changing our lives

hospital visit

Michael POV:

"so we only got 2 states left" Jamie confirms

"Hey" Eric smiles as he enters the office "how's the little one?" he asks me

"he's good"

I can't believe it's been 2 months, it seems like yesterday Alfie was born. he likes to wake us up at the most horrible times in the morning, but sleeps mostly through the day. sadly he got that from me cause I was like that as a baby too. I still haven't found this person which is pissing me off so much.

"we should go to the 2 states together then"

"great, meet at the airport in 3hrs" I say and leave

Alice POV:

Michael says bye to us and leaves, this should be the end....hopefully. Violet came around with Louise about 20mins ago and she's giving me good tips, Alfie starts crying so I go and check on him.

"Violet, can you come here" I call

"what's wrong?" she asks walking into the room

"he's really hot, is this normal?" I ask handing Alfie to her

"we should get it checked out at the hospital, Louise had this and it was just the flu but we should still go"

"he will be ok though?"

"of course he will" she smiles and hands him back to me, I get his little jacket and put it on him and I put him in the car seat whilst Violet locks the house for me.

we get to the hospital and the wait time wasn't actually that long which was good, luckily Alfie was ok and it was just a flu of some sort. I feel a bit silly now for my over dramatic behaviour but I guess all new mom's does it right?

"ready to go home now?" Violet asks

"yeah"

we was waiting for the lift and my phone starts to ring

"hello"

"hello, is this Alice?"

"yeah, may I ask who is this please?"

"it's the general hospital, Michael has been admitted to us and you're the first of his emergency contacts"

"what room?"

"410"

"ok I'll be there now"

the lift arrives and I press 4th floor, which is a floor below us

"why did you do that?"

"Michael is here"

"shouldn't he be boarding a plane?"

"he's meant to be"

we get out the lift and makes our way to room

"hi, I'm Alice. is Michael ok? what happened?"

"wow, you got here quick"

"I was on 5th floor when you rang me, little one here has a flu. anyways what happened to Michael?"

"he's been shot.....Miss is there something we should know?"

"what do you mean?"

"his records has a lot of gun shots on it"

"we visit my cousin a lot and he lives in the ghettos and Michael gets involved to break up the fights he has there a lot" I lie

"ah, we have a lot of these. this one person is in every other month, it's a cruel world out there"

"yeah"

"he will be ok, but can't eat soild food for 3 days"

"ok, can we see him please?"

"of course" she smiles and steps away from the door

"hey" Michael smiles

"anyone asks, ghetto fight at my cousin's" I say as I approach the bed

"ok" he smiles at Alfie and reaches his hands up for him, so I pass him to him "why is he so hot?"

"he has the flu, we was on our way home when I got the call to see you"

"is he gonna be ok?"

"yeah, just some medicine he has to have on regular times"

Jamie comes in and was shocked to see Violet and Louise but he smiles.

Michael's POV

"Jamie tell everyone to go on ahead and I will join you all in around 4 days"

"you sure? he's obviously in the area"

"just tell them to go"

"ok"

I hate to say it but I just want this all to end, being a father changes you and I never thought it would. I didn't like leaving Alice in the first place and now I definitely don't like leaving her alone with Alfie. I didn't get hurt, it was just a shot. I'm pretty used to them. Jamie and Violet leaves as I place Aflie next to me and wrap my arm around him as he falls asleep. Alice pulls her chair closer and places her hand on mine

"you ok?"

"I'm fine" I smile

"where did you get shot?"

"nowhere major, just the side"

"Michael it obviously is major seeing as you can't eat soild food"

"it just hit some of my stomach lining" I say casually as Alice face cringes

"stop saying it so casually, this isn't normal Michael. they're noticing this frequent gun shots and soon they will inform the police"

"I know" she has got a point and I have thought of it myself which makes me want to find this person even faster

"it will be ok, won't it?"

"of course it will baby, everything is gonna be ok. I'll make sure of it"

I hope everything will be ok, I can't be wrong.

Alice's POV:

I look at the time, another 2 hours before Michael can go home. I look over and smile,  like father like son. they're both asleep with their mouth open a little and lightly snoring. I get my phone out and take a quick photo then I find another magazine to read.  Michael wakes up an hour and a half later and they let him go early so finally I'm out of this place.

"oi, wrong side" I whisper yell at Michael who goes to the driver side of the car

"I'm fine"

"Michael, it's 11pm freezing cold and I don't want Alfie waking up again so get to the other side"

"alright, fine"  he walks to the other side and I put Alfie in the car,  I get in and then we make our way home. when we get home I put Alfie to bed carefully and thankfully he doesn't wake up. I go and have a quick shower and out my pj's on, when I go back to the bedroom Michael is already laying in bed and I holding Alfie's hand through the bars of the crib. I smile and get into bed and he moves back up to the top of the bed.

"you know the wedding can't have a late party" he smiles

"I know"

"so maybe we should start planning it now?"

"yeah" I smile

"first thing tomorrow" he gives me a kiss and hold me in his arms as he falls asleep. it doesn't take too long afterwards until I fall asleep myself.