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Jamie and Bethany were leaning against the door listening to what was going on. Sara wasn't yelling anymore, so they didn't have a clue to what was going on. They heard the sound of water running and lots of people moving around. The baby had stopped crying. They wondered at all the weird sounds they heard.
Someone opened the door and they both stumbled inside. They heard their parents laugh at them from above. They looked up. Sara was in the bed holding the new baby. Ian was sitting by her side.
"Hey, you kids need to get out of here." A nurse told them as she made them get to their feet and tried to shove them out.
"No, it's okay. They're ours. Let them see there new brother." Ian told her. Bethany and Jamie smirked at the nurse before they slowly made their way toward the bed. They went on opposite sides of her. Sara laughed slightly. It was the quietest she had ever seen them while they were awake.
Bethany leaned forward a little and touched the baby's cheek. The baby's eyes went open. Jamie and Bethany both jumped back.
"Whoa. His eyes are blue!" Jamie said.
"All babies' eyes are blue when they are born. They should be another color in a few weeks." Ian explained.
"Ohh." Bethany and Jamie said simultaneously. They moved back to the bed to watch the baby. Jamie looked up at Sara.
"Mommy, are you still going to kill Daddy?" He asked. Sara smiled, trying to keep in her laughter so she wouldn't drop the baby.
"Now why would I do that?" She asked through her laughter.
"Because you said you would. We heard you from inside the waiting room." Bethany answered. Sara laughed a little harder.
"Oh yeah. No, I will not be killing Daddy. I was just in alot of pain." She told them. "Hey, if one of you sit up here, I think you guys are old enough to hold the baby. But you have to be very, very careful."
"I wanna hold the baby first." Bethany said. She slid onto the bed.
"Hold out your hands a little more." Sara told her as she gently moved the baby into the little girl's arms. "Watch his head."
Bethany held him carefully and smiled. "He's so little." She said.
"You were that little once." Ian said.
"I was?" She asked.
"Yes, you were. Jamie was, too." He told her. Just then, they heard someone at the door.
"So that's where you two ran off to. I was waiting outside the bathroom for twenty minutes for you guys."
"Beth, Jamie...." Sara started.
"Sorry, Uncle Gabriel." They both said. Teresa let go of Gabriel's hand and ran over to the bed. She stood over Bethany looking down on the baby.
"Is this the new baby?" Bethany nodded.
"What's his name?" Gabriel asked.
"Andrew John Nottingham." Jamie announced proudly. "I came up with the middle name."
"It's a very good middle name, Jamie." Gabriel told him. Bethany looked over at him and mouthed 'Show off'. He stuck out his tongue.
"Here, give Andrew back to me now." Sara told her. Bethany lifted him up slowly and Sara took him from her. Bethany got off the bed and whispered to Teresa. Teresa smiled and nodded.
"We're gonna call him Andy." Bethany announced. Sara smiled and nodded. She looked over at Ian, who did not find it as amusing. He leaned closer to her so only she could hear him.
"That makes the names of two of your ex boyfriends."
She smirked. "Jealous?"
"Me? Never." He told her as he kissed her temple.
"Yeah, whatever." She said. "And Daniel was just a slip of your sword?"
"Exactly. Besides, it didn't kill him."
Sara rolled her eyes. "Excuses, excuses." She turned to Jamie. "You wanna hold the baby?"
He shook his head. "I'll break him." That got a laugh from everybody.
"You won't break him. And you might want to now, because your Auntie Lee and Auntie Vicky will be all over him when they get here."
"Oh, alright." Jamie put his arms out. Ian helped him take the baby from Sara. Jamie sat very still. "Hi Andrew, I'm Jamie." Jamie looked at Sara.
"He can hear me, right?"
"Somewhat, keep talking to him." Sara told him.
"Okay, so I'm Jamie, I'm you big brother. Bethany was the girl that held you earlier. She's our older sister. When you get bigger, you can help me annoy her."
"No, nuh uh! Don't listen to him, Andy!" Bethany shouted from the other side of the bed.
"Shhh." The nurses told them.
"Jamie, don't annoy your sister. Beth, do not yell." Ian told them.
"Yes, Daddy." They answered.
"Have you guys eaten yet?" Sara asked. The kids all shook their heads.
"I'll take them." Ian said. He helped Jamie give Andrew back to Sara.
