Chapter 36 - Effy Sunny Orton. May 19th 2008.

I held tightly onto the edge of the desk as I felt the 5th contraction rip through my body. My eyes were firmly shut as I let out a small cry of pain. When I opened them again I looked at my knuckles which had turned white. I slowly let go my fingers sticking slightly to the desk and I found myself sitting in a chair catching my breath. I needed one of oxygen tanks and a shitload of pain killers. Praying that it wouldn't hurt didn't work. Damn, damn double damn. I looked around at the others to see how they were doing. Randy was pacing the room his face still hadn't regained its colour. Stephanie sped off somewhere shouting something like "I'll go and get help!" she still wasn't back yet. And Vince was screaming down the phone "I need hot water and towels right now!"

"Vince, I really don't need any hot water or towels. I need…"

"Don't worry yourself, I have it all under control" when he turned his back on me I got up and walked over. Hanging up his phone

"Seriously Vince, all I need is to get to the hospital"

"Okay, I'll order a car" I tutted and quickly blocked his arm which was reaching for the phone

"Randy can take me, just book him the night off"

"already done, just hurry up and get going, I have to go and changed a few things for the night" he hugged me tightly pressing his hand on my stomach "good luck, I'll have those contracts written up for you to sign soon" trust him to mention business while I had a tiny person trying to push their way out of my body. He rushed from the room and allowed me to go over to Randy

"Time to go Randy"

"I can't do it" he closed his eyes and rubbed his hands over his hair looking kinda defeated

"Can't do what?"

"I can't be a father…" -ouch, that hurt- it took all of my self control to not punch him in the head and let's be honest I deserve a medal for that. And I would have done if I didn't have another contraction. Instead I firmly gripped his hand and squeezed his hand as tightly as I could. I heard his knuckle crack and he let out a cry of pain "ow, ow, ow" I completely ignored him but turned my head to the door when I heard it open. My mum and John walked in both looking out of breath and worried as hell. I'm glad someone was. I let go of his hand as my mum walked over to me and rubbed my back as John embraced Randy

"What happened?

"My waters broke about 30 minutes ago"

"Okay so how far apart are the contractions?"

"I don't know! But there getting closer together. How did you know I was here?"

"Stephanie came to find us about 5 minutes ago. But don't worry about that now…" my knees buckled slightly as another set of pains I wasn't ready for came, these were more painful than the last and something told me they would be getting worse. Great.

"Oh god, this hurts so bad mum!"

"Right let's get going, Randy and John help me get her to the car" Randy walked over and to help me but I moved my arm out of reach

"Don't you touch me!"

"Wha… what?" he tried to help me again but I moved further away

"Don't touch me! You don't want to be a dad then you don't get to touch me" Both my mum and John looked at him with their mouths hanging open, Randy looked like he was about to puke,

"I didn't mean it like that!"

"Then how did you mean it!?"

"Just that… I don't know I'm not…" I punched him in the mouth and he fell flat on his butt before he could finish the sentence it might have looked funny on the outside, but I was seething. Call it hormones, that's what I would be blaming later. He held onto his jaw and looked at me with pure rage as well.

"Bitch!"

"Don't you fucking dare Randy, don't you dare! You deserved…" shit, another contraction, this time I screamed, partly because it shocked me and because it hurt like fucking hell—I was right it was going to get worse and worse.

"sweetie I think you should leave this argument on hold and get you to the hospital" my mum grabbed my arm and helped me out, I could hear John and Randy having whispered words, fine by me as long as I didn't have to look at him

My legs were getting tired and my stomach cramped with every movement. The feeling was not pleasant. I sneaked a sideway glance at Randy. He still looked pissed and he was rubbing his jaw, good, I hope it hurt.

Sitting in the car was the most uncomfortable experience of my life. It wasn't just the pain; it was the tension that made it even more so. When John had said he was driving Randy slyly suggested he drive instead, making the excuse of John being a terrible driver and he didn't want to pay for damages so he said he should drive instead, I glared at him I think my exact words were 'so you would rather drive then support your pregnant girlfriend who's about one sneeze away from giving birth? Coward' both my mum and John kept their mouths closed, it wasn't there argument.

