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The first thing I saw when I woke up was the possibly the most beautiful image I had ever seen. The two most important people in my life were sleeping. One was wrapped in a blue blanket with a matching hat. He was sleeping soundly in his small bed, which was right next to mine. Javi was asleep directly next to him. His hand resting on our baby. I smiled and felt tears forming.

A knock at my door caught my attention. Katie's head poked in and I instantly smiled, as did she.

"Hey, you up for company?" She asked, not coming all the way in.

"Of course." I smiled and waved her in.

"Kev's with me."

"He's more than welcome too." I smiled to her.

She came all in way inside, with Kevin's hand in hers. He gave me a small smile and I returned one.

"So they are adorable together." Katie observed the scene in front of her.

"I know." I agreed. "Hard not to look at it, huh?"

She nodded. "So does this cutie have a name now?" She asked.

Katie had already seen him, but at that time Javi and I were still stuck on names. We'd been stuck for awhile. Naming your child was harder than it seemed. We'd tried every name we could think of and nothing seemed to fit.

That was until Javi said he'd like Kevin's name to be a middle name. We'd thought about it for awhile, until Javi's eyes lit up.

"Sam!" He shouted nearly causing me to jump.

"What?"

"Sam!"

"I don't get it. What are you talking about?"

"Our son's name is Sam."

It seemed weird at first until, I looked down at our baby, who was in my arms. "Sam." I said, taking it in. I looked up to Javi. "I love it." I smiled. "Samuel."

"Samuel Kevin." He said and we both shook our heads. "That sounds weird."

I nodded. "Maybe we could go another way with the name."

"Like?"

I looked back down at Sam and said it too myself. I nodded. "Samuel Ryan."

"That's a hell of a lot better." Javi smiled.

"Did we just name our baby?" I asked kind of stunned.

"We did." He leaned down kissing Sam's head.

I shook my head, coming back to the present.

"So? A name?" Katie asked.

"Not until Javi wakes up." I shook my head. He needed to be awake for this.

She groaned. "Come on! He doesn't need to know."

"Not telling." I stood firm.

I looked over at Javi just in time to see Katie's hand nudge his shoulder.

"Katie!"

"What?" She asked nudging him again.

"Leave him alone!" I swatted her hand away, but it was too late. Javi was slowly coming to. "Good going." I gave Katie a stare.

"Rise and shine daddy." She said sweetly.

Javi looked confused for a second before looking down at Sam, quickly a smile came to his face. "Who woke me?" He asked me.

"Don't look at me." I pointed to Katie.

"Should have figured." He groaned before looking over to Kevin. "Hey bro." He greeted, before a yawn escaped him.

"Hey," Kevin replied going to say something else, but Katie cut him off.

"So the name?" She asked me and I shook my head. Damn, she was annoying.

I looked over to Javi. "Want to tell them?"

He nodded sitting up straight. "Okay, well," He picked up Sam carefully from his bed. "Aunt Katie and Uncle Kevin, this is your nephew, Samuel Ryan Esposito."

I didn't know who to look at first, so I kept my eyes on Javi, who was smiling.

I heard Katie gasp.

"Oh my god!" I turned to see her going over to Sam. "It's perfect. Absolutely perfect."

"Really man?" Kevin asked Javi.

"Definitely. I mean who better to name him after than his godfather?"

Kevin's eyes shot wide and so did Katie's.

"Does that mean I am his godmother?"

"No," I shook my head. A small frown covered her face. "I was thinking of asking some random person walking down the street." I shook my head at her. "Obviously it's you."

She smiled before coming over and giving me a hug. "Thank you. Thank you." She repeated. Over her shoulder, I saw Kevin walk over to Javi.

"Man, I don't know what to say."

Javi smiled and looked down at Sam. "One day, when you have one of these, remember my name."

Kevin lightly laughed. "Sure. A white, Irish kid named Javier, that doesn't sound strange at all." Kevin quipped, causing everyone to laugh.

"I'm going to get everything from the car. You okay putting him down in the nursery?" Javi asked.

