Unexpected. by Ash . (ebook reader browser txt) 📕

We got there in 15 minutes tops and asked for Alex's room.

"Are you family of the patient?" the secretary asked us.

"I'm his fiancee," I told her and showed her my ring.

"And I'm his mother-in-law," mom told her.

"Room 1145; take the elevator upstairs and go to the right," she told us.

We walked quickly to the elevator and got impatient as the floors went by slowly. Stopping every-so-often to pick up new passengers. Once we got to his floor, it stopped and we followed the directions that the secretary gave us until we found his room. Balloons and bears were outside of his door. A note was taped on the door. Family Only Enter it said. Wow. That'll keep intruders out, I thought to myself as I twisted the doorknob. A blonde girl with glasses and chewing gum way too loud looked up from paying attention to me and frowned when he smiled at me.

"You came," he whispered hoarsely.

"Are you ok?" I asked as the tears started to spill from my eyes.

"Oh Katie," he said when I went into his arms.

He held me while I sobbed in his arms. I loved the feeling of his arms around me again and couldn't imagine being anywhere else but here. I looked up at him and kissed him deeply on the lips. I could imagine he was shocked by the kiss so I leaned into him more and took his face between my hands. Soon, he started to kiss me back and started to pull me closer. I guess when I said I was his fiancee, it was the truth. He's the only one I'd marry.

- Alex's POV -

Suddenly, she pulled away from me quickly and her eyes clouded with tears.

"Baby, what's wrong?" I asked, alarmed.

Her hands flew to her stomach. "I..."

"No. You're not due for another four weeks," I told her.

"My water just broke, Alex," she said and started to panic.

"Someone call a doctor!" I screamed as loud as I could with a weak voice.

In minutes, they had a wheel chair inside of my room and the nurses were talking soothingly to Katie as they wheeled her out of my room. I started to get out of bed but the doctor put a hand on my chest.

"No, son, you have to stay here," he told me.

"No, you don't understand; that's my child!" I said.

"I know how you must feel but in your condition, you shouldn't be around all of the excitement. I'm going to call a nurse to come and sit with you and I will tell her all the feed so she may tell you what's happening with your child."

I didn't like the idea of me not being there with her but I couldn't fight any further and I lay back down respectfully. I just waited for the time...

Hours passed and I wasn't getting anything. "Where the hell is my wife?" I shouted at the nurse.

"She's still in labor, sir," she said politely. "The doctor will notify us when-," Something beeped in her pocket and she took out a small pager. She left the room quickly and ran down the hall.

I got up and ripped off the IV in my arm and took off to the next floor where delivery was. Once I got there, I looked through the glass in the door and saw Katie's body laying on the table unmoving. A baby was crying in the doctors arms. I burst the door open.

"What the-,"

"Sir, I specifically told you-,"

"What happened to my-,"

I was pulled out of the door in a flash.

"Today we say goodbye to one of the best people that's impacted our lives. 17 years of life is a lot to ask for from God but he gave it to her and luckily, in those 17 years, she was able to bare another life to this Earth. We say goodbye to Kathryn Elicia Miller."

I wasn't too much in favor of funerals. Seeing her lifeless body one more time broke me, though. All we'd worked for and the day she died was the day she had our baby boy, Devin Lucas Milan. He was five pounds four ounces. He was a handsome young thing. When I held him, I swore I could see so much of her in him than I saw myself. I guess it was him that motivated to keep going on with my life. He was all I had left of her and if I was to end my life to see her again, I'd leave him to nothing. My son. My little baby boy all alone with no one that truly loved him like a father could.

"Alex, it's time to go," Katie's mother told me.

"I think I'm going to stay here with Devin a bit, Mrs. Miller," I told her softly and rocked Devin gently.

"We'll wait in the limo for you," she said and forced a smile before walking away.

I looked down into the hole that her casket lay inside and threw a handful of dirt into it. "He's going to make you proud, baby. I'm going to make you proud," I whispered.

As if on cue, the wind blew right as I said that last word. I breathed in the air and smelled the pine and evergreen smell of the trees. I could still smell the coconut shampoo that she'd used on her hair that morning. It smelled so fresh and lovely.

"Come on, Devin," I said as if he could follow me and carried him back to the family car that everyone was waiting in.

"Are you alright?" my mother asked me when I was staring at Devin.

I thought about the answer for a second. "Yeah, I'm better."

"You're sure?" dad asked.

"I'm positive. I have to be for my son," I said and then we started back home.

I saw the trees we passed and thought about how much Katie loved nature. Then Devin stirred in his sleep and started to whine.

"You want me to-," I stopped Mrs. Miller in her sentence.

"It's fine," I told her with a gentle smile and stuck my pinky finger inside of his mouth.

Reluctantly, he sucked on my finger and settled soon after that. I smiled at his little face and his small, yet still a little rough, tongue tickling my finger. I felt protective like a mother and proud like a father when I looked down at Devin. I'd do anything and everything for this kid. He was mine.

- Alex's POV -

Let me just tell you: God gives everyone life for a reason. He gives them a goal that he wants them to accomplish before they die. He wants them to reach the climax of life before moving on to become one of his Guardian Angels. Katie's an angel for me and little Devin now. And when you look up in the sky and see a little twinkling star, she's become your Guardian Angel too.

My name's Alexander. And sure, I made a mistake by taking an innocent girl's virginity and then dropping her at some party. But that mistake soon covered my refridgerator and is now my life. I guess when you take things for granted, then that's when things start to get challenging. I guess I'm ready for the challenge that life's going to give me with this new person I have to care for. And that's my story on how love can be so... Unexpected.

Publication Date: 07-26-2013

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