I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
The Next Morning-Caylee's Point of View-
I woke up by an alarm beeping loudly, apparently Jeff tripped over a cord causing something to go off while walking to the bathroom.
"Oh shit!" Jeff said as he tried to put the cords back together and plug it back in, but two nurses came running in, I was biting my lip trying not to laugh and trying to keep my eyes shut so Jeff won't know I was up. "Sorry, false alarm, I tripped over some cords." Jeff said as the nurse fixed the cords and reset everything.
"We are going to go get her release forms Mr. Hardy." The one nurse said.
"Thanks." Jeff said as I saw him turn slightly red from the incident, when the nurses left Jeff went into the bathroom and I just busted up laughing when Jeff came back out from the bathroom. "When did you get up?" Jeff asked.
"When you set off that alarm, how in the world did that happen?" I asked still laughing.
"I don't know, I was still half asleep and I stumbled over the cords, I couldn't help it. How are you and my baby feeling?" Jeff asked sitting back down on the bed next to me and rested a hand on my stomach.
"Okay, how is my baby daddy?"
"Fine, ready to get out of this stinking hospital." Jeff said.
"Isn't the nurses drawing up my release forms?"
"Yeah, their right here." The nurse said walking in handing them over to me to sign them, and she pulled out my IV.
"Do I have any clothes to get into?" I asked.
"I'll get you some scrubs." The nurses said as she left the room.
"Like that would make me look more attractive, along with my soon to be whale belly." I said patting my stomach.
"The whale belly would be sexy." Jeff said as he climbed back into the bed, this time there wasn't any cords to worry about and he kissed me.
"At least we didn't have the heart monitor on for that one." I said as Jeff scooted down the bed where he was level with me and his feet were hanging off the bed though, he laid his hand over my stomach and he had his other one underneath his head.
"I can't believe this, my baby is having a baby." Jeff said.
"Well believe it sweetie." I said as the nurse came in with scrubs. "Thanks." I said as I grabbed the scrubs, and I scooted out from beneath Jeff's hand. "This is how you DON'T set off the alarm." I said looking back at him.
"Just go change so we could get out of here." Jeff said as he repositioned himself where he was laying his back with his head laying on both his hands, I went into the bathroom changing into the scrubs and walked back out, Jeff's eyes were shut and I climbed onto the bed and positioned myself where I was laying face down on him, and I nuzzled my head into his chest. I felt his hand move up to my head and ran his fingers through my hair.
"I'm so tired." I said.
"Let's get you home for we could get some sleep before we have to get flying for WWE." Jeff said as he twirled my hair.
"Yeah, I got to have a meeting with Vince to tell him about my pregnancy, I got to drop the belt to someone."
"The belt isn't a big deal right now, as long as you and the baby are okay."
"True, let's get out of here." I said as I crawled off him and off the bed, Jeff got up as well, and he walked me out of the hospital with his arm wrapped around me, there was a taxi outside waiting for us, we climbed in and told him my address.
"So, if your one month pregnant in May, when would be your expecting date be?" Jeff asked.
"You need to learn how to do math, the baby will be due in January if I did my calculations right."
"You tell me to learn how to do math."
"Sorry honey." I said as I leant over kissing him lightly on the lips. The taxi pulled in front of the my house, there was a moving truck parked in front and guys walking in and out of the truck and the garage.
"Looks as if your mom is done packing." Jeff said as we climbed out, Jeff wrapped his arm around my waist as we walked around the truck and went into the house through the garage. We walked in to boxes galore, boxes and furniture was everywhere and were constantly being moved. We went into the living room area, and my mom was pacing and looking at a paper in her hand as she talked on the phone, Shannon and MJ were sitting on the ground leaning against a bare wall that they managed to find.
"Is this it?" I asked looking at a box next to me marked 'Caylee's Room.'
"Caylee?" MJ asked as she turned and looked at me, "CAYLEE!" MJ said climbing to her feet and practically tackled me to the ground.
"Who else would I be?" I asked as I hugged her back.
"Are you feeling better? Has Jeff told you?" MJ said as she pulled me into another hug.
"Yeah, I'm feeling a little better, I still get queasy here and there, and yes Jeff told me, you can congratulate me now." I said as MJ hugged me again.
"Congratulations, I'm going to be an aunt!" MJ said squealing.
"She's been like that all night." Shannon said wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
"Well, I'm sorry for ruining your wedding." I said.
