elle -the next day-
"happy birthday!" i exclaim, running into marli's nursery with mickey. she giggles. i pick her up and kiss her cheek. i then set her down. she pets mickey.
"come on." i say. she grabs my hand and we walk out with mickey following us. i pick her up as we walk downstairs.
"happy birthday princess." Jack says, taking her from me.
"dada." she says. he kisses her cheek.
"do you want pancakes?" i ask. she nods. she'll eat pancakes and then probably drink some milk too.
"do you want milk too?" i ask, she leans towards me
"milk." she says nodding.
"ok. we'll have some milk too." i say. i pumped last night so i'll just put some in a bottle and give it to her.
"let's get your pancakes." i say. she claps
-a few hours later-
we're currently and hayes and bri's house for hayes and marli's birthday. everyone's here. which is nice. i haven't seen a lot of them in a while.
"can i be his godfather?" skeez asks.
"sure." i say laughing.
"what?!" nash exclaims.
"ha! i called dibs." skeez exclaims.
"asshole." he says.
"marli's gonna repeat you." taylor says to him with a laugh.
"shit." marli says. they all laugh.
"no marli." i say with a smile. she sighs and walks away to Jack.
"he's moving so muchhh." Stassie exclaims, rubbing my belly. her and jazmin are actually really good friends believe it or not.
"he's been really active." i say.
"when is he due?" taylor asks.
"three weeks?" i say.
"have you guys picked a name?" she asks.
"we're stuck between austin and bryson." i say.
"i like austin." Stassie says. everyone agrees
"Jack. the baby's name is austin." i say. he shakes his head
"bryson." he says.
"austin. i'm holding him for nine months, i get to pick the name." i say.
"can't argue with that." taylor tells him.
"austin or bryson?" he asks marli.
"bryson." she says.
"fine. bryson." i say. he laughs and nods.
"i always get my way." he says. he named marli as well.
"shut up." i say. he laughs and turns back around to the guys.
"hi bryson." Stassie says to my belly. he kicks.
"oop." Stassie says. i laugh.
"cake timeeee." bri exclaims. everyone gets up and we walk to the kitchen. hayes grabs marli and sits down with her at the table. bri sets his cake down and then a small cake for marli.
"ok. happy birthday to you." we all start to sing. bri lights the candles as we do so.
"happy birthday dear marli and hayesss. happy birthday to you." we finish and hayes blows out his candles. marli watches him and then tries to blow hers out.
"help her." bri says to hayes. as marli goes to blow he candles again, hayes blows them out. we all clap.
"yay." i say. marli smiles and claps with us.
"alright mamas. can mama sit with you?" bri asks marli, picking her up. she nods. i walk over to the table and sit down. bri sets marli on my lap.
"my belly's like pushing her away." i laugh laughing. bri laughs and pushes the little cake over to us. Jack puts a bib on marli and marli sticks her hand in the cake.
"can you get me a fork?" i ask bri. she nods and walks into the kitchen the. comes back with a plastic fork. i take a bite of cake.
"mama." marli says, turning to me with a fist full of cake. i take some of off her hand and she says the rest.
"sugar rush!" Jack exclaims and she repeatedly hits the cake with her hands. i shake my head with a smile.
"yum." she says. everyone laughs. i take a few more bites and so does Jack.
"is it good?" i ask marli. she nods. i kiss her cheek.
"bryson sure thinks so." i say as he kicks.
"bryson." marli says, eating cake. i laugh.
"marli. say asshole." johnson says to her
"no." i say, looking at johnson
"athole." she says, stuffing cake in her mouth. i grab some cake and throw it at johnson.
"stop teaching my daughter bad words." i say.
"fuck." bri says as she drops some forks.
"brianna!" i exclaims
"fuck." marli giggles.
"no. not nice. don't say that." i say to her. she makes a face and stuffs some cake in her mouth
"i'm gonna beat your guys asses." i say through gritted teeth.
"no." marli says, looking at me. everyone laughs.
"eat your cake." i say. she giggles and goes back to eating her cake.
