Emerson. Higgins didn't expect to find love over the summer due to a funeral for her fathers old basketball coach. But she's sure glade she did.
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"It's to early." Emerson mumbled, laying her head against the window of Nate's car.
"We had to leave early to make it back to the doctor's appointment." Nate told her, intertwining their fingers.
"I know." She sighed, "Going to the doctors to confirm and let us know things just makes it more real, you know?"
"Yeah." Nate frowned, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." She said, moving a hand to rest on her flat stomach, "A baby's kind of grown on me.
"Me to, baby."
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"Alright, Ms. Higgins." The doctor came back into the room, "You are in fact pregnant, and exactly 10 weeks, which is a week and two months. He, or she, is about the size of a strawberry right at this moment, and soon you'll be able to see a baby bump. Maternity wear is a great thing to start shopping for because usually it's harder for pregnant women to button their jeans, or shorts."
"That's why I had to get Nate to button them." Emerson pouted, causing the doctor laugh.
"So, usually by the ninth week you would've been able to hear your baby's heartbeat." The doctor said.
"This is the first doctor's appointment since finding out she was pregnant and that was three days ago." Nate spoke up, leaning his elbows on his knees.
"Well, then I'm gonna get a nurse in here with the equipment and we'll hear your babies heartbeat." She said before leaving.
"This is really real." Nate breathed out, looking over at his girlfriend who sat on the hospital bed. "We're really going to be parents."
"What if I'm not good enough for this?" Emerson frowned, looking over at him.
"What? Emmy."
"It's true, I've never really taken care of a baby before. I haven't been around babies a whole lot in my life. I mean, my dad is literally the definition of a whore, Nate." She told him, "So what if I mess and I'm not a good Mom? I never even knew my mother because she left me with my father when I was born. I had to learn everything about being a woman on my own."
"Hey." He stood up and walked over to her, "Baby, looking at me. You are going to be the best mom in the world, okay? You wanna know how I know that? Because even if you haven't taken care of an actually baby before, you're amazing with Becky and Bean. The two of them love you and I have no doubt in my body that our baby will love just as a much as them, maybe even a little more."
"I love you." Emerson told Nate, teary eyed.
"I love you, too." So much."
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The two nineteen year old's walked out of the doctors office, both wiping tears from their eyes as they had just heard the sound of their baby's actual heartbeat.
Nate had promised himself that when the little noise flowed through the room that he wouldn't cry, but seeing his girlfriend, the woman he was madly in love with, start to cry he couldn't help but cry right along with her.
It was a beautiful sound and he couldn't wait to hold his daughter or son in his arms for the first time.
"Can we go get food before we go back to the lake house?" Emerson asked as they got into the car.