I could get what was happening mapped out clear enough in my head, to the point where I felt the starting of a headache everything was going too fast for me. And that was saying something. As I pressed my forefinger and thumb to the bridge of my eyes another contraction started. I grabbed John's hand and locked in a vice a grip. I didn't know whether or not I was hurting him but he just put his free hand on my stomach and rubbed it gently "no, no, no. Oh for God's… SAKE. It's getting worse!" Randy spoke for the first time since our argument

"it's going to be alright babe. Don't cry" he looked at my fresh tears in the mirror-

"Alright? ALRIGHT?!"I tried ignoring the pain for a moment I sat slightly forward, well as far as I could go "you don't even want to be here, yet your trying to tell me it's going to be alright?!"

"this isn't the time to talk about this"

"I think it's the perfect time to talk about it. What was it you said 'I can't be a father'?" he was keeping his mouth firmly shut. Smart man. "And now you're trying to comfort me? If you wanted to do that you would be holding my hand not John"

"I know you're angry right now and in a lot of pain so can we finish this argument later?"

"Fuck you" I spat my words at him through gritted teeth. I didn't think it would be this bad; I was going to be having words with that fucking birthing teacher. 'Think of your opening as a flower' indeed. I could kill her right now. I was glad when we finally arrived at the hospital I struggled out of the car immediately seeking comfort from my mum. She helped me inside where I was taken to a private room and changed into a hospital gown.

"The doctor will be in to see you soon. Just try to relax. Can I get you anything?" the nurse smiled at me while rearranging my pillows

"Keg full of morphine?"

She laughed "you have no idea how many women say that" she patted my arm and walked out the door. My mum excused herself intending to call my sister to let her know what was happening. I sat silent trying to concentrate on the baby rather than the pain, which was hard considering she was causing it. I won't it against her. Not even when she's 18. Promise. I looked quietly around the room. I suddenly felt very hot so I threw my covers from my lap. It was only a few hours ago that I was face-to-face with Bobby, where not only my life but my mum's was in danger.

Deep down I knew the cramps I were having all say were a sign. I knew perfectly well they were not Braxton's Hicks. My body was telling me Effy was on her way but I had ignored it out of fear, the fear had overwhelmed my desire to finally meet my daughter. Something I had been waiting patiently for 8 months. It was weird now I'm here and it's actually happened I'm scared as hell. Everything you could worry about was going through my head. I really didn't need it right now.

I looked up from the bed and stared at Randy nervously biting his nails. I felt a couple of things when I looked at him. Anger, frustration, sadness and complete an utter love. When I was little I had always imagined falling in love. The old cliché—you know. I had always thought about being married to my dream man and the best part was thinking about having his child. Perfect image when I was drawn in my hopeful 7 year old mind. Young I know but watching my mother and father had taught me that you could never be too young. Never be too young to be anything, to dream anything to do anything.

But then I met Bobby and my life was thrown in the opposite direction. My perfect image was ripped about by hate, jealousy, possessiveness and dominance. Instead of having a child I had said goodbye to one. For a long time I thought my image was going to be practically impossible to live. But then I met Randy, granted I didn't like him very much at first but it took such little time for me to fall hopelessly in love with him. But it was worth it when I did. And here I sat about to have his child and I knew one day we would be married at least I silently hoped because this relationship was built on love, trust, freedom and equality.

My thoughts quickly dissolved when another set of pain started to slowly make itself known. I braced myself aware of what was going to happen. I forgot my anger and looked at Randy I said his name loud enough to here but when I looked at him, his was in his own world staring into space. It took John (who was already at my side) to shout his name 4 times for him to come back to the real word. He realized what we happening and rushed over. He went to grab my hand but I snatched it out of his reach "Vicki… babe what's…"

"If you want to hide in your own little world Randy then that it fine. Shit…" the pain intensified and I tried unsuccessfully to ignore it "but do it on your own time. Not while I'm trying to have our baby"

"I was not in my own little world!" the pain subsided and I relaxed my body

"yes you are. I think… we established you don't want to be here" tears spilled easily down my cheeks as I voiced my feelings, stupid hormones, "just go and sort your head out. When you know what you want. I'll be right here" Randy followed a tear that escaped my eyes with his own sad ones, but he just walked out the room slamming the door behind him.

