Sisterhood

Addition

Chapter 2 - Addition

    Julia perked up from the seat she was in when she heard Roma leave the room, she turned off the tv turning around in the couch looking over it. "Are you already leaving Aunt Roma?"

    "No, just going to see Monika."

    "Can I go with you?" Julia asked.

   "Sure, but you have to be quiet," Roma

   Julia jumped over the back of the couch and started to run up the stairs with Roma behind her hushing her to quite down. Before they could open the door they knew Monika was wake when heard her start to whine. Roma opened the door and immediately pick up Monika and started to care for her. Once she was done Monika quiet down a bit still occasionally making a small whine every couple of seconds. They started to walk back down stairs, Roma being good with kids was nothing new to Julia. She had two grandchildren that she watched over. She also use to babysit Julia when she was little.

    "Hey Aunt Roma I heard that Isabel was getting another sibling!" Julia broke the silence.

    "Yep, Isabel and Luciana are getting a little sister." Roma confirmed.

   Julia gasp, "they're getting another sister!" Roma nodded her head. "Is it another daddy?" Julia asked.

   Roma stopped dead in her tracks, "what do you mean?" She couldn't have heard her and Lili talking could she?

    "Isabel said something about having a different daddy than Luciana, so I assumed." Julia trailed off.

    Roma sighed, "yeah it's a different father."

   "Are you going to watch her too?" Julia continued. Roma nodded her head once more. "Why doesn't their mom take care of  them?" 

   Roma paused, how does she explain this so a five year old could understand? "You see Julia, their mom wasn't ready to be a mother so I said I would care for them."

   "Oooooh," Julia understood, "maybe my mom wasn't a good mom." Roma sighed, she would leave it to Lili to explain that.

  

                      ~Later that week at school~

   "You two are lucky," Francine whined, "I wish I could play with you two!"

   "I'm going to Julia's because my abuela is watching Julia and Monika," Isabel explained.

   Julia shrugged her shoulders,"yeah, my grandmother going to see family dunno why."

   "Isabel, Julia!" A voice called the three kids looked down the hallway to see Roma.

   "Abuela!" Isabel shouted running down the hallway followed by Julia and Francine.

  "You two girls ready?" Roma asked as the girls nodded, "Francine do you need me to give you a ride?" Francine shook  her head. "Alright, well I hope you mom gets here soon." Roma said as she lead to two girls outside.

  At Julia's home, the two babies slept as Julia and Isabel sat in the kitchen watching Roma cook. "Abuela, will you ever teach me how to cook like you?" Isabel asked.

  "Of course! I'll also teach Luciana and your future sister!" Roma replied.

  "Do you know what your sister is named?" Julia asked.

  "No, I haven't asked," Roma replied a little less excited then before.

   "Why not?" Julia continued, Roma sighed sometimes Julia's curiosity wasn't the best. Roma as about to answer when her cellphone rang. She picked it up turning away from the kids.

   "Hello? Yes, I'm Roma Vargas......what.....are you serious.....of all times.....alright I'll be there as soon as I can....thank you." Roma hung up the phone she turned to the two kids both with confused looks on their face. "Julia, Isabel listen closely and follow everything I say, go put on your coats and wait by the door. I'm going to get Monika and Luciana." She ordered.

   "Why, what's going on?" Isabel asked.

   "I'll explain in the car, just please listen," and with that the two girls ran out of the room as Roma ran upstairs. Once they were all in the car Roma told the kids what was going on.

  "Momma having the baby!" Isabel exclaimed to only be shushed because of the two babies sleeping the back.

  "Yes, and when we get there I need you two to be helpful and behave while we are there. Got it?" Roma insisted, to which the girls nodded in agreement.

  Once they were at the hospital they were informed that the mother was currently in labor but couldn't go to the room because of the kids. So they would have to wait in the lobby till the baby was born. After about a hour and a half of waiting both Julia and Isabel had fallen asleep. Which relieved Roma she didn't know how long she could keep two five year olds from getting impatient and misbehaving. She herself was about to fall asleep too, when her phone buzzed again.

  "Hello," she whispered not wanting to wake to kids.

   

  "Roma where are you? I come home and none of you guys are home, you know how worried I was?" Lili shouted.

   "Oh Lili, we're at the hospital," Roma replied.

   "What why, oh god what happen, who's hurt?" Lili demanded.

   "No nothing like that, they're all fine. My daughter went into labor and I have to be here because of the custody." Roma explained.

   "Oh, wait you have all four kids with you, oh my. Do you want me to come over and take them off you hand, or at least Julia and Monika." Lili asked.

  "You can come and get Julia and Monika I can handle my two, besides I want them to see they're little sister when she's born." Roma replied.

   "Alright, be there soon," and with that Lili hung up. About ten minutes later Lili walked through the door.

   Roma sighed, "thanks Lili."

  "No problem, after all you watched my grandkids," Lili knelt don't to where Julia was sleeping and taped her lightly, "Julia, Julia."

  Julia opened her eyes slightly, "grandma, what are you doing here?"

   "I here to pick you and Monika up," Lili replied, Julia wrapped her arms around Lili's neck and fell back asleep as Lili picked her up, she was about to grab Monika when a nurse walked up to them.

   "Mrs. Vargas?" The nurse spoke quietly.

   "Yes, that's me," Roma replied, standing up from her seat careful not wake Isabel.

   "You and your grandchildren maybe see the baby, she's different room from the mother, 24G, I will lead you." Then turned around leading them down the hall.

   The seven of them walked into a small bright pink room with multiple cribs in there, one holding a brand new baby girl. Isabel who was now wide awake walked up to the crib looking at the clipboard hooked to the front of it. "Abuela, what does this say?" She asked.

   Roma walked up getting a close look at it, "it has all of her birth information, time, date, weight, height, name."

    "Well what is the name?" Lili asked.

    Roma smiled as she read it, "Felisa Veneziano Vargas."