Allison sat in the chair with the fabric seats and the wooden arms and wondered just how many asses had sat in that seat. probably a couple hundred. The ER was famous for turning people around so frequently so why the hell had she been there for 5 hours waiting in the small room with no door and a very restless Max. A few hours before was when Max decided that the radiator was a good place to sit, it was only a minute after that Max began to scream!
Arron had already left for school and Matthew was asleep upstairs so it was up to Allison to accompany her mother to the doctor and try and get something done for the painful burn on her younger brother’s hand. The car ride was rather uneventful and short seeing as the hospital was just around the corner. “Hold Max for fuck;s sake!” Mrs. Pestrall shouted from the front seat.
“Calm the mother-fuck down, he isn’t even crying anymore!” Allison groaned while sipping her large cup of coffee. She loved her dad’s coffee it was soo perfectly brewed you could feel the caffeine passing right through your stomach and into your blood stream. The Ritalin helped too.
They arrived at the hospital and they all started getting out of the car. buckles were undone and legs pulled out of the door and then removing all of max from his seat in the car. Of course once he was out of the car he just wanted to run all around the parking lot. It seemed like he had completely forgotten about his morning run in with the radiator. They got into the ER and sat down to fill out some paper work. Allison once again was left with the wonderful task of restraining her brother.
They were finally escorted into the small room they currently found themselves in. After the first hour Allison began to get restless. “Where the fuck is that doctor?” Allison said and she began walking around the room opening all the drawers and checking all the cupboards.
“What are you doing? There isn’t even a door” Mrs. pestrall said sounding horrified but still smiling.
“Well if they’re gonna make me wait I deserve something in return.” she started taking pens and tongue depressors. then she stumbled on the jackpot. “Jackpot!” she lifted the mask off the canister of oxygen sitting in the corner behind the chair.
“Allison no! Isn’t that illegal?” Allison payed no attention she just put the mask on and twisted the knob on top of the canister. She inhaled deeply and felt the pure oxygen hit her lungs. “That’ll get you high!”
Mrs. Pestrall was right and Allison was just beginning to feel the oxygen high hit her. she took off the mask and put it back on top of the canister. That was when the doctor walked in. he was a tall Indian man with a thick beard. He looked at Max’s hand rapped it in some gauze and told Mrs. Pestrall to come back in a few days for a check up. After he left Mrs. Pestrall and Allison both began to crack up. Allison had sat in the corner the entire time making the most ridiculous faces she could think of while the Doctor looked everywhere but at her.
Max made a happy little noise and the family walked out of the ER and went home for some lunch.
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