"How is Sofia doing?"
"She's okay. Still in shock...I'm guessing, but she still calls or texts one of us every day. And..." Noah trailed off.
"She wants to meet you both, get out of the city..." Tyler looked down.
"And what?" Liv asked, knowing full well that Tyler was not at all telling her the whole story.
"Is she in trouble too?" Rafael asked.
"No, but..." Noah said.
"Mijo spit it out, already!" Raf said, rather annoyed...well, annoyed and possibly worried at this point.
Noah and Tyler looked at each other, then back at Raf and Liv.
"Papi, you and Mami are going to have a granddaughter in about 2 1/2-3 months," Noah said.
"Wait a minute...WHAT?" Raf asked.
"Yeah, um. What he said...WHAT?" Liv followed immediately after her husband.
"Yeah, she just graduated from Fordham. She and Zach were going to come and tell you after she graduated, that Zach proposed and she said yes." Noah said.
Rafael was beside himself, and Liv looked like she was in shock. Raf stood up and started to pace...first back and forth and then in a circle, eyes starting to rim with tears, while Liv looked at the floor at first...stunned, but then followed her husband's walk around to nowhere in particular.
"Sorry, Papi." Noah said, steeling for the rush of emotions he expected were about to hit both of his parents.
Rafael stopped pacing, put his hands on his waist and looked at Liv, then at Tyler, and finally at Noah,
"It's okay. It's okay… I mean we're all going to be OK now. Alright? We have a niece, and I guess now….now we're going to have a granddaughter as well to remember him by. That's a miracle isn't it Liv?"
Liv looked around at everyone with tears streaming down her face, as she watched her husband processing this information in such a healthy way. Inside she was at once thrilled and shattered, but there was no way in hell that she would let ANYONE in that room, in that moment, know any of that. All she wanted them to know was that they were all family, they were all together and all, and always in it together, and that's all that mattered.
Noah and Brook went to sit on the couch, Brook beside Liv, Noah beside Rafael, and Tyler and Jr. on the floor.
"Sophia knows we came up, I can go back to New York and get her if she still wants to come. She has no one." Tyler said.
"That would be wonderful if she is up for the trip," Liv said.
"She is wanting to move here to be close to you and Papi." Noah said.
"Well Tyler, please if you don't mind, can you please see if she still does want to come out here? If so we will help her in any, and every way we can. She is and will always be family, mi familia." Raf said.
Happy to see the reaction from both Liv and Rafael, Tyler said,
"I'll go call her right now and tell her that you're both ecstatic…" After hearing the word leave his lips,
he quickly said, "Um...I mean."
"We are, Tyler." Raf said
Tyler smiled and said,
"I know I just…"
"It's OK, Tyler, just call and see what she says." Liv smiled.
Tyler got up and went upstairs to call.
"Our familia keeps getting surprises...either bad or good." Raf said, laying his head on Liv's shoulder.
"Yes, but everything happens for a reason, Rafa."
Rafa nuzzled into Liv's neck to let her know he agreed, and while they didn't know what the future held for them and their family, at least he knew, and she knew, that they'd be facing it together; and considering just how different his life could have turned out those many years ago, just knowing this, was somehow enough...at least for this moment in time.
