Catfish: Two People Already in Love

Chapter 12

Chey POV

I twirl a piece of my purple hair around my finger as I walk down the street with Kayle and Louis. Louis keeps running his hand over Kayle’s smooth head and cackling when she smacks his hand away. As we near the apartment building I freeze when I see the ambulance in the street. Paramedics come out of the building quickly shoving a gurney into the back. I see platinum blonde hair climbing in after them and my eyes widen. Eleanor. I grab Louis hand and make him run with me.

“Chi Chi what’s going on?” He asks gasping for air.

“That was El.” I say pulling out my phone and calling Lauren. “Lauren what’s going on?”

“They said she’s gone into preterm labor. She’s having her baby Chi Chi. God and Louis doesn’t know!” She cries.

“Ask her if she wants to tell him.” I say and I hear her speaking to Eleanor in the background.

“Chey can you give Louis the phone.” El’s voice come’s through the phone. I pass the phone to Louis and he stares at me confused but takes it anyway.

“El baby what’s going on?” He asks confused. “What?! El why didn’t you tell me! I’m not mad baby I’m on my way ok? I’ll be there.”

He hangs up and grabs our hands and flags down a taxi. We squeeze in the back seat and he turns to me.

“You guys knew.” He says. I nod.

“She told us today when we were at Lauren’s doctor’s appointment.” I say and he nods.

“Why wouldn’t she tell me?” he whispers. I reach over and squeeze his hand.

“Louis, Eleanor needs you right now so please just forget that for right now. She needs you and so does your son.” I say squeezing his hand. He looks up at me and I give him a small smile. “She’s named him and everything.”

“What’s his name?”

“Edward James Javaad Tomlinson. Your family needs you Louis so come on.” I say and climb out of the taxi as we pull up to the hospital. We rush into the ER and Louis runs to the desk.

“My girlfriend came in the ambulance she was in preterm labor. Her names Eleanor Calder.” He says frantically. She types quickly on her computer.

“They’ve taken her into surgery to deliver. You can go upstairs to the surgical floor and the nurses will direct you to the waiting room. It’s on the 5th floor.” She says and points us to the elevator. We ride upstairs in silence and when the doors slide open we make our way to the nurse’s station.

“Can you tell us where the waiting room is?” I ask with a smile. The nurse points us down the hall and we hurry away. Lauren stands up and I envelope her in a hug. “How is she?”

“She was stable when they took her back. They were in a hurry to get little Edward out and stabilized as well.” She says looking at Louis. He smiles weakly at her and her eyes snap back to my hair. “WHY’S IT PURPLE! IS MY BABY A HERMAPHRYDYTE!”

I giggle and shake my head.

“No Lauren you’re having twins! A boy and a girl!” I squeal and her eyes widen.

“Oh my god! El is going to flip!” She says happily and then snaps her mouth shut. “Sorry Louis.”

“It’s ok Lauren. I’m happy for you. I bet the dad is going to be very thrilled.”

“Um the dad isn’t really in the picture.” She says awkwardly.

“oh uh sorry.” He says setting down and putting his head in his hands. We set for what seems like hours before an exhausted looking doctor enters the waiting room. We all stand up quickly and he stops.

“Eleanor Calder’s family.”

“Um we’re her friends. She’s from England. I’m her boyfriend we came over to visit friends. How is she? Is the baby ok?”

“She’s fine we have her in recovery. Your son is in the NICU. He has been put on a ventilator and several different machines to help him breath. We have him on a medication to enhance his lung growth so his lungs will develop faster. He is stable though. You can see him but you won’t be able to touch him quite yet because his immune system isn’t strong enough to fight off diseases yet. The NICU is down one floor come out of the elevator take a right and go straight on down the hall you can’t miss it. He’s labeled under the name his mother told us. Edward Tomlinson I believe.”

“Thank you doctor.” Louis says shaking his hand. He nods and disappears down the hallway. We make our way back to the elevator and head to the NICU. When we arrive a nurse exits the nursery.

“Can I help you folks?” She asks with a smile.

“Um I was told I could see me son.”

“What’s his name sweetie?”

“Edward Tomlinson.”

“He just got all settled in deary come on we’ll get you into a gown and such before you go in. Got to keep our babies healthy now don’t we.” She says with a smile and lead Louis away.

Louis POV

As I pull on the gown and mask I tremble nervously. I just found out about my son and now I’m meeting him for the first time. I smile to myself. I’m a dad. The nurse smiles and leads me in. We walk past several small sick infants before she stops and waves me forward.

“Say hi dad.” She says patting my shoulder and walking away. I walk forward and look down at the tiny frail boy laying in the incubator lots of tubes hooked up to him. I smile lightly and touch my fingers to the incubator around him.

“Hi buddy. I’m your daddy. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you or your mommy. I know I just found out about you but I love you so much. And I love your mommy. I can’t wait to teach you to play football and how to ride a bike. Your family is huge you’ve got lots of uncles and aunts and they are all going to love you so much.” I whisper and smile down at him. My heart swells with love for my newborn son and his mother. I have a family and I’m going to protect them no matter what.

 http://stealsdealsandheels.blogspot.com/2009/11/today-we-fight.html (Baby Edward) *borrowed picture totally not mine!*