Chapter 6
Only best friends know the way to your heart.
Then will proceed to bug the ever loving hell out of you until you follow the path that they know you should be taking.
-Wall sign
Mia
“Would you stop? He’ll come to see you, you’ll see. I promise,” Masen said for the fourth time.
I placed my stethoscope to the chest of the tiny baby I was checking over in the nursery.
Masen had the twin of the baby I was working on, but he wasn’t being anywhere near as cooperative.
“I can’t help it. I feel like such a worm for not talking to him. I could’ve gone about it a little better than I did,” I admitted, checking the newborns diaper.
Finding it dry, I started to work the baby back into the little outfit it had been wearing realizing, again, how hard it was to dress a tiny baby.
Colton had always stiffened his limbs, making it even harder than it should’ve been.
The memory burned as tears struck my eyes, but I blinked them back and went on with my work.
Like I always did.
Memoires assaulted me all day long.
Most of them, however, were ones of Colt’s last moments with me.
How he’d held onto my hair, or how he’d fluttered his eye lashes at me when I’d kissed him.
This one, though, was a welcome memory.
One that was from happier times.
One that didn’t remind me that he was gone, but that he’d been beautiful when he was alive.
“Earth to Mia…oh dear, sweet baby Jesus,” Masen gasped.
I blinked, looking in her direction.
She was staring at the window, and I followed her gaze to the opening where we could see the nurse’s station.
“Holy, crud,” I breathed.
Why?
Because the hottest firefighter in the city…hell, in the state of Texas…was standing at the nurse’s station looking in at me.
And he was smiling.
“I don’t think you’ll have to worry about him coming to see you,” Masen said teasingly.
I swallowed thickly and finished up with the little girl of the pair, placing her into a swaddle before laying her down into the rolling crib.
Masen finished up with the baby boy and we both rolled out of the nursery, one after the other.
I smiled shyly at Tai.
“Hello,” I said softly. “I’ll be right back after I deliver these kiddos, okay?”
He looked down at the babies, his face softening somewhat from his tense stare.
“Yeah,” he said.
I bit my lip and passed by him.
I couldn’t help but inhale as I passed. He smelled delicious.
Fabric softener and man.
“Alright, my dears,” I said to the couple in the room.
They were a young African American couple that’d been trying to have kids for a little over three years.
The babies looked just like daddy, who couldn’t be happier to have two little ones to spoil.
“Oh,” the dad said excitedly. “Which one is which?”
I laughed.
“This is the girl,” I said pushing the baby slightly forward. “And this one is the boy.”
The mom laughed. “Oh, this is going to be difficult. All we have is yellow, so we can’t dress them differently, yet. How are we ever going to tell them apart? I can’t pull their diaper down every time I want to see which is which.”
I grinned.
“From what I understand, some parents put bracelets on them for the first month or so, so they can figure out who’s who,” I offered the suggestion.
The parents nodded. “Ever since we found out we were having twins we started looking for ways to tell them apart, since we didn’t know what we were having. Guess this is the best possible solution,” the dad sighed. “One boy and one girl.”
“Alright, well they’re yours until the next time we have to check them over, which’ll be in about three hours. We’ll come in periodically to check and see if you need anything, but right now we’ll give you some time with your new babies, okay?”
They both smiled, and I left the room with an answering smile on my face.
Which quickly died when I saw Tai talking to a new nurse that I didn’t know really well yet.
She’d been there for a little over two weeks, and I knew I wouldn’t be liking her any time soon. Especially not when she tried to hit on my…Tai.
I walked up to the nurse’s station and turned to Linda, our charge nurse.
“I’m taking my lunch now, okay?”
Linda nodded and I turned to Tai.
“You want to go grab a bite to eat?” I asked.
He nodded curtly.
I brushed past Tessa, the Tai stealer, and walked next to him as we exited the floor.
He didn’t speak until we were well away from where we’d started.
He stopped me in front of the chapel, and I started to get nervous.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
He looked up at the ceiling, then back down to me.
“Your mom had a heart attack.”