“Morning beautiful.” She always makes me blush when she calls me beautiful.

“What time is it?”

“Almost six.”

“What? ***** *****. My moms will freak.” I almost knock Gina down as was got up from the blanket.

“Hey hey, don’t worry, I called them. They know where we are.”

“Oh. Ok.”

“But we should be getting back anyway. I was going to wake you earlier, when I called home, but you looked so peaceful sleeping I didn’t want to wake you, so I told them we would be back as soon as you got up.”

“Well my parents know I am a late sleeper so there is no rush is there.”

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The phone rang jolting everyone from the reverie of the storytellers. They all look at the phone, no one wanting to answer it for fear that it might be bad news from the hospital. “I’ll get it.” Bette offered. She walked over to the phone and picked it up slowly to her ear. “Hello?” The other members of the household eagerly looked at Bette’s face reading every expression as she spoke. They couldn’t hear what was being said on the other end of the phone, so they relied heavily on her responses. “I’m his grand mother.” “Yes doctor, they are here with me.” “Yes, yes.” “Thank God.” “We’ll be right over.” “I understand” “Well what time can we come in the morning?” “Ok great. Doctor?” “Is he saying anything?” “I understand.” “Well we’ll be there first thing tomorrow. I’ll let the others know.” “Thank you again doctor.” “Buh bye.”

Bette put the phone down. By that time they were all gathered close, listening. “He is showing signs of consciousness. He isn’t awake fully, but they are getting more brain activity and they said that he is trying to wake up.”

“We should go there.” Gina said anxiously.

Bette tried to clam her. “They told me its best if we come tomorrow.”

“He needs us now. What if he gets up tonight and we aren’t there.” Angelica’s tears were beginning to flow.

“Doctor Martin said that it isn’t likely that we would get much more out of him tonight. He said we could come in tomorrow.” Bette tried to reason with the frenzied parents. “Look, try to get some sleep. I’ll let the others know and they could meet us there tomorrow.”