Chapter 8
"Miranda what's going on?" Jo and Sam question rushing into the hospital waiting room followed closely by Matt.
Larry and Ethan had arrived before the McGuire family and Miranda begins to explain for a third time, "Gordo's parents were at the mall when we were there and Lizzie got upset with Gordo's dad and there was yelling and then they left and the next thing we knew she was in pain. Gabriella told us to bring her here and they haven't come out to say anything yet. They'd come out if she was in labor right?"
Jo hugs Miranda, "of course they would, we'll just wait until they can tell us anything."
They didn't have to wait long Gabriella appeared in moments and stated, "she's fine, Braxton Hicks Contractions. Gordo explained what happened, about the fight with his father, I think she just got overexcited. She should be fine, but she is under strict orders not to over excite herself, it's not good for her or the babies. She needs to stay calm, and if one of you will come with me to check her out she can go home."
As parting words before Lizzie is released from the hospital Gabriella orders, "Lizzie, I realize that with only two weeks left of school you are going to be stressed out about finals, but try to keep it down to a manageable level, otherwise you are never going to make it to your due date."
"I'll try, I promise." Lizzie responds as Gordo helps her out of the wheelchair and into the waiting car.
Once everyone has arrived back at the McGuire house, with pizza, Lizzie announces, "at my appointment today we found out the sex of baby B and we are going to have two little girls."
Gordo nods as everyone comments, "and while we were trying to figure out what was wrong Gabriella ordered a sonogram and finally baby C decided to show himself..."
"Yes!" Ethan exclaims pumping his fist into the air.
Lizzie sighs and places a hand on her stomach, "thanks Ethan."
"What?" Ethan's face falls.
"I just have three very awake babies right now." Lizzie responds and feeling bad for making Ethan feel bad she says, "come here, you can feel them moving." And taking Ethan's hand she places it on a particular spot on her stomach, "feel that?"
Ethan nods in awe, "that is so cool."
"That's the little boy you wanted me to have." Lizzie states.
"Really?" Ethan asks with a bright smile, "he's going to be a soccer player."
Everyone laughs and begins to crowd around Lizzie to take their turn to feel her stomach.
"You should be sleeping." Jo insists coming down the stairs into the living room to find Lizzie with a book set on her stomach reading aloud.
Lizzie offers her mother a smile, "I tried, Gabriella said that the three of them probably wouldn't keep the same sleep patterns, and she wasn't kidding. One of them is always awake it seems."
"But you know what Gabriella said, you should be avoiding stress." Jo reminds walking toward Lizzie.
"I know," Lizzie nods, "that's what I am doing. I am rereading my notes for English."
"Aloud, I see." Jo comments.
Lizzie nods, "yeah, it helps me remember and the babies can hear me talking so I figured maybe it would make them calm down and sleep, so that I can sleep too."
"Lizzie are you going to be able to get through the school year?" Jo questions.
Lizzie offers her mother a smile, "I will Mom, really."
"Between work, and school that's enough to wear anyone out, plus you're 5 months pregnant, I don't want to overexert yourself."
"Gordo and I have been preparing for finals for a month now, we knew that we would be busy so we have been studying everything a little bit at a time. And work, it's not really a lot of work, with school winding down the movie theaters haven't really been booming, so I sit at my desk and work on homework. I can handle this Mom, I swear if I didn't think I could I would stop."
"All right sweetie, we are just concerned about you is all." Jo amends.
"I know Mom, and I didn't mean to snap." Lizzie sighs, "I wish I knew a way to help Gordo, he's really torn up about his parents. He doesn't like to show it, but I know Gordo and this is really just eating him alive."
"Your father and I see it too Lizzie. And we've tried everything we can to talk them into making peace with Gordo, but it just doesn't seem like an option. They are very firm in their beliefs."
"You mean Mr. Gordon's very firm, Mrs. Gordon wanted her husband to stop being such a jerk..." Lizzie states. "I think she misses Gordo."
