Chapter 163

Alex slept most of the time after the doctor checked up on her, and her status picked up around 3PM, and the doctors and nurses were impressed by it but the doctor kept her word that she can only go home at 5PM. But the two of them made a deal that if she has to stay for the remaining two hours she is allowed to spend it with Phoebe, who by the looks of it was spending her last night in hospital something her parents were extremely grateful for.

"Are you excited about the baby yet?" Phoebe Theresa asked and Phoebe shook her head.

"But it'll be so much fun when you are a big sister, then you have someone to play with." Sita added but their granddaughter's opinion remained unchanged. Ryan and Alex went to see their daughter, and when they entered the room she was deep in conversation with her two grandmothers.

The door opened and all of them looked up, smiling. "Look who's there!"

"Mama, Dada!" Phoebe pointed towards the two of them extending her hands towards her mother, Alex walked over to sit on the bed next to her daughter, Alex poking her lips out for a kiss as Phoebe did the same and kissed her mother and she reached for her father.

"Hello my baby." Ryan smiled rubbing the tip of his nose against Phoebe's as she laughed.

"Baby." She said and pointed towards her mother.

"So you're not a baby anymore?" Ryan asked and she shook her head making her way down from his arm and walked over to the bed, where her mother was sitting and put her little chubby hand on Alex's tummy, causing them to laugh.

"Oh okay, will the baby at least be allowed to play with Barney?" Sita asked and Phoebe looked at her grandmother.

"No Gwamma." She said shaking her head and handed her mother the complimentary hospital animal they gave her, indicating the baby can play with that but she will not be sharing Barney. The doctor entered and she hid her face in her mother's lap, hugging Alex's legs.

"It's okay, Phoebe. I promise I'm not here to give you medicine." The doctor smiled and she looked up at him hesitantly until her mother nodded her head and picked her up placing her on her lap while the doctor listened to her heartbeat and lung sounds on his stethoscope. "The way things are going now it looks like she might be coming home tomorrow." Alex and Ryan looked at the doctor in disbelief. "She has been responding really well to the medication and from this point on she will only get better." He said writing things down in her file before leaving the family and the two grandmother alone.

"Did you hear that Pheebs, you're coming home tomorrow. Do you wanna come home." Ryan asked his daughter and she nodded her head viciously as her curls bounced around her head.

"So, the grandmother committee has decided that the two of you can go home and have some decent sleep. We'll stay here with her tonight and bring her home in the morning." Theresa said and Sita nodded her head to confirm. Ryan opened his mouth to try and say something but was stopped in his tracks by his mother in law.

"It is not negotiable. We wouldn't have offered if we didn't mean it." Sita answered her children honestly.

"Thank you." Ryan and Alex said in unison.

On the way home Alex texted Nimah letting her know that she is doing fine, both of them, and that Phoebe is coming home tomorrow and thanking her for spending the night. "So despite everything that has happened this week regarding our health issues." Alex started and looked over at her husband who stopped to obey a red traffic light and looked over at her with a frown not knowing where this conversation is heading.

"Yes…" He said waiting for her to continue.

"Is our trip to India still on? I'll talk to Phoebe's doctor about it tomorrow but I was so excited for you to meet everyone, and I really really want us to go." She pleaded looking up at him and giving him her best version of puppy dog eyes. "I love you, so so much." She added for more emphasis while she waited for his reply.

"Stop doing that, it doesn't work with me anymore." Ryan said trying to look past how cute she is actually looking when she looks at him with those big brown pleading eyes.

"Ryyyaaaaaaannnnnnn, pleeeaaaaasssseeee." Alex continued seeing a smile appear on her husband's face.

"Yes Alex, we can still go. If the doctor agrees to it, and if you promise to take things easy the rest of the week." He warned and laid down the ground rules but that was good enough for her as she high fived him and smiled contend.

She texted Danika to say they were still coming but that she has to be on her best behavior or their trip will be cancelled and she will not be able to see her family, and her favorite cousin in a week.

Hey guys! Short one, but this is the bridge as the next chapter I will fast forward to them getting there, and of course some drama because I like me some drama. I want to ask your ideas on the suggestion I have for what the drama will be about but I do not want to spoil it, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll like it in the next chapter. Thank you for reading.

Lovies-S