Making Friends...

Chapter twenty five, baby time!

"Ah fuck!" Nat shouted as she stood in the middle of our kitchen, all three of us shot up, Jamie, Noah and I, to see if she was okay "get away from me, I'm fine, but uh, we're gonna have to get to the hospital, now" she continued and pointed down to her shorts that had a wet spot on them.

       Jamie lead her outside to his car and got her in, they kept a bag with her stuff in there in case they were ever anywhere, Noah and I climbed into our car, with the car seat already strapped in. I was slightly panicking as we made our way to the hospital, in a separate car than our baby and Nat. Noah was shouting at anyone who was driving too slow and didn't stop at all as we got out of the cars and brought Nat inside the hospital, a nurse rushed over with a wheelchair and brought us over to the maternity ward.

"I'm sorry but only the father can be in the room" the nurse said, stopping all of us.

"We're the fathers, and he's the fiancé" I rushed, frantically swooping my arms around, the nurse sighed and lead us all into the room.

       Nat was changed into a gown quickly and everything was set up, Noah and I on either side of her while she gripped our hands in her death grip, Jamie sat off to the side awkwardly.

You doing okay?" Noah asked his sister

"Yeah, just scared, it's actually happening, I'm giving birth, to a living breathing human"

"Just breathe" he said and she nodded her head, Noah motioned for Jamie to hold Nat's hand and he made his always to over beside me, he wrapped his arm around my waist as we both nervously shook.

"Just a little while longer and we can start pushing okay" the doctor said with a smile, Nat nodded, her hair already sticking to her forehead.

       It was another half an hour before she was dilated enough but it felt like hours, time had slowed and my heartbeat quickened.

"Okay, we're going to need you to start pushing now honey" the doctor said as she positioned herself to grab the baby.

"Okay" Nat whined and then her muscles contracted, hands squeezed harder than before and she clenched her teeth as she pushed.

"Keep pushing, almost there!" The doctor called and Natalie stoped to catch her breath for a moment before pushing again, harder than before.

       I heard crying and Nat relaxed, breathing heavily as she slumped in the bed. The baby's umbilical chord was cut and they were brought over to a little bed to be cleaned up and have a diaper put on. The labor was actually longer than it seemed, I glanced at the clock, four twenty three, labor was almost two hours. They let a few  people into the room, the people who came in were Mom, Shy and Trevor, my brothers, Larisa with Nova, and Remington's Girlfriend was here.

       After the baby was cleaned up the nurse brought them over, she went to pass them to Nat but she shook her head lightly and pointed to me and Noah whispering.

"They're the dad's"

       The nurse walked over to us and I stretched my arms out, she passed the tiny little bundle over to me with a warm smile.

"Here's your daughter" she said and stepped back then left the room with the doctor.

       A tear fell from my eye as I looked over my beautiful daughter, calmly sitting in my arms, her big black eyes staring up at me, then they glanced over at Noah. He leaned over and played with her tiny little hand.

"She has your nose" he whispered, his voice filled with joy

"And your eyes" I whispered back, looking up at him, our eyes locked, and I swear I heard the noise of someone snapping a picture of us, Isabella in my arms, Noah's hand playing with hers and big goofy smiles on our faces as we looked at each other in the eyes.