Jo nods, "she probably does but if she wants to see him she knows where he is. Anyway Lizzie I'm going back to bed, please don't stay up to late."
"I won't Mom." With a kiss on the forehead Jo leaves her daughter formulating a plan.
"Who's car do you want to take today?" Gordo asks Lizzie when she comes downstairs for breakfast the next morning.
"Why don't we take separate cars?" Lizzie asks.
"Why?" Gordo asks, "I thought you had today off too?"
"I do," Lizzie nods, "but there is just something I have to take care of."
"Care to share?" Gordo questions.
Lizzie grins at Gordo, "Nope!"
"How much trouble are you going to get in?" Gordo asks.
Lizzie sticks her tongue out at Gordo and retorts, "I'm all ready knocked up, how much more trouble can I get in?"
"That was obvious avoidance of the topic McGuire." Gordo retorts and then adds, "a pizza hot pocket for breakfast?"
"Yup." Lizzie pulls open the microwave as it beeps and wrapping it in a paper towel and states, "I told Miranda I would pick her up today, so I'll see you at school."
"She's up to something." Gordo states facing Matt.
Matt nods, "totally."
"Are you sure we have any right to do this?" Miranda asks shifting nervously in her passenger seat later that afternoon as Lizzie pulls into the business district of Hillridge.
"Of course we do, besides we can't back out now, or we won't get another chance. I called her secretary this morning and she has a 15 minutes break in patients today." Lizzie responds parking her car and unbuckling her seat belt and attempting to slowly get out of the car.
"Stacie who is my next appointment?" Roberta Gordon asks her secretary after walking her last patient out of her office.
"Elizabeth McGuire." Stacie responds before turning her attention back to the screen.
"When did this come in?" Roberta questions.
"This morning actually, she said she didn't want a session she just wanted to catch you between patients, she sounded desperate, said it was really important so I told her you had 15 minutes now before your next patient."
Roberta bites her lip, "all right thank you Stacie. I wont accept any calls, under no circumstances while I am speaking with Ms. McGuire."
"All right." Stacie nods.
With that statement the door opens revealing Lizzie and Miranda, "I'll go in alone, you don't have to come."
"I'll come." Miranda offers.
"You don't have to, and I know you don't want to meddle." Lizzie states.
"But you can't go in there get over excited." Miranda reminds.
"I won't," Lizzie promises, "if you hear yelling you can come in."
"Hello Lizzie," Roberta greets, "why don't we talk in my office. Miranda if you need anything to drink ask Stacie."
"Lizzie you look…" Roberta stops once they are in the office.
"Huge." Lizzie offers.
"No…it's just…when are you due?"
Lizzie wrinkles her nose unsure of how to go about telling Gordo's mother than she was expecting triplets, "September 11th…"
"You look…" Robert seems to be searching for the right words.
"Like I'm due any day?" Lizzie asks.
"Well yes."
"I'm, well rather Gordo and I are expecting triplets."
"Oh my." Roberta's hand flies to her mouth.
"Yeah well that was the general reaction when we found out." Lizzie responds. "But that's not why I'm here."
Roberta nods, "I figured as much, you want me to see David I assume."
"Yes." Lizzie nods, "he wants to see you although he would never admit it out loud to anyone. He misses you guys and it's eating him alive, I'm not asking you to welcome him back with open arms. But even if your husband won't will you please come see him? Today's his only day off until school gets out, I think it would really make his day if you would go see him."
Roberta sighs, "my husband is still so angry with him or at himself, I haven't figure out which. But I forgave my son a long time ago. So yes, I will go see my son tonight." And with those words Roberta wraps and arm around Lizzie's shoulder and walking into her main office states to Stacie, "Stacie could you please apologize profusely to Mr. Emerson, but a family emergency came up and I have to leave early."
Stacie smiles and nods as Roberta grabs her jacket and follows the two girls out of her office building.
