by Abbie Lynn
“Alright.” My mom beamed.
“What's going on?” I asked as Ty helped me up.
“Just come on.” He chuckled.
I followed him out. He helped me sit down in the grass and then I saw it, fireworks erupting in the sky. They were all white.
“Fireworks!” I beamed.
“Look.” He chuckled.
“They say something?” I shouted. I didn't even know you could do that!
I read it out loud.
“Will you marry me?” I read. I was taking it all in when Ty pulled me to my feet and got down on one knee.
“Ty!” I gasped.
“Arrabella James Middleton you are the love of my life. I've loved you since the day I saw you in English class reading Twilight. I love the way your green eyes sparkle when you get excited and I love when you smile and your dimples show. I love everything about you. We are going to have a beautiful daughter shortly and I can only hope she will be as smart and kind hearted as her mother. Arrabella will you marry me?” Ty asked.
I nodded and then finally found my voice again.
“Yes.” I laughed. He stood up and slipped the gorgeous ring on my finger.
“I love you Ty,” I sniffled.
“I love you baby.” He chuckled.
I cannot believe I am engaged to Tyson Benson!
* * *
Ty and I decided to have the wedding later on and have a long engagement. We want Kaya to be part of the wedding.
Also, I don't want to be pregnant during that time! Ty said it could be small or big. I told him to invite the entire pack so no one feels left out. Wolf weddings are different because the day Ty and I met he knew we would be together forever.
My mom cried when I told her the news. She's so happy for me.
“Babe where are the bottles?” I asked.
“I got it.” Ty smiled, grabbing them from the sun room and stocking them into the cabinets.
“Thanks babe!” I called from the couch in the living room.
“Hey Aria.” Audrey smiled, sitting on the couch next to me.
“Hey are you taking a break?” I laughed.
Audrey is moving in today! She has a lot of stuff! When I say a lot, I mean like Carter had to make two trips from her house to here just to transport everything.
“I am. Carter is still working.” She shrugged.
“How long until he comes looking for you?” I scoffed.
“I give it,” she started to say.
“Aud!” Carter called.
“Until now.” She laughed.
“Yeah babe?” she asked.
“What's this?” he asked, holding up a football sweatshirt.
“That would be my friend's sweatshirt I never returned.” She shrugged.
“Guy friend?”
“Yes Carter,” she sighed.
“Who is he?”
“Carter stop. We were best friends in middle school. He's away at college now.” She rolled her eyes.
“Well you wore it a lot.” He pouted.
“Well look whose sweatshirt I'm wearing now.” She pointed out while pointing to Carter's Vikings sweatshirt.
“That's my girl.” He smiled, picking her up so she was straddling him.
“Okay bye.” I called, standing up from the couch and walking into the kitchen.
I sat on the stool and watched as Ty stacked the bottles in the cabinet.
“Hey princess.” He smiled.
“Hey Ty,” I sighed, resting my chin on my hands.
“You tired?” he worriedly asked while searching my face.
“I'm tired of being pregnant. I just want the little chunker out.” I pouted.
“I know babe. Soon enough she will be here.”
I smiled up at him. He's right, soon enough Kaya would be in my arms, and I can't wait until she completes our little family.
Chapter 40
Dear Diary,
We are getting Kaya's nursery ready today!
~Aria
Ty showed me that the door on the left side of the room is actually a small room meant for the alpha’s first born. We are painting it purple. There is a crib with purple bows and Kaya's name on the wall. It's perfect. We also have a cradle in our room for the first few months.
I can't wait until she is actually here and I can hold her and kiss her tiny head. I can only imagine the way she will look. I'm hoping she takes most of Ty's features.
“OH!” I screamed and fell to my knees.
“Aria!” Ty shouted, racing over to me.
“I think my water just broke!” I yelled.
Ty scooped me up and ran me down to the hospital room.
“Okay Aria, how bad is your pain?” Sherry asked.
