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Bring back my Angel
Chapter 3
Finally, the hour had come. The dark enveloped every corner of the house, and the moon was just a thin silver line in the sky, which made the night even darker.
Lilo's eyes opened. She sat up slowly on her bed, not wanting to do any sound that would wake up anybody, especially Nani. She begged mentally that Sarah wouldn't cry for at least this night so she could go with Stitch. She knelt down to take out the cases with her and Stitch's things, taking care every second not to make any noise when she took them from under her bed. She hadn't put on her pajamas earlier because that way she would be already dressed up when she had to go to meet Stitch in the forest. Finally, her things were ready, as well as herself.
She felt like dying when the lift took her down. That whirr made her nervous, even though it wasn't a loud sound. Before reaching her hand forward to twist the doorknob, she tried to remember if there wasn't anything she might have forgotten. Unfortunately, she was too nervous to remember anything. Surely, everything was inside the cases and her backpack. She had made sure she hadn't forgotten a thing. Then she took a breath, decided to go out and look for Stitch.
Before closing the door, she gave a last peek inside and sighed, quite sad. This was probably the last time she would see her home in a long time…
She finally closed the door and then started going downstairs. The forest was right there, waiting for her to come in. She had to walk quite a long way, since she had agreed with Stitch to meet each other in a secluded part they knew very well: Ali'i trail. There they would make sure no one would see them leave. It was good they had got their communicators.
She sighed. Their meeting point was too far away still.
Meanwhile, a shadow went out of a spaceship and looked all around the place. It was Stitch. Lilo wasn't there yet, as he could see after a few seconds. He thought about going into the forest just for a while, but what if she didn't find him there? Maybe… sending a message to her communicator was a better idea. He pulled out the little device and wrote the message:
"Are you already on your way here?" he wrote in Turian and then let the communicator do its thing. It translated the message from Turian to English and then sent it. He leaned against the spaceship and just waited.
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-Oh my… Sarah's crying again.
Nani stood up slowly and groggily. She had thought on waking up David. After all, she was the one who always went to calm down their baby at nights, but he was too tired. She understood. His work wasn't going very calm by now. She would let him rest by now.
She walked barefoot to the crib and took in her arms the baby, shushing her comfortingly.
-Okay, okay, mommy's here… what's wrong, Sarah? What's making you cry?
Then she felt something vibrating on her arm. She held back a scream of surprise to let out a simple gasp. "What the…? What was that?" she thought alarmed. Then she felt again the same vibration. She searched for it half patiently, and then found it: a little cell phone-like device. She realized it to be Lilo's communicator. Maybe the vibration had made Sarah awoken. This girl… she loved to take away little things from everywhere. Surely she had liked the communicator and just took it. She was about to take it somewhere else when she saw something. She was curious, so she read what its screen put
1 new message.
Sender: "Stitch"
She pressed the "open message" option. She found another message.
"Are you already on your way here?" she read.
What did that mean? She went out of the message and instead entered her sister's inbox. There were more messages of Stitch… and Lilo's replies. Anger started to grow inside her once more, but then she read the last message.
"What do you think about Ali'i trail?" Had been Stitch's message. "Perfect. I'll se you there at midnight. Love you" was Lilo's reply. Her eyes widened in realization. They had escaped!
She panicked for a few seconds before realizing of something. The message she had read first… if he was asking her if she was already on her way, that meant that they hadn't met yet. She had still some time left to stop her sister. She immediately rushed out of the house and went for her jeep. There was a loud screech from the car and then she was gone.
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-Stitch! —Lilo called. She went out of the forest to find a black spaceship: Stitch was there.
Stitch lifted his eyes from the ground to see Lilo going out of the forest. He smiled widely and ran up to her. He jumped and fell into her arms, making both of them fall onto the ground. They laughed happily as he licked her face. She returned the affectionate gesture with a kiss on his nose.
-Hey, be careful! Remember I've got something important we should take care of. —Lilo reminded him as she brought her hands to her abdomen. Stitch smiled and brought his hands as well to her abdomen.
-Ih… meega remember. —he assured —. Stitch will be more careful… with da boojibu and da keedu-bu.
-Da keedu-bu? —Lilo asked —. I had never heard that word from you. What does it mean?
-Kid… son or daughter. That's what it means —Stitch explained with a big grin. Lilo could see a strange gleam on his eyes she had never seen before.
-Are you happy about this? I mean, are you happy you're going to be a father? —she asked curiously. She knew perfectly he was happy, but she only wanted to see what he would say or react like…
-Ih! Ih, ih, ih! Meega very happy! —Stitch replied, and then Lilo noticed again the same gleam. She was sure he was more than happy, and she was as well. Stitch would probably be the best father ever, for what she could see right now. She smiled and hugged him.
