CHAPTER 10 – Waiting and Thinking
After she had been crying for about ten minutes. The door to the room we were stood outside of, the door to Junior's room opened. We both rushed towards the doctor that was exiting the room. He motioned for us to move away from the door so the nurses could exit then he began "Dominic has measles but he will recover. He doesn't have the rash yet so we have caught it early he's going to be fine"
"Oh thank god," Stacey said turning and burying her face in to my chest.
The doctor smiled at her relief then continued "he's going to have to stay in here for a few days" he explained "he isn't severe as it could be for children of his age, everything seems to working in his favour and he should recover nicely"
"So nothing else can go wrong?" I asked
"Sometimes young children get ear infections, and diarrhoea but he doesn't have any of them symptoms so I think we caught it in time" the doctor told us. "You did the right thing to bring him in," he said patting Stacey on the back as he passed her.
"Can we go see him?" Stacey asked urgently
"Of course, he's sleeping, try not to wake him," he said.
We rushed in to his room. He had tubes in his nose and one coming from the top of his hand. There were machines beeping every few seconds yet he was still sleeping. He looked so small lying there, so young, and I guess he was but he looked so different. I felt like I had failed, I hadn't protected him, like I had protected his mom; I hadn't stopped him from hurting, from pain. What kind of father was I? My dad would have been so disappointed in me.
Stacey pulled the chair that was against the back wall to the side of Junior's bed and sat down holding his tiny hand, tears filled her eyes again but she didn't let them fall this time "I'm gonna go phone the guys. Tell them what's going on" she just nodded, I think if she spoke she'd begin to cry again so she just nodded till I began to walk towards the door.
I called Mia and explained what the doctor had told us. She said that they would all come over in the morning. Give us some time with him make sure he'd be up for visitors.
I found a vending machine on my way back to the room; I had some lose change in my pocket so I got me and Stacey both a cup of coffee. I handed it to her standing behind her.
"Thanks" she said taking the plastic cup and smiling slightly."He's gonna be ok" I told her putting my hand on her shoulder."I know," she said sniffing back tears again. "He was born like a month early you know, had a hole in his heart too, we had to stay in the hospital for like two and a half months till he was better." She was staring in to space just telling me this, I didn't know why she was telling me, but it seemed like it was something she needed to get off her chest, so I just listened with him hand on her shoulder."I sat in my bed every night after the nurse would come to take him to a different room so he could be observed during the night and I'd just sit there and think about what it would be like when I got him home. Like playing with him, bathing him, buying him new toys, taking him down the supermarket, just the usual every day stuff and I never thought it was going to happen, he was really ill and they said he only had an 60 chance of living. But then I remembered that you didn't know, and I kicked myself and hated myself for not telling you, I wanted you beside me in that hospital room, I wanted you to hold me close and tell me he was going to be alright, tell me he was gonna make it, that we were gonna get to do all them things with him, I wish I had told you Dom I really do and I'm so sorry I never"
I leaned closer to her put my arms around her neck and held her close to me "he's going to be alright, he's going to make it and we are gonna get to do all them things with him, together" I said squeezing her. She smiled and kissed my arm that was around her.
The engines revved and everyone screamed and shouted as their excitement grew. Stacey was holding my hand leading me through the crowds of people Leon, Vince, Letty and Jesse weren't far behind us. It was the first time any of us had been to a street race, the atmosphere was mind blowing but when we saw the cars I was in love, possibly more than I loved Stacey.
Stacey introduced us all to Hector as he exited a black Nissan that was lined up with the other three cars that looked equally as good. "hey, it's about time you got back to some business" Hector said hugging her.
"what can I say? Just cant keep away" she said taking the keys off him.
"what's going on?" I asked taking her arm to stop her from getting in to the car.
"You know I said we had to move here cause I got in to a little trouble in California?" she asked "this is it. But what my mom doesn't realise is that it's worse here…ah the sweet naivety of my mom!" she sighed happily. I chuckled.
She raced that night and won took us all out for a meal and drinks. Her dad had left two weeks ago and she was finally back to herself.
That night was the first day of the rest of my life and I didn't look back …till now.
Stacey was asleep on me in the hospital the doctors had come back in to Juniors room and told us they need to do some more tests and asked us to wait outside. Stacey had put her head on my shoulder and by the time the doctors had said we could go back in she was asleep. I didn't want to wake her so I sat and thought about things.
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"I guess it's my fault," she interrupted "I was stupid to think you could change, that you wanted to change"
"I want to be with you a Junior I do but…"
"but the racing is still in you I get it," she interrupted again "it's still in me too but I don't have the luxury of choosing whether to do it or not""Cause you had Junior right?" I asked "I don't know what I'm gonna do when I get down there there's more going on than you know"
"What else is going on?" she asked me
"nothing you need to worry about" I told her"Dom don't tell me half a story tell me what's going on?" she said angrily.
"Letty's pregnant" I sighed
