"So… Cappie what's your New Year's resolution?", Ash asks, looking at him excitedly.
She's dressed in a really cute tight black sparkly dress with heels. Something that was making me feel rather… underdressed right now. I was just wearing an oversized red sweater with a black skirt and ballet flats. I'd tried to dress up a bit, in something that would be loose enough to kind of hide the fact I still had a bit of a belly.
"Well…", Cappie thinks to himself, looking up as he tries to decide what to say. "I guess to just to try to be the best dad I can be. Is that painfully cheesy? I feel like I'm gonna gag just saying it".
He jokes then and we laugh. The six of us, me, Cappie, Rusty, Ashleigh, Rebecca and Evan were here in Rusty's apartment. Oh and Noelle of course, she was here too. Me and Cappie had used her stroller for the first time and brought her down here in the elevator.
"I feel like I'm gonna gag too", Rebecca jokes. "This Cappie is really unsightly to me".
"Oh c'mon Rebecca", Cap looks at her with a laugh. "You're in love now, I'm sure you've softened up a bit too".
Rebecca seems to think this over and then she shrugs, Evan grinning at her.
"Fine", She sets on. "Perhaps I'm a little more open to the concept of love actually being a thing. But me and the word soft…"
Rebecca scoffs to herself then like Cappie's crazy for even saying it.
"Me and the word soft will never be synonymous", She finishes her sentence as she takes a drink from her cup.
"Well then what's your New Year's resolution Becs?", I give her a look, playfully putting my hands on my hips.
"Easy, keep ZBZ the top house on campus", She says confidently. "Since you and Ashleigh… kind of let it slip, I have to clean up your mess".
"Hey!", me and Ash say at the same time, looking to Rebecca with a glare.
"Well, I for one never cared about that type of thing. Hell, KT is probably considered the bottom frat on campus and we couldn't give less of a shi-", Cappie laughs, looking to Rusty but I cut him off.
"Baby Cap!", I give him a look, having to stop him from swearing a lot these past few days of having her.
"Oh crap", He looks like he's cursing himself.
"You just did it again!", Evan laughs.
"'Crap' is a bit better I feel like", Cappie shrugs, smirking and the rest of us snicker to ourselves. "So what's your New Year's resolution Evs? Finally stop letting your mom do your shopping at Ralph Lauren Kids?"
Cappie teases him, a glint in his blue eyes as he enjoys messing with Evan.
Evan rolls his eyes at Cappie and then lets out an annoyed sigh.
"Actually, my resolution would be to keep being at the top 3 of my class in law school", Evan boasts, being serious.
"Mmm very nice", Cappie grins. "If I ever get another speeding ticket, I'm calling you. Actually let's be real, I'll definitely get another one so you may get that call soon".
"Well... I have always pictured you ending up in jail Cap", Evan quips back, crossing his arms.
"Hmm you've been thinking about me in jail...? You thinking about becoming my bitch Evangela?", Cappie grins deviously.
Cap grins at Evan as Evan just rolls his eyes. I watch them contently, actually seeing them get along the best they have in awhile.
"Well that speeding ticket better not be with the baby in the car Cap", I point a finger at Cappie as I giggle.
"Oh yeah I forgot", Cappie sighs. "I drive slow now".
"You should've seen how slow we drove home from the hospital guys", I giggle. "Cappie actually went the speed limit, or even under it".
"Wow I would've loved to have seen that", Rusty laughs. "One grocery trip we did my freshman year I swore I was gonna die in a car crash on the way there!"
"Hey!", Cappie laughs. "I got us to Costco just fine Spitter! I even bought you ice cream to keep you quiet about that incident to your sister".
Cappie gives Rusty a look, laughing, and the two of them grin.
"Oops I let it slip", Rusty smirks. "Well... you've already got her tied down with a baby, so... I'm pretty sure she's too locked in to dump you over your driving habits".
"Don't worry, I've always been more careful when Case is in the car", Cappie argues and then looks to me with a smirk, licking his lips and I just blush at him, rolling my eyes.
