Family Is Forever

4

After a long 12 hours including the long wait for their connector flight Stephanie and her daughter had finally landed in Dublin, Ireland. The two walked through the airport holding hands as Stephanie guided them to the baggage claim where they waited for both of their things. Bayley had slept a lot of the way but when she was awake she would quietly look out the window or color new pictures. There happened to be another little boy on the plane who she made friends with that sat with his mother in the seats beside them. Stephanie had eventually switched seats with her daughter so the girl could talk with the boy and even color or play tic-tac-toe with him.

"Mommy look, there's our bags right there" Bayley said tugging slightly on her mother's arm

"I see, very good eye baby girl. When they come to our side we can get them and then head to the car rental place"

Bayley nodded and stood patiently until the bags came around and she grabbed her smaller pink luggage that was similar to her mother's. Once they were good the two headed through the maze of the airport before getting to the rental place. They didn't have to wait long and the people were very welcoming and polite, they even gave Bayley a lollipop and complied when she asked for a second one for her sister. After about thirty minutes the two were squared away in their car and Stephanie decided to get them some food before heading over to the hospital. On the car ride Bayley was full of energy and wanted to call Hunter and her sisters to see what they were up to.

"Hello?" Stephanie said as she heard the phone being picked up

"Hey babe, I'm guessing you guys made it there safely"

"Yes we-

"Hi daddy" Bayley said loudly cutting off Stephanie's response

"Hey babygirl, how are you?" Hunter chuckled through the phone causing Stephanie to smile at their interaction

"I'm good, I drew Becky lots of pictures and I made a new friend on the plane too"

"That's good Bayley, are you excited to see Becky?" Hunter's voiced said with obvious amusement at their youngest daughter's happy voice

"Yeah, I can't wait to show her my drawings and I got her lollipop too."

"Well that was very kind of you"

"Yeah we are going to eat first and then we are heading to the hospital, it's pretty early here, it's noon over here" Stephanie said cutting the two short, knowing that if she let this continue any further she would never get the chance to talk to her husband and honestly that was all she wanted to do right now. Her nerves were eating away at her empty stomach and she needed some reassurance that this meeting wouldn't go up in flames.

"Noon...it's like seven in the morning over here"

"Oh my god did I wake you babe?" Stephanie said concerned as she just remembered the five hour time difference, "I'm sorry I completely forgot about the time difference"

"It's okay Steph, I was already up I thought I might go ahead and start making breakfast, the girls slept for a long time so I'm sure they'll be up soon" Hunter said and a few pots clattering could be heard on his side of the line

"Okay well I'll let you go for now, I'll call you again later when we get some more information on Rebecca's condition"

"Okay, love you girls"

"Love you" Stephanie and Bayley said before ending the call.

Once the call was finished the two sat in silence before Bayley began to look out at the different buildings they passed. Every few minutes she would shout out a random place or interesting looking person to which Stephanie just smiled and continued on until they finally found a local diner to sit down and eat in. The place was called Eddie Rocket's City Diner and looked like an old school diner from the 60's with a jukebox and bright red and silver colors everywhere. This