Their Hearts Don't Beat Like Ours

Frank and I walk into the nursery,the nurse from earlier walks up to us. “Hi, guys.”
“Where is she?” Frank ask, with so much joy in his voice.
The nurse just smiles. And gestures towards another door. We walk through it and we’re in a room with 3 incubators. All premature babies lying in them. My heart’s happy to know it’s not many. The nurse stands in front of one incubator and my heart starts beating. Frank squeezes my hand as tight as he can, but I’m not bothered by it. My little girl is a few feet away from me. Me and Frank walk towards the nurse, and she moves out of the way. Me and Frank make eye contact before we look down. And my heart stops.
There she is. She’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever laid my eyes on. All the love I’ve ever had for anyone doesn’t matter in this moment. She’s the only thing I ever want or need to love again.
“Bandit Lee.” I whisper bending down to get my face as close to the glass as possible. She’s sleeping, her little body curled up in, ironically, fetal position. I can’t stop staring at her. She’s so red. Which I know is from her being underdeveloped.
He head moves and I let out a gasp, and Frank face is right next to mine.
She stirs and stirs before she opens her eyes very slowly.
“That’s amazing! She hasn’t opened her eyes yet!” The nurse exclaims. I just smile.
“C’mon Bandit. You got this!” I say to her, Frank and the nurse giggle.
It’s like she heard me, because her eyes open up to reveal the most beautiful green I’ve ever seen. I can’t get the smile off my face.
“There yours, Gee.” Frank tells me. “She has your eyes.”
I smile. She does.
“Bandit Lee, you said? May I ask how you’re doing the last name?” The nurse ask.
“Way-Iero.” I respond. She looks slightly confused. “Our names hyphenated. I’m way,” I point my thumb to Frank. “Iero.” She nods and smiles.
“Bandit Lee Way-Iero. That’s beautiful, guys.”
I look back down to Bandit. I hear Frank thank her before he leans down and takes my chin in his hand. He pulls me back up and lays a gentle kiss on my lips. I kiss back instantly. It’s passionate. But no tongue. Just love. So much fucking love. We’re officially a family now. He’s the first to release.
“La mia famiglia.” Frank whispers, with our foreheads rested together. I grin as wide as ever.
Perfect moments are rare, but as I wrap my arms around Frank, letting him hold me, looking down at our perfect little angel, I realize something. This is a perfect moment, and there’s going to be so many more in our life.
We stay in the nursery for hours. We watch the nurse feed her, and talk to her. We fill out the birth certificate. And in the blissfulness of everything. I remember something.
“Frank! We didn’t call our families!” I start freaking out. We’re in the waiting room again.
“Baby! Calm down! They’ll understand. We were kind of to overwhelmed to even remember our names.” Frank’s right. But I take out my phone.
“I’ll call my mom and Mikey and you call yours and Pete” I tell Frank. He just nods and we both get to calling.
We explain what happened to Lindsey and how we were to freaked out to call and how we got distracted with Bandit, but still can’t hold her. Frank was right. They did understand, but it’s not long until both of our families are in the waiting room with us.
We take the Grandparents back first. Linda and my parents. We give them their time with her before we take Mikey and Pete back. They freak out. And when we’re walking back I hear Pete ask Mikey “So, when is our turn?” Mikey looks at Pete in disbelief but smiles so wide. They share a kiss and I can’t help but to smile.
We stay and chat with our families for a while, getting dinner in the cafeteria at the hospital. Mom won’t stop freaking out about having a grandchild that’s blood. And Mikey and Pete start talking about kids. They’ve never talked about children; that I know of. They talk about the thing where you mix both sperms so you don’t know who the biological father is ever.
“Gerard, are you and Frank gonna do that? I mean, if you ever want more children, of course.”
“Actually, ma. We want two kids.” Mom’s face lightens up at this. “We’re hoping the next will be a boy. But, because Bandit is my biological child, we were thinking we’ll make the next Franks. You know? If it is boy, it’s last name will be “Iero-Way”.” I explain to everyone.
“I like that idea.” Pete speaks up. “You already have a boy name?”
“We came up with a girl name and boy name before we found out what Bandit was.” Frank tells them. “Miles Anthony Iero-Way. Anthony is my middle name, and my grandfathers.”
“That’s beautiful, sweetheart.” Linda says. Frank just smiles.
“And I appreciate the Lee, Gerard.” My mom says. I smile at her and take another bite.
We go see Bandit after dinner, everyone leaves, we talk to Brendon, and reluctantly take his advice to go home. I fall asleep in the car, and I faintly remember Frank carrying me, stripping me, and falling asleep curled into my side.

Notes

i know short, BUT HOW CUTE THEY MET BANDIT AWWWWWW.
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