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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 24, 2008 0:01:39 GMT -5
While Riley was in the shower, he thought about the reality of being a dad and how that meant that he wasn't just going to be responsible for himself now, he was also going to be responsible for another human being as well. Yeah he was responsible for Ashlyn, but that was a different kind of responsibility. He only protected her from the harm that he could, because she was her own person and made her own decisions. The life of his child was different, because until the child was eighteen years old, he would have to make most of the decisions for him or her and make sure that no harm or heartbreak happened to the little child. This was a scary thing for Riley to have to deal with, which was probably why it freaked him out as much as it was right now.
When the water finally started turning colder, Riley enjoyed his last few minutes in the shower alone until the water finally grew to be cold enough and he eventually turned the water off and got out. He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist and brought his hands up to his head. He shook out this hair with his hands and sighed a little bit. Riley wasn't thinking straight when he had walked into the bathroom, so he didn't have a clean change of clothes, meaning that he was going to have to go into the bedroom again, to find a new outfit. It took a few minutes for Riley to think about whether he was going to go into the bedroom and face Ashlyn at that moment, but he finally realized that he was going to end up freezing if he didn't, so he opened the bathroom door and stepped into the bedroom, a little cautious as to what was going to happen when he did.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 24, 2008 8:57:14 GMT -5
When she heard the bathroom door open, Ash stopped pacing. She turned and faced the bathroom but one hand remained in her mouth and the other twirling through her hair. Her eyes were bloodshot red from crying and her cheeks were rosy. She sniffled a bit as she stood there staring at the man she loved who was staring back. She didn't know exactly what to say except two words. "I'm sorry," she said quietly but loud enough so that he could hear.
She was very sorry. The fact that little things could set both of them off so quickly now was something that she had work on when she went to say something. She moved closer to the bed and held onto the bed post as she looked at him. The tears were still falling but they were silent. She wanted to hear what he had to say, if he was going to say anything.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 27, 2008 23:07:56 GMT -5
Hearing the words that Ashlyn spoke to him, Riley went over to her and just put his arms around her and held her tight to his chest. "I love you Ash," he told her. "I'm sorry too," Riley told her, kissing the top of her heard. "I'm going to try really hard to change for you and the baby," Riley said to Ash. Riley just held Ashlyn in his arms and kept her there. He didn't want either of them to ever say anything else that was horrible to each other, because he truly didn't want to lose her. Riley then let go of Ashlyn and held her head in his hands and lent down a bit to kiss her lips softly for a moment. "Let me get dressed and we can watch a movie or something," he said to her. Before the news of a baby, when the cute couple watched a movie, Riley would get all sweet and romantic with Ashlyn, catering to her every want or need - whether she asked for something or not.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 27, 2008 23:15:15 GMT -5
Ashlyn stood in his arms as he held her against his body the best he could. She heard his words and could see in his eyes that he was telling the truth. Of course, she knew in her heart that he had been telling the truth the entire time but something in her mind had snapped and she didn't want to believe him. Maybe there was more to this pregnancy hormone thing than she thought. She shrugged away the thoughts as Riley's cupped her face lightly and kissed her lips for a moment. When he pulled away, she looked up into his eyes and nodded when he said he'd go get dressed and they could watch a movie or something.
The second Riley walked away to go get dressed, Ashlyn felt a weird pain in her stomach that she hadn't felt before. She grabbed onto the bed post and made to sit herself down on the edge of the bed. But before she could sit, her water broke. She felt the sensation and immediately gasped. "RILEY!" she cried out as she leaned against the bed post with one hand and held her stomach with the other as the first contraction hit like a ton of bricks.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 27, 2008 23:39:07 GMT -5
Riley and Ashlyn seemed to be on the same page now with everything and the fighting had seized momentarily, so Riley was happy about that. Riley had managed to put on a pair of boxers and a pair of baggy jeans, but when he was reaching to open up the drawer that had his shirts in it, he heard Ashlyn scream something fierce. Riley quickly whirled around and looked at Ashlyn, not really seeing her face since she wasn't facing him, but saw a water spot on the floor. "What's the matter? You've spilled a cup of water on the floor before," he said to her. The night before, Riley was to tired to finish his glass of water so he brought the cup into the bedroom and put the cup on the nightstand. "I'll go get the ...," he started, but stopped mid-sentence. Riley had noticed that the cup was still on the nightstand and that Ashlyn wasn't anywhere near it. "Oh god, Ash, please tell me it's not you that is leaking on the floor," he practically begged of her.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 27, 2008 23:46:41 GMT -5
Ashlyn started concentrating on her breathing as she kept one hand on the bed post to steady herself and the other on her stomach as she winced in pain from the contraction. She let out a groan of pain as Riley came to her aid. She heard his voice and his words but they were faint over the soft pulsating of her heart that was now reverberating in her ears. She bit her lower lip as she tried to stand up straight. "RILEY!" she cried again as the contraction hit it's peak point of pain and then lessened.
