Chapter 27 – Diabetes Pranks
I squinted my eyes as I stared at my son. He propped his head up and looked at me. I sprawled out on the floor in front of him as I kissed his head.
"You are getting so big." I murmured softly, he mumbled and patted his hand on the floor as he squirmed forward. "Look at these two cuties," Troy sat down on the floor in front of me as he stretched out. I looked back over at Troy as he held his hand out. I gave him a high five while he shook his head.
"Cute," I laughed as he pulled me onto his lap. "Are you leaving with me or coming up tomorrow?" Troy asked kissing the top of my head. "I will come up tomorrow morning, pretty early but tomorrow. Give Liam one extra night in his bed."
"I'm glad you are staying the entire time." He said rubbing my back, "It's probably an easier week than the last one."
"Yea, it really should be." Troy said rubbing his eyes, "Annie wants to take over the camps. They want to run them through there hospital but I would fund them and everything would run through me. We would still have to send out letters but we wouldn't need an office anymore."
"So I wouldn't have to work through the entire list?"
"No. They would run it through the hospital." I nodded, "Take it." He smiled as he looked at Liam and then he dropped his mouth. "Gabi was Liam on his stomach or back?" Troy asked me, I turned my head to see Liam lying on his back when he was on my stomach.
Letting an ear shattering scream escape I jumped up. "Oh my God! Liam rolled over! I can not believe Liam rolled over!" I jumped up and down while Troy picked him up. I gasped slightly, "Go grab the video camera, let's see if he will do it again. Place him back on his stomach."
"How about you take him for a moment." Troy said with a beaming smile, I grinned as I supported Liam and he made a fist before hitting me lightly on the chest.
"Why do that?" I asked him he cried for a moment before kicking his legs against me. Troy came back up from the office and I set Liam back down on the ground. "Put him back on his stomach." Troy said as he sat back down on the floor. Placing Liam back down he looked up at us.
"What if he doesn't do it?"
"If he hates tummy time…like he does, I promise you he will do it again." Liam started to whine as he tried to move by kicking his legs. His cry began to echo and Troy kept his hand on my leg as Liam then rolled over onto his back. I put my hand over my mouth as he then smiled.
Troy shut off the camera and then I picked up Liam. "Liam! You are too damn cute! I can not believe he rolled over!" I spoke to Troy, he grinned as he moved closer to me. Troy rested his hand on Liam's back, "Before you know it he could be crawling." Troy said as he smiled at Liam.
"I love when you smile at Liam, because he will smile back and he has your smile." Troy laughed as he reached over for Liam, "He is a cutie because his father is a cutie."
"Wow, modest much?" I asked, "Defiantly, but I gotta go hit the road. I will see you bright and early tomorrow morning." He said leaning forward to kiss my lips. "Alright, I will see you early tomorrow morning."
"I will have Liam's bed all set up and I'll take the stroller up with me."
"You sure?" I asked him as Troy laid him down in the playpen. "Postive. Something you will not forget. As long as you bring the suitcase and the baby we will be all good." I laughed sarcastically as I hit his chest. His arms wrapped around me as he brought me in for another kiss.
"I would love to start this camp week like the last but it's getting dark and I need to leave." He murmured, "I did love the start to last week but anyways, I will see you later." He kissed my forehead before picking up a bag and heading down to the garage.
Biting my lip, I looked over at Liam and my stomach sank. He could roll over. What if something happened and he rolled over. Taking a deep breath, I watched him carefully. Sitting at the edge of the couch, I sat and watched. I sat and watched until the garage door propped open.
"Gabi, I called four times you never answered." Taylor's voice carried through, "He can roll over now Taylor. What if he is sleeping and something happens." I mumbled as I looked at him taking a breath.
"How long have you been sitting here?" I looked at the clock to see one and half hours have passed. "You really should get up. I mean really, this is silly." She tried to pull my arm away but I would not budge. "Gabi," she said softly, "If I stop,"
"Nothing is going to happen, I promise. You just have to have faith; he is not going to magically just roll over in his sleep. Troy sent all of us the video; it took him a lot of effort to roll over. You have to know he is still young and when he is old enough and rolling over, that means he will be fine if something happens." I glanced at Liam and then over to Taylor. "Really?"
She nodded laughing, "Really, I promise. If you come have a nice glass of wine with me over a simple dinner I picked up I would love you forever."
"Not eating with Chad tonight?"
"Out with Troy, he went down to keep Troy company." I nodded as I got up from the couch hesitantly leaving Liam alone. Taylor grabbed the bags of food before pulling out Chinese. "I invited Shar but she and Zeke were in a weird mood." I grinned and looked down, "Troy and I had one of those,"
"Well that's just a little bit too much information for me so," I laughed and I picked up the chop sticks while Taylor pulled out on the of bottles of wine in the fridge. She poured us each a glass as I pulled up one of my knees up to my chest.
"So are you excited? You are going to have a group this week,"
"Yea, Liam is going to be in his stroller with his umbrella, we cleared it by his doctor but she wants to see him if one thing is different about him. I mean seriously, Liam changes daily. His eating hours change like everyday. Fewer one day more the next and then I mean he is growing like a fucking weed." Taylor laughed as she shook her head.
"I can not wait to have kids, I mean Chad really wants them now but I said we could try closer to when he will be on off season." I nodded, "Good planning, next time I want a kid that's what I am doing." Taylor and I both laughed before she pushed on of the cartons of Chinese to the side.
"So Chad is like in love with your guys wedding gift." I raised an eyebrow, "We got you all a waffle maker and a membership to the wine club." I said, she nodded pursing her lips together, "He is in love with it," I giggled and shook my head.
