A/N: I REALLY REALLY hate school. Do y'all remember the "Free Fallin" episodes of Degrassi and how Paige was freaking out all the time? Yeah that was pretty much me last week. Anyway this chapter is suppose to be more of a filler than anything, so yeah. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or its characters.

Two big brown eyes. I'm looking into two big brown eyes right now. These eyes belong to my niece/goddaughter Athena, also known as AJ. These eyes just capture you and bring you in. Her eyes… Ew, what's that smell? I quickly cover my nose. I pick up the baby monitor that is sitting on the changing table.

"Yeah, um we have a situation in here," I say into the baby monitor.

I hear footsteps running down the hall. Palex appears in the doorway with worried looks on their faces.

"What's wrong?" Alex asks in a worried and hurried voice.

"I think AJ needs a diaper change," I tell them

Alex throws her head backs and groans but Paige's facial expression changes from worried to anger. WHOA! I think Paige just tried to pounce on me. Alex is holding her back. Paige is struggling against Alex. I'm pretty sure she's trying to kill me.

"Hon!" Paige yells. "I'm going to kill you!"

Yeah, she's trying to kill me.

"Why?" I ask. "I didn't do anything."

"Exactly!"

"Paige, calm down," Alex tells her in a soothing voice. "Calm down."

Paige stops struggling against Alex and now she's just looking at me with fire in her eyes and her nostrils are still flaring. She still seems upset but at least she's not trying to attack me anymore.

"Paigey, how aboot you go get some rest and I'll stay in here with Jordan and AJ," Alex suggests to Paige softly.

I notice Paige's shoulders relax and she sighs.

"Ok," she says. "Please make sure Ms. Incompetent doesn't hurt my baby."

Alex nods her head. "Of course. Now go to sleep."

Paige and Alex share a kiss and Paige leaves the nursery. Alex is looking at me with narrowed eyes. I hate it when Alex looks at me like this.

"What?" I ask.

Alex sighs. "Jordan, do you know why Paige and I invited you over today?" she asks.

I smile. "Because you miss seeing my lovely face?"

"No," Alex answers quickly and seriously. "Paige and I have only been getting twenty of sleep."

"No way! Y'all have been getting twenty hours of sleep a night? How can you manage that? I mean there's only like twenty four hours in a day. Kudos to you two."

"No Jordan, a week. For the past month we've only been getting aboot twenty hours of sleep a week. That's aboot two and a half hours a night."

"I'm pretty sure that's not healthy."

"Yeah, well that's what happens when you're a parent of a newborn."

Alex walks past me and to AJ's crib. She smiles down into the crib and picks AJ up. It's amazing how AJ has transformed Alex into a mushy mom. Although Alex is tired she has a big bright smile on her face as she's holding her daughter.

"Did you make a poopie?" Alex asks in an annoying baby voice.

And then there's that. I really hope I don't start talking like that when I have kids.

"Did you make a poopie?" Alex asks AJ again.

I hope she's not expecting AJ to answer that question.

"Wow, I really hope I don't turn into you," I say outloud.

Alex turns and looks at me, smile gone.

"You wish you could be like me," she says. "I'm a bad ass whose soft side comes out when she's with her daughter. And I'm not afraid to change a diaper."

Alex walks over to the changing table and gently lays AJ down. I walk over to the table and stand next to Alex.

"I'm not afraid of changing diapers," I tell her. "I just don't LIKE changing them."

Alex scoffs and rolls her eyes at me. She unbuttons AJ's onesie and sort of pulls it down to take a peek.

"She didn't poop," Alex announces. "She probably just farted."

Cue confuse look on my face. "Babies can fart?" I ask.

Alex buttons AJ's onesie and picks her up. Now Alex is giving me the look I hate.

"Jordan, babies are people too," Alex says. "They have gas just like the rest of us."

"Well if a baby has gas while in the womb where does the gas go when it is passed?"

"Number one, I think that is the most ridiculous question you have ever asked me. Number two, I'm not an OBGYN so how would I know the answer to that stupid question?"

"Oh so we're doing the number thing? Ok. Number one, there's no such thing as a stupid question."

"Just stupid people," Alex says quickly and smiles.

