The Only Half I Need - {Synyster Gates - Book 3} -

Chapter 4

Everyone was so excited to see the new member of the family. After giving Michelle a couple of days to relax and adjust to the new situation the core of the Avenged family decided to pay her a visit. Especially her twin sister Val was excited and was bouncing up and down on her seat while Matt was driving her and his son to the hospital.

“You do realize that this makes you fffff-freaking adorable, right?” He chuckled at his wife and himself for almost letting the bad word slip.

“I don’t care! Hurry up! I wanna see him!” Val was squealing like a little child, her smile radiating off her face. Matt chuckled again and couldn’t help but admire his wife’s beauty. She was his best friend, his soul mate and the mother of his child. But most of all she was the love of his life and he felt like the luckiest guy in the world for having her by his side through good and the bad times.

“Mommy is a little loco today, hm buddy?” He looked at his precious son through the rearview mirror and saw him fiddling with some toy.

“Wots loco, dada?” He asked with big eyes.

“It means …” Matt pulled a funny cross-eyed face, making his son giggle.

“Yeah, of course. My boys are siding against me … again.” Val chuckled and turned around in the passenger seat to check on River, lightly touching his leg. He had grown so much in such a short amount of time. And now he was going to see his cousin for the first time. They were going to grow up together, seeing their daddies’ shows together, going to the same school and what not. It was exciting but yet pretty scary for her. The time was flying by way too fast for her liking. She turned back around and enjoyed her son’s giggles over the softly playing rock music.

“What do you think will he look like?” She asked her husband gently as they waited in line at a traffic light.

“Hopefully not like Gates.” He chuckled and Val did too.

“Oh come on, as long as he hasn’t got his weird personality everything should be fine.”

“Jesus, just imagine: Another Brian Haner walking this earth.” Matt groaned playfully as he revved up the car.

“Oh my god, I pray that they haven’t named their son Brian. That would be too ffff-freaking weird.” Val said and she and her husband exchanged looks before both looked at their son, grinning. He was almost two now and they both still struggled with their language.

“Honestly, I’m just waiting for a prank like that.” He said pulled onto the parking lot of Huntington Beach’s hospital.

“We will see. Come on!” Val said and didn’t wait any longer. Matt hadn’t even parked the car as his wife unbuckled herself and jumped out of the still moving vehicle; granted it wasn’t really fast but still. Matt was almost having a heart attack.

“Jesus Christ, woman!” He called out but the only thing his son and he could see of Val was a cloud of dust while she ran to the entrance.

“Mommy?” River looked a little upset after his mom.

“Aw, baby, we have her back in a few. Come on. You excited to see uncle Brian and auntie Chelle?” His father asked, trying to distract him and it kind of worked. River giggled and clapped his hands, just like he did when uncle Brian was playing one of his guitar solos. Chuckling Matt got out of the car and picked up his son and his wife’s bag with the gifts for their friends and their newborn son.

While the Sanders were the first to arrive and to make their way up to the room, Michelle was feeding her little baby boy. With a loving smile he looked down at Jamie as he drank her milk, his tiny right hand wrapped around her finger. The feelings that rushed through her were leaving her feeling dizzy. She couldn’t even find the words to express them but in the end it didn’t matter. The most important thing was that Jamie was happy and safe. Michelle would do literally anything to provide all that.