I then jumped up out of my seat, "Oh my! I didn't tell you, Troy and I decided!" Taylor's eyes glowed, "fantastic! Where at?"
"Lake Tahoe, I mean the others all have there memories. The place where my parents got married is just where my parents got married, the LA Park, where Troy and I went all the time and Liam will have memories there. The park in New Mexico is the place where we fell in love. Lake Tahoe doesn't have a memory yet so we are going to go with there."
"That is so sweet. I love that." She gushed, we hugged each other and I felt all teary eyed. "I am just so excited. We are getting closer and closer."
"Well let's try to go and find a location." Taylor said quickly leaving behide the food picking up her wine glass. I reached for my Mac that was sitting on the counter. I grabbed my wine glass before heading back to the living room.
"Allison is going to take care of setting the location up. Everybody has dresses fittings next week."
"Don't forget somebody's birthday is next week," I blushed a little as my birthday was next week, "That is why, we are going to take your engagement party and have that in the afternoon and then your birthday party in the evening." I began to protest but Taylor quickly stopped that.
"No. Its not on your birthday, Troy did not want you to have to spend your birthday like that. So your party is on a Sunday while your birthday is Monday."
"Troy skipped that whole week of camp so that he could spend my birthday with me."
"He is totally adorable." Taylor said taking a sip of her wine, I giggling slightly before I opened the internet. Taylor and I searched for what felt like hours. I glanced up at Liam to see him awake but was just looking around.
"Do you wanna go grab Liam?" I asked Taylor, she looked back at him, "Sure, I will." She tossed her blanket off her lap as she went over to Liam. "Your mommy is worried sick about you. Will you please tell her to relax?" Taylor asked him in a baby voice.
Liam rolled his head around before putting his fist into his mouth. "Alright, somebody is hungry." I said as I threw back the blanket, "Well it is after eleven." I looked at the clock, "Damn, I should feed Liam and get to bed. I have to be out of here early in the morning."
"Fine. I will see you later." She got up to give me a hug, "I'll see you tomorrow." She said holding a little tighter, "I will email Allison tonight a few of the places I thought were best. She can check them out and we will go from there." I said clapping my hands together lightly.
"Sounds fantastic. See ya,"
"See ya," I called after her, I went over to grab a bottle and then let the bottle float into his mouth. He sucked on it as I went up the stairs turning off some lights. Keeping a few on so I could make my way downstairs without falling.
Going into his room, I let him finish the bottle and then burped him. "Now, you should be good until later when I get you up to leave tomorrow. Okay?" he made a noise and I looked at him. "You don't look tired," He squinted his eye and then looked around the room.
"How about if mommy sings you a song, would you fall asleep?" his eyes brightened a little before he rubbed my shoulder. "Alright, what would you like mommy to sing to you?"
Sitting down into the rocking chair, I thumbed my mind for a song that he would most likely enjoy. Then the one struck me, the one Troy would sing to me all the time when I was upset. The one he knew I loved hearing all the time.
Once in a lifetime means there no second chance so I believe that you and I should grab it while we can.
Make it last forever and never give it back. It is our turn and I'm loving where we're at. Because this moment's really all we have. Everyday of our lives, wanna find you there, wanna hold on tight. Gonna run whole we're young and keep the faith everyday.
From right now, gonna use our voices and scream out loud. Take my hand, together we will celebrate. Celebrate! Oh, Everyday.
They say that you should follow and chase down what you dream but if you get lose and lose yourself. What does it really mean? No matter where we're going. It starts from where we are. There's more to life when we listen to our hearts and because of you, I've got the strength to start. Yeah! Everyday…of our lives. I wanna hold on tight.
Liam squirmed before his eyes began to close; I smiled as the rest of the song played through my head. I rested him down in his crib, while drifting a soft blanket over top of him.
I yawned as I turned off his light. His nightlight turned on as I shut the door and turned on the baby monitor.
Going back downstairs, I prepped some bottles and then made sure all of the bags were packed and ready. Liam and I were leaving at five. They had kids coming at noon so they needed me there by seven.
My fingers were shaking as I yawned again. Switching off the final lights I went up to my room, Oreo followed in front, as she hopped onto the bed. When Troy was not here, she would crawl into my bed with me. Troy did not want her to be in bed with us but there were reason's why. She knew when she can and when she cannot.
I pulled back my covers as I slipped into the bed setting my alarm clock. Oreo wiggled up to my side as I petted her, "You like when daddy is gone. I don't though…," she whimpered as she shoved my hand so I would pet her again.
"Okay, fine," I said kissing her head; she thumped her tail against the bed as I closed my eyes. Turning the TV off, I pulled the sheet on the bed further over my shoulders and then I felt myself fall into a sea of darkness.
Putting on my Pink Yoga pants, I threw on a tank top. Grabbing my white jacket off the hanger, I switched off the lights. I put my white flip-flops on before going down to Liam's room. He has not awake yet from the night and I was hoping he would not.
I flipped on his lap in his room before picking up his car seat. I set it on the dresser as I went over to his crib. He was still sleeping on his back as I put him there a few hours before. I did not want to disrupt his sleep so I decide to go downstairs and pack the car before picking him up.
Pulling the backpack around my shoulders, the diaper bag on my wrist with my Vera Bradley bag around my shoulders I went downstairs. Troy had taken my duffel bag and the crib for Liam to use plus the stroller. I opened the garage door to see the sun peaking out of the horizon. Chewing on my lip, I knew that it was time to go get Liam.
Pounding back up the stairs, I locked Oreo in her cage. Lucille was going to be staying here when they come back from San Diego with Mason. Jack and Mason helped Troy with everything having the older boys.
