"Mimi honey, come on. Roger's gonna be up any time now." Mark said rushing around the loft with his camera in his hands.
"I'm coming Baby. I just have to finish grabbing a couple of things." she said from hers and Mark's room.
"Well let's go." Mark told her as she came running out of the room carrying a baby bag that seemed to be busting. "Mimi, they're only coming home from the hospital. Not going on a road trip. There's no way a little girl is gonna need all that stuff." he said laughing as he brought her into his arms.
"Well, you never know. What if we get caught in traffic or something?" Mimi said kissing his nose.
"Well, in that case. I'm sure Roger is gonna be glad you made us late." he said kissing her head as the loft door opened.
"Are you guys ready? Come on. My girls are coming home today." Roger said impatiently.
"Yeah, Mimi just had to grab a couple of things." Mark answered smiling down at Mimi as she made a face at him.
"Let's go." Roger told them as he left the loft and Mimi and Mark followed.
"Hey Baby. How are my girls today?" Roger asked as he entered the hospital room where Gina sat on the bed holding the baby.
"I can't wait to get home and lay in our bed with you." she said quietly as she looked up to kiss Roger.
"And how's daddy's girl?" he asked as he kissed his daughter's head.
"She's perfect. The doctor said she couldn't be better." Gina said looking up at him.
"When are my girls being sprung?" he asked sitting on the bed next to her.
"The nurse is bringing in the papers for us to sign in a little while. Hey Mark, Mimi. You guys have been quiet over there." Gina said looking over to the door where Mark and Mimi stood.
"We're just enjoying the view." Mark answered quietly holding Mimi in one arm and his camera with the other.
"You two don't look too bad yourselves. Why don't you guys come over to be with your goddaughter?" Gina said leaning back into Rogers arms against the bed.
"You guys are such a beautiful family." Mimi told them teary eyed looking up at Mark.
"Sweetie, why don't you and Mark go see what's taking the nurse so long?" Gina said sitting up as she rocked the baby, who had begun to stir.
"Sure Baby." he said kissing her head before getting up and grabbing Mark on his way out the door.
"Mimi, come here. Sit." Gina said moving over patting the bed.
"What's up chica?" Mimi asked sitting next to Gina.
"How's it going with Mark?" Gina asked handing the baby over to her.
"Good. I mean it's only been a few days, but it's going good. It's just that, no matter how good it is we'll never have what you and Roger have." Mimi said as she smiled down at the baby.
"What do you mean?" Gina asked brushing Mimi's hair out of her face.
"Well, I mean you guys are married, you have this beautiful little baby. Mark and I could never have that." Mimi said looking up at her.
"Mimi, there are ways you guys could have it. If that's what you want. But for right now, enjoy what it is." Gina told her smiling.
"I know. I'm just getting too far ahead of myself." Mimi said smiling back at her.
"Mimi, you and Mark deserve to be happy. The last thing any of us expected was for you two to get together, but I personally think it's great. You two really deserve to be together." Gina said putting her arms around Mimi's shoulders.
"I know. Who would have thought the ex junkie with the geeky filmmaker. Especially the ex junkie who dated the geeky filmmaker's best friend. But you have to admit, there is nothing normal about this whole situation. I mean you and me becoming best friends and me being the godmother of my ex boyfriends daughter." Mimi told her laughing.
"I know. Bohemia is getting weirder and weirder." Gina told her laughing as the baby started to squirm.
"Are you ready Baby? You and Lynda are officially mine now." Roger said entering the room happily with Mark.
"Yeah, we're ready. Do you hear that my girl? We're goin home with daddy. Yes we are." Gina said as Mimi handed the baby back to Gina.
"Me and Mark will meet you guys downstairs in the car." Mimi said getting off of the bed giving Gina a kiss on the cheek as she caressed her neice's cheek.
"OK. We'll see you guys down there." Gina said smiling at Mimi.
"So what did you get out of Mimi?" Roger asked sitting on the bed.
"Nothing much. Just that she doesn't know where her relationship with Mark is going and she wishes she and Mark could have what we have. I told her not to worry about that now. Just enjoy it for right now and where ever it goes, go with it. You?" she asked rocking the baby again.
