A Love Like This (Stauren) {Book 1: Completed}

Chapter 32

••Flashback••

"Come on Joana, push!" The doctor yelled over all if Joanas screaming. "You're almost there, I can see the baby's head!" Joana let out another scream of pain as I stepped closer to try and comfort her. Even though we weren't exactly on speaking terms, I still wanted to be there when my child was born.

"Move away from me, Steven!" Jo groaned and swatted her hand at me as I backed up. A long few minutes later, there was a small cry of a baby. I didn't even know what gender the baby was because Jo never bothered to tell me. The doctor tried to hand Joana the baby but she just shoved away the small infant. "Get that...t-that thing away from me!" The doctor was taken aback and I stepped forward and the infant was placed in my arms as she cried.

She. I had a daughter.

A nurse handed me a small blanket and I carefully cleaned off my little baby's stomach before wrapping her up. I wasn't even paying attention to everything that was going on around me, all I could do was stare at my beautiful daughter. At first, I thought that I would hate the baby, but I loved her....I loved her so much.

||One day later||

I had left my little girl with Jo in her hospital room for a couple of minutes just to go to the bathroom, but when I came back I couldn't believe my eyes. Jo hadn't noticed me standing in the doorway as she leaned over the small bassinet with her hand covering the baby's nose and mouth. "I hate you, you ruined everything."

"Stop! You're killing her!" I yelled, and shoved her out of the way and picked up my daughter, cradling her to my chest. "I don't want to ever see you anywhere near my daughter ever again!"

••Flashback over••

Emmie crawled out from under the bed and I followed. "I KNOW SHE IS, SO DONT YOU DARE DENY IT!" Emmie screamed and Lauren appeared in the doorway. She shot me a glance, quickly realizing what was going on. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?! HOW COULD YOU NEVER EVEN TELL ME?!" I couldn't respond at all. All of a sudden, Emmie ran at me, but Lauren thankfully grabbed her before she could make it to me.

What the hell have I done?

*Lauren's POV*

I carefully brought Emmie into a different room and sat her on my lap as she sobbed. "Emmie, Emmie baby, calm down," I said softly and wiped her tears from her checks. "It's okay....shh....it's okay." I hugged her close and she cried into my chest. After a couple minutes, I pulled away. "Now I want you to go take a shower, and calm yourself down. I'll go talk to your father." She nodded and I kissed her head before Emmie walked into the bathroom.

I stomped into Emmie's room where Steven still was. "What the hell is wrong with you Steven?! You promised me a year ago that you would tell her!" Steven had her head in his hands as he sat on Emmie's bed.

"I just didn't have the guts," Steven whispered.

"Explain to me again why you even dated Jo after she tried to kill Emmie as a newborn!" I asked, furious.

Steven paused before looking up at be after rubbing his eyes. "She just showed up at my house one day and apologized in every way a person could and said that she would never hurt Emmie again. The both of us decided that we wouldn't tell Emmie that Jo was her mom and then when I promised you, I just couldn't do it after what Emmie said." He stopped. "The day I was going to tell her, she told me how much she didn't like Jo and how she wanted me to break up with her. I couldn't tell her after that, I just couldn't."

I didn't know what to say, so I simply went over to his side and sat down next to him. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry Steve. I shouldn't of snapped at you."

"Pregnancy hormones?" He asked with a small laugh.

"Yep," I chuckled and kissed the side of his lips.

He turned his face so our lips were fitting perfectly together. "I just so glad I realized how much I love you, and I'm glad that I get the privilege to marry you."

"Well I get the privilege to marry you and carry your beautiful babies," I said and wrapped my arms around his neck. "I want you and Emmie to sit down together and alone and just talk it out as soon as she calms down."

"I just don't know," Steven sighed.

"Steven, she is your daughter. You tell me all the time how much you love her, so tell her that. Tell her the mistakes you made." I ran my fingers through his hair and then down his arms. "I'm not gonna let you kiss my stomach until you do."

I had a smirk on my face but he was not amused. "That's not fair! I need to kiss my babies every night, I promised not if them that I would every night."

"Then you better go talk to Emmie." With that, I walked away grinning. I had won....like usual.

A/N
I might not be able to update very often for the next couple of weeks so please I'm begging you, please don't stop reading this book. I promise I will update when I can. I might even be able to update like normal but I'm not sure.