Going back into Liam's room, he had not stirred. I picked him up in his onsie that he wore to bed and placed him gently in the car seat. His eyes flashed open and a cry erupted but I smoothed my hand down his stomach and placed his orange pacifier into his mouth. He sucked it while letting his eyes fall close once more.
Sighing, I placed a blanket on his lower half. I grabbed a pair of socks and stuffed them into my pocket but then decided to put them on his feet. He kicked them and I kissed his forehead. I bounced down the stairs with Liam's car seat before putting it into the car.
I shut his door lightly before starting the car.
Driving down the highway, I stopped at the nearest Starbucks to get Troy, Chad, and myself a drink. I bit on my lip as I ordered there favorites and then a frappe for me.
Driving the last fifteen minutes to the camp, I pulled in to see Troy talking to Annie but when he saw me pull in, he smiled and said something to Annie before taking off towards the car. I looked back at Liam who was still asleep.
I popped out of the car and Troy greeted me with a huge hug. "Hi! Thank you for coming!" he whispered into my ear, I giggled as I kissed his neck, "Anything for you but your son is still fast asleep." I mumbled to him.
"Slept through you changing him?" I shook my head, "I skipped it. I didn't want to mess with him and he was quiet the whole way up."
"Taylor told me you were concerned."
"I was but she came over and everything was better. I emailed you and Allison a few locations Taylor and I liked."
"They were all beautiful. As long as you are standing there in a white dress ready to say I do, I have no care in the world where I am." I smiled softly and I leaned up to kiss his lips. "You are so cute," he squeezed my waist and Liam let out a low cry.
"He is probably hungry. He hasn't eaten since eleven last night." I told him, "I can feed him," Troy offered, "Are you sure?" he nodded, "Most of my counselors came last night," he whispered gently, I reached far into the car as I handed him his Starbucks.
"And you are the best one here." I grinned as he pecked my cheek, "This might be the best time to tell you, you have a nurse from the hospital with you and a CIT." I bit my lip, "Age group?"
"Older girls," he winced softly as I told him as he took a drink of the iced latte. "That's fine; most of them love little kids."
"And if they don't just send them to me." He kissed my lips once more before he went over to Liam's door. He set his coffee on top of the car as he opened the door.
"Hey big guy! Mommy says you might be hungry but does mommy have food?" Troy's blue blazing eyes met mine as I smiled, "In the diaper bag." Troy picked up Liam as he slung the diaper bag over his shoulder. "Everybody wants to meet you!" Troy cheered softly, "Does my roomies know?"
"Yes, they are both perfectly fine with it. Amie is incredibly nice and she is the nurse. Your CIT isn't here yet so…" I nodded and I walked to the door with Troy. My Vera Bradley bag slung over my shoulder. Troy gripped my hand as we headed towards the mess hall. I yawned as I leaned against him.
"You seem tired." Troy commented, "Well, I did get up pretty early to meet my fiancée out here. I have a little son and my coffee has not kicked in yet." Troy smirked as we entered. People were sitting around drinking coffee. "Troy! Is that your little one?" a girl abruptly got up.
"Yea, everybody this is my son Liam and my fiancée Gabi," most people met him last week but we had a whole diabetic unit in to help out so nobody here would have meet Liam.
"He is so cute!" Liam cried and Troy laughed, "He hasn't eaten in a while so food comes first." Troy said setting down the diaper bag, he opened it up and popped a bottle out.
"I am going to warm this up, I will be right back." Troy pecked my cheek before he walked back into the kitchen. "Gabi? I am Amie," I turned to look at her; she was about my height with dirty blonde hair and green eyes. "Hi! So we are in the same group?"
"Yea, I am actually a DIC," I raised an eyebrow, "A what?"
"DIC, Diabetic in Consoling."
"Oh, so you are diabetic?" she nodded, "Yea, for about fifteen years, but that's a longer story and we can do that later. I just want to let you know, I have my own daughter who is nine months old." I let my lips soften, "She is with her dad all week but might make a surprise visit."
"That is so cute. With both of us here he is going to be here with us."
"He is so young; I just hope the girls all love him." Amie said as she tucked her hair behide her eyes. "Well, we will see since we get the older girls." She smiled as we easily chatted; Troy scooted into a seat next to me when he started to feed Liam.
"Honestly, you can give him to me." Troy took a sip of his coffee, "Really, I am fine babe," I rolled my eyes softly as I slumped in the chair. "We have campers coming in a few hours, Amie could you take Gabi down to your guy's cabin and show her around?"
She nodded briefly as I turned to Troy, "I have Liam now go!" I kept my mouth shut as I narrowed my eyes at him. "Come on, you'll love our place. It's the farthest away from everybody,"
"Sounds like a long walk," she winked and then her eyes glanced over at Troy. I giggled as codes were already starting. We both escaped the doors and I laughed, "Alright so what's up,"
"The hike is ridiculous. I mean I complained about it, like we need an effin golf cart." I laughed and rubbed my nose, "Leave it to Troy," she giggled.
"We also have to set a schedule for the 3am checks." I nodded as I tucked my hair behide my ear, "it is just our cabin." She mentioned.
"Every other night works for me if you want. I have to get up early with Liam so when I do it I might just be up for the night." Amie nodded, "That sounds great. Do you want to start tonight?"
"Since, I am new and you are the diabetic, I may just let you do it but I can get up to watch." She nodded her head and then we walked to our place.
"Lucky you, Troy brought all of your bags up. Of course, you can drive your car up here." I shook my head, "How old are you?" I asked
"Twenty four, Troy said you will be twenty four next week." I nodded, "Yea, he made sure there were no camps so he could celebrate my birthday."
