A13//The quite story

Faded (unedited)

Carmen's pov:

We're all sitting on our beds, sitting in silence except for the sniffles, I don't let any emotion, I never had been the type of person to cry, not when my parents divorced, or when my dad left, or when me and Gally were neglected, not even when the whole fucking world burnt to nothing and fell apart.

"I know, Carmen." Eddie says, as he sits next to me.

"I know you two we're very close, I'm sorry." My best friend says. He has tears down his face. I just took him out and lay in my bed.

Remember when Kayla used to do our hair and take care of it, even though it was dry from the chemicals that WCKD put in it she didn't care, she still did it. Every morning.

She used to alway sing that one stupid song, American pie. Why couldn't she just survive.

That stupid doctor and and because of fucking Teresa she's dead.

I just keep on thinking of memories, everything reminds me of her, I haven't even realized it's been a few days, I should have realized by how the doctors would some and lock our hands up. I then remember the past few days and how Amari would sit with me most of the time, I don't even think I just put my brain in auto pilot, I remember taking showers the past few days, and Eddie sitting next to me doing what he does a lot of the time, playing videos game. I also remember Kenzie crying with Jordan. Jordan has put his cochlear implants away, he hasn't been using them so we're back to signing.

A doctor them walks in, with a another behind her. Wheeling in something.

"Guys, this is the baby. We're handing him over with the amount of supply that you need." She says as Lee is signing for Jordan. Kenzie sits up from her phone.

Amari lifts me up as I try to as well. The baby is in the crib, not making any noise.

"We need to know what you'll name him." She says in her English accent, making it all seem like so much. I feel overwhelmed like an anxiety attack is coming on.

I haven't had one since Kayla she made my anxiety go away, she made me feel like I had nothing to be afraid of.

Amari looks at me.

"It's okay, we just need to pick a name" he says trying to soothe me.

'Liam.' I sign, to him.

"I like that name." He whispers.

"His name will be Liam." He says, as she right something down, when he's not talking in Russian you can hear his accent.

"Perfect." She says, as she walks out. We all just stare at the small baby as others get s better look.

"So what do we do now?" Eddie asks, no one response.

"How do we take care of a baby?"  Kenzie asks, Lee shakes his head.

"Amari took parenting classes with Kayla, maybe he knows." Lee says, looking over.

The baby has familiar features to Kayla, he has a the same nose, and calm face, and-

Kayla! What the fuck! Why would you leave me.

I fall back onto the bed, the baby started crying.

Eddie picked it up, Jordan got a bottle and the other scrammed around. Amari laid next to me.

"It's going to be okay. We're okay, Kayla's in a better place. These things happen for a reason" he whispers, as he drags his fingers through my hair.

What was the reason?

When the baby stops crying Eddie sits on his bed that's next to mine.

"Carmen, we're going to get through this. All of us will. Everything will be okay." He says, it was clearly hard for him to say but he said it.