Tobias
"You want what?" Tris exclaims, Christina and Will called us to the hospital this morning because they had something important to say.
"Tris, we want you to be Lily's godmother!" Will smiled.
"Me?" She pointed to herself. "Me? Beatrice Bella Prior? Are you sure? Me?"
"For goodness sake Tris! Yes, you!" Christina pretended to be mad, but you could see that she was suppressing a proud smile.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Oh my gosh, I'm going to be a godmother! Yay!" She gets up hugs Will and snatches Lily from Christina, "Hello Lily, I'm your godmother!" Tris smiles wider than possible and Lily just stirs in her sleep.
"And we want you Four to be the godfather." Chris smiles.
"Thank you!" Having awkwardly nothing else to say I scoot my chair closer to Tris' who is still admiring the baby girl. "Hey Lily!" Tris just smiles.
"Do we have any rules or something like that? I don't understand this very well."
"You're so cute Tris." Will pinched her cheek, making her swat his hand away.
"There weren't any but now I think it's a good idea. No swearing around her. No spoiling. No giving junk food." Christina just smiles evilly before Tris interrupts her.
"Christina, you know she's only a day old. No one sane would give her junk food."
"And who said your not sane?" Will teases her, while she just rolls her eyes.
"Continue Chris."
"No kidnapping. Kissing in front of her." Now Tris clearly rolls her eyes, but it's true, what kind of rules are these? That's just what I ask.
"Forget it. I'm exhausted, but I have to be wide awake to look over Lily. Sorry, I'm getting crazy. The making of my lame jokes keep me awake." I feel bad for Chris.
"Yeah," Will smiling sadly. "we watched this movie that when the mom slept they would change or get the baby. We looked it up and there are a lot of cases here in the US. Now we're completely panicked, we don't sleep."
"I can stay with her in that room that's down the hall so you can rest. It would be a pleasure, plus, I don't have a picture of her yet." Tris smiled enthusiastically at Lily, "Lily, maybe we can even create an Instagram account for you!" Walking out she waves to us.
"Don't go too far Tris!"
"Okay protective dad!" She yells, her smirk is eminent in her voice.
"I'll go with her."
"Okay Four, just remember the kissing in front of her rule." Christina winks laughing, I just glare "Just kidding, don't kill me." Hesitating she grimaces a little, "Be cautious around her, she's very closed off with people. I mean except with close friends, family and kids."
Perfect the poor kid gets two messed up godparents. Perfect.
I shouldn't be judging just because she's 'closed off', but it's inevitable. The thing is, I need a a normal person to balance myself with Lily. I need a safe point, and till this moment, I don't think Tris is that safe place. I was pretty sure that she would be perfect, her balanced stature with occasional humor and seriousness, she's a YouTuber for God's sake! She can't be that crazy or bad. That's what I thought. At least until Chris said that mysterious sentence.
Entering the yellow and brown decorated room, I see Tris taking pictures of Lily. "You look so beautiful Miss Lily." Her blonde hair is now in a simple bun, while her phone is balanced in the hand that's not holding Lily against the arm of the big chair. "My name is Tris, I guess I already told you that. But I'm also you godmother! Isn't that exciting?"
"Would you like me to take a picture?" She is clearly startled by my unexpected entrance. Recovering quickly she just passes her phone to me.
"Lily, we're going to take a picture together!" She smiled while looking at her, I snapped a picture which was unnoticed. Looking at the phone she smiled, I snapped a few pictures of her smiling or making funny faces. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." An awkward silence overcomes the room while she concentrates on Lily, and I on the stripes on my grey and blue shirt.
"Do you," she hesitates and continues in a firmer tone, "do you want to hold her?" Realizing that I haven't yet. I just nod, while she comes and hands her to me. Lily who is almost sleeping grabs my finger when I offer it to her. It's funny to see her tiny fingers looping their way around my big finger. Her grip on it soon fades as her eyelids slowly close completely. Smiling I look up to see Tris looking at us with a small smile on her red lipstick covered lips. Trying to brake the silence, I try to say something appealing.
"I like your Vlogs very much." She looks at me with surprise written all over her face. Struggling with words she gives me another small smile.
"Thank you. Do you wanna come over to the cafeteria with me?" Standing up, she motioned to the door.
"That would be nice." Relief passes through her face. And them I understand it, she didn't want me to come, she was worried about me with Lily. I bite my tongue to not make a rude comment about trust.
Walking there she receives a call.
"Hey Mar!" Walking more and more ahead of me she makes it impossible for me to hear what they are saying. Ending the call at the door to the cafeteria she opens it and holds it for me.
"Hang on, I'm going to get some coffee and them I'll get her for you to serve yourself." I intently watch her as she tugs down her red shirt. Redoing her bun she orders a drink. Coming back she smiles at Lily not even looking at me, I for the record, wasn't looking at her either so we're fair now.
"Hello my flower! I'm back, did you miss me." She coos at Lily who still sleeps. I hold in my laughter before heading to the cafeteria line, that for my great luck just got huge. My phone starts vibrating and I observe that it's Zeke.
"Hey Zeke."
"Hey man. Where are you?"
"At the hospital."
"Who else is there?" I huff out in annoyance, Zeke is close to being the next Will and Chris with his curiosity and bluntness.
"Will, Christina, Lily and Tris."
"You sound different, are you busy?"
"I'm in the hospital cafeteria line."
"Anything new?"
"Not that I know of."
"Really?" Where is this annoying curiosity coming from? Oh, I remembered something new thank God.
"I was asked to be Lily's godfather."
"I thought you were never going to answer!" He knew it all along.
"How did you know?"
"They told us. You were the ones that had to be surprised, not us."
"How's Helena and Shauna?"
"Great."
"I have to go." There was only one person before is was my turn to order.
"Okay man, bye."
"Bye." Putting my phone away and waiting for the woman in my front to finish making her order. Taking longer than I thought, I glance over to Tris who is currently on her phone occasionally smiling and looking at Lily.
"Good morning." A harsh voice takes me out of my trance, the attendant on the other side of the counter looks at me with expectant but inpatient eyes. I can't blame her, it's a rainy Monday.
Going back to the table Tris is standing up rocking Lily a little and looks happy that I'm at the table.
"Chris just called and they just signed the papers to go home. In a few hours they'll be heading out, so she wants me to bring Lily to her." With that she walks out leaving me confused. Couldn't she at least wait for me to finish?
I stand up walking to the exit of the hospital. These places don't bring the best out of me, although there are good things like transplants and births, emergency cases and deaths are very present. In some corridors I just want to mute the volume of the world. Crying people helplessly sprawled on the floor crying because of you loved ones make me sick, even though I almost don't have 'loved ones'.
Entering my car, I subconsciously let my mind wander to Tris. I was friendly when I met her, or at least I tried to be making that joke. Unfortunately, it partially driven by Zeke, I just got a ride on it. She was more open yesterday, but then again, so was I. I guess our friends bring the best out of us.
Hello!Sorry for the lack of updating, I was on vacation and my iPad sucks for updating. However I have some pre-written chapters that help a lot. I would like to thank all of those who reviewed, I can say that I cried like a crazy person reading them (I do that a lot and for anything).
Sorry for all the errors, I forgot to hand it to my Beta Reader before posting (I was too excited), but thanks for the offer (sorry, I forgot your username). The first chapter is already edited.
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