Oh my god, I am so so so so so sorry it took me so long to update. Reviwes please.
"I forgot to ask how Benny is doing." Collins said sitting down on the leather couch. He set his coffee on the table and handed Maureen a cup of green tea. She smiled and took it from him.
Wearing a white thermal shirt under a black t-shirt whit the words Coming Soon printed on it and a comfy pair of jeans. She had ventured out to Chelsea to visit Collins and Luis. They had big news for her, exciting news they said.
"He's better, I think he's happy to be back at work." She blew on the surface of the hot tea before taking a sip. "He loves me and all, but I worked hard at annoying him to no end so he would force himself to feel better. I wasn't going to let him mope around the apartment."
Collins laughed, showing his warm smile "Well, you are just evil. But I am glad that he's better."
She nodded and took another sip of the tea. She missed Collins immensely. He was always her favorite person in the loft. Wise and random, Collins was the perfect match to Maureen's crazy free thinking bohemian sprit. They were both outsiders and they just clicked. It was a sibling feeling. From the day they decided to paint the loft a bright yellow color on a whim, to the day threw all of her clothes out of the window while she was in the shower, they were linked. She was still a little spiteful about her favorite Go-Go's T-shirt, stolen by a homeless man, along with a few other items she and Mark could not convince people who had taken them to give back.
"So what's this big news I came over to hear? I want to know." Collins grinned and checked his watch. "Actually, Luis should be back with it in a few minutes."
As predicted, the front door flew open after 6 minutes. A breathless Luis came in. His red scarf wrapped around his head. "Hey!" he said as he unbuttoned his jacket and set it on the coat rack sitting near the door. "I got it!"
Maureen sat up. As of today, December 1st 1991, she was officially in her 9th and last month of her pregnancy. She could hardly sit up without help Collins helped her sit straighter and Luis sat down in-between them.
She looked at what he was holding, a Polaroid picture. It was of a small baby with a big mess of black hair. It said Collins-Dell adoption on the bottom and the date of November 29th 1991.
"You guys are adopting!" she ginned as her handed her the picture. The baby was a girl, she could tell by the pink hat. It was also Asian, Chinese maybe. She was adorable. Collins smiled "Shocked?" he asked and she nodded, still looking at the photo.
"When are you getting her?" she said handing it back to Luis "Around the 15th of February. We already decided on a name too." But before Maureen could ask, he told her "Charlotte Daya Collins-Dell. Charlotte was my mother's name and Daya was Tom's grandmother's name." Luis said
Maureen grinned widely, always the attention stealer "That's a beautiful name guys, almost as good as the one I picked out." She rubbed her stomach.
Collins's eyes lit up. He was already in love with his god daughter, even thought she hadn't even came out yet. "What did you pick?" he asked.
"It's going to be Riley Elizabeth Johnson-Coffin. Benny named sure that she would be a Coffin, I fought him over that but he won." A laughed emitted from Collins, he knew better than anyone how much the last name would concern Benny. He carried on his family name Coffin, and it held a lot of pull around the United States. "It's only that way so it will be easier for Riley to get into the fancy schools and stuff."
Maureen sat there with two of her best friends in the world, and watched them beam looking at the soon to be daughter.