"Be back soon." Sara told him. He smiled and kissed her fore head.
"Of course." Then he herded Teresa, Bethany, and Jamie to the cafeteria.
-Later-
When Ian returned with the little ones, Vicky and Lee were all over the new baby, just as Sara had predicted. Gabriel was on the other side of the room with Danny and Joey. The kids all said their greetings and sat on the floor by the bed where Gracie had been sitting with one of her dolls. Gracie looked up from amputating the doll's arm and smiled at them.
Jamie looked over to where Lee was rocking the baby. "Where is Nicky and Chris?"
"The kids are all at home." She told him. He nodded and turned to the other kids. "Let's play bubblegum."
"Okay" They answered. They put there fists out and started playing.
"Alright, let me see him now." Vicky said. Lee passed the baby. Vicky looked down at the little thing, studying his features. "I think this one's gonna look like his daddy."
"Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish, how many pieces do you wish?" They sang out. Jamie stopped at Gracie.
"Two billion!" She shouted. The girls laughed.
Jamie got annoyed. "Grace......" He whined out.
"Fine, four." She said. Jamie's fist went out.
"You did that on purpose!" He yelled.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!" They screamed on and on. Andrew began to cry.
"Quiet!" yelled one of the nurses. That shut the kids up. She turned to the adults. "I'm sorry, but the children are going to have to leave."
"Alright. We'll take them." Gabe answered. He and Joey took the kids into the waiting room. Gracie and Jamie sat on opposite sides, glaring at each other. Teresa took Beth aside.
"Beth, I did something bad." She admitted. Bethany scooted closer to her so that no one would hear them.
"What are you talking about?"
"You know when I went onto the computer?" Beth nodded her head.
"Uh huh."
Teresa looked down and started fiddling with her hair. "I emailed Uncle Jake that Auntie Sara had her baby, and he emailed back that he's coming."
Bethany looked confused for a second. "Why would that be so bad?" Teresa nodded her head to the left. Bethany looked and saw Gabriel and Joey. Her eyes went wide.
"Joey." Teresa nodded. Bethany patted her arm. "It's okay, Reese. How were you supposed to know?"
"I know, but there is still gonna be a rumble." Teresa said sadly. Bethany thought for a few moments and then shook her head.
"I can't think of anything. Well, let's at least tell my Daddy and Uncle Danny just in case they fight or something." Teresa nodded and they got up to go back to the room. Joey stopped them.
"And where are you going?" He asked them.
"I need to tell my Daddy something." She said cutely.
"Now, Beth, you know what the nurse said. I don't think you can........"
Bethany pouted and used her sad puppy look. "Pleeeeaaaaasssssseeeeeee, Joey?"
He turned his head. "Ah, ah, no you can't do that! Must not fall for it! Ah, stop it!" He told her as he moved away. She followed him around till Gabriel grabbed her shoulder.
"Now, La Femme Nottingham, you know better than that!" Bethany turned to Gabriel and sighed. He was immune to all cute looks.
"But Uncle Gabriel, it's really, really important."
"If it is that important, than tell me and I'll tell him." He told her. She looked over at Teresa, who shook her head. Beth stopped and walked away from the door, seeing that she was not getting out.
"Never mind." She mumbled. She sat down by Gracie and Teresa. She and Teresa tried to think of something, but they lost their time. To their horror, they saw Jake go by the waiting room door. Gracie jumped out of her seat and started running toward him.
"Gracie, wait!" Teresa said as she and Bethany made a grab for her. But she was already out the door.
"Hey! Gracie!" Joey followed her out of the room. Jake was about to enter Sara's room when she came running into him.
"Daddy!" She cried out joyfully. He smiled and picked her up.
"Hey, there. I'm glad to see you." He gave her a big hug. By then, Joey had caught up. He looked Jake up and down. Not knowing who he was, Joey grabbed Gracie away from Jake.
"Who the hell are you?" He asked suspiciously. Gracie struggled with Joey till he put her down.
"Don't be worried Joey, he's my Daddy." She told him.
"Yeah, I'm her Dad. Who are you?!" Jake snapped at him. Gracie tapped at his hand.
"Don't be mean Daddy. This is Joey. He's mommy's boyfriend."