"Baby girl…"

"I know what you're going to say John, so just don't say it at all"

"he's scared"

"and I'm not?"

"I didn't say that. You're both scared and you're both handling it in a different way from each other"

"But unlike Randy I can't ignore the whole situation; it's my 'flower' it's coming out off"

His forehead creased in confusion and asked

"flower?"

"Something my stupid birthing teacher said" I waved it off and relaxed deeper into the bed

"anyway—he isn't trying to ignore the 'whole situation' he doesn't know how to deal with it. He isn't prepared"

"John stop defending him! Randy has had the same time as me to prepare for this" my tears spilled harder and faster. John brought his chair closer to the bed and put him hand on mine and rubbed it gently "he isn't the only one who is scared John. I'm so frightened; all I keep thinking is that I'm not going to be a good mum"

"Well you can stop thinking that right now! You are going to be an amazing mother" I didn't answer him. I just leaned closer to him and hugged him tightly wiping my eyes from the tears. We sat there content for another 5 minutes till the doctor walked in with a clipboard and friendly smile

"Hello Miss Summers. How are you feeling?"

"M' alright thanks doc"

"And I'm guess you're Mr. Orton? The father?" I was about to correct him when someone did it for me-

"No I'm the father" Randy walked over and shook the doctor's hand I let out a sign of relief. Yay! I took a quick look at my mum who had walked in with him but she winked at me and sat down. Randy walked over and took a seat on the bed next to me. He put one around my shoulder and held my hand with him hand and softly stoked it.

"Right let's get down to business" the doctor put on some gloves and sat down across from me at the foot of the bed "how long since your waters broke?"

"Roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes ago, it took us a while to get here"

"and the contractions?"

"I don't know how far apart they are. But if I had to guess I would say 5-10 minutes?"

"How long do they last?"

"About 45 seconds"

"And will you be having pain relief during the birth?"

"Yes please!"

"Okay right so I'm going to examine you now, so just raise your legs slightly…" I was just about to do it when both John and Randy stood from the chair in protest

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What are you doing?"

"Will you two sit down!"

"What is he doing?!" I shifted uncomfortable in the bed and grabbed Randy's shirt pulling him into the chair as my mum did the same to John. I didn't particularly like what was coming next but, if it got Effy out quicker, I'd gladly go through it. The poor doctor looked extremely uncomfortable

"he's checking to see how far along I am"

"but why does your legs need to be apart?!" I huffed at him getting slightly annoyed at him

"You really didn't listen to me or the doctor at all did you? He needs to check my cervix"

"you what?"

"just sit down Randy, sorry doc please go on" Randy and John both looked extremely embarrassed when doctor checked me, both of them going bright red not looking happy about the situation it was extremely uncomfortable so I held onto Randy's hand sometimes moving around slightly.

"Okay, so is this your first baby?"

"Technically""

how so?"

"I had delivered a baby but she had already passed away. So I'm not new to this"

"okay, well it's moving along faster than expected, you around 7 almost 8 centimeters dilated"

"really?" I started to panic slightly, Randy was finally listening noting the panic in my voice, it was hard not to, it was a bit obvious. Even to me.

"What does that mean?" the doctor wrote something down on his clipboard and moved his glasses further up his nose before answering Randy

"That means, you two are going to be parents very soon"

"how long do you reckon?"

"I don't know, every woman is different but seeing as your progressing quite quickly I would say maybe an hour or more. But you have nothing to worry about, if there are any problems just press the button and the nurse will be along. One will be soon to attach you to the baby heart monitor"

"What do we need that for?"

