Overboard: Somebody to Love #4

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Justin’s POV

            Through the next couple of weeks, things seemed to be getting better between Madelyn and I. We were nowhere close to being back to normal, but we had at least stopped the constant bickering. Madelyn seemed better, in regards to her attitude towards the pregnancy. But I was still watching her like a hawk. With her crazy pregnancy hormones, I knew she could change in a split second.

            “So I was thinking that we could take the kids with us to the appointment today, so they can see their little sibling on the screen.” She smiled as the kids played on the floor. This is how we spent most nights now: snuggled up on the couch watching them play.

            “That sounds great. And then remember the pediatric cancer benefit concert is tonight.”

            “Yep. And they are going to come with us to that since Paige and your mom will be there. Between the three of us we should be able to wrangle them while you are on stage.” She joked. “Speaking of singing, watch this.”

            She turned on Baby on her phone. All of the kids started dancing, like they normally did, but then they all started singing the words, surprisingly well.

            “You know you love me!” Stella shouted into her fake microphone she carried around all the time now. “You know you care!”

            I laughed. Stella was such a little diva, of course she was going to be a great performer.

            “Just wait.” Madelyn smiled. Obviously they had practiced this while I was out of the house.

            The rap part came on and though Kingston and Aniston stopped singing, Stella didn’t miss a single word.

            “Stella!” I yelled, picking her up. “You’re a little rock star!”

            “I know.” She laughed.

            “You are so coming on stage with me tonight.”

            “Justin, do you really think she’s going to be able to do that in front of thousands of people? She’s barely two.”

            “Mads, she loves attention. This is perfect.”

Madelyn’s POV

            “Look guys!” I pointed to the screen where the ultrasound was shown.

            “Here’s the baby’s head.” Dr. Jay pointed out the different features to them. “Do you want to know the sex of the baby?”

            “No.” I replied quickly. Justin looked at me confused. “Let’s have this one be a surprise.”

            “Is that really what you want?” He looked at me confused. Normally I was a planner, so I understood where he was coming from.

            “Yeah.”

Justin’s POV

            After the ultrasound appointment we went out to dinner and then headed to the Staples Center for the benefit concert.

            Selena was performing tonight, so she was in her dressing room across the hall with Asher. We propped both doors open so the kids could ran back and forth as they pleased.

            “Ashie!” Aniston gave him a hug when she saw him. The two, only a couple of months apart, had become the best of friends over the last two years. Madelyn and Selena were constantly joking that they would get married someday. But I wasn’t even ready to think about my baby girl dating, let alone marrying someone.