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A Summer to Remember

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When she was finally allowed to go back home everyone was waiting at home with congratulations signs and balloons with baby clothes and bottles and binkies and such on them. God Damn it why didn’t I tell anyone! Natalie broke down and ran upstairs to her room. I guess I was too broken hearted to have everyone else know. Natalie’s mom came up to me, “What happened? Where’s the baby?” I took a deep breath and sighed, “Everyone I think you need to sit down. There were some complications and we lost the baby.” I stood there and stared at my shoes in a room filled with silence. Just then Mrs. Vaughn ran upstairs to comfort her daughter, but I still stood there.

Everyone must have felt really bad after what just happened. You could see it in their faces. “Patrick, honey I’m so sorry.” I shrugged my shoulders; I really don’t even know why I’m so upset about this to begin with. The baby wasn’t even mine but I was planning all of these big memories that I would have with him or her. Now that is all ruined but at least I can focus on the one thing that I want is to marry Natalie and start a family of our own that doesn’t even have Tyler Smith involved at all. Truthfully I guess I’m going to be okay, I’ll get over it within a few weeks. But this was Natalie’s baby. She really wanted this and she was going to be a great mother, but now because of all the stress that took place this week the baby is gone.

The crowd of people finally decided that it wasn’t their place to be there anymore so I was left alone sitting on the couch while Natalie cried upstairs. We both didn’t want to talk about it; we thought it was better just to think by ourselves for now. Natalie’s mom came downstairs and gave me a hug and a sympathetic smile before leaving. I finally decided it would be a good time to go comfort Natalie.

“Nat,” I said softly walking into her bedroom. She was curled up in a ball just as I had found her the night before. I heard a soft sniffle as I sat down on the bed. “Pat, I’m so sorry I lost the baby for us.” She kept repeating it over and over again. “We were going to have a great life together with that baby boy. And I ruined it for us.” I softly started playing with her smooth blonde hair, “Nat, it’s okay, it’s not your fault. It’s Tyler’s fault, and trust me it’s—Wait, we were having a boy?” She nodded her head sniffling once again. Then I flashed back to my thoughts in the hospital, I watched as a little boy with a skinned knee ran outside and played like a little kid. “Nat, that’s not our only chance to have a baby. We’ll be okay. And besides my mom told me that there is a high percentage that first time mothers will lose their first baby.” Truthfully, I didn’t learn that from my mom. I was hiding some baby books in my room and I would read a chapter or two before I went to bed, I didn’t want to be unprepared for when the baby did show up.

“Really?” She finally mumbled. Wow and I thought I was unprepared. She really didn’t have a clue. Oh well she was probably relying on motherly instincts to kick in. I would be too if I was a girl. Especially if there was all this talk about who actually needs books and that our own nature as parents would just kick in. Eh, whatever. “Yeah babe, it’s just part of nature. Maybe when were ready we can try again for a baby.” I finally saw the first smile from her in about a day. “I’d like that Pat.” She wrapped her arms around me and squeezed my midsection tight before we enjoyed the rest of the night, and I needed as much sleep as I could get because tomorrow is going to be a big day for us.

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