Expect the Unexpected

Sixteen

Back at home after Mishy's obstetric appointment and a quick run through the nearest BuyBuy Baby store to start getting nursery ideas, Rob couldn't help still feeling a bit Emotional. He was still Awed at finding out that not only were they having another baby girl, but one who was apparently gonna be the perfect mixture of the two of them. After all, their son was practically a carbon copy of himself, whereas their existing daughter looked more like his ex-wife. Course, he didn't really suppose that kinda thing mattered any more than whether this'd finally be a baby who got their mama's blue eyes, so long as they remained healthy.

        Stepping outta their bedroom after as quick a bathroom break as he could manage, he couldn't help the smile the curved his lips. The ex-wife in question'd stretched out on the couch after a bathroom break of her own, and from the looks of things, she'd already fallen asleep. Aside from a peacefully-sleeping baby, there wasn't a more precious sight to him than something like this. He thought she absolutely glowed from her pregnancy as it was, but she was somehow even more beautiful while asleep.

        Heaving a sigh as he shook his head, the Silver Fox headed into his office, Intent on grabbing one of his acoustic basses again. They still hadn't gotten a chanceta talk about much of anything when it came to what was or wasn't between them, and it was starting to eat at him. But he wasn't one to wake someone that was asleep just to talk about something like that, considering it could wait. It didn't mean that he wasn't a lil anxiousta do just that, but with getting older came a Patience he hadn't seemed to have when he was younger.

        Once settled on the couch, Rob made sure his bass was in tune before putting an ear bud in only one ear. He hadn't played the song that was running through his mind in Years–prolly even decades, for that matter–so he needed a memory refresher on the chords. Not only that, but he could stand a memory refresher on its tempo since he recalled it being a decently slow song.

        With the song set to play so that the piano intro he'd worked on with a former band mate started, he moved his hands into position. From what lil he remembered of this song, he'd a few secondsta prepare himself to actually play his riff. The problem was that it'd been so long since he'd even heard this particular song, let alone played it that he couldn't remember exactly how long he had. It was a good thing that his hands were already in position, though, 'cuz the MP3 file he was listening to proved he'd less Time than he'd thought. He coulda sworn that he'd closer to thirty seconds before anything beyond piano kicked in, but it turned out that he'd only about thirteen seconds before Rikki's rhythm kicked in, sixteen before guitar and bass both.

        Lost in the Music as he did his best at playing along with his own decades-old riff as much as intensely focused, the Silver Fox didn't notice that he was attracting a bit of an audience. In addition to Gunnar and Grayson apparently deciding to listen in, he'd accidentally woken Mishy up from her nap. All three of them wandered over to his office doors, smiles curving their lips as they simply watched and listened.

        "What song was that? I don't think I've ever heard it before."

        Jumping at the sudden voice after letting his final note ring out, Rob let out a torrent of Finnish and Italian Curses as he jerked his gaze up from his bass.

        "Sorry, Dad," the taller of the twins chuckled, taking him by surprise with what he called him.

        "We weren't trying to scare ya," his brother added with a chuckle of his own.

        "Guess I was just more focused than I realized," he sighed, setting his bass back on its stand as he pulled his ear bud out. "Y'all gotta quit sneaking up on me like that, though."