-I'm sure our kid is going to have the best father ever.
-And best mom ever too! Lilo going to be best mom ever! We going to be very happy family —Stitch assured as he hugged her back. Lilo's smile faded away then. Their family…
-Oh, Stitch… I really wish there was some other way to make this… I mean… I don't really want to leave. Just look at what we're doing. We're escaping! We're worrying over our own family finding us and stopping us from escaping somewhere else. I don't want to leave our Ohana…
-I know, I know… —Stitch said as he lowered his ears —Stitch no wants to leave either, but family naga wants Lilo and Stitch together…
He was distressed to see Lilo's disheartened face. He knew she didn't want to leave, and neither did he, but what else could they do? If they stayed, Nani wouldn't let them be together, and if they left, they would be always sad because they left their home. Either decision they took would bring pain in someway.
-I don't want to leave my Ohana, but I don't want to leave you either, Stitch… —Lilo spoke again. She shook her head in confusion and sighed.
-Maybe… we could just go for while… until Nani less angry? —Stitch suggested —. And then come back?
Lilo lifted her head —. Do you think it would work?
-Well… maybe… —Stitch said quite doubtful. —Maybe we could send message to Jumba to tell him why we left… —then he remembered the message he had sent earlier —Uh, Lilo? Why you didn't reply message Stitch sent?
Lilo looked at him with a puzzled gaze—. What message?
-Stitch sent message. Meega asked Lilo if she was on way here —Stitch responded.
-I didn't feel the vibrator… maybe I just put it in my backpack or somewhere else, but then I should have heard something. —Lilo said surprised. She looked for it on her pocket, and then in her backpack, but there was no sign of her communicator —. I don't have it.
-Gaba? —Stitch asked confused and quite scared too. He didn't really care if she had lost it, but he was worried about something: if she had forgotten it at home, then maybe… there was the possibility someone else had read the message.
-No, I can't find it. Maybe I just dropped it on my bed or somewhere else… —Lilo said quite worried. The same thought that had come to Stitch's mind filled hers. What if somebody… what if Nani had found it?
-Oh my… Stitch, what if Nani found it? —she asked worried. Stitch was worried as well, but he tried to calm her down.
-Naga. Probably… Nani will find communicator tomorrow, when Lilo and Stitch already gone.
-You're not gone yet, as I can see —came a voice from behind them.
-Nani! —Lilo and Stitch gasped at the same time.
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It had been almost three months since then.
They didn't escape that night. Nani had caught them right before they did anything. She had grabbed Lilo once more to make her get into her car and then had yelled several things at Stitch. She had accused Stitch of trying to kidnap Lilo. Both Lilo and Stitch cried and tried to dissuade Nani once more of making Stitch go, but the woman was as hard as a rock. After several yells and cries, Stitch left once more, this time for good. Nani was out of herself. She was so angry she wasn't acting wisely. She yelled several things at Lilo as well. Everybody woke up when they got home because of all of the yells. Lilo went to her room and cried the whole night and the next morning until she fell asleep almost at noon.
Now this morning didn't seem any different from the others. It seemed as monotonous and gray as everyday since Stitch had left. Lilo turned on her bed and covered her head with her blanket, trying to block the sunbeams that got to her face. She didn't want to leave her bed, but this time it wasn't because Stitch was there. This time she was too tired or depressed to just get out of bed and go school.
Even though she was pregnant, that didn't mean she wouldn't go school while her pregnancy would allow her to do so. Besides, her growing belly could be easily hidden if she wore a loose t-shirt. It wasn't that she was ashamed of her belly, no. She had been doing this for her own sake. She knew of how cruel teenagers can be. Last year, a girl had got pregnant, and the looks and comments about her were terrible. She had suffered enough with having to lose Stitch, and she didn't want any more suffering that would come from stupid teenagers.
-Lilo! You're late for school!
Lilo wrinkled her nose at the sound of that voice. She had been very distant from Nani since that night. Her usual smile had faded completely from her face, and the sweet voice she used to have had turned into a harsh, dark voice whenever she had to tell her something. She didn't care too much, though. She was hard to the others, but when she was alone, she would always cry, remembering Stitch and thinking about her baby. She would always bring her hands to her belly, which wasn't too noticeable unless you looked carefully at it under her loose clothes. She kept reminding herself that she still had something left to live, and that was her baby. She couldn't give up, she just couldn't. She had to be strong for the being she held inside her own being, but even though she had this kind of thoughts, she couldn't help feeling depressed at times.
After all, Stitch wasn't there for her. He had always been the only one able to take her out of her gloomy mood, but now he wasn't around. She wished she had her communicator, but Nani had it, and she would give it to her only when she had a message from the Council… that meant she never gave it back to Lilo because she almost never received anything from the Council.
