She'd probably never moved so fast in her life, and she'd had some pretty good reasons to move before. This was different though, it wasn't a fire fight, it wasn't one of her partners in trouble, no, the school had called her about Ben. They couldn't reach Lorraine. Of course they couldn't reach his witch of a mother, but she was the very first speed dial number in the boy's cell phone, and she had records on file at the school as named guardian per the boy's father.
Sure, having a living relative superseded such in most cases, but it meant they could come to her for billing issues and discipline problems when Lorraine couldn't be bothered.
Not that there were discipline problems where Ben was concerned.
No, but the boy could try to stand up for others when bullying was involved, and he could take a tumble off the school steps and not make the roll properly. And she was going to strangle some school children. Later.
Now she wasn't quite sure when she'd gotten to the hospital, but she had Ben's insurance cards in her wallet and they better get out of her way because they had a boy that the school said had a broken arm and collarbone and he was in pain because his mother couldn't be assed to answer a phone and give the greenlight for treatment.
"Hey, kiddo, I'm here..." He was out, that was for the best really, but damn it was scarier that he didn't look at her. She needed to let the boys know she wasn't tonight and...
..."Bates....I dropped my cell phone." Somewhere in the mad dash she'd managed to miss her pocket after hanging up. So much for apologizing for hanging up on Braig.
Awesome day.
Sure, having a living relative superseded such in most cases, but it meant they could come to her for billing issues and discipline problems when Lorraine couldn't be bothered.
Not that there were discipline problems where Ben was concerned.
No, but the boy could try to stand up for others when bullying was involved, and he could take a tumble off the school steps and not make the roll properly. And she was going to strangle some school children. Later.
Now she wasn't quite sure when she'd gotten to the hospital, but she had Ben's insurance cards in her wallet and they better get out of her way because they had a boy that the school said had a broken arm and collarbone and he was in pain because his mother couldn't be assed to answer a phone and give the greenlight for treatment.
"Hey, kiddo, I'm here..." He was out, that was for the best really, but damn it was scarier that he didn't look at her. She needed to let the boys know she wasn't tonight and...
..."Bates....I dropped my cell phone." Somewhere in the mad dash she'd managed to miss her pocket after hanging up. So much for apologizing for hanging up on Braig.
Awesome day.