"Miranda what's going on?" Jo and Sam question rushing into the hospital waiting room followed closely by Matt.
Larry and Ethan had arrived before the McGuire family and Miranda begins to explain for a third time, "Gordo's parents were at the mall when we were there and Lizzie got upset with Gordo's dad and there was yelling and then they left and the next thing we knew she was in pain. Gabriella told us to bring her here and they haven't come out to say anything yet. They'd come out if she was in labor right?"
Jo hugs Miranda, "of course they would, we'll just wait until they can tell us anything."
They didn't have to wait long Gabriella appeared in moments and stated, "she's fine, Braxton Hicks Contractions. Gordo explained what happened, about the fight with his father, I think she just got overexcited. She should be fine, but she is under strict orders not to over excite herself, it's not good for her or the babies. She needs to stay calm, and if one of you will come with me to check her out she can go home."
As parting words before Lizzie is released from the hospital Gabriella orders, "Lizzie, I realize that with only two weeks left of school you are going to be stressed out about finals, but try to keep it down to a manageable level, otherwise you are never going to make it to your due date."
"I'll try, I promise." Lizzie responds as Gordo helps her out of the wheelchair and into the waiting car.
Once everyone has arrived back at the McGuire house, with pizza, Lizzie announces, "at my appointment today we found out the sex of baby B and we are going to have two little girls."
Gordo nods as everyone comments, "and while we were trying to figure out what was wrong Gabriella ordered a sonogram and finally baby C decided to show himself..."
"Yes!" Ethan exclaims pumping his fist into the air.
Lizzie sighs and places a hand on her stomach, "thanks Ethan."
"What?" Ethan's face falls.
"I just have three very awake babies right now." Lizzie responds and feeling bad for making Ethan feel bad she says, "come here, you can feel them moving." And taking Ethan's hand she places it on a particular spot on her stomach, "feel that?"
Ethan nods in awe, "that is so cool."
"That's the little boy you wanted me to have." Lizzie states.
"Really?" Ethan asks with a bright smile, "he's going to be a soccer player."
Everyone laughs and begins to crowd around Lizzie to take their turn to feel her stomach.
"You should be sleeping." Jo insists coming down the stairs into the living room to find Lizzie with a book set on her stomach reading aloud.
Lizzie offers her mother a smile, "I tried, Gabriella said that the three of them probably wouldn't keep the same sleep patterns, and she wasn't kidding. One of them is always awake it seems."
"But you know what Gabriella said, you should be avoiding stress." Jo reminds walking toward Lizzie.
"I know," Lizzie nods, "that's what I am doing. I am rereading my notes for English."
"Aloud, I see." Jo comments.
Lizzie nods, "yeah, it helps me remember and the babies can hear me talking so I figured maybe it would make them calm down and sleep, so that I can sleep too."
"Lizzie are you going to be able to get through the school year?" Jo questions.
Lizzie offers her mother a smile, "I will Mom, really."
"Between work, and school that's enough to wear anyone out, plus you're 5 months pregnant, I don't want to overexert yourself."
"Gordo and I have been preparing for finals for a month now, we knew that we would be busy so we have been studying everything a little bit at a time. And work, it's not really a lot of work, with school winding down the movie theaters haven't really been booming, so I sit at my desk and work on homework. I can handle this Mom, I swear if I didn't think I could I would stop."
"All right sweetie, we are just concerned about you is all." Jo amends.
"I know Mom, and I didn't mean to snap." Lizzie sighs, "I wish I knew a way to help Gordo, he's really torn up about his parents. He doesn't like to show it, but I know Gordo and this is really just eating him alive."
"Your father and I see it too Lizzie. And we've tried everything we can to talk them into making peace with Gordo, but it just doesn't seem like an option. They are very firm in their beliefs."
"You mean Mr. Gordon's very firm, Mrs. Gordon wanted her husband to stop being such a jerk..." Lizzie states. "I think she misses Gordo."
