Half an hour later, Onita and Little Grace walked in, Alex was no closer to sleep than he was before.
"The movies make it look easy to hail a cab in this city," Onita said with a grim smile.
"It is in lower Manhattan, the hard thing is getting the cab to move," Mr Wolff said joking.
"Here's your bear Alex," Little Grace said giving Alex Ted E Bear.
Alex smiled slightly and hugged his bear. He then shuffled over a little bit to give Little Grace room to sit down beside him.
"Wanna lollipop?" Alex asked lethargically.
Little Grace lay down beside Alex.
"Thanks Alex, she said taking one.
"Can you open one for me?" Alex asked quietly.
"Yeah sure," she said opening the one she had and giving it to Alex before grabbing another one.
Alex and Little Grace spent the next five minutes eating their lollipops.
"Can you tell me a story?" Alex asked his dad when he had finished.
"About what Alex?" he asked quietly.
"Mom…" Alex said shortly.
Mr Wolff looked at Onita.
"Well Alex, your mom and I were best friends," Onita started off. "I was there when she gave birth to you. She loved you the moment you were born."
Alex put all the energy he could into listening.
"She had a love for music, which is one of the most important things she passed onto you. Most parents think it's cute when their kids started making noise with the pots and pans. But your mom would quite happily sit down with you for hours on end teaching you how to make music out of it,"
Alex smiled slightly.
"Nat told me about that yesterday," He said weakly.
"Your dad shot some videos of it, if you want to see it when you get home," She said quietly.
"What did the videos do?" Alex asked confused.
"She means your dad filmed you and your mom doing that," Little Grace whispered in Alex's ear.
"I wanna see them," Alex whined.
"You can once you get home," Mr Wolff said gently.
Alex slowly got up off the bed.
"Lets go," Alex said readily.
No one moved.
"Alex, you can't go home today, remember?" Mr Wolff said quietly.
Alex sunk to the floor and begun crying..
Mr Wolff crouched down beside Alex and held his head to his chest and began stroking his hair. He knew Alex would feel better after sleep, unfortunately for all of them Alex couldn't get to sleep.
"Don't worry Alex, we'll all sit down and watch tomorrow when we get home," Mr Wolff said as he continued to stroke Alex's hair.
"I want to watch it now, and I want to go home," Alex said crying
Onita crouched down to Alex, "What if I told you more stories about your mom in the mean time."
Alex cried for a couple more minutes, before he looked at Onita and nodded.
They helped Alex back onto his bed. Mr Wolff disappeared for a couple of minutes returning with a couple of sodas for Alex and Little Grace.
"Just after you turned one, in fact it was Nat's birthday, your mom got Nat a skateboard, because he wanted one. Unfortunately Nat never got a chance to use it, because you would use it and roll around the house on it. You got very possessive of that board and you wouldn't let anyone near it, not even Nat. After you gave Nat a fat lip he gave up and your mom got him something else. Once you were confident on your feet you skated everywhere instead of walking," Onita told Alex.
As hard as Alex tried to imagine he found himself unable to do so.
Onita was about to tell Alex another story when the nurse walked in.
"Were going to be running some antibiotics through an IV to hopefully clear up the infection." The nurse explained. "Alex, I'm going to need you to sit up"
Little Grace got off the bed and Alex slowly sat up, he leaned against the raised head of the bed and began whimpering.
"Still feeling sore Alex?" The nurse asked kindly.
Alex nodded.
Mr Wolff wished he had remembered to bring along Alex's painkillers, when he saw Onita pull them out of her pocket.
"I think it's time he had another one of these," She said and passed the container to the nurse.
The nurse looked at the container, reading the directions before taking one out and giving to Alex. Mr Wolff then gave Alex a cup of water for Alex to wash it down.
"Ok, can I have your left arm?" The doctor asked.
Alex cried a bit as he raised both arms to see which one his left one was. The nurse gently grabbed his unburnt arm and Alex relaxed is burnt arm.
"You might feel a small sting," The nurse said as she inserted the IV line before taping it to his arm.
Alex wasn't concerned, his burns still hurt more. The nurse then attached the antibiotics to the IV, before leaving.
Mr Wolff looked at his watch.
"Alex, I'm going to go pick up Nat," Mr Wolff said quietly.
"No, I want you to stay here," Alex whined.
"I'll be back before you know," Mr Wolff said trying to reassure his son.
"Please don't leave me," Alex said crying.
Mr Wolff went up to Alex and stroked his hair again.
"Hey little buddy, Do you want me to get something while I am out?"
"I don't want you to go," Alex sobbed.
"Onita and Little Grace will still be here, and your brother will be worried about you," Mr Wolff said softly and kissing Alex.