short and sweet.
Chapter 27
"Shit, that's cold!" Kaitlin yelled at the ultrasound technician. The lady just ducked her head from the twenty-three year old.
"Sorry, should have warned you." The lady said not wanting to upset the pregnant girl. She had done this plenty of times to know to not piss off someone who was pregnant.
"You'd think!" Kaitlin snapped.
"Calm down." Taylor rolled her eyes crossing one of her legs over the other as she sat in the chair next to the table Kaitlin was on. "You'll get over it."
"Whatever." Kaitlin folded her arms over her chest as best as she possibly could. "Let's just get this over with."
"There's your baby right there." The technician pointed to something blurry on the small screen.
"Not my baby." Kaitlin mumbled refusing to turn her face towards the screen. She could already hear the heartbeat there was no way she'd look at the thing.
"Oh my." Taylor gasped grinning and taking Kaitlin's hand in hers. "Just look, Kaitlin."
"Can you tell me what it is?" Kaitlin asked ignoring Taylor's urge to look at the baby.
"Well, right there shows this is a boy." The technician grinned at Taylor picking up that Kaitlin wasn't going to keep the baby.
"Really?" Kaitlin whipped her head around and caught sight of the baby. She gasped and she was lost.
Lost because she realized that was her baby.
"My baby." She spoke out loud causing both of the other women in the room to give her strange looks. "That's my baby!" She practically jumped at Taylor grinning widely. Taylor nodded with the same grin on her face.
"It's always been yours." Taylor whispered squeezing lightly on Kaitlin's hand.
No one had ever witnessed this side of Kaitlin. The side that actually wanted to keep her growing baby. The side that couldn't see doing anything else in her life without it.
That wasn't the rational side of her. She didn't feel she deserved to keep that baby. She thought that he'd have a better life with Ryan and Taylor.
But in that moment Kaitlin Cooper decided she wasn't giving them her baby.
He was all hers.
---
"I'm so sorry, Taylor." Kaitlin gushed as soon as they got into Taylor's car.
"You have nothing to be sorry about, Kaitlin." She shook her head and started the car.
"I just saw him and I knew I couldn't…I couldn't give him up." Kaitlin put her hand lovingly on her stomach. The first time she had actually been happy to be pregnant.
She loved the little boy inside of her no matter how he was conceived.
"Honestly, Kaitlin I was hoping that you would."
"I thought…"
"We agreed to take him because we thought it was what you wanted. We would have loved him as he were our own, you know that." Taylor pulled out into traffic.
"Yeah, I do." She sighed. "God, how do I explain this to Julie?"
"I'm sure she'll be happy."
"I hope so." Kaitlin nodded and then grinned remembering Sophie's request to keep a stray dog. "So, what's the verdict on keeping Molly?"
"Oh God, please tell me you did not name that smelly dog!"
"We did." Kaitlin smiled. Taylor looked over at her and realized that she hadn't seen Kaitlin this happy since she moved in with them four months ago.
"Ryan told Sophie that it depends on if her owner shows up or not. He also told her that while they are looking for said owner Sophie could care for the dog, but if they can't find the owner then if Sophie did a good job in taking care of her then she could keep her. Ryan just couldn't tell her no." Taylor explained to Kaitlin.
"He can't say no to anyone." Kaitlin mumbled.
"You're right." Taylor agreed greatly with that statement. Saying no was something her husband seemed to have trouble with lately. Or rather ever.
---
"So she's keeping the baby?" Ryan raised an eyebrow slipping underneath the covers of his bed.
"That's what she says." Taylor sighs sliding in next to him.
"Has she really thought about this? A baby is a big thing." He wrapped an arm around his wife.
"I don't know, Ry. You'll have to talk to her about that. All I know is she saw him on the screen and fell in love with him. I can relate. The second I saw Caden and then heard his heartbeat…that was all she wrote." She snuggled closer to his body.
"I'm just worried."
"You were just saying the other night you were worried that we wouldn't be able to afford another baby, now you're worried she can't handle it?"
"Well, it's Kaitlin and she doesn't have the best track record…"
"And she's also never had a child, they change people. Most for the better. I think she'll do just fine." She tells him confidently.
"Maybe you're right."
"Besides she'll always have us to fall back on."
"True." Ryan kissed the top of her head.