"Just to keep an eye on the baby's heart rate, nothing to worry about okay?" he smiled reassuringly at me and left the room. I shifted slightly in the bed and waited everyone was quite. Even though I wasn't as mad as I was with Randy I still had a few questions for him, and I could even slip in a couple of mean names for the sake of it. It was like being back in the car again. It was tense.

"What did Jenny say mum?"

"She said to keep her updated and she'll be on the next plane as quick as possible" I mumbled a response and went back to being quite. Everyone was picking up on the tension John got up

"I'm going to call some of the guys and give them an update"

"don't forget to call Fozz John!" he nodded his head before walking out. My mum quickly followed not even hiding the face that she was leaving because she knew we needed to talk, at first we didn't say anything I was completely at a lost, I had some many things I wanted to say but I didn't know where to start. Randy was still sat next to me

I was about to say something when I felt another contraction, this time Randy was ahead of me and already rubbing my back as I leaned forward. He whispered comforting words in my ear as the pain carried on. I was slowly repeating every word he said in my head till the pain subsided and I relaxed a little. After another few minutes of silence I finally spoke up "you came back" I whispered to him

"Yeah, you told me to go and sort my head out, so I did"

"and?"

"And I'm sorry. I'm acting like such a fucking asshole"

"got that right"

"look I am sorry for the way I acted, but I couldn't help it!"

"You could have at least waited until after Effy was born, hell, you could have said if BEFORE she was born! It might have been a more appropriate time"

"will you just let me explain please?" he got up from the bed and walked across the room he sat in the chair my mum had just vacated. I nodded my head a little apprehensive. "When you first told me you were pregnant I couldn't have been happier. Just watching you grow was amazing; knowing it was going to be you who was giving me my first child filled me with happiness. But then in Vince's office when your waters broke and Effy was coming I freaked out. I realized what was happening and I was scared"

"you're not the only one Randy…"

"I know that, all of a sudden I was thinking all these things like, 'am I going to be a good enough dad' 'is Effy going to be okay?' 'How am I going to do this' 'do I want to do this' and it got to the point where I didn't even want to be a dad anymore. And I'm sorry I ever thought that"

"but why would you even think that?"

"Because I was scared, of everything that was happening"

"was?"

"Yeah, was. I'm not scared anymore, I was talking to your mum about it and she made me realize that I had nothing to be scared of. That all I needed to do was look at Effy when she's born and know that she is mine, and I won't feel like this anymore"

"my mum's a smart woman"

"she really is. Please forgive me, I was such an idiot for thinking the way I did" I looked at him for a minute, -this man is going to be the death of me- here's to hoping it was a sweet death.

"Of course I forgive you" he walked over and sat next to me again hugging me closely "I love you"

"I love you too. So much" I rested peacefully in his arms, acknowledging my mum and John walking in. Every now I would feel another contraction; they were getting closer and closer. I was currently hooked up to a monitor that was keeping check on Effy's heartbeat. Me and Randy sat watching it, every now and then getting a little scared when it would suddenly start getting high then slowing down.

"Baby girl, I just spoke to Hunter, Mickie, Chris and Dave they're going to be here anytime soon"

"oh John, you should have told them not to bother! They've been wrestling all night I'm sure they just want to go to bed"

"I said you would say that, Chris told me to tell you to 'shut the hell up'"

"I'll get the little fucker for that" I was laughing when all of a sudden I felt a gut wrenching pain. I screamed without even realizing I had done it. "Fucking hell" I scrunched my body up tightly waiting for it to pass, just vaguely aware of people around me, and voices. They pain lasted longer this time and it was worse than anything I had ever felt. When I relaxed and opened my eyes and everyone had arrived. They were all looking at me curiously. "GUYS!" I opened my arms and everyone filed forward we huddled together in a group hug "you know you all didn't need to come"

"Roxy we weren't going to miss the birth of the little Orton were we? I mean…" he leaned closer whispering in my ear, but loud enough for everyone to hear "it may be the last thing we ever see!" I laughed slightly when Randy smacked Chris on the back of the head. Fun, fun, fun. We all sat and chatted for a little while before the doctor came in again to check Effy's heartbeat, I saw him frowning a little, I looked up at him waiting

"What is it doc?"

