sam as I buckled him up in his car seat. He was babbling and flapping his hands up and down. "Did you like seeing the giraffes?" I asked him and he smiled "I thought you did." I kissed his hand and got into the drivers seat.

I pulled up to the house and got Sam out of the car. He was out cold, I walked into the house and headed upstairs to put Sam in his crib. I walked across the hall into the bedroom and saw Karen curled up in our bed. "Hey." she said to me emotionless. "Hey." I said back to her kicking off my shoes. "So where were you?" "Went to the zoo with Sam and the guys." she nodded "I told my mom about what happened with Vic." "Why?" "She made me mad." I sighed "It's okay baby." I sat down on the bed and pushed her hair out of her face. "Do you want a divorce or something?" Karen asked me. I sighed "Of course not babe. I was mad but I i'd never leave you K." I kissed her temple. Karen swallowed and sat up wiping her eyes and put her arms out. I smiled and pulled her into my arms, "So what was Sam's favorite zoo animal?" I smiled bigger "He liked the giraffes." "He probably thought he had more than one daddy." I chuckled and rubbed her arm. "I love you baby." "I love you too Mikey."