Another Life

27

We had been taken up to another room after the delivery and this was the room we were going to be staying in until we were able to leave the hospital in a couple days - they wanted to keep us a bit of a longer watch on the baby because he had been born a few weeks early and they wanted to make sure there was no complications that showed up a little later.

It had been a few hours now since the birth and Jay had gone downstairs to tell and fetch the unit, who had showed up for support earlier on and didn't actually know about the fact that the baby had been born because neither Jay or I had our phones so we couldn't let them know of the safe arrival and Jay had asked Will not to say anything to them because he wanted to be the one to tell them.

So it was just me and the, now, sleeping newborn in the plastic box beside the bed. Over the last couple hours he had pinked up more and had been cleaned off completely, so he looked like an actual baby, and for the last two hours Jay and I had been trying to figure out who he looks more like and we were still undecided on many things.

The one thing we sure about though was obvious blonde steaks of hair on the top of his head, the same blonde that Macie had.

I had been running my hand over the top of his head for a while before the door to the room burst open, Kim walking through with a very unamused face.

"Your husband is a dick." She says, walking into the room further and being followed by Adam, who had the very exact expression, and Jay, who looked very proud of himself.

I chuckle. "I mean yeah but what did he do this time?" I ask, the faces changing so Kim and Adam are smiling and Jay is staring to me.

Jay shakes the stare off of his face and walks across the foot of the bed to where the plastic crib was. "I'll tell you later."

Kim then speaks up, reaching into her back pocket. "Oh before I forget," she mutters before pulling a phone out and handing it toward Jay. "Here's your phone that you stupidly left in the front of the surveillance van earlier."

Jay took it from her hands and gave her a smile. "Thank you, neither of us have our phones because Hailey forgot hers at the house when we left and we needed to check in on Mace," he says before knitting his eyebrows together. "She's with Kev, right?"

Kim and Adam both nod and Jay starts walking toward the door, saying he would just be a minute. Once the door shuts behind him Kim looks over to me. "How are you doing?" She asks.

I smile. "I'm okay, just glad that bit's over and that he's alright," I reply, making a nod toward the crib. "Actually while you're here could you settle something? Jay and I have been arguing over it since he was born."

"Yeah sure, what is it?" Adam asks.

"Who he looks more like." I say and immediately Adam and Kim both make their way around the bed and step closer toward the crib to see.

After a minute they both shrug. "I'd say you." Kim replies, gaining a quick shake of Adam's head in response.

"No he's got a good mix of both of them."

The two of them continue to argue about how each other see certain things and I sit back into the bed, looking up to the door when Jay walks back in, surprised to find how the room was very different to how he had left it.

He looks to Adam and Kim, who are still quietly disagreeing with each other, before back at me and I smile innocently.

"I did it again." I say through a slight chuckle, knowing I had reduced Will and Natalie to the same thing when they had come in here an hour earlier.

Jay doesn't seem surprised by that and just walks fully into the room, eyes glued to his phone as he sat down. "Who's side are they on?" He questions.