a week later
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"Are we okay to go?" Asked Yukhei to the Doctor for the nth time that morning. The entire family was reunited, after the news got out, in the VIP lounge of the hospital, it was full of people because of a certain couple.
Lisa sighed with a smile as she was just sat in the wheelchair, holding onto her daughter who played with her own fingers. "Yukhei, call down." Cooed the female.
Her husband immediately crouches before her, a loving smile adorning his features as he reached for her his wife's cheeks. "I'm very, very calm, my lovely, I just really want us to get out of us because another second in this place and I think I will go mad." Everybody around them laughed.
They all knew how after hearing his wife's screams left him almost traumatized and he hated to be standing outside for that, he soars to himself that they might not go back for some time.
The doctor finally spoke, "Okay, everything is okay, your little girl looks very happy to me." He laughs at the bright looking baby. "And I think you're good to go."
Everybody cheered for the new parents as they walked out, Yukhei looked now less drained of energy when coming out to the sun. For a whole week, he had slept on the couch there was in the room his wife and new baby were in and he missed the comfort of his own bed.
Lisa gave her baby to her mother as she had her husband help her into the backseat of the car, strapping her in carefully and she held in a giggle with the way he was acting.
For the past months, he had been nothing but careful. He was still him, but she could see how much he worried for her and their baby.
Sunan, Lisa's mother, placed Mali in Yukhei's arms only briefly for him to pass her onto Lisa, he stared at them for a while before finally going to the front of the car and starting it. The rest of the family would wait for them at their residence.
Just as they parked the car in the condominium's parking lot, Yukhei didn't come out and having Lisa confused. Furrowing her brows, she calls out to her husband who quickly got out of the car, but instead of opening the door for her, he went into the backseat, and sitting by her.
She smiles widely at him, "What is it?" She asks softly and he shakes his head.
He couldn't hide his own smile. "I'm just feeling so happy right now." He looks down to his daughter, who looked up at him with her big brown eyes. "I'm going to do my very best, Mali." He whispers as he lets her grab a hold of his finger, Lisa giggles when seeing how tight she grabbed on it to the point that Yukhei couldn't pull away, even softly.
"Oh, she's so strong like her dad!" He beams.
Lisa laughed, "Okay, I think we should go inside now, everyone is waiting."
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day 23
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Silently through the night, Lisa slowly opened her eyes, squinting through the darkness, she tries to find the clock to see what time it was. Four in the morning. Why was she waking up at this time?
She breathed out a low sigh, her fingers unconsciously drawing circles on her husband's arm that was dropped around her waist and then, when she was about to close her eyes again, she could hear squirms from the other room. Low cries came through her ears, furrowing her brows at first and when hearing them continue, a smile slowly tugs her lips.
Mali was probably hungry. Either that, or she simply wanted someone to hold her.
Lisa carefully slips out from Yukhei's embrace, tiptoeing to the door and looking over her shoulder, smiling softly as she saw Yukhei squirming in his sleep before walking out.
She pushes the door to Mali's room open, peaking through and the cries became clearer. The female hushes her daughter as she approaches the crib, picking her up gently and placing her small head on her shoulder, patting her back in a soothing manner.
When about to take a seat on the chair they put in her room, so that Lisa could breastfeed her, Lisa pulls down the hem of her oversized shirt enough for Mali to be breastfed. But apparently, that was not what the little girl wanted.
"So you just want Mummy's attention, huh?" Cooed Lisa when lifting the girl into the air. "Well, you have my attention." She sweetly pecks Mali's cheeks while rocking her in her arms.
Lisa hums, "What should I sing for you?" The baby continues to softly cry and her mother smiles widely. "I'll sing you a song that Mummy knows from a long time ago, it was written by me and your aunties, too."
She starts to remembers the lyrics from one of her debut songs, Stay slowly comes to her and she starts off softly while rocking her daughter. It made the female smile as she reminisces her younger days, and to be able to sing her own song to her daughter made her beyond happy.
Mali was starting to dose off, Lisa could see how her eyes were fighting to not close themselves, her cries fading into the night and, she finally became quiet, sleeping softly in the safety of her mother's arms.
"... Stay with me..." Lisa whispered softly while looking down at her little princess, eyes narrowing in adoration and leaning down to peck the little forehead and feeling the softness of her dark strands. "Good night, my little flower."
Standing up and placing her daughter back into the crib, she turns on the toy that played a soft melody to keep her sleeping, the little horses and balloons going around slowly. Lisa stays there a while longer, watching as slow breaths left her daughter.
Without raising her eyes, she chuckles and says quietly, "Aren't you going to join me?" She addressed to Yukhei.
He stood by the door, one feet in already and the other out, his hand supporting his body against the door frame of their daughter's room while the other was on the doorknob.
He smiled lovingly before approaching his wife, his arms slithering around her waist while his chin finds a place on her shoulder comfortably.
"You should've woken me up." His voice was deep with sleep, Lisa had her hand come up to his face and caress it as she leans back into his embrace.
"And have you tired in the morning before going to work? No way, mister." She turns her body to face him, her own arms going around his neck.
Yukhei hums before leaning down and softly kissing Lisa,
