The Next Step:Jiley's story

Coming Home!!

2 weeks later

The last two weeks have been pretty chaotic, with James in hospital I'm looking after eight children by myself, whilst running the best dance studio in the world and having to make repeated trips to the hospital to see James, but it will be all worth it because James is recovering well and even though his survival rates have been up and down he seems to be getting better over time, he's now not even in the intensive care unit meaning the kids can visit him. The first time I took them a few days ago all of there tiny faces lit up like a light bulb, it was so cute. I was now in the car with the triplets heading to the hospital whilst the other five were all at baby ballet, heading to the hospital. I was mindlessly listing to the radio whilst the triplets babbled to each other in a bizarre mix of baby talk and real words, the traffic lights ahead were on red and I ground the car to a halt before turning around to check that they were all fine, whilst I was watching them I felt so proud, I'd brought these people into the world and now I was teaching them how to talk and walk and eventually dance, they were so perfect.

I was walking through the corridors trying but failing to tell the triplets that they couldn't scream and run around in a hospital, I got a lot of looks off other visitors that were a cross of irritation, adoration and sympathy, in the end I picked Oscar and Isla up because I can't carry them all at the same time and if it's only one of them walking she might make slightly less noise. Eventually we got to James' room and I walked in still with two of the in my arms, as soon as I stepped inside I saw James' face light up, it must be so lonely and quiet compared to home, no wonder he loves seeing us "Hey, babe I brought the triplets but the others had baby ballet so I thought you wouldn't mind not seeing them today." I explained because I had promised to bring all the kids everyday "It's fine, I'm just glad to have some company in this place, but on a positive note I had a check over this morning and I was told that I could leave tomorrow!" he said excitedly, I smiled a huge smile, we'd been waiting for this news for weeks and now he can finally leave "Aghhh, I'm so excited, I can't wait for you to come home, I miss having you at home but most of all I miss you in bed," I say before realising that it didn't sound right, he laughed and I tried to cover up "I mean having you there, when you wrap your arms around me, I feel safe." I stutter whilst turning a bright shade of red "Yeah, sure Ri." he says clearly not believing me, I just turn my attention to Poppy who's tugging my leg, trying to get mr to play with a toy car that's in the toy box in the corner of James' room "Not now Pops, Mommy and Daddy are just having a grown up chat, give me a few minutes, okay?" I tell her she nods her head and goes to play with Isla and Oscar. I walk over to the chair besides James' bed and we just start catching up "So, anything exciting happened a the studio?" James asks me, this is how all our conversations start, I think for a moment before nodding "I'm pretty sure Noah and Richelle have fallen out over something but it's probably just Richelle being overly dramatic and Noah just being too awkward to work out how to fix it." I tell him, he just nods and then I remember something else "Oh yeah, Emily came back from Europe yesterday and came to the studio, everybody knows about the baby." I tell him and he nods "How did everybody react?" he asks me I think for a few moments before telling him "Most of them didn't even know I had a sister called Emily who used to dance." I say, it's strange seeing Emily slowly fading away, she was queen bee and now she's just another dance captain from a while ago, "Yeah I guess, most of A-troupe are new, Piper's met her right?" he asks me I nod before being distracted by Poppy tugging on my leg again "Momma, brummmm." she said clearly trying to ask me to play with the car, I nodded and then sat down on the floor and began playing with the triplets.