"So Rusty…", I give him a smile. "I'm thinking your resolution is something to do with your science project thingy".
He laughs at me having no idea what the hell polymer science really is.
"Well actually…", Rusty looks over to Ashleigh to weave him arm around her waist. "My New Year's resolution is just to spend more time with my beautiful girlfriend".
"Okay now I'm gonna barf for real", Rebecca comments, making a gagging motion. "That was even cheesier than Cappie's".
I roll my eyes at Rebecca with a laugh.
"I think it's sweet", Ash beams. "And my resolution is the same!"
Ash grins at Rusty.
"You also want to spend more time with your beautiful girlfriend?", Cappie jokes, faking a look of surprise in that sarcastic way he does. "Uh oh Rusty, looks like you've got some stiff competition… or are gonna have a really fun time joining them".
Cappie grins devilishly as I hit his arm.
"You're crazy", I roll my eyes at him with a laugh.
"Sorry my mind may be stuck in the gutter for awhile…", Cappie quips. "For 6 weeks actually".
The rest of the group looks a little confused until Rebecca gets it.
"Oh right, the no sex after a baby thing", Rebecca nods. "Whatever will you do Cap?!"
She gives him a pout then, joking with him.
"Not sure yet, but I am accepting charitable donations at this time", He grins and we laugh.
"What, so you can spend the donations at Gentleman's Choice?", I give him a look, crossing my arms at him playfully.
"The only Gentleman's Choice I'm going to ever again is the gay one", He gives me a smile that makes my stomach flip flop, wanting to kiss him right now. "Those Homoijtos actually really hit on a night out".
The rest of us laugh at Cap's joking.
"You abandoning strip clubs?", Evan scoffs and then takes a swig of his beer. "That's… some breaking news".
"Well Evangeline", Cap shrugs. "Their buffet was never the greatest, if I'm being honest".
He jokes as he smiles like a devil.
"Plus I'm pretty sure they don't have changing tables in there for the baby", Cap adds, faking thinking to himself as he looks off, finger against his lips. "Come to think of it... they might just have a no baby policy altogether".
"Yeah I would assume that would be the case", Evan laughs and then he looks down into Noelle's stroller that's beside me and Cappie, us pushing it back and forth every so often to keep rocking her. "I'm guessing you dressed her tonight Casey? She looks pretty put together".
Evan looks to me with a laugh.
Noelle was wearing a pink and white striped cotton pointelle onesie with a white headband that had a flower on it.
"Yep, you'd be right about that", I laugh.
"If I dressed her, she'd probably have just shown up here in a diaper", Cappie scoffs and the rest of us laugh.
"I'm surprised you haven't gotten her a KT onesie yet", Evan gives him a laugh.
"Well oddly enough, they don't have them at the campus store Evs. Maybe they're trying to discourage the KTs from procreating", Cappie frowns jokingly. "But we have the ZBZ one for her to grow into. I'll see what I can do on the KT front, when the pledges get back from their holidays I'll put them to work".
I laugh then, thinking about dressing her in a KT onesie.
"At least the ZBZ colors are pink and yellow!", I laugh. "The KT crest is kinda… ugly Cap".
He gives me a gasp then, looking fake betrayed.
"Take that back!", He does his best to keep up his joke and not laugh.
"I'm sorry but she likes pinks and purples and whites and… yellows and maybe even a nice sky blue, but not black and red!", I giggle.
"How do you know what she likes? She can't even talk", Cappie laughs.
"You guys are gonna have to have another one so Cappie and the KT guys can get their boy", Ashleigh giggles.
"No way!", I emphasize the word as I laugh, putting my hand up. "Being pregnant and having a baby is rough. I can't really imagine doing it voluntarily".
"Don't worry, I like having a girl, I'm just kidding around, we don't need a boy", Cappie grins at me and then looks down at Noelle in her stroller, him moving her stroller back and forth as he smiles at her.
