This is a work in progress but I figured I might as well put it out there cause it'd drive me crazy if I didn't at least put the Preface out there.

Warning: I don't own August Rush or any characters in it. I'm just writing a fanfiction.

Preface

I looked down at my baby.

I knew it'd be wrong to forge her signature on the adoption papers but what choice did I have? I couldn't let her keep him…. Could I? She is 18 so legally she can do almost anything but to keep the baby?
Keeping the baby would mean so much more than buying a car or moving out. She'd be taking care of another human being. She was just starting to become a successful cellist with the Philharmonic, and to throw that all away for a baby?

And there wasn't even a father so she'd be all alone. I still remembered how hard it was for me after Sarah died. I was falling apart at the seams.

Her career would suffer dramatically because of this baby. I know she keeps telling me that she could still play and take care of the baby but I knew otherwise.

She groaned and rolled over her greenish brown eyes looking at me trustingly.

Her mother had those same eyes and she worked me over with them.

I grit my teeth.

I could lie; I could lie and say he'd died and she need never know.

We could go back to her becoming the cellist star she was meant to be.

But then a thought hit me, would she be the same? Would she have the strength to go back; to go back to that life thinking she'd lost a part of her and the part of this boy that she seemed to care so much for that she'd never even told me his name.

I decided to do the only think I could do, I nodded, "He's alright."

She reached over and pressed the nurse button and told them she wanted her baby. When they brought him in to her and she held him for the first time I looked at her face and I knew…. I knew I'd done the right thing.

Now yes I added 'Sarah' as Lyla's mom. They didn't give her a name or a place in the movie so I made something up. So sue me.

Thanks for reading let me know if you like it.