Pay the price

***one and a half years later summertime***

i made sure I had restocked all the shelves of their CDs and equipment and went back behind the register. I was still working at the melody music shop after getting a few promotions to head manager and my paycheck was a lot nicer nowadays.

Gerard was currently doing his own thing and got a job teaching at a special needs school which also pays a lot better. We were having our wedding finally and it was next month. All of our payments were to be due by the end of next week for all the catering and other expenses.

My paycheck comes tomorrow and gerard will be receiving his today so well be all set to pay. We'd been saving up for a while and I couldn't wait to put all the money to good use.

Eventually after what had seemed like forever since the shop was so empty it was lunch break.

"John I'm leaving for break take over front counter!" I yelled since I knew if I didn't tell him he'd stay in the bathroom and smoke the whole time I was gone.

I heard him grunt but after a minute of me waiting he finally came out and sat down on the counter.
"Aye aye captain." He said sarcastically

"alright man cya in and hour or so." I called as I walked out. I heard him yell a bye and than began to chose a place to eat.

I ended up walking to a convenience store and bought a box of peanut better and jelly un-crustables. I ate the whole box of them which contained six and then found the nearest bathroom so I could rinse out my mouth with this fancy ass mouthwash.

We had recently learned that Nathan is allergic to peanuts and few other things like most other people in the world and until he got older and built up some form of immunity to them in his system we had to be careful not let him get near anything or get anything on his skin. In any way. even if I'm just giving him a kiss on the cheek the food will transfer and his throat will swell up.

Just when I was on my way back to work I got a call from Mikey.
"Hey mikes what's up?" I answered normally.

"Dude I don't know what's wrong with Nathan I'm really worried and called 911 already."

"WHAT!? What happened!!!???" I screamed into the phone.

"I don't know-frank I swear he was fine all day and- and then he-" Mikey trailed off and I could tell he was crying.

"Mikey what happened what did he do?!"

"He started twitching and shaking and fell to the ground and he's still twitching and when I called 911 they said he might be having a seizure frank I'm scared." He whimpered.

I literally felt like I was going to have a heart attack. My whole life besides Gerard was having a seizure and going to the hospital.

"Mikes what hospital are they taking him to I'll meet you there?" I asked frantically.

"There taking him to children's downtown on 8th ave. He was-" Mikey stopped talking and I heard other voices in the background.
"frank I gotta go the ambulance is here do you want me to call gee?"

"No-no I call him you just take of Nathan for me please Mikey." I said starting to cry.

"I promise" and then he hung up.

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I was sobbing into gees side as we sat in the waiting room. He was holding me tight and Mikey was sitting across from us staring.

"I'm so sorry." He mumbled starting to shake.

Gerard let go of me and went to kneel in front of Mikey.

"Mikey look at me. Mikes come on look at me, none of this is your fault you hear me. If I was home with him when whatever this was happened I would feel like it was my fault too but we can't control his body and what it decided to do."

"I just feel like I have to had done something wrong to make him do that like I set it off somehow."

"don't think that way Mikey it's no ones fault."gee said calmly

mikey sheepishly looked up at up at me and I nodded. "Mikes it's not your fault you already said he didn't eat anything he wasn't supposed to and he didn't do anything out of the ordinary it's just his body."

the nurse in the waiting room called us over and said we had to go to room 305 and Nathan would be in there along with his doctor.

We walked in and he was out cold and hooked up to a few machines. Even though none of them were huge or anything it's just terrifying to see your kid in a hospital bed.

"Ah hello please have a seat." The doctor said so we did.
"Okay so before any questions are asked let me explain a few things first. Nathan here did have a seizure. We were able to control it and he was awake a few minutes ago when we did testing and no brain damage seemed to be done. We believe though because he is so young and because his mother was a drug abuser that he may have epilepsy. It's a seizure condition where the person has multiple seizures frequently." he said

"frequently is lightly used though. They could be as often as three a day or three a year. Nathan will be able to take medication to control this and as soon as I get your basic health insurance info I'll be able to write a prescription for you guys okay?"

All of us nodded and no one asked any questions. But then one hit me like a truck. I don't have health insurance.
My mom never paid and I never wanted to be anywhere near a hospital so I just never got it again.

I looked at Gerard. "Gee I don't have any." I whispered.

"What?" He asked

"health insurance."

"We can use mine it should cover him." He smiled "don't worry."

Gerard gave all the information they asked and we sat on the room watching Nathan. After about fifteen minutes a nurse walked in.

"I'm sorry to interrupt but is there any other insurance you have for us to use?" She asked Gerard.

"No that's my health insurance card why?"

"Well Nathan's not covered by it, it says he's not your kid, or more so he's not on it."

"What? Why?"

"well if he's your adopted son did you sign him up for it on the papers?"

"Shit!" Gerard groaned. "The papers aren't in yet what else can we use for him?" He asked.

"you'd have to pay cash or credit card for him to be released then..." She trailed off.

"How much is it?" I asked.

"With the medicine and hospital costs it's going to be around $23,000."

"What! That's our whole wedding budget!" I cried.

"Shit really it's that much?" Gee asked

"yes special doctors and special medicine had to be administered because he's allergic to some of the things in the common medicine." She said.

"Alright can checks work?" Gee sighed.

"Yes checks are fine." She answered

Gee finished writing the check and handed it to her. "Here goes our whole wedding" he whispered.

Notes

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