Free Can't Stand The Rain by Latitta Waggoner Page B

wait?”
    “No, it cannot wait. I am sorry sis, if it was not important I would let you go back to sleep. But I do not want you to miss out on the news. So after we all talk, then you can get back in the bed and get some rest. Come on, do you smell that? You better get downstairs quick before the food gets cold. You know how much you hate that.”
    Kale threw back the cover with frustration.
    “Aww San, you’re giving me a headache. This better be important too.”
    “You cannot make me believe that I am the cause of your headache,” Sanayah snickered. “Mom told me that you got wasted last night and that is how you ended up here. I am glad though, because you can make it to the table much quicker from up here than your place. So hurry and wash up and GET DOWNSTAIRS!”
    Sanayah was so nervous about informing her family about her situation. She was doing all that she could to hide her fear by keeping a smile on her face and staying perky; but, if she did not get her chance to spill everything soon, she felt as if she would explode or pass out. She left out of her sister’s room so fast she had to pause for a second and hold on to the hallway wall before going down the stairs. She felt so dizzy, like she could barely stand. She started thinking, man, I must hurry and sit down and get something in my stomach before my hunger and nerves get the best of me. She started to take a step towards the stairway but suddenly stopped.
    Kale got up and headed to her bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. She took a look in the mirror and realized that she looked just as horrifying as she felt.
    “Boy, my sister better be lucky I love her or else I would crawl right back into bed and sleep this hangover off,” Kale said to herself as she reached for her toothbrush.
    After she was done, she literally drug her feet out of the bedroom and headed downstairs. When she stepped out into the hallway she noticed Sanayah laid out on the floor just above the stairs. She screamed and ran over to her sister.
    “San, oh my God! What has happened to you?” Kale shouted as the tears immediately swelled up in her eyes and proceeded to fall free down her face. “MOM! DAD!! HELP ME PLEASE!!!”
    She needed to get her parents attention and their help. She sat down and placed Sanayah’s head in her lap and rubbed her hair. Giving Sanayah a kiss on her head and cupping her face into her bosom, Kale started rocking, praying, and sobbing harder in fear of the worst. By that time, their parents were at the foot of the stairs.
                  “Girls, what is going on?” her father asked but didn’t wait for a response.
    Once they noticed Sanayah lying on the floor and Kale sitting under her holding her, they both shot up the stairs so fast their father taking the stairs three at a time and their mother right behind him taking them two at a time.
                  “What happened to her?” Mrs. Weber asked Kale as tears rolled down her cheeks.
                  “I-I-I-I-I really don’t kn-know. I came outta my room a-an-and saw her lying here on the floor,” Kale announced, struggling in between sobs to get the words out.
                  “Well she’s still breathing so that’s a good thing, but let’s just dial up an ambulance. Just in case there is something serious going on with her, we do not want to be sorry we took too long to come to her rescue,” Mr. Weber said.
    He was the only one who was even thinking straight and rational enough to call the ambulance in the midst of all this anxiety and fear.
                  “Okay, I’ll call,” Mrs. Weber exclaimed as she ran off to the nearest room with a phone still crying.
                  “Let’s lift her up and carry her into this room here so we can lay her on something soft and more comfortable,” Mr. Weber said.
                  “Okay.”
    Kale was shaking and crying, almost feeling too weak