I got woken up by a doctor and a nurse who walked in the room. I forgot where I was for a moment and looked over at the doctor who was not at the side of Erika's crib. Her monitors were taken off of her so I didn't know what to think. I couldn't take my eyes off of Erika's crib.

"Is she ok?" I asked the doctor trying not to thing the worse.

"She's perfectly fine, we're putting ice packs on her to try to lower her fever faster while trying not to wake her." She whispered

I let out a sigh of relief. "Oh, is she still able to be released tomorrow?" I asked

"I don't see why she wouldn't, her fever is at 102ºF and it's midnight we need her temperature to be 96.4ºF by 4am, if it is and her temperature doesn't rise past 97ºF she'll be released at 4pm. " She whispered

"What's going on?" Eli said groggily causing me to jump I had forgotten he stayed.

"The doctors are just checking on Erika, don't worry she's fine lets go back to sleep" I told Eli as I went to lay down

"As long as she's ok and we have nothing to worry about." Eli whispered "Do we have anything to worry about?" Eli asked the doctor

"No I think you and mom should just get some sleep." She replied

Eli then laid back down.

I woke up at 10am to find Eli on a rocking chair with Erika in his arms sleeping as he gently rocked back and forth. I sat on the cot and smiled.

"Good morning Blue Eyes" Eli smirked at me

"Morning, when did you get up?"

"Oh about 15 minutes ago I heard a little voice calling 'Eli, Eli…' so when I woke up I seen Erika standing in her crib with her arms out to me" Eli said

"I'm sorry" I giggled

"For what? Remember I love both you and Erika and I will do everything I have to in order to make both of you happy, I'm just glad Erika likes me"

"Eli, she loves you and so do I, did the doctors come by yet?"

"Yea they said her fever was gone at 3am, she woke up terrified, but they told her she was going to be ok, and she was going to be released by 3pm, also they're bringing her an actual breakfast that's not hospital food." Eli said as he put Erika in her crib.

The rest of the day went by kinda slow the doctors came in every hour to check on Erika they said she was eating good. She was awake most of the day watching Baby Development TV which was the only thing I allowed her to watch and she interacted with the shows.

"It's amazing what they teach little kids on here" Eli said as we were watching some show about colors

"It is" I added

"Ok who wants to leave here?" a doctor said as they came through the door

"I do, I do" Erika said jumping up and down

"She has a very good vocabulary for a one year old and her speech is very good too, what did you do while raising her?" she asked

"I put on Baby Development channels and I didn't talk baby talk to her. I read in a book that if you talk baby talk to an infant that their speech will become slurred and you'll barely be able to understand them[1]."

"I should've tried that with my kids" the doctor said

"Well here are your discharge papers for you to sign Erika is free to go once you're done signing them" she said as she gave me the papers

I quickly signed them and handed them back to her, then I dressed Erika, and we left taking everything with us. Erika didn't seem to mind getting in Morty when it was time to go home. On the way home I texted Emma letting her know we were going home and to see if she would watch Erika tomorrow, of course she said yes.

When we got home Erika was so excited to be out of the hospital. Eli and I walked down the sidewalk to my door. I unlocked it and Erika ran inside.

"We're home" I called out to my mom as Erika ran to her room

"And just where have you three been, you're in tons of trouble if you don't give me a good excuse to be out over night with my keys none the less. I couldn't go get my vodka I finished it last night." She said

"Mom you can't punish Eli, he's my boyfriend" I stated "He doesn't live here and if you must know we were at the hospital Erika had a fever, I'm also glad you couldn't get your alcohol."

"Well it sure seems like your boyfriend lives here now. I mean he's always with you Erika loves him, pretty soon she's going to start calling him 'Daddy', Clare she's getting attached to him and I'm glad she's ok. Did you tell Lisa or KC?" my mom said as she gave me a look as if to say if you and Eli ever break up she'll be crushed so make sure this is what you want.

"I know mother and I don't plan on leaving Eli any time soon."

"And I don't plan on leaving Clare either I love her and Erika too much" Eli stated

"Come on Eli, lets go upstairs with Erika"

Eli and I then went upstairs with Erika, she was playing with her toys in her nursery. Eli and I joined in we had tickle fights, we would chase each other, and we would just talk and laugh. It seemed like we were an actual family.

After dinner Erika went to bed early leaving Eli and I talk in my room. We talked about moving in with him and also about him moving in here if my mom let him of course, but like she said it's starting to seem like Eli lives here now. I went to sleep cuddling with Eli another night.

1. My mom and I sat infront of a Baby Development Channel with my sisters until they were like 4 and they're really smart tho the oldest has a learning disability and the youngest does the older one's homework it's kinda funny.