Another chapter, thanks to little-sango88 for giving a couple song suggestions and the review, their much appreciated. Sorry it took soo long to update, I've been super busy. Well, here it goes.
It was almost time for the ceremony, 20 minutes to go then I have to give up my baby girl forever. I saw Laurie come out of April's room, she walked over to me.
"Hey Michael, how are you holding up?"
"I'm good, a bit sad, but good." I smiled at her. "I never thought I'd be here 20 years ago. I mean, looking back at what I was like way back then I would have never been able to do this. Hell, I remember when I forgot my little sister at the mall when I was 12. I guess April made me grow up."
Laurie smiled. "Kids tend to do that to ya. When I found out about Henry I was amazed and afraid. Remember?
It was 12:00 at night and I was giving April her nightly feeding before going to bed when there was a knock on the door. When I opened Laurie was on the front porch crying her eyes out.
"What's wrong Laurie? Did you and Fez have another fight?" I motioned for her to sit on the couch. I took a seat next to her.
"No, it's even worse then that, I'm..." She looked over at me and whispered in my ear. "Michael, I'm pregnant."
I beamed with happiness. "You're pregnant! That's great, it's wonderful, and it's a blessing." I put April down in the bassinet and hugged Laurie, but the hug was not returned.
"Michael, you know that Fez and I are having problems. This is not going to solve them; it's only going to add to them. We fight over everything, this is only going to be another thing we will fight about, and now this happened." She and Fez had been fighting almost constantly for the past two years, I should have known because our houses were right beside theirs. Fez was upset because Laurie was cheating on him all the time, she was mad because he always left her alone when he was touring with his band.
"Well, have you told him?" She looked away from my gaze. "Well, should you tell him?"
"Yeah, I haven't slept with any other guy for at least two months. The last man I had sex with was Fez." She flung herself into my arms, we stayed in the embrace for a couple of hours until there was another knock on my door, I had a feeling I wasn't going to get any sleep tonight. I opened the door to see Fez standing outside in the rain.
"Hi Kelso, is Laurie here? I've been looking all over for her."
"Yeah, she's on the couch with April, you can talk with her while I put April to bed." I took April from Laurie and headed up the stairs. I tucked April into bed.
"I love you my little princess." I said before I shut the door. I walked down the stairs, when I got to the bottom I saw something the almost made my eyes pop from my sockets. Fez and Laurie were having sex on my couch. I covered my eyes and ran back upstairs. 'Note to self, burn that couch.'
The next day Fez told me that he knew about Laurie and the baby and he was happy about it.
"Yeah, instead of adding to your problems, Henry helped you two. You stopped sleeping around and became a model mom." I smiled at Laurie; she had turned into a good person.
Eric came down the hall towards me.
"It's time." He said. "Are you ready?"
"I'll never be ready, but I have to do this." I sighed as I knocked on April's door. She stepped outside and looked at me with those big brown eyes. Her hair was done up in a fancy bun and she wore a white strapless gown. God, she looked beautiful.
"Let's go Daddy." She said, breaking me out of my trance.
"Ok, let's do this." We linked arms and I walked her out onto the aisle. The music started playing and tears welled up in my eyes.
"Daddy, would mom be proud of me?" She asked.
"Yes, I'm sure she would be very proud."
As I walked April down the aisle, I saw soo many familiar faces. A tearful Kitty Foreman, a smiling Red Foreman, a crying Jackie Hyde, a solemn Steven Hyde (he must know that he will be going through this someday very soon.), both Eric and Donna were crying and Fez and Laurie were both smiling. Finally Ben and Henry where standing at the front of the church. I took Aprils hand and handed it over to Ben.
"Take good care of her." I whispered to Ben.
"Don't worry I will, you can count on that." He took my baby's hand.
"Benjamin Peter Stevens........." April and Ben said their vows.
Then the minister said those words and I just couldn't hold back the tears anymore.
"You may kiss the bride."
Ben leaned over and kissed my baby, she belonged to him now. I did my job, now my job will be to be a grandfather soon. Hmm, I can have grandkids now. That's one good thing I'll get out of this. I watched April and Ben walk down the aisle holding hands.
It's not over yet; I hope you enjoyed the chapter, review please.
