chapter 2

After 3 hours, Moretti and Valencia family arrived at the hospital and went directly to Amelia's room. They entered the room and saw Amelia was resting in her bed and Francesco was cutting fruits for her.

When the door of Amelia's room was open with a thud, Francesco was going to lecture the person who has the audacity to open the door like this but stopped when he saw their family standing there. He stood up in his place.

His family went to Amelia and pushed Francesco aside, who just shook his head as it wasn't new to him.

They all first kissed her forehead and started bombarding questions.

"How are you?"

"Are you feeling any pain?"

"Where is my grandson?"

"Where is my nephew?"

"Is he ok?"

"Is he fine now?"

"Do you need anything?"

And so many more. And you have guessed who has asked about grandson and nephew.

They were not giving a chance to Amelia to answer them. So Amelia shouted,"stop." And they immediately shut their mouth.

She replied,"yeah I'm good, there is slight pain but I'll be alright in a few days."

When Amelia listened to grandson and nephew, she knew that Francesco had not told them about the baby being the girl. She just looked towards her husband and saw a smirk on his face and shook her head. She replied to them,"who told you there is a grandson and nephew.?"

They all shouted together,"what!!"

"I know you might have connected the dots and yes now you have a granddaughter and niece." Said Amelia with a soft smile on his face.

There were unshed tears gathered in their eyes. Arturo and Roberto both kissed her forehead and said,"thank you."

Listening to this, Francesco said,"thank me too, I also have done hard work." To which everyone glared at him.

"Or maybe not. Gosh they are scary." Said Francesco in a small voice.

Amelia laughed at this. They all smiled listening to her laugh.

After some time, Amelia slept after taking his medicine. They all went outside so that she can take rest and not wake up from their talks.

As they went outside their demeanor became serious.

Roberto asked in a cold voice,"why didn't you tell me about my granddaughter?"

Francesco gulped listening to this and said,"I didn't tell you about the baby being the boy, you assumed it yourself." And shrugged his shoulder.

"Don't be smart with me boy, If this happens again then I will take my daughter and granddaughter, with no contact to you for a month." Roberto threatened him with Amelia and granddaughter as he knows they are his weakness and not with his grandson as he knew he would be happy if he took them for a month.

Francesco grumbled some incoherent words under his breath but eventually nodded.

He told them about the breathing condition of the baby. They all become sad after hearing this. But when Francesco told them the breathing mask is just a precaution for some days as doctors took some tests and physically she has no problem now, just she is a little weak as she is born premature.

They all breathed a sigh of relief after listening to this.

They all went to the NICU and saw the baby from the window as they are not allowed inside for now.

Adonis and Lucian went to the kids shop to buy some necessary things for baby like clothes feeders and some diapers, wipes and all. After getting a lot of threats and instructions from Francesco to not buy many things, only for two weeks as Amelia wanted to buy clothes for their girl herself with their family together.

When Francesco told them about Amelia's wish they controlled their urge to buy the whole kids shop because they knew if they did and Amelia got to know they would not be saved by anyone.

Their family stayed for some days with them and returned to Milan. They all wanted to stay but Amelia and Francesco forced them to go. They all have only seen the baby in the picture as many family members were not allowed in the NICU so that the baby can't get any germs, only their parents were allowed.

They all wanted to meet her but not at the cost of her getting ill so they were content to see her in pictures.

After helping Francesco in taking care of Amelia and the baby girl. They all went back.

When they returned home they told their family members that now Amelia and the baby are doing fine and will return after two weeks, but they didn't tell anyone about the baby being a girl. They also wanted to see their shocked reactions, so the other assumed the baby was a boy. They had shown the pictures of Babygirl to them but just by  seeing her face, they couldn't identify her gender but they gushed over her and were excited to see her in person.

In the early days, due to the C-section it was a bit difficult for Amelia to walk but she was determined to take care of their baby girl so she used to go on a wheelchair to the NICU with Francesco. Where there, Amelia used to feed her and Francesco used to change her.

Two weeks passed like this, Amelia was quite fine then before, and their baby girl also was doing fine.

Now she didn't need any oxygen mask as she was breathing fine.

Amelia and Francesco both were taking care of their baby with the help of nurses there. Now the baby recognized their touch and warmth.

The NICU had an infant-parent room attached to it.On the night before the baby discharge, the parents spend a night with the baby themselves, a trial run for taking the baby home next day when the parents would be one hundred percent responsible for their baby and no nurses for to guide, advice and encourage.

Francesco and Amelia were both excited yet nervous to spend the night with their baby.

They all went inside the room.

The room was neither too big nor too small. It was a cozy room with a bed and a small table to put things.

Francesco brought food for himself and Amelia and a big bouquet of roses for Amelia and a small one rose bouquet for his baby.

(Amelia's bouquet)

(Their daughter's bouquet)

Francesco first gave the bouquet to Amelia who thanked him with a soft kiss on his lips. He so wanted to kiss her more after getting the taste of her lips but refrained himself.

Then he forwarded the bouquet to their baby which Amelia took by holding the hands of the baby and said in a baby voice,"thank you daddy."

Francesco smiled at them and said,"welcome baby girl." And kissed her forehead.

First they both had their dinner and then Amelia nursed Bella to which she slept peacefully after that.

Amelia held her close to her heart and the baby feeling the warmth of her mother, snuggled more into Amelia's chest.

Amelia kissed her head lovingly.

After sometime Amelia asked,"what will be her name?"

As Amelia has named the boys so it was only fair to Francesco to name their baby girl, so Amelia asked him.

To which Francesco replied with a smile, "Her name will be 'Isabella Rose Ivy Valencia-Moretti'."

Amelia smiled listening to the name as Francesco named the baby 'Rose' in the remembrance of his mother and 'Ivy' in the respect of her mother.

She smiled at the thoughtfulness of Francesco.

They both were sitting in silence and admiring the sleeping Bella (nickname for Bella and we'll be used in the story).

After two to three hours later, Bella woke up from her sleep and looked at his parents with her big doe eyes.

Francesco held her in her arms and was talking with her.

While Amelia after looking at Bella's eyes giggled a little. When Francesco listened to her giggles, asked her about the reason. To which she replied with a mischievous smile,"oh just nothing, I just remembered the moment when we for the first time saw Bella's eyes."

Francesco just rolled his eyes at her and went back to talking to Bella who was listening to him with complete concentration as if she was understanding everything.

Amelia just giggled again a little more at his reaction.

A few days after birth, Bella opened her eyes, they both were mesmerized to see her eyes.

When Francesco saw her eyes, he was surprised as well as jealous. He was surprised because she has eyes with two colors, brown just like Amelia and blue like him (i.e., heterochromia) which no one in their family had except for one person and jealous because she had eyes just like that person which was their eldest son Alessandro. He knew that when his son would get to know about it. He's gonna have a smug look on his face. She was his daughter why can't she has eyes just like him.

Amelia just laughed looking at his jealous face and teased him at every opportunity she got.

(Flashback will be in Italics in the whole story)

The family of three spent the whole night with each other peacefully.

They didn't get any problem handling Bella alone, she was a very calm child only crying when she needs attention from her parents, hungry or needs changing.

Bella also is very fond of her dad. She loves to be in his arms and wants her dad all the time. She has her curious eyes on her dad , seeing what he is doing.

Bella also loved spending time with her mother. Whenever she makes a fuss about not having milk, Amelia will boop her nose three times Bella will look at her with big eyes and have it.

Next day, after completing the formalities of discharge, they went back to the airport to go back to their home as everyone was waiting for them. They have already informed their family about the discharge and they were eagerly waiting for their arrival.

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