So thanks so much for reviewing! You guys rock my socks! Here's the next chapter, I hope that you like it. Speaking of names, my aunt just had a baby and named her Elsa. Elsa?!? As my other cousin said, "Do they hate her already?" (If your name is Elsa, I apologize, but I believe it's a fairly awful name, you probably disagree....) Anyway, please review!

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters...and please don't sue me. I have....well, a ticket stub for "The Polar Express" and....a fruit roll up, and...oh look a five! That's awesome! Please don't take my five dollars.

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Ryan knocked lightly on the door and heard a soft,

"Come in." Kirsten was in the hospital bed, her normally perfect hair was plastered to her forehead, but she had never looked more beautiful. She had a large grin on her face and a bundle of pink blankets in her arms.

"Hey guys," she said softly as they stepped into the room. "Come meet your sister."

"She's so tiny," Seth breathed as he stepped closer.

"You were that tiny too," Sandy said coming up behind both his sons and placing a hand on each of their shoulders. "Once upon a time, you know, before you became moody teenagers."

"Can I hold her?" Ryan asked Kirsten looking down at the sleeping baby in awe.

"Sure," Kirsten said smiling. She went through a quick lesson on how to hold the baby properly before transferring her into Ryan's extended arms.

"Support her head," Sandy reminded with a smile.

"So what shall we call her? Because I mean, Baby Girl Cohen does have a certain ring to it, but I think she might get beat up on the playground," Seth said waiting for his turn to hold his sister.

"We were thinking Lily," Sandy said smiling as Ryan handed the baby gently to Seth. "After my grandmother and Kirsten's mother, Lillian Catherine Cohen."

"Lily," Seth whispered looking down at the baby. "It's not Moonbeam, but...I like it." Kirsten and Sandy both laughed. The baby started fussing and Seth hurriedly handed her back to his mother.

"She's beautiful," Ryan told Kirsten.

"She looks like her mother," Sandy said leaning down and kissing his wife lightly on the lips.

"Hey, Dad, none of that hanky panky around Lily, she's still young and easily scarred," Seth teased. Sandy reached out and smacked him on the back of his head. He looked down at his wife who was cradling their daughter, and at his sons who were currently arguing about the things that they could teach Lily. Well, actually it was mostly Seth talking and Ryan watching the baby and half heartedly listening.

"I'm going to teach her all about comic books," Seth grinned. "And music! She'll have the greatest musical taste of any other baby."

"What about you Ryan?" Kirsten asked looking up at him. "What will you teach her?"

"Dude, teach her how to convey everything in one look," Seth told him seriously. "That's a talent." Sandy laughed.

"There you go, Ryan," Sandy said. "That's a skill that she can inherit from her big brother."

Ryan laughed lightly, but gazed thoughtfully down at his sister. She was going to have the best attributes from all of them, he decided. Maybe she would look like Kirsten, and so she would be heartbreakingly beautiful, and maybe inherit her mother's kindness, and maybe she would have Sandy's sense of humor and his optimism. Maybe from Seth she will get the ability to ramble on at a thousand words per second, and an enviable vocabulary.

And from Ryan? Well, he would have to sit her down when she was old enough and teach her "the look" as Seth had dubbed it, but mostly he would teach her all about how her family had their sets of problems, and they could be a little odd sometimes, but they loved each other, and that was the greatest thing that you could ask for. He would make sure that she knew how lucky she was to be born into this family, with these parents, and these brothers. Ryan would protect her, and make sure that no one messed with his baby sister.

And she was his. She was all of theirs.

"Well, maybe I could teach her how to cook," Ryan finally said looking up at Kirsten and grinning. "Something that normally mothers teach their daughters, but in this case probably would be better left up to someone else."

"Oh! He got you there Mom!" Seth cried out. Kirsten feigned insult, but joined in the laughter. When she yawned, Sandy immediately went into over-protective mode.

"Hey, guys, your mother needs to get some sleep," he said.

