Just a filler. Nothing big.
Chapter 8
"So, how'd it go? Sophie was smiling so I'm guessing it went great." Taylor smiled approaching Ryan as soon as he walked into the front door. She had to stay home with the baby while Ryan took Sophie. She hadn't wanted to miss her appointment but there was no way she was leaving her son who was only two weeks old with someone else and taking his would have been difficult with all the sitting and waiting.
"It went okay." Ryan shrugged side stepping his wife.
"That's all you're going to give me? Okay?" She stood there with her hands on her hips glaring at her husbands back as he walked into their kitchen.
"There's nothing else to say really." Ryan spoke not looking at her still.
"Sure there is, like what'd the doctor say? Did she talk to you? Did Sophie like her?"
"She said Sophie would be better in due time and yes she talked to me. Sophie said she was nice." Ryan said approaching the refrigerator.
"I'm sure she said more." Taylor rolled her eyes at him when he turned around his a bottle of water in his hand.
"That's basically it." He told her.
"Fine, don't tell me. Now, would you like to know what your son did?" Taylor grimaced thinking back to an hour ago.
"What?"
"Peed in my mouth." She made a strange gagging noise just thinking about it. She had cleaned her mouth insanely as he laid in his crib crying. Ryan started laughing at her. She glared at him. "So, not funny!"
"You should have put his diaper on quicker." He said after his small laughing fit. Taylor glared at him again before he went into another fit of laughter.
"You're a terrible man, Ryan Atwood." She spat before turning around. She hadn't gotten far when Ryan caught up with her pulling her into him.
"Did you clean your mouth?" He smiled.
"I brushed my teeth like 30 times and gargled mouth wash over 10 times." She frowned.
"I still don't know if I want to kiss you." He smiled. Taylor tried to pull away from him. Before she could register anything he had pulled her back to him and planted his lips on hers. "It's clean." He smiled pulling back grinning at her.
"Glad that you think so." She rolled her eyes. To her, her mouth still felt dirty. "From now on you're on diaper duty because I would rather this not happen again." She put her head on his chest as he held her close.
He chuckled before kissing the top of her head.
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"Can I see the picture of you and Mommy again?" Sophie walked into Caden's room where Taylor was sitting in the white rocking chair with him. "I really like that picture." She smiled wide before sitting down on the floor in front of Taylor.
Taylor grinned at the little girl before standing up to put Caden in his crib. She sat back down and patted her knee for Sophie to sit on her lap. Sophie settled her small body back on Taylor as she ran her hand through her blonde hair.
"She was an amazing woman." Taylor whispered in Sophie's ear. Sophie nodded. "Your Daddy was great, too." She added.
"I know." Sophie whispered back. Taylor reached into her pocket. Folded was the picture she had taken with Kirsten just two weeks before the car wreck. It was Taylor's baby shower and Taylor had never seen such a wide grin on Kirsten's face. She had her hands placed on Taylor's stomach as Taylor stood with her hands on her hips smiling over at Kirsten. It was the perfect picture of the two of them. Taylor never went anywhere without it. It was a copy, the actual one sat in a frame in the living room. That's the one that she had made sure they had packed to bring to the hospital so she could have it with her when she had Caden. She wasn't sure why she needed to carry it or have it around but she just did.
"You look so much like her." Taylor unfolded the picture handing it over to Sophie. Sophie smiled before clutching the picture to her heart. Taylor started crying as the little girl fell asleep on her lap.
Ryan stood in the doorway of the nursery watching the two women that he was sure he loved the most in his life. He watched as Sophie closed her eyes and fell into a soft sleep. He grinned at Taylor who's eyes were anything but dry at that moment. He walked over and lifted Sophie off of Taylor's lap.
Taylor followed him out of the room and into Sophie's bedroom where she sat down on the edge of her bed. She watched as Ryan softly kissed Sophie's cheek and then walked over and kissed her own.
He took her hand and pulled her up. She followed him out of Sophie's room after shutting her light off and closing her door.
"We're going to Seth and Summer's tomorrow right?" Taylor asked Ryan once they had reached their bedroom.
"Isn't it Delaney's birthday?" He questioned pulling his shirt over his head. Taylor nodded. "Then yeah, I guess so." Ryan glanced over at Taylor who was standing on her side of the bed fiddling with her hands in a nervous way. "What's going on?" He asked.
"Nothing, it's just. It's going to be so weird without Sandy and Kirsten…" She looked into his eyes. Ryan gave her a slight smile before walking around to her and pulling her close to him.
"I know what you mean." He sighed resting his chin on her shoulder as she relaxed into him. "I love you, know that?" He whispered in her ear. "I miss them, too. I just feel like I have to be strong for everyone else's sake."
"You don't. Ry, you can be as sad as we are." Taylor turned around to put her arms around his neck.
"It just doesn't work that way." He shrugged.
"Sometimes it's okay to mourn their death. You need to grieve." Taylor smoothed Ryan's hair back before placing a kiss on his cheek. "I love you, too." She smiled before pulling away from his grip.
"Where are you going?" He tried pulling her back to him.
"Incase you have forgotten. We have a two week old son in the next room who is crying." She pointed over to the baby monitor. Cries were erupting from it, but Ryan hadn't heard. He had been too wrapped up in his wife and his thoughts to hear anything else.
