Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Little Leah Lockman

August 19th 1987

For the record waking up at two in the morning wasn't my ideal plan for the day but my best friend since high school is having her baby. That's kind of a big deal. So guess where all of us have been for the past three hours.

Jillian and Nate were discharged from the hospital about six weeks after Nate was born. They then moved back in with Jill's mom. Nate is perfect, he's a happy healthy boy. He's got brown hair (like that Italian guy has) and blue eyes like Jill. He's such a mama's boy too and it's adorable.

CC and Ashley got married in June. It was a really small wedding here in Los Angeles, her cousins and grandmother flew in. Other than Ashley's family it was our small group with the band and the girls. It was a cute little wedding and it's easily the happiest I've ever seen my twin bother and it was the most uncomfortable I've ever been while my brother was in his glory. Ashley's grandmother had jammed all us of into fancy clothes.

Ashley and I are about four months along in our pregnancies. Actually later on today we have doctors appointments for our babies. I think this will be the appointment that we fine out the gender of our babies. As far as my doctors appointments have gone there's only one little Rockett in my stomach but since CC and I are twins there's a chance that's there's two little Rocketts inside me they're just back to back. That scares me a little bit. I've already told Rikki that if there's twins inside me I'll kill CC so CC is praying that I'm not having twins. But for being four months pregnant neither Ashley or I have gained enough weight (in my eyes at least) to be carrying twins.

Right now it's about five in the morning and there's still no baby Lockman. We'll hear Jamie scream a lot every once in a while and scream at James quite a bit. It's kinda funny other than the fact that my best friend is in pain.

I yawn and knock my head into Rikki's shoulder. He puts his hand on my stomach as our child moves around and I scrunch up my face. Rikki laughs quietly and kisses my temple.

"You okay?" He wonders quietly.

"Yeah it's just a weird feeling. I feel like his foot is in my rib cage." I say and he smiles.

"You mean her." Rikki corrects.

"No I mean his." I state.

"I guess we'll find out today." He reminds me. "I'm going to be right and I'm going to say I fucking told you so."

"I'm going to be right." I say and CC laughs.

"What happens if you're both right?" My twin wonders. "I mean there's still a chance you could be having twins."

"There's also a chance you and your wife are having twins." Rikki remind him.

"God wouldn't that be weird?" Bret laughs. "Your mom would go from having one grandkid to having five in amateur of days, I mean your due dates are within a week of each other?"

"Yeah I'm due the first and I think Ashley is due the sixth." I say and Ash nods.

"What if you had twins but one was born the thirty first of December and the other was born the first of January?" Bobby laughs. "Not only would they have different birthdays they'd be born in different years!"

"What would we do then?" Rikki asks me.

"Lie to one?" I ask with a laugh and he smiles.

"Bee, did you guys get the postcard from Hawaii from ma and the Coach?" CC wonders and we nod. "What if mom gets knocked up again? The kid would be younger than all of her grandkids." My twin laughs. "What would you do?"

"Disown her." I laugh. "I still can't believe she got remarried."

"Neither can I, dad always told us that it was one man and one broad forever." CC says. "It's weird to think of mom remarrying after dad telling us that since we were small."

Just then James comes out from within the delivery room. He scratches the back of his neck and sigh. He draws in a shaky breath and faces all of us.

"The baby's heart rate is dropping and they have to rush Jamie to an emergency c-section." James says but his voice is uneven. "They said both of them could die." 

At that exact moment my heart nearly stopped. Jamie and my god child could die? No way. I refuse to believe this. I can't lose Jamie and her baby. This isn't right, Jamie is a good person what the hell did she do to deserve this?

Rikki

Bee's heart just broke to a million pieces. Her best friend and her baby could die. Even though she won't admit it or even see it right now but she's also scared. This is the second of her friends to have complications while delivering their babies.

I grip her hand a bit tighter and Bianca looks over to me and she forces a smile. She's so strong and she refuses to show fear. Bianca is always strong for everyone else but she forgets about herself. That's what I'm for, I'm strong for Bee when she can't be strong.

"You okay?" I ask and she nods.

"I'm always okay." Bianca says quietly.

She says that a lot and it's just one of those Bee things. She's always okay but I know that's bullshit.

About an hour later James comes back smiling like a complete and utter idiot. Jamie is okay and so is their baby. We all go back to see Jamie and in her arms is a little pink bundle, Bret starts laughing.

"What's her name? Jessica? Or Jasmine? What other 'J' name is there?" He laughs and Jamie flips him off.

"This is little Leah Lockman." James smiles.

Two of four rugby babies are born, my wife and my sister in law are next. Holy shit, it's coming faster than I thought it would.