GIVE ME A REASON

Katherine smiled “We made her, we made that little angel girl,” she said softly as she watched the baby just become comfortable in her fathers arms. “She’s such a perfect combination of us, babe, we took the best of us and put it into all three of our beautiful little ones,” she sent the picture to Jo, Savannah and their closest friends and family. “She just wanted you to be the first person she saw,”

Katherine softly returned the kiss and smiled “She’s going to be an angel,” the woman said as she placed the little girl in her dad’s arms and took her phone from the nightstand and took a picture. Katherine looked at the little girl who finally opened her eyes and stared right up at her dad. “Aw, you’re the first person she saw, look at those beautiful eyes,”

Katherine smiled at Devin “Thank you, babe, there was no way in the world I could’ve done without you,” she said “She’s gonna be short like me,” Katherine laughed as she looked at Devin and sniffled a little bit “She’s got your cute nose,” the woman said as she just held the little girl in her arms “Does daddy wanna hold his little girl?” she asked. 

“Just stay right behind me, please,” Katherine said as she breathed out and after an hour or so of pushing the baby had finally arrived, the midwife took the little girl to gently clean her up and then handed her Katherine wrapped in a warm blanket and helped Katherine clean up. “Look at her, hi little lady,” she cooed at her newborn daughter and was finally able to relax her legs down feeling the soreness immediately. “She’s perfectly healthy, the doctor will be around soon just to double check her and you over for me but when I weighed her she was an even six pounds and she was fourteen inches, tiny little thing,” the midwife said with a smile as she began to clean everything up.

Katherine laid her head back against Devin “She’s gonna be here soon, I can’t believe this is really happening,” the woman said as she kept her legs propped up, it was the most comfortable position for her right now as she worked through the contractions. The midwife stepped back into the room and had a few things she would need when the baby came. “I think I need to push, I just feel it,” Katherine said looking around

As the midwife came in, Katherine felt the pain in her back only get worse, she took a few deep breaths as the midwife checked her progress. “You’re so close, honey, you’re doing so well, we’re at an eight now, i’m going to get some things ready for baby, just yell if anything changes,” she said to the couple. “Oh shit, Devin, do we even have a name picked out?” she said pressing her eyes closed

“Yes we do, babe,” she said as she wrapped her arms around her boyfriend and took a deep breath. “She’s on her way,” the woman mumbled as she felt a strong contraction hit her hard. “I don’t think it’s gonna be too long now,” Katherine said as she kept herself close to Devin, the only place she was really actually feeling comfortable.

Katherine smiled “Don’t worry about forgetting everything, I kinda forgot too so we’ll just wing it,” she said “I’ve been keeping in touch with my midwife,” she said as she felt the pressure in her spine alleviate. “I think my water just broke,” Katherine said with a gasp as she rubbed over her bump

Katherine looked at Devin and took his hand “Feeling a lot of pressure in my back, like my water is gonna break soon,” she said as she leaned her body forehead to rest her head on his shoulder as she kept her hand in his “This baby is just taking it’s sweet time making my water break,” she said as she sighed

Jayden looked at his aunt and finally moved from his mom’s side and ran over to his aunt almost tripping on his little feet as Katherine looked over with a smile “You guys are truly so lucky to have the auntie and uncle that you do,” Katherine said “I think we’re the lucky ones Kat, we’ll take them downstairs, just let us know when baby comes,” Hero said hugging his sister in law and then going over to Devin wrapping his arm around him “If you need me I’ll be downstairs,” he said “You got this though, you’re gonna do great, you both are,”

“I don’t know, how about all the cooking for a month,” Hero said with a laugh as he walked in “Hey boys, wanna come hang out with Uncle Hero?” he asked as he held his arms out for the boys as Asher came running over but the littlest didn’t wanna leave his mothers side. “Baby you’re gonna have so much with auntie Jo and uncle Hero, you can come back in when baby is here,” she said softly kissing her sons cheek.

“I will take that bet, yes ma’am,” Hero said “Well I think the midwife is going to be there too, right?” the male asked as they walked into the house “You want a home birth too next time?” Hero asked. When Katherine heard Devin’s voice she sighed some relief “In here, babe,” she called from the bedroom as she took another deep breath

“I’m convinced our next one is going to be a girl again and then a boy after that,” Hero said with a chuckle as he opened the passenger door for Devin and got in on his own side of the car buckling himself in. “I think she’s doing well, the boys are with her and keeping her distracted,” Hero said as he looked over to Devin “I’ll be here if you need me at any point,” the man said as he pulled up to the house and got out to help is wife. 

“Thank you so much Jojo, I love you so much, I don’t know what I’d do without you,” she said softly as she smiled. Hero smiled returning the kiss “Anything for family, we’re gonna have some auntie and uncle duty, I can’t wait to see those guys,” he said as he began to drive and arrived at Dylan’s house. “Devin?” the male called getting out of the car, Hero took out his phone dialing the male’s number.

“Oh god yes I agree,” Katherine said with a laugh as she looked at her boys “both of them won’t leave my side, I just wanna scream how painful these are but I’m keeping my cool for my two munchkins,” she replied “I’ll be here, I’ll be fine, I’m just gonna lay with the boys until then,” she said as Hero nodded “Sounds good my love, let me help you in,” he said opening the door for her.

“I know I should’ve said something to someone,” Katherine said as she rested her hand on her side. “I feel bad that you just had your little girl, I guess cousin was ready to share the spotlight,” the woman said as she leaned her body back against the headboard. Hero helped his wife get the girls ready, grabbing the carseat picking it up holding his other daughter in his other arm getting them out to the car and buckled in. “Do you want me to get her?” Hero asked offering his arms out to his oldest.

“I would say probably this morning,” Katherine said as she rubbed her bump a little bit “I think I just felt my first contraction but my water hasn’t broke,” she said to her sister “Don’t worry, Devin, it’ll all be okay, we’re coming right now,” he said “Drive your car back to Dylan’s if you can, we’ll pick you up there and he can bring the car in the morning,” Hero said “So we’re gonna take our car it’s just better for the car seats,” he told his wife “We’ll take them with us too,”