I Wanna Be Your Man

I Need You

Chapter 26: I Need You

26 Oct 1965

It's been almost two months since Zak was born, I can't believe my little boy's already almost two months old! Having him finally being here is just perfect. Ritchie and I are pretty good at the whole being a new parent thing. We take turns with getting up to check on the baby when he starts crying at 2 in the morning, changing his diaper, changing his outfit whenever he spits up, and all that fun stuff. Ritchie's become so much more of a family man since Zak was born, he's honestly the perfect dad.

Anyway, today's a big day for The Beatles. All four of the lads are receiving their MBE's from the Queen. I'm beyond proud of the four of them. Ritchie's finishing up getting ready now, Brian and the lads will be here any minute to pick him up to go.

"Sweetheart, are you almost done? The lads will be here any minute."

He came quickly down the stairs, fiddling with his suit jacket. "Yeah, I'm all done. Do I look alright?"

I sat Zak down in his high chair and walked over to Ritchie and fixed his shirt and jacket. "There you go babe."

He smiled. "Thanks love."

I smiled back and a second later the doorbell went off. "Stay here with the baby, I'll go get it."

He picked up Zak and sat down on the couch with him. I looked at them and went over and opened the door to see my brother.

"Heya Paulie, come in."

"Thanks little sis." He walked in and looked over at Ritchie and the baby. "Awe, Ringo's such a good daddy."

"Yes I am, I'm the best daddy ever. Aren't I Zaky?"

Zak looked up at him and started smiling and giggling.

Paul walked over and picked him up. "How's my favorite little nephew doing?"

"Paul, he's your only nephew."

"Yeah, but he's my favorite." He took Zak and sat down with him on his lap.

Ritchie moved and sat next to me. "So when are the other two and Eppy coming?"

"Oh they should be here soon. George is probably being slow again today."

We both nodded. The three of us continued to talk for about ten minutes until we heard a car horn outside.

"Well, they're here." Paul stood up and handed Zak to me. "Bye my little nephew."

I took Zak from him and smiled. "Bye Paul. I'll see you later."

He smiled back and walked towards the front door. I turned to Ritchie.

"Bye babe, I'm so proud of you."

He grinned and kissed me. "Thanks Pam. Bye bye little boy, Daddy'll see you in a little while, okay?"

Zak giggled and looked at him. I looked down at Zak. "Can you wave bye to Daddy?" I took his little arm and started waving it. "Bye bye Daddy."

Ritchie and Paul smiled and went out to go with the others. Once they were gone I put Zak down for his nap. He is just starting to get to the point that he'll sleep a little more each night and he'll sleep practically the whole time during his daytime nap. After putting him down I went into the music room and started playing with my guitar for a while.

I spent about 20 minutes fiddling around with my guitar and other instruments we had in the music room until I heard a knock at the door. I quickly got up and went over to the door. Opening it up I saw Grace, Bri and Rydel.