So here is the next chapter. Sorry it's been so long!

MAX POV

NEW HAVEN

"Push Max!" Sophie yells at me, "I see the head!"

I shake my head and tell her that I can't to it.

"You have to if you want to have this baby," she tells me.

But I don't want this baby. I always try to pretend I'm happy about it and yet I'm not. Sophie wants this baby, not me.

I never knew that I could have a best friend, until I met Sophie. She never judged me when I told her my story. All she did was bring me home the day that she found me in the woods, unconscious in a pool of blood. I have been with her for four months and she is already like my sister.

"I don't want this baby," I moan in pain as another contraction comes.

"Yes you do Max," she says,"You know you want it. I know you want it. If you didn't you wouldn't have cared so much when I found you."

Sophie found me a couple of days after I left the Flock. My body had been trying to miscarry the baby and I had lost 75% of my blood by the time she found me. Sophie hadn't thought that I would live but I did and she had been letting me live with her for the past four months.

The day Sophie found me I had flown at least 1,000 miles. It was difficult because I hadn't done any flying in at least two months. For some reason I thought that I could handle it, but I was wrong. Later that night I started bleeding and it wouldn't stop.

I tried to find help and ended up by a barn, but I lost consciousness when I made it the the barn's door. There must have been animals inside that I woke up, because Sophie came out to see what what was wrong with her horses. When she got to the barn she found me. Sophie thought I was dead at first because I was barely breathing. Somehow she managed to drag me into her house all by herself.

By the time I woke up it had already been a week and Sophie had discovered my wings. I don't think I would be alive if it weren't for her. The luckiest part about it is that Sophie is a medical student that attends the local college. And when I say local I mean she goes to Yale.

Another contraction comes and this time I can't fight my body's instinct to push.

"Good Max!" Sophie praises, "You only have like two more pushes and the baby will be out."

When the next contraction comes I close my eyes and push as hard as I can. Moments later I hear crying coming from the baby. I open my eyes and I see Sophie taking the baby to give it a bath.

When Sophie comes back she has the baby wrapped righty in a blanket and wearing a little beanie on it's head.

"What is it?" I ask as she hands me the baby.

"A girl," she beams.

I look down at my baby. She is so small. She is too small.

"She is a little smaller than a preemie but she is perfectly healthy and normal," she says, seeing the confused look on my face.

"Normal?" I croak.

"Don't worry Max she has wings," Sophie laughs.

But before I can sigh in relief a sharp pain goes through my body and I gasp. This can't be right. Something is terribly wrong. I'm going to die after all.

"It's just the placenta," Sophie tells me, "We'll deliver it and then you'll be done. All you have to do is push like you did before."

A few minutes later I have delivered the placenta and I finally get to relax. As I look down at the baby I realize that I do want her. It's not the baby's fault that her father is gone. It's not even her fault that she exists. It's mine. Well mine and Fang's.

"What are you going to name her?" Sophie asks about half an hour after I have given birth.

"I... I... I don't know," I confess, staring at the baby's deep, chocolate brown eyes.

"Let's brainstorm," she says.

"Okay," I agree.

Over the next hour Sophie throws a bunch of different names at me.

"What about Lacy?" she asks.

"No," I tell her.

"Taylor?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Sabrina?"

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch," I mutter.

"Carly?"

"iCarly."

"Oh my god Max!" Sophie yells, "You are impossible! I can't take it anymore!"

"I'm sorry," I whisper.

"Let's just watch a movie or something," she huffs.

"Fine," I nod, feeling really bad.

About two hours later we've found a movie and I'm sitting in my bed, next to Sophie holding the baby, who is asleep by now. Sophie is so nice that she moved her 150 pound tv into the bedroom just so that I wouldn't have to get up. The movie is starting to get on my nerves though. All I keep hearing is Scarlett either bitching about Ashley to Rhett, bitching at Ashley or bitching about Ashley to herself.

"Ashley this Ashley that," I complain, "Ashley is like the only thing she says in this movie. Ashley love me, Ashley run away with me, Ashley marry me! Fuck Ashley!"

Sophie pauses the movie and scowls at me.

"It's not Ashley's fault okay!" she growls.

Suddenly a light bulb goes off in my head.

"What's a similar name to Ashley?" I ask.

"I don't know," she says, "Asher?"

"Ashley, Asher, Ashley, Asher, Ashley, Asher," I repeat over and over again aloud.

I keep repeating it even though Sophie continues to stare at me.

"Ashler!" I yell.

"Where are we going with this?" Sophie asks me irritably.

"A name for the baby," I tell her.

"Oh," she nods," I like it. It is unique and original and cute."

"I can call her Ash for short," I say stroking the baby's cheeks.

She stirs slightly but doesn't open her eyes. I lean down an kiss her on the forehead, softly.

"You could have named her Ashley," Sophie tells me.

"Why is that?" I ask, not looking up.

"Because they're both redheads," she giggles, "But actually Ash has redder hair than a redhead."

"WAIT WHAT?!" I yell, ripping the beanie of the baby's head and waking her up.

There it is, the reddest hair I have ever seen in my life. And it belongs to my baby, who lays screaming in my arms. I HAVE A FUCKING REDHEAD AS A BABY!

Okay! So that was not the chapter that I originally intended to publish. This chapter was supposed to be an Ash POV but for some reason I just can't write the rest of that chapter. So it may be a couple of chapters until we see her again, which means there will only be Ella, Jen and maybe even Fang or Ian POVs for a little bit. And btw if you are a beta for me you will be PMd or emailed the Ash/Angel chapter that is unfinished really soon (as in tommorow). Anyways I knew it had been a while since I updated so I knew I had to write something.

ALSO! IF YOU REVIEW CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THE NAME ASHLER, CAUSE I SAW A YAHOO THING ABOUT USING IT AS A BABY NAME ( I actually made up the name myself, but sometimes it turns out to be a real name. But I've never heard it used and I needed an original name) AND ALL THE PEOPLE HATED THE NAME.

So you know what to do! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!

~Lillie :)