It was a little after midnight as Amber and Brian both sat in the oval bathtub, relaxing in the warm water. "Damnit Brian" Amber whined as she smacked her lips and threw the razor she'd been holding down in the water.
"What?" Brian asked, wondering what he'd done.
"It's not fair, I can't reach my legs to shave them" Amber said as she laughed a little and caught the look Brian was giving her.
"Awww, you want me to shave your legs?" Brian said back as he searched the water for the razor, a few minutes later he was running the blade down her legs where she couldn't reach due to her over grown stomach.
"Oh my god" Amber said, sitting straight up in bed at seven AM.
"What, what is it, whats wrong?" Brian asked as he quickly sat up beside her.
"Brian, Brian, it's umm...it's time" Amber answered as her breathing became quicker.
Brian smiled widely before jumping out of the bed and helping her out of it, soon they were in the BMW, Brian flooring it as he drove to the Orlando hospitial. "Breathe in, breathe out..." Brian was walking Amber through the steps as she gripped onto the arm rest. "Yes, can I get a wheelchair please, my wife is in labor, or about to go in it" Brian said as he ran into the hospitial, running up to the front desk, well slamming into the front desk, his feet which were still covered by socks only causing him to slide across the tile floor.
"Yes sir, right here" the nurse behind the desk said, getting him a wheelchair as he ran back outside, putting Amber in it. She couldn't help but laugh at him, he was so excited at that exact moment.
"You could have put some clothes on" she commented as he made his way back into the hospitial, laughing slightly.
Brian looked over himself, he still had on his plaid boxers, wife beater and socks. "Oh well, I don't care, I'm going to be a daddy and all I'm worried about is you giving birth to a little girl" Brian laughed himself as he raced back up to the front desk where the nurse took them to the fourth floor, labor and delivery.
"Hello?" Brooke asked as she picked up the phone.
"Hey it's Bri, listen ya'll gotta come to the hospitial, Amber's in labor" he answered.
"Now?" Brooke asked.
"Umm...yea" Brian replied.
"Ok, fourth floor right?" Brooke asked quickly.
"Yea, call everyone else, bye" Brian said, hanging up the phone so he could get back to Amber's side. An hour later everyone else arrived, waiting patiently in the waitingroom. All the girl's sat together, all the guys together. Whit would occasionally glance at Nick, or he'd do the same to her. Both of them looked like hell, Whit had lost numerous pounds since thier departure in December. Nick wasn't himself, he got back into his quiet stage. Both putting the same plan in their minds, to avoid one another.
"Ok, now breathe in and out, in and out" the nurse ordered as she stood to the left of Amber's bedside, Brian to the right.
"In and out, in and out" Brian repeated as he inhaled then exhaled.
"Bri, Brian, calm down she was talking about me.." Amber explained as she stifled a laugh, the nurse doing the same.
"Sorry, maybe I'm getting carried away.." Brian remarked.
"Yea, but thats OK BRIAN" Amber yelled as pain invaded her body, causing her to scream as she grabbed Brian's arm. Digging her fingernails into his skin as the pain kept coming.
"Push honey, push" the nurse directed.
"Yea push, Am, push" Brian repeated.
"Brian, I heard it the first time, you just stay right here" Amber snapped as she pushed with everything she had in her and kept holding Brian's arm. Thirty minutes later she was still pushing with all of her strength, she had dialated to nine, almost there. "Brian, it hurt's, I can't do this" she cried as she gripped his hand, taking her anger out on it.
"Yes you can Am, just a little more, thats all it takes" Brian assured as he wiped her forehead with his free hand and kissed it.
"Oh shit" Amber yelled as she gave one final push and crying was heard.
Ten minutes later Brian was holding her for the first time, once she wrapped her small hand around his finger he burst into tears, Amber couldn't help but cry watching him. "This is the best day of my life" Brian stated as he kissed the forehead of the baby he was holding. They named her Skylar Marie, like both had wanted. "See Am, didn't I promise you we'd have a baby, someday, when the time was right?" he asked, sitting in a chair as the nurse took the baby down to the nursery.
"Yea, you did, I love you Bri" Amber answered.
"I love you too" Brian assured as he kissed her gently. "I am a daddy" Brian announced as he danced his way into the waiting room, still covered by the blue and white gown he had to wear in the labor room.
