I picked up the phone and held Hunter's hand.
"H-hello."
I put the phone on speaker so Hunter could hear too.
"Hello Mrs. Rowland, I'm calling about Kenlee. It appears that she may have a hole in her heart, her breathing is starting to decline. We're running tests right now and we should have the results in three or so hours."
I gave the phone to Hunter and walked upstairs to Kenlee's room. I walked over to her crib and picked up the little stuffed animal we had bought for her. It was a little, brown teddy bear and when you pushed it stomach it repeated the sentence "Mommy and Daddy love you so much Kenlee." I held on to it and brushed my finger over the little monogrammed 'K' in the middle. I felt a pair of muscular arms wrap around my waist.
"Do you wanna go see her?"
I turned around and immediately hugged Hunter.
"You said e-everything would be okay."
I wasn't crying yet but my voice was shaky.
"Everything will be okay, they're running tests that will come back negative. She's only a few days old but she's a strong little baby, just like her Mommy. She'll get through it and so will we. Come downstairs with me, I wanna make cookies."
Hunter knew I loved cookies. I set the teddy bear back in the crib and walked downstairs and into the kitchen. Hunter grabbed the cookie mix and all the ingredients. I grabbed the bowl and the stuff to mix it with and tide my hair up so I wouldn't get it in the batter. Hunter took the cookie mix and started reading off the instructions.
"Step one, heat oven to 375 degrees. Stir cookie mix, softened butter, and water in a bowl until soft dough forms."
I took the cookie mix and poured the water and the butter in and started mixing.
"Uh babe? How do you turn on the oven?"
I laughed and handed Hunter the mixing bowl.
"Why don't you just mix the cookies and I'll do the hard stuff?"
When Hunter was done mixing we put the cookies on the tray and put them in the oven.
We went in the den and watched Orange Is The New Black until the cookies were ready. Fifteen minutes later they were ready. I pulled them out the oven and put them on a plate and brought them in the den.
"Dang lil' mama, these are good."
I laughed and kept watching OITNB. After about an hour or so I had to pee so I got out of Hunter's grip and walked upstairs to the bathroom. While I was using the bathroom I heard my phone go off. It sounded like Hunter had answered it so it couldn't be too important. I walked downstairs and plopped down on the couch.
"Okay, thank you. We'll be up there as soon as we can...bye."
He put the phone down and ran upstairs and started throwing random things in a bag.
"Hunter, what's wrong? What are you doing?"
He wouldn't answer me, he just kept throwing things in the bag.
"Hunter Bryce."
He slowly stopped and turned so that he was facing me. He had tears in his eyes and his lip was quivering. I walked over to him and hugged him.
"Aw babe, it's okay. Don't cry. What happened?"
He set the bag down on the bed.
"We gotta g-go to the hospital r-right now. Kenlee's t-test came back positive...she h-has a hole in her h-heart Vanessa." -------------------------------------------------------Thanks for reading!! Sorry that was kind of a sad chapter :((
