Left Behind

Mal Please Eat

   Carlos sighed as he watched Jane continue to play with his newborn sister as if she was playing with a baby doll. "Jane, can I please hold my sister now. You've been holding her for hours," the twelve year old asked his new friend in annoyance as he just wanted to hold his own sister.

"I know but you get to see her everyday. I don't have a baby sister or brother either. And she's just so cute! I am so jealous!" Jane told Carlos excitedly as she continued to hug and cuddle on the newborn.

"Yeah, but Jane she's not a toy please be careful with her," Carlos told his friend who just laughed. "Don't worry! I can handle holding a baby and I know she's not a toy, but she's as tiny as a doll anyway!" Jane told Carlos who just sighed as he really didn't like the way Jane was playing with his sister.

"Oh look I can make her fly!" Jane screamed out making Carlos lose it as he grabbed Mal from her. "Okay that's enough! It's getting late now anyway! I should put her to bed! Night Jane I'll see you tomorrow!" Carlos quickly told the girl, making her nod as she left.

"Um okay. Well I'll see you tomorrow then. Oh can I just say goodnight to Mal one more time please," Jane rambled out making Carlos look at the now sleeping newborn. "Jane, she's sleeping right now. I think we should just let her sleep, but you can see her tomorrow okay," Carlos told his friend who nodded as she left.

"Okay night Carlos! And night little cutie baby!" Jane screamed out as she left, making Carlos sigh in relief and as soon as Jane left the small newborn opened her eyes making Carlos laugh.

"You little faker!" Carlos told the newborn. "Okay I just know that you are gonna be a huge troublemaker when you're older!" Carlos told the newborn and as if agreeing with him the baby started crying.

"Okay you are only 3 weeks old and you already know how to fake sleep and cry on demand ," Carlos told the newborn. "Alright well it's late. Night Mal I love you," Carlos told the tiny newborn as he placed her into her bassinet and then went to his bed to sleep.

As soon as Carlos fell asleep Jay got back from hanging out with his crew and saw the newborn that was crying. "Aw come here. Are you hungry," Jay asked the newborn after he checked for everything else and she was fine.

Jay just quickly made up a bottle for the newborn and tried to feed her, but the baby just pushed it away and cried. "Mal come on you have to eat!" Jay practically screamed out as he couldn't get the newborn to take the bottle and he knew Carlos was struggling a lot too.

"Mal take the bottle! I'm not Carlos! I will force this down your throat! You are not dying on me do you hear me!" Jay screamed out making the newborn start sobbing again and waking up Carlos.

"What's going on? Why are you screaming?" Carlos asked his older cousin who just sighed in frustration. "Mal won't take the bottle! What do we do!" Jay screamed out as he was panicking. He had no clue how to handle something like this.

"I don't know! I couldn't get her to take the bottle either! I got her to take a tiny amount, but not nearly as much as she should be eating!" The twelve year old screamed out as he began to panic as well.

"Did you ever get her to take a full bottle!" Jay asked and Carlos just sighed as he looked at Jay. "Yeah she used to eat all the time before mom left and she had to switch to formula! We were struggling to get her to take the bottle, but Ava managed to get her to take it! I miss Ava! She would know how to deal with this!" Carlos told his cousin who nodded in agreement.

"Yeah you're right. Have you tried calling her!" Jay asked Carlos as they were both freaking out because they couldn't get the newborn to eat. "I tried that yesterday! She didn't pick up!" Carlos screamed out making Jay groan.

"Are you serious! Let me try! She better pick up! She owes me!" Jay screamed out as he grabbed his phone while Carlos was still struggling to get the newborn to stop crying and to eat. "Ava Evie Jalali pick up the dang phone!" Jay screamed out in frustration as his phone kept going to voicemail.

Jay sighed in relief when Ava finally answered the phone. "Jay explain to me why I have 100 missed calls from you at 3 in the morning!" Ava screamed out through the phone in frustration as she was trying to sleep because she was going to be starting school at BHU soon.

"You're upset at me! You just threw a newborn and a kid at me! A newborn which won't eat by the way!" Jay screamed out over the phone as he was upset. Ava just sighed. "Okay relax I'm doing this to keep them safe from the media! And you agreed to do this!" Ava screamed back on the phone as they began to get into a huge argument.

Carlos just sighed as he looked at the sobbing newborn. "Okay come on Mal you and me are gonna get some fresh air. Maybe that will help you eat and it will get us away from all the screaming," Carlos told the newborn as he placed her into her stroller and then carefully made his way out the door while Jay was still full on screaming with Ava over the phone.

As soon as they made it out of the dorm Carlos sighed in relief as he realized how much more free he felt and the newborn seemed to agree as she stopped crying making Carlos smile as he took her out of the stroller and took out her bottle.

"Okay puppy now we are going to try this again. Please take the bottle. Please take the bottle. Please take the bottle," Carlos began to quietly tell himself as he took the lid off the purple bottle and sat down on a park bench and held up the bottle to the baby's tiny mouth.

The small baby was about to push the bottle away again, but stopped when she got a tiny taste of the milk as she just latched on the bottle and began to drink from it making Carlos smile in victory. "Yes! I did it!" The young twelve year old screamed out in victory immediately frightening the newborn and making her stop drinking.

"Dang it! Come on Mal please take the bottle again. I'm sorry for scaring you. I keep forgetting how fragile you are," Carlos told the newborn who refused the bottle again. "Ugh why are newborns so difficult! I can't do this! I quit! I quit! I quit!" Carlos screamed out in frustration while the newborn kept sobbing.

Just as Carlos was about to just completely lose it he felt a kind hand on his shoulder making him look up to see a lady he had never seen before.

"Hi there. I'm Belle and my husband and I own the school here. Are you okay," Belle asked the young boy who just looked up and started crying more as this lady was very motherly and it made him really miss his mom.