"Well I guess your New Year's resolution is to figure out how to correctly use birth control then Casey?", Rebecca looks at me, joking around as she mocks me.
"Rebecca", I groan. "It's possible to get pregnant on the pill!"
"I thought you missed two pills on spring break?", Ash points out and I give her a look to tell her to shut it.
"It's even more possible to get pregnant on the pill when you don't use it right", Rebecca looks at me with a laugh and I just give in to the taunting, sighing out.
"Fine… I was a mess and forgot my pills twice, and then I tried to double up, but… obviously that didn't work", I gesture to the stroller. "But… yes, as my New Year's resolution I'm going to be diligent about taking it every day, at the exact same time everyday. Happy Becs?"
I give her a glare, crossing my arms.
"Well, I know I joke around about it but I actually really like your guys' baby, she's so cute", Rebecca shrugs. "She's like a little doll. I would know, I had every American Girl Doll there was. My father bought me a new one each month to make up for missing every one of my ballet recitals, piano lessons, swimming lessons… parent teacher conferences… I could go on forever".
"Sounds oddly familiar", Evan adds with a laugh, the two of them having grown up the same way.
"God I would've killed for one of those but my parents always bought the off brand cheaper ones", Ashleigh laughs, thinking back on her childhood.
"Mine too!", I add with a laugh. "But you're right, now I have a real life doll, even if she is a lot of work".
"Too bad you couldn't afford an au pair", Rebecca sighs. "That made it way easier for my mom. She hired a woman to buy breast milk from too. It's amazing these days how you can pay for someone to basically raise your kid and then you can just do the fun stuff!"
She smiles then and I scoff to myself.
"I mean, that's what I'm planning to do if I have one", Rebecca shrugs. "Many, many years from now".
"Well some of us can't live that lifestyle Rebecca", I laugh. "Plus… I don't know… it's hard, but I'd rather feed her and take care of her myself especially right now while she's a newborn".
"I guess there's like that whole… bonding thing?", Rebecca gives me kind of a cringing look at the word 'bonding'. "But I say who cares, they should learn from a young age that they're on their own, it'll prepare them for real life".
"Wow… how… sweet Rebecca", Cappie laughs. "You should think about switching your major to early childhood education, maybe start a daycare?"
We laugh at Cap's sarcasm.
"Well you've switched majors so much I'm surprised you didn't dabble in midwifery here at one point, I heard the programs great", She snides at him.
"Hey pregnancy stuff is actually pretty cool, if I were to get my degree again, maybe I'd try it", Cappie smirks. "Man… that feels weird to say… I actually have a degree. I never really thought that would happen for another couple of years… if ever".
"Well me and Noelle are proud of you", I look up at him to give him a grin, standing on my tippy toes to kiss his cheek.
"Barf", Rebecca rolls her eyes. "Domesticated you guys is so boring… I miss when you were like… fighting and angsty and in never ending love triangles".
Rebecca looks at us jokingly.
"Well since you were part of one of those triangles at one point…", I scoff. "I wouldn't think you'd be a fan".
"Oh I'm not, being Cappie's girlfriend sucked", Rebecca groans.
"Hey! I wasn't that bad!", Cap laughs.
"No I didn't mean it that way, it's just … the whole time you were in love with someone else so… that was kind of a drag and literally led me to trying out the lesbian thing for a bit I was so disillusioned with guys", Rebecca scoffs. "That is…."
Rebecca pauses to look over and take Evan's arm, interlocking it with hers as they smile each other.
"I met Evan", She grins. "Or rather… started to get to know the real Evan. We met a long time before we ever thought we could be an actual couple. But now… we both understand each other, like two sides of the same coin".
"Yeah you guys are kinda like two super villains finding love at the end of the movie", Cappie smirks. "I like it".
"Well things ended up how they should've… I mean, it's kind of crazy that the 6 of us managed to pair off into couples", Evan comments as he smiles. "Into couples that seem like they should never ever work, at that".
Evan scoffs and Ash looks at him confusedly.
