SO IT TOOK ME SO LONG, ME AND MY FAMILY JUST MOVED INTO A NEW HOUSE SO I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO UPLOAD. BUT ENJOY!

Gabriella couldn't sleep, she was so worried about Camryn. She wondered who was watching her and making sure her machines were on. She didn't know if she was hurt or hungry or scared. When Gabriella closed her eyes just to rest she tried to imagine what she looked like.

Camryn was already one day old and she had been visited by both Grandmas, Lissy and Taylor. Troy and Gabriella were too afraid to see her just in case she didn't survive. The doctors told them she was doing great, however, considering how early she was.

Ms. Montez took Lissy home with her when visiting hours were over. Taylor had called David to see if he would come get Lissy but he said he couldn't even when she told him about Camryn. But that was the least of their problems.

Gabriella constantly blamed herself for not being able to carry Camryn longer. But everyone reminded her that it wasn't her fault; she did everything she was supposed to do.

On Camryn's 3rd day birthday Gabriella sneaked out of her room to the intensive care unit, making sure Troy didn't wake up. Her stitches still hurt but she didn't care, she wanted to make sure her baby was okay. It was 3:30 in the morning; everyone was asleep and the nurses were at their stations talking. Gabriella took a deep breath then knocked on the door to the NICU. A nurse opened the door and smiled, almost every nurse in the hospital knew about Gabriella.

"Can I see her," Gabriella asked.

"Definitely," the nurse let her in. The room was full of machined and incubators; very heartbreaking. Gabriella washed her hands then the nurse walked her over to Camryn.

Everyone was right, she was tiny and most of the machines keeping her alive were bigger than her. Gabriella's eyes started to well up; no parent wants to see their child that way. Of what Gabriella could see of her was beautiful, she has tan olive color skin and dark hair.

"She's doing great," the nurse said, "in about 2 weeks we expect her to not need the hear machine. And we've slowly been giving her steroids for her lungs and they are helping but she'll need that for a little while longer. And her vocal cords are getting stronger also, her cry is still a little quiet though. If you would like you could pump breast milk and we can put it in her feeding tube with her medicine and other milk, it'll make her immune system better."

"Okay," Gabriella said weakly.

They stood there in silence, staring down at Camryn. Gabriella noticed there was music lightly playing 'think of me' from the phantom of the opera. One of Gabriella's favorite songs. She remembered singing it to Lissy when she was a baby to get her to go to sleep.

"I love her name," the nurse said interrupting Gabriella's thoughts.

"Thanks, I know it's long but it has a good story behind it."

"That's good, it'll be nice for her to know that the name is as special as she is."

There was a rocking chair next to the incubator so Gabriella sat down.

"You can stay here as long as you like," she said then walked away towards the other babies.

Gabriella sat there looking around at Camryn's incubator. On the back, she noticed a sign that said 'happy birthday Camryn-Julie', also there was a little chalk board hanging next to it that said '3 days in counting! And Gabriella noticed the blanket that Camryn was using was the blanket that Troy bought a few weeks earlier. Gabriella wondered if Tory had come to visit without her.

"Hey Camryn baby it's mommy…..I know it took me a long time to come see you but I'm here now and I'll never leave you. I'll come by everyday and say hi and tell you about everyone. You have to promise me that you'll be okay, that me and daddy will be able to see you grow up and go to school and get married and have babies of your own," Gabriella said a little bit above a whisper and resting her hand on the closed incubator, "I know I wasn't able to carry you longer but I know you'll be able to fix my mistake."
Gabriella said wiping away her tears.

A few hours later Gabriella went back to her room to get some sleep. She was still worried about Camryn but now that she's seen her Gabriella seemed more at ease. So she felt a little comfortable to sleep.

When Gabriella woke up Lissy jumped onto her bed and snuggled into her chest.

"Aye Mama," Lissy said.

"Hey baby….Where's Uncle Tory and Grandma?"
"They went oo ive Amryn da picture I made," Lissy answered.

"Why didn't they wait, I would've gone with them?"
"Day aid day didn't want oo upset ooo," Lissy said.

Gabriella didn't want any of them to give her special treatment because they thought she would get upset or if they were afraid of what she would say.

Later on Gabriella's doctor came in and ran all her tests to see if she was okay to go home. She was excited to go home yet she didn't want to leave Camryn at the hospital.

"Okay Ms. Montez you can go home, but I don't want you to lift anything over 5 pounds and don't lay on your stomach for a few weeks….but you can come see Camryn any time you want and we'll take great care of her," he said.

"Thank you," both Troy and Gabriella said.

Gabriella was packing up all her stuff and Troy came up behind her and rubbed her shoulders.

"Can we go see her before we leave," Gabriella asked.

"You just read my mind."
"Do you have you're camera," she asked turning around wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Yeah, why?"
"So we can take pictures of her," she answered.

He gave her a quick kiss then they walked hand in hand to the NICU.

They spent almost an hour saying goodbye. They had to lift up some of Lissy's pictures to see her and take her pictures. They lost count on how many times they kissed the incubator and how many times they said 'I love you'. When they finally left and went out to the car they already missed her like crazy.

"Can we go see her after dinner," Gabriella asked when they were almost to the apartment.

"Of course."

Troy really wanted to just turn the car around and head back to the hospital but he knew it would be better to come home for a little bit. He didn't know that you could love someone so much he just met.

When they got to the apartment they noticed both of their mother's cars in the parking lot. They grabbed their bags and went in. Sitting on the couch was Mrs. Bolton, Ms. Montez, Taylor, Chad and Lissy. Gabriella wondered why they all were there but Troy knew exactly what was going on.

"Hey guys what's up," Gabriella asked.

No body said anything. They all just smiled widely. Taylor got up and walked over to her friend grabbing her arm.

"I have something to show you," Taylor said pulling her toward Lissy's room. She covered Gabriella's eyes with her hands and walked her into the room.

Taylor took her hands away and revealed the surprise. The room was split in two, one half was painted red and the other was yellow. All Lissy's things were arranged on the red side and their was a new crib, changing table, rocking chair and dresser on the yellow side. Also their were selves built onto the walls holding pictures of everyone and on the big red wall 'Melissa' was painted out in yellow with stars around it and on the yellow wall 'Camryn- Julie' was painted in Red with purple butterfly's around it. And on the ground in the middle of the room that divides the room was half a star mat and half a butterfly mat sown together.

Gabriella smiled widely and wiped away a tear.

"It's beautiful Taylor I love it," she said, "thank you."

"No problem, the boys helped too," Taylor said giving her friend a hug. While the girls were talking Troy printed out Camryn's pictures. Then he went and put one on the shelf and one in the crib.

"Love you baby," he said to the picture.

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