Bad Intentions

/3:6/

*3 months later*

The door to Priscilla's hospital room flew open. Asher had left orientation early to make a flight to come see the baby. Priscilla had left hours before making her own flight to wherever. I was with Quinn and Shawn and Christian rocking the baby in my arms. Asher stood in front of me and smiled.

"Did you decide on a name?" He asked whispering.

"Holdyn Lucas Andrews. Holdyn means 'from the hollow in the valley' and Lucas means 'light'." I said handing Asher the baby.

"Holdyn." He smiled. I also named him Holdyn because that was Asher's muddle name. I just looked it up because I didn't want to admit that I didn't have any clue what I was going to name him. Part of me also wanted a piece of Asher after when he left. After all this happened I just realized I was kinda alone. Part of me wanted to cry but I was too happy to cry. I am happy. Everything I going in the right direction. My life is flourishing.

"Are we late?" Sunshine said as she walked in with Angela and Ryan.

"Just a bit." Asher said turning so they could see the baby."

"Oh fuck!" Ryan shouted. Angela backhanded him in the chest softly. Nodding for him to shut up.

"Did you choose all the important titles? Like co-godmother?" Angela said winking at me.

"Yes, you and Sunshine are co-godmothers. Ryan is his godfather.this took me a while to think about but I think since honestly Shawn and Christian are more like my brothers than anything they should be uncles." Christian touched his heart and chuckled.

"Thank you, I'll be the best uncle in the world." Christian said.

"Yeah I know." I smiled.

"What's Asher?" Quinn asked. I sighed and bit my lip. I had also worked Asher into the equation. Given we break up after college then he'd be nothing. But if we stayed together and decided to support for this family then yeah he'd be the dad.

"Whatever he wants. I didn't label everything." I lied.

"Sure you didn't." Asher smiled at me. He knew what was running through my head but didn't say anything in the hope I'd do it on my own. The nurse came in and smiled.

"Hey, the baby needs a bit of rest so I'm going to have to ask everyone except the mother and father to go." The nurse said. Asher handed Holdyn back to me and stood with me while everyone left.

"Okay we just want to take a few tests to insure the baby's health." The nurse said putting her hands out. I instinctively held the baby closer to me. What if she wanted to hurt Holdyn?

"It's okay, most moms cry at first. I won't hurt him. Give me 10 minutes and you'll have him back. I promise." The nurse said her eyes flashing with apology. Even with her reassurance I couldn't bring myself to give her my baby. He was mine now. He belonged to me. I probably looked crazy but I wasn't.

"Could you get Holdyn's doctor? She may feel better if its him." Asher spoke softly stroking my back.

"No problem, I'll go get Dr. Jameson." The nurse said walking away. My eyes followed her until she left the room.

"I couldn't do it. I physically couldn't hand her the baby. Something inside me just kept telling me that she wasn't going to help Holdyn." I said honestly taking a seat on the couch they had there.

"Motherly instinct. It's to protect the baby." He said sitting next to me.

"Ugh, I'm crazy."

"You care. That's something that Priscilla never could've done. She never could've cared about this baby like you do." I nodded and sighed.