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Chapter 33

"This is probably the cutest baby in all of Newport." Summer gushed holding Camdyn out at arms length. I laughed walking over and sitting down next to my best friend on the couch.

"I agree." I smile reaching out smoothing back my daughters soft hair.

"I'm going to miss you, Townsend." She sighed not taking her eyes off of Camy. "Are you sure you have to leave?"

"Yeah, it'd just be best." I say just looking at Camy. It was amazing how my daughter seemed to change every second of the day. If I took my eyes off of her for a second I felt like I was missing out on something of her little life.

"If you say so." She mumbles.

"Summer, you know Ryan and I can't stay here. There's just too much…" I say as she looks over at me.

"Yeah yeah I know." She waves me off looking back at the baby. "I just wish you didn't have to go."

"Me too. Look we still have another week before I leave so let's make the best of it." I say.

"I like you a lot better when you aren't pregnant." She laughs.

"Oh God, me too." I giggle. I don't miss being pregnant one bit. I'd much rather have Camdyn out of my body then actually in.

"Foods here!" The front door opens and Ryan appears with take-out bags. "Chinese alright?" He asks raising an eyebrow at both me and Summer.

"Duh!" She yells out and quickly hands Camdyn over to me. "Please tell me there is Lo Mien in here." She rummages through one of the bags Ryan set on the kitchen table.

"Hey." Ryan walks over to where I'm still sitting. "How's my little girl?" He reaches out for the infant in my arms. He kisses our two week old daughter on her forehead. "How's my other girl?" He looks over Camdyn's head to smile at me.

"Tired." I say feeling like I hadn't slept in days when really I had my normal four hours of sleep every night.

"I've got her if you want to take a nap or something."

"No, I'd much rather eat." I say standing up.

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I ran a brush through my damp hair as I watched Ryan sit on our bed just staring at our daughter.

"She looks so much like you." He looks up at me. I slip one of his t-shirts over my clean body. "And now it's time for her to go bed." He raises his eyebrows at me. I just shake my head and laugh. He's right she needs to sleep but I can already see what's going through that mind of his.

"Come on, baby." I whisper taking Camy from him. "You are going coming with us, aren't you?" I eye Ryan over Camdyn's head.

"Of course." He nodded sliding out of our bed. I started towards the door but turned back around.

"On second thought maybe I should just do this alone." I look at Camy's small face suddenly wanting some alone time with her.

"I'm going to shower." He gives me a knowing smile before kissing my forehead and then Camy's. "Night Baby." He whispers then turns around to leave me with my daughter.

I walk slowly with her towards her room that is across the hall from mine and Ryan's. I reach her room and switch on her light brightening up the small bare room. We hadn't really seen a point in decorating it up since we would be moving soon. I walked over towards her white changing table and laid her down on it.

"I can't believe your mine." I say out loud as I start to undress her to get her ready for sleep. "All mine." She makes a small whimpering noise which makes me smile. Just the smallest things that she did seemed to bring smiles to my face. "After everything I've been through. I finally have you." In the beginning I didn't want her. Just thinking about how many times I cursed being pregnant makes me sick to my stomach. I didn't think I could do this. "I promise you will have a better life then me. I'll never tell you that you're not pretty enough or skinny enough because however you look you will always be gorgeous in my eyes." I bring my freshly changed daughter up off of the table so I can kiss her small rosy cheek. I could already feel the tears welling up in my eyes but I quickly pushed them away. I didn't want to ruin this moment with her by my silly hormones.

As I stare into Camy's eyes I start to think back through my life before her then I start to think back to my life before Ryan. I had been in a terrible place before I met him.

Seth Cohen had made me believe that I wasn't worth anything more then getting abused. I believed him at the time but now as I look down at Camdyn I realize that I'm worth so much more then that now.

I've got this amazing daughter and a guy who is willing to move his life so that I can go to college.

Sure, there's still that large age difference but it really doesn't matter anymore because without Ryan I wouldn't have the most perfect hazel eyed girl in my arms right now. Even though it probably wouldn't sound so terrible being with him if he hadn't been my teacher at one point.