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“Is it too premature to squeal now? Because I think I’m going to squeal.” Aspen’s voice gets higher and higher as she speaks.
“You can squeal.” Kaia laughs and I briefly wonder how I didn’t see it before now. She’s fucking glowing. Then again, my wife is always glowing, so how was I to know.
Aspen proceeds to let out a squeal that would wake the dead and does, in fact, wake baby Hope, who returns the gesture with a good wail of her own.
“See what you have to look forward to.” Sutton moves to Aspen’s side as she quickly soothes the baby back to sleep.
“I can’t fucking wait,” I say, turning back to Kaia.
It’s funny how life has a way of working out just how it was meant to.
A decade ago, I was so sure I knew where my life was headed, and then suddenly, I didn’t know anything at all. That is, until Kaia entered the picture.
I didn’t know what it meant to love someone—and I mean truly love someone with everything that you have—until her. She has given me the life I don’t think I could have dreamed up in my wildest dreams. More than a fucker like me ever deserved.
There isn’t a day I won’t cherish her and the light she brought to my life.
“So you’re happy?” She looks up at me with those big blue eyes of hers, and I can see now how nervous she actually was to tell me, which is probably why she just blurted it out in the middle of a hospital room.
Not that I’m complaining. It feels weirdly nice to share this moment with my brother and best friend. Seems to fit the theme of our life. We’ve always been a little unconventional.
“Deliriously happy,” I tell her, pressing my mouth to hers once more.
“And we’re all happy, too. But again, can you take the celebration elsewhere?” Sutton interrupts yet another perfect kiss.
“I think that’s exactly what I’ll do,” I tell him, wrapping my arm around Kaia’s shoulders. “Shall we, wife?” I smile down at her, so beautiful that sometimes when I look at her, like right now, I find it hard to breathe.
“Let’s, husband.” She knocks her hip against mine.
After saying our goodbyes, we leave Aspen and Sutton at the hospital to spend time with their new daughter, heading back home to the little house we purchased the week before we got married. We’ve been fixing it up, and now it would seem we have another project to add to the list.
It’s not the biggest house, but it has a great backyard and is only a couple of minutes from both my family and hers, which was the biggest selling point. I thought it would be hard for me to leave the city, but it hasn’t been. If anything, I wish we had done it sooner.
Though, I don’t think it’s the house or the area that gives me such peace, but the woman currently in my arms, our baby growing in her belly.
I didn’t think a life like this was possible. The space between my heart and anyone else’s always felt insurmountable. I guess, in the end, it was just waiting for the right one to come along.
It was waiting forher.
Turns out, there is such a thing as happy endings. You just have to be willing to find yours.
The End
