Baby Makes 3
Sonny stared up at the white ceiling shakily and felt her body quiver in the blinding room. Where was I? she questioned and rose on her elbows and winced when she noticed her stomach was flat. Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, Sonny thought miserably as her chocolate brown eyes searched nervously across the hospital room.
Tears began to frame her eyes but stopped when the door emerged open followed by a friendly looking nurse.
"Mrs. Cooper?" the nurse asked holding onto the doorknob.
"Yes?" she shakily answered rubbing her nose with the back of her palm.
"Your husband wanted to know if you were ready to see the baby."
Her chocolate brown eyes watered and she felt butterflies unloosen the knot building up in her stomach. It was relief, it was happiness.
"Y-yes", Sonny answered shakily and propped herself up on her elbows when the woman closed the door with a smile.
Sonny watched anxiously as the door cracked open and Chad appeared cradling a pink blanket in his arms. He was rocking the baby up and down and gazing down at her like any proud father would've.
She smiled sniffing and wiped away a stray tear from the corner of her eye in happiness.
Chad looked up and smiled at her, and walked over to peck her lips. Sonny stared in awe at the baby he was rocking up and down.
" Hey honey", he whispered against Sonny's ear sitting beside her on the bed and rested the infant in the crook of his arm.
"Let me hold her", Sonny grinned ear to ear holding her hands before her, and literally felt the world shift the moment her daughter was into her arms.
She pulled back the pink blanket away from the newborns face and nearly burst into tears again at the gorgeous baby blue eyes staring wide eyed back at her before they blinked back to sleep.
Chad smiled down at the baby girl in amazement and toyed with her baby soft hands.
"Gorgeous isn't she?"
"Yeah", Sonny breathed in amazement and touched the baby girl's soft face and kissed her nose. She never knew she could love someone she'd just met.
Chad smiled shaking his head, "She looks just like you Sonny, Sonny, Sonny".
Sonny flinched out of her daydream interrupted by the voice repeating her name over and over again in the hospital room as she was snapped back into reality.
Doctor Ford cleared his throat again to get Sonny's attention.
"I'll be back with the blood work", the handsome doctor informed after overlooking his files and made a silent exit.
Tawni, and her mother Connie was on either side of the room for the first time speechless at the news. The tension was thick in the room it could've been cut with a knife.
Tawni had ended her vacation a day earlier and rushed to the hospital as soon as she had heard about what had happened, already in her mind she had feared the worse.
The way Chad had sounded, so helpless, so scared. She'd rushed her bleeding body into the emergency room and even through all the tears and screaming Sonny was yelling for him. And, he wasn't there.
She looked down at her outfit and felt a little foolish, she was in a bikini with an oversized robe from the hotel but decided other things were more important.
When she reached to console Sonny she just flinched at her touch and rolled over, so that her back was facing the two of them.
"Okay", Connie breathed attempting to be sympathetic.
Sonny pinched the bottom of her hospital band absently and flicked off the television dryly. Nothing in the world seemed to matter anymore, and at this point not even her marriage.
She stole a peek at her ghostly reflection and barely recognized the lifeless form in staring back at her. It looked like the life had literally sucked out of her. Dark bags rung around her eyes, her complexion was pale and pasty, and her usually volume filled hair was limp and dishelmed.
"You're going to have to speak to him eventually", Tawni cautiously told Sonny and held her hands in surrender just in case she snapped. Chad had been waiting in the hospital room before anyone else, but still she wouldn't let him in. Or, let him know exactly what had happened with the baby.
Connie nodded where she sat near the window stroking Coop. " She's right honey, he is the father he deserves to know that-
"Mind you're business", Sonny barked angrily and curled underneath the thin hospital sheets ignoring Tawni completely.
"What do you want me to do then?" Tawni sniffed as tears framed her eyes, she hated to see her friend in so much anguish.
"Leave me alone", Sonny throatily responded dryly and blinked away her own tears.
Tawni cleared her burning throat genuinely hurt and quickly turned to leave.
"She's in a lot of pain right now", Mrs. Munroe excused her daughters behavior standing to hug Tawni before she left for the waiting room.
Sonny rolled back on her back and sighed bitterly.
"How are you feeling?" she asked her daughter.