She couldn't think straight. All she wanted to do was breathe and get this over with. She took a deep breath in and tried to stop herself from hyperventilating. She closed her eyes for a moment or two and then opened them to look at Riley who was standing there dumbfounded. "Get the goddamn bag!" she yelled at him as she stood up straight, placing both hands on her stomach. She didn't mean to be rude to him especially right after their fight but hopefully he could see that she was in pain and needed to get to the hospital quickly.
Ash started to make her way to the bedroom door. As she left the room, waddling and walking slowly, she held onto the walls for support.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 29, 2008 23:50:27 GMT -5
As dumb as this may sound, Riley had no idea what the fuck was going on right now. He knew that the baby was on the way now, but his mind seemed to just stop completely. Well, that was all until he was knocked back into reality when Ashlyn screamed at him to get the bag. So, Riley did as he was instructed to and grabbed the bag that Ashlyn had told him to grab and then ran after her. Riley put his arms underneath Ashlyn's and helped her walk so that she wouldn't have to support herself, but instead he would. Not only that, but if she needed to, his arms were there for her to squeeze if she got another contraction and felt the need to break a bone in his arm. Riley tried to hurry Ashlyn along as quickly as he could, without making her feel rushed or put her in too much pain, but he just wanted to get her to the car and then to the hospital as quickly as he possibly could.
Once Riley had gotten Ashlyn towards the front door, he leaned over towards a counter and grabbed his car keys and then opened the door for Ashlyn. He then went back over to her and helped her out of the door, locking and then closing it behind the two of them. "Why couldn't we have lived in an apartment on the bottom floor?" he asked himself out loud. The couple lived on the third floor of the apartment building and the elevator was currently out of order, so this was going to take awhile, but time was just not on their side at the moment. "Ash, I'm going to need you to hold onto me tightly," he said to her. "There's no way that we're going to make it to the hospital if you walk down the stairs," he said to her, not meaning it in a mean sort of way. Riley then put one arm on Ashlyn's back and the other down behind her knees, soon lifting her up in his arms.
Making sure he caught his balance before going down the stairs, Riley felt for the first step of the staircase, then began walking down them with Ashlyn safely in his arms. "Breathe baby," he said to her, trying to get her to focus on breathing instead of the gruesome pain that she was probably experiencing at the moment, even though Riley knew that it was never going to happen. Riley made it down to the second floor not that long after he had begun walking down that staircase, but he knew that he had another staircase to go and his arms were already starting to ache terribly. "Ash, maybe with the next pregnancy, we can keep fruit in the house instead of chocolate ice cream," he said, teasing a little bit, but with a cute smile on his face at the same time. At the same time, Riley admitted that there would be another pregnancy, which might have made Ashlyn a little happy when she heard that.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 30, 2008 0:03:45 GMT -5
Ashlyn breathed the best she could but by the time they had reached the top of the stairs, she was out of breath and dead tired. She licked her lips lightly because her throat was starting to become overly dry. She didn't know exactly the full extent of being pregnant because this was her first time but she did know that the baby wasn't due for another month. It scared her to death that she might have been having the baby too early and that something was going to horribly wrong. The thought that her dreams of having a family with Riley being shattered completely tore her heart in half.
She nodded as Riley pointed out that they wouldn't make it to the hospital in time if she were to walk down the stairs. She felt him pick her up bridal style and she let out a deep breath in a sigh as he did so. Normally she would have protested and tried to be strong but she knew that there was no chance in hell that Riley was wrong about this. Even though Ash could tell that he was definitely freaking out about this whole thing, Ash was proud of him for being so protective and helpful.
