Page 5 of Reagan

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Robin thought that the man who was giving her the evil eye should have been more accommodating to her.She had told him that she was a sufferer, and he didn’t seem to care.She just wrote him off as some kind of non-believer when it came to depression and ignored him as best she could.She looked up when Blake came toward her and thought that she looked entirely too pleased with something.

“I won the table and chairs.For a whole five dollars.”Robin asked her what she was going to dowith it, as she was never going to eat off of it.“I’m going to put it in my kitchen and have all my meals at it.Don’t try to knock me down, Robin.I’m in a fantastic mood, and I don’t want you to tell me how depressed you are.I’m not right now, and you should be happy for me.”

“Why would you want to eat off of someone’s table and sit in their chairs?”She ignored her sister’s jab about her being in a good mood.She wasn’t, and Blake shouldn’t be either.“They’re dirty and stained.You should have been given five dollars to take them.”

“Whatever you say.I don’t care.”She danced around in a little gig, and she wanted to snatch her bauld.She should be depressed because she was.“I also know that it’s going to fit in my car to take home.I’m delighted to have what I want.”

“I have a headache, and my depression is at an all time worse.You should be catering to my needs, not rubbing it in how much of a good mood you’re in.You have no idea how much I suffer.”She looked at Blake and could tell that she wasn’t listening to her.“Did you hear me?I’m telling you that I don’t feel well and that you should be helping me feel better.”

“To be honest with you, Robin, I don’t think you like it when people around you are having a good time.And it has nothing to do with depression, but you simply being mean.”Blake stretched her neck and glared hard at Robin.“I’m going to take my little table home and clean it up.Then, when I’ve done that, I’m going to have a meal at it and think how happy it made me to pick out and buy something that I wanted while you were around.You’d suck the good time out of a clown if one were around you for very long.”

He nearly bust out laughing, but caught himself in time.Reagan wondered how often she’d stand up to her sister and believed that it did happen on occasion.Not often, but enough that Robin would be making amends to her sister for upsetting her.When his mom was ready to go, he picked up her chair and waited for Robin to vacate the other one.Taking them to the car first was petty, but he wasn’t feeling all that generous right now.

As soon as she stood up, he took the chair from under her and headed to the truck.He was even going to offer Blake his truck to help her take her table and chairs home in but decided that she had this.She would make it fit if she had to break out windows to do it, just to get at her sister.

“Reagan, help the poor girl out.She looks like a stiff wind could take her out.And lifting that table and chairs might be too much for her.”He said he thought that she had it, but his mother insisted.So being the gentleman that she wanted him to be, he went to the two of them and offered to take home their purchases in his truck.“Good for you.”

“No, he’s not going to help you.I’ll have Morgan come by and pick it up for you tomorrow.Maybe by then you would have come to your senses, or someone would have stolen it by then.He’s a mean, nasty man, and I don’t care for him.”Blake looked at him and smiled.“Don’t do it, Blake.I mean it, I’ll not be happy if you do that.”

“You’re never happy, so butt out.”Blake looked at him again after glaring at her sister again.“Would you really?I don’t live that far, and it would be a great help for me if you were to do that.”

“Sure.It would be our pleasure.This is my mom, LouCinda Dresden; she’s been bidding on the box lots.”They shook hands, but Robin put her hand behind her back like she was afraid to shake his mother’s hand.“I knew you were rude.I’m Reagan Dresden.Doctor Reagan Dresden.”

“No way are you a doctor.I can sniff them out better than anyone can.”He didn’t say anything, but when she asked him for identification, he told her no.“I thought so.What are you, some kind of new wave doctor?Some quack that thinks that taking herbal essences will cure everything.”

“I’m a doctor of medicine.You should know you called my office wanting me to take you on as a patient.”If he hadn’t been looking at her, he wouldn’t have seen the flash of anger on her face.“So you do remember me.Good to know.I’m not taking any patients either at this time.”

“You bastard.”He was startled by the outburst but didn’t say anything.“You think you know it all.I don’t need you as a doctor.I’m doing just fine without one.I should have you disbarred for treating me the way that you have today.”

