A Step in the Other Direction

~~Chapter 7~~

~~Cassidy's Point of View~~

"Ok, wanna take a break," Madison, Bella's sister asked me. 

"Yea," I huffed, "That would be great." Madison laughed at me. We had just did about three hours of different moves. We went form simple horizontals, verticals, and thumb flips to stuff like two turns and high toss bows. Then we got into some hard stuff like elbow rolls. And then it didn't help that we had just ran about ten laps around her house. That was torture. 

We walked inside, Bella and her mother sitting on the couch drinking sweet tea. 

"You look like you went swimming," Bella said to me.

"Yea, yea," I muttered, "You go learn about 100 new moves and then run ten laps."

"We did like five new moves," Madison said from the kitchen, "And get used to running laps around football fields. Mr. Mason really likes to work the guard." 

"That's great to know..." I plopped down next to Bella, Madison walking in and handing me a tea, "Thanks."

"No problem." She sat in the recliner across the room, pulling out her phone and texting. 

Bella and I talked for a while until Madison said that we had one more move to learn. She dragged me outside and began to show me this really complicated (or in my eyes) move where you were suppose to keep the baton on your wrist while still twirling it. I can't really describe it well. It was called a Fishtail.

I heard my phone ring as I dropped the baton again. I grabbed it, silently cursing myself for not practicing more, and answered my phone. 

"Hey mom," I said. 

"Hey baby," she said, "I'm coming to pick you up now."

I glanced down at my watch. I still had about an hour of practice left, "It's early isn't it?"

"Yea but we have to go somewhere."

"Alright. How far are you?" I glanced over at Madison how was giving me a questioning look. 

"Not far. Ten minutes tops." 

"Ok. See ya in a minute." I hung up the phone.

"Leaving already?" Madison asked me.

"I guess. Mom said we have to go somewhere tonight," I told her. 

"Ok. Make sure you practice your elbow rolls, two turns, and high toss bows. And work on the Fishtail if you want too." 

"Ok," I said and walked back inside.

"Where you off too," Bella asked me. 

"Mom is coming early. Don't know why but she is. I'm grabbing my stuff," I answered. 

"Ok." She got up and helped my get my huge book bag and my bag of clothes. We ran back down the stairs to see my mom pulling into Bella's driveway. She gave me a quick hug and told me bye. 

I ran out of their house and jumped into my moms car. 

"Hey," I said as I buckled up.

"Hey sweetie," my mom said, but she sounded off. 

"What's wrong? Bad day at work?" She didn't answer me. "Mom?"

"Something happened." 

I froze, "What?" The first thing that came to mind was my dad, but she quickly flicked that off. 

"Apparently something happened at the Harrow's house yesterday." Myheart skipped a beat as I wondered if either Saige or Bowen got hurt, "Your dad got a call from Mr. Jimmy earlier today. Yesterday they left for work and neither were able to get home. They got a call from Saige and something was wrong so Mrs. Maggie tried to get home but the traffic was awful. Basically when she got home she found Bowen passed out. He wouldn't wake up and they took him to the hospital. They don't know what happened. He got released about an hour ago." I nodded my head. This was a lot to take in at the moment. "We're going home and changing and then we are going over there."

"Ok..." I said, my voice barely audible. The rest of the drive home was silent, with the few beeps of my moms phone going off. 

When we got home, my mom told me to go change. It was Friday, so we might be staying late that night. I threw all my stuff on my bed and grabbed a navy and  sweatshirt with my initials on the back. I walked back into the dinning room where my mom was sitting. She didn't say anything, she just got up and walked to the car. 

It worried me that she wasn't saying anything. Was what had happened really that bad? What had happened to Bowen? 

We drove to their house which was about 30 minutes away. When we pulled up, I could see my dads truck pulled up near the top of the driveway. We got out of the car and slowly walked to the door. My mom knocked and the door almost immediately it opened. It was Mrs. Maggie. 

"Hey Kennedy," Mrs. Maggie said with a smile, but I could see the anguish in her eyes. 

"Hey Maggie." They both hugged and when they let go, Mrs. Maggie smiled and hugged me. 

"Hey girlie," she said, trying to put a strong face on. 

I had seen adults hide grief before, and I knew how they hid it. I could see it in a instant. I had seen it in my parents a lot. 

"Hi," I said back. She let me go and stood tall. 

The way that she hid it made me worry even more. What could have happened?

"Saige is in the dinning room if you want to see her," Mrs. Maggie told me. 

I nodded and walked in, Saige automatically seeing me. She smiled and I came to sit down by her. 

"Heyo," I said, giving her a huge hug, then whispered in her ear, "How are you doing?" She shook her head just slightly. I let her go. 

"Wanna go to my room," then she added, "We need to talk." 

"Ok." I stood up and followed her up the stairs. When we hit the top I couldn't help but glance over at Bowen's door. It was silent. I followed Saige into her room and we both sat on her bed. 

"I don't really know what happened," Saige jumped in, barley audible, "I just remember we were eating breakfast the other morning and he was talking to me about something that had happened after you left the other night. Stuff happened and then all of a sudden he said he didn't feel good and he was really light headed and dizzy. I helped him up to his room and I remember him just getting this really far off look and then he just passed out. I guess I freaked and then called mom and Jimmy but they couldn't get home until about six o'clock that night and he was still asleep and-" her voice cracked and I saw the intense pain it brought her to tell me this. I felt my heart break, and I bundled Saige in a hug as she broke down and cried.

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