Title: Mercy Lives

Chapter 3

Disclaimor: I own nothing

Adrain woke up to the sound of her daughter crying today her daughter was 4 weeks old, and it was her and Ben's first day back at school. Adrain got up and picked Mercy out of her basinett and started feeding her. Ben woke up as well and said, "I'll go shower while you feed her and than I'll change her and get her dressed while you get ready okay."

Adrain said, "okay the nanny will be here in about 30 minutes."

Ben nodded and kissed her on the lips while Adrain fed the baby. She was still breast feeding but had started feeding her regular formula too since she was no longer staying home. Ben came back in the bedroom fresh from his shower and took over Mercy's care while Adrain headed toward the shower. He changed the baby's diaper and dressed her in a new onsie than took her in the living room and put her in her swing while he started breakfast for him and Adrain. He had just started when he heard a knock on the door and he let the nanny whose name was Maria in. He said, "morning Maria. Mercy has been feed and dressed for the day. Adrain is in the shower and I'm making breakfast."

Maria smiled and said, "okay Mr. Boykewitch."

Ben looked over at Maria and said, "Maria please don't calll me that I start looking for my daddy when people call me Mr. Boykewitch call me Ben okay."

Maria nodded and said, "let me see this little nina of mine me and her is going to have a good day."

Ben nodded as he finished up breakfast and put the last his books in his backpack. Adrain came in the living room dressed for going back to school as well Ben liked the way she was dressed the last few weeks she'd been wearing sweats mostly and other comfortable clothes, but today she was dressed in clothes that made Ben remeber that he was still a teenager. Her body wasn't totally back to the size it had been before her pregnacy, but Adrain still looked hot in her tank top.

Adrain said, "Maria you know where everything is. Mercy has been feed so she should sleep for a little while. If theres any big problems both me and Ben will have our cells on."

Maria said, "there won't be any problems don't yall worry I've taken care many babies."

Adrain nodded and smiled as she picked up her little girl out of her swing. She kissed her on the cheek and said, "you be a good girl for your nanny okay. Daddy and me will see you this afternoon."

Ben kissed his daughter as well and said, "Maria I have to work this afternoon, but Adrain should be home soon after school."

Maria said, "thats fine. Yall have a good day back at school."

Ben and Adrain finally made it out of the door after going over instructions again. Maria had started a few days ago, but it was different cause they were actually leaving Mercy alone with her for most the day. They drove to school and when they entered everybody was staring at them. Ben looked around as he took his wife's hand and walked toward the lockers. They looked around as everybody watched them. Ben and Adrain both put their backpacks away and got their books for their first classes. Mrs O'Malley came by and said," before yall head to your first class and so we can talk about a few things."

Ben said, "okay we'll head straight there."

They went to Ben's locker next and exchanged his books as well. Ben hung a picture of them and Mercy up in his locker that they had taken a few days ago at her christening. Adrain smiled at the picture and kissed her husband. Grace came up and hugged Adrain and said, "hey guy its great to see you back."

Adrain said, "thanks Grace. Its good to be back."

Ben said, "thanks Grace."

Amy and Ricky came up next and said, "hey guys."

Adrain smiled at them and said, "hey yall how you doing."

Amy smiled at Ricky and said, "Me and John moved in with Ricky this weekend."

Adrain said, "thats great so yall finally had sex huh."

Amy nodded and said, "yeah actually we did right after we visited you in the hospital after Mercy was born."

Adrain laughed and said, "well I told you it wasn't so bad didn't I."

Amy nodded as they heard the first bell ring. Amy said, "We'll talk later."

Adrain nodded and said, "okay why don't yall come over for dinner tonight after the guys get off work."

Amy said, "that sounds great its my day off from the nursery so I'll pick up John and come straight after school. Ricky can ride with Ben after work and come over since I'll have my car."

Adrain nodded and said, "well you better get to class. Ben and I are supposed to go see the counselor before heading to class see you at lunch."

She and Ben headed to the counselor's office. The counselor smiled at them as they took seats in front of her desk. She said, "welcome back yall. Hows the baby doing?"

Adrain said, "she's good when she decided to stop waking us up every hour she did that for about a week and a half."

