Making Friends...

Chapter twenty six, Welcome Home Bella!

"Welcome home Bella" Noah announced as he carried her inside in her car seat.
 
       It was around noon and Bella was just let out of the hospital, we brought her straight home, I ran into her room to put her bag down and grab her seat, I brought it out and Noah already had her out of her car seat, I set the seat on the coffee table and Noah placed her into it, clipping her up and making sure she was wrapped up.

"I'm gonna get some bottles put together" I said and walked into the kitchen.

      I pulled out a pot and place it on the stove before mixing together the formula and water, I heat it up and mix it together before pouring it into bottles with the lids off to let them cool. I went back into the living room and saw Noah trying to play with Bella, it was adorable, while I was waiting them I remembered last night.

"Noah"

"Hm?"

"Your dad showed up last night, you guys were sleeping"

"Oh? He didn't give you trouble did he?"

"No actually the opposite, he was excited about Bella and gave me a hug before he left, he was happy when he heard her name too, especially about her being named after your grandma"

"Yeah, I suspected that, my dad wasn't ever really the mean one, I'm ninety percent sure that he only let mom kick me out because he didn't want her to leave him for supporting me, I'm not sure why he would be here without her though"

"Yeah, I invited him over for three, just before everyone else gets here"

"Okay, does he have our address?"

"No actually, I've still got to text him that"

       I pulled out my phone and sent a text to Raphael with our address quickly before putting it away.

"There, he has it, now we just spend time with Bella until he gets here"

       Noah hummed as I sat beside him and wrapped his arm around me, we leaned back as Bella fell asleep to her chair slowly moving, Noah turned in the tv and kept it quiet while she slept, we ended up watching tv for longer then I thought and soon enough there was a soft knock on our front door. I stood up and opened it.

"Hi Raphael, come in, we were just in the living room, Bella's asleep, she'll be up soon probably though"

"Hi Emerson, thank you" he smiled and came inside, I closed the door and showed him where the living room is before I went over to the kitchen quickly to put the lids on the bottles, putting them in the fridge but keeping one in the warmer for when Bella wakes up hungry.

       I went back into the living room and just watched as Raphael talked with Noah quietly, I saw him glance over at Bella a few times and smile at her, it warmed my heart. I finally stepped into the room and sat down next to Noah, he wrapped his arm around me and kissed my forehead.

"So, where's mom? Why isn't she here?" Noah asked his dad

"About that, your mother and I deforced last year" Noah stopped rubbing circles on my hip and nodded his head for his dad to continue "she got a little much, I didn't love her anymore and so we divorced, it was shortly after your wedding anniversary, I wanted to contact you but I didn't, I spews scared you would hate me, so I left you alone, but when Natalie called me a few weeks ago about a baby I was thrilled, I was going to be a grandfather and I would have a way to see my son again. Please understand that when your mother kicked you out I didn't stand with it at all, I tried to convince her that it was okay, that your sexuality isn't a sin but she wouldn't listen, the house was never the same after that, with your older brother and you gone it was quiet, it was just Natalie, in this bug house, all pictures of you and your brother were taken down and it was like you two didn't exist, I hated it, so much, and your mother and I got into so many fights, usually about you, for years, so finally I had enough of it, it was a year after your wedding, and a year of argument after argument about you marrying a man so I divorced her, I lived on my own and then Natalie called and I flew out here but never worked up the courage to find you after, then, her fiancé, Jamie, called me saying she was in the hospital with you two and Bella, so I showed up after hours of telling myself I wouldn't be wanted there"