Oh hey, happy birthday Amelia." Maggie wished as she stepped in the elevator with Amelia and her newly formed family.
"It's your birthday?" Link asked shocked, he truly didn't know it was his girlfriends birthday. It scared him how little he truly knew about the women he started a family.
"Oh yeah. I kind of forgot I guess." Amelia brushed it off, while she admired her son in his stroller. It shocked her how much she loved this little boy, she knew she was biased but she knew he was going to be the absolute best person in the world. The elevator opened to the floor the daycare was on and Amelia reassured him she'd settle their son into daycare.
"It's her birthday?" Link asked Maggie who was engrossed in her phone.
"What?" Maggie asked looking up from her phone. She was texting her new boyfriend. "Oh yeah, her birthdays today. You two really don't know much about each other, do you?"
"No I guess not. How has this never come up?" How did I never ask her, her birthday?" Link was silently beating himself. He knew when they first found our about her pregnancy they were kind of speed dating trying to find out important things about one another, and then the baby daddy drama happened and it stopped.
"I don't know." Maggie simply said before exiting the elevator.
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"Give all your surgeries to Koracick and all your paperwork to your residents. We are going out." Link announced to his girlfriend who was leaning against the nurses station while filling our a chart.
"Link, we have jobs we need to do we can't just go out. And what about Scout?"
"They'll survive without us for the day. And Scout will come with us."
"Link, I'm sorry, but I have this surgery I've been studying up in for months. I can't just leave." Amelia apologized, kissed his cheek, and then took the chart and made her way to the OR floor.
As he watched her walk away he got an idea. So he went up to daycare and checked his son out. Since he already cleared up his day, he decided to head home and do something nice for his girlfriend. After the short trip back to their home, he realized their apartment was a mess. With the two of them working and paying so much attention to their son their home was in disorder. He settled his son down for a nap, and got to work on the house. By the time it was late afternoon, he had completed the piles of laundry they had, the dishes, and the random clutter that needed to be organized.
"Hey." Link greeted as he picked up his phone, it was Amelia. "How did surgery go?"
"Terrible, I lost the guy." Amelia squeaked out, he could tell she was on the verge of tears.
"I'm so sorry."
"I'll be home soon. Want me to get dinner?"
"No it's okay." Link has been preparing her favorite pasta dish when she called him. The two said their goodbyes and then hung up.
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"Hey, welcome home." Link greeted once his girlfriend stepped in.
"Hi, where's Scout?" She asked looking for him.
"He's asleep."
"It's a little early don't you think?" Amelia asked looking down at her watch.
"Well, I guess. But it's your birthday and I just thought we'd have a little us time." Link kindly smiled.
"Ugh." Amelia sighed dramatically. "He's gonna wake up super early tomorrow, and then the daycare people are gonna be pissed at us because his sleep schedule is messed up."
"I'm sorry. I was just thinking we could have a nice evening since it's your birthday."
"Link I hate my birthday. It's just not something I really acknowledge so I'd appreciate it if you'd do the same." She slammed her bag down onto the couch and walked into their bedroom. Link couldn't understand who'd hate birthdays. There had to be some deeper meaning. He heard the shower turn on, so he put away the silverware he'd set out on the table. He was determined to figure out why Amelia hated her birthday. So once he was sure she was back in their room after her shower he put some pasta into the plate and grabbed two forks.
"You eat?" Link asked as he slowly opened the door.
"No." Amelia held her hands out for the plate. Link passed her the plate and sat next to her against their beds headboard. "Thank you"
"Of course." Link did the half smile thing that drive her crazy. The two sat in silence eating the pasta until she spoke up.
"My dad and I had birthdays that were really close to each other. So we'd just combine the two and it was just really nice and special because the others didn't have that. So after he died we tried to celebrate my birthday but it was just too hard. So then after awhile we just ignored it all together."
"Oh." That's all Link could say. He didn't quite know how to help, or what to say. "I'm sorry, for pushing your birthday into you."
"It's okay. You didn't know."
"Well, I love you. And I'm really glad you were born today."
"Thank you." Amelia brought her hand up to his face to wipe off some of the sauce left on his chin.
"I'm sorry you lost a patient today."
"Me too. He was a good guy. We both knew it was a long shot though."
"Your so incredibly strong, do you realize that?"
"I mean I guess." She shrugged his compliment off.
"You should know. You're the strongest person I've ever met."
"Thank you." Amelia shyly smiled. "I love you so so so much."
