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A/N: Thanks for reviewing! Here's the final chapter!

For The Moment

Chapter 14: Making the Decision

Another two months later- May 13

Sarah Camden let out a sigh of relief as she laid down on the sofa and shut her eyes. She hadn't been able to sleep at all the night before. Matt had formed a new habit of snoring, and try as she might, she had been unable to sleep through it for a few weeks now. Being a mother of three during the day and an insomniac during the night wasn't working for her. She opened her eyes right as her youngest child plopped down next to her and turned on cartoons. She moaned.

"Amanda…" She complained quietly. Amanda looked at her mother and raised her eyebrow.

"What's wrong with you?" Asked the 8-year-old quizzically. "You're acting weird lately, mom."

"I know." Sarah said after a moment. "Daddys been snoring at night so I haven't been sleeping well. And I'm so busy during the day with you and Kate and Jacob that I've just been, well, exhausted lately.

"So go take a nap." She said without looking up. Sarah sighed and rolled her eyes, slowly rising.

"Well, that's what I was doing before someone decided to watch cartoons." She said trying to fake a laugh. "I'll be in my room. Only wake me if there's fire or a large amount of blood." She instructed, stumbling down the hall to she and Matt's bedroom. After lying down for only a few minutes, she was sound asleep.

Outside the front door of the Camden home, 14-year-old Kate kissed her boyfriend of five months. The two teens didn't even hear Matt when he pulled up, and their make out session continued until Matt walked up, and shouted, surprised.

"Kate!" He cried. She leapt back from her boyfriend and he quickly took his hands off her back. "Get inside." He instructed.

"Bye." She whispered to Brian, and was quickly ushered inside by her fuming father. As soon as they were inside the door, he grabbed her wrist firmly and led her into her room, slamming the door shut behind him.

"Katelynn Rosina Camden!" He shouted. "What in the world do you think that you were doing?" He asked. She took a step back.

"Well, dad, I was kissing my boyfriend." She answered with a sarcastic tone. "We've been together for five months dad, do you think we're not gonna kiss? You proposed on your first date with mom, so don't even get started yelling at me." Matt tried not to let his jaw visibly drop as he scrambled to find words to answer her with.

"We were adults!" He reasoned. "Besides, what your mom and I did was no correlation with what you're aloud to do. You know the rule: you're not to be alone together outside of school! You have to have parental supervision! And why, you ask, did we make that rule? So that you wouldn't get in compromising situations like what I just walked up to!"

"Oh come on dad, we were only kissing. We're in love, for crying out loud!" She said with a roll of her eyes.

"Kate, let me tell you, that may be what you were thinking about, but Brian had other things on his mind." Kate's jaw dropped.

"Brian's not like that dad. He's not like you were!" She screamed.

"All teen boys are like that, Kate, I hate to break it to you. So listen up. You're not to see Brian for the next 2 months. Got it? At school and that's it. If your mother or I ever find out that you were together somewhere else, the no-dating until you're 16 rule will come back into play real fast. Got it?" He asked her. She glared at him without answering. He took a step towards her. "I said, got it?"

"Got it." She said angrily.

"Good." Matt said and turned to leave her room. As he opened the door he met his wife standing right outside. He smiled and kissed her lightly.

"Hi." He said. "Don't worry, I have that covered." She nodded. He took a good look at her and frowned. "You ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine. I just haven't been sleeping well, and you and Kate going at it didn't really help my nap…" She trailed off. "It's ok though, I need to make dinner now anyway." She started for the kitchen but Matt stopped her.

"I'm so sorry we woke you up. I know how exhausted you've been" He apologized. "Now go back to bed. I'll take care of dinner. How does macaroni and cheese sound?"

"It sounds wonderful." She told him with a smile. "Thank you." She said, leaning in for a second and third kiss. "I love you." She told him, and started back for their bedroom, shutting the door behind her. Matt greeted his younger daughter and son who had recently joined Amanda for cartoons. He grabbed a box of macaroni and cheese out of the pantry and started boiling water on the stove. He made this almost every time that he was making dinner, and tonight would be no exception. The kids wouldn't mind though and neither did he…whatever he could do to help his wife feel well, he would do.

Meanwhile, 20 miles away at Glen Oak Health Clinic

Natalie tried hard to continue to pay attention to the doctor, but wasn't succeeding very well. Her whole body felt numb. Out of her peripheral vision she saw David glance over at her, and moments later he put his hand over hers, trying to offer her some support.

"You have three main choices of where you can go from here." She heard the doctor say, sounding a million miles off. "There's artificial insemination, having a surrogate, or adoption. In your case, artificial insemination would probably not be your best option…" She felt her heart sinking quickly. An 'inhospitable environment', that's what they had called it. She couldn't carry a child. How could this have happened to her? This is the kind of thing that happened to other people…not to she and her husband. "You two can think it over, and if you decide on surrogacy, let me know and we can start to figure it all out." The doctor reached out to shake Natalie and David's hands, then the couple stood and left. Natalie felt weak to her knees as David led her out of the office and to their car. He helped her into her seat and then got into the driver's side.

They rode in silence to their home. As soon as they walked into their home, Natalie looked at her husband and burst into tears. He sighed sadly and put his arms around her, trying to calm her. He ran his fingers through her hair soothingly and finally, she stopped, looking up at her husband with puffy red eyes.

"I'm so sorry." She told him. "I ruined this for us. Dave I'm so sorry!" She began to cry again and David frowned, taking her shoulders and making her look at him.

"Nat, this isn't your fault. You didn't choose this. This is just how it turned out. Honey, we're going to have a baby one way or another. I would rather adopt or have a surrogate to have a baby with you then have had a baby normally with another woman." She smiled weakly up at him and he led her over to the sofa where they sat down. "We need to talk about this though. What do we want to do? Should we wait awhile after all? Surrogacy? Adoption?" He trailed off and Natalie spoke up.

"I don't want to wait any more. Not unless you do. Ever since we started trying, I've been so excited to welcome a baby into our home. With surrogacy…I don't know. I mean, I know some one would do it for us, we have amazing friends and family who would…but I don't feel right doing that. I'm just not comfortable asking someone to have our baby for us!" She sighed and David nodded.

"I feel the same way." He agreed. "So that leaves us with adoption…I like that option…a lot. But if you don't we don't have to. We can figure something out."

"No I like adoption too. There are so many women out there who are struggling with unplanned pregnancies, and those babies deserve amazing homes. We can provide a home. I feel good about this." She truly smiled for the first time since they had been given the news.

"I do too. So we're going to adopt." Natalie smiled and nodded. David leaned over and kissed her. "Looks like we better find an agency then." He stood and walked over to his computer and she followed him. And there in their small living room they began the search in beginning their very own family.

The End

A/N: That's it, folks! I hoped you all enjoyed 'For The Moment'! Please, please review! I'm open to writing a sequel if that's what you guys want, or I can do a whole new story. Let me know in your review what you would prefer! If I'm not doing a sequel, an epilogue will be up in a few days. If I will be doing a sequel, I'll write that in the summary of this story, so keep a look out! Thanks for reading! -Camdengirl4ever