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`` looks like she 's in labor and delivery room 117 .

go through those double doors and it will be down the hall to the left . ''

i could n't believe it .

our best friends were having a baby .

it was n't planned , but sometimes the best things were n't .

we walked toward claire 's room and i was so excited i went down the wrong hall .

nick stopped and pointed in the right direction .

`` baby , your other left . ''

we got to the door ready to knock and i heard a baby cry .

no way .

she had just called me an hour ago to tell me she was at the hospital .

there 's no way she had already had the baby .

my ears perked up .

`` that was a baby crying . ''

nick did n't seemed enthused .

`` i think you can expect to hear that kind of thing around here . ''

`` no , i think it came from claire 's room . ''

`` i do n't know anything about having babies , but that would be awfully fast for a first , would n't it ? ''

`` yeah .

like record time , but claire does everything perfectly so i would expect no less from her when it comes to giving birth . ''

i lightly knocked on the door and heard claire 's soft voice .

`` come in . ''

i peeked around the door first to make sure we would n't be walking in on her doing that spread eagle thing or whatever position it was they put you in when you pushed out a baby .

`` all clear ? ''

`` yes , get yourself in here so you can see our little addition . ''

i could n't believe what my eyes were seeing and i felt the tears coming .

claire was holding a tiny little baby in her arms while jessie stood over her admiring his work .

`` omigod , claire .

i ca n't believe it 's already here . ''

i streaked over to her bedside and looked down at her new bundle of joy .

i still could n't believe they chose to not find out what the baby was when she had her ultrasound .

`` tell me .

boy or girl ? ''

`` guess . ''

i had declared it a boy from the second claire freaked out about being pregnant , but now i was n't so sure .

i looked down and tried to decide if i thought the baby looked like a he or she , but i could only distinguish one thing from that sweet face .

it was jessie boone 's mini-me .

although the baby looked just like jessie , there was something too pretty about her to be a boy and that 's when i decided .

`` that 's a girl face .

she 's too pretty to be a stinkin ' boy . ''

claire could n't take her eyes off of her .

`` she sure is . ''

nick shook jessie 's hand and did that half masculine hug thing .

`` congratulations .

you 're a dad , boone .

that 's freaky . ''

`` it happened so fast , i have n't had time to absorb it all .

her water broke and she was all calm and everything .

we did n't get in any kind of hurry about getting here because we thought it would take hours but then some really bad pains started .

by the time we got here , she was almost ready . ''

`` omigod , did you get your epidural ? ''

`` no , i was eight centimeters when we got here and it all happened too fast .

girl , let me tell you ... that pain ai n't no joke .

ooh , it burned like a mutha .

i thought my vajayjay was on fire .

it 's probably better you were n't here .

i would have scared you into never having any . ''

i did not need to be hearing that right now .

`` where are your parents ? ''

`` you just missed them .

i ca n't believe you did n't meet them in the hall carrying ozzy and harley .

those two immediately sacked out after the excitement of seeing her was over , so they took them home . ''

now that we knew it was a girl , it was time to choose a name .

`` so , what are you naming this beautiful little princess ? ''

`` we talked about finley elizabeth , but i 'm still not sure .

i need to look at her a little longer to make sure it fits . ''

that was a great name .

`` i like it .

she can pull off finley . ''

`` you wan na hold her ? ''

i guess i should get used to it .

`` absolutely .

she needs to get familiar with her aunt pate . ''

i took baby finley from claire and looked down at her beautiful little round face .

i unconsciously began to sway as i spoke softly to her and touched her soft cheek to mine .

i guess it was the innate thing to do but i was still surprised when i caught myself doing it because i had never been around babies and i certainly did n't get a nurturing instinct from my mother .

there was no question about it .

this was what i wanted .

we did n't stay near as long as i would have liked , but claire and jessie needed bonding time with finley before she had to go to the nursery .

nick and i did n't talk much on the ride home and i was n't sure if it was because he was avoiding the baby talk or because he was still tired .

i hoped it was the latter .

it was still night and i knew he was exhausted from working so many hours so i let him go to bed instead of starting the conversation that scared the hell out of me .

there was nothing on television so i cut it off and softly slid into bed beside my husband .

i turned on my side away from him so i would n't disturb his sleep and i felt his arm snake around my waist and pull me against him .

`` i ca n't sleep .

i guess being up so long has given me my second wind . ''

he kissed the back of my neck and rubbed his hand over my belly .

`` you want me to practice putting a baby in there ? ''

that had been our little joke we had shared for three years and i wondered what he was gon na say when i told him it could n't be called practicing anymore because he had succeeded in putting one there .

the timing was n't perfect .

i had another year before i got my bs in interior design and i knew he wanted it to be the two of us for a while longer .

at least that 's what he said when i told him claire was pregnant .

that had been several months ago .

i hoped time had changed his mind or maybe seeing finley stirred something different in him .

i was nervous .

i was afraid he would think i had done it on purpose so claire and i could have babies together .

i did n't , but i was happy about it and i wanted him to be , too .

i rolled over to face him and he hitched my leg over his hip .

he rubbed his hand up the back of my thigh to my panties and slid his hand underneath .

`` i love to get into these . ''