You're Beautiful To Me

After Frank drags us inside I take the kids into the bathroom and run a warm bath with bubbles, Frank helping me strip them down and we put them in the water together, Frank kneeling beside the tub with me while we supervise them playing together before he says "Babe go put some dry clothes on, I don't want you getting sick." I sigh before standing up, leaving the bathroom and going into the bedroom where I pick out some clean clothes, removing my still damp ones and pulling on the dry ones and by the time I'm done I feel ready for a nap, my eyes feeling heavy and my chest feeling a little tight. I head back towards the bathroom and try to pretend I'm fine, but Frank notices right away, sighing softly and once the kids are out of the bath and dressed again he takes us all into our bedroom and lays us in bed, the blankets pulled over us and one by one Anna, Miles and I fall asleep while Frank watches over us. A few hours later I wake up alone and my chest feels even worse, my whole body starting to ache and I stumble out of bed, my head spinning as I make my way down the hall to the living room, almost falling a few times and when I finally get there Franks head snaps up to look at me. "Babe?" "Ambulance" I pant out as I drop to my knees, my hand coming up to clench in the front of my shirt and Frank stands and runs over to me, dropping to his knees beside me as he digs his phone out and calls 911 while trying to calm me down, getting me to sit on the floor and take deep breaths and Miles comes crawling over, crawling into my lap and chirping out "Da" as he snuggles into my chest and when Frank tries to remove him from my lap he squeals and starts to cry so I wrap my arms around him and keep him where he is, holding him to my chest as tears roll down my cheeks, terrified that im about to die.

By the time the ambulance arrives I feel like I'm about to pass out and Anna has come over, her bottom lip trembling when the paramedics come in and when they try to touch me she screams "No, dada." "Shh baby it's ok" Frank says as he picks her up, tears trailing down his own cheeks as he takes Miles too and the paramedics lay me on the floor and start poking and prodding me while asking questions about what I'm feeling before they decide to take me to the hospital. Just as the paramedics take me out to the ambulance Mikey shows up and Frank hands the kids to him, ignoring their crying and screaming as he follows me into the ambulance, my hand clutched tightly in his as we race towards the hospital. When we get there I'm taken into a room while Frank is told to wait behind and I am hooked up to a bunch of monitors while a doctor shines a light in my eyes and starts asking me questions. "Please, I need my husband" I beg, not answering any of the questions and just as a nurse brings Frank into the room and he comes into view the room starts going dark, Frank fading from view again and something feels like it bursts inside my chest as everything goes black, the pain unbearable.

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