welcome to my second story. this is where gnomeo and juliet first abandon their son.
juliet pov
"push juliet push, come on baby you can do this" gnomeo was encouraging me to keep pushing but i was so tired i couldn't go on much longer
"gnomeo i don't think i can keep this up" i cried.
"yes you can just a bit more you can do this" he stroked my hair as i was squeezing his wrist.
"AAAHHH, oh god please let this be over with already" i cried in pain and let out one last gasp as i heard a small cry.
"congragulations you two its a healthy baby boy" the doctor handed my son to me as gnomeo craddled me in his arms.
"isn't he precious" i cooed. our son had chestnut brown hair like mine with gnomoes' eyebows and nose. he had my eye shape but i didn't know his eye color yet.
"he is such a handsome baby" gnomeo touched the purple hatted baby as he started to awaken showing off his emerald green eyes.
"and he's got your eyes too" gnomeo mentioned.
we continued to stare at that beautiful boy for as long as we could i thought we were gonna have a happy life with our son little did we know our time with him would be short lived.
2 weeks later.
a few days after we brought little jake home were the happiest of my life he was only about 2 and a half weeks old and i already couldn't imagine life without him me and gnomeo spent all our extra time caring and spoiling this beautiful creation we had made together. if only i had known this would be the last moments i could spend with him.
"oh no this is terrible" i heard gnomeo say.
"whats wrong" i asked.
"this" he says handing me a slip of paper. it was the bill for our house.
"$2,745, thats at least 30% more than usual, how is that possible" i said as gnomeo shrugged.
"it must have have been somewhere along the way" he shrugged.
"what are we going to do we can't afford to pay this" i sighed.
"and not to mention we stil need to get the lawnmower fixed, we have rent to pay, and the maedical bills from the hospital". he added.
i sat back down "gnomeo what are we gonna do we can't possibly keep up with all these bills and charges we have a child we need to support now" i complained rocking jake back and forth.
"well we could always sell the house and move back with our parents " he mentioned.
"no way, our parents are still a bit shaky on this whole marrige thing and its been a year already."
" well the way i see it we either have to sell our house or..." he didn't finish his sentence.
"or what gnomeo" i looked to him and he looked to jake that's when i figured out what he was thinking and i slowly backed away.
"NO, NO ABSOLUTELY NOT, WE ARE NOT DOING THAT!" i yelled.
"juliet what other choice do we have, its either give up our son or move to the streets"
"i can't do that gnomeo, i couldn't live with myself" i cried into the walls as gnomeo hugged me.
"juiet be reasonable with this" i cut him off and pushe dhim away.
"NO YOU BE REASONABLE ABOUT THIS...I DIDN'T GOT THROUHT 9 MONTHS OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS AND 17 HOURS OF AGONIZING LABOR TO GIVE BIRTH TO MY CHILD AND THEN HAVE YOU TELL ME I HAVE TO GIVE HIM UP ALL BECAUSE OF A FEW STUPID BILLS!" i screamed so loud i got a migrane and broke down weeping.
"juliet if we give up our son then we won't have to pay for the hospital bill and that'll save us money to get these bills paid up" reasoning with me only made it worst.
"juliet i love our son just as much as you do but this is just how it has to be for right now if we end up losing this house we'll end up on the streets with no food or shelter and pretty soon we wouldn't have our son around anymore at least this way he can still live." gnomeo was tearing up as much as i was, and as much as i hated to admit it he was right, we had to do what was best not just for us but for our child.
"i promise you we can always have another child once we get all this straightened out" he whispered in my ears. i looked down at jake who was asleep in my arms. the pain of losing him was just too intense for me, i had this child to love and keep forever and now i had to give him away. i looked upon the adorable purple gnome craddled in my arms as he slepp with tiny grin of his smooth porcelain face. even if we did have another child it would never have been as good as this one.
jake moved around in my arms and woke up smilimg at us, which made me cry even more but i sucked it up for our sons sake. gnomeo placed a finger on jakes tiny tummy as jake wrapped his little hands around it and held it close to his face almost rubbing it on his smooth cheeck. gnomeo looked to me and we both looked to jake again i kissed his forehead and sighed.
"oh jakey...i know you probably can't understand me but i just want you to know how much you mean to us, and if i had known these would be the last moments i got to see you i would have loved you even more if that was possible".
gnomeo took jake from me and began to speak to him.
