Our Little Angels

Chapter 7

Kirstie POV

"What are you doing here?" I ask through gritted teeth. "A father can't come see his daughter?" I laugh. "You are no father of mine. Now if you'll excuse me I'd like to get back to dessert with my family." I go to close the door but before I can fully close it he sticks his foot out. "Now that's no way to talk to your father." "Like I said you are no father of mine. My father left me and my mom to live on the street when I was 3." I say with tears running down my face. "Kit, you ok?" I hear Avi say from behind me. I turn around to look at him and he sees my tear. Instantly he is by my side and places his hand on my bump. "Are you and the twins alright?" I nod before looking back at my dad. He looks between Avi and I then my bump looking surprised. "Is there a problem here?" "Not at all, he was just leaving." "Kirstin, please just give me a chance. I hate that I left you and your mom. I want to make things right." He says while grabbing my arm. "You should have thought about that before you left." I snatch my arm back before walking off.

Avi POV

Kirstie snatches her arm away from her father before walking off. I turn to look at him. "Let me go talk to her. Why don't you come inside." He nods. "Thank you......." "Avi, Kirstie's fiance." He shakes my hand and we walk inside. "Angelica, someone is here to see you and Kirstie." She looks up and drops the plate she was holding when she sees Kirstie's father. "Why are you here, Chris?" "I came here to talk to Kirstin." "Speaking of Kirstin, I'm going to go talk to her. Why don't you and Brian share your good news, Angelica." I say while walking down the hallway.

"Kirstie?"

I say while opening a few doors. When I get half way down the hallway I hear sniffeling. I open the door and find Kirstie crying in a guest bedroom. "Hey Babe." She wipes her eyes and looks up at me. I take a seat next to her and pull her into my arms. "What's going on?" I ask while kissing the side of her head. "Avi he wants back in my life. But I don't think I can let him. He left us with nothing when I was 3, what if he does it again?" I place my hand under her chin and make her look up at me. "This is going to sound crazy, but I think you should let him back into your life." She looks at me like I'm crazy. "Think of it this way. If you can give me another chance than you can give him one. We both abandoned you when you needed us the most. He left you physically and I left you emotionally." "Avi I don't know. I can't risk him sticking around and the twins getting to know him, then all of a sudden leave us." I look at Kirstie, who is having a Braxton Hicks contraction. "Kirstie, will you just think about it? I know it's a lot at once but I think the twins are going to need both sets of grandparents to look after them." Kirstie has her hand on her bump, she looks down at it and then says, "Let me just think about it,ok? If I have a conversation with him, I want you in the room. There is absolutely no way that I am doing this without you. I also wanna do it in a public place like a restaurant or something." "We can deal with that, and do you really think I would let you do this our own?" Kirstie caresses my face. "Well even if I go through with this, I would make sure you were ok with everything anyway. Can you bring my dad up here?" I look at Kirstie while touching her ever growing bump. "Yeah, but are you sure that you're ready?" When I said that,I swear I felt a kick from one of our kids. At this point, I can tell Kirstie is having another Braxton Hicks contraction. After about a minute, she answers, "Well I'm as ready as I will be." I kiss her with as much passion as I can. "I love you Kirstin Taylor Maldonado." She smiles, caresses my face and kisses me back. "I love you even more, Avriel Benjamin Kaplan." My hand is still getting kicked one of the kids.

They're really active, like their dad. I get up and go downstairs. I find Angelica, who is not in the best mood. "Avi, how is Kirstie? Is she ok?" " She's ok. She wants to talk to him, but I don't know how well it will go." "She told you." "Yeah, we talked about it." With that, Kirstie's dad comes over, "How is she?" "Actually I was looking for you. She wants to talk to you." "Ok, where is she?" "Upstairs, but she wants me in the room with you if you mind."  "OK that's fine." We go upstairs to meet Kirstie. I sit by Kirstie, and her dad is sitting across from her. "Dad, this isn't easy for me. You have to understand that ok?" I'm rubbing her back as she's talking. "Mom and I didn't know what to do. After you left, mom and I decided to just lead new lives and not worry about the fact that you had left us. Because of you, I had a distorted view of how a man is supposed to treat a woman because I never had that father figure of my own. Avi helped me see what a real man does for a woman. So for that I thank you babe. And my kids are going to have a father who won't leave them. But how do I know that you aren't going to just walk back out?" I kiss Kirstie's head, and she starts having a really, really bad contraction. She puts her hand on her bump. "Owww!! Ok that hurt." I put my hand on her bump, "Kirstie, are you ok?"

After one HOUR, we're in the living room and I'm rubbing Kirstie's back. By the way, did I forget to mention that she has already had about EIGHT really bad contractions. I'm starting to get really worried about Kirstie. She finally starts to say, "Avi can you bring me to the hospital? Something doesn't feel right." "Yeah babe." So she and I walk to the car very carefully. Her mom follows us to make sure nothing happens. Once Kirstie is in the car, Angelica pulls me aside. "We will meet you at the hospital. Just make sure my baby girl is ok." "Will do, Angelica"

Once we get to the hospital, they take Kirstie into a room. I'm in the waiting room with Kirstie's closest family members including her dad. I'm pacing back and forth. Her mom comes up to me. "Avi you ok?" "What if she doesn't make it? " I start to cry. I can't imagine my life without Kirstie. She and I are about to start our lives together, even get married. Her mom starts to comfort me. "Avi, she's going to be fine. She has to be."

Two hours go by and they still haven't heard anything about Kirstie. I feel like I'm going to pass out and lose it. Her dad comes over to me, "Hey, do you want get something to eat or something?" I look at Angelica, "Will you let me know what's happening with Kirstie?" Angelica nods, "Absolutely. I'll text you it something happens." With that, he and I walk out of the hospital and go across the street to Mickey D's. We order our food and sit down at one of the tables. "Is this ok?" Chris says. "Yes absolutely. Thank you." We start eating out food. Chris is just staring at me. He finally says, "How did you and Kirstie meet?" I think back to about five years ago, "We met at a function actually. I was performing with an a cappella group. Kirstie walked in and I just kept staring at her. Once we done performing, I went to talk to her. After that, we just texted and talked for about a year, because she had a boyfriend, Jeremy. Then they broke up and I took my chance. And the rest is kind of history after that." Chris looks at Avi. "Did you guys ever reach a rough patch?" "Actually yeah a big one. About a year ago, she had cheated on me with Jeremy and we broke up after that. We were engaged at that point, but she was also 3 months pregnant. After that, I hated her for doing that to me, but we continued to live together." Chris looked at him, wide eyed. "We were living in separate rooms. I eventually found out that the baby was miscarried. I always thought that she had an abortion because she didn't want a baby who reminded her of me, but now..." Chris says, "Well, how did you guys get engaged? The second time?" I think back to that day. "I actually asked her here in Arlington. This place means so much to her. We were visiting her mom, and I figured it would be perfect.  I didn't want to wait any longer. She was 11 weeks at the time, so you could kinda tell she was pregnant." Chris was looking at me with a smile. "Well, Kirstie is very lucky to have you." "I'm one lucky dude."

After 30 minutes of chatting with Chris, I get a call from Angelica, and quickly answer the phone. "Hey Angelica. What's going on?"Avi, there's news about Kirstie..."