Chapter 10

Three months later and Mitchie felt awful. She was just under full term and despite what she said, Shane continued to tell her how beautiful she was. It was early December and getting colder.

Mitchie was alone with Tess when she felt a twitch, she'd been feeling smaller ones but this was different.

"Ah."

"Mitchie, are you OK?"

"I don't know, Tess, I think that was a contraction."

"Looked like it, congrats Mitchie."

"Tess. Call Shane, he took the car in."

"OK, you need to try to stay on your feet, drink this and eat this, trust me, I've been through it, sports drink helps." After calling Shane she call the rest of the gang. Jason who had Sienna with him arrived home from the park first. He took Sienna in the garden on Tess's orders, so she didn't hear the distress of Mitchie in labour. Nate joined him but Caitlyn stayed with Shane, Mitchie and Tess.

"We have to get her to the hospital." Tess said.

"OK," Shane replied picking up Mitchie, carring her to the car despite her protests.

"I'll follow you there." Tess said running back through the house. "Guys come on, hospital. Nate, you drive." She said tossing him the keys.

When they arrived Mitchie was in a room for the labour.

Hours later Tess held a sleeping Sienna in her lap and was falling asleep against Jason. Nate and Caitlyn were asleep. Shane came out of the room.

"Gonna be a long night guys, go home, I'll call you if anything major happens, but feel free to come back in the morning." The guys nodded.

"Jason, do you think you can handle her alone tonight?" Tess asked, "me and Caitlyn want to stay, please, it's a girl thing, OK?"

"Sure, I can do this, Nate's here too, so sure."

"Hey, if she takes a dump, you're changing her."

"Night." Tess and Jason kissed goodbye and the girls went into the room where Mitchie was.

"Shane, lay down and get some rest." They ordered, taking his place with Mitchie.

By morning she was only 7.4 cm dialated and exhausted. By the time she was fully dialated she could barely keep her eyes open.

"Come on Mitchie, you can do it baby." Shane encouraged over the doctors constant demands of 'push'. Suddenly a cry was heared and the room fell silent.

"It's a girl." As they cleaned her up they delivered the second baby, which was a boy. Mitchie and Shane held their newborns, both too happy to care about how tired they were.

After some rest they checked the date, December 7th. A tear stung Mitchie's eye.

"Baby what's wrong?"

"Today's my parents annerversary Shane, they were born on the annerversary." A tear escaped his eye as he kissed his girlfriend and children.

"OK, so what did you call them?" Nate asked, as Caitlyn leant back into him holding his nephew.

"Well, we decided on Noah Steven Torres-Gray and Aria Connie Torres-Gray."

"They're beautiful Mitchie." Tess said as Jason held his niece.