Gabriella woke up the next morning not in her bed at home but on the rocking chair in Lissy's hospital room. After wiping her eyes free of tiredness she turned to see Lissy sitting up in her bed with Emerson in her arms breastfeeding him and Sawyer was in her little plastic bed right next to her mommy.
Gabriella couldn't help but smile, it was so sweet. I don't think she really realized that she was now a grandma, but in that moment it hit her. She stood up and walked over to her granddaughter and watched her as she slept, she looked over at Lissy for a second with a tear in her eye.
"Mom are you okay," Lissy asked when she saw her mother's tears.
Gabriella nodded her head, "I'm perfect," she walked over to her daughter and gave her a kiss on her forehead before rubbing Emerson's cheek with her finger, "They are so beautiful."
"Thank you."
Lissy finished feeding Emerson before handing him to her mother and then meandered over to the adjoining bathroom.
Gabriella was softly patting the baby boys back trying to burp him when the door the slowly opened and Troy walked in, "Hey sweetheart."
"Hey," Gabriella responded looking up at her husband, "How long have you been here?"
He walked further into the room and stopped to look at Sawyer, "Just about ten minutes, I went and sat with Camryn for a little bit. And then decided to come check up on my baby and grandbabies, and of course I wanted to see my darling wife," he answered with a large smile on his face. Gabriella giggled at his words, "Okay whatever I know you just wanted to come here and make sure Lissy is making Emerson watch Basketball."
"Ah man my plan was foiled," he joked, carefully taking his grandson from his wife.
"So how is Camryn doing," Gabriella asked.
Troy smilingly looked down at his dozy looking grandson, "She's doing fine, the doctor said the same as usual, no signs of consciousness. He did say though that her bones are healed, and that when she does wake up she may be really stiff and her muscles will need to be really worked out," he sighed, "but other than that nothing really different."
Gabriella sadly looked down at her fingers that were fidgeting with her shirt, "I really hope that she wakes up, I don't know how I'll be able to take it if she doesn't."
Troy put Emerson in his plastic bed right next to Sawyer and then pulled his wife into his
arms, "She's going to wake up. I know it. I promise that she will wake up."
Troy didn't really know if his baby girl was ever going to wake up, but he needed his wife to be happy; he can't take it when she's sad.
Before Gabriella could respond there was a knock at the door. Troy gave his wife a kiss on the top of her head before getting up and opening the door to see Lissy's doctor.
"Hi Mr. Bolton, I just wanted to give Lissy and the babies their last check over before they can leave," he said.
"Yeah sure, she's in the shower right now but the babies are all ready," Troy responded.
Troy and Gabriella walked over to the corner of the room and watched as the doctor checked the babies temperatures, their eye's, their heartbeats, their lungs and made sure neither of them had Jondis (a yellowing of their skin). Lissy came out of the bathroom a few seconds later and Gabriella stood by her daughter and troy went back to sit with Camryn as the doctor checked Lissy for any infections, make sure her stitches weren't ripping and her temperature that was just right.
When the doctor was done Gabriella helped Lissy put on the twins leaving the hospital clothes. They put Emerson in his little jeans and red and white basketball jersey that said baby boy on the back that Mrs. Montez had made him and Sawyer was wearing the same thing but her shirt was a little tank top and said baby girl on the back. When they found out that one of the babies was a boy Maria wanted to make them t-shirts just like she did for everyone else but she didn't know what the other baby was so she made another one that said boy and one that said girl and waited until they were born to give Sawyer hers.
"Daddy isn't going to be mad if they don't like basketball right," Lissy asked as she fastened Emerson into his car seat.
"He won't care; he'll follow them in whatever they do. Just like you guys," Gabriella answered putting Sawyer in her car seat.
"Okay good," Lissy chuckled.
Once Lissy was finished signing the babies out of the hospital they all went down to Camryn's room, stopping a few times to show their nurse friends the twins. Troy had gone to put all of Lissy's overnight bags, flowers, balloons and the babies' things in the car.
When they walked into the room they, like always, tried to hold back their tears. There was something about seeing her like that, that just made you cry and feel helpless. They sat in their normal spots next to Camryn, "She will be okay right," Lissy asked.
Gabriella nodded her head wearily.
"I…I….I really need her, I don't know how I'm going to be able to be a mom without her. I mean I know I have you guys but she's my sister, it's different," Lissy said then wiped away a tear, "She promised me that we were going to live together when we are old and our husbands are dead, and we'll be those old Betties with all those cats and nick knacks. She's supposed to out live me."
"Me too, I don't know how I'm going to take this anymore. My heart broke everyday when she was in that NICU and now it's breaking even more," Gabriella said wiping away her tears as well.
Their thoughts were interrupted when Sawyer started to cry, and Emerson followed suit. The Bolton girls took them out of their car seats but they wouldn't stop crying. Lissy put Sawyer's head next to Camryn and she stopped crying and Gabriella did the same with Emerson. As they stood there for a second Camryn's heart monitor started to beep louder and the machine that was hooked up to her brain waves also started to grow louder and more noticeable.
"Is she okay," Lissy asked.
"I'm not sure," Gabriella answered, "Camryn sweetheart," she said and put her hand on top of hers.
They stood there but nothing happened, Gabriella was slowly pulling her hand away and pulling Emerson away when she felt her hand being tightly grabbed.
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