I nodded slowly walking down the hall. I had moved in with Javi a few months after finding out I was pregnant. It just made sense. Since then, Javi had been working tirelessly on the nursery. I tried to help, but he wouldn't allow it. Claiming that it was the father's job to do it, not the mothers.

I carefully laid Sam down as not to wake him. He had lungs, that was for sure and I didn't really want to hear how loud he could be at the moment. Luckily he stayed asleep.

So this was what if felt like. This was what I had been obsessing over? Scared of? I shook my head at myself. Javi and Katie were right, I had been so dense. There was nothing scary about this. This was beautiful and everything I never knew I wanted. I did though. How could I not want this?

I smiled looking down at the angel laying in the crib Katie and Kevin had bought for us. Katie had brought it over while Javi was working. They had sort of become competitive over who bought what for the baby. It was cute, at first, but it quickly became annoying. Javi begrudgingly put the crib together, complaining the whole time that he should have bought it, not Katie.

I smiled thinking about how cute he had been trying to put the crib together. He had difficulties with it, but didn't give up. Katie had come over and saw the trouble he had with it and not so subtly said, she could do a better job. Javi pushed her out of the nursery and worked all night, until he got it put together. He declined help from anyone. Especially me. I thought I should be apart of the process, but he told me that my only job was to relax.

I wasn't sure how I was ever going to sleep. I was afraid I would miss something. Maybe my little angel would cry and I wouldn't hear. I knew it was irrational to think about skipping sleep, just so I wouldn't miss my baby, but I was a new mother now, it was practically mandatory to be a little insane, right?

"You know," Javi appeared behind me, resting his chin on my shoulder, while wrapping his arms around my waist, "he's not going to be walking off anytime soon. It's okay to relax."

I smiled. "I am." I rested against him. "Never been more relaxed."

"Good to hear." He laid a kiss to my shoulder. "We really did it."

"What?"

"We created the most extraordinary baby to ever be born."

I smiled. "Yes, we did."

We both stood there just watching our baby sleep. I could see so much of Javi in him, which I was thankful for. I just hoped he would be more like Javi than me as the years went by. If he was even a little bit like Javi, I wouldn't have to worry about him. He'd be perfect. He'd be kind, smart, resilient, and unbelievably loyal. He'd never have to worry about anything.

Sam stretched his tiny arm forward and let out a little cry. I nearly leaped forward, but Javi's arms didn't let me go far. I was going to try to unlock his arms, but before I knew it Sam was back to sleeping.

"See, he's fine." Javi whispered against my ear. "Nothing to be concerned over." I relaxed back against him.

"Great!" I groaned. "I'm going to be one of those moms."

Javi lightly laughed against me. "Yes, and I will be right here to keep you calm."

A Month Later

"Babe? Babe?" I faintly heard, still mostly asleep. "Baby, get up." My eyes shot open at Javi's voice. Was it Sam? Was something wrong?

"Sam?" I asked, jerking myself forward.

"He's fine." Javi sighed. "He's asleep." I looked around until my eyes found Sam. He was sleeping. I took a deep breath, before looking to Javi.

"Why'd you wake me up?"

"Why are you sleeping in the nursery again? I thought we talked about this." He said with a frown. I nodded. We had talked about it. I'd spent nearly every night in the nursery, afraid that something would happen. Javi convinced me a week after we brought Sam home, to start sleeping in our bedroom. I tried it out, to keep Javi from getting upset, but from time to time I would wake up in the nursery. I knew it was annoying Javi. "You don't need to be near him all the time."

I nodded. "I know, it's just a hard habit to break." I did feel bad. I didn't want to neglect Javi because of Sam, but I also didn't want to neglect Sam. I had to work harder on balancing time with both of them. I smiled at Javi. "I'm sorry." I rubbed his cheek. "I promise, I will get better at this."

He nodded. "Maybe I could help more."

"You already do enough for him." He really did. Javi was amazing with Sam. He worked a lot, but he did it for Sam. He wanted Sam to have the best. What more could he do to be a better dad?