"Congrats man" all the guys said in their own way as Brian took a seat beside them, exhaling deeply, looking at the clock it was close to six PM. It'd seemed like he'd just walked onto the fourth floor and no that he'd been there for close to eleven hours.
Everyone hung around Amber's room until eleven that night, then they cleared out. Brian had talked the nurse into letting him have the baby in Amber's room that night although it was supposed to stay in the nursery overnight. "There is nothing that I wouldn't do, climb to the edge of the earth for you..." Brian sang as he held Skylar in his arms.
"God you're gonna have her spoiled before we leave the hospitial" Amber laughed as she glanced over at the two.
"Say thats the point" Brian laughed as he looked down in his arms.
"Yep, thats the point" Amber sighed as she relaxed into the bed, watching her husband, and daughter.
Whit sighed as she laid across her own bed, "God why did I have to see him" she said aloud.
"It was meant that way, because you love him" Brooke said back, Whit looked in the doorway to see her standing there.
"No, I don't" Whit replied.
"Yes you do, you always will" Brooke stated.
"I mean, I'll always have feelings for Nick, I mean I went through everything with him, you know?" Whit asked as she sighed deeply and herself and Brooke started a conversation.
Nick was out at midnight roaming the halls of the hospitial, he made his way up to Amber's room, he knew he'd find Brian there. He knocked on the door and explained he needed to talk to Brian. Brian gave Skylar to Amber as he exited the room and the two started a walk throughout the hospitial. "So hows it feel?" Nick asked.
"Hows what feel?" Brian answered.
"To have a child, damn Brian to have every sigle thing you've ever wanted out of life" Nick replied, running his fingers through his hair, then rubbing his eyes.
"It's amazing Nick, overwhelming..." Brian stated, looking over at Nick. "Whats wrong?" he asked, knowing something wasn't being told there.
"Nothing..." Nick trailed off.
"No Nick, whats wrong?" Brian repeated.
"Just pissed off at myself I guess, I could had what you have now, if I wouldn't have been so stupid.." Nick remarked. "I mean I'd have a two year old now, I'd probably be married.." Nick trailed off.
"A two year old, what are you talking about?" Brian asked, bewildered. Nick just looked at him, "Whit was pregnant?" Brian asked again. Nick only nodded as the two sat in two chairs out in the hallway they were now on. Nick put his head in his hands. "And she had an abortion, I'm guessing" Brian finished Nick's thoughts.
"Yea, she did" Nick stated, looking over at his best friend.
"How come you never said anything and why are you saying your the stupid one, I hope it was a mutual agreement" Brian asked.
"I never said anything because we swore we wouldn't, I let it slip to Aaron a while back, you remember when I was telling you about walking in on him and stuff. And once I started talking about it with Aarion, it just got me to thinking, and I hated the thought that we'd made a wrong decision, so I just blocked it. It was a mutual agreement, but if I had told her not to do it, she wouldn't have, she just wouldn't have.." Nick trailed off.
"I'm sorry man" Brian said.
"I mean I just don't know why I'm feeling so guilty, this was so long ago, but I miss her Brian, I really do...I miss Whitney, I miss the girl I used to come home to everynight, the girl I could hold all day, damn the only girl I know who stays up until sunrise and sleeps until three in the afternoon" Nick said back, his eyes watering.
"I know you miss her Nick" Brian began.
"I mean it's like everyday I wake up and I wonder why I'm even living this life, what's the point, there isn't one. If I even attempt to look at another girl all I see is Whit, every single memory has her in it, I rarely sleep, I just lay awake, thinking about her. My god I've called over there before just to hear her voice, it's pathetic that I can't get over her, that I can't move on, but I can't...and I don't know why" Nick finished, tears already following the path of his cheek.
"Because you love her, thats why" Brian answered.
"Yea, I do, it's like that night you told me that when I found the right one I'd know because I'd feel like I never felt before, I'm more or less positive thats what this is, I mean it has to be" Nick decided as he leaned back in the chair.
"Give it time man, give it time, if it's meant to be, it'll happen" Brian said as Nick nodded.
"You really think so?" Whit asked as Brooke got up to leave her room.
"Yea Whit, I do" Brooke answered as she turned and made her way down the hall to her room, hoping she'd given her friend some assistance in her troubled love life.
