Speech • A Cameron Dallas AU

Chapter 24

L i z z i e

Still shivering, I climbed into Cameron's car. I was cold, crying, anxious, and quite frankly started feeling sharp pains. "Ah, Cam, babe, please, hurry." I spoke whimpering almost. "I'm trying, Liz I am." He spoke pulling up to a red light and reaching over and rubbing my back slightly.

When we got settled in at the hospital and my doctor figured out what was going on, she sighed. "I'm afraid that you are in fact in labor. I'm going to try to find a way to get you from not having this baby right now but it will most likely come down to him being early." She spoke clinging to her clipboard. "No, no, no I can't have this baby right now. No." I spoke sitting up straighter. "I'm sorry, Elizabeth. You can't stop labor." She spoke looking at me before leaving. I looked at Cameron wearily. "I-I can't have him now.. I don't even have a name, or-or the proper clothing, or-or..."

"Hey, hey, we got this. I'll ask Matt to pick up some stuff and I'll get my family here. We've dealt with a deaf one year old I'm certain we can handle a premature baby. Okay?" He asked rubbing my hand. I nodded slowly, looking at all the wires attached to my stomach. They were trying to keep a monitor on the baby's stats and were he was. He. "Well we at least found out the gender today.." I spoke softly looking at Cameron who had a bright smile on his face. "You seem happy about it." I spoke giggling almost. It made me happy to see him happy. I guess that's how you know you're in love. When you're happy knowing that person is happy. "I'm excited. Not for the long nights but the trucks, dirt, cars, boats all the little boy stuff he's gonna get into. Like, I didn't have that with Davis. I had tutus, makeup, hair clips and bows." I laughed slightly and shook my head. The pain had lessened and I figured they'd put me on some sort of pain medication to put me at bay. "You have any names for this trouble maker?" Cam asked cautiously rubbing my swollen stomach. "Isaac." I spoke after thinking for a second. "Isaac? Isn't that the kid from The Fault in Our Stars?" He asked chuckling. "It's Augustus' sidekick. What if we named him Augustus!" I spoke sitting up a bit. "Liz I love you but I'm not putting our son through that. " he spoke chuckling. "Why not? He could become metaphorical and be bright and just all around smart and intelligent and handsome and-"

"And it sounds like you're crushing on Ansel Elgort right now." He interrupted. "Maybe. You'll never know. Back to the name. Do you like it?" I asked looking at him. "Not for a first name. It's too... Old. I like Miles though." He spoke poking my nose lightly. "Awww Miles Isaac Dallas. I love it." I spoke leaning back and letting my head hit the pillow. "You're sure you wanna name him that?" He asked looking at me. "Cameron I've made up my mind don't make me think about it any further." I spoke closing my eyes and smirking slightly. "Alright, Alright. I'm going to go check in with Shawn and Nash on Davis and then get Matt and Carter to the store okay?" I nodded not opening my eyes since sleep was started to take over. I felt Cameron kiss my forehead and I fell asleep.

I woke up to a lot of hustling and saw Cameron and his family trying to get things sorted out. Cameron was hugging Sierra tightly and I was actually concerned. "What's going on?" I asked softly. Cameron then looked over his shoulder, as did Sierra. "Well good morning sleepy head." Cameron laughed walking over. He was in different clothes from when I fell asleep and it was dark outside. "What's up?" I asked again since I hadn't gotten my answer. "Sierra finally remembers me. She got her memory back. That's all." Cameron explained sitting on the end of the bed. "That's good. What time is it, I'm hungry." I spoke pushing the button to incline the seat up. "It's 4 AM, darling." I heard Mrs.Dallas speak from her spot in the corner of the room. I nodded and then noticed. My mother wasn't in the room. "Cameron. Where's my mom? Where's my grandmother?" Cameron sighed and looked at Sierra and then back at me. "Your mom called me after I texted her, from a hospital in North Dakota." I sat up very concerned. "And?" I asked softly. "Your grandma had a stroke three days ago. She's just finally becoming stable and they don't think they can make it for Miles' birth." Cameron spoke taking my hand. I sat for a while before pushing the blankets up. I swung my legs to the side of bed and started to get up. "Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?" Cameron asked standing in front of my path. "Packing up. I'm not having this baby without my mom and grandmother here." I spoke looking up at him. He squatted down in front of me and started rubbing my knee. "Liz, I know how important your mom and grandma are to you and how important this is to you, but you have to think about what's best for Miles." He spoke softly, trying to persuade me. "Get me some pizza and I'll think about it." I spoke getting back into bed. Sierra and Cameron both let out a laugh. Cameron's mom wasn't in the room so she hadn't heard. I heard my phone go off from a mention. "@LizNades 'get me some pizza and I'll think about it.' " from Sierra. I laughed and shook my head. I then saw some tweets from Shawn, Nash, Matt and Carter.

"@ShawnMendes: Babysitting with @NashGrier . Davis is the cutest thing ever."

"@NashGrier: I feel really bad about this @CameronDallas hope all's good"

"@MattEspinosa: Well I feel adultish. #babyclothes #thisisntright"

"@CarterRenolds: You guys still don't know the gender of #BabyDallas that sucks."

I tapped on the hashtag and millions of tweets came up.

" Getting nervous about #BabyDallas . Rumor about @LizNades and @CameronDallas being at the ER got me like 😁"

" so excited for #BabyDallas and it's not my kid."

"Is #BabyDallas the new North Kardashian-West ? I hope not"

I smiled and shook my head tweeting.

"Baby train starting to enter the station? Kinda. Complications due to #GenderRevealPartyBlowout and possible delivery. Let you know."

"Oh and by the way, there's gonna be a lotta blue soon. ;) 🔵💠🔷🔹"

I sighed and set my phone down. "I want my little girl." I complained looking at Sierra. "Well she's almost an hour away so if you want her you're going to have to wait." She laughed as she looked back at her phone.

I didn't know how long I was going to be here. And I didn't know if I was going to have this baby. All I knew, was that there was so much going on and I was getting emotionally tired.