Downtown Idea

43. Bip Bop / Hey Diddle

January 18, 2020 I was in the hospital giving birth to a whole baby. Of course it took two while ass days to get him out. Honestly it was the worst and best experience of my life.

After Zoe left with the guys on tour I was left with my parents and my siblings. It was pretty fine. My mum didn't let me lift a finger - she cooked and cleaned and took care of me. I got to hang out with my younger siblings which I hadn't gotten to do in a really long time.

Eventually, both my parents convinced me to go back to LA before the baby was born so I didn't worry about traveling with a newborn. So we got us a doctor's note and headed back to my house in LA. There were only two spare rooms there too so all the kids had to share again, though Chloe always ended up sleeping in my room.

The tour came around to LA around thanksgiving so my mum made me invite the boys to dinner. I didn't mind inviting Ashton and Luke and even Michael. I didn't want Calum here. But she made me include him too.

It was fine. Calum didn't really talk to me other than a hello and a how are you as he came inside. Dinner was good anyway even if the turkey made me throw up and all I wanted was the cranberry sauce. After dinner we all played a big round of Cards Against Humanity which Jack won much to Jonas's annoyance since he was the reigning champion until then.

Christmas was pretty similar except Ashton and Luke were the only ones of 5sos that came. I didn't do any throwing up and everyone avoided talking about Calum. Luke really liked feeling the baby kick and sat next to me the whole day mostly just so he could feel it. He was more excited about this baby than anyone else which I found funny.

Ashton was pretty excited too and kept hinting at Zoe that he wanted a baby but she very casually ignored him. She was not in the place for a baby. She didn't entertain the idea one bit.

New Years was not fun because I couldn't do any drinking and I was too pregnant to do anything fun. Luke hung out with me though. We didn't really have a party. My parents made dinner for anybody who wanted to come and hang out all night. Jonas and his band showed up and they talked a lot to Dad about their stuff.

Ashton managed to convince Calum and his sister to show up. That was interesting because she had no idea Calum was the father to anyone's baby let alone the girl around the corner. She was unhappy with him and he was very annoyed by it. So he pouted in the corner all night.

After that Mali hung out at my house a lot. She was nice and a lot disappointed in Calum for pretty much abandoning me with this baby.

So here I was, in the hospital cuddling my new baby. It was the first couple minutes I'd had with him by myself. He was so small and so cute and I was disgustingly in love with him already. I was kissing him and cuddling him when Luke came knocking on my door. Jonas was with him with balloons and flowers.

"Hey!" I gasped excited to see them. I was exhausted but I missed them and I really wished they'd gotten here sooner.

"Hey, we came to see a baby!" Luke said hurrying over. He'd been waiting to see this baby for months. "Oh my god, Reece, he's so small I love him."

I laughed and Jonas looked down at him too. "You wanna hold him?" I was asking Jonas but Luke held out his hands quickly. "Come on, Blood Uncle comes first, Lu."

He pouted but he let Jonas hold him first. He sat down in the chair next to my bed with him and snuggled the baby.

"What's his name?" Luke asked trying to be quiet, though I wasn't sure he'd wake him up if he spoke normally.

"Brodie." I said a bit proudly. He was my baby and he was perfect and he was called Brodie McClaggen.

"Where's Mum And Dad?" Jonas asked brushing his finger over Brodie's cheek softly. He had cute chubby cheeks.