A/N: Ready to meet the newest edition of the crew? Next we get into the C&A wedding, so excited for that! Let me know what you think and as always: Enjoy! xx

Chapter 53: A warm welcome.

"Do you need us to bring you anything to the hospital?" I ask Lauren while Mike and Christian help her into the car.

"I have a suitcase in the nursery, everything I need is in there. Can you please grab that? And something for Mike to sober up. I need him sober, people." Lauren tells us, still looking scared shitless.

She doesn't have contractions yet, but she is really nervous and had no idea what to expect. The fact that Mike is functioning on alcohol doesn't help at all.

"On it. Relax Lau. This is it. You can do it. Don't be afraid." I tell her.

"Yeah, I'll tell you that when you are about to push a bowling ball out of your vajayjay, four weeks too early I might add. I am not ready for this. Damn it, I bet I'll walk the funniest walk you have ever seen after this. As a matter of fact, I probably won't be able to walk normal at all. And all that while the Daddy is wasted and I'm exhausted. Jesus, she knows her timing already, doesn't she?" Lauren signs.

I can't help but chuckle. Bitch Lauren is back in the building. And thank God for that. She is going to be just fine, Mike however, is going to need all the luck he can get.

"We'll meet you there. Good luck, this is what you two have been waiting for." I tell them. I can just hear Lauren yell that she didn't mind to have waited a little longer before Christian closes the door.

We watch them drive away, quite fast. Taylor arrived ten minutes after Christian's call and is going to bring them to the hospital. The girls, Christian and I will go to Lauren and Mike's house to grab them the stuff they need before going to the hospital as well.

We first told Lau we were just going home and wait for their call, but she wasn't having any of it. Her parents live in Los Angeles because of her Dads work, so they won't be here for a while. She needs us there.

"And how are we getting at their house?" Kate asks, looking a little lost.

"We'll grab a taxi, come on." Christian tells us before grabbing my hand and pulling me towards a taxi.

When the four of us are in the taxi and on our way to the house, everything is starting to kick in. Lauren is having the baby. This is huge. I can tell Kate and Kim are just as nervous as I am. I'm so happy Christian is here. He seems to be very calm and has everything under control.

He was the first one that got into action when Lauren's water broke. He called Taylor immediately and then went to the dance floor to inform everyone. He told Tom, John, and Elliot to go home while he made sure we all had some water to start the sobering process. He also went over to Mike, who was still standing like a statue, with his hands in his hair. Christian hit him in the face and ordered him to man up and help Lauren. He immediately did, which was funny.

"Girls, she is having a baby." Kim says, probably thinking the same as I did moments ago.

"I know. This is so weird. Our Lau is really going to be a Mommy." I say.

"Yeah, first she needs to go through hell though. Jesus, I hope Mike will hang in there. He was very drunk." Kate giggles, still drunk. I can tell by the way she talks.

We all laugh and then think about everything, letting it sink in for a moment. I look at Christian. He is holding my hand and looks completely sober and in control. The other hand is holding his phone, probably waiting for Taylor to tell him they arrived at the hospital. How he did it is beyond me, but I'm so happy he is with us. If we were alone, this would have been a challenge.

"Want to make a bet on the name?" Kim asks after a few minutes of silence.

"I think they'll go for a short name, like Bibi or Lilly." Kate immediately says like she had thought this through already.

"I'm thinking Olivia." Kim says. "Mike, Lauren, and Olivia. It just seems right."

"Oh, that might actually be it." I tell Kim, it really does suit Lauren. "I'll go for Gina. I remember Lauren telling me years ago she liked that name."

"Christian? Want to share your thoughts?" Kate asks Christian, who is still looking at his phone.

"Really can't join this bet." He tells us, looking like he knows something he shouldn't.

"Why not?" I ask him, my eyebrow raised.

Christian looks at the three of us, then he looks out of the window, a small smile on his lips. What the hell?

"Do you know?!" Kate shouts, her eyes wide.

"What?!" Kim yells from the front seat, her whole body turned to Christian.

I look at him with wide eyes. How the hell does he know the name of the baby?

Christian sees us looking at him in question and understands that he has to give an explanation.

"Listen, the three of you need to shut up about this to Lauren. Mike was very drunk and had no idea he told us the name. We swore we wouldn't tell anyone he said it. This afternoon we were eating burgers and we were talking about our wedding. Mike told us he was very excited and then kept saying he would bring the baby. Only, he called her by her name. After the third time, we got it. First, we really had no idea who the hell he was talking about. I just thought that maybe it was because he was drunk and it was what he called Lauren at home, like her second name or something. Elliot actually thought he had a side piece. It was quite funny."

