Paying the Price

Chapter 26: June

"I'm not made of glass June," he said while rolling his eyes at me and lifting Owen onto his lap.

Oakley took a bite of the sandwich and then turned to Owen "Thank you very much, Owen, this sandwich is delicious."

I think that Owen was going to combust because of this joy. He had the biggest cutest grin on his face.

"Do you really like it? I waited in line extra long so that we could get the fresh ones!" He said super proudly.

Oakley smiled then took another bite. "Well thank you so much for your hard work in getting me this sandwich it was greatly appreciated, buddy."

Owen smiled and giggled at Oakley's thanks.

Oakley turned his attention off of Owen and back onto us.

"So what did the doctor say about me going home? Because Im sick of this place."

Janae looked at him and said, "Oakley you just woke up from a two-day sleep an hour ago. They are not going to let you go for a long time. You need to learn some patience, all of us are sick of this place but we are not leaving until you are 100% okay."

He rolled his eyes and said "I am 100% fine. Im not in any kind of pain, I feel very well rested and I'm ready to go."

Janae was getting more and more upset the more that Oakley spoke.

"Oakley James Price we are not leaving until the doctor comes in here and tells us that you are good to go. I am not trusting your word for how you feel ever again because you like to lie and I do not know if you are actually telling the truth or not."

Then as if it was right on cue, the doctor walked in and said "Well I guarantee you that we will be keeping Oakley here until he is completely fine."

The doctor came over to Oakley and said "Well Oakley, I'm glad that you are awake. I tried looking for your medical records but I found nothing. I tried looking for all of your medical records and I found nothing. Not even a birth certificate. It's as if the four of you do not exist. Is there a reason why?"

I looked around at my sibling's faces and began to panic.

I mean I'm not totally surprised that there is no record of us. Our parents wanted to keep us a secret and obviously, they did a good job at that but what now? What are we supposed to tell this doctor?

"We are not from here. We were born in another country so I'm not surprised." Oliver said saving us.

He's always been a great liar. He has probably lied to the four of us out of hundreds of situations before.

"Oh. Well yes, that would make sense. Are you boys twins?" The doctor asked my brother.

"Yes sir, but we're actually quadruplets." He motioned to my sister and me.

"Oh wow, well in all my years, I've never met a set of identical quadruplets." He said in fascination. He came over to me and Janae and started looking at the two of us and then back at our brothers.

"Um, sir can you please tell me what's going on with our brother and when we can take him home," Janae said trying to get the doctor to focus back on Oakley.

"Oh yes! Well, we are going to want to keep him here for probably another day or so just to monitor him and make sure that the antibiotics are clearing up the infection and that he's healing properly. We also want to make sure that the pain medication we gave him wears off completely because of how strong the medication is." He said as he went over the Oakleys monitors with his clipboard to write some things down.

"Also we legally are not allowed to release him until a parent or guardian signs a release form." The doctor said coming back over towards me and my siblings."If you guys need to borrow a phone and call someone that's fine. Just let me know what we need to do."

I looked over at Oliver ready for another one of his great lies to get us out of this situation. I could see he was trying to come up with something.

I watched as he had a lightbulb moment.

"But sir, we are 18. We are legal adults, that's why we don't already have our parents here. They live in the country we were born in. The four of us live on our own with our little brother." Oliver said motioning to Owen at the end.

Well, he's done it now.

There is no way that this doctor is going to believe that we are four years older than we actually are.

"Oh okay. Well in that's case, Oakley can sign himself out whenever but we would like to still keep him here for another day." The doctor replied, believing our ridiculous lie.

I wish he wouldn't have told Oakley he could sign himself out because obviously the first thing my brother said once the doctor left the room was "I want to leave. You heard what he said, I can check myself out."

Janae rolled her eyes and glared at Oliver, "Yeah I also heard the part where Oliver lied and said that we are 18. We are already in enough legal trouble at the moment, I would really like to stop this." She turned and looked at Oakley and said in a demanding tone. "But the most important part of everything the doctor said was the part where he said that it's best that you stay here so that they can monitor you."

Oakley didn't like this response, "Well he said I could go. Whether I am 18 or not, does not matter. He thinks I'm an adult and said that I could leave. There is no reason for me to stay here any longer than I already have."

Owen who had been sitting quietly next to Oakley this whole time, turn his head and looked at Oakley, and said "Oakley please stay here for a little longer. I know that doctors can be scary but I will hold your hand if they give you a shot. I just want you to get all better and they will make you all better if you stay here."

I think my heart melted on the floor hearing Owens's cute little voice say that he would hold Oakley's hand.

He must have had the same effect on Oakley because the next thing that my brother said was "Fine ill stay. But only because Owen asked me to. Not because I am still sick."

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AN: Ugh. Yall I said I was going to stick with my weekly update schedule but here I am, a week behind.

I apologize to you all. I hope you all have a great rest of your week and hopefully I will see you next Sunday, (let's pray I don't get behind again)