Sonny rolled her eyes and blankly ignored her mother.
Connie walked over to feel her daughters forehead. "You alright? Que Pasa?" she asked her daughter.
"You're a little hot, I'll get you some water", she informed stroking her daughters jaw.
Sonny shrugged her mothers hand away.
"Mom, I don't want to talk, or be bothered right now".
Connie pursed her lips avoiding the sting of her daughter's words. " I know you're angry and scared right now but you can't keep being rude to people who love you. I'm sorry the baby got hurt, I really, really am but you can't take it out on everyone. Sooner or later you're going to have to let someone in, and I pray to god it will be your husband. You hurt me today Alison", she stated shaking her head disappointedly before sliding out of the room.
Sonny groaned after her mother left, as if she needed to feel worse than she already did. She hated hurting everyone's feelings but after everything she had been feeling cold and resistant.
She would've apologized if her eyelids hadn't been so heavy. Sonny had forgotten, it'd been a good 20 minutes since the doctor had sedated her, and now she was starting to fall into a deep sleep.
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An hour later
Chad watched Sonny from her hospital outside window and touched the glass, watching in awe as her belly moved up and down as she breathed. He let a smile play across her lips and smiled, it seemed like even sleeping she looked angelic.
"Hey", a hand tapped his shoulder causing him to jump, he eased when he saw his mother in law.
She held her arms out for him and he quickly sunk into her warm embrace. It was the closest thing he had to Sonny at the moment.
"Is the baby okay?" his watery blue eyes were innocent and hopeful.
Connie's brown eyes looked disappointed. " You should really speak with Sonny", she spoke giving him an encouraging squeeze before she moved back down to the café to comfort her sister, Gina.
Chad's stomach felt as if it had sunken to his knees, and his heart felt like a ton as he slowly opened the door.
He looked around at the get well balloons he'd sent and felt like the scum of the earth. He thought, if he'd never left none of this would've happened.
A machine next to Sonny beeped alerting her breathing rhythms. Chad felt tears pour from his eyes as he cautiously inched forward and touched her stomach. She stirred slightly but he saw a faint smile spread across her lips. He leaned down and kissed the middle of her stomach.
Chad pulled a chair next to her bed and grabbed her warm hand and kissed it, and pressed it against his face sobbing quietly.
"I never deserved you, or this baby", he sniffed brushing back her hair with the tips of his fingers and shook his head in disbelief.
Chad looked down at the monitor on her finger and shook his head. "I never should've left, I never should've slept with Portlyn", he sniffed looking out the window trying to put himself back together.
He pushed the sleeves of his Ralph Lauren bomber jacket gripped his blond hair trying to make sense of things.
"I should've been there, I knew something was wrong with you baby, I should've stayed", Chad cried hoarsely pecking the side of her jaw line.
"Baby", he whispered tearfully and finally wiped his face.
"This baby is going to make it, my daughter is a fighter and so are you. This is just a setback sweetie, we're going get through this", he sniffed clenching her hand for support and pressed his forehead against hers.
"This baby is going to be fine, I know it", he hiccupped matter-of-factly.
"I know it", he whispered again to prove to himself.
Sonny laid silently besides her stomach rising and falling in patterns, Chad smiled a little when he saw her wedding band securely on her hand and kissed it.
A knock appeared at the door snapping Chad out of his sorrows.
"Doctor Ford", the man introduced himself and let himself in.
Chad wiped his stray tears with the arm of his jacket and cleared his throat. "Hey, Doc".
"So you must be the baby's father?"
Chad nodded standing, " Yeah, and her husband", he stated teary eyed.
The doctor looked down at his papers uneasily.
"I'm glad you're here for thee um… news", Doctor Ford squinted his eyes and tucked his files underneath his arm.
Chad didn't like the looks Doctor Ford was giving and immediately thought the worse.
"Is the baby going to make it?" he raised his voice shakily.
The Doctor looked away, he hated breaking the news to young couples or anybody in general.
"That's what I wanted to talk about. Well….
Sorry for the late updates guys!!!!!!!!!! How do you like this cliffy? Don't worry Channy fans, I just love drama. Stay tuned for the next update on the fate of Munroe-Cooper baby! I loved your reviews for the last chapter. Please review this one 2!