House Of Dragons Page 35
Soon I was skating on it, or at least spinning on it, laughing out loud while Nick and Blaine looked on, both of them grinning from ear-to-ear. Though after a while, they headed back in the house, with Nick saying that the ice wouldn't last for long, so they'd go make dinner for me in the meantime while I enjoyed it. Enjoy it I did, spinning around, and even skating backward for a bit, for at least an hour before the ice began to melt.
When I arrived in the kitchen, cradling my new skates to my chest, Nick looked up from the stove with a smile.
"Has it turned to slush yet?"
I nodded, and Blaine asked me if it had been fun while it had lasted, making me nod again.
"Yes. It was so much fun while it lasted. I loved it. Although, even if the two of you were willing to make me another little rink at some point in the future, I guess I should probably stay off the ice for a while."
Nick and Blaine both simultaneously asked me why, and I worked hard to maintain a straight face and not break out in a grin.
"Oh, just because I'm pregnant. Chris told me this morning. So, I wouldn't want to wipe out and hurt the baby."
With both of them wearing expressions of shock mixed with joy, Nick and Blaine both scooped me up and into their arms at once, and so fast that I dropped my skates, laughing.
About eight months later, I gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy the three of us named Alexander Michael Hardwick-Miller. Right away, he resembled Blaine, and not subtly, but obviously. He even grunted a lot. He was an adorable baby, and I called him my sweet angel because he really was, but he had a definite gruff, vaguely disgruntled way about him, even from day one.
It didn't even matter that he was clearly Blaine's biological son. He was our son. Nick's, Blaine's, and mine. Nick was actually the parent he seemed to enjoy being held by most.
It was looking like nine-year-old Emma, and baby Laurel, the only girls so far out of all the kids in the village, might have to take numerous husbands when they became adults. Jess, Eb, and three other women in the village were all currently pregnant with sons.
However, only a few months after giving birth to Alex, I became pregnant again, and an ultrasound done by Chris a few months later revealed without a doubt that I was carrying a girl. Tracy was also pregnant by this time, after a year or so of struggling to become so, and at her first ultrasound, she learned that she was carrying not one, but two girls. Twins. Her wait to become pregnant had obviously been very well worth it.
When I gave birth to a tiny, flaxen-haired, shrieking, six-pound girl a few weeks early, with Nick and Blaine by my side, we at first spent several minutes just marveling over her absolute perfection before I put her to my breast to nurse.
When she latched on immediately, Chris said he thought giving her a physical exam could wait a little while, because she seemed perfectly healthy, especially considering she was just on the nearly-full-term side of preemie. "And in the meantime, would you three like me to go out in the hall and get Kathy? Or would you like to wait until you've finished nursing, Eva?"
I said no, to please send her in right away. Kathy, who I'd grown very close to, had seen me nursing Alex many a time, and besides, I couldn't wait to find out what her answer would be to two questions I was going to ask her.
When she came in Chris' delivery room, carrying Alex, and saw me with the new baby, who'd already fallen asleep at my breast, she burst into tears, saying how beautiful the "brand-new princess" was. "And does she have a name yet?"
Feeling pretty near to tears myself, I glanced at Nick and Blaine before looking up at Kathy again. "No, but that's one of two questions we have to ask you. The first is if you'll be our baby girl's godmother. The second is if you'll allow us to name her Emily Rose. The three of us all just love the name, and we'd like to honor your Emily by using it. Although we totally understand if it might be too painful, or in any other way upsetting, so we've picked an alternate name, which-"
"No. Please call her Emily Rose. I'd be so..." Voice cracking, Kathy paused to wipe her eyes. "So very honored."
Soon, there wasn't a dry eye in the room. Kathy cried, I cried, and tiny Emily Rose woke up and cried. Appearing horrified to see his spirited new baby sister, Alex just looked at her, wailing. Nick's eyes became pink and shiny. Blaine grunted a few times, clearing his throat, before wiping his eyes with a rough, hasty motion, seeming as if they were greatly irritating him.
Over the next several months, Emily's bluish-toned newborn eyes turned a deep shade of emerald, indicating that she was likely Nick's daughter. Her facial features also greatly resembled his. Like with Alex's obvious biological parentage, this didn't even matter, though. Emily was our baby.
One evening, after her Aunt Eb had returned her home, and after Aunt Jess had returned Alex home, Nick, Blaine, and I sat down on the couch with our sleeping baby and sleeping toddler, after having missed them a lot during dinner. Blaine cradled Emily, planting a feather-light kiss on her forehead. Nick held Alex, running a hand over his somewhat wild, wavy brown hair. Sitting between the two father-child groups, I looked from side to side with my heart swelling, realizing that happily-ever-after endings really could happen, even in the new post-apocalyptic world.
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