• SALVA ME • •NATIESE• VERSÃO INGLÊS

• Chapter: SEVEN •

Natalie was silly with Kristen. The girl was adorable. And the brunette had already earned a nickname from the little one. They were still talking and the child looked very mature.

That conversation about this Marcela woman was still pounding in his head.

Priscilla had left the room a long time ago and still wasn't back.

- Where did Priscilla say she was going? – Natalie asked the child who was still sitting on her stomach.

- I don't know… - Kristen replied sleepily.  - Naty  I'm sleepy..." She said rubbing her eyes.

- Ah... Lie down, honey. - Natalie said.

The brunette pulled the child to lie on her chest, the child's arms hugged Natalie's body.

- Do you sing Nah? It's just that Mom and Mom and Candy sing for me... Sing for me?

- Um. I'm not very good at singing honey, but I can try ok?

- Ahem... - Ana replied already half asleep.

Natalie hummed any song, just the melody, and stroked the black hair of the little girl on top of her.

In less than ten minutes, Kristen was completely asleep. Natalie was smiling.

That child in her arms left her with a silly smile on her lips, maybe because she had always loved children, or maybe, and more likely, because as Camila's best friend, she knew how much the woman wanted children, how much she would give for have a child in your arms. And now she has what she's always wanted, and better yet, Kristen was an extremely adorable child, as Priscilla said, Camila was that child's mother as much as Lauren, and she could see that in less than one night with the little one. Kristen talked about Camila the way she talked about Lauren and called her Mom the way she did Lauren. The smile on her lips was definitely not because she loved children. She was just happy for her best friend.

The name "Marcela" didn't leave her mind... She couldn't go to Priscilla and ask who the woman was, not even Lauren. She met the two of them less than a week ago. Even though Priscilla was Lauren's best friend and Lauren was her best friend's fiancée...

Camila! That, she was going to ask Camila, maybe she knew something.

Natalie came to her senses a few seconds later. Why did she want to know who Marcela was? Because she wanted to know what this woman had done to Priscilla? Why don't those striking eyes pop out of your head?

The brunette shook her head trying to get rid of her thoughts. She looked at the clock on the bedroom wall. It was after eleven. Priscilla was still not in the room.

She didn't see any nurses entering the room, but her fatigue told her she was medicated. The drugs were starting to take effect. She didn't want to close her eyes, after all, she had a child in her arms. But with each passing minute, her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, the struggle to keep her eyes open was already lost and she found herself falling asleep.

Elsewhere in the hospital, Priscilla had just finished helping with a patient, it wasn't her duty, but Priscilla had a special bond with children and the girl was only six years old and extremely scared, and the brunette didn't mind helping.

After it was over, she looked at her watch. 11:15 pm The brunette hurried to Natalie's room, she opened the door slowly and smiled at the scene on the bed.

Kristen was lying on top of Natalie, her head on the blonde's neck. Natalie had her arms around Kristen's body. One of the hands resting in the child's hair.

She didn't want to wake Natalie up, but she needed to get Kristen. The brunette went silently to the bed, and very carefully removed Kristen from Natalie's pale arms. Priscilla placed Kristen on the couch and went back to the bed. The blanket was folded at the foot of the bed and inside the room was cold. She spread it over Natalie who was curled up and mumbled something.

The brunette smiled. She scooped Kristen into her lap and flung open the bedroom door.

Pri-? – the little one asked half awake.

- Hi darling. – Priscilla replied already leaving the hospital.

- Where's Nah?

- Natalie?

The little one nodded.

- She has to stay here at the hospital. – Priscilla replied as she placed Kristen in the car seat.

- Why doesn't she have a leg? – The girl asked innocently.

Priscilla widened her eyes.

- You didn't ask her that, Kristen?

- No...

The brunette released a breath that even she didn't realize she was holding.

- She got hurt a lot, and if she didn't take her leg off, she wouldn't get well.

- Hmm... - the little girl spoke with her eyes closed. – I'll sleep with you right Pri?.- Asked already half curled.

- Go love, you'll stay with me tonight. – Priscilla replied smiling.

* * *

- Pri! – Kristen called the brunette softly.

- Hmm, -  Priscilla replied without opening her eyes.

- Pri, your cell phone doesn't stop ringing... - The girl handed the cell phone to the brunette, who took the device and checked the hours before looking at who had called
her. 10:30 am.

The calls were from the hospital.

Pri, I'm hungry.

- Okay, love, go change and I'll see what the hospital wants from me and we'll go out for breakfast, ok?

The girl ran towards the bathroom.

Priscilla sat up in bed and called back.

~on call~

“Doctor Pugliese?” A familiar voice spoke.

"Yeah... What do you want from me?" Priscilla asked sullenly, her shift only started at night.

- Sorry doctor, there's a patient here who's crying a lot and she's that patient you and your goddaughter came to see yesterday... They wanted to sedate her but I asked to
talk to you first...” Cecília said.

Priscilla got out of bed and started to get ready.

“I'm there in twenty minutes. Not silk. Just try to calm her down, Cecilia."

"Fine..."

"And Cecilia... Thank you for calling me."

- Oh my God, these people in this hospital do nothing without me.

"You're welcome doctor."

~off call~

- Kristen, love, I'll have to go to the hospital, I'll take you home ok? – Priscilla said when her goddaughter left the bathroom.

- Okay... - The girl said crestfallen.

- Love, don't be like that, I swear that one of these days I'll catch you very early in the morning and we spend the whole afternoon together, ok? But now Natalie needs me...

- Is Náh bad Pri? You said yesterday that if she removed her leg, she would be fine...

- She'll stay, love, but it will take a while... Now come, let's take you home.

Priscilla arrived at Lauren's house fifteen minutes later.

- Pri ? I thought you were going to be with her all day…” Lauren had her hair tangled up and Priscilla smiled.

- Sorry to disturb you and Cabello, but they're calling me at the hospital...

- Is something wrong there? – The Latina asked.

- I don't know, they just called me... - Priscilla didn't want to worry her friend or Camila.

Okay, if you have time, come here and stay with her in the afternoon...

Priscilla laughed.

- Laur, calm down, you and Cabello will have time... - The brunette left without giving her friend time to respond.

On the way to the hospital, her worry increased by the minute. Natalie looked so good yesterday. What had happened to her crying now?

The brunette realized that she was worrying more than usual about this patient. But it was because she was godmother at her friend's wedding. IT'S. That was it. It couldn't be anything else. She couldn't let it be anything else.