"He's in love with her. He has been since our wedding. He said seeing her walk down the aisle was what made him see her in a different light." Roger told her getting up to gather Gina and Lynda's things.
"So what took him so long?" Gina asked confused.
"You know Mark. He's shy and thought it would be weird since she's my ex. I told him he was crazy to feel that way, but you know him." Roger told her slinging the bag over his shoulder as he reached out for the baby.
"Doesn't he realize that your ex is your wife's best friend and the time for things to get weird has passed?" she asked laughing.
"I know. I tried to explain it to him. But what are you going to do about him? He's gun shy." Roger said as Gina got off of the bed and walked out of the hospital room with Roger to go home.
"Roger, what did you do?" Gina asked looking at the hood of the car. She had noticed that Roger painted another red heart on it and put the initial L inside of it.
"Do you like it? Johnny let me do it at the garage." Roger said smiling as he handed the baby to Gina so she could put her in the car seat.
"I love it Sweetie. It's amazing." she said smiling as Mark filmed them and Mimi looked on smiling.
"I thought you might. I didn't want my little girl getting jealous." Roger said as Gina stood up and wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Well, I think it's the sweetest thing." she told him kissing him.
"Come on you two, let's get this baby home." Mimi said laughing as they looked over at her smiling.
"Right." Roger said as he waited for Mark to get in behind Gina before she got in so he could close her door.
"So do you want to lay down for a bit when we get home?" Roger asked caressing Gina's face.
"No, I've been in bed for 4 days. I want to hang out today." Gina said laughing.
"OK. I was gonna take the baby if you wanted to get some rest." Roger told her as Mark and Mimi held hands over the baby.
"No, I'm fine. I figured we could hang out in the loft for a bit." Gina told him looking back at Mimi, who was behind Roger smiling.
"That sounds good." Roger told her smiling at her. "Here we are. Home sweet home." Roger said parking the car getting out so Mimi could get out before he went to the other side to open Gina's door so Mark could get out and he could get the baby's car seat out to bring her upstairs.
"Can you get the stairs OK chica?" Mimi asked looking at Gina, who was looking up at the building.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just glad to be home." she said smiling as Mark opened the door.
"Mark can you just drop this stuff at our place and I'll bring Gina and Lynda up to the loft." Roger asked as he carried the infant carrier up the stairs.
"No problem." Mark said with his arms weighed down by baby stuff.
"Good thing I cleaned up last night." Mimi said as they walked up stairs.
"Cleaned? You sterilized everything." Mark said looking up at her laughing.
"Well, we have a baby now. Everything the baby comes in contact with needs to be extra clean. We can't let our little chica get sick." Mimi said looking back at him as she continued to climb the steps.
"You're right dear." he said as Roger, Mimi and Gina laughed.
"You know it." she laughed as they reach Gina and Roger's apartment. "We'll meet you upstairs Baby, OK?" Mimi said as Mark stopped and opened the door.
"You guys are gonna be so impressed. Even Collins room is spotless." Mimi said opening the outer loft door.
"You actually got him to clean his room?" Gina asked looking down at the baby as Roger put his arm around her back. "Did you have threaten him within an inch of his life?" she said laughing.
"Nah, I told him it was for Lynda and he jumped. You do realize that Uncle Collins and Aunt Maureen are in a competition over who is gonna love her more?" Mimi laughed sliding the main door open.
"SURPRISE!" everyone yelled as they walked in the door.
"You guys are gonna wake up the baby." Roger told them looking down. Lynda was beginning to stir but got herself comfortable again and fell back to sleep.
"Did I miss it? I told you kids I'm terrible at surprise parties." Mrs. Davis asked coming out of the bathroom drying her hands.
"Mom, what are you doing here? You were just here the other day." Roger asked smiling at his mom.
"Well, I have a new baby granddaughter. You should know by now you can't keep me away from her for too long." Mrs. Davis said leaning up to kiss her son before reaching down to take the baby out of the carrier.
"Mom she's sleeping." Roger complained looking at Gina who was glowing.
"Oh Roger, leave her alone. She's fine." Gina said hugging her mother in law.
