While Stephanie is inside the car, trying to hold her breath as the baby starts kicking, Levi enters the store and looks for the bottle of water and sandwich Stephanie wanted, only to find that, the charge station's store has no one inside, not even a single worker, "This is weird, are the workers on a break or something? I better check on Steph" he says as he runs to the door, only to find that it's closed shut.
Meanwhile Stephanie can't handle the cramps anymore and opens one of the back sit of the car, in order to reach the stuff in the trunk, and takes out the birth machine, starting to read the instructions on how to put it on, meanwhile Ms Sharlet goes to the store where Levi is still trapped inside, she opens the door with ease, and looks at Levi and says, "Well, did you have a hard time opening the door? I see, you don't mind if we, I mean I take the baby right now, right?".
Levi looks confused on what on earth is his grandmother even talking about, he runs to the meat shelf and takes a hard large beef bone and uses it to smash on of the big glass window open, and runs to the car. The car starts moving backwards, he calls Stephanie to check if she's alright, but she doesn't answer the call, so he starts running after the car, taking one of the pipes of the charge station, throwing it to the car's wind shield, so it is stuck to the glass, as he pulls the car forward.
After the car stops, he quickly goes to open the back sit door, "Steph! Are you..., baby" he says, surprised that Stephanie decided to just deliver their baby inside the car, "Are you okay?" He asks, as he steps inside to see the baby, "Yeah, I'm good, the birth machine wasn't too complicated to read" she says with a tired smile, he soon takes the baby from her hands, "It's a baby girl, she's perfect" he says carrying her in his arms.
Stephanie takes a deep breath, "Can I have the bottle of water, now?" She asks.
"Uh...about that..." Levi says unable to figure out a way to give her an explanation on what's going on inside that store. "Did something happen in there?" She asks, looking a bit concerned, but before he could answer, they hear noise coming from the back of the car, it's a person running towards them, but they can't see the person clearly since it's really dark outside.
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The person reaches the car, as the two notice that it's Ms Sharlet, "Where, were you two? You had me worried like crazy, why did you leave the house without me?" Ms Sharlet says, looking tired and worried, Stephanie and Levi look confused, since they remember leaving the house with Ms Sharlet,but here she is infront of them telling a different story, if that wasn't the real Ms Sharlet they left the house with, than who was that.
"Uh, well, it's a good thing we made a quick stop to the charge station then, of you wouldn't have found us" Stephanie says, Ms Sharlet then looks confused and worried by the statement,"What charge station? Your in the middle of no where, in the park's forest side" she says, as they get out of the car, not believing her.
Stephanie is shocked,"What? But we were in the charge station like a few minutes ago?" She says, while Levi isn't that surprised by it since he knew the charge station was looking a bit off, "Did we hallucinate everything, was I drunk or something?" Stephanie says shaking her head.
"No, I don't think so, I mean non of us was even driving the car, so, the good news is that, the three of us are okay" Levi says hugging the baby gently, Ms Sharlet soon steps closer to look at the baby.
"So you finally delivered her, well both your parents want to talk to you back home anyways, since I decided to tell them everything after you two went missing" she says, as she gets inside the car and starts driving them home, as they reach Levi's house, they walk to the living room where, both their parents, the Alonzos and the Gracielas, are waiting for them.
As they enter the room, Stephanie's mother runs to hug her, "Uh, I'm so glad your okay, I was so worried, is the baby okay too? Where is it?" She says as she sees Stephanie's stomach. "She's right here" Levi says holding the baby in a blanket, his parents look surprised that the baby is actually here. "Why didn't you tell us, I had to find that out myself," Levi's father says.
"By sending people after us?" Says Levi angrily, his father sighs, and response "Even though I wouldn't approve of the baby, I wouldn't send some assassins after you, I only sent one of my spies, I wasn't responsible for your night car chase".
"So, what are you going to name her?" Stephanie's father asks, "I already picked a perfect name for her, Natalia Graciela" says Ms Sharlet, brushing the baby's hair.
To be continued...