“These are memories that will last a lifetime, it’s special and will make the little guy laugh one day or embarrass his future girlfriend.” My mom chuckles from the other end of the phone, dabbing at the corner of her eyes with a napkin.
“Congratulations you two.” Dad smiles from behind Mom, his arms gently wrapped around her, cocooning her in his love.
“I still want to see the video so I can make fun of Tate for crying.” Tessa pokes fun at me, Tinsley joining her in maniacal laughter.
“Remember that when I tell your first boyfriend about your tenth birthday party.”
“You wouldn’t?!” They scream in unison.
“I would. Don’t try me brats.” They both huff and Darcy laughs beside me. “But honestly, we haven't watched it ourselves, but once we do and we get it ready, we will text it to you guys.”
“Well, we should let you guys make the rest of your calls and enjoy this day together. See you at game night in two weeks.” My dad cuts in before we can continue going back and forth like he’s always done when we argue.
“Can’t wait!” Darcy beams beside me.
“Us either, love you both,” Mom says.
“Love you too.” We say in unison before ending the call.
“We better get that video out before we receive about ten more of these calls,” Darcy says, pulling her phone out. “Oh look, it’s already starting. I have thirty messages in the girl's chat and a missed call from Dom.”
“Let’s watch it together first.”
She nods against my shoulder and turns her phone landscape before pressing play on the video. We watch as the realization of a baby boy hit us both and Darcy’s panic set in before I abruptly leaned in and pressed stop recording. What happened after is going to live rent free in both of our brains for the rest of our lives.
“Thank you.” She says as she begins cutting the video together to make her vision of a reveal video come to life..
“For what?”
“Helping me calm down earlier, it helped.”
“Of course, Mama.”
“Alright, it’s ready.” We watch the video again, the video starts with a black and white hue, us laughing as we pull the flutes out, discovering the gender of our baby. It then transitions to color, revealing the blue icing within the flutes.
“Looks great.”
She pulls up a text thread with me and sends me the video then pulls up her girl's chat, attaching the video and I see her type, “Not reading all these messages, you impatient hoes, love you.”
“Well, that was fast.”
“Some of us aren’t old men when it comes to the internet. Plus if I want to be an author, I have to learn how to make videos, I’ve been doing my research,” she chides.
“You and I both know that while I may have the know-how of an old man on the internet,” I say, turning my head towards her and whispering in her ear, “I’m very proficient where it’s important.” She shivers in my hold but focuses on the incoming responses from the girls and I send the video to my family and the guys.
Dom
Fucking finally. I’ve been waiting ALL day for this.
Me
Oh shut up Dominic. It’s been a few hours, we were enjoying the moment.
Maverick
“Enjoying”
The chat is quiet for a moment as the guys, I assume, watch the video that was sent.