“Out of ten a nine point five,” I groaned. I can't even begin to describe this pain.
“Okay I will give you a shot.” She nodded.
“Wait it's a week early!” I panicked.
“She's ready now.” Sherry smiled.
“I'm not ready!”
Am I ready to keep a human being alive? I've never had experience with babies or even children. I mean I love kids but keeping one alive? What if I mess up? What if Kaya doesn't like me?
“Shh, it's okay babe. You are you are going to be a great mother, I promise.”
“It hurts,” I sobbed.
“I know baby, you're doing great,” Ty sniffled, holding onto my hand.
* * *
Six hours later
“Push!” Sherry encouraged.
“I am pushing,” I groaned.
“Come on until ten.”
I made it to it to seven seconds. Why is this so hard? Come on Arrabella you have to do this. “You can do it Ar!” Ty soothed.
“I got this.” I nodded.
I made it to ten.
“Did it work?” I asked.
“We've got the head. You need to push until I tell you to stop,” Sherry added.
“Okay.” I nodded.
“NOW!” She shouted.
I pushed as hard and long as I could. When I heard the crying my heart stopped. That was my daughter: half Tyson and half me.
Ty and I made this little girl.
Ty cut the umbilical cord, and Sherry cleaned her off.
“She weighs seven pounds two ounces,” she announced, wrapping Kaya in a pink blanket and handing her to me.
“Hi Kaya, I'm your mama,” I cried.
“I love you so much,” I sobbed.
I looked over at Ty to see him looking at us in awe through his tears.
“That's your daddy,” I cooed.
Ty smiled and kissed my head.
“She's perfect,” he whispered.
“Hi little Kaya,” he greeted, putting his finger in her tiny hand.
Kaya yawned and opened her little eyes. I gasped they were stunning. She had Ty's vibrant brown eyes with a small green sunburst.
I was now sobbing. This is my daughter. I've imagined her so many times but never this perfect. She's so beautiful. Her little oval shaped head and pudgy cheeks that made her look like she's pouting. She already had brown hair covering her little head. She was just perfect. I already love her more than words can describe.
This is the moment, you know “that moment” that you read about and see and movies. Nothing prepares you for the moment you see your baby’s face—the face you've imagined a million times. I could stare at her forever.
“I have never seen eyes so beautiful.”
“Alpha, the blood is human.” Sherry smiled.
“Thank you.” Ty smiled.
“You wanted her to be human?” I asked.
“I just wanted her to be whatever she was meant to be.” He smiled.
Honestly, I didn't really care if Kaya was human or not. I'm just happy our little chunker is healthy.
“I love you.” I grinned.
“I love you too.” He smiled.
* * *
“Kaya.” I laughed.
She was stic
king her tongue out and all around.
“Get that tongue in there,” I cooed.
She continued to amuse herself so I held her while finishing packing the diaper bag.
“Are you ready to see grandma?” I asked Kaya.
We are going to visit my mom today. It's been two weeks since Kaya was born and my mom is dying to see the perfect child I've been describing over the phone. My mom thinks that I was already seven months pregnant at the baby shower so she thinks Kaya is a perfectly healthy human, which she is, Kaya just happens to have a small amount of wolf blood in her. Plus I looked seven months pregnant during the baby shower so everything fell into place perfectly.
I told her about Kaya’s brown eyes with green in them. She's so excited to hold her first grandchild. I'm so happy my mom and I patched things up and she can be a part of Kaya's life. After all it was my mother who gave me my green eyes and now her granddaughter has a small amount of green in her eyes but her eyes mostly look like her Daddy Ty's.
“Ready?” Ty asked.
“Yep.” I smiled. He grabbed the bag and led me to the car. I put Kaya in her car seat and made sure she was buckled in properly.
We drove to my mom's apartment and my mom was waving at us excitedly through the window. I smiled and waved back. I got out of the car and grabbed Kaya from the back.
