Resting a bowl of Fruit Loops on her ever expanding stomach, Dolly grinned when she saw Candy walk in with a blue gift basket. The wrapping was seethru, and all ready she could see baby bottles, diapers, and rattles. "Who is this from?" Dolly asked, taking the card off from the top. She opened the evelope as the basket was placed on Austin's desk, laughing when she saw who it was. "Love Auntie Candy and Uncle Alex. How cute."
Candy grinned as she placed a hand on her friends tummy, feeling the baby kick. "He's going to be a soccer player...or a really stiff wrestler...possibly the latter..."
"I'm so glad it's a boy," Dolly confessed, setting the bowl of cereal next to the basket. "I don't know if I could deal with all the girl drama. Boys, make up, clothes...I had to learn all that by myself." The blonde sat down in the chair behind the desk with a yawn and a sigh, "how many more days?" she asked Candy.
Walking over to Austin's calender, the red head eyed up the orange circle around September 19th. "Two more weeks," she asnwered, still smiling. "And it's a boy! That's awesome! He's going to be so tough and so good looking, and his God parents are like, the most amazing people, so I've heard anyways..." her attention wandered over back to Dolly, who had her eyes closed tightly and a hand on her stomach. "You OK, Doll face?" Candy asked, walking over and squatting down next to her.
"Yeah," Dolly gasped, biting her lip. "I think so..." she cringed as her right hand was placed on Candy's shoulder, grabbing it as tight as she could. "I don't think so..." she said, taking in a sharp breath. Shortly, her breaths became quicker as the pain continued, causing Candy to worry.
"Dolly?" she asked, picking up the phone, "I'm going to call Austin..."
"No! Don't!" Dolly slapped the phone out of Candy's hand, screaming in pain as her stomach had another contraction. "OK," she whispered, "you can."
It wasn't long until Austin showed up, worried and in a panic. "Now? It can't be now, you still have two weeks!"
"I know, Austin!" Dolly shouted back, letting Candy help her up.
"But, the room! It isn't finished! We still need a crib, and and...we still need to paint the room!" Austin shouted back as he walked out the door with the two girls. "We haven't even deicded what colour to paint it! Should it be yellow? Green? What colour do you want it to be, baby?" Dolly stopped suddenly, her hand clutching onto Candy's as a splash around their feet was heard. Candy stared at her feet, her shoes now soaking wet as her friend tried her best to stiff back a laugh.
"I...am so sorry," she whispered, leaning on her for support.
"Your water broke..." Austin whispered, his eyes focused on the ground. Dolly and Candy stopped their laughing when Austin spoke, their eyes meeting each other in a glance. "You're having our baby right now..."
"I am?" He held her hand as he led her to his car, making her sit in the front seat. "But...but I can't! I still have two weeks! And the room! Austin hasn't painted the room yet! Candy, tell the baby he can't come out now, because Mommy isn't ready." Candy closed the passenger door and blew a kiss to the expecting parents as the drove off. With her own excitement, she got in her car and followed them to the hospital.
Later...
It had been eight hours since Dolly and Austin had arrived at the hospital, and there was still no baby. Dolly was laying in bed, eating her ice chips in peace, when every so often a contraction would come and she'd scream out in pain, alerting the doctors. "I'm sorry," one of them would say, "but you aren't dialated enough."
Sighing, she closed her eyes and held his hand, letting a tear escape her eye. "You can leave," she whispered. "I'll be here for a while, Candy is here, and you got your class to teach..."
"Candy is covering my class for me, I wasn't going to miss this," he whispered back, wiping her tear away with his thumb. "Besides, just a few more centimetres, and he's ready to come out. Kyle Jacob Aries..." he placed his hand on her stomach, "he's our son." Dolly gave a weak smile in response as she continued to eat her ice chips, and then another contraction came. She screamed out in pain, the loudest scream she had let out since she arrived, and doctors showed up in the room quickly.
Looking down and between her legs, Dr. Wege looked up and smiled, "it's time," she told Dolly.
The expecting parents smiled at each other, until she gave the first push. She kept quiet while she tried to make the baby come out, her throat was all ready sore enough from the contractions that had happend throughout their stay at the hospital. When Dr. Wege said she could see a head, Dolly pushed as hard as she could, and seconds later a small, high pitched wail filled the room.
"Congratulations!" Dr. Wege said, holding the new born baby. "It's a girl!"
"It's a what?" Dolly asked, laying back onto the pillows. "Dr. Caden told us we were having a boy..." Dr. Wege smiled as she left the room, going off to clean the new baby girl.
Austin and Dolly stared at each other in silence, neither of them believing that it wasn't a boy. "But...we don't have a name picked out for a girl," Austin stated, laughing. "We can't name her Kyle! Kyle is a guys name..."
"Kylee? Kylee Jessica?" Dolly suggested, laughing as well. "See, we should've had a backup plan for this! I was totally positive it was going to be a boy because it...she was kicking so hard! I can't believe it's a girl...what are we going to name her?"
He shrugged his shoulders, shaking his head. "I don't know babe. What's the first girl name that comes to your mind?"
Without hesitating, she blurted out, "Anna."
Austin smiled. "Anna. That's a nice name. Do you like Anna?"
Dolly thought about it, finally nodding her head. "I think I do. Yeah...I do like Anna. What about a middle name though? You pick the middle name. Anna something Aries."
"Lynn. Anna Lynn. Wait no, we'll combine them, so it's one name, like...Annalynn."
"Yeah?" Dolly asked, her eyes beginning to close.
"Yeah. Annalynn Aries..." Austin grinned to himself, seeing the Dr. Wege come in with his new daughter wrapped up in a pink blanket and hat on her head. She offered the baby to him, but he quickly declined. "Doll face...Annalynn is here..."
She opened her eyes and gave a small squeel when she saw her daughter, holding her arms out to hold her. "Hey you," she whispered, craddling her. "Miss. Annalynn...look baby, she has your nose," Dolly pointed out. "And she has Daddy's eyes, and oh...those are my lips. Sorry babe."
"What about hair?" Austin asked, peeking underneth the little pink hat. Small black hair peeked out from underneth, causing him to grin. "That's my hair," he told Dolly, kissing her on the forehead. "God...there she is," he whispered, watching Dolly hold her.
"Yeah," she whispered back. "Here she is."
LegendSpeaking: Eh. Thanks for all the reviews for the last chapter! That is by far the most reviews a chapter has received so far in this story, that was totally cool to see so many! Anyways...the story has 7, that's right, 7 chapters left. Rounding it off to an even 21 chapters! hahaha, get it? Because 21 isn't an even number...
read and review before I continue to ramble.