thank you for the reviews Nafisah and Smileyjessxx i really appreciate them. if you have read and havent reviewed please go back and do it. i love getting reviews from you guys. anyway in the last chapter celine and beck almost lost their baby. his heart had stopped developing when in celines stomach and the cord wrapped around his neck. it would have killed him had they waited a bit longer. see what happens next, enjoy!
it took about a month but little arden has fully developed and is allowed to come out of the incubator. i stayed in the hospital the whole time while beck went home to be with the kids. it's crazy how im just turning 23 and i already have three kids.
that just shows how in love beck and i are. or just how crazy we are.
people our age usually only have one child because they just had a baby. but beck and i got pregnant when i was seventeen, so were not like everybody else.
i cant stop smiling as i look down at my precious little baby. he's really small. i nurse him quietly and stroke his cheek with my thumb. he looks up at me with those big blue eyes. i knew he would have them, and it warms my heart to see a peice of me in him. it might just be that he's still a baby, but his skin is the same pale color as mine. bieng in district four has definately given me a tan, but normally my skin is pale.
mom walks into my room. she, dad and the boys came down to see me and the baby. "hey sweetie" mom whispers walking into the room with dad behind her. i smile, "hey" i reply.
when they first got here yesterday they were in tears. i called them ahead of time and told them about the surgery and how he survived, but told them not to come yet because they wouldnt be able to see him until he's big enough to come out of the incubator.
now that he is we invited them down to four.
arden is about five pounds eight ounces. he's very small and i would expect that from a premature baby.
mom sits in a chair next to my bed and smiles at the baby. "he has you guys's eyes" she says to me and dad. dad walks over and looks at the baby, "i've been waiting for a grandkid with my eyes" dad jokes. "his name's arden" he asks, and i nod. "hey there arden" my dad says and i hand the baby over to him, then cover my chest.
my dad holds the baby up then carries him the correct way. he looks nothing like dad, mostly because he's a mix of beck and i.
the kids havent seen their little brother yet. i wouldnt let them, i want to be able to bring him home for them to see him, and the doctor says i can leave soon.
"where are my brothers" i ask mom smiling. "at the house with beck, and that reminds me i need to speak to you in private" she says and looks at dad. he gets the message and gives me the baby then exits the room.
she looks at me and says, "do you remember when you were little, back when you were deaf" she asks me. i nod seriously. "can you still speak sign language" she asks me. "i can speak a little" i answer. "okay, umm..beetee called from five and said that the hearing aids seem to have a certain limit to their use". this surprises me greatly. "he said the minimum of their usage is ten years, maximum is twenty and you've had it for what..sixteen years now" she asks me. i nod. "has the hearing aid seemed to have stopped working" she asks me. "things get jumbled sometimes and i might hear something from a direction it didnt com in but other than that nothing is wrong" i answer. she nods. "beetee wants you to come to five..he wants to take the hearing aid out", im taken aback, "what! but then i'll be deaf again, i dont want that" i argue. mom smiles sadly, "baby you've always been deaf. its the technology that helped you, you're still the same way you were as a kid" she says with a hand on my shoulder.
i sigh, "is that the secret you wanted to keep from dad" i ask, she shakes her head, "no..the actual secret is that hunter somehow got some girl pregnant", "what!" i ask shocked, and this scares my baby. i comfort him, " who" i ask and she shrugs. "i have no idea. hunter confessed last month saying he knew her from school, they went to the slag heap, she's two months in and she doesnt want to get rid of it!". i lean back in my chair and shake my head. "and your not going to tell dad because he'll think he got it from gale" i say for her. she nods.
i shake my head, "he's not ready" i say. "i know he isnt he's the same age you were when you had delenae. but he's a boy. he'll have to go to that girls house and support her and the baby, take care of school, move out with her! i cant handle that again last time was tricky but this time will be complicated. you were around, we were able to help you through your pregnancy, but she only has him, and if she doesnt want to tell her family then she's stuck because she wont have a choice eventually. hunter will end up always stressed and tired, running back and forth to that girls house to help her out with HIS baby! "
"who else knows" i ask her. "i think archer knows, he and hunter tell each other everything she says. "does gale know" i aks. she shakes her head, "...you should tell him. better he knows than anyone" i say. "i know but im afraid he'll feel uncomfortable. it'll probably remind him of what happened in the log cabin all those years ago" she says and scratches her head. "i dont know what im gonna do" she says.