"What's that supposed to mean? Do me and Rusty not seem like we would work?", She asks.
"Well…", Evan can't help but give an awkward shrug, laughing slightly. "Sorry to burst your bubble but… I never in a million years would've seen you guys together. You don't seem like each others types. Or rather… not Ashleigh's type".
"Hey I can get ahold of another pledge paddle easily", Rusty gives Evan a look, joking, but I think still ready to tell Evan off if he has to.
"And I'd be right behind you Spitter", Cappie jumps in supportively. "Of course… I'm trying not to get in fights, at least not in front of my daughter, so we'd have to take it out back".
I can tell Cappie's joking as he gestures out the window to the parking lot and I look over to him to give him a giggle as we share a look.
"Sorry… that came out wrong", Evan shakes his head. "I just meant… the age difference thing, the different personalities, the fact that you're different than any guy Ashleigh has ever liked…"
"Well he's different for a reason", Ash smiles. "Because those other guys obviously crashed and burned pretty quickly. I mean Travis… sucked. And Fisher emotionally stunted me, cheating on me twice! I want to be with a good guy for once. Someone who's my friend as well as my boyfriend. And after all this I've found that".
Ashleigh and Rusty smile at each other then, smitten, as they lean in to kiss.
"Double barf", Rebecca mutters.
"And me and Rebecca… well it's been the best surprise of my life but I never thought it would happen. Freshman year… Rebecca was just a reminder of how badly I screwed up. But then… she turned into one of my only friends on campus… not to mention the only person who's ever really understood me", Evan smiles at Rebecca as she grins back at him smugly.
"Is it surprising that me and Cappie worked out?", I look around at the group with a shrug.
"Not for me since I've been around you the last 4 and a half years and seen the way you could never truly give him up even while dating other people", Ash scoffs.
"I can definitely testify to that", Evan adds with a laugh, knowing that in our relationship there was always some part of me that still belonged to Cappie.
"But on paper… on paper you guys make no sense at all", Ash thinks to herself and then laughs. "But look… things don't have to make sense! Probably none of our relationships make sense".
Ash gestures around to the six of us.
"But that doesn't mean that they're not right", She grins. "I mean, obviously you guys have had a happy ending".
"We've had lots of happy endings over our 4 and a half year tenure", Cappie grins sinfully, always one to make a sexual innuendo out of anything.
"Cap!", I scold him as I roll my eyes, laughing. "Not what Ash meant".
"I meant you guys and your baby!", Ashleigh rolls her eyes at him with a giggle.
"I know, it is a happy ending", Cap grins then, weaving him arm around my back. "Took long enough but we finally got here".
I look up at him to smile.
"So…", I look around with a giggle. "Should we place bets on which of you two couples are gonna give Noelle a friend first?"
I joke with a giggle.
"Well last month I would've said never ever happening", Rebecca says. "But I don't know… after meeting your baby and realizing they're really just cute teeny sacs of flubber… I may actually consider having one. If I can have at least 3 au pairs who rotate out and if I can bypass having to breastfeed, of course".
Rebecca makes me laugh then as I giggle to myself.
"Oh of course", I nod sarcastically. "Well you can babysit her anytime Becs".
"Mmm", She thinks it over in her brain. "Thanks but no thanks, I'll just stick to seeing her while either you or Cappie is around, there's no way I'm gonna get stuck changing a diaper or dealing with a crying fit. Especially if I'm doing it for free".
"Okay well don't worry we won't ask you to then", I laugh, looking to Cap to share a knowing look.
Noelle starts to wail then, letting out a scream and then making crying noises.
"See, not dealing with that", Rebecca comments with a nod.
"Dammit, she heard you say crying fit, you jinxed it!", Cappie looks at Rebecca with a laugh as I roll Noelle's stroller back and forth.
"It's okay honey", I coo to her. "No need to cry".
"Here, what about Mr. Bear?", Cappie pulls her bear, well previously my bear, up from where it's laying beside her and starts to play around with it, showing it to her. "You love Mr. Bear!"
