Chapter 3

Morning came quickly. Kelly woke up even though she really did not get much sleep. She felt the stress already at a maximum level. This was not going to easy but when was anything in her life easy.

TJ came running in her room.

"Hi mommy I am up." TJ said.

"I can see that." Kelly told him.

"Mommy, are you going to see your friend now?" TJ asked.

"In a little while I am sweetie." Kelly said.

"Why don't you go see if grandma is awake while I get dressed, ok?" Kelly asked TJ.

TJ ran out of the bedroom looking for Jackie. Kelly picked the phone up and called Dylan's cell phone.

"Hello." Dylan said.

"Dylan, its Kelly." Kelly said.

"Kelly, are you at your mom's?" Dylan asked.

"Yes I got here late last night." "Are you at the hospital?" asked Kelly.

"Yes I am." "I had to get permission for you to be with me." "The hospital said only parents." "I told them that Toni Amber's mother had died, and that a very good friend would be here with me to help." "So at the nurses station there is a badge for you." Dylan told her.

"Ok." "How are you doing Dylan?" "How is Amber this morning?" Kelly asked.

"Amber is still asleep right and me I just don't know." "I am so relieved that you are here Kelly." Dylan said.

"I will be at the hospital in about an hour." Kelly told Dylan.

Kelly hung the phone up and went and took a shower. Then she got dressed. She had breakfast with TJ and Jackie.

"Ok buddy I need to go and be with my friend." "You be a very good boy for grandma, I will call you later." "I love you." Kelly said as she kissed him on the cheek and hugged him. TJ tried to wiggle out of the hug but Kelly just held him. TJ was laughing.

"Bye mommy I love you." TJ said.

Kelly left for the hospital. As she drove there she remembered one of the last times she was there. Dylan had wrecked his car, he was on drugs and he was on life support. Kelly was so scared when she heard about him. She is at the hospital now and went to the nurse's station and told them who she was. The nurse handed her the badge and told her Amber's room number. Kelly got on the elevator and went to the sixth floor. She walked down the hallway to the room. Before she went in she looked through the window just watching Dylan sitting on the bed holding Amber.

As Kelly got closer to the door she was a bundle of nerves. She opened the door. Dylan looked up and saw her, Kelly walked over to him. Dylan smiled he put Amber on the bed again stood up and took Kelly into his arms. Kelly wrapped her arms around him. Dylan buried his face into Kelly's neck. Kelly rubbed his back as they were still in the hug.

"Dylan its ok, everything is going to be ok." Kelly whispered.

Dylan pulled away and his face was just inches away from hers. Their eyes locked on to each other Dylan gently brushed his lips on to hers. Kelly pulled away but Dylan put his finger on her lips and shook his head no. He did not want her to pull away. Dylan felt that Kelly is his only connection right now.

"Amber I want you to meet a very good friend of mine." This is Kelly." Dylan told her.

"Hi Amber it is very nice to meet you." Kelly said.

"My daddy said I am sick that is why I am here." Amber told her.

"Yes I know and I am here to help you and your daddy." Kelly told her.

"Amber, why don't you color while Kelly and I go sit over there and talk." Dylan said.

"Ok daddy." Amber said.

Kelly and Dylan went over to the chairs that are in the room.

"Kelly, I can't thank you enough." Dylan said.

"Dylan, we are friends and I told you before that no matter what I would always be there for you." said Kelly.

"But you dropped everything and came here to help me." he told her.

"Enough Dylan, I would not be here if I did not want to be here." she told him.

"What have the doctors said about treatments?" Kelly asked.

"They said we can do chemo, radiation and a liver transplant." "The cancer has not metastasized which is good." "What the doctors would like to do is give Amber chemo and control the cancer until a liver donor can be found" "Amber has been put on the national list to receive a liver but there are no guarantees." "They say that a living donor is her best opportunity for a full recovery." "Everyone has agreed to be tested and Nat is setting up a testing area at the Peach Pit." Dylan told Kelly.

"Of course I will get tested I am sure my mom will do so also." "Dylan, Amber is beautiful she looks so much like Toni." Kelly told Dylan.

Dylan smiled. Kelly just thought of how much TJ looked like Dylan. TJ has so many of Dylan's mannerisms. Kelly wanted to tell Dylan that he also has a son, but she knew she could not.

The nurse came into give Amber a bath and do some other things so Kelly and Dylan go to the waiting area.

"Dylan do you know where I can be tested to see if I am a match?" asked Kelly.

"No but you could go ask one of the nurses I am sure they would know." Dylan told her.

So Kelly did and the nurse took her to the lab. Kelly asked for a test kit so Jackie could do it. But she was going to use it to test TJ. Her mother would go down to the Peach Pit and get done there. The nurse told Kelly how to do it and then bring it back to the hospital. Kelly came back and sat next to Dylan again.

"I asked the nurse for a test kit so my mom could do it, I told the nurse I would bring it back to be tested." Kelly told Dylan.

"Thank you, Kelly not only for that but being her for us." "I know I could not do this without you now that Toni is not here." stated Dylan.

"I told you I would always be there for you nothing has changed." Kelly said and gave him a smile.

Kelly's cell phone rang she saw it was her mom. Kelly got up and answered the phone.

"Hi mom, is everything ok?" Kelly asked.

"Yes, I just have a little boy here who wants to say hi." Jackie told her.

"Hi mommy, I am having fun with grandma we made cookies." TJ told her.

"Hi sweetie, that sounds like fun." "You are being good." Kelly asked TJ.

"Yes mommy." said TJ.

"I have to go now I love you." Kelly told him.

"I love you mommy." "Bye." TJ said.

Kelly ended the call.

The nurse came out and Dylan went back into the room while Kelly was on the phone. So Kelly went back too. She saw the two of them talking.

"Kelly, my daddy said I am going to get better." Amber said.

"That is right Amber the doctors are going to help you and you will be better." Kelly told her.

Amber went for her first chemo treatment and Dylan went with her.

"Dylan I am going home to bring the test kit and have my mom do it and bring it back while Amber is getting her treatment." Kelly told him.

"Ok see you later." Dylan said.

Kelly went home and told Jackie that she was using the test kit on TJ. Kelly also asked her if she would go to the Peach Pit and do her kit there.

"Kelly, do you think TJ could be a match for Amber?" questioned Jackie.

"I don't know mom but I have to try." "Amber is one sick little girl and if TJ is a match…" Kelly could not finish the sentence.

"What if he is Kelly?" "What are you going to do?" asked Jackie.

"Mom, I don't know." "There are so many ifs right now." "I just don't know." Kelly said pensively.

Kelly explained what she was doing to TJ. She told him that her friend's little girl was very sick and many people were going to try and help her. Kelly told him that she and grandma got tested and that she wanted to have him be tested.

"Mommy, do you think I could help the little girl?" TJ asked.

"Maybe but I am not sure." "We are going to have wait and see what the test says." Kelly told him.

Kelly swabbed the inside of TJ cheek and put it in the lab test bag. She got ready to leave for the hospital again.

When, TJ said. "Mommy I will help the little girl if the test says I can."

"I know you will baby, I know." Kelly said as she gave him a hug.

Kelly went back to the hospital and brought the test to the lab. Right before she gave it to the technician she noticed the number of the donor test kit and she smiled.