As Riley reached the second floor landing with Ashlyn in his arms, she felt the all too familiar puke inducing pain of another contraction. Her hand wrapped around his arm the best it could and squeezed as she let out a loud cry of pain. After a few moments, the pain subsided and Ash let her grip loosen. She looked to his arm and saw nail marks. She heard what he said and let out a soft laugh the best she could. "The next pregnancy?" she asked with a smile on her face. She didn't care if he was being serious or not. The fact that he was even mentioning another baby meant a lot to her.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 30, 2008 0:55:30 GMT -5
As Riley searched for the first step of the second set of stairs that he had to go down, Riley heard Ashlyn repeat what he had said. "Yes, the next pregnancy," he said to her. He figured that it would make her happy if he had said that and he had never said when exactly there would be a next pregnancy. Sure there would be another one, but he had never specified as to when he was going to actually let that happen, because he was going to make damn sure that it wasn't any time soon. He was going to make sure that the next pregnancy wasn't going to happen for at least a couple of years. This first child was going to to be an only child for a pretty long time in Riley's head, even though he knew that Ashlyn was going to want to have another one closer to this child's age so that they wouldn't be too many years apart.
Finally making it down the flight of stairs, Ashlyn still in his arms, he had to put her down on her feet or else he was going to drop her. Walking down two flights of stairs with a nearly full term pregnant woman wasn't as easy as it may have sounded. "Come on Ash, it's not too far to the car. You can make it, I'll help you," he said to her. Riley quickly gave Ashlyn a kiss on her forehead as he continued to help her walk toward the parking lot. Thankfully, the owner of the apartment building let Riley park his car towards the front of the building, the complete opposite side of the huge parking lot where Riley normally parked his car. The owner knew that Ashlyn was near the end of her pregnancy, so the closer that Riley had parked the car, the easier it would be to get to the hospital on time.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 30, 2008 1:15:53 GMT -5
Ash nodded again as Riley put her down when they got to the bottom landing. She smiled lightly as he kissed her forehead. He certainly did care for her, no matter how scared shitless he was about being a father. Ashlyn knew that he would be a good father because he took such good care of her. As they walked to the car, Ashlyn allowed more of her weight to lean on Riley as she waddled to the car. She let him help her into the car and then off they went to the hospital...
two hours later...
Ashlyn was completely beat but even with the sweat still sitting on her forehead she held her twins in her arms. She was completely in shock when the doctor told her that there was another baby in there after the first one. Ash wasn't ready for two babies but there was no way around it. She had given birth to them only a few minutes ago and she laid in the bed, with the back of the bed sitting her up a bit, holding her babies in her arms.
She looked to Riley. "Quinn Emmalee and Kinley Jeremiah," she said softly with a large smile as little Quinn opened her eyes for a second and then closed them as her fists closed as well. Ash looked back to Riley. "Which one do you want first?" she asked him.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 30, 2008 1:45:18 GMT -5
When Riley had finally gotten to the hospital, he got a nurse to help get Ashlyn into a delivery room while he went to go park the car, which didn't take so long. As soon as the car was parked and Riley's head was still attached to his shoulders, he ran back into the hospital and followed his girlfriend's painful screams all the way to the room that the doctors had brought her into. Immediately going over to Ashlyn, he held her hand in his own and helped her as the doctors told her to start pushing. Once the baby was born, a boy, to soon take on the name Kinley Jeremiah Adams, the name that Riley and Ashlyn had agreed on awhile back, the doctor turned to Ashlyn and told her to get ready for the second baby. A second baby? Riley most definitely didn't sign up for that one, but what was he supposed to do now, other than to continue to hold Ashlyn's hand and help her push the second child out -- this time, a baby girl, soon named Quinn Emmalee.
After the birth of the twins had finally stopped overwhelming Riley completely, he saw the beauty in it. He also saw his girlfriend sitting there, completely exhausted, but as beautiful as ever, holding their two children. When she asked him which twin he wanted to hold first, Riley couldn't answer her, so he just decided to hold the twin that was closest to him. Kinley Jeremiah Adams, that was the name of his son, the child he was now holding in his own arms for the very first time. How had he been able to manage to act like such a child before now? Maybe one day he'd be able to answer that question, but he wasn't able to at the current moment. Right now though, all that was running through Riley's mind was how beautiful his two children were and how lucky and thankful he was to have them. "About that next pregnancy," he said to Ash. "Maybe we'll wait on that, oh say, for about ... five years," he said, kidding around with her.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 30, 2008 2:04:05 GMT -5
Ashlyn watched as Riley took Kinley into his arms and held him. The look on Riley's face, the soft warm daddy kind of look put a smile on Ash's face as she turned her attention back to her baby girl. Quinn was adorable and already looked like Riley. Her nose was most certainly Ashlyn's but everything else was Riley's. Ash put her finger up to the baby's face and the second she touched Quinn, a little hand came up and grabbed a hold of her finger. Ash felt a small tear of happiness well up in her eye as her baby girl recognized her mother's touch.