We all look at him with wide eyes. This is huge. He knows and we don't. We have known Lau for years, and he knows them for two minutes and already knows the name of their unborn baby. I feel so passed.

"Tell us. You need to prove that you not bullshitting." Kim tells Christian, now on her knees on the chair, her ass to the front window. That must be a sight.

"Right, you could be telling a lie. Prove it, Grey." Kate supports Kim.

"I'm not lying. Ask Elliot, Kim. I'm sure you've got his number now, since his tongue was licking your throat just a few minutes ago." Christian smirks, making Kate and I laugh.

"Ouch. Nice one." Kate giggles, giving Christian a high five.

"Still can't believe I kissed him. This night is so emotional. Things are happening, Jesus. Is it a full moon or something?" Kim signs, luckily not offended by Christian's joke.

"How was it? Kissing a guy?" I ask Kim. I'm not going to push Christian in telling us the name of the baby. I want to be surprised and he promised Mike not to tell anything.

"Good. Weird. Way rougher than with a girl, but that could just be the stubble. I did feel the thing though. I think. And those hands, hello..." She says, sounding very turned on and confused at the same time.

''What about his hands? Just where have they been, little lady?'' Kate smirks, raising her eyebrow at Kim.

''Oh, you know. They wondered around a bit.'' Kim snorts.

''Oh my God, little tramp.'' Kate gasps, making us all laugh.

''Seriously though, it was so weird. I have never kissed a guy. This is a big thing for me to process.'' Kim says.

"You'll get your thoughts together when you're sober. You two should just meet up and talk." Kate tells her.

"I completely agree. Talk to him when you're not drunk and then see what happens. Just remember that you fall in love with the person, not the sex." I tell her.

"And you also should remember that Elliot is my brother, which means you're going to have the hottest brother in law in the world, who happens to have a shitload of money. That is, if you're decide to date him." Christian says out of nowhere, making us all laugh very hard.

"You are still feeling it a little aren't you, babe?" I giggle and run my hand through his hair.

"Yeah." He grins before pecking my lips. "But Taylor just texted me that Mike and Lauren have arrived at the hospital."

"And you've arrived as well. That's $26,70." The driver of the taxi tells us. He is very grumpy, I can tell he wants this night to be over. I don't blame him, driving drunk people around must be exhausting.

"My future brother in law will pay. As you've heard he's got a shitload of money. And he is hot." Kim tells him before opening the door, making us all laugh again.

While Christian tells the driver to wait for a few minutes, so he can drive us to the hospital as well, I open the door and sprint upstairs to the nursery. It looks so cute. It isn't a typical girls room. The furniture is white and the accessories are brown and yellow. One wall is painted yellow as well, and on it are paintings of animals. It looks like nature and safari where the inspiration.

I look around and find the suitcase Lauren told me about. Then I look at the little bassinet that's standing in the corner of the room. It is so small. I can't believe a little girl will sleep in it soon. I'm so curious about her.

"Ready to go?" Kate asks, standing in the door opening, leaning against the doorpost.

"Yes, got the suitcase she told me about." I tell her while showing her.

"Good, I just grabbed their toothbrush and toothpaste. Lauren texted Kim, Mike's breath smells of alcohol and she has a funny taste in her mouth. I just have to grab some energy drinks from the kitchen for Mike." Kate chuckles.

"I can hear her bitch about His breath." I giggle while looking at the bassinet one last time.

"We really are growing up, aren't we." Kate says, smiling at me.

"We are. Are you okay with that?" I ask her.

Kate has always been the one that wants to stay young forever. She wants to party and drink and live a selfish life. I hope she knows that is she is serious about Dean, she can't come home drunk while his daughters are staying over.

"Surprisingly, yes. I'm even excited. This is good, we are adults after all." She smiles.

"Then let's go, grown up." I tell her while walking out of the room.

Let's get our girl through this.


We are sitting in the waiting room for five and a half hours now and Mike just came by to give us the latest info. Lauren is in pain and told him she is going to cut his balls off. She is processing well and she has 6 centimeters dilation. Mike looks very taken by the whole thing.

"How are you holding up, mate?" Christian asks him.

"I'm telling you, she is screaming and holding my hand in such a though grip, it actually hurts. But I obviously didn't tell her that because she is pushing my baby out. Jesus man, I'm telling you, I had no idea she had such a dirty mouth. The things she says, that's not my Lau. It is the devil. I've seen this shit in movies. I need a drink. " Mike signs and shakes his head like he can't believe it.

"Oh no, you don't. You need to get your ass back to Lau and help her through this. She doesn't mean it, Mike. She is in pain. But she loves you. And she is going to be so happy when the baby is here." I tell him. He really can't get a drink right now. Lauren will murder him.