"Her heartbeat doesn't seem to be in a steady rhythm"

"that good or bad?"

"Can't tell right now, will know more once she's out. Can I?" he looked around the room at everyone

"Just do it, they don't care, do you guys?"

"About what?" but before they could say anything the doctor was checking my cervix. All the guys immediately ran from the room, except for Randy who stayed close to me, it was funny as hell, and that's kind of what I needed right now. The doctor's hand was all the time pressing against my stomach, feeling for the baby. I felt nervous every time he did this; it made me feel like something was wrong. Stupid but true.

"Okay, so your contractions getting closer together?"

"Yeah"

"more painful?"

"Yeah"

"want to know why?"

"Yeah"

"because you my dear lady are 9 centre meters dilated and anytime now will be 10"

"fuck" I took in a deep breath, this was getting so close, so real. But I couldn't be more excited. I looked at Randy nervously, his eyes were wide with shock, he had obviously heard the part where the doctor said at 10 they baby will be coming. He look like his was going to be sick, "babe, are you okay?" before he could answer he was up and running to the sink and was sick. I huffed a little chuckle at him and watched as he started cleaning himself up and splash cold water on his face. "Hey mum, think you could go and get him something to eat?" she nodded her head and walked out with her purse.

"So am I going to get my drugs soon doc?"

"The nurse will be in soon"

Randy walked back over slowly, my stomach started hurting again, the contraction starting; he could clearly see my pain, so he was at my side in a matter of seconds. I doubled over the pain was intense I had Randy's hand firmly gripped in my own, I brought his hand to my lips and pressed them against in, this one last longer than any of the others, and I had an over-whelming desire to push. "I think it's…" I was just about to finish my sentence when everyone came into the room at once, and looked at us both. Talk about timing.

I was about to shout at them all when I had another set of pains, okay so I was dead wrong -this I the worst pain I have ever felt- I screamed slightly, I was getting really hot. And all I wanted to do was push. And I knew what it meant "it's time for what babe?" Randy looked down at me

"time to push" I smiled up at him, he rushed from the room and came back with a doctor, they both came over and everyone looked on anxiously not knowing what was going on, I didn't even understand it, and I was living it. The doctor check me again, as well as checking the baby's heartbeat, he looked at me and smiled

"You ready Miss Summers?"

"Is she ready for what?" everyone turned to look at my mum walking through the door, who was holding a cup of tea and a sandwich.

"Time to have my baby mum" everyone was cheering and laughing, but the pain came again, and they stopped when I started shouting. "Okay… so it really is time"

"We'll move you to the delivery room now"

"wait, wait! What about the drugs?!"

"It's too late, you dilated quicker than we expected, you going to have to do it natural"

"No, no, no!" I cried. And everyone took it as their cue to leave they all shouted good luck and watched as they wheeled me into the delivery room with Randy at my side the whole time. When we got in the pain was coming more steadily and more painful, the intensity was becoming unbearable. The nurses were hooking me up to various monitors checking my heartbeat and sorting everything around me.

When everything was ready we waited for my next contraction and it didn't take long for it to come, my legs were raised up and I grabbed onto my knees and braced myself, the pain came throwing in a solid punch. Well that's what it felt like; I could hear the doctor telling me to push, encouraging me. I took his advice and pushed as hard as I could. Randy had one arm wrapped around my leg, the other around my shoulders.

"Okay, stop pushing" I did with great difficulty. I let out a sign of relief and rest my head back. "We just need to wait for the next one and you need to push again okay?" all I could do was nod; I started counting in my head. I didn't even get to 20 seconds and the next one started

"Oh my god, Randy. Je-suuus help me!" he gripped my hand tightly still holding my leg as I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was starting to sweat and it was clinging to my hair, I let out a frustrated groan when the doctor told me to stop. Telling me to stop. It was hardly the easiest thing to do. I barely managed. No wonder so many woman hit their doctor's during child birth

"You're doing okay babe"

"I know" I nodded my head, and cried. Shit, it was like hell on earth. Okay, overkill but it was something like that. Another 30 minutes passed and Effy still wasn't here. My body was sweating more and more every time I pushed. My body was so tired I felt like I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. I was crying shamelessly, everyone around me was encouraging me at every opportunity, Randy was forever whispering comforting words into my ear. Nurses were coming and going keeping everyone outside updated on how it was going. But I kept telling them not to bother; they could probably hear my screaming from halfway across the country. Probably.