Ashlyn looked to Riley and smiled after he told her jokingly that the next pregnancy would be in five years. "Only if you can keep your hands off me for that long," she said with a light giggle. Her attention turned to the door when it opened and the doctor walked in. "And how is mommy doing?" she asked with a bright smile. Ashlyn smiled back as she cuddled Quinn. "Exhausted but happy," she answered. "And the twins?" she asked as she looked to Riley holding Kinley. Ash answered for them. "They're looking a bit tired but content and not crying," she said with a slight laugh as the doctor looked to her and nodded. "I'll give you a few more minutes but then the babies must be put down for naps and you must get some rest," she told Ashlyn with a stern look but a smile along with it. Ashlyn laughed and nodded as the doctor turned and walked away.
She looked to Riley and smiled at how much he looked like he adored Kinley. "Mommy needs Kinley before the doctors take them away," she said hinting as she smiled big for Riley and cuddled Quinn a little more in her arms.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 30, 2008 11:42:56 GMT -5
Smirking, Riley responded to Ashlyn's hands off till then comment, "Yeah, because that's really going to happen. As soon as he had said that, one of the doctors that had assisted with the delivery of the twins, came into the room and gave the pair of them only a few more minutes with the babies before they'd have to go to the nursery and Ash was able to get some rest of her own. And when the doctor left, Riley handed Kinley over to Ashlyn as she had wanted and picked up Quinn. She was a bit smaller than her brother, but she was a healthy size. Riley still couldn't believe how he had gone from knowing that he was going to be a daddy to a child, to now being a daddy of two. He was going to have to work a few more shifts if he was going to keep ends meeting, so that Ashlyn wouldn't have to work or anything. "They're beautiful," he said out loud, still in awe of the beautiful thing he had just witnessed.
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Post by Ashlyn Reed on Dec 30, 2008 12:19:25 GMT -5
Ashlyn took Kinley into her arms as Riley softly took Quinn. Ash held Kinley's little body in her left arm and placed her right fingers onto her son. She had children. She never thought that she would have children and especially not two at once. This was going to be hard for herself and Riley but she knew that they would be able to support each other through everything. That was one of the reasons Ash wanted to stay with Riley. He was a good boyfriend and he would be a great father. She knew that and that was some of the reasoning behind scaring him into staying with her.
Kinley didn't open his eyes but squinted them tighter and Ash could see the very tip of his tongue escaping through his lips. She smiled and laughed very lightly. She heard Riley say they're beautiful but she simply nodded. She was too much in awe at how the couple could have created such two beautiful beings. Kinley stretched and yawned, his little hands raising up above his head in little fists. Ashlyn simply smiled more and admired her son. Ash of course didn't want the doctors to have to take them away and put them down for a nap in the nursery but she knew she would need rest.
The doctor came back in with a nurse. "What a cute family," she said with a smile as she approached Riley and the nurse came over to Ashlyn. Before the nurse took Kinley, Ash kissed his forehead lightly, causing the baby boy to make a small grunt noise. The nurse took Kinley carefully into her own arms and waited for the doctor to be done taking Quinn from Riley's arms.
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Post by Riley Adams on Dec 30, 2008 13:57:30 GMT -5
The doctors returned soon enough, just like they had promised, so that they could take the babies to the nursery and Ashlyn could take a nap. After the doctors had taken the twins from him and Ashlyn, Riley turned to his girlfriend and said, "So, there's two of them." He couldn't help but smile as he said it either, even if he didn't want to admit that he was scared out of his mind. Riley leaned back a little bit and grabbed the chair that was on the side of the bed that Ashlyn was currently laying on and he sat down in it, holding Ash's hand in his own as he sat down. "I think we're going to be in a bit of trouble soon," he said to her. "When we get home, we're going to have to start thinking a lot about things," he said to her. "But right now, I want you to rest and take a nap. You're going to need it," he said to her. "It'll be the last one before we have an endless amount of sleepless nights."
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