Sorry, summer school has been a drag (I chose gym as my summer course) and I started on the chapter, but I didn't like it so I restarted. So I give you this. Oh, this would have been out sooner, but I didn't have my jump drive and my New Word Document wouldn't work so I did this on Google Docs, but then it would let me save to my jump drive (once I found it) and so I had to recopy this on a Word Document (now that it finally opened.)

Chapter 36

Thriller

It's not my idea of a good time if I'm woken up at three o'clock in the morning. On top of that, it's not good to be woken up at three o' clock in the morning and your friend has urgent news.

"Hello?" I may have snapped on the person, but I think you guys would understand.

"Come quick! City now!" I thought for a second. Denny?

"Aren't you supposed to be on a date with Lanna?"

"Well…" I heard a scream.

"If you don't get off that damn phone, I will personally rip your throat out!" Okaaaayyyy?

"Was that Lanna?" The pregnant woman sounded as if she were in…. "Oh Denny, don't tell me Lanna is in-"

"Yes, and she wants all the islanders here! Can you get them?"

"It's three o'clock, but I can try." Denny thanked me and then hung up. I jumped out of bed and ran over to couch. I hit the figure sleeping on it.

"What?!" Natalie yelled.

"I need your help!" Natalie brought out her phone and looked at the time.

"Come back in six hours," she said burying her face back in the pillow.

"Lanna's in labor and she wants the islanders there! I need your help," I said. On labor, Natalie shot up. In about a minute, we had flashlights and they were lit and ready to go.

"How's this going to work?"

"You cover Chen, Gannon, and your folks. I got Mirabelle's family, Mark, Pierre, Sabrina and Shea," I said. We ran to the designated houses. I saw Natalie disappear to Chen's house and his lights go on. I pounded on Mirabelle's door. To my surprise, I saw my lovable boyfriend open the door with his eyes glazed over.

"It's three o'clock," he said plainly.

"Sorry, I have a good reason to be her-,"

"It's three o'clock in the damn morning," he said more forcefully.

"I know, but I hav-,"

"I can say even worse things than damn. Tell me why you're here," he said leaning against the doorway.

"No time to explain. In short, Lanna's in labor and I have to get the islanders for her. Go wake up your aunt and cousin soooooo go!" I ran away and to the hotel to find Mark sitting in the lobby on his phone.

"No! You can't! I don'-You're kidding me? Really? I'm not bailing you out with-bye!" He hung up and ran his hand through his hair. I ran up to him which shaken him.

"Lanna's pregnant and she's in labor so yeah! HELP!" He started to freak out as he shot up.

"What do I need to do?"

"Round up Sabrina and Pierre! I need to get Shea."

A few minutes later and a few phone calls later, we were all on the beach.

"How are we supposed to get on the city? The boats don't start coming in until six," Pierre said sporting cookie pajama pants.

"You'll see in a few minutes," I said. About five minutes later, we heard blades. I saw search lights and soon a giant metal aircraft was dropping down on the beach followed by another one.

"Are those helicopters?" Natalie asked baffled.

"A friend of my brother owes him and he owns a helicopter company so yeah. Care to hop in?" We moved to the copters. Everyone was on board except for Shea.

"Shea no trust that," he said indicating towards the copter. I grabbed his hand and pulled him towards one of the metal machines.

"I'll be right next to you so you have no need to worry," I said. Shea looked weary, but complied. If you think he was bad now, you should have seen him when he lifted off the air. Shea was not very comfortable on the flying aircraft. It may be due to the fact that he never has been on anything which involved flying through the air except hopping from trees. He was on edge as if he were ready to attack. While I was trying to calm him down, Gannon was cuddling a passed out Eliza and he was close to zoning off.

"I'll take care of her," Natalie said. Gannon thanked her and passed the sleeping girl to the pink-haired woman. Chen had already fallen asleep and Julia took the liberty to take Charlie out of his hands and cuddle him. Once Shea had calmed down, he fell asleep. Vaughn was sitting next to me and he looked like he was ready to clock out.

"Go to sleep. I'll wake you when we get there," I said. The silver-haired man nodded and made himself comfortable and soon his chest rose up and down evenly.

"Lanna David's?" She did a quick look at us then gasped when she saw Shea and Gannon. It's not every day when you see a man in a leotard and a muscle man who looked like he could break a truck easily.

"Is that man carrying a weapon and I think he needs to have more…appropriate clothing then what he currently is wearing," she said to Shea wide eyed. Shea cocked his head like a confused puppy.

"Appropriate? That mean Vaughn?" Vaughn looked at the poor boy with a little understanding.

"It means suitable or proper for the certain occasion or event," he said. Shea clapped his hands together.

"Learned new word!" He cheered. While he was in glee, I stepped forward.

"Those are his pajamas. As you can see by all of us, we are wearing our pajamas because we just arrived in the city to see our friend give birth," I said. Natalie stepped forward and on her back was a sleeping Eliza.

"So, would you be ever so kindly to tell us where her room was?" The woman nodded enthusiastically and searched through her computer

"Um, she's in room 109," she said wide-eyed. We raced to the elevator and when we arrived Lanna looked like shit. She looked like the time Natalie and I found her sick. Natalie deposited Eliza on the bed opposite to Lanna's and Julia did the same with Charlie.

"Hey guys, how'd you get here so quick?"

"Chelsea's brother's friend allowed Chelsea to borrow some helicopters," Vaughn said. Denny looked up to see us and his eyes were droopy.