"Hey you gave Beary Poppins to her Case?" Rusty looks over with a smile.
"Beary Poppins?", Cappie looks to me with a laugh.
It was my bear since childhood, the same one I had on my bed at ZBZ all through the past 4 years, the same one that Cappie pushed out of the way the night we slept together again on Homecoming. And the same bear I'd clutched so hard while I was in labour that I'd basically wrung its neck.
"That was her name okay?", I take the bear from Cappie's hands and give him a slightly embarrassed shrug.
"My bad, I've been misgendering her this whole time", Cappie jokes.
"She was my bear since I was a kid and now she's Noelle's", I smile. "But she's not exactly working to calm her down".
I groan at Noelle's crying as Cappie picks her up out of her stroller. I still didn't really want to bend over to do it.
"It's okay", Cappie rocks up and down with her. "Look, all your friends are here".
She quiets down a bit now that she's in his arms, looking at him and then clutching the open side of his buttoned flannel.
"She's holding onto me, look Case!", Cappie laughs, gesturing down to the way she's crying softly as she has her tiny hand holding his flannel in a ball in her fist.
I laugh at the sight of it, my heart just absolutely melting seeing them together. I don't know what it was, I'm sure other women have experienced this too after having a baby with their partner, but seeing the two of them together makes me literally want to cry multiple times a day. They were just so cute together. Not to mention it made me feel happy that I'd given her a good dad.
"I know", I look at him as I pucker my bottom lip out. "But I'm thinking maybe she's hungry, I should try to feed her Cap, and then we might have to bail and go put her to bed".
I look at our friends with a sad shrug. But I knew they wanted to go to Doblers anyways. And for the most part I didn't mind missing out. I'd spent a billion nights at Doblers over the last few years and now I was just kind of excited to be moving into something new. I'd typically gone to Doblers for a Greek event, or to try to meet guys, or out with the other girls. And I was a graduated sorority sister now, and I had a guy who I knew was mine forever.
"Aw damn", Rebecca snaps her fingers, playing it like she's upset about it but I can tell it's sarcastic. "Well I guess we'll just head to Doblers early!"
She smiles then and I give her a playful glare.
"I'm gonna go feed her in your room Rus", I say and Cap hands Noelle over to me. I take her into my arms as she cries against my shoulder. "We'll be good Cap, you should hang here".
"Okay", he nods. "Let me know if you need help, if she keeps crying I brought her pacifier".
"Okay", I grin at him, getting those warm feelings in my chest again, that heart melting gooey, seeing Cappie be a good dad to our daughter feeling.
"Well…", I look over to Cap as we're happily tucked in my warm bed together.
I'd spent too many New Years Eves freezing my ass off in Chicago going to my old high school friends parties. This was much better.
"We're all alone", Cappie grins, giving me his usual smirk.
I had on a white pajama set, a tank top with lace straps, and white pajama shorts with lace fringe.
And Cappie was just in his usual bedroom attire, in his boxers.
"Mmm hmm", I lean into him and then giggle, him making the first move to make the rest of the way in and take my lips in his to give me a soft and gentle kiss. When we part I give him a shy smile, blushing a bit. "And… our daughter is fully conked out…"
I gesture to the baby monitor sitting on my bedside table beside me which luckily hadn't made any noise since we'd put her down about an hour ago.
"And my parents are safely home and in another zip code", I giggle against his lips as he grins.
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?", His blue eyes are completely full of dirty thoughts, them looking up into my own.
"Well… I feel like it would be a wasted opportunity to not honour our past tonight", I give him a seductive smirk, referring to me losing my virginity to him on New Years Eve, this day, 4 years ago.
"Mmmm", he laughs, unable to conceal the sheer amusement I'm giving him right now.
"Although... that night we actually… did the real thing", I look off, thinking. "And tonight we can't do that, but… I did sort of promise you I'd do something for you".