"Is this your polite way of kicking us out?" Seth asked.

"Well, yes, and get out," Sandy told him. He took Lily out of Kirsten's arms and Ryan walked over and gave Kirsten a hug and she was surprised, but recovered quickly and hugged him back.

"Really, Kirsten, she's beautiful," he said sincerely before following Seth out. Sandy placed a kiss on Lily's forehead before placing her in the bassinet and then crossed to give Kirsten a kiss on the forehead too.

"Get some sleep," he said softly. She nodded and took one more look over at Lily sleeping before closing her eyes. "You did great. She's great." Kirsten, her eyes closed, reached over and grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze. She opened her eyes a little to smile at him.

"Well, I had some help."

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Two days later, Summer and Marissa were helping Ryan and Seth blow up balloons and hang up streamers and a welcome home banner.

"A little higher on the left," Summer said tilting her head as Seth stood on a teetering chair to hang the banner. "No, down a little bit....okay, wait, no up a little ! Up! Are you listening?" Seth sighed, taped his side of the banner up and hopped off the chair.

"I'm done," he announced.

"But Cohen! It's not straight!" Summer argued.

"Like Lily cares, she's two days old," Seth retorted.

"Kirsten will notice," Marissa pointed out as she hung the last of her balloons and stood back to admire their work. Seth just waved his hand in the air and dismissed her statement.

"Hey, can we go see the nursery?" Summer asked.

"Summer, we've taken you to see it already," Seth said sighing.

"One more time," she said as she ran towards the steps. The nursery was right next to Sandy and Kirsten's bedroom, although Lily wouldn't sleep in there at first. Sandy had taken a little bit of time the day before while Kirsten was resting to finish the nursery. They had bought the essentials, but were waiting to see if they should decorate in pink or blue, and Sandy went out and bought everything he could in pink. They all trooped up the stairs and Summer and Marissa awed over the tiny pink sleepers, and the pink ribbons that were now tied on the crib.

"It's so cute!" Summer exclaimed. "It looks adorable."

"It looks like someone threw up Pepto Bismal," Ryan muttered.

"Completely different shade of pink," Marissa argued. "This is a pale pink. Sandy did good, Kirsten is going to love it." They heard a car pull up into the driveway and all four bounded down the stairs.

"They're home!" Summer cried as they heard Sandy and Kirsten's voices. The front door opened and Kirsten stepped in holding Lily, and Sandy stepped in holding the carrier and all the other various baby paraphernalia.

"Oh you guys!" Kirsten exclaimed as she spotted the decorations.

"Welcome home," they said in unison.

"Thank you," Kirsten said beaming.

"Can I hold her?" Summer asked, and behind her Seth began to whine that she was his sister and that if anyone should hold her first it should be him. "You'll get to hold her all the time," Summer snapped as Kirsten placed Lily in her arms. "Oh my God, she's so cute."

"Hey, can you guys watch her for like two minutes?" Sandy asked. "It's not hard, just don't drop her or let Seth corrupt her. I want to show Kirsten something." He winked at them and the four kids nodded as Sandy led his wife up to the nursery.

"What is it?" she asked as they came to the closed door.

"You'll see," Sandy said as he stood behind her and placed his hands over her eyes and opened the door. When he uncovered her eyes, she gasped.

"Oh Sandy! It's gorgeous!" And it was. While she had picked out the dark oak crib, dresser, and changing table, he had added accents to it. There was a new rocking chair in the corner with light pink cushions and white pillows. The canopy on the crib was white, but was tied back with pink ribbons, and the curtains were white but trimmed in the same matching pink. And in the crib sat a new pink teddy bear and a pink blanket with the name "Lily" embroidered on it.

"You like it?"

"Oh Sandy, I love it! When did you do this?"

"Yesterday," he said.

"It's wonderful," she grinned and turned around and kissed him. "Thank you." Sandy wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him. They stood there for a moment, just holding onto to one another until they heard the baby begin to wail and Ryan's voice say,
"Seth, what did you do?"

