Chapter 24 ~ "Been here before, revolving door; got up and I don't know what for, anymore. We had the best and nothing less."
Three days have passed since Peyton was brought in and I only left her side to go see the baby and go home once to get a change of clothes and shower. Peyton is still unconscious. And everything with Lucas has been confrontational, but I was the only family Peyton had and because of that, I felt the need to constantly be by her side. Sleep has been hard because I was just too nervous and stressed out to sleep properly; but when sleep did come I embraced it with open arms. All of this going on reminded me of when I was pregnant with Landon; a lot of my dreams had been about that.
A little less than 8 months have gone by since this little guy was created; Lucas and I had been ecstatic with the upcoming arrival. Lily was even worse; every morning she walked up to me placing her hands on my stomach, kissing it, and asking me when he will be here. I think she will be an awesome big sister. I honestly loved being pregnant, except sleeping was just so troublesome. But for some tonight, I got lucky and I fell sleep really quickly.
"Lucas!" I said, grabbing my stomach in pain; Lucas only groaned and rolled over. "LUKE!" I said again, this time shaking him.
"What?" he said, still half asleep, but I knew that my next sentence would make him jolt out of bed.
"You need to wake up and take me to the hospital, something's not right with the baby." And sure enough, Lucas shot out of bed.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm having contractions and I have shooting pain in my stomach; is that enough explanation and reasoning for us to go?"
"Of course it is." Luke said, obviously caving and not wanting to start a fight with me and I secretly love him for doing that. "Go pack some clothes and I'll put Lily in the car."
"Oh shoot, Luke what are we going to do with her? We never thought about it."
"For now, we're taking her with us. If this is just a false alarm, then we will make for when the real thing happens."
"Ok, let's go."
Luckily, it was the middle of the night and Lily was sleeping and stayed asleep for the waiting part. I was admitted to a room, they were thinking the baby was in distress. Luke stayed in the room with Lily while they were running tests on me. They had found the problem and told me, now it was my job to tell Luke. I was wheeled back into the room with a saddened look on my face, and he already knew that something must be wrong.
"Babe, what's the matter?" he asked after the doctors left and after he moved Lily from his lap onto a chair; coming next to me and taking my hand.
"Our boy is not doing so well, Luke. He's in distress and the doctors induced labor in order to get him out. But he's a month and a half early. I don't know if he can make it. And because he's so early, he'll probably have to stay longer than me. That's going to be hard leaving him."
"He's part Davis, I know that he will come out fighting and will beat this. He's probably just like his mother."
"I wish that was true, but I am so scared. I don't know if I can do this."
"You can do this, I know you can. You did it once before with Lily and yes, I know the circumstances are different but it's mostly the same. Now that they induced, did they say how quickly you will progress?"
"No, it depends on how quickly my body will adjust. They said anywhere from an hour to five."
"Then why don't you try and get some sleep while I figure out what to do with Lily; you look tired."
"Fine, just wake up me if something happens."
"Always." Lucas said, kissing my forehead.
My vibrating phone awoke me from my slumber. It read home, and I was reluctant to answer it since there has been so much tension between us, but I answered it anyway.
"Hi Mommy!" Lily's sweet voice blared through the phone.
"Hey there sweet pea; how are you?"
"I'm ok, when are you coming home?"
"I don't know Lils, Aunt Peyton is still pretty sick."
"Well I hope she gets better soon."
"Me too buddy."
"Mommy, did you know that Aunt Peyton and I talked about baby names?"
"No, I didn't know that. When did you do that?" I asked, hoping to get some idea of what Peyton was thinking of naming the baby, since he was supposed to come home later on today.
"Ummm….when we went up to her house when you and Daddy got into that fight. She asked me what I thought you guys should name the new baby. And I remember saying something like Jayden for a boy, but I don't exactly remember what I said for a girl. She liked the name Jayden, though." Lily said, and I started putting the pieces together.
"Thanks Lils. Now are you being a good girl for Daddy and helping out with your brothers and sister?"
"Mhm, I'm helping him with the babies like I used to do with Landon. Do you remember that mamma?"
"Of course I do sweaty. Now between me and you, how's Daddy doing?'
"Umm, he seems angry sometimes but he won't show it when we are around. Oh and he's been on the phone a lot with Lindsay changing the dates of his book tour."
"Can you put him on the phone?" I was speechless; I didn't think he was going to do that. I walked out into the parking lot in case the conversation got too loud.
"Ok, bye Mommy."
"Bye Lils, love you."
"Love you too Mommy."
"Hello?" hearing his voice always instantaneously calmed my soul, no matter what the situation was.
"Hey…"
"What do you want?"
"To talk to my husband, is that such a crime?"
"Yea, it kind of is when you've barely been home in 3 days. It seems as if you love Peyton more than you do me and the kids."
"That's a low blow Luke and you know it. Peyton may not biologically be my sister, but she is in every other sense. And I know she would be there for me if the roles were reversed."
"Oh really, then where was she when Landon was born then?"
"Wow, another low blow, real mature Luke. She was out of the country then. You know what Luke, I wanted to talk to you because I truly my husband, but I'm not in the mood to fight."
"I'm not either Brooke, but you leave me for three days and I understand you're reasoning, but what about the kids? Lily and Landon ask me everyday if you'll be home today. And I don't know what to tell them because I don't even know the answer."
"I'm sorry Luke, but I don't know you want you me to do."
"I don't either, and I don't have the time to figure it out right now. Ella's up from her nap, I have to go."
"Go head. I love you and give the kids my love."
"I will."
By the end of the conversation, I had tears coming down my face. Never once has Luke never returned an 'I love you'. I took sometime and made up my mind on how to handle the current situation. I dried my tears and composed myself. Walking back inside, I went to the nurse's station by the nursery.
"Hi, my name is Brooke Scott and I have a name for the Sawyer baby boy. And the doctor also said something about being able to take him home today, is that still possible?'
"Give me a second to grab his file…yes; he is cleared to be discharged today if that is what you would like."
"Great then I would like that to be arranged so he can go home. Oh, and his name is… Jayden Davis Sawyer."
AN: Hey guys, back from vacation and ready to write. Hope you like this chapter. Review please =)