"Mommy's boyfriend?" Just then, a nurse opened the door to leave. Everyone in the room all spotted them standing in the door way.
"Hey, come in." Danny called out to them, and they did. Vicky looked between Jake and Joey. She suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Jake avoided her and looked at Sara.
"Hey, congratulations, Sara, Ian." He said trying to make the best of it. Ian and Sara both said their thanks. He took a minute or two to hold Andrew, agreeing with everybody else he looked like his daddy.
They chatted a little, but whenever Jake looked at Joey, he glared. It made Joey as uncomfortable as Vicky. When Vicky spotted it, she shut her mouth in anger. When he continued doing it, she dragged him outside the room for a second.
"What is your problem?" She asked him, hands on hips and head titled.
"What?" He asked, shrugging.
"Don't give me that, I saw you! Stop glaring at him!"
"Why didn't you say you had a boyfriend?"
"Because it is none of your business. And why do you even care?" Vicky was getting really upset, as was Jake. Neither was ready to back down.
"We're not even divorced yet."
"But we are getting one. So leave him alone."
"I don't want him here!"
"So who gives a damn what you want? Why..." The door opened then. Gracie looked up at them.
"Stop! You said you would stop, but your not! Why do you always do this?! Why can't you just get along?!" She yelled up at them. They stared down at her speechless. She went pass both of them and went to go sit in the waiting room with the other kids.
Vicky went to go follow, when someone grabbed her shoulder. It was Lee.
"Let me." Vicky was about to say no when she remembered that lately Gracie listened more to Lee than her. It was probably since Gracie now spent most of her time there. She nodded.
Lee followed her into the waiting room. The other kids were keeping their distance. Gracie sat in the corner. Her legs were up and her head was buried in her knees. Lee sat down next to her.
"Grace?"
"They fight again. They always fight. I don't like fighting." She said quietly.
"I know you don't, Grace."
"I hate them both!" She cried out angrily. Lee put her arm around her.
"Oh, don't say that. You don't mean it."
"Yes, I do."
"No, no. You don't hate, that's at bad as fighting. You love your parents very much, and they both love you."
"But they don't love each other! Not like you and Uncle Danny, or Uncle Ian and Auntie Sara! That's why they are getting a divorce."
"But Grace, it will get better cause of it."
"I don't see a difference from how it is now that they are separated than from when they weren't" She said quietly. She lifted her head up and she was crying. Lee pulled a tissue out of her pocket and handed it to her.
"Grace, did I ever tell you that my parents got a divorce, too?"
"They did?" Gracie asked as she wiped her eyes.
"Yep. They were just like your parents. They yelled all the time, threw things, argued late into the night. It was a relief when they got a divorce, but I was mad at them, just like you are."
"You were?"
"Uh huh. I couldn't understand why they were doing this. Parents are supposed to love each other forever. When my Mom got remarried, I got really angry at her. It really did mean she no longer loved my Dad. But after a while, I came to learn something."
"What?"
"If my parents had stayed married, they both would have been miserable for the rest of their lives. And with them miserable, I would have been miserable, too. My mother was so happy with her new husband. They never argued and everything was a lot more peaceful. My Father yelled a lot less and he seemed happier, too. The only person who was still upset was me.
Gracie, we can't stay mad at them because they are only doing what they think is best for everyone. Including us. I know you're mad because they aren't like your friends' parents, but they wouldn't be doing it unless they had to."
"But they keep arguing."
"That will get better, too. They don't have many of the problems they had when they were married anymore. In time, they'll learn not to argue at all. But it all takes time. But don't hate them for it, because they love you very much and are trying to make it better, okay?"
"Okay, Auntie Lee."
"You want to go apologize for yelling?" She asked. Gracie nodded.
"Thanks Auntie Lee." Lee smiled and took her hand and led her back to the room. Vicky and Jake were sitting quietly.
Gracie stood before them. "Mommy, Daddy, I'm sorry I yelled at you."
"It's okay Gracie." They both said. Jake took Gracie and put her on his lap. "We're sorry, too. For fighting. I know this has all been very hard for you, but it will be better. It's going to be a while before things settle down, and me and Mommy will probably still fight, but we'll get better at it. Okay?"
"Okay."
After this final conclusion, there was finally some peace in the hospital.