"He is sweet." I walked past a cabin and another until we came to the very last one. "I have not been back this far." I mumbled she opened the door as it squeaked. When it opened, I walked into a kitchen/living room. There was a small box TV sitting in the corner with a couch and two little chairs. A long table sat in the middle.
The kitchen had a sink with a fridge. The counter stuck out with a few barstools. Then there was a door leading in to a room. She walked in dropped the keys onto bed in the corner. "You can pick any bed you want. I stuck towards the end since Troy said there would be a pack n play.
She had chosen the beds near the corner in the back. She had special sheets on her bed while the others were blank. She had the top bunk and I had bags on the bottom.
"Does the bottom work for you?" I nodded, "Yea, since Liam is going to be sleeping next to me so it is easier to get to him." She smiled and I dug through my bag as I found my sheets. I tucked them in and then Troy had put on of my favorite pillows on the bed. I tossed another blanket on top before I sat down.
"Maybe, I will just take a nap."
"Sounds like a great idea," Amie said climbing onto the bed. I slipped back onto the pillows as a yawn escaped my throat. I took a drink of my coffee as I heard the door bust open.
"I have one guess,"
"Troy," she mumbled from up top, I giggled as he poked his head through. "Guys, you have a poster to make. Brie, you need to put up a no poking sign on your bed so people don't check your blood sugar through the night." He had Liam at his hip; I sat up, "Not even a ten minute nap?"
"Your ten minute naps last about three hours sometimes," he said sitting down on the floor. If he were to sit on the beds, he would hit his head.
"I still have yet to check out the bathroom," Troy bit his lip and then looked at Amie, "I will be in the bathroom if you need me," she said walking away into an open area. "You can come use my nicer bathroom if you want to." I shook my head as I bent down to capture his lips.
"You guys need to get a move along." I rolled my eyes once more before pushing off the bed. "Give me my baby." I said standing up, "Your baby? I am pretty sure I had a lot to do with this baby." I slapped his shoulder gently, "I am pretty sure I carried him for eight months."
"Nice switch there, most women would still say nine." I shook my head as I reached for him but he leaned down to kiss my lips again. "Is this how you are going to be all week?" I turned around to see Amie standing with her hands on her hips.
"Not with kids around," Troy rolled his eyes this time and then he hugged my waist. "I'll bring his stroller in here, so we will be back in a little bit." Troy kissed Liam's head and then walked out. There was a poster with markers. "I have the roster, as I want to call it." She said laughing.
"Sounds fine, let's do this."
I pushed Liam's stroller back and forth, Amie was meeting them all down there and bring them back. Liam had fallen asleep and I did not want to wake him up.
Sitting down on the bed, I heard the door squeak. A group of loud chattering came through the doors. I buckled his straps together and I kissed his forehead. I had stripped socks and blankets due to the muggy air.
The girls had all stopped inside the living room taking seats all around. I leaned against the door with my hip and they all turned and kept talking.
"Alright, girls," they were ages from thirteen to fifteen. Amie made them all turn heads towards her, "Your other counselor is Troy Bolton's fiancée," there heads spun in a circle and they began to start talking a mile a minute, about the sex, the kissing, was he really that cute, is he nice, and other things about him. I laughed and I shook my head.
"Hey, I have a five month old sleeping in the room over." All of there eyes melted but a few of them. "Do I have to sit here and listen to a bunch of Troy Bolton shit?" one girl stood before knocking a stool over. I looked at Amie and she shrugged, "How about we introduce ourselves." I said to blow off the Troy thing.
She still pushed past me and I looked at Amie, "I got it," I mouthed to her. I turned as the girls began to chatter again, I turned and I shut the door.
My arms tingled and she sat down on one of the many beds. "Do you want to talk?"
"I really don't want to be here." She mumbled softly, "I hate diabetes. The last thing I want to do is be around more people with the damn thing." I licked my lips softly, "I have no clue about diabetes. So if you just want to talk to me, I mean I have this adorable little boy over here." She smiled a little, "I have only had it for two months."
"It must be hard."
"Just a little bit. My mom just wants to eat and breathe diabetes where I do not want anymore than five minutes worth it. I feel like I can't talk about anything else anymore."
"Well, if you don't want to talk about it, then fine. I am not going to force you, like everybody always wants to talk about me being Troy Bolton's fiancée." She giggled, "So you don't really like it?"
"No, because they don't see it like I do. I am madly in love with a great father and this nerdy basketball player that I met in high school. I know an other person that everybody else thinks they know but they do not know the real him. They just love his cuteness and his mad basketball skills."
"Well, if you don't mind, I think he is quiet cute. I just didn't want to be here for diabetes." I nodded as she stood up, we both went back out to join the other girls who were all-happy and had bright smiles.
"So we are going to go around and do introductions, you can also say how long you have had diabetes. Gabi, you can give a few fun facts about you since you are the only non diabetic." I nodded and the girl I was talking with scooted closer to me.
"I never caught your name," I whispered to her, "Molly," she said back to me quietly, "Nice to meet you Gabi,"
"Well, I guess I can start. I am Amie and I am your DIC, I am diabetic and have been for 15 years." The group eyes widened, "I do have a young daughter but she is not here right now."
I was sitting to the right of Amie and she looked at me. "Alright, I know you all have questions about my fiancée but…" Liam's cry erupted from the room and I held up one finger. "I'll be right back." I hurried off to the back, grabbed his stroller, and pulled it out the door. The crying stopped and he was awake.