"You didn't ruin our wedding, you gave us the best wedding gift, a niece or nephew." MJ said.
"Told you that they weren't angry at you." Jeff said which I looked and smiled at him and he kissed my forehead. My mom hung up the phone and slid it into her pocket, she turned around not looking up from the paper in her hand.
"MJ, could I get you to go give the house one last look because the buyers are coming over in two hours." My mom said.
"I'll help." I said, my mom looked up from her paper and saw me, she dropped the paper, and ran over to me giving me a big hug.
"Baby! I'm so happy!" My mom said as I could feel a wet spot forming from her tears.
"Mom, are you crying?" I asked as she let go of me wiping away tears.
"I can't believe I'm going to be a grandma, sorry." My mom said.
"Well, believe it, we are going to keep him or her." Jeff said happily, I wrapped my arms around his waist and intervened my fingers together and he wrapped his arm around me resting it on my hip.
"You better, if not, I'll keep them myself and I'll make you pop the baby out myself." MJ said.
"Ow…." Shannon said as he bent over a little covering his pelvic area.
"You say ow, you try doing it." I said.
"That just makes me respect women so much more." Jeff said kissing the top of my head.
"Excuse me!" I said running to the bathroom and got sick, I was on my knees bending over into the toilet, I looked over at the closed door and saw the growth chart of when I was a kid, each week we would mark how tall I was and I always stood on my tip toes. I wiped my mouth with some toilet paper throwing it in toilet before I flushed it, I got to my feet to wash my hands then I dried them off, I walked over to the chart and I ran my fingers over the last mark, it was drawn on there when I was eight. A knock came to the door, and interrupted the memory playing in my head.
"Sweetie, are you okay?" Jeff asked.
"Yeah, just give me a couple more minutes."
"Do you want a snack, water, or something? I can come in there and hold your hair." Jeff offered.
"No thanks Jeff, I just want some alone time." I said as I could hear him walk back down the hallway, the night we marked that height was the night the electricity went out, I was afraid that the monster under my bed would come out and eat me, I ran into the bathroom shutting the door behind me so he couldn't come in since the door was shut, I had a flashlight and I was curled up in the tub watching the door. My mom knocked on the door, and the only way she was able to convince me to open the door was to sing the Ants Go Marching In, she did it differentl from anyone else, and I opened the door, she sat with me in the tub with the flashlight all night until the lights came back on. We marked the door because the time before that was when I was about six. I was now facing the tub, I remember sitting there with my mom, her arms wrapped around me doing shadow puppets or we were singing lullaby's. How can a bathroom have such good memories? It's a bathroom, it's not a happy thought or not supposed to be that good of a place, or a place you WANT to make memories. I pulled out my cell phone taking a picture of the growing chart, and I walked out of the bathroom, I think I might have slipped out a few tears.
"Are you okay sweetie?" Jeff asked automatically putting his arms around me in a hug fashion.
"Yeah, just this house has so many memories." I said into his chest, he rubbed my back and rested his head on top of mine. I knew the day where my mom was moving and this house was going to be sold would come, but I never thought it would come this soon. My mom walked back into the house through the garage.
"Well, the truck is all packed up and ready to go, is there anything else I'm missing?" My mom asked.
"Do you really want to move?" I asked turning around facing my mom and Jeff wrapped his arms around my waist resting them on my pelvic bones.
"I already bought a house and sold this one, I kind of have too." My mom said.
"But did you think this whole thing through mom, you didn't have to move to be closer to me, I'm going to be on tour a lot still and I'll only see you 2-3 days a week."
"That's a whole lot better than once every so many months."
"I'll be outside with Shannon and MJ." Jeff said kissing my cheek and went out front.
"I thought you were for me moving, and weren't you the one that suggested it?" My mom asked walking towards me.
"Maybe it's my hormones going wild, but I just can't believe you sold this house. I want you to live in North Carolina, you'll be closer to us, I would be able to see you more, you could see your grandchild and this whole thing won't happen again, but this house holds A LOT of memories." I said as I started crying more, I went to hit my palm against a dining room table chair but it wasn't there.
"It's not your hormones Caylee, I never did want to move, I was only moving because I thought you wanted me too, and now with MJ and Shannon being married, their going to be in North Carolina, you and Jeff are in North Carolina, my future grandchild is going to be in North Carolina, there is only one person that's missing, ME! I want to be in North Carolina with MY family, I know you guys want your own life and not want your mom there telling you what to do, but I WANT to be there when you need me and for this child in here." My mom said patting my stomach.