"We're never going to get alone time ever again are we?" Sandy asked leaning his forehead against Kirsten's. She laughed.

"I don't think so," she said as she hurried downstairs to her daughter.

Her daughter. She had a daughter. The truth was that she had been slightly disappointed that Seth was a boy. Not that she didn't love Seth from the moment that she saw him, but she had always wanted a little girl to dress up and take ballet lessons, and have her be the lead debutante in the Cotillion. And now she had that.

"I didn't do anything!" Seth claimed as soon as she came into the living room. She laughed as she took Lily into her arms.

"I know, honey, she's hungry," Kirsten as she moved to sit down and feed her.

"Ew, gross Mom! Are you going to do that here?" Seth asked and Sandy walked into the living room with an amused look on his face as he draped a blanket over the baby.

"I think that's a yes," Marissa said grinning.

"I think that it's our cue to leave," Ryan said as he and Seth bolted from the room. Sandy laughed as Summer's voice came floating back to them,

"Oh come on, it's beautiful. Don't be such asses."

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As Kirsten and Sandy lay in bed that night, she cuddled up against him and smiled to herself.

"Do you remember when Ryan and Seth bought that bear for us?" She asked laughing a little bit.

"Of course," Sandy replied. Early on in her pregnancy, Seth and Ryan had decided to do something nice for their parents to show that they were okay with Kirsten's pregnancy. About a week or two after they had announced that she was going to have a baby, Seth and Ryan went off to Fashion Island to see what they could use symbolically to show they were happy.

"A teddy bear, Ryan!" Seth exclaimed as they walked into the toy store. "A little teddy bear. It's brilliant."

"What about a music box?" Ryan asked looking over at the store across the mall that sold music boxes and snowglobes. "Or a snowglobe?"

"A snowglobe?! We live in California, there is no snow here," Seth argued. "No, a teddy bear is perfect." Ryan knew better than to argue, instead he went into the toy store and stood while Seth contemplated over what bear said, "We're kind of grossed out, but still really happy."

"Just pick one out," Ryan sighed.

"One minute, the picking of a teddy bear is an art form. Our sibling will have this bear for the rest of their life. They will cherish it, and it has to be a good one."

"Seth, a stuffed animal is a stuffed animal."

"No! This bear will be their Captain Oats."

"Maybe the baby will not grow up a nerd and will not talk to their toys," Ryan innocently suggested. "Maybe the baby will be normal." Seth ignored his insults and finally settled on one and they went to pay for it.

"Hey can we stop for a pretzel?" Seth asked spying the soft pretzel stand. "I'm starving, and as always am a sucker for the pretzely goodness."

"Fine," Ryan rolled his eyes as they walked towards the pretzel stand. Seth placed the bag down as he paid and the two ate as they walked towards the car.

"Perfect timing," Seth said as an announcement that the mall was closing came up over the loudspeaker. They climbed in, and Seth suddenly looked around.

"Where's the bear?"

"You had it."

"I put it down, I thought you picked it up!"

"No."

"Well, then let's go back and get it!"

"Seth, the mall is closing," Ryan pointed out.

"Well, then we better hurry," Seth said as he clambered out of the car and started to sprint towards the mall. Ryan sighed, but followed, and because he was in better shape that Seth caught up to him easily. The two ran through the double doors and hurried to the pretzel stand where the bag was laying exactly where Seth had put it down.

"Hey, can we stop at a bathroom?" Seth asked. "The lemonade went right through me."

"Fine," Ryan sighed. "Hurry up." Seth hurried into the bathroom and just as he was finished and they were heading back towards the door, the lights shut off and only the safety lights were on.

"Oh shit," Seth breathed as they sprinted towards the exit only to find it already closed and locked. "What do we do now?"

"We go try and find a security guard," Ryan said as he turned around and headed back into the mall.