I swear if she wasn't holding AJ right now… Aw, AJ just yawned. A baby yawning is one of the cutest sights in the world. Alex looks down at her.

"Is someone tired?" Alex asks in her squeaky voice.

Alex begins patting AJ's back and humming a lullaby. AJ's eyes slowly begin to close as Alex continues humming. Alex's humming has quieted now, but she's still patting AJ's back.

"Is she asleep?" I ask whispering.

Alex nods her head. "Yeah, but I have to wait for her to go into her deep sleep," she whispers. "If we leave too soon she'll sense that no one is here and then she'll wake up and cry."

"She'll sense it? Babies can do that?"

"I don't know about all babies but whenever Paige and I leave the nursery as soon as AJ closes her eyes she starts crying."

"Wow, your baby has some serious attachment issues."

Alex narrows her eyes."Don't insult my daughter," she whispers seriously. "My daughter is a perfectly normal baby. She's allowed to miss her mothers when they leave the room."

Alex looks down at AJ and smiles. She walks over to AJ's crib and gently places her in it. I walk over to the crib and peer down. AJ's little chest is moving up and down with every breath she takes and every now and then her tiny little nose scrunches up. There's nothing cuter than a sleeping baby.

"She really is beautiful Alex," I tell her.

"Yeah," Alex agrees. "I can't believe I helped create her. She's part of me." Alex laughs softly. "It's sort of surreal when you think aboot it."

"I bet. Is she thinking hard while she's sleeping? She keeps scrunching up her nose every now and then."

"She got that from Paige," Alex says while smiling. "Whenever Paige is in her deep sleep her nose scrunches up. Paige says she comes up with some of her best designs when she sleeps, so I think whenever Paige's nose scrunches up she just came up with a new design. I think in AJ's case she's thinking aboot the world and the wonders of it."

Alex walks over to the baby monitor to make sure it's on. She takes one last look at AJ. Alex seems satisfied with the sight before her and begins walking out of the nursery. I follow her because really there's no sense of me staying in here with AJ sleeping. What am I going to do, watch her sleep? That's just slightly creepy if I do that.

Alex quietly closes the door but not all the way, leaving just a crack. Alex and I go downstairs into the kitchen. I sit down at the island counter as Alex opens open the alcohol cabinet and pulls out a bottle of whiskey.

"Do you want some?" she asks me while pulling out some glasses.

"Uh… isn't it a bit early to be drinking?" I ask. "Also, when did you start drinking whiskey?"

"It's twelve o'clock on a Saturday afternoon; it's not too early to drink. And Brian gave me this whiskey, I just have yet to have some of it. Also this is the first drink I've had since AJ was born. I think I deserve it."

"Has it really been that stressful for you?"

Alex sighs and pours a little bit of whiskey in a glass. She takes a sip of it and sits down on the other side of the counter.

"I love AJ," she says. "Now that she's in my life I can't imagine how it would be without her. I just wish that she would sleep through an entire night, which I know isn't going to happen anytime soon. I also wished she would pick reasonable eating hours and that she wouldn't poop so much, all things I know she doesn't have one percent control over. I just hope by the time I go back to work AJ's body will be on a better schedule because I'd rather not come home to a crazy Paige and a cranky baby."

"So far I've heard no upsides to having a baby," I tell Alex.

Alex takes another sip of her whiskey and looks at me.

"Jordan, children don't stay babies forever," she says. "Eventually they do grow up. But do you want to know the happy, amazing moments of having a newborn?"

I nod my head. "Yes please."

"Ok here are the moments. Like I said before, whenever Paige and I leave the room AJ cries. It's the feeling I get when she cries, knowing that she misses me, that she misses her mama. It's the feeling I get when I'm holding AJ and she's trying to turn her head and body so she can look at her surroundings, seeing the wonder in her eyes. It's the feeling I get when I smile down at her and she smiles back up at me. But most of all it's the feeling I get in my heart when I look at AJ and knowing that my love for Paige and her love for me created this amazing, special, tiny human being. Those are the happy, amazing moments to having a newborn."

"Wow," I say, sounding amazed. "But what about the whole no sleep thing?"

Alex groans. "Ugh! You'll see Jordan. That first time you hold your child, you'll see what I'm talking aboot."

"If you say so."