Carol woke when Sophia started fussing moving away from him, he was sleeping sound, she moved to the chair she was sitting in. Feeding Sophia watching his moniters for a bit, then deciding she and Sophia needed to get out of the hospital. She told the nurse to tell him they were going to the little park.
She stopped by the cafe to get a nice coffee and something to eat. She walked down to the little chapel, she found the Chaplin and had a little chat with Sophia bouncing on her hip. She told him she nearly lost Daryl and she wanted to marry him. He agreed to help her and she should come back today once she had what she needed. She thanked him and went out to the wee playground.
Then they went out to sit in the sunshine and hang out at the park for a while. The sun was shinning but it wasn't too hot. She finished her lunch, then drank down her coffee, she glanced down at her hands, they were still shaking. Her tummy was still rolling. She was nervous as hell. She pulled out her phone to call Andrea.
She had an idea of what she could do and she could bring what she needed. She also told Andrea she needed to go home tonight she didn't want to stay in the tiny room anymore she needed a decent night sleep also. She was tired, stressed out of her mind. She put Sophia in the baby swing and kept an eye on her surroundings she couldn't help but worry all the time worry that someone was going to get her or Sophia. She knew it was stupid but she was sick with worry all the time.
She loaded Sophia up into the pram and went for a walk down the town towards the court house to go see what stones they needed to move to make them getting married happen. She walked and pointed things out to Sophia and she enjoyed stretching her legs. Sophia was fussing so she picked her up putting her on her hip walking and pushing the pram with one hand.
'Your getting heavy,' Carol told her, 'I can't carry you as far as Daddy can,' she looked around she could still see the hospital behind her, she could see the signs to the court house and dug in her bag for something for Sophia to chew on. Andrea had brought some baby teething hard biscuit type things for her to chew on. She put a bib on her. Moved around moving the handles on the pram so Sophia was sitting facing her so she could chew on it and she could keep an eye on her.
She'd just buckled her in, giving her her treat when her cell phone rang, looking at the number she could see Daryl must be awake.
'Hey,' she said into the phone walking and talking pushing the pram along.
'You been gone hours,' he grumbled, she looked at her watch, she'd been gone 45 minutes.
'Lies,' Carol told him, 'Did you sleep well?'
'Yeah, you coming, where's Soph?' he asked her.
'I dropped her off at the park, with some money,' Carol told him, 'She'll be great, just fine,'
'Now I know your lying,' he told her, 'What ya doing?'
'I'm walking down the town, stretching my legs, I'll come back, at some stage,' she told him, 'I'm just doing something,'
'What?' Daryl sounded worried, 'You ok, you with someone?'
Carol rolled her eyes at his tone, like she'd gone running off with a male nurse or something. It was kinda cute in a way he was worried about that stuff even though she had been at his side for the past few days the first thing on her mind would be to take Sophia and go do something with another guy. Just a tiny bit jealous.
'Well I am with that cute blonde male nurse that's been helping you shower,' Carol told him. 'We are having an affair while you sleep,'
'I know your lying cos I can see him, what ya doing?' He asked.
'Doing something, I'll be back in a hour or so,' She told him, 'Be nice to the staff please,'
'Hmmmmm, but what are you doing?' he asked again.
'Buying tampons,' she told him, she pushed the pram up the wheel chair ramp into the court house looking around for where she should go for someone to help her with her questions and she was only half listening to him on the phone.
'Really? I think your lying,' he told her in the phone, 'Is it something bad?'
'No, its something good if you behave while I'm gone,' she told him, she then hung up the phone to leave him hanging. She really hoped he behaved and just rested while she was gone. She took a long drink of her water bottle waiting in line at the marriage licencing part, she looked around there seemed to be people waiting to get married and people applying for licences. She finally made it to the front of the cue to ask how to go about getting married explaining he was still in hospital.
She listened as she filled out the forms for them, the women told her that the hospital Chaplin could marry them. Sign the forms then she would just have to file them at the court and it would be processed. She nodded listening.
'So we could get married today?'
'Yes, if he wants to and agrees to it. He has to sign the forms show id to the Chaplin and drivers licence and your done,' she told her again. 'You want today's date and two day's after on the form?' Carol nodded, the women typed into the computer then printed out the forms she would need. She gave her the forms and the licence for the Chaplin to sign. She took Sophia into the bathroom to change her then together they went back to the hospital to see the grumpy one Carol told Sophia. Sophia just sucked her fist looking around not really caring what was happening.
