Puck's POV
I can feel Quinn's breathing as I start to wake up, last night she fell asleep on my shoulder and she looked too peaceful for me to disturb her but at this point she is almost completely on top of me. Her hair is a mess and yet looks perfect simultaneously, she is laying perfectly still and I don't want to wake her but she has made it almost impossible for me to move and not wake her up in the process, I turn and look over at the clock and see that it is only 8:30 meaning we only slept for about five hours, I might never get used to the feeling of never having enough sleep. I try and wiggle out from under Quinn but it just causes her to stir and then she shoots up from off my lap. Her hair is everywhere and she starts to mat it down and soon it is back to what it normally looks like and she looks around "What time is it?"
"It's 8:30"
"Is she up yet?"
"I don't think so, she was up most of the night so I can only guess that she is exhausted"
"Did we both fall asleep on the couch last night?"
"It was actually more this morning when we fell asleep and you fell asleep on me" I laugh and watch as a smalls smile spreads across her face
"Would you go check on her for me? I haven't taken a shower in like two days"
"Yeah sure"
"Thank you" she gets up off the couch and soon I can hear the shower running. I get up and go into Beth's room and find that she is actually awake, she is smiling up at me and I pick her up, she holds onto my shirt with her little hands and I smile.
"You let us sleep didn't you" she smiles and I wonder if she understands what I am saying to her. I take her into the kitchen and place her into her highchair and start to feed her some breakfast. Not long after Quinn comes out of the bathroom and is now changed into a different outfit and her hair is damp, she comes over to Beth and kisses her on top of her head
"Good morning sweetie" she runs her hands through Beth's blond curls and then makes her way over to the fridge and starts to make herself breakfast. "I can watch her if you want to go get ready now, I'm sure the mall is opened already" I am confused for a second but then I remember the conversation we had last night and how we were going to get a group family photo.
"Oh yeah, I will just go change real quick"
"Okay" she smiles at me and I go into the bathroom and change and when I am done I walk back into the room to find Quinn sitting down at the table with Beth right next to her in her highchair and I smile. This is a scene I would have seen every single day for the past year and a half if we had kept her, giving her up was one of the things I most regret but getting Quinn pregnant is something I never regret. She looks up at me and smiles, she starts to clear the dishes and then picks Beth up "I'm going to go and get her changed, I will be back" I wait in the the kitchen and soon they are both back, Beth is dressed in a cute little dress that I think is going to look really good in our picture, I stand up and take her from Quinn
"Well don't you look pretty monkey face" Quinn laughs at my nickname for her and she grabs Beth's diaper bag and we are out the door. Quinn puts her into her car seat and then gets into the passenger seat next to me and I start the car. On our drive there Quinn turns around and starts to talk to Beth
"Were going to go and get our picture taken, you excited Beth" I can hear Beth's laughter and she continues to play with whatever toy she grabbed before we left the house. I pull into a parking space and turn off the car "I will get her out and you can get her stroller" I get out of the car and open up the trunk and pull out her stroller. I spend the next ten minutes trying to open up this damn stroller.
"Damn it" Quinn is bouncing Beth on her hip and comes over to stand by me
"What?"
"How the hell are you supposed to get this damn thing opened?"
"I'm sure it's not that hard"
"Why don't you try it then" she hands Beth over to me and then I watch as she tries to open up the stroller, I watch as she struggles to unfold the stroller, it takes about five minutes before she decides that it isn't going to open and she isn't getting anywhere.
"We don't really need a stroller, I will just carry her"
"Your already carrying her bag so I will carry her" Quinn puts the stroller back into the truck and I close it, I laugh at the fact that we are now in charge of another person and yet we can't even open up a stroller. We walk into the mall and find our way to the photography place, I take a seat and Quinn tells me that she is going to go sign us up for a picture and I start to bounce her on my lap. I look over and see another family sitting in the chairs across from me, they are a married obviously and they have two kids, their parents are making small fixes to their outfits to make sure their picture will look perfect. Quinn sits back down and I look down at my outfit, I am wearing jeans and a t-shirt and I suddenly feel like I don't look good enough for this picture. "Do you think that I look okay for this?"
"What are you talking about? You look fine"
"I just feel a little under dressed for a family picture"
"Well we haven't always been the most conventional people, isn't that right Beth" she laughs and I can't help but smile too. We are called back into the back and we sit down in front of the camera. I sit down next to Quinn and move Beth so she is sitting on both of our laps, the guy behind the camera tells us to get closer together so I move closer and put my hand on her back, Quinn looks up at me and smiles as the camera flashes. We both look down at Beth and the camera flashes again, our last picture is of all of us smiling at the camera and when we are done I can't help but feel something between the two of us. Quinn goes up to pay and ask for the prints of the pictures and I sit back down in the chairs, I watch her holding Beth and I couldn't have asked for a better person to have a baby with, she is such a good mom. I look around and see that there isn't anyone else here except a woman sitting a few chairs down from me
"Is that your wife and baby?" she gestures over to Quinn and Beth and must have put two and two together considering there isn't anyone else in here
"Yes" I answer without hesitation and don't correct her about the fact that Quinn isn't actually my wife.
"You have a beautiful family"
"Thank you" as I watch them I know what the lady said was true, they are my family, and the only family I need.