"let hunter choose what happens, he decided to do this, make him figure it out. if that girl has that baby he needs to realize it's his responsibility to help take care of it. he wanted to be careless now he needs to work" i say strictly. mom smiles at that, "look at you, all grown up, sounding like a real mother." she says and that makes me smile. "yeah, i need to disipline the kids, i wanted to spoil them but that cant happen" i joke.
mom gets up and lets dad in, kissing him as he walks in. "but i bet beck spoils them doesnt he" she asks me sitting down on dads lap. i nod and we laugh. "how are the kids baby" dad asks me. "they're doing realy well, delenae is getting good grades in kindergarten, and omri is learning how to walk now" i say. dad smiles at mom, "can you believe how old we're getting" mom shakes her head and leans on him.
the rest of the day is spent talking, but pretty soon the doctor announces that i'm aloud to go home. i put on clothes mom brought from the house. i grab my baby and we head out to an awaiting car. i cant wait for the kids to meet their new brother. i kiss my baby on his cheek as he sleeps silently and i find myself checking his pulse.
i almost lost him once, now im too afraid to lose him forreal.
the car stops infront of the house and we get out. home. we go up the stairs carefully and though the door. the first thing i hear is laughter. the kids are playing with their daddy. beck chases delenae into the kitchen, then turns to go after omri who is stumbling across the carpet.
i dont say anything. i wait to be noticed. delenae hears the door and looks, "mommy!" she squeals and runs over. this gets becks attention and he catches omri in his arms then comes over. delenae hugs my leg, "where's the baby" she asks me. my mom shushes her, "not so loud honey" she says and delenae stops talking. beck kisses me longingly and then the baby. "hey aunt katniss" he says hugging her, "hey uncle peeta" he says and they shake hands.
i sit on the couch and delenae hops on next to me and beck sets omri on my other side. they look at the baby. "aww"delenae says softly and kisses the baby's cheek. omri points at him, "baby?" he asks. i nod at him, "this is your baby brother" i say to them both. omri stands up and holds onto my shoulder, "im bigger dan him wite mama" he asks me. i nod at him and kiss his cheek. he smiles and sits back down. "now you two need to be careful while the baby is around, and you cant be loud, understand" i say. they nod, "no screaming, no dropping stuff, and no turning the tv up loud okay" i say. delenae nods. "okay" i have to repeat a second time for omri because he's still small. he nods then looks at my parents, "grandma" he says to mom. she picks him up and she talks to him.
i turn to delenae, "the dogs are NOT aloud in the house delenae do you understand, they stay outside, okay"." because they'll be too loud for the baby" she asks and i nod. "whats his name mommy" she asks me. "arden" i say. she looks at him then runs off.
beck comes over and sits beside me. i give him the baby. this is the very first time he's held the baby. "you got him" i ask and beck nods. he holds the baby to him and smiles, "hey arden, ive been waiting to hold you since the day i saw you" he whispers. just then arden starts to cry. beck looks confused, "no babe it's okay, newborns cry alot remember" i say taking the baby. "oh yeah" he says. "whats wrong with him" he asks. "he needs to be changed" i say. "ill do it" beck volunteers. i laugh, "okay" i say and hand the baby back to him and he walks off saying, "dont cry little arden daddy's here." he says.
i smile at that, im glad i had becks kids over anyones. and it makes me happy that he is my kid's daddy.
sorry for the short chapter. but review anyway. i love you! c u later.