The counselor laughed and said, "my daughter did that when she was a newborn for a while too, but she outgrew it. Well lets see I wanted to discuss with y'all a few things before you went to class. Your teachers will go over with you how you will make up the missed work, but I needed to discuss other things. One is that I know that with having a newborn at home yall are going to one to check in with your nanny and shes gonna be able to get hold of you in case of emergancy at any time so the normal rules about no cell phones on at school does not apply. If you have a text and need to reply to it you will not get in trouble in class and if your phone goes off during class though we ask that you keep it on vibrate you can step out and take the call just tell the teacher. Please do not take advantage of this privilge its something we allow both yall and Ricky and Amy to do because emergencies come up when you have small children."

Adrain said, "believe me we won't but its nice to be able to contact our nanny at anytime we need reassurance that Mercy is ok or know she can get hold of us."

Ben nodded in agreement.

The counselor said, "thats why its allowed also if yall work hard on your assignments that are given you should be able to complete the school year on time. I know this can be difficult with a newborn at home but I also know its important to both of you especially you Adrain that you finish on time this year."

Ben said, "thats what we want to do."

The counselor said, "alrite thats all we needed to discuss go on to your classes. If you have any questions or concerns you can come talk to me."

Ben and Adrain nodded as they stood up Ben walked Adrain to her first period economics class. He kissed her quickly before heading down the hall. Adrain sighed a little as she watched her husband leave to go to his own class before opening the door. Mrs. Beaveson her teacher was taking roll. Adrain quickly slipped into her desk and took out her book and notes she had been trying to keep up with the reading for her classes and for the most part suceeded.

Mrs Beaveson finished calling roll and said, "nice to see you back Adrain. If you will see me after class we'll see about your missed work."

Adrain said, "yes mam."

As class progressed Adrain was glad to realize she'd kept up pretty well with her reading assignments at home. After class, she walked up to her teacher as the rest the class left. Mrs. Beaveson said, "alrite Adrain I've prepared a few assignments for you to complete on top of the research paper we started while you were gone. I can see that you kept up your reading assignments you did miss two tests while you were gone. You can take them once you complete the assignments we will schedule a time for you to take the tests."

Adrain nodded and headed out the classroom. Ben was standing beside the door and said, "Hey baby."

Adrain gave him a quick kiss and said, "hey Mrs Beaveson had to give me my assignments for economics did your chemistry teacher give you alot of work to do."

Ben said, "not really I think Mr Smivey is being easy on me, course I tried to keep up with my reading while we were at home like you did."

Adrain nodded and said, "I got homec next they made me take that instead of P.E. this year since I was pregnat and I'm not in band."

Ben nodded and said, "I got Algebra II next thats the one class I'm worried about I'm not very good at math and I couldn't make heads or tails of it."

Adrain said, "well lets check on Mercy before heading to our next class."

Ben took out his phone and looked at his background picture on his phone for a minute it was of Mercy sleeping in Adrain's arms the day she was born. He smiled as he opened the text message for Maria's phone and sent a text that said, "Hows Mercy?"

Maria answered almost imidately and said, "sleeping I just finished feeding her and put her down."

Ben smiled as he looked at the picture text Maria had sent of Mercy sleeping in her baby swing. He hugged his wife and said, "I miss her already."

Adrain nodded and said, "I do too, but shes alrite with the nanny and we'll see her when we get home."

Ben said, "okay come on I'll walk you to homec before heading to my own class."

Adrain nodded and they walked toward the homec classroom. Ben gave Adrain a kiss again than hurried off to his next class. His teacher looked up barely when he came in even though he was late as he took his seat. He missed his little girl as he pulled his phone out and looked at the picture before he started paying attention to the lesson this class was the one that he wasnt able to really keep up with while they were out. Ben knew he would need to talk to the teacher at the end of class about it.

Finally the last bell of the day ended rang and Ben and Adrain walked to their lockers together. Ben had to go to work that afternoon, but Adrain was planning on going straight home to Mercy. They had texted after just about every class and they had called and talked to her during lunch. Amy and Ricky came up to them as they were finishing up at their lockers. Amy said, "Did yall drive together?"

Adrain said, "yeah we did Ben was gonna drop me off at the condo on his way to work."

Ricky said, "why not this instead? You ride with Amy to go get John and back to the condo and I'll ride with Ben to work we drove together too this morning. You don't have to be home right away do you."

Adrain said, "no Maria works until 4:30."

Ben said, "That works fine. I'll see you after work baby okay."

Adrain smiled and kissed him as Amy and Ben said their goodbyes as well. They all headed out after that.

A/n: I know it is short but I wanted to go on and post this tonight before I went to bed planned on posting last night but a bad storm knocked out electricity in my apt building for almost 12 hours last night.

sneak preview of Chapter 5: Mercy and John meet for the first time.