After hours

Chapter 12

I am an emotional wreck. I have been crying all of the time. Getting up every two hours hasn't been helping either.

There was a faint cry on the baby monitor. I roll out of bed rubbing my eyes trying to wake up. It's Scarlett. I guess she's hungry. I quickly make a bottle and pick her up. I sit in the rocking chair and rock her back to sleep.

"Hey, why didn't you wake me?" Jacob says and i'm getting back into bed.

"You have work in the morning that's why."

"But I want to help."

"I'll let you when one of them starts crying again in two hours. Love you." he kisses my forehead and I fall back asleep.

~

I love being a mother.

"Hey babe," Jacob says coming through the door.

"You're home early? How was work."

"Good." he says simply. "There's my baby girls," he says picking Scarlett up. Im holding Nikki. "How were they today?"

"Good, they slept most of the day." I lay down on Jacobs shoulder as we played with our baby's.

"That's good. My mom wanted to stop by when I got home. Do you want me to tell her some other time?"

"No it's fine. They're her grandkids."

"Okay I'll call her."

Within twenty minutes she is here.

"Oh, my sweet babies." she coes picking them up.

"Okay, well I'm going to go to bed I haven't slept in like three days."

Jacob's POV

"So how is Evi? Is she being good to my grandkids?"

"Mom?! are you serious they wouldn't be you're grandkids if it wasn't for her." I defend.

"Well I don't know she still seems sketchy."

"Oh my god mom," i grown out of frustration. "When are you going to get over yourself and realize that I love her?! And that she is an amazing woman who gave birth to my babies. If you hate her that much than you can just leave. I don't want my kids growing up with a grandma who hates their mom."

"Well now wait a minute, you cannot keep me away from my grandchildren!"

"If you don't have a better attitude towards Evi I will keep you away. Get out of my house." I say taking Nikki from her.

"What?! I will not stand here and be treated like this. I am still your mother!"

"Yeah, and I am now a father! You can't boss me around anymore. Face it mom! You cannot control me or my kids anymore. Now leave."
She huffes her way out of the house.

Maybe I was too hard in her. No I wasn't she has been acting horrible since the day I told her about Evi.

I put the babies to sleep in their rooms and go to lay down with Evi.

"Hey?" She says rolling over.

"Shh, baby go back to sleep."

"No, I heard what you said to your mom. I'm so sorry I've caused all of these problems." She starts crying again.

"Don't cry, it's not your fault. It's nobody's but hers." I wipe her tears and she continues to cry into my chest.

"I'm sorry. I'm a mess." She apologizes, laughing lightly.

"It's okay I know nothing went as planned. Ha, nothing not even from the first day I met you. I was supposed to ask you to prom, but I got scared because I liked you so much. You're parents weren't supposed to die. You were supposed to live a happy life and become a professional dancer. Then when we didn't go to the same collages I kicked myself for breaking up with you, and for not going to any of your ballet performances like you asked. When you became and intern I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you but I did. I wasn't supposed to get you pregnant, and then ask you to marry me. It was supposed to be the other way around. My dad wasn't supposed to be in jail and my mother wasn't supposed to be such a bitch, but I wouldn't trade it any other way. I'm so glad that I didn't do all of those things because if I did you might not be here right now and our girls might not be in the next room. I love you so much Evangelina, and I love our baby girls."

Evangelina's POV

I was full on crying my eyes out.

"I love you so much." I say in between sobs. He kisses me softly, and I lay on his chest until I fell asleep.

I am awoken by the sounds of crying. I start to get up.

"No I'll do it go back to sleep."

"Okay," I agree deliriously.

I can hear Jacob taking to the girls on the monitor. I smile to myself. I get up and silently walk to the bedroom. Jacob is saying something I can't make out.

"What are you doing?"

"I heard you taking to the girls." I say smiling.

"Ha oh," I could tell he didn't want me to hear.

"What were you telling them?"

"Just about what a great mother you are, and how much I love you and them." He hands me Nikki and I sit on his lap staring at our beautiful girls.

~

Jacob's POV

Three weeks later

"Hey, Dr. West! How are you're daughters?" A reporter for Doctors Inside asks me.

"They are fine, thank you." I was being swarmed at work.

"When are we going to get pictures of them? What are their names!? They are two months old right?" I quickly move past them and get into my car.

They started camping out at the hospital. I don't know why they were so interested in our personal life. Just a good story I guess.

I quickly go home taking a long way so they would stop following me.

"Hey babe, look Scarlett learned how to roll over." Evi says as I walked through the door.

She still had another month of maternity leave.
I sit down with her on the floor as she placed Scarlett and Nikki on their stomachs. Sure enough Scarlett rolled right over.

"Nikki is still learning," she says with a laugh.

"That's okay," I say picking her up, bouncing her a little bit. I kissed Nikki on the mouth and she giggled a little. "I love you," I told the girls.
Evi smiles and kisses me.

We had the perfect family.