"As I was saying, you can ask five questions. I will pick a girl and if I don't like the question, I won't answer it." I laid down the firm rules. I am Gabi and I am not diabetic. This is my five month old Liam and because his dad works here and all of his family, he is staying with us."
The girls all looked a little scared, "I'm not mean," I added, they all laughed and gave a smile. "I have a question," a younger girl looked at me, "Alright, go ahead."
"Troy seem utterly romantic, I mean the way he looks at you. Is it really that way at home?" I looked down and I grinned softly, "Troy is probably the most romantic guy ever. He loves doting on me and he is the best dad in the entire world." The girls all gushed softly as the next raised her hand.
"Is it cool to get to hang with the Troy Bolton," I pursed my lips together as I have to figure out how to answer this. "Girls, you have to understand I have known Troy since before he was this basketball God. I knew Troy in high school and that's where we fell in love." I stopped to look at these innocent girls, "We have been through a lot together, we have a baby together so I don't like hanging out with the Basketball God Troy Bolton, I love hanging out with this down to earth guy who's name may be Troy Bolton," I thought the girls would burst in tears.
"I have a question about Liam,"
"A question I would love to answer!" I told her, "Does he cry a lot in the middle of the night?" I felt my shoulders tighten, "At home he hasn't been much but this is a new place for him. So if he does cry I will probably escape to Troy's room so you guys don't have to hear it but you better all tell him how much you appreciate the long walk." They all laughed and giggled.
"Two more questions unless you want to move on,"
"Does Troy have some serious abs like I have heard?"
"I dunno, maybe I can get the jerk to go swimming," I said winking at her, she blushed, "Will Troy every up here,"
"Well duh," Troy walked into the doorway and I shook my head as gasps filled the room. "Troy, get out, we are trying to do introductions."
"I just wanted to check up on you guys," I narrowed my eyes at him, "Whatever, I will talk to you later," I said pushing him out of the door; he laughed as he squeezed my hand before leaving.
"Moving on with introductions," Amie looked a little flustered as the girls began to say names. Jessica's, Emily's and Megan's were heard and they were fun. Angie, Lilly, Katlin, Rylee, Jadah, and then we had our CIT Brooke who was sixteen. The next five girls went off saying there names.
Liam kept shoving his fists into his mouth and became frustrated when not both of them would not fit. I laid my hand on his stomach as I unbuckled his seat belt.
"I'm Molly and I have been diabetic for 2 months," the girls looked at her and she then looked at me. I nodded my head, "That's good Molly," she said, "Everybody, on the count of three you get to go choose a bed. Our beds are already made so those are off limits."
"Ready…set…three!" she yelled and the girls took off running. Liam tried to sit up so I adjusted his seat. "Brooke," Amie said looking for her, "Yea?"
"You do know you are the counselor too, don't forget that."
"Have you done this before?" I asked her, "At a different camp, but yea." I nodded as I stood up, "Well this should be fun,"
Liam's low cry escaped from the crib as sat up in an instant. I picked up my phone to check the time, all of the girls were fast asleep and nobody was moving from the noise.
It was just a little after midnight I picked up the little boy. He cry did not stop as I escaped over to the living room shutting the door behide me. I was happy we had a fridge to store his food and stuff like that. His whine did not stop when I put the bottle in his mouth, I did feed him at eleven so he could not be hungry.
I shoved the bottle back into the fridge as I put on my light jacket and him into his stroller. We were going to visit daddy. I left a note for Amie if she woke up.
Pushing Liam's stroller in the dark, I light my iPhone up to be my flashlight. Taking the five minutes with a screaming baby was a lot and I knew he was unhappy about his sleeping situation.
I approached the director board when I tried to open the door and it was unlocked. I pushed Liam's through the door and into the back room where Troy was sleeping. Opening the door to that room, I saw Troy is sleeping figure on a bigger bed than mine is.
Liam's cry instantly woke him up and he popped up. "Oh God," he mumbled, he dropped his head as I pushed the stroller closer. "He wants his daddy," I murmured as I picked up the crying baby.
"I have to do checks in like three hours,"
"Yea, so do i." I told him crawling onto the bed. Troy picked up Liam and tried to consol him but he wanted his crib at home that he had grown to sleep in. Troy murmured something as I rested my head on his shoulders. "He only ate an hour ago."
"He will adjust,"
"I know but he needs to stop crying," I said as I stroked the back of his head. He only whimpered then and Troy shook his head, "Diabetics aren't as easy." He murmured, "I mean they are easier than cancer but I mean they have to keep there blood sugar in such a normal range."
I yawned as a quick look at the clock left me two hours until I was supposed to be up. "Do you want to keep Liam here at nights?" Troy finally asked, "Troy, you have to get up too, you have to get up more than me."
"You have a group of teenage girls,"
"Who all adore Liam; it shouldn't be a problem after tomorrow night. I mean he gets use to it after a few days." Troy yawned and nodded his head. "Fine. I will give you a chance," he winked at me with a cute wink. I felt my eyes tightened, as they were tired. "Can I just stay here until you have to get up?" I whispered, "Yes," he slides down on the bed with Liam on his chest. He put his arm around me while I felt my heart flutter.
I closed my eyes for what felt like only a few minutes but Troy's alarm kept going off. I sat up in a daze and Troy reached for his phone, "I felt like I just laid down," I murmured, "Yea, I know. Troy maneuvered Liam around before going to put him in his stroller. I got up and slipped on one of Troy's dirty hoodies laying on the floor. I slipped the purple under armor hoodie over my head as I covered my mouth in a yawn.
Troy titled my head back as his hair fell into his eyes. I could invasion the tired boy back in high school when he picked me up every morning. He looked almost the same as his blue eyes gazed over mine. "You need a haircut," I murmured, he smirked before leaning down to capture my lips.
