Bette stood outside on her mobile.
“How’s she feeling today?” Kit asked
“Well she’s going back into surgery this afternoon so she’s slightly nervous” Bette explained to her sister
“How’s my niece?”
“Holding it together, god knows how she is” Bette admitted “She’s doing better than all of us”
“Mason is asking to speak to you, let’ me put him on” Kit said
“Mama?”
“Hi Sweetie I hope your behaving”
“Can I talk to Jess please?” Mason asked
“Sweetheart Jess won’t leave Carmen at the minute”
“Oh”
“I’ll ask her to call you, and I’m sure she will when she gets a chance, can I give her a message?”
“Just tell her I love her, and tell Mum I’m sorry I was a jerk”
“I will, how’s school?”
“It’s okay, James has been letting me chill out in your office to do some homework every day before basketball”
“Ok, listen sweetheart I need to go, I love you and please don’t give Auntie Kit any grief”
“I won’t” Mason hung up the phone
Bette put her phone back into her pocket walking back into the hospital.
Andrew and Jace, Lee and Mark were all standing outside the door to Carmen’s room.
“Guys you can go in you know”
“No were okay here, she deserves a little privacy” Jace said
“Okay suit yourself” Bette smiled walking into the room
Dr Ewan walked into the room…Looked at carmen’s chart. “Okay we’ll be prepping you in about 20 minutes for surgery so we need your visitors to leave if that’s okay”
“I’m not going anywhere till she leaves this room” Jess turned facing the Dr
“We need to prep Carmen I understand this is difficult but…”
“You can work round me, I’m going nowhere” Jess stated
“Jess…” Bette began
“No Mama I’m going nowhere” Jess said firmly looking at Bette she then turned to Carmen “I’m not going anywhere okay”
Carmen smiled
“Okay, okay I surrender” The doctor smiled “Everyone else can I please ask you to leave”
Bette, Tina and Lisa all hugged Carmen before leaving the room.
Jess sat back down, still holding Carmen’s hand.
Dr Ewan left the room closing the door.
“You’re going to be hear when I get out right?” Carmen asked
“Yes off course I am”
“You like to run when things get tough Jess”
“No I think that you will find that was you this time round” Jess stated “Besides I’m not getting into this when you’re going into an OR”
“Jess, you told me you wished I didn’t come back to LA”
“Carmen I’m not having this discussion right now” Jess snapped
“I need to know you’re going to be here when I get out”
“I promise you I’m not going anywhere” Jess explained
“I wouldn’t blame you if you did”
“Carmen, look you made a mistake, I made a mistake let’s just leave it there, everytime we have an argument something bad happens, so considering you’re going into an OR can we have this conversation when I know you’re absolutely fine please”
“Carmen it’s time to take you down to the OR” The nurse said coming into the room
“Can Jess walk down with us?”
“I don’t see why not” The nurse smiled
The Nurse and two porters came to wheel Carmen down to the OR.
They got outside the OR “This is as far as you can go sorry” The nurse explained to Jess
“Well give you a second” The nurse said
Carmen start to get upset.
“Why you crying” Jess asked rubbing the tears away “You’ll be back out in no time”
“Just a bit freaked out with all this” Carmen explained “Some guy is going to be playing about with my brain”
“Well he’s a neuro surgeon Carmen so he knows what he’s doing” Jess smiled
“Jess I love you so much”
“I love you too, be good in there and I’ll see you when you come out” Jess said leaning down and kissing Carmen on the head
“Can you kiss me properly please?”
Jess did as Carmen asked “Stop crying please, I don’t like seeing you crying”
“Ok I need to take her in now” the nurse said
“She comes back to me the way she went in okay?” Jess stated
“We’ll try our best” the nurse smiled
“Ok” Jess said letting go of Carmen’s hand