Coming Attractions:
Not as it Seems
Jamie and Bethany were leaning against the door listening to what was going on. Sara wasn't yelling anymore, so they didn't have a clue to what was going on. They heard the sound of water running and lots of people moving around. The baby had stopped crying. They wondered at all the weird sounds they heard.
Someone opened the door and they both stumbled inside. They heard their parents laugh at them from above. They looked up. Sara was in the bed holding the new baby. Ian was sitting by her side.
"Hey, you kids need to get out of here." A nurse told them as she made them get to their feet and tried to shove them out.
"No, it's okay. They're ours. Let them see there new brother." Ian told her. Bethany and Jamie smirked at the nurse before they slowly made their way toward the bed. They went on opposite sides of her. Sara laughed slightly. It was the quietest she had ever seen them while they were awake.
Bethany leaned forward a little and touched the baby's cheek. The baby's eyes went open. Jamie and Bethany both jumped back.
"Whoa. His eyes are blue!" Jamie said.
"All babies' eyes are blue when they are born. They should be another color in a few weeks." Ian explained.
"Ohh." Bethany and Jamie said simultaneously. They moved back to the bed to watch the baby. Jamie looked up at Sara.
"Mommy, are you still going to kill Daddy?" He asked. Sara smiled, trying to keep in her laughter so she wouldn't drop the baby.
"Now why would I do that?" She asked through her laughter.
"Because you said you would. We heard you from inside the waiting room." Bethany answered. Sara laughed a little harder.
"Oh yeah. No, I will not be killing Daddy. I was just in alot of pain." She told them. "Hey, if one of you sit up here, I think you guys are old enough to hold the baby. But you have to be very, very careful."
"I wanna hold the baby first." Bethany said. She slid onto the bed.
"Hold out your hands a little more." Sara told her as she gently moved the baby into the little girl's arms. "Watch his head."
Bethany held him carefully and smiled. "He's so little." She said.
"You were that little once." Ian said.
"I was?" She asked.
"Yes, you were. Jamie was, too." He told her. Just then, they heard someone at the door.
"So that's where you two ran off to. I was waiting outside the bathroom for twenty minutes for you guys."
"Beth, Jamie...." Sara started.
"Sorry, Uncle Gabriel." They both said. Teresa let go of Gabriel's hand and ran over to the bed. She stood over Bethany looking down on the baby.
"Is this the new baby?" Bethany nodded.
"What's his name?" Gabriel asked.
"Andrew John Nottingham." Jamie announced proudly. "I came up with the middle name."
"It's a very good middle name, Jamie." Gabriel told him. Bethany looked over at him and mouthed 'Show off'. He stuck out his tongue.
"Here, give Andrew back to me now." Sara told her. Bethany lifted him up slowly and Sara took him from her. Bethany got off the bed and whispered to Teresa. Teresa smiled and nodded.
"We're gonna call him Andy." Bethany announced. Sara smiled and nodded. She looked over at Ian, who did not find it as amusing. He leaned closer to her so only she could hear him.
"That makes the names of two of your ex boyfriends."
She smirked. "Jealous?"
"Me? Never." He told her as he kissed her temple.
"Yeah, whatever." She said. "And Daniel was just a slip of your sword?"
"Exactly. Besides, it didn't kill him."
Sara rolled her eyes. "Excuses, excuses." She turned to Jamie. "You wanna hold the baby?"
He shook his head. "I'll break him." That got a laugh from everybody.
"You won't break him. And you might want to now, because your Auntie Lee and Auntie Vicky will be all over him when they get here."
"Oh, alright." Jamie put his arms out. Ian helped him take the baby from Sara. Jamie sat very still. "Hi Andrew, I'm Jamie." Jamie looked at Sara.
"He can hear me, right?"
"Somewhat, keep talking to him." Sara told him.
"Okay, so I'm Jamie, I'm you big brother. Bethany was the girl that held you earlier. She's our older sister. When you get bigger, you can help me annoy her."
"No, nuh uh! Don't listen to him, Andy!" Bethany shouted from the other side of the bed.
"Shhh." The nurses told them.
"Jamie, don't annoy your sister. Beth, do not yell." Ian told them.
"Yes, Daddy." They answered.
"Have you guys eaten yet?" Sara asked. The kids all shook their heads.
"I'll take them." Ian said. He helped Jamie give Andrew back to Sara.
