Chapter Six: Mia keeps the news about been pregnant a secret from her mom, till she knows she has another place to live!
Mia walks back up twenty minutes later and walks out of her room and into the bathroom and remove the bag out of the trash can and ties it shut. She then carries it out of the bathroom and slides her flip flops on. She then takes the trash bag outside to the dumpster. She open the lid of the dumpster and the smell of all the trash bags makes her start to gag. She throws the bathroom trash bag into the dumpster really fast, then slam the lid shout. She starts to walks back towards the entrance of the building holding her stomach with both hands, but stop walking when she hears someone walk up behind her. She turns around and sees Jane walking towards her. She has not talk to Jane since she switches school, which make her wonder why she is walking toward her now.

Jane: Mia, I saw that you left school before first hour and I had to come over to see if you were all right and If Isabella is all right?
Mia: Isabella is fine. My friend Spinner, was not feeling good and ask me to drive him, because his car is in the shop. After I drop him off at his house I decide to come home because my stomach was really upset. Can we go inside its really cold out here?
Jane Sure

Jane fellow Mia into the apartment build and into her mom’s apartment. Then the two girls walk over to the couch and take a set, they talk too, eachother as they head inside.

Jane: I hope that you are not coming down with that stomach flu bug that going around town, Because I heard it’s a really nasty bug and it last for two to four weeks.
Mia: (Girls take a set on the couch.) God I hope not, I can’t afford to get sick right now. How are you doing and how did your last check up at the doctors go, was it good news or bad news?
Jane: I am doing good. The check up went ok, it was not the best one I had. I have an increase in my lymphocytes ( white blood cell count) .
Mia: You did not come out of remission did you?
Jane: The Doctors do not know yet, they need to run some more tests, before they tell me anything.
Mia: I hope that the test show you are still in remission.
Jane: Me too, But I’m a little scary about what the test will say.
Mia: When are you having the test done?
Jane: Tomorrow morning
Mia: Will you be in school in the afternoon?
Jane: No, hopefully I will be in school on Wednesday though.
Mia: Call me and tell me how your tests go tomorrow!
Jane: I will Mia, I think I am going to go, because you are not looking so hot and I can’t afford to catch anything right now.
Mia: I understand that and I am really tired anyway and want to go to bed.
Jane: So, I will see you around.
Mia: Yeah.

Mia shows Jane out of the apartment and has very get the door close when she start to get the feeling that she is going to be sick. She starts head to the bathroom when she starts taste the vomit come up and runs into the bathroom and leans over the toilet and starts throwing up. She has been throwing up for four minutes when she hears the door to the apartment open up. Mrs. Jones sets the shopping bags onto the floor and then set Isabella on the couch and runs into the bathroom and pulls her daughter hair out of her face. Isabella jumps off the couch and runs over to the bathroom door. She looks at her mom and starts crying.

Isabella: Is momie ick?
Mrs. Jones: It looks like she is sick, Bella!
Isabella: No, Momie can’t be ick!

Mia stops getting sick and set down on the floor next to the toilet and brings her knees up to her chest and rest her head on them. Isabella runs up to her mom and give her a hug and Mia hug her daughter back.

Isabella: Sorry I get you ick!
Mia: It not your fault Bella, the flu is going around right now.
Mrs. Jones: Do you think you feeling up to going to your bedroom now honey?
Mia: Yeah, beside I have now, bring up everything I have eat or drink, today.
Mrs. Jones: Bella, help you mom into her and your bedroom, why I get the thermometer out.
Isabella: Yes Grandma
Mia: I do not need you to check to see if I have a fever!
Mrs. Jones: Mia I am going to check to see if you have a fever no if and/or but about it.
Mia: Fine

Mia stands up still holding her stomach with her right hand and takes Isabella right hand in her left. Then the two of them head into their bedroom. Mia set down on her bed and kick her flip flop off her foot, she then lay down on her bed and closes her eyes. Isabella stands at the side of her mom bed and looks at her. She starts crying again, because she is worry about her momie. Mrs. Jones walks into her granddaughter and daughter bedroom and walks over to her daughter and takes a set on the edge of her bed.