"son i knew one day we would have to let you go off on your own, but i just didn't expect it to be right when you were brought into our lives, no matter where you end up just know that we will always love you, even if we can't watch you grow up and live a wonderful life with us i have faith that wherever you end up after today you will grow up into the strong-willed, independent, caring young man your mother and i had always hoped you'd be and i know whatever you make of your life it will makes us both proud. my only regret is that i won't be there to watch it all happen, jake i love you so much and always will."
gnomeo handed him back to me and wiped the tears from his face
"mummy knows that wherever you are you will always have my love in your heart, one day when you're old enough you might wonder about us and why we had to leave you, but just to let you know we did it for your well being and outta love for you. and then one day you might get the urge to travel for miles on end and find us and come back into my arms so that i can care for you just as i am now, i know that there's not a good chance of that happening but if it does i will wait for it and if it does come i will never again part with you. after this day when you are no longer within me and your fathers arms i hope that you will at least remember the faces of the two peolpe who raised you as far as they did and gave you more love then any other parents could give to their child, and every night when you go to sleep i pray you will remember the songs i sung to soothe you to sleep at night"
"and the stories i read to you when you layed in your crib" gnomeo added as i smiled to him.
"we love you with so much love and i will be torn when we have to let you go, even though you are young just promise me this, amongst all the faces and voices you hear in your life i hope you will always keep our voices and faces in you mind to remind you of the parents who brought you into this world and cuddled you all the night". i began to drip tears on jakes blanket he was wrapped in as gnomeo took him from my embrace and kissed him once more and layed him in his baby basket and sighed. then he pulled a small necklace from his pocket and put it around his neck. he opened it to reveal a picture of the two of us and jake when we first brought him home on one side and on the other side a whole picture of him cuddled in his purple blanket. it also had a little scripture written in it.
for the best son of all times and the only one who will be in our hearts.
"something to remind you of us" he said patting jake on his head. we packed jakes teddy bear and bottle in the basket with him and walked to the door.
we grabbed the umbrella as it began to rain and walked outside the house and stood at the bus stop awaiting the bus. we drove quite a distance into gnome city as we glanced at all the stores and shops and parks we passed by we spotted a few gnomeswalking along the side walks some of the couples were pushing along with their kids and babies which made me more just wasn't fair all those gnomes got to keep their kids and i had to give away mine at nearly two weeks after his birth. i began cursing to myself out of rage and i guess gnomeo must've heard me.
"relax baby i'm just as raged as you but we have to think of our son and his safety" he whispered. i placed my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes., the sooner this was over with the better.
about an hour later we got off the bus into downtown gnome city, we down the street til we made it to the this big house on the edge of the corner. it had a dull gray color to it and had bars on the windows and was a bit rundown, then again this whole part of gnome city was rundown, everywhere you looked you saw nothing but homless gnomes by canfires, police tape practically everywhere and it smelt of car oil and dead carcasses, at least we lived in the nicer more cleaner part of the city, but still this wasn't exactly the perfect place in town to drop off our son, but it was better then just tying him in a sack and dropping him in a deep river.
"are you sure this is the right place gnomeo" i was very unsteady aut this place.
"i'm positive, it says right there gnome city little haven orphanage," he pointed to the sign above the place and i just rolled my eyes.
"lets just get this done, this is becoming tremendously toruturing" i huffed.
we walked up the stairs and placed jake on the stool as the rain picked up, gnomeo held the umbrella over us as i set jake down with his teddy bear and tucked him under his blanket i kissed him once more as gnomeo did too. gnomeo rang the bell and we ran down the steps and hid beneath the bushes as the door opened. out stepped a blue hatted gnome whos hat was much darker then gnomeo's with glasses, light gray hair, and was in a bright gray suit. she looked all around and didn't even see jake at her foot just as she was about to go back in a clap of thunder roared and i heard jake cry thats when she finally noticed the basket and the purple gnome in it.
"oh what do we have here" she asked as she picked up a note that i left in the basket as she read it aloud.
please make sure our little jake is taken care of, we weren't able to keep him, love him just as much as we did.
hearing her read that note aloud made me cry it made me sound like i had planned to give away the only son i would probably ever have, but i knew in my hear that was and never will be true.
"oh goodness you poor little angel" she said as she picked up the basket and walked back inside. the moment that door shut i hopped out the bush and ran off screaming into the nearest alley and had a nervous breakdown. gnomeo was behind me in a matter of seconds with the unbrealla as he kneeld next to me and hugged me.
"oh gnomeo what kinda mother am i to give away my own child, i'm a terrible person" i yelled and hit the cold wet ground.
