One Night With Keanu Reeves

The Biggest Day of Their Lives

Aside from the miscarriage scare it was safe to say that the rest of the time had been rather uneventful. Keanu attended every appointment, whether it be for a scan or otherwise, with Melody, sitting at her side as they debated whether they should find out the gender of their unborn child before or after it came into the world, completely changing the rest of their lives forever, but neither of them were able to agree on it so the sonographer decided for them: she would keep it to herself and they'd find it out when the baby was born.

Melody moved in with Keanu at his insistence but he had rather easily relented when she said that she wanted a clean start for the both of them, not living in a place where there were memories of previous relationships at every turn. They chose a home that wasn't all that far from where he used to live but the fact the house was, to them new, meant that it was the clean start she wanted and they soon learned the Good Samaritan Hospital, where she'd been going for routine appointments, was the nearest one for when the time came.

He had been worried at first but her German shepherd Darcy had taken to him fairly well, even going as far as to allow Keanu to take over brushing him and bathing him when it became too difficult for Melody, who had always judged the potential for relationship success or failure by the way in which he reacted to those she had been hanging around with, but to see the 2 year old shelter rescued canine getting on as well with Keanu as he was came as nothing short of an immense relief, especially as Keanu was her child's father.

Because they did not know the gender of the baby and the sonographer wasn't about to tell them what it is either, Melody and Keanu decided to use that little factor to their advantage when it came to selecting what kind of furniture they would be putting in the nursery. Keanu pointblank refused to let Melody do the remotest thing that he feared would cause harm to her or to the baby and while she found it endearing in the beginning, it soon got to the point where it wasn't so cute and she let him know what she thought.

Melody was relaxing on a four-seat lounge on the back deck watching Keanu as he tried to teach Darcy a couple of new tricks, her hand brushing across the top of her stomach as the baby moved as much as the confined space would allow it to at this point. Keanu looked up and smiled to himself when he saw Melody staring into oblivion and was no doubt daydreaming about something as she'd tended to do in the last couple of weeks or so but he stood and sprinted across the lawn when he saw her double over in pain.

They had had plenty of debates over it but in the end Melody had won out and they would be welcoming their baby into the world in the safety and comfort of their own home with a midwife plus two of her assistants helping the first-time mom-to-be get through it. Keanu stayed by her side from the moment that the midwife arrived to the second they heard the first cries after the baby's mouth and nose were suctioned by one of the two assistants and because of the loss he suffered in the pass, the cry was music to Keanu.

"It's a boy Mel and Keanu" the midwife simply said as she handed the wrapped bundle to his mother's waiting arms, Keanu smiling and nodding as the three women left the room after cleaning up what they had brought with them for the birth. The new daddy sat as close as he dare to Melody and the sleepy newborn baby, doing his best to keep his brown eyes from filling with tears but failed, the realization that he was finally a father becoming too much and Melody slightly smiled upon seeing the emotion in his eyes and on his face.