"Gina, you look great for a woman who just had a baby." Mrs. Davis told her hugging Gina with one arm and holding the baby in the other.
"Thank you. At least someone noticed." Gina said looking at Roger laughing.
"What? I think you look great all the time. So I am the last person you want to listen to." Roger said setting the infant carrier down on the floor by the door.
"Yeah, well you're just a fool in love. And who could blame you. Look at my baby girl." Collins told him hugging Gina.
"Hi Collins." Gina said holding him tight.
"How you feelin mama? You want some food. Mimi was up half the night cooking." he asked her with his arms still around her.
"Yeah, I'm starving for something other than hospital food." Gina said walking over to the kitchen with him. "So did I miss much while I was in the hospital?" she asked looking at the spread Mimi had put out.
"Not really. Your husband missed the hell out of you. He strummed his guitar most of the night while you were gone." he laughed as he took a plate and began to fill it.
"I know. I missed him too." she said looking up at him smiling.
"You guys did good. She is so beautiful." he said looking down at her.
"She is, isn't she. She looks just Roger." Gina said smiling over at her husband, mother in law and baby daughter.
"She sure does. She's gonna break some hearts if she keeps those green eyes." he laughed as he and Gina sat on the window sill.
"Yes she is. Her father is gonna have his hands full in a few years." she said laughing as she began to pick at her food.
"Hey, are you trying to steal my beautiful wife from me?" Roger laughed as he came over to the window sill.
"Dude if I weren't gay, you would have a hell of a fight on your hands." Collins said leaning over to Gina putting his arm around her.
"How's the baby?" Gina asked smiling up at Roger.
"Being smothered by my mom. Poor Mimi can't get close enough to hold her." Roger said laughing as he sat next to Gina and started picking from her food.
"That's OK. She'll have plenty of time to bond with the baby. I'm just surprised Maureen's letting your mom hold on to her for this long." she told him as she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"Are you tired Baby?" he asked looking down at her.
"A little. It came on all of a sudden. Would you mind if I went downstairs and laid down for a little while?" she asked craning her head up to look at him.
"No, go ahead. The baby and I will be fine." he told her caressing her face.
"If she needs to be fed just bring her down to me and I'll feed her." she told him handing her plate to him before getting up and walking towards her mother in law and daughter.
"I'm a little tired. I'm gonna go downstairs to lay down for a little while. I told Roger if she needs to be fed just to bring her down to me. I don't have any breast milk pumped for her." Gina said standing next to the couch where everyone was sitting.
"OK. We'll take care of her." Mimi said sitting next to Mrs. Davis and the baby.
"I know you will." Gina said smiling at her before turning to leave. When Gina got downstairs and into bed, she fell right to sleep. It had been a long week. She had given birth to her daughter prematurely, but luckily the baby was almost fully developed, so she only needed to be in the incubator for a couple of days.
"Gina. Baby, Lynda needs to be fed." Roger whispered holding the baby in his arms as he sat on the bed to gently wake Gina up.
"OK." Gina said rolling over before sitting up and lifting up her t-shirt.
"Sorry I had to bother you so soon. She started fussing about 10 minutes after you left and I changed her diaper, but she was still crying, so I figured she needed to be fed." Roger told her quietly as he handed the baby to her.
"It's OK Roger. When I get time, I'll put some milk into bottles so you can feed her yourself." she said looking up at him smiling as she fed the baby and Roger watched.
"I'd like that." he told her caressing the baby's forearm.
"Can you believe we have one of these?" she looked up at him laughing a bit.
"Not really." he answered her laughing.
"She is so beautiful. I can't believe how much she looks like you." Gina said caressing her daughter's cheek with her thumb.
"I know. I thought for sure she'd at least have your blue eyes." Roger said putting his arm around Gina as she leaned against him.
"I'm just glad she's OK." Gina said as she looked up at him.
"I know Baby. Me too." Roger told her kissing her head.
"Do you want to burp her?" Gina asked as she looked up at him again.
"Definately." he said smiling as they sat up and Gina handed the baby to Roger. "Come here daddy's girl." he said softly as he began to burp his daughter.