𝙈𝙄𝙓𝙀𝘿 𝙐𝙋 ➪ 𝙈Å𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙉 𝙄𝙈𝘼𝙂𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙎 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙔

19. IT WAS WORTH IT [E.T]

[You are Adria]

It was the middle of the night and I got woken by mine and Ethan's daughter's cries.

I sat up but Ethan put his arm on my chest and gently pushed me back down.

"I'll get her, don't worry, love." whispered Ethan.

"Ethan, you got her yesterday. It's fine, you go back to sleep, dear." I said, moving the covers from my body.

"I'm going with you, Adria." he also got out of the bed.

I smiled tiredly and waited for him to walk up to me and I walked through the door to the room opposite ours. I opened the door and walked into the dark room with a nightlight on a dresser and projected stars onto the ceiling. I walked towards the crib and Ethan put the dimmed lights on.

I looked over the wooden structure and down at the crib where the little girl lay, crying. I picked her up and Ethan wrapped his hands around my waist and placed his chin in my neck.

"Oh, my sweet little girl." I said, moving my arms side to side to get Cassandra to calm down. She quietened down and yawned.

"Look at her. You're so beautiful, Sandra, yes you are. I'll heat up her milk from earlier." said Ethan, kissing my cheek and walking away to where the baby bottle stood.

I hummed the tune to 'Coraline' to get Sandra to get a little more tired.

"Here." said Ethan, giving me the bottle and I smiled, taking it from him.

"Thank you, dear." I kissed his lips and held the bottle for Sandra and she instantly started drinking.

"She's beautiful, she's got it after her daddy." said Ethan, smirking at me and I elbowed him in the stomach, making him chuckle. "I'm only joking, she's got it after her mommy, beautiful little girl right after her beautiful mommy."

I smiled at Ethan, turning my head to look at him as he smiled at Sandra and then turned his head to face me.

"I love you, Ethan." I whispered to Ethan and he looked at Sandra and then back at me.

"I love you, too, Ada." he whispered back, smiling as he hugged me to him.

"Would you look at that?" I whispered. "She's asleep again."

I put Cassandra back into her crib and covered her with a blanket, as Ethan stared at our daughter lovingly.

"Thank you." he hugged me from the back.

"For what?" I asked him. I turned around so that my body was facing him.

"For going through all that pain of bringing this little angel to us." he said, smiling at me. "Nine months if pregnancy and then still almost twenty-four hours of labour."

"It was worth it. All those tears, sweat and pain, all was worth it." I said.

Ethan smiled and kissed me. After we pulled apart, Ethan took the bottle of baby formula and placed it on the wall of the wooden crib. But as he was closing the bottle one of the wooden walls broke and Cassandra started crying again from the loud noise.

Ethan and I looked at each other and started laughing quietly. He picked up Sandra and started rocking her.

"Looks like our daughter is sleeping with us tonight." chuckled Ethan.

"Sure does." I said and turned off the star lamp on the nightstand. "Come on."

We walked to our bedroom right across from the baby bedroom and I opened the door for Ethan whose hands were taken by Cassandra.

"Thank you." he said, walking into the room.

We both walked towards the bed and placed Sandra right in the middle of it so she wouldn't fall of.

The bed was big enough to fit Cassandra and still have room for each of us to stretch out comfortably.

When we got in under the covers, Ethan kissed my forehead and then Sandra's.

"Good night, love." he whispered since Cassandra had already fallen asleep.

"Good night, Ethan." I smiled at him.

I soon heard Ethan's calm breathing signifying that he had fallen asleep. I smiled to myself as I saw Cassandra hand holding Ethan's finger.

Oh, it was so worth it.