"Your right mom, it's your decision, I hope it's the right one, just let me do one last walk through."
"Don't worry, when your done, I'm going to do one, the buyers aren't going be here for a while, take your time honey." My mom said hugging me, she walked out front and I stood there in the middle of the dining room and living room that is now officially empty, I've never seen this house so empty before. I heard the door open and close again, and I felt strong arms wrap around my waist.
"You want some company?"
"Want, not sure about, but need, yes." I said, I knew I needed someone there for support and to cry on, why is it so hard to say good-bye to something like a house? People move all the time, especially in the air force, and people like Jeff and I who have lost our house to a fire, you figure it wouldn't be that hard to say something as easy as good-bye to it. It's just some object that you own that doesn't have feelings, it doesn't talk or what not, but the house owns so much, including memories.
"I'm here sweetie." Jeff said, Jeff was always so patient with people, he would wait for years if needed for you to talk to him and most of the time, we didn't have to talk to know what the other was thinking. "Anything you want to talk about?" Jeff asked as I broke my way through his arms walking to the opposite wall next to where the television used to be.
"This is where we always put the Christmas tree every year, it always ended up shining into our neighbor's master bedroom, they would always call and complain." I said crossing my arms looking out the window. "One year I wanted a Barbie dream house, I came out and not only did I have the dream house, I had the mansion and the fancy convertible, already set up and ready to play with." I said turning back to look at Jeff who had his hands in his pocket, I went over to the sliding door that went out to the back yard.
"The back yard, I know that has some wild and wonderful memories, I know I'm in some of those." Jeff said as he walked closer and I felt his firm body press against me.
"It does, every summer when I was kid, my mom would either spray me with the hose and chase me with it, or we would set up all different kinds of sprinklers to run through, we also did slip and slides. I have had A LOT, come to think of it, I think I have had EVERY single birthday or birthday party in my back yard. I would always go out there to practice soccer, I would hit the ball against the wall for it to bounce back." I said looking at the closed off back yard.
"It was also good for the bar-be-ques." Jeff said as I turned around and went to the dining room area, nothing really special in there since my mom and I barely ate there, at least at the same time. I walked down the hallway followed by Jeff to my now empty room.
"I never thought I'll see the day where this room would be empty again." I said as I spun around the room in the middle.
"That's not a smart thing to do when your pregnant." Jeff said stopping me and pulling me into his embrace, I could feel his breath on my face.
"Do you remember my graduation and you were here without my mom's permission?" I asked, neither one of us moved back or closer.
"Yeah, do you remember the first night we shared your bed?" Jeff asked.
"I remember, like it was yesterday." I said as I turned my head to look out the window, I moved out of his grip walking to the window, I opened the blinds and looked out, my mom, Shannon and MJ were crowded around my mom's car talking. I remember when I first learned how to ride my bike, I learned in my driveway, our neighbor at the time was teaching me, my mom was in my room looking out at me watching me as she folded my clothes, I remember after I first rode I stopped myself and waved at my mom and she waved back.
"The window that you climbed out of the night we first met, the thing that separated us and yet the thing that kind of helped us get together." Jeff said as he rested his hands on my hips.
"This was my favorite spot in the whole house, you know why?"
"Because of what I just said?"
"No, because I could see the sun set from here, I can sit in a chair and be able to look up the street. Looking out this window always calmed me, or even having it open helped, every time my mom and I had a fight or if I was scared, upset or anything, I would either pull up a chair and sit here, or I'll hide myself in the closet." I said as I crossed my arms over my chest.
"What's special about the closet?"
"It was small, dark and sheltered to itself, even though I could lock my room, but at least in my closet I felt like I could be alone and I hid SO many things in there my mom never knew about." I said as I turned and walked to the closet opening the doors wide enough for Jeff and I to slide in, and we sat down in the closet.
"You would just sit here?" Jeff asked looking around.
"It gave me my space and alone time, at that age I wanted that alone time." I said as Jeff was playing with a tile on the ground.
"What's this?" Jeff asked pulling off the tile.
"You broke my house!"