"I know, I do but I have been just a little busy." He said as he rubbed my hand, "Well, I think that you should do it next week,"
"Sure, next week works fine, just not on July 11th," I rolled my eyes as we both exited out of the building. Doctors stood around the campsite all yawning. I pushed the stroller out of the camp and Troy looked at all of them.
"Annie, are you ready for this?" Troy asked as he took over the stroller, we had decided that I would just go back with him, sleep a little, get up shower, feed Liam and get ready then go back to my group.
"Yea, are you ready for this?"
"I have been up for a while already," Troy, said yawning, "A baby is hard work," one of the doctors joked, Troy looked around for the person, "Yea, I think I know that."
"Not all of us have money though so I mean the nanny must do all of the hard work," another one cracked, a vein in Troy's head bulged. "That was uncalled for," somebody said, it was so dark nobody could see anything or anyone. "We don't have a fuc…a nanny." Troy calmed himself as I rubbed his arm.
"I know we are young but that doesn't give you any right to disrespect our family." Nobody said anything as Troy gripped my waist, "I am taking the farthest cabin, everybody else you know your assignments." Troy pushed Liam's stroller forward as I turned on my flashlight on my phone.
"I could have used that a long time ago." He mumbled, "I know, I knew better than that." Troy's knuckles were white with his grip on the stroller.
Making it back to the cabin, we heard the wave's crash on the beach. I opened the door to see Amie up, "Hey," I said waving, "Liam get fussy," I nodded my head, "Yea, I am probably going to go down there afterwards too since he is going to need to eat. I'll be back around here at sixish."
"Enough time to help me get the girls up," she winked, "I will probably get in the shower first before we wake them up." I nodded as I yawned. "So you know what you are doing Troy, right?" Troy nodded, "I had a whole class yesterday." We got all of the supplies ready and Troy started at one end while Amie at the other.
I watched Amie gently wake them up if they asked to be woken up. She read the sign and then if they did not she just did it. "Gabi can you get Emily a juice box? Her blood sugar is a little low," she whispered, Emily sat up in her bed groggily as I went off to the living room to grab a juice.
I pulled a few out of the fridge with some fruit snacks. We went through quiet a few, "Alright, looks like I am done," Troy said as he scanned over a few of the papers.
"I can recheck those last two," I turned to face all of the girls who were sleeping again. Some of them were still eating snacks, "So do you think you can do this tomorrow night?"
"Yup. Should be no problem. I don't plan on getting up the next night," they laughed and Troy picked up a dazed Liam who was in between sleep and awake.
"He is probably the most adorable thing ever." Amie said as she reached over to touch his forehead. He squirmed, "I better go back to bed for a few hours,"
"Yea, I will be back in a little while." I told her as Troy pressed Liam against his chest. "Have fun."
I flipped the magazine in my hand as Liam was sleeping in the playpen next to me. The girls were all at the pool having fun with the other guys. A knock came at the door and I turned to see Chad, "Come in," I told him waving my arm.
"I need to ask you something," he said sliding into the chair next to me. "Something about Taylor?" I asked flipping the next page in the magazine. "No," he dragged out the ending, "more about what the boys want to do to the girls," I looked up at him, "Please don't say sex," Chad laughed as he leaned over to check out little guy. "No, they want to pull a huge prank."
"A huge prank?" he shrugged, "Not huge but they want to pull a prank. I told them I would talk to you first about it."
"I have no issues with it just that they can't touch a single thing in the back corner. Liam has all of his stuff in there and I don't need bugs and trash in there." Chad bit down on his lip, "they thought about pulling a night raid so when is your next night up?"
"Tomorrow," he looked at me, "That's Friday morning when they would wake up to it, it wouldn't work." I nodded, "You could do it tonight if you wanted to. Liam does not like when he is woken up so we could just watch. Make sure nothing happens,"
"I will tell them because I can see this expanding into something bigger," he joked, "Yea, I guess what time do you want to do it?"
"After three. Therefore, after the next round of checks, Troy is in our cabin tonight. You can text me when you are all clear of doctors." I glanced at him, "It will be okay. I promise nothing harmful," I glanced over him, "They know about Liam, the girls don't shut up about him." I laughed, "They all love him."
Chad stood up and tickled his stomach before going out the door. "Alright, well I will see you later tonight." I smiled and nodded, one of the girls came running up the pavement as Chad exited.
"What was he doing here?" Megan asked, "Asking me a question, do you need something?" I asked her, "Yea, I need to grab some snacks. Amie ran out." I stood up and got into our little kit.
"So he can't go out into the sun?" I looked over at her as she peered into Liam's playpen. "He can but we want to keep him out of it as much as possible. We aren't supposed to be using sunscreen yet, so he has to stay shaded,"
"Well the guys want to go play some sand volleyball after dinner, I didn't know if you would play with us or be there."
"Of course, I just thought swimming is the perfect time for Liam to nap and get out of the sun for a little while." I returned to her and handed over a little bag of snacks. Water from her hair dripped onto the floor and she looked at me. "So if we wanted to could we come back earlier and get in the showers." I nodded my head, "Sure, go for it."
Megan smiled and then dashed out the door. Liam cried as the door slammed shut, I bent over to pick him up and I kissed his forehead. "You hungry? Do you want some lunch?" he cried louder as the door slammed shut again. I whirled around to see Troy walking in.
"I was just coming down here when I heard Liam start to cry," Troy walked over and took the crying baby from my hands. "He is hungry, hasn't eaten since earlier this morning."
