Don't Mess With Me

Chapter 139

I just updated the Chapter number I accidentally had 138 instead of 139. Sorry nothing was added.
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Flipping through the pages of the photo album smiling at the baby photos of Maddie from her first pictures at the hospital all the way up to her 8th grade promotion. Flipping through the last few empty pages to find a few filled with Maddie mom. Maddie and her mom shared some resemblances but he knew a few was from her dad.

Her mom holding up a pregnancy test marked positive, smiling thinking it was the one of Maddie then seeing the date at the bottom 08-22-99(mm/dd/year). His eyes dragged across the rest of the page seeing the blue babyshower and Maddie smiling bright at her mom. Her hand touching her mom's bump.

Looking down further seeing another ultrasound of a full baby "Baby Ethan is on his way, 5 more weeks until I'm 40 weeks" flipping the page as it was empty then the next, then the next seeing another set of ultrasounds. Searching for a date 03-01-01 looking at the length of all pictures of more ultrasounds seeing that there was none of Maddie mom. Seeing the small arrow on one with the word GIRL at the end of it. 'Girl, Boy, Girl...' going to the last one seeing it ends right at 30 weeks, no other ultrasounds except for another small note "Baby Sophia" flipping the page to find it empty then the next till another page of ultrasounds another note "Baby Evelyn"

Another empty page to the next to another page "Baby Peter" his brows pinching thinking of how Maddie said she feels like Peter is a brother to her and always standing up for him when he and Sam make jokes. Looking at the ultrasounds for a date 11-02-05, doing the math in his head "Maddie and Baby Peter would've been 9 years apart and her and Peter are about 9 years apart" mumbling to himself "Guess I should be a little nicer to the kid" looking to the next page knowing Maddie mom had 5 of them, the next one 23 weeks "Baby Leo" turning the rest of the pages finding nothing more then empty pages to be filled.

"Seen you found the graveyard of ultrasounds" Maddie reappearing from taking her shower making him jump a little out of his skin. Clearing his throat "uh-uh ya" carefully closing the book. "Ya, my mom kept the pages open afterwards to make it seem like they were still part of the family...have their own pages, not just a page"

"Why did she only fill up pages with Ethan and not the others?" taking a deep breath "From What I can remember, she felt like she jinxed it with him. She still had all these photos she had them in a shoe box and she was going to add them once they were actually here...kind of like how I always hide the ultrasounds...I didn't put them on the fridge. I put them on the corkboard, I knew where they were but no one else did unless they looked for them."

Looking in the box seeing there was no shoebox. Shifting a few things around finding a thick envelope. Opening it up seeing the photos "Here they are, she moved them to an envelope at some point..." pulling them all out swiping through them. Bucky scooting closer looking at the photos of Maddie's Mom bump growing with Maddie next to her in some holding what the size of each one was at the time.

Getting to the ones with 05 at the end "Was this one your favorite?" her head slightly nodding "Ya...she did a lot of things to help with the pregnancy. She went vegan, heard it would help. She had no alcohol for a year before she found out she was. Me and her would go on walks everyday to stay active...We did a lot of things together to help...she got to 35 weeks...she-she fell. She didn't hit the bump she just landed on her butt, but I guess it was enough for a miscarriage" looking down at the picture. Swinging his arm around her "I'm sorry"

"Tell that to her...'' chuckling a little "She was so happy, so close to having another and then gone...it took awhile after that to try again..after that she gave up. I don't blame her for it...I know what it feels like to a certain point. She always lost them in the second and third trimester. I think that is worse. Knowing you were so close and then nothing. I look back on it now and I don't know how she did it...6 pregnancies, 1 birth, 5 miscarriages. I don't think I would've been able to handle trying again if I had a miscarriage so late..."