A Miracle Unexpected

Chapter 31 - Going in labor

Elena's P.O.V.

"Stefan you're an ass!" I shouted.

"What the fuck did I do?" Stefan shouted back at me as he smirked.

"You bought the Golden Gate Bridge!" I tossed my multicolored money at him as he laughed loudly. As he continued to laugh, I crossed my arms across my chest and pouted. "This isn't funny! I wanted to buy that bridge!"

"Oh you did? I don't remember you saying that," Stefan smirked

"I mentioned it a million times!"

He continued to laugh and I continued to pout as I pushed my chair out. I stood up carefully and moved into the kitchen to get myself a glass of water, putting a pause on the intense game of Monopoly I was playing with Stefan. It was his turn to "watch over me" that day. My due date was in three days, September 17th, but the baby could arrive anytime shortly before or after that. Instead of sitting around while he was with me, I told Stefan to pull out the board game. Sadly, I was losing.

"Are you giving up on the game?" he chuckled.

"Oh hell no," I shook my head. "I'm taking a much needed break."

He rolled his eyes and moved over to me to get his own glass of water. "Go sit down," he said. "You shouldn't be on your feet."

"The baby isn't going to fall out, Stefan. I can stand," I rolled my eyes. Seconds after I said that, I felt my back start to hurt. I continued to drink my water and acted like nothing was wrong. As I did so, my eyes drifted over to his and I found him smirking.

"You're back is hurting, isn't it?"

"No," I scoffed. "My back does not hurt."

"Elena..."

"Fine. It hurts. I'll go sit down on the couch," I sighed. I moved my feet across the floor slowly until I reached the couch. Stefan reached behind me to fluff the pillows before I sat down. He pushed over the foot rest for me and I slowly pulled my feet up to rest.

"You know," Stefan said. "I don't think I've ever been around this much baby stuff in my entire life."

I looked around and couldn't help but agree with him. I might as well have been living in Babies "R" Us. There was a bassinet down in the living room and also in my room for the baby to sleep in. There were two tall piles of boxes that held diapers inside stacked against the wall next to bags and bags of clothes that I hadn't put away yet. Jenna had stacked the bottles neatly in one of the cabinets last week and in the process had to move the bottles of wine. Alaric was very confused when he opened up the cabinet later that night.

"It's pretty crazy," I said as I looked around.

"Are you excited?" he asked me.

"Yeah," I found myself smiling as my hand moved to rest on my stomach. "I've always wanted to have a baby girl. I never expected it to happen this way, though."

"Do you regret how it happened?"

I froze. I didn't know how to answer that. I looked over to him and said, "Stefan..."

"It's okay, Elena. I'm okay," Stefan took a deep breath before he continued to speak. "You want a baby and you're going to have one. Damon misses being human and you make him feel like one. Both of you are very happy. At the end of the day, that's all that should matter to everyone and that's what matters."

I felt myself begin to smile and he smiled back.

"So do you? Do you regret it?"

I opened my mouth to give him my answer when the front door opened.