"Which, if I recall correctly, you didn't learn how to do until January 1st… the next morning when we woke up and you asked me if I could show you how to do it", he grins, wildly entertained by this.
"Well I'd never done it before!", I laugh, defending myself. "I'd never even… seen one before…"
He licks his lips as he nods. I think the fact that he was my first in everything truly pleased him to no end, it always had even when we weren't together. I think because he knew that even if I was with other guys he'd always have that piece of me no matter what.
His eyes scan over me now the way he typically does when he's thinking about taking off my clothes, when he's thinking about kissing down every single inch of my body.
"And yet you were a very fast learner", Cappie smirks at me devilishly.
"Thanks, I had a good teacher", I giggle and then lean in to kiss him again.
But these kisses are rampant, hungry. Not as soft or gentle as before, but instead filled with wanting and intensity that was starting a fire in my belly.
"This is gonna be really hard for me not for get turned on Cap", I pull away from his lips and let out a sigh.
"I guess I can't do anything to you?", He confirms with a frown.
"No, I can't have an orgasm. I shouldn't anyways, not for maybe a few more weeks. I searched it up online earlier and apparently my uterus has to get back to its usual shape… and there's swelling where the placenta was… There's just…", I gesture down to my lower belly area. "A lot going on".
I giggle as I finish my sentence.
Cappie lets out a sigh then, his lips twisting into a quick frown.
"This is definitely the worst part of pregnancy", Cappie nods.
"Um?", I look at him with a laugh, shaking my head at him. "I think I would place almost dying in surgery, vomiting for two months everyday, the insomnia because your baby was pushing down on my cervix every night above not being able to have an orgasm for a few weeks".
I cross my arms at him playfully.
"My baby?", Is all he says to that, giving me a playful look.
"Yes your baby", I laugh. "When she was annoying me by making it feel like a million bricks were sitting on my cervix then she was just your baby".
I giggle at the look he gives me.
"When she was just giving me soft kicks and making me want sex and ice cream then she was my baby", I give him a look, pursing my lips into a smile.
"So whenever she did something to annoy you then she was just mine?", He laughs.
"Exactly!", I nod with a giggle.
"Mmm, I'm not even gonna try to challenge the logistics of that", He smirks. "I'll just let you have that… mostly because I don't want to do anything to mess up the naughty stuff we may partake in if my baby stays asleep and doesn't interrupt us".
"Well, I better get to it before she wakes up then, shouldn't I?", I grin suggestively as I move out of his arms, getting on all fours as I move down his body. I keep my eyes set on him as I smirk, pulling the covers back off of him as I still keep my eyes set on him, my ass in the air.
Even though I didn't fully look how I used to, I was feeling more confident day by day. I'd lost some of the weight already, it was just noticeable in my stomach that I had just had a baby a week ago.
But the way Cappie was looking at me, you would've thought he was looking at the prettiest woman in the world. So any reservations I had about trying to be sexy in front of him went out the window. He already was making me feel plenty sexy to him.
"You really don't have to do this, I'm serious", He leans down to put his hand on my arm. "I know we've been…."
He gives me a suggestive grin then, searching for the right word.
"Flirting about it…", He sets on with a glint in his eye. "But that doesn't mean you have to do anything. I don't want you to hurt yourself".
"I'm fine", I look him dead set in his eyes. "And… I want to ring in the new year by…"
I giggle then, watching his expression turn into a smirk.
"By making you feel good", I grin, trying to turn him on. "Maybe it's hormones… or maybe it's seeing you be a dad, but…"
I hate to give him the satisfaction because I know I'll never hear the end of it, but… I decide to just be honest.
"But what?", He laughs, interrupting my thoughts, licking his lips, wanting me to continue.
"But you're so hot to me right now", I finally just say with a roll of my eyes.
He just opens his mouth slightly, I think unsure what to say, in shock, but definitely enjoying the hell of of this.
"Oh really?", He grins happily, looking like a little kid whose just been given candy.
"Don't think about it too much", I groan, but can't help the way I'm still smiling at him. "Just let me…"
I look down his body then, his toned chest and torso, his strong arms.