"Can't one of you girls go in and stay with her for a moment? I need a break." He asks us, looking at us with big puppy eyes.

"Hell no. You've put it inside of her, you'll help to get it out of her as well. She can't just take a break, so you can't either. This is something you two need to experience together. This is your baby, Mike. Man up." Kim tells him.

"She is right, Mike. Come on. The next time we see you, you are going to tell us she is born." Kim tells him reassuringly.

''And when she is born, I'll get you a beer.'' Christian nods his head. It makes me smile. He is so into this. He really is part of the family.

Mike nods his head and stands from the chair. "Thanks. I needed that." He says before walking back to the room down the hall where Lauren is lying.

"I'm going to get drinks, who wants what?" Kate says before standing.

"Coffee please." Christian and I say at the same time.

Jesus, I need caffeine to get through this night. It is 5:40 now and I swear I could fall asleep if I wasn't this nervous. My eyes are burning and my heart is racing and I'm still drunk. Not an ideal combination at all. I can only imagine how Mike is feeling right now.

"You, Kimmie?" Kate asks Kim.

"I'll join you. I need to get out of here for a sec. The walls are starting to move." She giggles and walks to Kate before they get down the stairs to the coffee corner.

"Are you okay, baby?" Christian asks me while pulling me onto his lap.

"Yeah. Tired but also nervous and excited. You?"

"Hanging in there. Did you have fun today?" He smirks, scratching his beard against my shoulder, making me giggle.

"I did. We had brunch and then they dragged me to a dance studio where we did a Belly dance. Then we went to a photo studio where someone took sexy pictures of me and then we painted a male model with a huge dick and then we had dinner at Lori's. Oh, and the girls gave me this necklace." I tell him, proud that I remember everything that happened today.

"That's nice." He smirks while touching the necklace. "Although I'm more interested about the naked model with the huge dick and the pictures they made of you." He raises his eyebrow while he says the last part.

"Don't worry, he was gay and those pictures are made for you. Lauren's got them. At least, I hope she still got them. I'm sure she has them." I frown while stroking his neck. It doesn't really make sense in my head, but Christian gets what I mean.

"Can't wait to see them. Was he bigger than me?"

I giggle at that. I just told him he was gay and he still wants to know. He is such a dude.

"Well, he was thicker. But you are longer and you have pubic hair, which I love. And he was definitely not as pretty as yours, it was actually kind of ugly." I tell him.

"You think my dick is pretty? Fuck baby, I had hoped you used a tougher word to describe my package. Pretty sounds so... gay." He chuckles, shaking his head.

I grab his face in both of my hands, forcing him to look at me.

"Your dick is perfect. It's the perfect size, the perfect shape, the perfect color and it's attached to the most perfect man in the whole world. And what you do with it, Jesus, that's definitely perfect as well. I love your dick. It is perfect for me." I tell him, pecking his lips when I'm done with my plea.

"That's a lot of perfects, Miss Steele." He mumbles against my lips.

"I know. Nauseating isn't it? How was your day?" I giggle.

"Great. We also started with brunch, then played a game of paintball and then the fuckers made me bungee jump of a bridge. They blindfolded me first so I had no idea I was jumping from something that high until I did it. It was great though. After that, we had a quick dinner and then we went to this place where I had to pick out the fake breasts of a group of girls that were showing me their tits." He smirks.

Alarm bells are going off in my head. You have got to be kidding me. Is there really a place where you can do that? I hate his friends.

''Hold the fuck up, Mister. How the hell did you pick out the fake ones? Did you touch them? Have a squeeze?" I ask him, a little pissed.

'Jealous, sweets?" He smirks before pulling me back against him. "No Ana, I didn't touch them. I had to tell which tits were fake by looking at them. I got three right and four wrong, and I probably insulted those four girls by thinking their tits where fake. All I thought about while I looked at those tits, was how lucky I am to marry the girl who has the most perfect pair of tits in the whole world."

"That's a lot of tits in one small story, Mr. Grey. But good safe." I smile. "I liked your striptease, although I would have liked to see a little more. You didn't even drop your pants." I pout.

I'm actually very pleased that he didn't drop his pants. I don't want anybody to see him naked, not even Kim, Lauren or Kate. He is mine.

"I didn't think it would be a good idea. I am a public figure after all. But I also thought you wouldn't appreciate it, I know how jealous you are." He smirks. ''And let's be honest, I did let you feel a little more when you dragged me to the toilets.''

"Yeah. That was not little though. But I still want my full strip tease, when we are alone." I tell him.

