unexpected

Ryan Grayson Hale

                                                            ***********Two months later**********

"Blake, it's time!" cried Ashlyn as she tried to stand from the chair where she had been reading a book. Blake jumped off the couch and ran to her, "Breathe Ash, come on baby everything's gonna be fine, how often?" Ashlyn already in a grumpy mood from the pain turned to him and said, "How the hell would you know, you're not carrying this baby." Blake knew that the anger was due to the pain and ignored her words as he led her to the car, "How often babe, how close together are the contractions?" Ashlyn glared at him and said, "In the last hour, every ten minutes." The car ride was full of phone calls being made, fast driving that could get them stopped by the police and Ashlyn's cries of pain as the contractions get closer and closer together.

Once at the hospital, Ash was rushed into the delivery room with Blake holding her hand, the contractions were about 5 minutes apart, and Ashlyn's cries were getting worse. Finally it was time to push; Blake held Ashlyn's hand as she used all her strength to push their baby out of her body. "Blake, why the fuck did you do this to me, this is your fault, and I'm never having another baby." Blake just laughed and encouraged her to keep pushing; his sister had told him that this was what all women said as they went through labor.

After two hours of labor Ashlyn and Blake had a beautiful baby boy that they named Ryan Grayson Hale. Ashlyn was holding her baby boy when the doctor walked in and told her she had visitors, "Who are they?" Ash asked, the doctor quietly replied, "Your parents." Ashlyn calmly explained to the doctor that she wanted her parents kept out of her room that she didn't want to see them. The Doctor complied with her wishes and sent Mr. and Mrs. Ridge home, despite their disappointment. Soon after Tye and Justice arrived with a change of clothes for Ashlyn and a set of clothes for the baby, "Ash, how are you feeling?" Asked Justice as she rushed to her friend, "I'm fine Justice, The baby's fine too; do you want to hold him?" Justice lit up and nodded, Ashlyn passed baby Ryan over to Justice and laughed at the look on Tye's face.

Justice looked at Ashlyn, silently asking her a question and then passed Ryan to Tye who had no idea how to hold the baby. "Tye, support his head, ya like that." Justice said trying not to laugh at the look of horror on Tye's face. Tye was struggling to hold the baby properly without twisting his own body. "Tye here let me take him," said Blake as he stepped forward. Tye had no problem handing over the baby, "how are you gonna handle twins babe," Tye looked at her disapprovingly for taking such a cheap shot and then smiled, leaned in and kissed her.

When Ashlyn was finally released from the hospital with Ryan she realized just how much she loved this life. She wanted more of these little bundles of joy, she wanted them with Blake. Ryan was sleeping a lot and never really fussed. He was such a sweet baby; he ate a lot and looked a lot like his dad. Blake was getting better at holding and feeding him, he even took to singing to Ryan to get him to go to sleep. The only thing was getting a babysitter was not as easy as you may think. One of the four of them had to be off work at all times.

Ryan was about two weeks old and was becoming fussier with who held him so Ashlyn had to get Justice, Blake or Tye to watch him while she was working. The one day Justice was scheduled to work right after Ashlyn so she asked Jocelyn if she could bring the baby to work and pass it off to Ashlyn when she was done before Justice had to punch in. Jocelyn had no problem as long as the baby was kept upstairs. "Oh my god, he's so cute," cried Andrea as she entered the lunch room, "I didn't know you were bringing him to work." Justice just smiled and said, "Well I'm just watching him until Ashlyn gets off work and she'll take him home." Andrea smiled and gently asked if she could hold him, Justice easily passed him over and surprisingly Ryan didn't make a fuss.

"You must have the magic touch," Justice said as Andrea sat down with Ryan, "Why do you say that Justice?" "It's just that lately he's been rally fussy about who holds him especially people whom he's never been introduced, and you two haven't met until just now and he's fine." Andrea agreed and passed the baby back over to Justice, "I hope you and the little ones will be alright, I bet you can't wait for them to join you in the world." Justice smiled and nodded, "I want them to be happy but they are a pain, I can't eat half of what I did before, just a month in a half more of waiting." Andrea laughed and they said their goodbyes.

"Thanks Justice, I owe you one," said Ashlyn as she took the baby from Justice's arms. "It's all good Ash; you just get to watch the twins for me one day okay?" Ashlyn agreed and gave Justice one last hug before gathering up her stuff and heading out to her car. Justice headed to work and wondered how much longer she'd be able to work a four or five hour shift without passing out or needing to sit down. "Justice I think you should take the next few weeks off until after you've had the baby," said Jocelyn bringing Justice out of her thoughts, "Jocelyn, I'm fine, I'll let you know when I can't handle these shifts anymore, okay?" Jocelyn nodded and decided that Justice would know when she can't handle the job anymore, she'd be fine.

"sweetheart I think you should take the next little while off work," said Tye one morning, "Justice simply glared at him and said, "No way Tye, I'll work until I go into labor, I'm not going to take time off before I have the twins but I will need to take some time off after, I need to work as much as possible in order to take care of the twins, I'll be fine." Tye didn't know what to say, he didn't want to get into an argument with Justice, he knew that if she got stressed out then the babies could get stressed and that could induce labor and she wasn't due for another five weeks.