Only Forever

10

Demi's POV

It's now the next morning, and I woke up surprisingly before Mayla. Normally I wake up as she wakes up, but I checked on her through the baby monitor and she was still fast asleep. I guess yesterday was a long day so she's probably still really tired. Once I knew she was still asleep, I turned and cuddled back up to Jay. I traced his tattoos on his stomach and chest while he slept and I couldn't help the smile that formed on my face when I saw one that clearly represents his mom and sisters.

"Making sure I don't have any exes names?" I hear him after a few minutes in a sexy raspy voice and I chuckle and turn to look up at him.

"Do you?" I ask raising my brows and he chuckles and shakes his head as he runs his hand up and down my back lightly.

"Nope. You?" He asks tracing the birds on my forearm with his other hand and I shake my head.

"No way." I answer and he smiles.

"I didn't know how many tattoos you actually had until last night." He then says and I feel his hand move to my ribs where my dream catcher tattoo is and I smile.

"I have like none compared to you." I reply chuckling and he smiles. Just then, I hear Mayla in the baby monitor starting to wake up so I look over to see her rubbing her eyes. So I roll out of the bed and I quickly throw on some clothes before walking into the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth. Once I'm done, I walk out and see Jay getting dressed and I smile as I leave the room and down to Mayla's. I get her up and change her diaper while she babbles about her dreams and then we walk out of her room to see Jay just about to walk downstairs. I hear Mayla gasp and squeal before running up to him and I'm even shocked.

"Hi!" She squeals as she crashes into his legs and he smiles big as he bends down to her level.

"Hi sweetheart. You sleep good?" He asks her and she nods and then starts babbling to him. I couldn't help the tears that filled my eyes when he intently listened to her the whole time even if she wasn't saying anything we could understand. She then reached her arms out for him to pick her up and when he did, the water works started and I had to quickly turn away so they didn't see the few tears cascade down my cheeks. "Demi, what's wrong?" I hear him ask and I shake my head and wipe my tears away before turning back around and putting a smile on my face which wasn't hard to do.

"Nothing. I um got something in my eye." I say and he furrows his brows but I start walking down the stairs anyways with him following suit with Mayla still contently in his arms. When we got downstairs, Jay offered to cook breakfast so I played with Mayla in her playroom while we waited for breakfast. After about ten minutes, I heard my doorbell go off and I was kind of confused. I had Mayla stay in the playroom while I got up and walked to the door. When I opened it up, I saw Linda, who works for the adoption agency. Fuck. What is she doing here?

"Good morning Ms. Lovato, I'm just here for a surprise check in. Don't worry, no one called, it's just mandatory we do these every now in then to check on the child and the home." She says smiling warmly and I smile back and let her in even if I'm freaking out inside. I haven't told the agency that I've been seeing someone and now she's going to see Jay right in the kitchen cooking breakfast.

"Oh okay. Let me just go grab Mayla real quick." I say and she nods so I walk off to her playroom and I grab her before quickly walking back to where I left her and I see her already scanning my living room.

"Oh she's beautiful. Getting so big." She says immediately and I smile as she hides her face in my neck.

"I know. It's crazy. Can you say hi baby girl?" I ask tickling her lightly and she smiles and waves. "She's a little shy with new people." I say and she shakes her head.