Obviously he was really hot to me, always had been, but I think what had been turning me on the most the past few days was seeing him with our daughter. I've loved Cappie for years, even at times when I tried to ignore it and when I wish I didn't. But after having a baby together and seeing him as a dad… it's like the love I had for him took a new level.
And I wanted to do something about it even if we couldn't have sex.
"Just let me do this", I smile up at him and pull down the waistband of his boxers.
"Okay", He puts both his hands up jokingly. "Who would I be to object a sexual favor?"
I give him a laugh, rolling my eyes at him as I kneel down beside his body.
Of course he was still Cappie. Still the same guy from freshman year.
The same things that he liked still worked on him, still made him go crazy. I liked hearing it, hearing him fail to keep in the way he groans at my movements. And I loved the way he watched me, looking at me like I was the most gorgeous girl he'd ever seen. He always looked at me like that though, but especially now that I was here in front of him, trying to make this sexy for him.
"God Casey. Fuck", He lets out in a deep groan as I come up for air to give him a smirk. He'd used my full name, that's how I knew he was serious right now.
I keep going, knowing there's not much farther to go until he's completely undone, laying in complete bliss like he'd done so many times for me. Especially while I was pregnant, he'd always focused on what would feel good for me the past few months. So I wanted to repay the favor.
I feel his hand land on my ass then, needing, no, wanting, something to hold onto on me. His hand would usually travel further down to stimulate me, but obviously he knows he can't do that right now.
Eventually he starts to writhe, starts to pulse, and I know what's coming. Obviously he tells me verbally too, not that I need him to. I knew his body well enough by now to know when he's gonna come. I get out of the way for it but not quite in time before some hits my face.
"Shit…", Cappie lets out an out of breath pant as he tries to come back down to earth. "Sorry Case".
"No it's okay", I laugh and he passes me the tissue box from our bedside table as I wipe off my cheek.
I hear the baby crying then on the monitor and from across the hall and we both look to each other, Cappie out of breath and me sort of trying to regain my own breathing.
"Well... at least she let me finish", Cappie quips with a smirk and I laugh. "I'll go bring her in".
"Okay thanks, I have to clean this up so she doesn't see me like this", I giggle.
"I don't think she'll know Case", He pulls up his boxers and looks at me like I'm crazy but I just give him a playful glare.
I throw the tissues out and then Cappie brings Noelle in, whose currently flailing around and crying, Cappie trying to comfort her.
"Hi baby", I speak in a baby voice to her as he passes her over to me. "Don't worry, mommy's here".
I hold her close to me and pull down my top, getting my breast out to feed her.
She latches on pretty good as Cappie gets back in bed beside me.
"She was just hungry", I give Cap a smile and then look down at Noelle being the cutest ever.
He leans in to kiss my cheek then as I'm feeding her, him sort of surprising me because I'm so focused on her.
"You're such a good mom Case", he smiles at me softly.
"Thanks Cap", I can't help the way my heart swells in my chest at his words.
He just nods up and down sheepishly, watching the two of us. Full well knowing we're definitely all gonna end up sleeping in here tonight. The three of us, her right in between me and Cap.
But I wouldn't have it any other way. They were the best possible thing to go to sleep next to. The best possible thing to start my year with.
"Happy New Year Case", He grins, I think sharing the same thoughts as I was having. "I'm really happy I'm gonna spend this year with both of you... watching her grow... and us being a real couple now".
He smiles softly at me and I nod, blushing.
"You read my mind", I grin. "Happy New Year Cappie".
I look down to Noelle clutching my boob with her tiny hand and let out a little laugh.
"And Happy New Year to you Noelle! This is the year you were actually supposed to be born in. But we're so happy that you decided to come early", I bop her on the nose gently with my pointer finger and then watch her blue eyes stare up at me.
"Yep... now we can start the year the three of us", Cap says, a smile taking over his entire face as he puts his arm around me while I feed her.