Jo nods, "she probably does but if she wants to see him she knows where he is. Anyway Lizzie I'm going back to bed, please don't stay up to late."
"I won't Mom." With a kiss on the forehead Jo leaves her daughter formulating a plan.
"Who's car do you want to take today?" Gordo asks Lizzie when she comes downstairs for breakfast the next morning.
"Why don't we take separate cars?" Lizzie asks.
"Why?" Gordo asks, "I thought you had today off too?"
"I do," Lizzie nods, "but there is just something I have to take care of."
"Care to share?" Gordo questions.
Lizzie grins at Gordo, "Nope!"
"How much trouble are you going to get in?" Gordo asks.
Lizzie sticks her tongue out at Gordo and retorts, "I'm all ready knocked up, how much more trouble can I get in?"
"That was obvious avoidance of the topic McGuire." Gordo retorts and then adds, "a pizza hot pocket for breakfast?"
"Yup." Lizzie pulls open the microwave as it beeps and wrapping it in a paper towel and states, "I told Miranda I would pick her up today, so I'll see you at school."
"She's up to something." Gordo states facing Matt.
Matt nods, "totally."
"Are you sure we have any right to do this?" Miranda asks shifting nervously in her passenger seat later that afternoon as Lizzie pulls into the business district of Hillridge.
"Of course we do, besides we can't back out now, or we won't get another chance. I called her secretary this morning and she has a 15 minutes break in patients today." Lizzie responds parking her car and unbuckling her seat belt and attempting to slowly get out of the car.
"Stacie who is my next appointment?" Roberta Gordon asks her secretary after walking her last patient out of her office.
"Elizabeth McGuire." Stacie responds before turning her attention back to the screen.
"When did this come in?" Roberta questions.
"This morning actually, she said she didn't want a session she just wanted to catch you between patients, she sounded desperate, said it was really important so I told her you had 15 minutes now before your next patient."
Roberta bites her lip, "all right thank you Stacie. I wont accept any calls, under no circumstances while I am speaking with Ms. McGuire."
"All right." Stacie nods.
With that statement the door opens revealing Lizzie and Miranda, "I'll go in alone, you don't have to come."
"I'll come." Miranda offers.
"You don't have to, and I know you don't want to meddle." Lizzie states.
"But you can't go in there get over excited." Miranda reminds.
"I won't," Lizzie promises, "if you hear yelling you can come in."
"Hello Lizzie," Roberta greets, "why don't we talk in my office. Miranda if you need anything to drink ask Stacie."
"Lizzie you look…" Roberta stops once they are in the office.
"Huge." Lizzie offers.
"No…it's just…when are you due?"
Lizzie wrinkles her nose unsure of how to go about telling Gordo's mother than she was expecting triplets, "September 11th…"
"You look…" Robert seems to be searching for the right words.
"Like I'm due any day?" Lizzie asks.
"Well yes."
"I'm, well rather Gordo and I are expecting triplets."
"Oh my." Roberta's hand flies to her mouth.
"Yeah well that was the general reaction when we found out." Lizzie responds. "But that's not why I'm here."
Roberta nods, "I figured as much, you want me to see David I assume."
"Yes." Lizzie nods, "he wants to see you although he would never admit it out loud to anyone. He misses you guys and it's eating him alive, I'm not asking you to welcome him back with open arms. But even if your husband won't will you please come see him? Today's his only day off until school gets out, I think it would really make his day if you would go see him."
Roberta sighs, "my husband is still so angry with him or at himself, I haven't figure out which. But I forgave my son a long time ago. So yes, I will go see my son tonight." And with those words Roberta wraps and arm around Lizzie's shoulder and walking into her main office states to Stacie, "Stacie could you please apologize profusely to Mr. Emerson, but a family emergency came up and I have to leave early."
Stacie smiles and nods as Roberta grabs her jacket and follows the two girls out of her office building.