She expected Nani to come into the dome at any moment, just like the other times when she didn't want to get up, but this time it wasn't so. Hours went by, and nobody came to take her to school. A little curious, she stood up and went down to the kitchen. When she entered the room, she could only see Pleakley, washing some dishes.
-Good morning, Lilo! —he said cheerfully when he noticed her. He only got a grumble as a reply.
-Why didn't Nani take me to school today? —she asked coldly.
-Uh, well, I heard her telling David that from now on, you won't go to school until the baby is born —Pleakley started —. Jumba's going to home-teach you or something so…
Lilo didn't hear the rest. She sat down on a chair and then fixed some cereal as her breakfast (mostly lunch because it was almost noon by then). When she was done, she went into the living room. There was little Sarah inside her playpen, playing with her rubber toys and her ball. Lilo looked at her before dropping onto the couch. She wondered several times what her baby would look like, and looking at Sarah would gave her some kind of feeling… it was something she couldn't explain, but it made her feel some kind of hope.
-Hey Sarah… here —Lilo said smiling as she went to the playpen. Sarah took away her eyes from her toys and then cooed happily when her aunt lifted her on the air. Lilo wrapped her niece with her arms and sat on the couch. She watched her niece with a smile on her face.
-You're a beautiful baby, you know? —she said as she lifted the baby once more. The little girl only giggled. —Yeah, you're a beautiful baby… and very beloved, too. By your Mommy, but especially your Daddy… —she said slowly, starting to lower Sarah to finally let her rest on her lap again. She wasn't really talking to Sarah. She was talking more to herself, or maybe, better said, she was talking to the baby inside her. She couldn't avoid those memories of the last night she had seen Stitch… the excitement in his eyes… the way he looked at her and then down at her abdomen, knowing there was his kid…
She stood up slowly, put Sarah back into her playpen and then dropped on the couch once more to watch TV. She flipped through the channels, but there was nothing on. At least there was nothing on that could help her forget of Stitch. She gave up and instead stood up to go to her room. She had barely stood up when her head stung. Her hand went immediately to her head to massage her temples. She had been feeling lately a lot of headaches, but this one went beyond the others. However, she kept walking to the lift, but before even reaching it, the corridor turned into a blur. She rubbed her eyes, but it was to no use. Her ears were buzzing as well, making her headache even stronger.
"What's going on?" she wondered alarmed. The walls seemed to spin around her, and then her knees went weak and she fell, hitting hard the floor. Then everything went black.
She couldn't tell how long had gone by, but when she started to regain her consciousness she heard worried voices all around her.
-Jumba, what's happening to Lilo?
-I just hope she'll get okay…
-She'll make it through. She's a very strong girl…
For a few moments, she couldn't make out the voices owners. Her head started aching again, and when she tried to sit up her body simply didn't respond. She groaned, making everybody in the room turn at her.
-Little Girl is awakening! —she could hear Jumba say, and then felt by first time the wires stuck to her wrists and skin. Then she opened her eyes. At first she didn't know where she was, but soon she realized to be in Jumba's ship.
-Oh, Lilo —she recognized Nani's voice this time. If she had had enough strength, she would have gladly pulled her sister away, but with the little of strength she had she couldn't help her sister involving her in a tight hug. Again, Lilo felt her head spinning.
-Nani, stop doing that —she mumbled weakly. Nani let immediately go of her and gave Jumba a worried look.
-I am not being sure at all. She seems to have what you humans call hypertension, but there might be something more than just that —Jumba started —. After all, Lilo's pregnancy is not what you would call normal. Inside her is whole new specie, and you could expect anything from the pregnancy period. Nothing's being sure by now, Bigger Girl.
-Oww… Jumba… Nani… somebody —they heard Lilo again and turned at her. If she had had more strength, she would have screamed of the pain that started to come from her abdomen, but she could only moan and let out some tears. She was holding weakly to her knees and crying, feeling the spasms getting stronger, and nobody knew what was happening for a few minutes.
-Oh no… —Jumba said, finally getting what was going on.
-What?! What's going on, Jumba?! —Nani asked exasperated. Everybody looked confused, except for Jumba, who went immediately to Lilo's side and started moving the things around.
-If I am being right, Little Girl is starting to have contractions —he said quickly.
-But she's barely five months pregnant! —Nani said.
-I was telling you, anything can happen! —Jumba said hurriedly as he went to Lilo's side.
-Then the baby's coming? —David asked.
-Babies, better said.
-Hey, wait a minute. Lilo…?
-Little Girl is giving birth to twins.
Hey hey hey, calm down. I'll explain everything in the next chapter, so get prepared. Hope you enjoyed! And I don't know when I'm going to update again. School has been a bit hard lately, now that I'm going to go out of middle school to finally enter high school. Phew! I'll have to get some extra time to write the next chapter.
