Chapter 1 : Going Home

It had been four days since the daughter of twenty-one year old Vanessa and twenty-two year old Zac Efron was born in the Cedar's Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

It was a very painful and exhausting birth. Vanessa was in labor for about 36 hours. But Zac and mostly Vanessa forgot about those exhausting hours right after the cry of their baby girl filled the room. Vanessa nearly burst out into a mixture of hysterical crying and joy. Zac was so overwhelmed by joy in that situation that he started crying even though he had told himself that he wouldn't begin to cry. That moment had just been perfect. Both, Zac and Vanessa with their daughter been laid on Vanessa's chest, wrapped up in a little rose blanket, sleeping peacefully while she made a few funny almost soundless baby sounds. Zac just sat there and watched his wife and daughter, together reunited after 9 months of waiting.

Now, four days later Vanessa and their daughter were allowed to go home. Zac would pick them up at 11 A.M. Even though he didn't want to leave his girls last night, he left a few hours ago to shower and get some rest. His wife had to really beg him to go home and rest a little bit because he just didn't want to leave.

Every time their newborn woke up in the middle of the night, he was the one who stood up from his chair and went to the little helpless baby to place her on her mother's chest so she could feed her. Vanessa had always told him that he didn't need to do that all the time, but in her inside she was very glad that Zac was such a caring father and husband.

"Come in", Vanessa said as she heard someone knock on the door. The door slowly opened and someone's head popped in.

"Hey honey", her husband whispered as he opened the door completely, stepped in and closed the door quietly, carefully not to wake his little daughter, who was sleeping right there were she belonged, in her baby crib. Zac tiptoed to the bed, where his wife was sitting, and placed a quick soft kiss on her lips.

"How are you and my little baby girl?!"

Vanessa sighed and answered with her soft voice. "She cried almost three hours after you left at 10 P.M. And then she woke me again at around 3 A.M. because she needed a new diaper. So, you see, I didn't get much sleep last night." She ended her little explanation and sighed loudly as she leaned her weary head against his stomach. Her husband pulled her closer to him and run his hands through her dark curled hair.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't' have left you last tonight."

"No, no it's okay...you needed to rest a little bit. It's okay, really."

"Really?" He asked with a worried tone in his voice.

"Zac, honey, please stop asking...it's okay. Look, I'm fine.", she paused as she pulled back and let him take a full sight of her. Zac pulled her up to him and took her into a tight hug. "I'm so proud of you, you know?!"

"Yeah, I think you've told me that a few hundred times in the last 4 days." She whispered when she buried her head into the crook of his neck. "I love you."

"I love you, too, love." As he wanted to place a kiss on her lips they got interrupted by their daughter's cry. Vanessa sighed and groaned when she went over to the baby's crib. Carefully, trying not to hurt her she picked her up and rocked her a little bit back and forth. "Shh...my little baby girl..shh, it's okay...shh..look, Daddy's here as well." She turned around to hand her husband their daughter.

"Do you wanna hold her?" This question was really needless because she already knew his answer.

"Of course", he quietly answered and opened his arms to take his little baby into his big strong protective arms. Even though he had already held her a few times before, he was still worried that he would break her with any of his movements.

His little baby girl looked him right into the face as he began to sing her a lullaby. Vanessa just watched both of them, Zac and their daughter, smiling because that was such an adorable scene of a father-daughter moment.

"She's a daddy's girl, you see!" She stated when she stared at them. "She wouldn't just stop crying if I sang a lullaby for her."

Zac looked from his daughter to his wife and explained: "And this little daddy's girl still need a name."

Vanessa and Zac had picked a few very beautiful baby names bit as they saw their little daughter for the very first time, they couldn't decide which name they should pick for her. So therefore she has been without a name for about 4 days now, since she was born.

"I know, and I thought of one last night!"

"And? You're going to tell me which one crossed your mind last night?" He asked curiously.

"Okay, but first you please have to promise that you won't laugh, okay?!" "Promise I won't, honey!"

Vanessa took a deep breath and then finally spoke. "Okay, so you know our little one here was born at night when it was really starlit and stuff, right? So, I thought of Luna. It's Spanish and means moon. And as a second or middle name I thought of Maré. I don't know which language this is...I guess it's French..but I don't know, it just came to my mind. So, Luna Maré, what do you think?" She asked shyly, looking down to the ground because she was afraid of Zac's reaction.

"Luna Maré...Luna Maré..I think it's sounds really special and sweet. It's really great, Nessa. Sounds as sweet as you."

"So Luna Maré is it then?!" Vanessa asked anxiously.

"Yeah, it's perfect. Luna Maré", Zac said smiling widely over his face and looking down at his now named daughter. She had fallen asleep in his arms. But as soon as there was another knock on the door she woke up again and started crying as well.

The door was opened slowly by the doctor that had accompanied them the past four days.

He stepped in and greeted them. "Hello Mr and Mrs Efron! So, today you may finally go home." Vanessa stood up from her bed to shake hands with the doctor.

"Hello Dr Brown", she said smiling. Zac stepped a little bit closer to the doctor. "I'd really like to shake hands with you, but as you can see, this little one here needs me." The doctor just smiled and answered.

"So you decided on a name for your daughter yet?"

"Yeah." He paused and looked over at Vanessa, as she nodded he continued. "We named her Luna Maré Efron."

The doctor just smiled at them again and then looked down at Luna Maré to stroke her softly and carefully over her tiny head. "Good morning, Luna Maré, how are you my little girl?! Oh, I see you want to sleep, well then I won't be disturbing you anymore. I just wanted to give you these papers for you release." He said and handed Vanessa the papers whilst he turned around. "I wish you all the best for you and your little baby girl, Mr and Mrs Efron. Maybe we will see each other some time in the future when another baby of yours will get the chance to be welcomed on planet earth."

Zac noticed that Vanessa didn't know what to say, so he just answered the doctor. "Yeah, maybe in a few years when this little one", he paused while he looked down at his daughter, "is a little bit older." As he ended he looked over to Vanessa who mouthed him a 'thank you'. Before Dr. Brown left the hospital room again, he shook hands with both of them and then went to another patient on the same floor.

"You ready to go, Nessa?" Zac asked as he lifted the baby car seat and her bag. "Yep, I'm ready. We can go." She said smiling at him before she looked one last time around in the room, checking that she didn't forgot anything in there. Then she linked her arm with Zac's and they walked out of the room.

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