Walking into Amalfi, Stevie had ahold of two pizzas, and Lori was drowning in bags. They walked straight into the living room and Lindsey's mouth fell open. He was drinking a beer on the sofa and Chris had William sleeping in the crook of his arm.
"What did you do? Buy out all of the Baby Store?"
"It's only like 350 dollars worth. Baby clothes is not that expensive. I got four really good royal outfits for him that cost all together about an eighth of what it costs for me to get a dress done with Margie." Stevie explains sitting the pizza on the coffee table as Lori drops the bags in the middle of the living room floor.
It takes her a mili-second to snatch William out of Chris' arm and cuddle him close sinking into an arm chair.
"Stevie he looks just like Lindsey."
"I know." Stevie nods digging in the bag for one of the sleepers she bought him. It was navy blue and light blue striped and it had a matching little hat with bear ears. She knew she probably should've washed it, but she really didn't care and he was in the perfect spot for a picture.
So while Lori was holding him, Stevie knelt down in front of her and gently got him out of the oatmeal and elephant sleeper and put him in the blue one.
"Okay now that's fucking cute." Chris had stood up and gotten pizza while his sister was re-dressing the baby and he was peering over her shoulder down at Lori.
"I know, Linds go get me my camera." She coos.
"Yes ma'am." Lindsey sighs standing up to go retrieve her camera from the hospital bag that was still sitting on the kitchen table.
Stevie posed Lori and the baby and took several pictures, all with a beaming Lori in them.
"What are you going to do with the pictures?" Chris asks.
"Tons. I'm going to do tons. There aren't a lot of pictures of us with our parents and aunts and uncles. So what I want to do is yes, have some to put up around the house, I want to have some for his baby book, but I've been in talks with People Magazine to do a yearly royal family spread. I'll be reaching out to you guys and mom in the next few months to start gathering up pictures that you want to release in December. If you take pictures while you are wedding planning and want to share them out to the world, if you take pictures while you're doing something as a couple. It'll open us up to the public more, especially now that we have a member of the public joining the family." Stevie sits back on her heels.
"I think it's a good idea...but speaking of wedding, can we talk about it? That was originally why we were going to come by today, but then it was announced that William had been born." Lori looks at her.
"Oh yeah, let me get some paper plates and some drinks and then we can talk about it." Stevie uses the coffee table to push herself up.
When everyone has settled with food and drinks, Beer for Christopher and Lindsey, wine for Lori, coke for Stevie because she 'craved it during her pregnancy but couldn't have it' Stevie looks at Lori who had begrudgingly laid William in the baby swing so she could eat. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Are you allowed to be a maid of honor?"
"Well I mean, yeah. If you want me to be, but why?" Stevie asks.
"A lot of my friends well, they aren't happy that I chose to go to the courting ball to begin with." Lori bites her lip.
"Oh?" Stevie asks.
"Yeah, my friends are very progressive in the sense that they think the monarchy needs to go, but they don't have any specific reasons to push for abolishment. They just think that the system is old and they want a change. I told them that you were changing the monarchy because if you weren't then there would've been no public courting ball. But they tried to get me not to go. I had asked them to help me find a dress and they refused. So I went by myself. I went to the ball alone where a lot of people had gone with friends, when they found out I was dating Chris they stopped talking to me." Lori looks down sadly.