The next one came full pelt, taking me by surprise, my eyes widen in horror at the pain, it felt like someone was taking a knife and slowly cutting open my stomach. I might have preferred that, you know—c-section. But life sucks. Both my hands were on my knees as I push as hard as I could, it felt as though the bottom half of my body was falling out. –Ew, ew, ew, gross- I panted my breaths out trying to ease the pain but it wouldn't work, I gritted my teeth until I couldn't breathe "you're doing good Miss Summers, the baby's head is crowning"

"Let me see…"

"Randy you don't want to…" -too late- in all fairness he took it better than you would have expected. He did look extremely pale, all he did was silently come over to me and grab my leg and hand. It made me laugh a little, but then I realized what it meant that Effy was crowning. She was almost here the doctor confirmed what I was thinking

"Okay Miss Summers, on the next time you need to push, put all of your effort into it. She's almost here okay?"

"I can't do it"

"why not babe?" I looked at Randy and started crying

"I'm so tired! I just want to sleep, it hurts too much!"

"Come on babe, you can do it! I believe in you okay? I'm right here I ain't going anywhere"

"Just so you know Randy, we are never doing this again"

"the sex?"

"Oh yeah"

"Well you only have one more push and it's done" I just nodded my head—he could ignore the no sex rule as much as he wanted, it was still going to be there. I felt my body automatically start to push.

"Oh my GOD!" I dragged out every word then screamed at the top of my lungs. I pushed with everything I had, which at the moment wasn't very much, but I must have done a good job because the doctor was praising me

"Okay, the head is out now. This is going to be the last one then she's going to be here"

"the last one? Randy I thought you said that was the last one!"

"well I lied"

"Are you ready?" I looked at the doctor and shook my head

"Not even close" but I went along with it anyway. My body allowed me a small rest but not for long, I cursed myself and then grabbed Randy's hand and gripped it tightly "make it stop Randy please!"

"It's going to be over soon okay, just one last push and she'll be here" I just nodded at him he kissed me swiftly on the lips and waited. Then it came. Maybe the worst pain any woman would ever feel in their whole entire life. And I felt it big time, at first I didn't say anything I was just straining but then I let out a small grown, the sound coming from the back of my throat, then it got louder and louder till it was a full blown scream. My whole body started shaking with the amount of effort I was putting in.

Then just like that, the pain stopped. It was like a flipped switch I felt relief, like someone had just injected me with a bucket load of pain killers. I was hoping they had but I knew what had happened, "why isn't she crying?" I became frantic I couldn't hear anything, I tried sitting up but Randy kept me down "Randy, why isn't she crying?!" but then I heard the most beautiful noise I had ever heard. Effy started crying.

"Mr. Orton you want to cut the umbilical cord?" I watch as Randy bent down and cut it, but I couldn't see the baby. Then the nurse bent down with some towels and produced and huge moving lump she handed it to Randy and he slowly walked over and sat next to me when he lower the towel I looked down at Effy. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my whole life.

I watched as she cried, Randy slowly handed her to my waiting arms where I gladly held onto her. My finger traced her cheek and I rocked her slightly where the crying died down, Randy looked down with me and she held his finger. Hot damn, we had a baby.

