Chapter 29
Manny and Jay stopped arguing and looked over as soon as they heard the thud to see their niece on the floor next to her cousin trying her hardest to breath in through her mouth.
"Alyssa!" Manny screamed rushing over to where the little girl was on the ground fighting to breath.
"What's wrong with her?" Jay asked worried as he picked up his screaming son. Alyssa's fall had scared the boy.
Manny glared at Jay slightly with tears in her eyes. "She's having an asthma attack. Go get the car." she said holding the little girl close to her.
Jay's eyes widened before he nodded and rushed out the door to get the car started.
Manny picked Alyssa up in her arms. "Come on sweetheart. I know it hurts but just breath okay. We're gonna get you help." she said taking her out to the car. She got in the back seat of Jay's car next to Daniel's car seat and held her tight as Jay rushed them to the emergency room.
"I'm going to kill them!" Emma said as she stared up at the sign above the store they were supposed to go into.
Sean stood next to her chuckling. "What did you expect, Em? It was planned by Jay and Manny." he said looking at the displays in the window.
"I'm not going in there." she said not noticing her boyfriend had already gone into the store. "Sean!"
"Come on Em. Loosen up." he said looking through the racks of lingerie and found another card and handed it to Emma to read.
She rolled her eyes as she opened the card, some what scared to see what it said. "Congrats to making it this far guys. Now pick something out for each other and then model it."
Emma glared at Sean who was close to laughing again. "I'm going to kill Jay." she muttered before going to find something for Sean.
Sean smiled as his girlfriend walked off to a different part of the store. "Thank you Jay." he muttered before going to try to find something tasteful that Emma would wear.
As soon as they got to the emergency room Jay dropped Manny off by the door so she could get the girl in there while he went to park the car. Manny carried her up to the receptionist's desk.
"Please help me. My niece is almost three years old and she's having an asthma attack." Manny said with tears still in her eyes.
The nurse nodded and took Alyssa from Manny's arms to take her back in the back. Jay walked in with Daniel sound asleep on his shoulder and walked over to Manny. Manny saw him and wrapped her arms around him holding onto him tightly.
"I was supposed to be watching her Jay. She has to be okay. She just has to be." she sobbed into his chest.
Jay used his free arm to wrap around her and hold her closer to him. "She'll be fine Manny. The doctors are going to help her. She'll be fine." he whispered in her ear.
Mike's doctor was coming out from the hospital rooms when he saw them standing in the waiting room and went over to them. "Great your here. Mr. Hogart can I speak with you for a minute about your nephew?" he asked.
Jay let go of Manny and handed her their sleeping boy. "Sure doc. What is it? Is he alright?"
The doctor sighed. "Mr. Hogart can you please come with me up to Michael's room with me for a moment? If you don't mind Ms. Santos?"
Jay put a hand on her shoulder and looked down at her. Manny nodded and sat down in one of the chairs holding Danny to her. "Go ahead. I got to wait for news about Alyssa." she said quietly.
"I'll be right back." he told her and followed the doctor up to Mike's hospital room.
Back at the lingerie store in the mall Sean and Emma had made their final purchases and went back into the dressing rooms to, as the card said, model them.
"So what did you get?" Sean asked sitting in one of the chairs.
Emma sat down next to him and put the small bag in his lap. "Look and see."
Sean opened the bag and looked inside to see what she had picked out for him. "You bought me socks?" he asked taking the pair of black socks out of the bag.
Emma shrugged sheepishly. "I wanted to play it safe. Besides if business keeps going the way it has been at the garage you may need them." she told him.
Sean took off his shoes and socks before slipping on the new pair she had bought for him. He smirked and wiggled his toes a bit before sliding his shoes back on. "Alright now it's your turn." he said handing her the bag that held her gift.
Emma opened the bag and took out a beautiful blue nightgown. "Sean." she said slightly surprised by his choice.
He just shrugged. "It looks nice but it's still safe to wear around the kids. Besides I know how you feel about stuff like than and..." Emma stopped his rambling by placing a soft, sweet kiss on the corner of his mouth.
"I love it. I love you." she told him before standing up. "Be right back." she said going into the change room just as Sean's cell phone rang.
Jay followed the doctor up to Mike's room and went through all the procedures before he went in. The doctor had him come stand by the boy's bed. Thankfully the boy was sound asleep at this point.
He pulled back Mike's blanket from the boy to reveal a bunch of slight red rashes. "I just noticed this a few moments ago and was about to call Mr. Cameron when I saw you and Ms. Santos in the ER."
"Is this normal?" Jay asked staring down at the small rashes on his little nephews body. The last time he had seen the boy's skin that red was the last time the boy had diaper rash.
The doctor sighed. "Your nephew has acute graft versus host disease. The cells in his body know that his mother's shouldn't be there and they're trying to fight them off."
Jay looked at the doctor. "Is he going to be alright?"
"We're giving him drugs to fight off the disease. It is possible that it could worsen and if it does it has the possibility of becoming life threatening. We are going to try everything to prevent that though, Mr. Hogart." the doctor told him before walking out of the room leaving Jay alone with his sick nephew.
TBC...