"Will you excuse us for a second?" I said and motioned Denny to follow. He nodded and we left the room.

"How'd you know?"

"I'm your best friend. Now, tell Chelsea your problems," I said. Denny put his hands on his face.

"I thought I was going to die," he said. "She threatened to kill me if I didn't get her to the hospital."

"Ah, so why isn't she like this now?"

"The docs gave her some epidural and codeine and she should be fine for a while. Somehow, I really don't want that stuff to wear off," he said picking some lint off his shirt.

We walked back into the room to see Lanna smiling ruefully.

"I didn't know labor pains would be that bad," she said while Felecia and Mirabelle muttered something. I walked over to Lanna and put my hand on hers.

"How are you feeling?" She shrugged while rubbing her stomach.

"I'm fine for the most part, but the doctors gave me some medicine and I feel better," she said.

"How long until you're really due?" Natalie said.

"Well, what I experienced in the car was early labor pains, but they said I should be due in two days," she said. Suddenly, she leaned forward and grabbed her stomach. I took my hand off of hers and grabbed her shoulder.

"Lanna, what's wrong?" Felecia said.

"I'm sure the baby's coming now. Go get the damn nurse now! If you don't I'll rip your f-," I didn't get to hear her lovely vocabulary because I had already dashed out of the room and to the room next door to find a nurse. To my satisfaction, a nurse was stripping the sheets off the bed.

"Nurse!" He jumped and dropped the sheet she had in hand.

"Yes ma'am? What can I do for you?"

"My friends going into labor! Yeah so help!" He dashed out of the room and to Lanna's room with me following behind. I couldn't tell if Lanna was in pain or angry.

"Everyone step back!" He pushed the nurse's button and two more of them came running in. When they moved towards the bed, Shea whipped out his spear.

"You know hurt friend," he said menacingly. I don't know who was more shocked the nurses or Lanna. She placed a hand on Shea's arm and rubbed it.

"It's okay, Shea. They are here to help me," she said. Shea didn't look like he accepted the nurses, but he put his spear away and moved aside. Wearily, the nurses each grabbed a side of Lanna's bed and wheeled her out of the room. When they left the room, a fourth nurse came in. He seemed pretty shocked to see a bunch of people in pajamas. Maybe he became scared when he saw a man in a leotard with a spear and spotted boots.

"Does she have any family members present?" He said eying Shea as if he were about to attack, but I couldn't blame him. For all I know, Shea could attack. Denny stepped forward skittishly.

"I'm her husband," he said.

"If you'll follow me to the delivery room," he said. Denny took a deep breath, stole a quick glance at me, then followed the nurse. I watched the two children sleep for a little bit but then stepped out of the room, walked out of the hospital and into the cool breeze of the night.

"Isn't it a little dangerous for girl's to be outside at this time of night?" I turned to see Vaughn standing next to me with his hands behind his head.

"Don't be so sexist. How's everyone?"

"Everyone except for Aunt Mirabelle, Pierre, Felecia, and Sabrina are sleep," he said. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead.

"This has got me thinking," I said.

"What do you mean?"

"Would you ever want kids?" He tensed up.

"Let's not talk about this," he said. I was confused.

"Does that mean you don't want any?"

"Chelsea, please don't ask me that now," he said. I usually don't have that short of a fuse, but I felt myself heating up. Part of me knew I shouldn't have pried, but I couldn't help it.

"Why are you avoiding the question?" He let go me and walked back into the hospital. I was out there for maybe a ten minutes before going back in.

"Excuse me miss?" I turned to see a doctor.

"Yes?"

"Are you Chelsea Smith?"

"Um yes. Can I help you?" He breathed a sigh of release.

"Your friend Lanna and Denny Daniels wanted you to be the first one to see the baby. So if you'll follow me," he said. I nodded and followed him through many corridors and finally to a room.

"Is this where they are?"

"Yes, you can go ahead in," he said. I nodded and as I walked in, I took a deep breath. Denny was sitting next to Lanna on the bed and Lanna was holding a pink blanket. Denny lifted his head and smiled. Lanna also looked and smiled softly.

"Want to meet little Rosa?" I nodded slowly and walked over to them. When I go there, I peered down and saw a tannish little baby looking up at me with one blue eye and one brown eye. I smiled at the little baby.

"She beautiful," I said.

"Chelsea, they're something we wanted to ask you something," Lanna said. Lanna said this while handing me little Rosa.

"Yes, go ahead," I said looking at the baby.

"We were wondering if you'll be her godmother?" I was shocked and honored,

"Yes, I would love to," I said. I handed the baby back to Denny, thinking he would want to hold his daughter.

"Rosa this is Godmother Chelsea," Denny said. I smiled at the couple.

"Yes, I'm your godmother," I said. Vaughn walked in the room. To this day, I don't know what happened. All I know was I yelled and he yelled back. What stopped the argument was what he said.

"Vaughn what is wrong with you?" I said furious. We had ended up in the hall in the hospital and he had been walking away from me, but stopped when I said that.

"I just don't want to raise a child like how my dad raised me!" He said. "Jeez Chelsea, what the hell? Stop acting the queen of bitches. No what? I'm though with you!" He stormed out of the hospital. Time slowed. I heard the baby cry and Julia walked out.

"Chelsea are you okay? I heard yelling," she said.

"No," I said collapsing to my knees. She ran up to me.

"Why what's wrong?" Tears fell from my eyes.

"I just lost the man I loved."

When I typed this, I didn't think this was going to happen. Wow, I was shocked when I typed the last sentence. R&R.