"Hey! You kids! What are you doing in here?" They heard the shout and turned around.

"We got locked in," Ryan explained. "We were just trying to find a security guard to let us out."

"Right," the security guard sneered.

"No, really," Seth argued. "We forgot our bag and came back in to get it and realized that we were locked in."

"Uh-huh, come on boys, we're calling your parents," the guard grabbed each roughly by their arms and dragged them back towards the office. "What's your parent's number?"

"345-156-3994," Seth mumbled. He hoped his dad would answer and give this security guard a piece of his mind. The inherit injustice of it all. Here they were trying to do a nice thing and look where that had gotten them.

"This all your fault," Ryan whispered.

"What how?"

"You were the one who had to have a pretzel. If it wasn't for that damned pretzel, we would be on our way home." Seth huffed.

"Fine, blame it on me. But really you should blame the delicious goodness of the pretzel."

"Sir, we really weren't doing anything wrong, we really did just get locked in here," Ryan said. The guard studied them for a moment and finally nodded.

"I still have to call your parents to have them come get you because you're minors," the guard said.

"Really? Because we have our car here, we can drive ourselves home," Seth said and Ryan smacked him on the back of the head.

"That's fine," he said. The guard dialed their number and they heard his side of the conversation before he hung up and turned to Seth and Ryan.

"Your parents are on their way to pick you up," the security guard said. "Let me see that bag." Seth reluctantly handed over the bag and the guard looked inside. "A teddy bear?"

"It's not for us," Seth quickly said. "My mother is pregnant and it's for her. By the way, what parent did you talk to?"

"Your mother."

"Crap, Dad would find this a lot funnier than she's going to. Especially with her hormones raging the way that they are," Seth mumbled. They followed the guard out of the office and through the dark mall to the front entrance. The guard stood there with them until the BMW came to an abrupt stop and Sandy got out of the driver's seat and Kirsten climbed out of the passenger seat.

"I'm sorry about this," Sandy said.

"No, it's not a problem, I'm sorry I jumped to conclusions," the guard apologized. "Next time, just be sure that you're out of the mall when it closes." He turned and went back inside leaving the family standing out on the sidewalk. Seth braced himself for the lecture that was going to come, but after a minute he realized that his parents were laughing.

"You guys got locked in? How did you manage that one?!" Sandy was laughing so hard. Seth and Ryan began to tell the story.

"And it was so unfair Dad! We didn't even do anything, and then he wouldn't let us just leave, because he didn't believe us...and it's just because we're teenagers. It's age discrimination," Seth whined.

"What was so important that you had to go back for?" Kirsten asked.

"Oh yeah," Seth said looking down at the bag in his hand. "This was for you." She opened it up and pulled out the bear and immediately got weepy.

"Oh boys! Thank you so much," she pulled them in for a hug. She began to cry harder.

"We didn't mean to make you cry," Ryan said hurriedly.

"Oh get used to this," Sandy said as he placed an arm around his wife and helped her back into the car. "We'll see you guys at home, try not to get yourselves locked anywhere else in the ten minutes it takes to get home."

"Haha, very funny," Seth had replied dryly. The bear was now infamous as was the story. Marissa and Summer had especially enjoyed it when Sandy and Kirsten had told them the first time.

"I still can't believe they locked themselves in the mall," Kirsten said laughing as she leaned into Sandy's embrace.

"I know, but they were right, that security guard was completely out of line," Sandy argued.

The baby's wails interrupted their reminiscing and Kirsten climbed out to pick up Lily.

"This is just the start of this, isn't it?" She asked Sandy smiling as she settled down in bed to feed Lily. Sandy placed a kiss on the top of Lily's head.

"I sure hope so," he said smiling.

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I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and let me know if you want me to keep going about their lives with a baby. The mall story? Totally happened to me. And the guard seriously did not believe us and called our parents to pick us up, it was completely unfair!I'm actually still a little bitter about it....Anyway, review please! I'm off to class.