Cook & Effy: Five Years Later

Birth. Finale.

"Are you really not gonna have your baby in a hospital Eff?!?"

"Panda, my water broke while I was sleeping, the closest hospital isn't close enough, and my baby is already half way out of me! I'm having this baby right here mate!"

"We're on our way! Keep him or her in there in the meantime."

Although I'm having a boy, Panda refuses to know the sex...

"Cook, I want to push again."

"No! No push, I'm three blocks away!"

"DRIVE FASTER!"

I hung up the phone and opened my legs as wide as possible.

"Oh fuck." Cook's eyes were wide and fixated. "You sure it's too late to go to the hospital—

"More towels, NOW!"

He ran out and in with a handful of towels. "We are having no more children."

"I'm pushing again."

"We're here! We're here!"

"Oh thank God." Cook breathed.

"Please come help Cook, he's clueless."

Panda smiled when she came into view. She hovered over my legs, "Yeah, that baby is almost out. One solid push should do ya."

I grunted as I pushed with everything in me. The sound of crying made me smile.

"It's a boy!" Panda squealed.

"Yeah, we know.'

Panda gave Cook a look as she handed me my baby.

Cook lays beside me and we both stare at him in awe.

He looks just like Cook.

"Have you guys thought of any names?"

"Yes. We came up with one pretty quickly actually."

"Oliver Frederick Stonem-Cook."

Panda put a hand over her chest. "I'm gonna cry. You named him after Freddie?"

"There wouldn't be an us without him. He was very important to us, I mean important to all of us. We wanted him remembered."

"That's beautiful."

And it was. Our life together was beautiful and just beginning. It's only sunshine at this point in a life that was so full of darkness.

The END