I apologize for the delay in updating my stories! I'm in the middle of writing my own original novella.If I get the time/inspiration to update more stories here I will. This concept came to me suddenly and I decided to post it all at once.
All Over Again
Chase Reed Lincoln-Alister was the spitting image of one of his dads.
Drew Alister.
Claudia had again been their surrogate; Drew's genes were stronger the ones of the donated egg used for the pregnancy. The five year gap between their daughter and their son Chase Reed Lincoln-Alister was a head-scratcher for some. But Drew and Rick's friends were happy for them and Maddy.
The two men had been nervous when they found out their second child was a boy. It was Maddy who shocked them out of it. She asked them why her baby brother was going to be "scary." She knew lots of little boys her age and younger and they were "fine."
"You're right," Drew said, taking his daughter into his lap and gave her a hug. "Maybe your dad and I are being silly."
Maddy had also helped her parents arrange the toys in her baby brother's outer space theme room. Her room had become a "big girl" room long ago. Her crib and other baby stuff sent to goodwill. Everything had to be bought new for her brother. In her room, there was still many stuffed animals, including her new favorite, pandas. But there were jigsaw puzzles, Legos, play-doh, books, crayons, markers and coloring books. The frig was covered with her drawings. She could have the mural on the wall painted over anytime but she liked animals. Maddy had a tablet too but she was only allowed to use it for an hour every day.
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The same rush of sobs and tears came hearing his first cry as it had five years ago in the same operating room. This time even shaking with the same emotion Drew wasn't afraid to hold his son immediately after Rick cut the newborn's umbilical cord. Maddy wasn't awake when the couple had left at 4:30 that morning to attend the birth of her brother; her dads certainly understand her excitement but they had a hell of a time getting her to settle and sleep in the hours before. They tried to sleep a bit too but both only ended up getting three or four hours.
"Keep us posted," Jordan said as they were leaving.
She and TC had offered to babysit Maddy and then bring her to the hospital later.
Jordan woke Maddy at 7:45 with a picture of her baby brother that Rick had sent minutes before. She had to wait a few more hours to meet him but her parents wanted her to see him right away. Right now–as they had five years ago with her Rick and Drew were in a room on the labor and delivery recovery floor having skin-to-skin time with their new baby. Drew couldn't believe how much the newborn laying on his bare chest resembled himself as a baby. Neither could believe they had fallen so much in love again.
"He looks just like you," his husband said. "'You sure you don't call him Andrew Junior? We could call him by his middle name."
"Naw," Drew replied. "I want him to have his own name. I think it suits him, hey buddy?" he said, kissing the baby's head again.