“I did nothing to you.”Blake stepped between them, and he had a moment of fear.Robin lookedlike she was about to hit him, and he didn’t want the other girl hurt.He moved in a way that her purse hit him in the back instead of her sister.It nearly knocked him down, too, when he was hit from behind.“Are you all right?”

He had stumbled a little but was fine.But Blake had moved too and had been hit with the purse when she swung it again.He was barely able to catch her before she fell to the ground.As it was, she fell into the box lots that his mother had gotten, and he couldn’t see if she’d been hurt or not.

“Get away from her.”The purse came around again and hit Blake again.“Look what you made me do?She’s hurt, and it’s all your fault.”The purse was snatched away from Robin by his mom when it looked like she was going to use it again.“This is going to blow up my depression because I hurt my sister.Just look what you’ve done to me.You’ve hurt me and made my depression take a full bloom now.”She started crying, and he ignored her for Blake.She really was hurt, and he was trying to figure out what had happened when she’d gone down.There was blood all over her head where the purse had hit her.

“Mom, call an ambulance.It’s better to be safe than sorry.”He was barking orders to some of the crowd of people that were around when he had her table and chairs put in his truck.Of course, Robin had to say something about that, too, but she wasn’t getting his attention right now.He was worried about Blake.She was bleeding from the head, and he was worried when he saw what she’d been cut on.“There’s a broken bell in there that she was cut on.I don’t know if any of the pottery was broken off in her head or not.I’m going to call in orders when they get here.”

“Good idea.I’ll call your father.”The rest of his mom’s boxes were put into the truck, and they were waiting for the ambulance.By the time it arrived, he was ready to take her to surgery to have the wound cleaned and a bed set up in case she had to stay.

An IV was put in her arm, and he was worried that she was still out.Lying her on one of the tables that had been used for box lots, he was able to see the wound better, but still worried that any of the pottery had gotten in it.He would do a deep cleaning on it and wait to put in stitches so as not to cause an infection.He didn’t know where Robin had gone, but he was glad that she was missing.His first thought was that all the attention was on her sister and not her, so she didn’t want to be around.He thought that his dad would agree with him on that.

Driving to the hospital, while Blake rode in the ambulance, he was ready to take her into surgery as soon as he got there.Once he cleaned the wound, he made sure that she wasn’t hurt anywhere else and took x-rays of her left wrist.It was swollen now, and he was making sure nothing was broken by the time Blake was coming around.She asked where she was.

“In the hospital emergency department.You had a fall.”She said that her sister had hit her.“Twice, as a matter of fact.I don’t know what happened to her, but by the time the ambulance showed up, she was gone.Did she ride to the auction with you?”

“No.She and her driver showed up just as I was leaving home.When I told her not to come, she followed me anyway.”She laid her head back on the gurney.“My head is killing me.I don’t suppose I can have something for that, could I?”

He explained to her what he’d done and how he would put the stitches in later when she was awake enough to hear him.She was dozing off when he finished up, and he found his mom in the waiting room.His dad was there as well.After giving them a hug, his dad said that he’d take Mom home in his truck so that he could stay there and use his car.

“Your mother is going to want to go through her things anyway, and you can watch over your patient.Your mother told me a bit about what had happened.Be careful, son.You don’t need someone like that coming around and causing trouble.”He said he’d be careful.“Good.I’ll take your truck and mother home, and we’ll see you when we see you.Don’t forget about tomorrow and the ball games.If you’re not going to make it, give me a call, and I’ll do it for you.”

“Thanks, Dad.I’ll let you know.But I don’t see any problem with what’s going on here.She’s going to need about thirty stitches, but she should be fine.I should hear about her wrist soon, too.”He said that he’d be thinking about her.“You’re the best dad ever.Thanks, Mom, for going with me.I hadso much fun.”

“I did as well.Even gossiping like we did.I guess it’s a good thing we kept an eye out for the two of them anyway.I have never seen such a woman before.”Mom was tsking as they left, and he hugged them again.“I’ll look forward to hearing what happens tomorrow.”

He went back to the room and found that she’d been taken down to X-ray.He’d know soon if her arm was broken, and she’d be all right while in here.He was going to have to keep an eye out for her sister, but she wasn’t too worried about her.He thought that he had her pegged and was going to make sure that she didn’t hurt Blake again.