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Chapter 27: A Black Friday Miracle

November 27, 2005

7:00am

Cammie, Zoe and I were all entering Target after hitting the sales at the other stores in the mall when a wave of nausea overcame me. I excused myself to the bathroom and once in the stall I turned to the toilet and vomited in it. There went my early morning breakfast and a mocha cappuccino from Starbucks. I heard a knock on the stall door and then a pregnancy test box was slid underneath the stall door.

"You guys know me too well," I said as I opened the box.

"It's the least we can do. Now don't just stand there, take the test!" Cammie said as I promptly did as I was told. After a few minutes of waiting I looked at the test and smiled. Two lines. Finally positive, for a change, I said to myself.

I opened the stall door and stepped out.

"Well, what does it say?" Cammie asked.

"Two lines. I'm pregnant!" I said as Cammie and Zoe looked at each other then started to shriek and jump up and down. I started jumping up and down with them.

"Wait, I need to tell Kevin the news. He's going to be so excited!," I said as the girls nodded and we left the store and went to the firehouse.

When we got there Kevin was talking to the Captain, Johnny, who was married to Rachel's sister, Ally. Ally and Johnny were trying to have kids too.

"So, how's the trying to have kids thing going?" Johnny asked Kevin.

"Not good. Everytime Violet gets a flu bug we hope that it's not a bug and it's the real thing. But everytime she takes a test and its negative we get our hopes up. I just want it to be all over and that we get lucky..." Kevin starts to say when I finish the sentence for him.

"And we did get lucky this time around," I finished. He looked at me with wide eyes.

"Are you for real or are you kidding? Please say you're telling the truth," Kevin said.

"I'm for real. Kevin, we're finally going to have a baby," I said slow enough for him to understand. He suddenly got a smile on his face, picked me up and spun me around and grabbed me in a tight bear hug.

"We need to get this confirmed of course but are you okay and everything?" Kevin asked me.

"I feel fine. I did get sick this morning but otherwise than that I'm fine," I said to him.

"Good. You'll call the doctor and set up an appointment, right?"

"I'll call her when I get home. I gotta go. We want to finish shopping. Love you."

"Love you too. Be careful."

"Yes sir," I mocked saluted him as I turned to walk away with the girls.

"You see how concerned he was? That was so romantic," Cammie said.

"Yeah but he overdoes it sometimes," I said. We were outside of Romero's cafe when another wave of nausea overcame me. I ran inside the cafe and straight into the women's bathroom.

"Hey, you have to be a paying customer to use my bathroom," Romero called after me but he didn't catch me soon enough.

"It's just Violet, Romero. She'll be a paying customer when she's done. She just has morning sickness, that's all," Zoe said as she sat down at the counter, Cammie following.

"So she's finally knocked up, huh?" Romero asked.

"Oh no honey she's married. You don't use the term knocked up when she's a married woman, only when she's single and after a one night stand," Cammie explained checking her makeup in her handheld mirror.

"Oh, I knew that. I was just testing you."

Cammie just shrugged that off and started talking to Zoe when all of a sudden they heard a loud crash and a guy came in with a handgun and screaming at the top of his lungs.

"Everybody get down on the floor now! I want all the money that you have hidden in here now!" He screamed.

"Cammie get down on the floor now!" Zoe whispered as Cammie slowly got down off the stool and hid with Zoe.

"What about Violet?" Cammie whispered back.

"Shhh! Don't say anything! She's safe in the bathroom! I'll text her," Zoe said as she got out her cell phone and started texting.

The robber saw that she was using her cell phone and headed towards her.

"Gimme that! You think I'm stupid lady! Now don't make me use this gun to put a hole through your head!" the robber said.

Soon the robber's accomplices came in.

"You, check the bathrooms. You, keep everybody quiet."

The other robber went towards the bathrooms when Romero stopped him. Knowing that I was in the bathroom, Romero decided to stall the accomplice from going in the bathrooms.

"Hey, you don't want to go in there! Somebody just did a number 2 and boy does it stink!" Romero said plugging his nose.

"Yeah right I'm not that stupid!" He said as he went towards the bathrooms. Then he heard me throwing up. He started to open the door when Romero grabbed him from behind and threw him into the wall.

I heard my phone vibrate, went to check it and saw I had a text message from Zoe. I opened it and it read, "Text your Uncle. Robbery here." I wasted no time and texted my Uncle John, "Robbery at Dambala Cafe. I'm in the bathroom. Please hurry." It took only a minute but he replied, "I'll call 911. I'm with Lil. Stay put don't move." I did as I was told hoping that the robbers wouldn't find me in the bathroom.

Romero was busy with the accomplice when I heard the main robber say to the accomplice, "Hold him down! I'll shoot him!" Then a gunshot rang out. The main robber shot Romero in the chest. Romero slid down the wall and pretended to play dead.

"Now check the bathrooms," the robber said to the accomplice. I quickly climbed up on the toilet and held my purse up high so they wouldn't see it. The accomplice started banging on the stall doors. I stood still the whole time. Then I heard sirens. The accomplice rushed back out into the cafe.

"It's the cops! Hurry up get the money!" the accomplice said as the main robber and the other accomplice started putting the money into the bags, tied them up and ran out the door. The cops ended up stopping them a street away.

A few minutes later the cops came in to check on everybody. The paramedics went straight to Romero. My uncle came in with Lil. Lil went straight to Cammie and Zoe and Uncle John went straight to the bathrooms and knocked on the door.

"Vi? It's safe to come out now," Uncle John said as I got off the toilet, opened the stall door and opened the bathroom door.

"You okay kiddo? You look awful pale."

"I just threw up. Morning sickness, I guess."

"Wait a minute...you're not telling me that you're pregnant, are you?"

"Yes I am. Me and Kevin are finally going to have a baby," I said.

"Well, congratulations! How about we get out of here, get some fresh air and get you checked out by the paramedics." Uncle John said as we walked out to one of the ambulances where a paramedic was already tending to Cammie. I ran to her and hugged her.

"You missed everything. I almost said something but Zoe told me to shut up and leave you in the bathroom where you were safe," Cammie said.

"What about you? Are you and the baby okay?" I asked worried.

"The paramedics think I should go to the hospital and get checked out. They'll probably keep me overnight for observation but I'll be fine don't worry," Cammie said as the paramedic started checking me out. He started putting the blood pressure cuff on me when I passed out in his arms.

Things were a blur as the paramedics put me in the ambulance and put me on a stretcher. I finally came to in the emergency room and looked into the hallway and saw Kevin talking to a doctor and my Uncle John. Then the doctor came in, followed by Kevin and Uncle John.

"How are you feeling Violet?" The doctor asked.

"I'm doing a little bit better. What's wrong with me?" I asked.

"Well, you're mildly dehydrated so we're giving you some fluids but all in all you're doing okay. We did a blood test since your husband told us you might be pregnant and yes, the blood test confirmed that you are indeed pregnant, congratulations!"

"Do we still need to see our OB/GYN?" I asked.

"You'll actually see her in a few minutes when we move you upstairs to the high risk OB ward, just for observation," the doctor said as he left the room.

Kevin went over to me and gave me a hug and a kiss.

"Is this for real? Are we really going to have a baby or is he pulling our legs?" I asked Kevin.

"Oh yeah this is definitely for real. I'm on cloud nine right now I'm so excited," Kevin said as I smiled. Our lives were finally going to be complete.