"Deal. Only if you promise to drag me to the bathroom afterwards." He says.

That makes me laugh. ''You are such a dork. Deal.''

We sit there, my head against his shoulder. Christian's hand is stroking my back. I could really fall asleep like this. The moment I feel my eyes drop however, I hear Kim and Kate return with coffee.

"Any news?" Kate asks while giving me and Christian our drinks.

"No, well yes. Christian had to pick out the fake boobs of a group of girls." I giggle.

"They should let me do that sometime. I'm a pro." Kim tells us, looking awfully proud at herself.

''Really? Share your secret, because I had four wrong answers.'' Christian says.

''It's all about the firmness, when you squeeze them. And sometimes you can see it when you look at the nipples as well. They sometimes are a little stretched.'' Kim says, completely sure of her advice.

''See, that's where I went wrong. I wasn't paying attention to the nipples, because some of those tits where huge. And I wasn't allowed to touch them.'' He says like it all makes sense now.

''Hold up, you didn't want to touch them, dickhead. Because you only want to touch my perfect tits.'' I giggle, giving him a slap on his chest.

''You do have perfect tits. It is annoying.'' Kate says while looking at my boobs.

''You've seen my fiancé's tits?'' Christian asks, his eyes wide.

We all look at him like he is crazy. Oh now he is in for a shocker.

''Um, yeah. I even touched them. She once told us she wasn't wearing a bra, and we didn't believe her. So we had a feel to see if she was telling the truth.'' Kate giggles.

''Oh my God, I remember that. We all touched her boobs to see if she really wasn't wearing a bra. I was shocked and just had to keep touching them when I found out she wasn't lying.'' Kim laughs.

''Why do I feel fucking jealous and turned on at the same time?'' Christian asks out loud, making us all giggle.

I'm about to respond to him when we see Mike walk out if the room. He looks white as a sheet but happy as fuck. His eyes are smiling and he looks so proud. We all stand the moment he reaches us, dying to hear him tell us everything went well.

"She did it. The baby is here. Fuck, I'm a Daddy. Lauren did a great job, she is amazing. And the baby is so beautiful." He says while pulling me into a hug.

When I pull back I see tears in his eyes. My eyes instantly water as well. She is here. Lauren did it.

"Congratulations!" Kim says while giving him a hug as well.

Mike hugs Kate and then Christian before looking at the four of us again.

"Do you want to meet her?" He asks excitedly.

"Are you sure? Don't you want to wait for the Grandparents? Is Lauren ready for that?" I ask, I really don't want to interfere. This is their moment.

"Lauren asked me to get you all into that room. Come on." He says while walking to the room again.

We all follow Mike into the room. On the bed we see Lauren, holding a tiny little pink bundle in her arms. She looks exhausted but very happy. I can instantly tell she is on cloud nine. Mike takes a seat on the bed next to her, looking at the little baby in Lauren's arms with adoration.

"Guys, meet the newest member of the crew: Norah Amy Hobbs." Lauren tells us, proudly showing us the little baby that's laying in her arms.

She has chubby cheeks and a small nose. She is gorgeous and so small in Lauren's arms. I'm completely in love. When I look at Christian, I see he feels exactly the same as well.

"Norah. That's just so perfect and so right." Kate says, tearing up.

"She is beautiful, Lau." Kim says, emotional as well.

I can't say anything. I can just look at the perfect little family they form, tears streaming down my cheeks. I'm so happy for them.

"Good job, Lau. She is gorgeous." Christian says while pulling me against him, rubbing my back to soothe me.

Lauren smiles and looks at little Norah again, who is sleeping soundly, looking utterly peaceful and completely unaware of the fact that she just stole our hearts.

"You can all hold her tomorrow. She probably is still a little shaken up from the delivery. We need to stay here for a few days because she is four weeks early. Surprisingly her weight is perfectly on point for the term, but they want to see if she doesn't lose too much weight in the next couple of days." Mike tells us.

"Take your time. She is yours. We'll cuddle with her soon enough." I tell them.

We stand there, looking at the little girl. She is so small and fragile. We all hope she will open her eyes for just a moment so we can see her eyes, but she is not having any of it.

"We should go, you two must be very tired. Take time to enjoy this, and try to get some sleep." Christian says after a few minutes, pushing the three of us to the door. He probably senses we won't leave until he makes us.

"Thank you for being here. It really helped even though you weren't in the room to hold my hand." Lauren says.

"You are so welcome, we love you guys." Kate tells them, talking for all of us. She couldn't be more right.

You are so welcome and so loved, little Norah.


Welcome to the world

Norah Amy Hobbs

September 29, 2018. 5:52 am.

5.6 pounds / 18,5 inches