I couldn't be any happier than when the day came for me to take Kris home. She had spent a week in the hospital. She and our baby were constantly monitored; Kris got some much needed rest. When it came time for me to take her home her color had fully returned, and she seemed to have put on a little bit of weight. Her stomach had just begun to show just a little bit. Of course, Kris thought she already looked huge. I thought she looked beautiful.
Now Kris and I were just sitting in her hospital room waiting for her doctor to come and give us the okay to leave.
Kris was lying on her bed in her traveling clothes absently rubbing her tummy. She had just spent the last hour or so in the bathroom getting rid of her breakfast but even so she had a glow about her.
I just sat in the chair next to her bed staring at her in amazement still finding it hard to believe that she was carrying our child. It was still so hard to believe that we had created another being. She caught me looking at her, and she patted the bed for me to come sit next to her. I went over and sat down very gently. Her shoulder was almost healed but would be in a sling for another couple of days and was still a little tender. She took my hand in hers and looked into my eyes and asked, "What?"
I looked over at her and then placed a small kiss to her belly and said, "I was just thinking how beautiful you are." Her eyes started to glimmer with tears, and she refused to look me in the eye. I had to gently lift her chin to get her to look at me. When I did I saw the tears running down her face.
She tried with to wipe the tears away with the back of her hand. I just took her into my arms and held her as she cried.
She told me through the sobbing how lucky she was to have found a man like me, but she would perfectly understand if I wanted to walk away. She said she understood that this wasn't the life I had chosen for myself.
I pulled back so she could see my face, so she won't doubt a thing I said. "There is no other place I would rather be right now. You and our baby are my family now. Neither of us had very good role models for parents, but I know together we can do anything. Don't you ever think for a single minute that I would leave either of you. Kris, I love you and if I need to I will go to the highest rooftop and shout it. I know that neither of us ever dreamed of starting a family this early, but it happened and I for one couldn't be happier.
I stopped for just a second and Kris exhausted from all the crying let her head fall into my chest. I kissed the top of her head and gently stroked her hair. She lifted her head just a little, so she could look me in the eye with those big brown eyes that melt my heart. "Junior Davis, I love you too, and I am so happy that we are having this baby."
Then she settled back into my arms and fell fast asleep that is how the doctor found us thirty minutes later.