I grabbed the bottle out of the fridge and Troy took it from me. "I was going to heat that up," Troy shrugged as he popped the top off and then warmed up the bottle in the hot water.
"So Chad talked to me,"
"Did you talk to like the head people?"
"As long as we don't deface property." repeated Troy, "Well, then we will keep it to shaving cream." I winked at him and he smiled, "As long as you stay away from my room," he leaned over to peck my lips and then went to sit on the couch. "Shouldn't you be getting dinner ready?"
"Annie is taking care of it." He murmured as Liam squirmed away from the bottle. Another cry erupting from his mouth, Troy glanced down at him with his eyes raised down at him.
"He doesn't want this bottle," Troy said to me as he set down his bottle. I looked at the clock as it was way past time for him to eat. "He should want to eat; it's been about four hours." I explained to him and Troy adjusted him onto his shoulder. "He looks tired, has he been sleeping?"
"That's what he was doing when you walked in here," I explained, "He was crying when I walked in here." Troy's voice rose slightly and I pointed over to Liam's saucer sitting in the middle of the room. "The last thing he wants is to be set down," Troy grumbled, his eyes turned stormy.
"I don't think he wants to listen to you yell either." I said giving him a hard look, Troy stiffened and he walked away putting Liam down into his saucer. His legs slipped through the bottom and his head sported up. He cried louder as Troy approached back over to me.
"Do you really think that's the best option?" He asked pointing back over to him, "What was going to be the best option Troy? Until we work this out there is no best option." Troy bit on his lip and looked towards the door.
"He doesn't want to eat, it's been four hours, and he is crying." Troy rubbed his face as he bent over, "You know that he should be eating less frequently right?" Troy glanced at the 6oz bottle sitting on the counter. "Maybe we should call his doctor, ask her?"
"But he isn't wanting to eat," I explained him, "I don't think he is getting enough Gabi, I remember my cousins eating more when they were at his age." Troy pulled out his cell phone, he pulled it up to his ear, "That doesn't explain why he is upset?" Troy turned around and walked towards the door.
Liam looked his dad walking out of the door as I looked at him. "He is coming back," I said walking to him; I folded my arms around him as I picked him up. His head look out the door as Troy stood in a white tshirt with a pair of jeans on. His eyes scanned the area as I picked up the bottle again.
I pushed it into his mouth as he sucked on it. The bottle drained faster than I could blink, why he did not take it earlier. A frustrated sigh left my mouth as he looked up at me for more.
"We aren't feeding him enough," Troy busted through the doors and looked at me. I looked at him with his wide eyes looking back at me, "She said we should be starting solid food on him. He is rolling over so that means solid so I don't understand how?"
I looked at him, as I felt dumb, "When he is rolling over?" Troy shrugged his shoulders, "She said you should give him some dry cereal in the nights for him to sleep better. Start baby food slow, she wants you to come in so she can see him, early." I turned my arm around and he nodded, "Go, just go now." He said, "I can cover for you."
"No. I will just feed him more for the day. I can go later, I promised the girls," Troy gave me a long look, "If you want to go and get some cereal for him to eat, go on ahead Troy. You are the one who wanted me to do this." Troy sighed, "I don't know what to do,"
"I will fix him another bottle for him to eat since he is still giving me the im out of food look." Troy laughed and then he stood up. "This baby thing is crazy and then people judge me."
"Nobody judged you. They were tired and cranky." I said leaning against him, he smiled and then kissed my forehead. "I better be going."
"Ahh!" a bunch of girls screams echoed through the room as the last line of the boys escaped. I giggled as Liam sucked on the bottle. We decided he was angry earlier, that is why he cried. He never seemed to be terribly anger at us but would have his moment.
The girls all jumped out of bed, as they looked everywhere. Toilet paper had been flung and they had marks over there faces. There eyes were wide with fear as they looked at everything once more.
"What happened?"
"I have gel in my hair!"
"They dumped my suitcase!" Amie came out with groggy eyes, I had failed to mention this to her. "Did you know about this?" she yawned, "Yup. Chad asked me earlier."
"That would be why our stuff was untouched," I nodded with a yawn, pictures were snapped and I ushered there them all too there beds.
"It will all be there in the morning guys,"
"Do you think we can prank them back?" Brooke asked from her area, I nodded, "Probably but you all need to go back to sleep." They moaned but reluctantly went back into there beds.
Amie crawled back into her top bunk throwing the blankets over herself. Troy walked into the room as I shut off one of the lights. "How did it go?"
"The girls are all mortified but it was funny, one of the girls woke up while one of the guys was putting stuff on her face and he had to roll under the bed. Chad had to leave because he was laughing to hard."
Troy smiled as he glanced down at his son. "How is he doing?" Troy asked, I looked back at all of the girl's slowly drifting back to sleep after a rude awakening.
"You want to head back to your?" He smiled back at me, "Sound like we are back in high school," Troy said putting his hand on my lower back.
"I was going to go there in a few hours anyways," Troy, pressed his lips against my forehead as we both disappeared from the door.
"Okay, so I say we do it while they are at lunch and-" one of the girls kept talking as we sat in the arts and craft room. Liam slept on my chest as I shook my head.
"Guys, you have lunch with them. They will know if you do not show up. You have to go when they are on the other side of camp." They all looked at each other and nodded, "You have there schedules right?"
I nodded my head, "Its in my backpack, you want to get it out?" I asked, Megan bent over to grab it and then she flipped through it until she found the schedule.
"They will be at archery when we have a break," she said, "Right before lunch." They all grinned as the got up from the tables and went running back for the cabin. "Looks like arts and crafts are over," I put Liam back into his stroller as Amie went after the kids.