"Not about Sam, I mean maybe I could help more with you."

I gave him a weird look. "How?"

He grabbed my hand. "Follow me." He pulled me up and I gave Sam one last look before going with Javi.

Once we were in our room and the door was closed, I felt a bit anxious. Would we be able to hear Sam cry? I shook my head remembering that we had his monitor in our room. Before I could ask him what was going on, he pulled me to him, wrapping his arms around me and laying a kiss on my lips. It was a short, but sweet kiss.

"Everything you have done, said, and probably even thought about for the last month has been all about Sam." I nodded knowing it was true. I couldn't deny it. "Right now, we are going to start making you a priority." I gave him a funny look, considering the laugh that came from him. "Seriously, you need to be taken care of too. Sad to say, I haven't been helping with that." I wanted to interject, but he wouldn't let me. "We're new at this parenting thing, so we are going to make mistakes. One of mine is that I have forgotten to keep showing you how much I love you."

Guilt spread inside of me. I'd stop showing him too. I frowned. "I guess we both have."

"Well," He picked me up and carried me over to the bed, before laying me down. "We can change that right here and right now."

Before I could agree his lips were on mine and he was on top of me. I changed my mind before stopping him. He was right. The past month, I had spend nearly every moment with Sam. I loved my time with him, but I did miss my time with Javi. We hadn't kissed like this in a long time. Too long.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. His hands were gentle, one was in my hair and the other was sliding up and down my side. I felt goosebumps breakout across my body. Damn, he still had that effect on me. Would it always be that way?

The kiss turned rough as his hand slid to my bare thigh and ran his hand up to the waistband of the shorts I was wearing. I ran my hands down his chest finding the bottom of his shirt and lifted it. He quickly removed it before laying kisses to my neck.

I lifted my hips, so he could get my shorts off.

We hadn't had sex in a long time, mostly, because I was pregnant and never felt in the mood. I felt gross and looked like a cow. I knew Javi didn't see me that, way but the sex had stopped. He was too concerned over making sure we were ready for when our baby showed up. At the time, I didn't see a problem with not having sex, but now with him on top of me, kissing and nipping at my neck, I realized just how much I missed and wanted it.

My love for Javi never went away and I was sure it was never going to go away. I was going to love him for the rest of my life, whether or not he would always love me back. I hadn't been in love except for with Javi. Never. He'd changed my life in a million different ways.

When I first met him, I didn't believe in love. I thought it was just a myth. I never wanted kids. I was terrified of having them, but now here I was with the most precious little boy in the world and I couldn't be more happy. I didn't ever think I would be this happy. Could I be any happier? Was something missing?

"I've missed this." Javi breathed into my skin. "I've missed being with you, like this." He was still laying kisses to my neck.

"You aren't the only one."

"I can't believe how long it's been."

"Me too."

"Promise me, we will never ever let that happen again. I don't want to get too caught up with work and Sam that I forget how lucky I am to have you."

I felt tears in my eyes. I was so lucky to have him. He was most loving and understanding man. I was the lucky one. I was lucky that he wanted to be with me, that he stuck around when we found out about Sam, I was lucky he purposed to me, even though I said no to him. Something that made me feel regretful, especially right now.

"I promise." I smiled and kissed him. The truth was that, I knew there was one more thing I needed, wanted, that would make me the happiest person alive. I broke the kiss and smiled up to him.

"What's that smile for?" He smiled back.

I bit my lip. Why was I always so late in knowing what I wanted?

"I'm smiling because I love you."

He ran his hand over my cheek, so gently, my body shook. "I love you too."

"I'm not scared anymore," I said as he leaned down to kiss me.

"What?" He stopped, looking me in the eyes.

I smiled. "I'm not scared anymore. I want to be with you, forever and in every way possible."

"What are you saying?" His eyes grew larger and my smile widened.

"I'm saying, I don't want to be just your girlfriend, or just the mother your child." The stupid tears were coming on strong, but I held them back. "I want to be your wife."

The End.

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