"No, look, here's a pile of letters from Eddie, a picture of your mom and Eddie at some club or something, and a baby book." Jeff said pulling out these things he was saying, I never saw these things before. "Maybe you felt so safe in here because a little bit of Eddie was in here." Jeff said as he flipped through the pile of letters, I just stared at the photo of my mom and Eddie, they looked so happy, I blew on it blowing the dust off it some. I ran my finger over Eddie in the photo as I felt a few tears come to my eyes so I shut my eyes.
'Dad would want me to be strong, he said he was proud of me, that was until I found out I was pregnant.' I thought as I took a deep breath and reopened my eyes. Jeff and I flipped through my baby book, or lack there of, there was only one page done. We put the stuff back as it was so my mom wouldn't suspect anything, I will come back and check it before I left, I'm not leaving it in this house. I got to my feet and walked out of the closet and room, Jeff was right behind me.
"Your mom's room, must have some memories in here." Jeff said as he looked around.
"Yep, at night if I got scared or couldn't sleep, I would come in here and climb in bed with her, we would always end up getting some chocolate to eat, and if we were upset we would spend hours to days at a time in this room. My mom had helped me get ready for the Little Ms. Houston pageants in here, cheerleading and tap. My mom had pictures on her dresser of each thing of me and her, and right here there was a big coat thing, and it had my pom-poms on them, she always hung up my things on that coat thing. We also have had a lot of pep talks in here, and if either one of us was gone, we always slept in here." I said trying to think of everything that happened in the room.
"This is also the room that we had sex that got you pregnant." Jeff said.
"I'm not going to tell my mom that." I said as I could see a ten year old me standing at the foot of my mom's bed in a cheerleading outfit doing a cheer for my mom when she was sick with the flu that one time, and I did my tap routine for her after that. I've lived in this house since I was born, my first everything was in this house and a lot of other things. I wrapped my arms around myself, I felt cold and isolated from everyone and everything.
"Come on, let's get you outside and let your mom in here." Jeff said wrapping his arm around me and guided me outside to my mom's car, I leant against it, and I heard them talking and knew what they were saying but it wasn't really sticking in my memory or clicked in my head what they were saying, I just stared at the house in front of me. "Are you okay sweetie?" Jeff asked as he stood in front of me.
"I should be, I've lost two houses within three months." I said.
"You want a photo with it, so every time you miss Texas you can look at this photo and recollect all of it?" Shannon asked.
"That might work." I said as Jeff took a picture of me in front of the house, my mom walked out an half hour later with the letters, photo and my baby book, she put it in her car not saying what it was or anything. We waited until the buyers arrived, I met them and they had a three year old boy and a one year old girl, I grabbed the girl carrying her, might as well get used to it. We gave them a tour of the house and they liked it, they said it'll be good for now until the kids get older and they will need a bigger house. I liked this family, they have two kids and I've already made my memories and had my good times with this house, I guess I should let someone else have their turn, technically I wasn't living here anyway, only once in a while, but now I don't have a house here.
"Here are the keys." My mom said as she handed them the house keys and they handed her the check, they didn't go through any banks or real estate people.
"Wait, is it okay if I just do one more walk through and use the bathroom before we hit the road?" I asked.
"I don't see a problem with it." The mother said, Jeff went to go with me.
"I want to do this alone, please." I said, Jeff nodded okay and I pecked him on the lips, I walked through the house, I stopped in front of my room looking into it. I looked out into space not thinking or anything just staring at nothing, then I went to my mom's room doing the same thing, and I went to the bathroom staying in there until I vomited, then I went back out. "Thanks again for letting me do that." I said shaking the couple's hands.
"No problem." The father said as I walked out and they shut the door behind me, my mom's car was gone and Jeff was leaning against my car.
"Where are the others?" I asked.
"Our suitcases are in the trunk, your mom went to drop Shannon and MJ off at the airport for their flight, then she is going to start driving towards North Carolina, us, we got a reservation in a hotel and tomorrow we are going to start driving to North Carolina." Jeff said as he opened the car door for me, I climbed in and Jeff shut the door for me. I looked out the window at the house that isn't mine anymore, 'I'll miss you house, we had a lot of good memories, but it's time for someone else to have their turn.' I thought as Jeff climbed in and started the car. "You ready to go or do you want to sit here and look at the house for a little while longer?" Jeff asked as I turned to look at him.
"Actually, I would really like to go to the park." I said as he smiled, I pecked him on the lips, he started the car and I told him how to get to the park.