My mom was waiting for us at the door.
“Hey mom!” I called as we were walking up the steps.
“Hey, let me see her,” my mom cooed.
I laughed and carefully handed Kaya to my mother as I entered the apartment.
“Oh!” My mom swooned.
Kaya looked up at her grandma. Kaya is always looking up at people with those eyes of hers. She loves looking into people's eyes in fact she gets fussy when you don’t maintain eye contact; she's sure the center of attention right when I walk in the room with her.
After visiting with my mom, who spent the entire time gushing over our beautiful child, we drove back to the house.
“Your mom sure loves her.” Ty chuckled.
“Everyone who lays eyes on her does.” I laughed.
“Why wouldn't they? She's perfect,” Ty said.
“Aww, are you a proud daddy?” I mocked, pinching his cheeks.
“I made her, so yes,” he teased, wiggling his eyebrows.
“You're a psycho.” I laughed.
“Am I Ar, am I psycho?” he questioned, putting an accent on the word psycho.
“Ty, I don't say it like that.”
“Sorry princess but you do.” He chuckled.
I rolled my eyes at the dork. Poor Kaya will have to deal with this embarrassing dork as a father, well at least she has two parents who love her and each other. What more could a girl ask for?
Chapter 41
Dear Diary,
Kaya is six months old today! Wow already half way to one.
She's amazing. She lights up the room. She laughs at everything and loves me. She is such a loving and happy baby.
It is the best feeling in the world when she places her small head on my shoulder.
Ty and I are better than ever too. Kaya just completes our little family so amazingly. Ty and I are starting to plan for the wedding! We're thinking we will get married in August, which is only two months away.
~Aria
“Say mama,” I encouraged.
“Mmmm.” Kaya giggled.
“Well you got the first letter right,” I cooed.
“Say dada!” Ty called from his desk.
This just made Kaya shift her attention from me to him. When he looked over at her and smiled she lifted her arms up and started bouncing in place.
I laughed and picked her up. She snuggled her head into my shoulder and I kissed her small head.
We were right about her dark hair. She got it from Tyson. Her eyes however remained a mix of Ty's and mine.
“I'm going to put her down for a nap,” I told Ty.
“Alright babe, but then come back.” He pouted.
“Okay, turn the baby monitors on,” I called, leaving the room.
There is pretty much baby monitors all over the place in this house. However, on Ty's computer we can see and hear Kaya.
I placed her in her crib and watched as she snuggled into her blankets and shut her eyes.
“Night Kaya, love you,” I whispered, shutting the door to her room. I then walked out of our bedroom and then went back downstairs.
“Where's Kay Kay?” Carter pouted from the couch.
“I just put her down for a nap.” I laughed.
“Fine,” he grumbled. Carter loves being an uncle to Kaya or Kay Kay as he calls her.
I walked back into Ty's office.
I love seeing Ty at his desk. His eyebrows are scrunched together because he's deep in thought. He looked up at me making me smile and shut the door. I walked over to him and sat on his lap.
I then pulled up Kaya's camera in her room to see if she was alright. She was sound asleep already holding onto the bear Audrey and Carter had bought her.
She is so perfect. She looks so innocent in her sleep; she looks just like Ty when he sleeps. She even moves her lips up in down like Ty does.
“She's fine love.” Ty chuckled.
“I know, she looks like you when she sleeps.” Ty looked at the computer and rolled his eyes.
“I don't look like that.”
“Yes you do.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah, besides how would you know? You can't see yourself sleep.” Instead of fighting back, Ty grabbed my face with his large hands and then ducked his head down so his lips made contact with mine.
I was a little surprised but I was kissing him back a second later. He smirked against my lips.
So that is why he kissed me, so I would shut up. Well this doesn't mean he won. I pulled away quickly knowing it would take Ty a minute to recover and I sprinted. I sprinted so fast through the house you would never know I had a baby six months ago. My body really snapped back quickly.
