"You can't stand over her all her life." Marge said as she approached Baby standing at Josie's bedroom door. "She will be fine."

"I know but I just want to make sure." Baby told her mother as they watched Josie sleep. "She looks like a sleeping angel."

"She is an angel." Marge agreed. "You have raised her so well. I am so proud of you."

Baby reached over to hug her mother. "I learned it all from you. I love you momma."

"Oh honey I love you. I will always be here for you." Marge told her.

"I know."

"Here come sit down and try and relax." Marge suggested.

"I am so nervous and really impatient I can't wait for the phone to ring." Baby said as she walked into the living room and glanced over at the phone. "I need some air."

Baby walked out on the balcony. She had to collect all her thoughts. She was becoming emotionally tired. She couldn't take much more of this but she knew that Josie needed her to be strong.

"I think it is taking its toll on Baby." Jake said as him and Johnny sat around the kitchen table. "A person can only take so much."

"Yeah, I can imagine." Johnny said staring into his cup of coffee.

"Son, I know you have had a lot to come to terms with these past two days." Jake told him. "I admire you for stepping up."

"I had no idea. I just wish she had trusted me enough to come to me at the very beginning. I would have loved to have been there every step of he way." Johnny said softly.

Jake noticed the hurt in Johnny's voice. "She made a mistake. She didn't mean to hurt you. She was just scared."

"I know." Johnny took a sip of his coffee. "I just want to make up for all the time that was wasted with Josie. I pray I get that chance."

"Just don't hate her for it Johnny." Marge said she entered in on the conversation.

"Mrs. Houseman, I could never hate Baby." Johnny said looking up at her. "Baby is something amazing. How can you hate someone who changed you for the better?"

"Johnny now I told you to call me Marge." She said smiling at him.

"I sense some bottled up feelings there son." Jake said trying to pen point something.

"What do you mean?" Johnny asked Jake.

"With Baby." He quickly returned.

"Bottled up?" Johnny asked cautiously.

"Like there is something you want to say but won't." Jake said eyeing Johnny.

"My mind is in such a turmoil right now I can't think straight." Johnny said responding the best way he knew how.

"I can understand that." Marge said taking a seat at the table. "You have had a lot to take in; we all have.

Johnny glanced out the balcony door to see Baby sitting in her chair just staring off. "Maybe I should go check on her?"

"I think that would be best." Marge told Johnny.

Johnny slowly opened to door and got Baby's attention. "Hey."

"Hey." She responded quietly.

"What you doing out here all by yourself?" Johnny said as he took a seat beside Baby.

"Sometimes the busy noise of New York city is just the silence that you need." Baby said looking down at the traffic.

"Care to talk about it?" Johnny asked her.

"I just don't know anymore." Baby said as she twiddled with the broken piece on her chair.

"What don't you know?" Johnny asked her as he watched her closely.

"I am trying to be this pillar of strength but I don't know if I can do it anymore." Baby looked up at Johnny. "I am steps away of falling apart."

"I won't let you fall apart." He told her. "I won't."

"And I know it is selfish of me to feel this way when I need to be concentrating on Josie." Baby released a few tears at that remark.

"It is not selfish. You are doing the best you can and I think you are doing pretty well. I know I haven't been here through this whole ordeal but I know you Baby Houseman, and you are a fighter." He told her sternly. "Look at what you did for me six years ago. You fought for me. You stood up for me when no one else would. You remember?"

"Sorry for the disruption folks but I always do the last dance of the season and this year somebody told me not to. So I'm gonna do my kind of dancing with a great partner, who's not only a terrific dancer-somebody's who's taught me that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them-somebody who's taught me about the kind of person I want to be. Ms. Francis Houseman"

Baby couldn't help but recall that special night. It was a night that had remained in her heart for years. "Yeah I remember."

"So now it's the same thing. You got to fight for what you want. So you have to fight for Josie's life." He told her.

"I am so sorry Johnny about everything." Baby placed her head in her hands. "I would do it all over again if I could."

"Don't you worry about that anymore. All that guilt needs to be left in the past." Johnny reached for her hand. "It doesn't matter now."

"I have tried to be the best parent I could be for Josie, how could I let her get sick." Baby said with her heart breaking.

"It is not your fault Baby." Johnny said caressing her hand. "You are a wonderful mother."

"I know, I think about how different my life would have been if I had told you from the very start. I thought about it many times. I just wanted to get in my car and drive straight to Kellerman's. I just wanted to hear you tell me that everything was going to be okay. I just wanted to feel your strong arms around me again. You always seemed to make me forget about everything negative in life. All I knew was you back then." Baby said looking down toward the ground.

Johnny paused before he would say anything. What was Baby trying to tell him? Or was she even trying to tell him anything? "What are you saying?"

"I don't know, Johnny." Baby said rising to her feet and walked over to the railing. "My mind is a mess."

"Tell me, is there something you wanted to tell me?" Johnny asked as he joined her at the railing. "You think about us a lot?"

"Everyday." Baby sighed.

"What do you feel Baby." Johnny asked as he placed his hand at the small of Baby's back.

"I feel every emotion imaginable." Baby said wiping her tears away.

"Open your heart. Tell me what is weighing on it." Johnny said sincerely.

Baby shook her head and that let Johnny know she didn't want to talk about it anymore. "When should we tell her who you really are?

"We will know when the time is right." Johnny told her. "I am going to be in her life forever."

Everything seemed to come to a stand still when they all heard the telephone ring. Everyone's heart seemed to just beat out of their chest. Johnny and baby rushed inside as Jake picked up the phone. "Johnny, it is for you."

They all knew at that point it was the hospital calling with Johnny's results. The next few minutes seemed to drag on for days as everyone huddled together and waited for Johnny's response to the well over due news.

"Oh God, please." Baby said as she walked over to stand beside Johnny.