Mia: Mom, please don’t bounce the bed it making my stomach really upset!
Mrs. Jones: I sorry Mia, me and Bella saw Jane walk out of the building on are way in, was she over here?
Mia: She come over to see if I was feeling any better then I was this morning at school. She also needed to vent some, because her last doctors check up did not go good. She has to go in for test tomorrow.
Mrs. Jones: Poor thing Jane just can’t catch a break in her life can she?
Mia: No, she can’t!
Mrs. Jones: Now Mia I want you to put the thermometer in your mouth.

Mia takes the thermometer from her mom hands and puts it into her mouth and under her tongue and she wait for it to beep. The truth is she is feel ache all over and a little feverish now. She starts think to her self. I hope that I do not have anything contagious, I will feel awful if I get Jane sick or get Spinner, more sick then he already is. The thermometer beeps, so Mrs. Jones takes it out of her daughter month and looks at it. Isabella grabs the thermometer out of her grandma hands and looks at it and starts crying even more harder then she already was.

Isabella: Momie really ick!
Mia: (Takes the thermometer from Bella and looks at it.) No, I have a fever of 38.3 C (101 F) I could have passes the germs I have to Jane mom!
Mrs. Jones: Mia, she was only here for a few minutes and you only have a very low grade fever, I would not worry about passes your germs onto someone else. As you told Isabella, the flu is going around right now. I see lots of case of the flu everyday at work since I am a nurse at ST. Mary.
Mia: I am really tired, mom can you take care of Isabella and get her ready for bed tonight?
Mrs. Jones: Sure, Mia just get some rest and feel better.
Isabella: Here you frog Momie!
Mia: (Take the frog from Bella.) Thanks Bella.

Mia rolls over in bed and falls a sleep holding the stuff frog she made at build a bear. Mrs. Jones gets Isabella ready for bed because it was already past her bed time then lays her down in bed. She reads a story out loud to her granddaughter to she has fall asleep. Mrs. Jones, then heads into the kitchen and takes the tag off Isabella new clothing. She then takes them downstairs to the Laundry room in the basement and start washes Isabella new clothing. Mrs. Jones comes up form doing the laundry and check the answering machine and sees there is one message on the machine. She pushes the play button and its from the school. Mrs. Jones, this is Mrs. Hatzilakos from Degrassi. I am calling to let you know that Mia did not come to any of her classes today. I will let it slide if you call and tell me why she left school, I help that nothing is wrong with Isabella and that Mia is ok, because she did not look good when I saw here before the school bell ring. If I have left school already when you call me back just leave me a message on my answering machine. Mrs. Jones picks up the phone and calls Mrs. Hatzilakos back leave her a message saying that Mia left school because she was really nausea, had a low grade fever and was really tired. Lastly once Mia come home she started throwing up. After she leaves Mrs. Hatzilakos a message she gets ready for bed and then goes to sleep. The next morning at the mason’s household. Spinner, has got up two and half hours ago to work on homework that Emma Nelson had bring him over last night. He has just finish get dress when he gets and stabbing pain in his abdominal area that makes him fall down onto his bed. He grabs his drumsticks and throws it across his room. This can’t be the flu, I am way to tired and my stomach never hurt this bad before when I had the flu and my lymph- nodes are even swell that never happened before when I get the flu. Maybe I should talk to the school nurse or someone else about what going on. Just then he hears his mom bang on his bedroom door.

Mrs. Mason: Gavin, are you going to school today?
Spinner: Yeah, mom I am going to school.
Mrs. Mason: Then can you give your sister a ride to school today.
Spinner: Did Dad pick up my car from the shop?
Mrs. Mason: Yeah.
Spinner: Ok, I will give her a ride. Tell her to meet me outside in five.
Mrs. Mason: I will.

Spinner, stand up and gather up his textbooks, homework and notebooks then put them into his book. He picks up his book and goes into the bathroom. He bushes his tooth really fast then heads out to his car to see his sister already wait for him. He throws his book bag into the backseat and then gets behind the wheel and pulls out of the driveway. At the sometime Jane is having an MRI done then see has to go for a Pet scan, CT Scan and same x-ray. Along with having more blood work done. Meanwhile Mia has got out of bed and ready for school because has no more days left to miss this year, but her mom has drop Isabella off at daycare for her.