I ran up the stairs and went right and ran down to Carter and Audrey's room. I barged through the door and saw Audrey sitting on her bed getting her shoes on.
“Whoa, hey Aria.” She laughed.
“Where are you going?” I asked still out of breath.
“I'm going on a walk with Carter. Why are you out of breath?” she asked.
“I just ran all the way up here,” I panted.
“You're crazy.” She laughed.
“Arrabella!” Ty demanded.
I looked up to see him in the doorway.
“Keep your voice down. You'll wake the baby up.”
“Yeah too bad she's all the way on the other side of the hallway and can't hear us.” He smirked.
“She can hear us, and you're lying right now,” I teased.
“Come here.”
“Say please.”
“Are you kidding me?” He chuckled.
“Nope.”
“Please.”
I ran over to him and hugged him around the waist.
“You're so tall Ty you make me feel like a child.” I laughed.
“You are a child.”
“Joke’s on you then because that means you're engaged to one,” I said into his chest.
He chuckled making his chest rumble while he softly chucked. I love being in Ty's arms.
* * *
The wedding was only one month away!
Audrey and I have figured out the basics though. We are having purple, pink, and yellow roses. Then Ty and the Reverend will walk down the aisle, followed by Emmalee and Dalton. Then Audrey and Carter will walk down pulling Kaya in a white painted wood wagon covered with rose pedals; she will be our flower girl.
Then lastly my mother will escort me down the aisle. We decided that Audrey and my mother would wear purple dresses; Carter will wear a purple tie. Then Emmalee will wear a light pink dress, and Dalton will wear a light pink tie. Then Ty will wear a black suit with a white sh
irt and cream tie and then Kaya will wear a cream dress. I of course will be wearing a white wedding dress that Audrey and I found last week. My wedding dress is perfect and I can't wait to wear it!
After the ceremony the reception will be held out back that will have tables and chairs and a stage for live music. Tyson and I will have our first dance and then Ty and Kaya will dance along with the other father and daughters at the wedding. But most importantly that will be the day I become Arrabella James Benson.
Also, I invited Isaac. I told Ty and he wasn't even mad. In fact he said it would be a great idea! I mean Isaac and I have had our ups and downs but he was my best friend growing up.
“Mmmm,” Kaya sounded, swinging her bear around.
“Mama.” I laughed, kissing her head.
She smiled up at me. I am sitting on the floor with her looking through every song ever!
I am in charge of picking the song for Ty and my first dance! Audrey and I thought it would be a great surprise; but at this point it will be a surprise if I ever find a song!
I groaned and stood up, swinging Kaya around my hip.
“Let's go find Auntie Audrey,” I told Kaya.
I walked to Carter and Audrey's bedroom and peeked through the doorway. They were on the bed playing an intense round of Uno.
“I hate to interrupt your game,” I sarcastically started to say. “But I need Audrey's help.” I pouted.
“Aww don't pout kid. What's wrong?” Carter asked.
“Carter I'm a mother, not a child.” He laughed and stood up and took Kaya from my arms.
“Yeah right,” he scoffed, throwing Kaya up a little and catching her.
“Kay kay,” he sang, bouncing her. She laughed and grabbed onto his shirt.
“Talk to mama.” Audrey smiled, patting the spot next to her on the bed.
I rolled my eyes and sat down.
“I can't find a song,” I sighed.
“Well, what do you think about when you think of Tyson?”
“I don't know, love.” I shrugged.
“What else.” She laughed.
“That he helped me.” I listed. Then I thought of all the things I love about Ty.
“What do you love about him?” she asked.
“His brown eyes, they’re so light and vibrant and he always knows how to make me feel better. At night when he pulls me into him I feel so safe and comfy. He's like my best friend but way more. He's a great dad to Kaya.” I went on. Everything, I love everything about Tyson.