"no you're not sweetie,we did what we had to do its best for jake and that's what matters"he rubbed my back as i calmed down. he was just being brave for both of us but i knew it was killing him more then me, but i wouldn't tell him that i loved him too much to.
"lets go home, i promise you'll feel better about this soon" he cooed as he handed me the umbrealla and picked me up bride sytle as we walked to the bus and rode all the way home. but gnomeo was wrong even as the years went on and we did have another child, a cute little daughter named kelly i still wished we had our son with us so we could be a real family. oh jake i wonder where he ended up after all these years.
jake's pov (as an infant, right after they dropped him off.)
I don't know what happened to me in the last few hours one moment i was in the arms of my dear mummy, the next thing i knew i woke up in a basket being pulled into a scary looking building by a dark blue hatted elderly women.
"sorry i had to leave i'll be right with you in a moment" she said
"thats fine" i heard a male gnomes voice, of course i couldn't see him.
the lady that was holding my basket walked me through a door full of a bunch of gnome kids running around, screaming, playing and having fun at first i hopped she was leaving me here until one of the kids with a yellow hat ran up to the women and looked at me in the basket.
"OOOHHH LOOK AT THE CUTE LITTLE BABY" this yellow girl had sticky brown stuff all over her face and was screaming at me real loud it made me feel a bit uncomfortable. then things got worst as a bunch more kids ran up to my basket and started shouting at me and started trying to touch me with stickty stuff on them as well they all looked really scary to me and i wished that mum and dad were here to get me, then i remembered that they always appered when i cried so thats what i did, i cried till i was sore in my throat hopping that when i opened my eyes my mum or dad would be holding me and protecting me from all this.
"okay kids you've seen the baby now away with you all your frightening the poor dear" the eldrly lady shouted as the kids all sighed and walked away to what they were doing before." i cooed in relife that she wasn't leaving me here.
She began to walk again into the next door on the other side of the room with all the loud bigger than me kids. the next room was a lot quieter and had colorful rainbows and flowers and animals painted all over the walls and there was soft music and big stuffed teddy bears like mine only much bigger all over the floors, now this was my kinda place. she set me down into a small area full of babies who were of all differnt colors, some sleeping and others watching the colorful figures on the t.v box thingy. two small baby gnomes crawled up into my basket with me and looked me over. one was a green hatted boy with small glasses and wearing a green shirt and diaper. the other was an orange gnome girl with short bright red hair and wearing a orange t-shirt and tutu. they looked at me and started talking gibberish as i was doing the same. we're babies that how we talk ok. thats when i heard the door open and that lady who brought me in here came back in, this time with two other gnomes who were purple just like me.
"so what kinda baby are you looking for" the lady asked.
"anyone will do really" i recognized the male gnomes voice from whe i first got here.
"well then have a look around" the lady said.
the two purple gnomes walked around picking up all the babies and then setting them down, when they got to me the girl gnome picked me up and gave me a smile she tickled me under my chin as i giglged and reached for her face and moved my hands on her face as she giggled.
"oh honey lets take this one" she said as the male gnome came over and looked at me.
"you like this one" he said as he pointed his fingre at me and i tried to grabbed for it and giggled.
"yeah he's so cute and purple just like us, please can we take him please " she whined. and then looked to me again.
"sure, we'd like this one please" the man said as the lady came back to me.
"oh well look at that sweetie your going to a new family and you just got here too aren't you lucky" she cooed at me.
the lady set me down in the basket with my bear and brougth me back to the front of the big house the girl gnome set me down in the chair next to her as the male started to write on pieces of paper.
"what should we name you" she asked me while playing with my teddy bear as i snuggled it from her" she probably wasn't aware i had a name.
"well his name is jake but if you want to change it you can" the lady said from behind the desk.
"i like that name...jake, we'll keep it just as it is" the girl smiled to me as i smiled back and reached out for her.
"were all set, were taking you home with us little man" the male gnome smiled as he picked up the basket and walked out the door. they put me in the back of their car with another purple gnome in the back seat playing with a small toy.
"brad sweetie meet your new baby brother" the lady smiled as the little boy looked to me in a weird way.
"i don't like him" he said and went back to playing with his toy.
"give it time you'll learn to like him" the male gnome said. then he looked to me and grinned."you're gonna like your new home buddy, we got all your things ready for you" he said to me and turned around.?
i still had no idea who these people were but i kinda liked them a lot althought, i wished i was with my real parents but i guess these gnomes will do just fine. the whole time i was with them i keep wondering about my mum and dad and where they were? and if i would ever see them again?.
well there was the first chapter in a sad story,so sad they had to give up jake though.
