I've been writing this chapter for two days. Not sure why it's been so difficult but it has and it's not even of huge importance. but it gets some more into Noah's thoughts. I know that the baby won't be born for a lot more chapters BUT i'm trying to figure out what to name it. I have four names picked out. Amberly or Abri for a girl and Avery or Austen for a boy. So if you could help me out a bit on what to name the baby that'd be great! Thanks for all of the reviews and such!

Chapter 10

Monday afternoon Ryan, with Claire and Noah trailing behind him, walked into Summer and Seth's two story home. Sandy and Kirsten had left that morning barely uttering a word to an already stressed out Ryan. "Ryan, what are you doing here?" Taylor jumped up from Summer and Seth's couch. She had been eating out of a carton of ice cream. Ryan noticed the pickle jar and bag of pretzels on the floor in front of her. Ryan watched as Claire beamed running up to Taylor and hugging her tightly. Noah smiled and did the same. Ryan watched as Taylor warmly hugged his two kids, it was a nice picture.

"Ryan?" Taylor looked up at him. "Yeah?"

"What did you do to this girls hair? It's a complete train wreck." Ryan looked over at Claire. He didn't see anything wrong with her hair. He had put it into pig tails right before they went over there. They were lopsided and un-even. Claire just giggled.

"She's right Ryan, you did a terrible job." Summer walked into the living room eating out of a carton of ice cream herself. Ryan rolled his eyes at them. Now he knew why Summer had suddenly called to invite him and the kids over for dinner. It was all a part of Summer's plan to get them together, or that's what Ryan thought at least.

"Summer, get me a brush." Taylor rolled her eyes sitting the girl down into her lap. She pulled the pony tail holders out of the girls hair as Summer handed her a brush.

"Claire, don't let your daddy do this to your hair ever again." Taylor laughed referring to the previous pig tails. It looked natural for Claire to be sitting in Taylor's lap like that. Taylor had a huge smiled plastered on her face as she gently combed through the tangles of dark curls.

"You're good with her." Ryan said to Taylor after Claire's hair was put up in two perfect pony tails. Claire had run off in search of her cousins. Noah was sitting on the blue overstuffed chair that sat in the corner of the living room. He was pretending to read his book.

"I've always wanted a little girl, maybe I'll get a chance this time." Taylor beamed looking down at her barely there bump. She was only 9 weeks along. "I can't believe we're having a baby…" Ryan trailed off putting his head in his hands.

"Wait, a baby?" Noah jumped up from where he had been sitting. Suddenly Ryan remembered that he hadn't told Noah about the baby, just Claire.

"You didn't tell him?" Taylor looked at Ryan concerned. "I told Claire, I just forgot to tell Noah." Ryan let out a long sigh.

"So are you going to tell me now?" Noah stood in front of Ryan. Taylor reached for Noah's hand and patted the spot next to her on the floor. He sat down next to her as she pulled him to her side to hold him close. Ryan couldn't believe his eyes, he couldn't believe how amazing Taylor was with his kids and how easily they had trusted her when he couldn't even do that.

"I don't know how you feel about this, Noah, but your dad and I are having a baby. Your brother or sister." Ryan watched Taylor's face when she told the boy her news. He couldn't describe that smile for the life of him, but it was perfect. It was everything he needed to feel okay about what was going on, at least for a little while.

Seth walked into the house ruining the slight moment the three of them were having. "Hey." Seth waved slightly before walking briskly into the kitchen. "Did you get it?" Summer ran over to him. "Yes, I did. Now go take it before I burst." He wasn't smiling, he looked very angry. "Daddy!" There were four voices coming from the hallway. Kyle, the oldest was 5, Eve was 3 and the twins Kayla and Robert were a year. Ryan laughed at the sight of the four of them tripping over the other trying to get to Seth. Seth barely acknowledged his children.

"What's going on?" Ryan wondered out loud when everyone had left the living room again. "Oh, Summer thinks she's pregnant. Seth is pissed because if she is they have to get a bigger house. Plus Summer's Health Food store might be becoming a chain before too long, so it's stressing Seth out for reasons unknown to me." Taylor explained with Noah still pressed against her side.

"Taylor." Noah looked over at her. "Yes?" She looked down at him. "My mom…died when she had Claire…are you going to…die?" Ryan looked at his little boy as he said this. Ryan had been having that same fear, but he couldn't let Noah nor Claire know that.

"Noah, who told you about your mom?" Ryan asked before Taylor could even answer, which Ryan noticed was taking a lot longer than Noah would have liked. Noah didn't answer Ryan, instead he broke away from Taylor and sat in the blue chair once again. He sat back and looked at the ceiling. "Noah, what's wrong?" Taylor asked getting nervous.

"I don't want to tell you guys who told me, if I did you might be mad at them." Noah looked down at his feet. Ryan walked over to Noah.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want, you know that right? But if you ever feel the need to tell me then I'm all ears." Ryan tried to lighten the mood of the room but did not succeed.

"So, you're not going to die?" Noah brought his attention to Taylor once again. Taylor let out a small smile before replying "No, I'm not sweetie." She stood up and walked over to where he was sitting. She leant over and gave him a hug.

"Oh My God!" There was a scream coming from the back room. Summer. Before Ryan or Taylor could get to the back of the house Seth had walked past them and out the front door slamming it shut. Ryan looked over at Taylor silently asking if he should go talk to him. "Give him some time." She read his mind.

"He left?" Summer asked tears running down her face.

Ryan just nodded as Taylor pulled Summer into her arms. Another thing that made Taylor seem amazing in Ryan's eyes. Another reason he should be cursing himself for trying to push her out of his life.