"Be back soon." Sara told him. He smiled and kissed her fore head.
"Of course." Then he herded Teresa, Bethany, and Jamie to the cafeteria.
-Later-
When Ian returned with the little ones, Vicky and Lee were all over the new baby, just as Sara had predicted. Gabriel was on the other side of the room with Danny and Joey. The kids all said their greetings and sat on the floor by the bed where Gracie had been sitting with one of her dolls. Gracie looked up from amputating the doll's arm and smiled at them.
Jamie looked over to where Lee was rocking the baby. "Where is Nicky and Chris?"
"The kids are all at home." She told him. He nodded and turned to the other kids. "Let's play bubblegum."
"Okay" They answered. They put there fists out and started playing.
"Alright, let me see him now." Vicky said. Lee passed the baby. Vicky looked down at the little thing, studying his features. "I think this one's gonna look like his daddy."
"Bubble gum, bubble gum, in a dish, how many pieces do you wish?" They sang out. Jamie stopped at Gracie.
"Two billion!" She shouted. The girls laughed.
Jamie got annoyed. "Grace......" He whined out.
"Fine, four." She said. Jamie's fist went out.
"You did that on purpose!" He yelled.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!" They screamed on and on. Andrew began to cry.
"Quiet!" yelled one of the nurses. That shut the kids up. She turned to the adults. "I'm sorry, but the children are going to have to leave."
"Alright. We'll take them." Gabe answered. He and Joey took the kids into the waiting room. Gracie and Jamie sat on opposite sides, glaring at each other. Teresa took Beth aside.
"Beth, I did something bad." She admitted. Bethany scooted closer to her so that no one would hear them.
"What are you talking about?"
"You know when I went onto the computer?" Beth nodded her head.
"Uh huh."
Teresa looked down and started fiddling with her hair. "I emailed Uncle Jake that Auntie Sara had her baby, and he emailed back that he's coming."
Bethany looked confused for a second. "Why would that be so bad?" Teresa nodded her head to the left. Bethany looked and saw Gabriel and Joey. Her eyes went wide.
"Joey." Teresa nodded. Bethany patted her arm. "It's okay, Reese. How were you supposed to know?"
"I know, but there is still gonna be a rumble." Teresa said sadly. Bethany thought for a few moments and then shook her head.
"I can't think of anything. Well, let's at least tell my Daddy and Uncle Danny just in case they fight or something." Teresa nodded and they got up to go back to the room. Joey stopped them.
"And where are you going?" He asked them.
"I need to tell my Daddy something." She said cutely.
"Now, Beth, you know what the nurse said. I don't think you can........"
Bethany pouted and used her sad puppy look. "Pleeeeaaaaasssssseeeeeee, Joey?"
He turned his head. "Ah, ah, no you can't do that! Must not fall for it! Ah, stop it!" He told her as he moved away. She followed him around till Gabriel grabbed her shoulder.
"Now, La Femme Nottingham, you know better than that!" Bethany turned to Gabriel and sighed. He was immune to all cute looks.
"But Uncle Gabriel, it's really, really important."
"If it is that important, than tell me and I'll tell him." He told her. She looked over at Teresa, who shook her head. Beth stopped and walked away from the door, seeing that she was not getting out.
"Never mind." She mumbled. She sat down by Gracie and Teresa. She and Teresa tried to think of something, but they lost their time. To their horror, they saw Jake go by the waiting room door. Gracie jumped out of her seat and started running toward him.
"Gracie, wait!" Teresa said as she and Bethany made a grab for her. But she was already out the door.
"Hey! Gracie!" Joey followed her out of the room. Jake was about to enter Sara's room when she came running into him.
"Daddy!" She cried out joyfully. He smiled and picked her up.
"Hey, there. I'm glad to see you." He gave her a big hug. By then, Joey had caught up. He looked Jake up and down. Not knowing who he was, Joey grabbed Gracie away from Jake.
"Who the hell are you?" He asked suspiciously. Gracie struggled with Joey till he put her down.
"Don't be worried Joey, he's my Daddy." She told him.
"Yeah, I'm her Dad. Who are you?!" Jake snapped at him. Gracie tapped at his hand.
"Don't be mean Daddy. This is Joey. He's mommy's boyfriend."
