Adopted

Chapter 16

It was 4am in LazyTown, and everyone were sleeping peacefully – well, except for Valeria.

She had a nightmare full of flashbacks of Stephanie's birth day. From the moment they arrived to the hospital until the moment they were told that their baby was kidnapped.

She was tossing and turning in her sleep, mumbled from time to time until she woke up crying and screaming "NO!".

She was sitting still, all crying and sweating, and Alexander woke up too.

"Honey, what happened? Is everything all right?" he asked worried. Then Valeria lowered her head, placed her hands on her stomach and began to cry again. He then understood what happened. She had that nightmare for the first 2 and half years. He pulled her into his chest and hugged her tight and stroke her hair. "Shh, everything is ok. It won't happen again, I promise you that."

Stephanie opened their bedroom door with a worried look on her face.

"Is everything ok? I heard a scream from here..." she asked.

"Yes, everything is ok here. She'll be fine. You can go back to sleep." He replied with weak smile.

"Ok..." she said and was about to leave and close the door but she regretted and came back into the room and joined to their hug.

Valeria didn't care, but Alex was a bit surprised. He smiled again wrapped one of his arms around her. And they were hugging like that until they all fell asleep together, in the same bed.

*****

Alexander woke his wife up around 8:30am, but she was turning to the other side. He just laughed a little and tried again.

"Come on, sweetie, it's time to wake up."

"Ugh, I don't want to..."

"But you have to, it's your first ultrasound today!" he said cheerily.

Valeria opened her eyes and sat on the bed.

"Oh my god, it's today, you're right. It's amazing that two months had already passed." She thought out loud.

"I know, we're finally going to see it." He smiled and sat next to her.

"You know it will be quite hard because now it's this little." She signified with her fingers.

"So? It's still count." He said and kissed her stomach.

"Now come on, let's get you dressed and ready, we will be leaving in an hour." He told her.

*****

It was 9:55am when they were waiting for their turn at the doctor. They were sitting outside the room, and Alex noticed that Vale was shaking her leg. He guessed she was nervous.

"Hey, it'll be ok." He tried to calm her down.

"I know, it's just..." she began to say but stopped herself when she felt the tears coming up.

"I know it feels hard for you, but trust me when I say that nothing will go wrong." He told her, grabbed her face and kissed her.

"Alright. I trust you." She said with a weak smile.

*****

Five minutes later, they were called into the room.

Valeria lied on the bed, holding her husband's hand all the time.

The doctor put the cold gel on her stomach and that made her shiver a little bit.

"Is it really that cold?" He whispered to her.