We both looked at each other completely mesmerized, Randy leaned in and kissed me softly on the lips, when we looked down again she had opened her eyes and was looking at us "she's got your eyes babe" and she did. One was a beautiful icy blue the other a golden green. I choked out a little sob and rubbed my eyes with my shoulder not wanted to move her. Then the nurse walked over

"We're just going to clean her up and weigh her then you can have her back" I just nodded as the nurse took her away. I turned to Randy he was smiling like me

"I can't believe we actually did it"

"No you did it Vicki, all I did was help make her, you're the one who just gave birth to her"

"Please, it hurts to talk about it" he chuckled slightly then kissed me, pressing his lips hard against mine, I wrapped my arms around his neck, as he rubbed his nose against my jaw line kissing me neck. "I love you"

"I love you too."

I was sat quietly in my room with Effy in my arms, I was playing with her fingers and kissing her every now and again, she was tightly wrapped in a blanket keeping her warm. I held her hand with my finger and looked at the small tag on her arm 'Effy Sunny Orton. May 19th 2008' I just grinned, no matter how tired I was right now; I didn't want to put her down.

I let myself cry slightly savoring these few minutes, my emotions were everywhere at the moment because my hormones hadn't even started to return to normal. It would take a while; anything could trigger any emotion in me. God help the world. Randy was with everyone now probably taking them through every single detail.

She was absolutely beautiful, I looked up when everyone tip-toed into the room my mum first, she was by my side crying in 2 seconds. Everyone started coo-ing at her. I handed her to my mum so she could see her grandchild. Randy sat next to me on the bed and I rested against him "did you call your parents?"

"Yes I did, they left hours ago but the traffic if so terrible said something about an over turned car"

"when do they think they'll get here?"

"They won't, they had to turn around, the cops completely blocked the whole route and there isn't any other way to get to the hospital"

"They coming tomorrow then?" Randy nodded his head and rested it against mine.

"So baby girl, what was it like?" I turned to John raising my eyebrow at him

"what was what like John?"

"Giving birth"

"agony"

"Really? I always thought you women put it on a bit"

"did you hear me screaming John?" I was slightly agitated, even though it was perfectly clear he was just kidding.

"Yes"

"Would you like to scream like that anytime soon?"

"No"

"then be quite" he shook his head laughing then leaned over Effy and kissed her on the head. For the next 10 minutes she was passed around softly so everyone could hold her. She looked tiny in their big, muscled arms. I was about to fall to sleep when I was jolted awake. I looked over and Randy now holding the baby. So I guess 2 parts of my perfect image were complete. Let's hope the last one was just around the corner. I mean right on the corner, well not that I was bothered or anything— Damnit, I wanted a ring.

"Hey Roxy I was just wondering"

"what's that?"

"How does something so big come out of something so small?" I was about to answer when John got in first

"small, you think a lot of her" I lunged from the bed intending to go for his throat

"I'll kill him!" John started laughing and ran out the room as Hunter placed me back in the bed. I huffed slightly but couldn't help but laugh, when I did so did everyone else. Knowing it was safe any I wouldn't turn on them. Couldn't blame them, I would have if I wasn't in such a good mood. Tra-la-la. Ri-iight. But this started Effy crying, Randy started comforting her, he looked so natural doing it, my mum stood up stretching her arms out.

"I think it's time we left this happy family alone"

"do you have to go mum?"

"Yeah, you could do with some sleep sweetie, you and Randy, I'll be back in the morning okay?"

"alright" everyone stood up and said goodbye before leaving the room, when they had all gone and the door clicked quietly behind them Randy got up and walked to the bed "I don't think I've ever been so tired in my whole life" I opened the covers for him to join me, he walked over and laid Effy into the little cot besides the bed. He kicked off his shoes and climbed into the bed, we laid spooning each other where Randy had his arm wrapped around my waist the other in my hair.

"I can't believe she's ours"

"why?"

"She's too perfect"

I chuckled quietly "she's got your lips. And ears, poor thing"

"hey!" he just wrapped me in his arms tighter and kissed my forehead "one thing's for sure, she is beautiful" I leaned into him and closed my eyes and was just about to fall asleep when… "Vicki…"

"yes"

"are we really never going to have sex?"

"I'll think about it" I heard him take in a huge breath and let it out again,

"shit" I laughed quietly then fell into a really peaceful sleep.