"Mommy's boyfriend?" Just then, a nurse opened the door to leave. Everyone in the room all spotted them standing in the door way.
"Hey, come in." Danny called out to them, and they did. Vicky looked between Jake and Joey. She suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Jake avoided her and looked at Sara.
"Hey, congratulations, Sara, Ian." He said trying to make the best of it. Ian and Sara both said their thanks. He took a minute or two to hold Andrew, agreeing with everybody else he looked like his daddy.
They chatted a little, but whenever Jake looked at Joey, he glared. It made Joey as uncomfortable as Vicky. When Vicky spotted it, she shut her mouth in anger. When he continued doing it, she dragged him outside the room for a second.
"What is your problem?" She asked him, hands on hips and head titled.
"What?" He asked, shrugging.
"Don't give me that, I saw you! Stop glaring at him!"
"Why didn't you say you had a boyfriend?"
"Because it is none of your business. And why do you even care?" Vicky was getting really upset, as was Jake. Neither was ready to back down.
"We're not even divorced yet."
"But we are getting one. So leave him alone."
"I don't want him here!"
"So who gives a damn what you want? Why..." The door opened then. Gracie looked up at them.
"Stop! You said you would stop, but your not! Why do you always do this?! Why can't you just get along?!" She yelled up at them. They stared down at her speechless. She went pass both of them and went to go sit in the waiting room with the other kids.
Vicky went to go follow, when someone grabbed her shoulder. It was Lee.
"Let me." Vicky was about to say no when she remembered that lately Gracie listened more to Lee than her. It was probably since Gracie now spent most of her time there. She nodded.
Lee followed her into the waiting room. The other kids were keeping their distance. Gracie sat in the corner. Her legs were up and her head was buried in her knees. Lee sat down next to her.
"Grace?"
"They fight again. They always fight. I don't like fighting." She said quietly.
"I know you don't, Grace."
"I hate them both!" She cried out angrily. Lee put her arm around her.
"Oh, don't say that. You don't mean it."
"Yes, I do."
"No, no. You don't hate, that's at bad as fighting. You love your parents very much, and they both love you."
"But they don't love each other! Not like you and Uncle Danny, or Uncle Ian and Auntie Sara! That's why they are getting a divorce."
"But Grace, it will get better cause of it."
"I don't see a difference from how it is now that they are separated than from when they weren't" She said quietly. She lifted her head up and she was crying. Lee pulled a tissue out of her pocket and handed it to her.
"Grace, did I ever tell you that my parents got a divorce, too?"
"They did?" Gracie asked as she wiped her eyes.
"Yep. They were just like your parents. They yelled all the time, threw things, argued late into the night. It was a relief when they got a divorce, but I was mad at them, just like you are."
"You were?"
"Uh huh. I couldn't understand why they were doing this. Parents are supposed to love each other forever. When my Mom got remarried, I got really angry at her. It really did mean she no longer loved my Dad. But after a while, I came to learn something."
"What?"
"If my parents had stayed married, they both would have been miserable for the rest of their lives. And with them miserable, I would have been miserable, too. My mother was so happy with her new husband. They never argued and everything was a lot more peaceful. My Father yelled a lot less and he seemed happier, too. The only person who was still upset was me.
Gracie, we can't stay mad at them because they are only doing what they think is best for everyone. Including us. I know you're mad because they aren't like your friends' parents, but they wouldn't be doing it unless they had to."
"But they keep arguing."
"That will get better, too. They don't have many of the problems they had when they were married anymore. In time, they'll learn not to argue at all. But it all takes time. But don't hate them for it, because they love you very much and are trying to make it better, okay?"
"Okay, Auntie Lee."
"You want to go apologize for yelling?" She asked. Gracie nodded.
"Thanks Auntie Lee." Lee smiled and took her hand and led her back to the room. Vicky and Jake were sitting quietly.
Gracie stood before them. "Mommy, Daddy, I'm sorry I yelled at you."
"It's okay Gracie." They both said. Jake took Gracie and put her on his lap. "We're sorry, too. For fighting. I know this has all been very hard for you, but it will be better. It's going to be a while before things settle down, and me and Mommy will probably still fight, but we'll get better at it. Okay?"
"Okay."
After this final conclusion, there was finally some peace in the hospital.
Coming Attractions:
Not as it Seems