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Chapter Thirty-One: "Family Matters(Part Two)"

Later on Prom night (11:52 p.m)

MEL AND ETHAN WALTZ in. Mel looked beat. She wasn't happy at all.

I look up from the baby to them. Ethan was holding a crown and a sash.

"Mel won?" I ask.

Ethan shakws his head. I cock my eyebrow in confusion. "Then why do you have that?"

He smiles and scratches his head. "Because you won. They announced you and Grayson for king and queen."

"What!?" I nearly yell. I would've cursed, but I was working on keeping it PG for the kids.

Grayson walks in. He had on a Gold crown with jewels and a sash. He had left earlier to go to prom. Perri had picked him up, and I had insisted that he go.

"How did this happen?" I mutter as Ethan puts the crown and sash on me. He takes the baby out of my arms.

"I put our names on the ballot, l" Grayson explains. "It was suppose to be a surprise but-"

"I ruined it," I whispere.

"Well... Yeah."

I focus my attention onto dad. He had fallen asleep in the hospital chair. Mom was sitting beside him rocking the other baby to sleep. I could tell she was annoyed with his snoring.

"Well, I think now that everyone's here, we can announce the names," I say breaking the awkward silence. I look at Ethan and Grayson. They give me a nod. We had all named them together, and that was not an easy process. I hadn't seen the twins fight so much over something so little before.

"Everyone, I give to you Winter Skye and Wyatt Thomas Dolan."

Mom awes along with Mel. Dad was still asleep, but I figured that he'd get with the program after a while.

"So what now?" Mel questions. "What are you gonna do about school? Graduation is in a month."

"Yes, that's why Mom and the principal worked something out. They'll send someone in to give me my work until after two weeks. Then I'll be able to go back to school and take the SAT."

"Oof, sounds hard."

I look at whomever was talking. It was Perri. She walks in along with Max. They both looked good. Perri had on a jogging suit, but her prom makeup was still done. Max had half of his head freshly shaved, leaving a curly Mohawk.

"Hey!" I shout surprisingly.

She walks over to hug me. "The school missed our prom queen tonight," she laughs.

"What can I say? Ditching is my thing," I joke.

"Sounds about right," Grayson mumbles loud enough for me to hear. He was hurting me so bad. I just wondered if he realized it. This was suppose to be a happy moment, and so far it didn't feel like it.

"I have a headache," I lie. I just wanted to get some sleep. I had plans to tell Ethan everything tomorrow, but I wanted to do it alone.

He hands Wyatt to Perri. He begins to cry a little, but she gets him to quiet down.

"When are they releasing you?" She asks.

"Tomorrow. They have to run some test, but after that we're good to go."

"Aww. They're so beautiful," Perri gushes. "Look at his little hands."

I didn't know what it was about babies, but somehow everyone found everything about them to be cute.

"We'll give you time to rest," Mom says. She wakes up Dad before she puts Winter down in the crib, planting a tiny kiss on her cheek. Mel hugs me and leaves with them. She was always nice to me while I was in the hospital, which was weird. I try ignoring it.

Ethan, who had been talking to Max, walks over to Grayson.

"I'm going to grab something to eat dude, are you coming?" he asks.

"Yeah give me a minute," Grayson groans. 

He walks over to Perri. She still had Wyatt in her arms. She was spoiling him already, and I did not need that. I watch as she hands him to Grayson.

"Hey little guy," he whispers. Wyatt opens his eyes. It was the first time I had ever really seen them fully open. Grayson laughs. His face was turning red and tears roll down the side of his face.

"Grayson are you okay?" I ask. I knew the real reason behind his tears, but I had asked anyway. He wanted the twins to be his so bad, and I knew that. But it just couldn't be that way. It couldn't.

"Yeah, I'm okay," he sniffles. "Babies just get to me."

He whispers some words to the child. I wasn't curious to what they were because I knew them by the motion of his lips. I love you.

Even if they weren't his, he had managed to get emotionally attached to them somehow.

"Are you sure you're going to be okay here by yourself?" Perri asks me.

I nod. "Yeah. I'm sure."

She looks over to Max with worry and back to me. "I don't want leave you here all by-"

"I'll stay," Grayson interrupts immediately.

I look up at him. I was strongly disagreeing in my mind, but I didn't want to make a scene.

"But only if you want me to," he adds.

"Sure," I hesitate. I was too nice to decline.

His eyes were red and wet with fresh tears. He was struggling to come to  grips with the fact that he wasn't the father, but I understood that.

"I'll bring you some food back," Ethan, who had come back in after taking a phone call, says twirling his keys around.

Grayson didn't pay him any attention. He was so caught up in Wyatt that everything around him had become non existent. He was internally struggling, and I couldn't help him.

Everyone leaves the room. It was just the two of us and the twins now. I stay quiet. The TV fills the room with sound. It wasn't that loud, but it could be heard over the silence.

Gray finally puts Wyatt down and sits down beside me on the bed.

"I'm sorry," he apologizes. I hated that we made up quickly. I wanted to be mad at him for a while, but I don't think that I could. He was my weakness.

"Don't be."

"I should be sorry. I was being rude."

He takes my hand in his and kisses it. I didn't want him apologizing to me. He had every right to be angry.

"Grayson, Ethan's..."

He shushes me. "I don't want to talk about Ethan. Just save it for later."

He smiles and I do too. "You would've been a good father," I say placing my head on his shoulder. I didn't want to continue to fight with him anymore. It was too tiring. I loved him. I loved Ethan too, but the two of us had grown apart. I had hurt him, and he was too scared to say so.

We lay there watching TV,  enjoying the moment. They would probably be the last few memories that I would share with Grayson. I didn't want to tie him down. He deserved better than me. I loved him, but he needed someone else to indulge himself into.

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