part 3
PART 3
The ambulance arrived before Cameron called back.
Sienna remembered the red lights on the ceiling.
The paramedic’s hand on her shoulder.
The neighbor from across the hall, Mrs. Rosenthal, standing in a robe and slippers, crying while holding Sienna’s hospital bag.
Mrs. Rosenthal was seventy-eight and moved slowly with a cane.
But she had heard Sienna scream.
She had called the building security desk.
She had grabbed the emergency contact card Sienna taped inside the hallway closet.
And she had followed the ambulance in a taxi because no woman should give birth terrified and alone.
At the hospital, Dr. Porter was already waiting.
The moment she saw the blood, her face changed.
“Get her to labor and delivery now.”
Sienna clutched the side of the stretcher.
“My husband is coming.”
No one answered.
That was how she knew they did not believe it.
The pain became a tide.
Then a storm.
Then something so large it swallowed language.
The baby’s heart rate dropped.
Sienna’s blood pressure crashed.
A nurse pressed an oxygen mask over her face.
Dr. Porter leaned close.
“Sienna, we need to deliver now.”
Sienna tried to nod.
She tried to ask for Cameron.
Then she heard Mrs. Rosenthal’s voice near the door.
“I’m here, sweetheart.”
Sienna turned her head.
The old woman stood with both hands shaking around her cane.
She was not family.
She was not young.
She was not the person who had made vows.
But she was there.
That was enough to make Sienna cry.
The operating room lights were too bright.
The cold table beneath her back felt like punishment.
Voices moved fast around her.
A nurse asked whether Cameron had answered.
Another nurse said no.
Sienna’s phone lay in a plastic bag with her belongings, still lighting up every few minutes.
Not from Cameron.
From Patricia’s party guests posting videos.
Cameron laughing.
Cameron dancing.
Cameron kissing his mother’s cheek while the crowd applauded.
At 8:43 p.m., Sienna heard a tiny cry.
Then Dr. Porter shouted for more blood.
Sienna turned her head weakly.
“Is she alive?”
A nurse’s voice broke.
“Yes.”
Sienna smiled.
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Then the room went black.
Read the full story 👉 Mrs. Rosenthal, not Cameron, stayed near Sienna as doctors fought to save both mother and baby.
