Nick's POV
Tuesday.
I woke up in the morning how I usually do and start breakfast my husband and I. He came downstairs after getting ready for the day—he always tries to sneak in a few extra minutes of sleep, so he comes down just as I am finished with the cooking. "Morning honey." Nick said as Jeff sat down at the table.
"Morning." Jeff said as put some food on a plate and then began to sip the cup of coffee I poured for him. "Still no word?" He asked and I sighed.
"Nope." I said. He always asked the same thing each morning. Jeff and I have been wanting to start a family for the longest time, but we've had the worst luck. And every day our hope of having a child—well getting a child of our own, disappears little by little.
First we tried surrogates and either they didn't get pregnant, lost the baby, or decided to keep the baby. Then Jeff and I decided to adopt and we just have to wait for that call—but it's been a while and we've heard nothing.
"Don't lose hope." I say to my husband, even though I am slowly losing all the hope I have in us getting a child. I turned to the clock and realized I had to go to work. I kissed Jeff goodbye and left for work—going to work is the only thing that doesn't always remind me of what we're missing.
I got there and in the morning I handled about four patients—2 adults, 1 teen, and 1 child. Then I went into the break room and sat down at the table with another employee, Ryder. He was telling me about his wife and how he got to hear the heartbeat of his baby for the first time—I was happy for him, but it sort of made me depressed.
"It was amazing." Ryder said and then suddenly stopped talking, probably noticed how I wasn't really into this conversation. "Any luck with you and Jeff?"
"Nope, nothing." I said, it honestly sucked.
"Oh I'm sorry." Ryder said, I could tell he felt bad about talking about his unborn child's heart beat in front of me.
"No, it's okay." I told him. "It's amazing. I'm happy for you and Marley." I said and took my coffee and then went back into my office to finish some paper work until his next patient arrived.
Jeff's POV
I had given my middle school science class a worksheet to do while I filled out some test papers. I also then checked my e-mail and cell phone, in hopes of getting that call.
Nope. Still nothing.
I really wished that the phone would ring or something. But it didn't look like it was happening anytime soon.
At the end of the day, I went home—I always got home first. Nick would come home soon after me—around 4:30. I sat on the couch and then turned on the TV for a half hour until the phone ring and picked it up thinking it was Nick.
"Hello?" I said.
"Is this Nick or Jeff Duval-Sterling?"
"Yes, this is Jeff." I said—no this couldn't be. The woman, who I was on with was the person we hadn't heard from in so long. We talked for about 5 minutes, I couldn't believe this was happening. "Okay, we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye." I said and hung up the phone. I can't wait until Nick gets home so I could tell him.
Nick's POV
I got home at the usual time and went through the door and once I closed the door, Jeff practically ran into the room. "Hey hon, how was your day?" I asked.
"Kind of boring, but then I came home." He said. "And then I picked up the phone…" No way, did we get a call? No way.
"Did we?"
"We're meeting with her tomorrow, but I think this is it. We're going to be dads." Jeff said and I pulled him into a passionate kiss. I was happy. We were happy.
A small introduction chapter. Anyways, this story sort of came to mind as I was fooling around with my OC Clark. I decided to make a whole story and well, this is it. We'll meet him next chapter :)
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