A yawn escaped from my mouth, as I was growing tired from not getting much sleep. Walking behide the group Molly came up to talk to me. "Are you having fun?" she nodded her head, "I am excited to go home tomorrow, I miss my parents."
The only contact they had with there parents was through mail. I could understand the feeling of not hearing your mom's voice for a long time but these were kids.
Once arriving back, Liam was wide-awake and I slipped him into the saucer. His hands slapped down as he reached for the toys in front of him as he spun in a circle.
"Can we go yet?"
"Do you guys have everything you need?" Amie asked as she helped them put things into the backpack. I texted Troy to see if he was too busy to come watch Liam for a moment. I did not want to miss this but I did not want to take a happy baby away from his happiness.
"We have to wait fifteen minutes before we can go, once they pass our cabin we can go." Amie said sitting in the chair, the girls squealed as they adventured away towards the back of the cabin in a gossip circle. My eyes shut for a second as the door opened and shut.
"Brie," I popped open an eye as Troy looked at me, "I was hoping you would just text me back."
"I am helping get the younger kids ready for lunch," he paused as he surveyed our clean cabin, "but I can take Liam down there. Do you have the little carrier thing for my chest?" he asked, "In my suitcase in the back."
"Oh," he peered in the back, "I will go get it," I grumbled towards him, "I don't know what's going on back there," he whispered, I rolled my eyes as I got up.
Retrieving the device, I handed it to Troy. "I didn't want him to leave. He is in love with this thing," I said as I glanced down at him. He pumped his legs as he made a noise with one of the many toys.
"Well I have to get back to help the little ones." Troy strapped the thing around him as he lifted Liam up and into the thing. Liam laughed out and then pressed his cheek against Troy's chest. "See, he loves me!" I rolled my eyes and then Troy disappeared. We waited for about ten minutes until the boys group passed by our cabin.
"Alright, be quiet and let's go." The girls all giggled and went dashing out into the woods. I stayed up behide them as they threw open the people door and they went running in. It was my job to get all of the pictures.
They knocked mattresses over, threw there stuff around, dragged there mattresses into the living room and then hung posters saying stuff with Justin Bieber and shit. Jordan walked out of the bathroom with a Cosmo girl's magazine. I bent over laughing as the air was knocked out of me.
"Somebody needs to hang that up in the front window!" I said, the girls all giggled as they taped it up. I went into the back to see Jessica taping up the toilets. My eyes widened as I took pictures, the toilet was once white, now it is blue. I laughed as we all posed for a fast picture before running out.
"That was the funniest thing ever."
"Now we just sit out here and wait to see." We all went over to the spots under the tree to play a game. They started with tag as they went in circles.
I turned ever so slightly to see the boys walking back. I did not want to alert the girls because I did not want the boys to be shocked when they saw us staring.
"Oh my god," I heard one of them say, I turned again to see Chad staring at me. I poked my tongue out as the boys walked in. "Ahh!" they all screamed and the girls jumped and then started to laugh. "Its almost time for lunch," Amie called to them as she watched with a smirk on her face.
"Our toilet is taped shut!" one of them yelled, I thought I was going to fall over laughing. All of the girls began to laugh harder as they all came out and starred at us. "Alright everybody, to lunch!" Amie high pitched her hand, "What if they do something to our cabin? It took us all morning to clean it."
"I'll talk to Chad," I told them, "Go to Lunch," they all ushered inside as Chad approached me, "The toilets?" he asked me with a thin laugh, I shrugged my shoulders. "You know the rules."
"We can attack back but we can't go near your stuff,"
"Liam's stuff. It's expensive Chad,"
"And your fiancée plays for Lakers as I do to," I looked at him and he nodded, "I got it," he threw his hands in the air and then he turned, "But be smart and show up to lunch so the girls don't freak out."
"Fine, we will." I thanked him as he walked away and then told the boys to go to lunch. I laughed as I entered the room; the girls were glowing with pride. Troy was knelling over to talk to one of the little girls. Liam was still against his chest as I approached him.
"This is Liam's mommy," Troy said as I walked over, "This little girl, Hanna, misses her mommy." Troy's eyes looked up into mine, "She was wondering who Liam's mom was." I smiled at her, "You get to see your mommy tomorrow! Are you excited?" she nodded her head and then she leaned forward to give me a hug.
Troy smiled at me as I hugged her back. "Hanna," Taylor called from behide me, I turned and I gave her a smile. We had barely seen each other all week.
"You better go with Taylor, she is one of my best friends," Hanna nodded and slipped off her chair. Troy and I both stood up as she went running over to a group of kids.
"Thanks, I was losing here there for a moment."
"Our prank was good," Troy smirked and shook his head, "I have decided to not make you do this anymore. Liam needs to be at home at night and this just doesn't work." I felt a sigh of relief drop over my body.
"Thank God," I murmured, Troy laughed and then I turned my back as Troy grabbed my shoulder. "Wait do you want to take him?" I looked at Liam who was sleeping.
"He is sleeping right now; I'll take him after lunch." Troy's eyes gazed over mine and then nodded, "Alright, fair enough." I smiled and then leaned up to kiss his cheek. "I love you," Troy breathed in as if he was holding my scent.
"I love you too." He murmured, "Awh!" I jumped to see all of the girl's behide me, "Not funny," I grumbled towards them, they all laughed and I walked away to the lunch line.
The first chapter of 2012! Yay! : ) So I hope you all enjoyed it and the next chapter is going to be out soon, or atleast I hope it will be! I go back to school on Thrusday..bleh. I was hoping to get more chapters out than this but Christmas and New Years kept me pretty busy. I hope you all had a great one though! : )
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