Foster

August 7, 2004

Summary: What is adoption? Adoption is when you grow in your mommy's heart instead of growing in your mommy's tummy.

Chapter 01: What Matters

"Babe! I'm home!" Randy called out, dropping his sports bag on the carpeted floor of his house in St. Louis, Missouri, where he just came home from gym. It was exactly four weeks after he had gotten married to the one woman who meant everything to him; the most important person in his life; the reason as to why he was living.

Okay, so how much he loved her was beyond words that too often, he sounded really cliché.

He closed the main door and locked it. Raising an eyebrow, he wondered. Usually when he yelled he was home, his dearly loved wife would be jogging down the stairs, running to his arms and giving him a big hug. But today was different. He didn't see any pair of long legs running down the stairs. All he saw was an empty house...and all he heard was nothing but silence.

"Babe! I talked to Bischoff today! He said he's extending our vacation until next, next week! You know what that means?" he yelled once again, a smirk forming on his perfectly carved face as a few sensual thoughts filled his head.

Still, no answer came and he began to worry a bit. He checked the kitchen, the dining room, the living room and the library but his wife was nowhere in sight. He then headed upstairs and checked the only place she could be in: their room.

As he opened the door, what he found puzzled him to a great extent.

There, he found his wife on their bed, clad in a pair of cotton shorts and a plain shirt, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Oh my god! Babe! What happened?!" he exclaimed, running over to her and scooping her in his arms.

Just the mere sight of her crying broke his heart. He just loved her to pieces.

She continued to cry, this time harder, as her husband pulled her in for a tight hug. He placed her on his lap and soothingly rocked her back and forth. "Hey babe...what happened?" he whispered in her ear while stroking her blonde hair gently. It took him long to calm her down before she was finally ready to speak.

"Randy..." she whispered, a few tears falling from her large, brown eyes. "I went to the doctor today."

With those six words spoken, Randy inwardly panicked. "What?! What doctor?! What did the doctor say?! Babe, are you sick?! What's going on?!" he blurted out one by one.

She shook her head on his hard chest as a few tears continuously ran down her pretty face before replying, "Randy...she told me...she told me that..."

But before she could finish, she began to cry once again.

"Ssshhh...babe, come on. Tell me what's wrong." He whispered, kissing her forehead and cheek a few times.

"Randy, she told me that I'm not capable of having a baby!!!" she screamed before breaking down once again.

This shocked Randy a bit before continuing to pacify her. They couldn't have a baby? His wife wasn't capable of conceiving one? Now that just hurt. It hurt a great deal. And if it hurt him a great deal, what more did his wife feel? It was always her dream to have a child; to have a baby they could call their own.

"Ssshhh...babe...ssshhh...." He whispered.

He had no idea what to say. Seriously, what was there to say? He couldn't tell her it was okay 'coz it obviously wasn't. And he couldn't tell her to calm down either. Because she had to let it all out.

And so, all he did was kiss her on the cheek and forehead numerous times until she fell asleep in his arms. Sighing, he gently placed her on the bed and draped the blanket over her. He watched her for a while. Dried tears streaked down her beautiful face and she was breathing deeply. He sighed once again before entering the bathroom and taking a long, hot bath.

Emerging, he was just clothed in a pair of black pajama bottoms and his perfectly chiseled body showed bare. Turning off the lights and leaving just the small, blue nightlight on, he climbed in bed beside his slender wife. Kissing her on the cheek, which was one of his favorite doings besides kissing her fervently on the lips, he wrapped one toned, tattooed arm around her and hugged her close, feeling so much emotions running through him at the moment. How he loved the idea to have his own child as well. But then, he just loved his wife so much more. And to him, she was all that mattered. As long as she was safe with him, loved him, happy with him and was with him, everything else was easy to cope with. Nuzzling the crook of her neck and breathing in her scent, he kissed her once more.

Damn, he loved Stacy Keibler too much.

A/N: So what do you guys think of the first chapter? Please review and tell me!!! Love you all! Mwah! :-)