Everything was so foggy for me. Where was I again? The hospital? But why? I heard someone whisper in my ear, was it Nick? Nick Perrel? “Do you want to see your baby?” The voice said. Baby?

I slowly opened my eyes, wincing at the brightness of the hospital lights. It was Nick standing right before me after all. And cradled in his hands was a baby. My baby.

I couldn’t help it, but I started crying. I nodded as tears of happiness streamed down my face. He handed over the child. It was a girl. I smiled, “Melanie.”
“Looks like you did get a girl after all Lorraine.” Nick stated.

I studied little Melanie more. She looked so much like me, so much. There didn’t seem to be a single appearance of her that I could link to her father, her careless father.

She yawned, which made me cry even harder. It was the most beautiful sound I might have ever heard.

Then she opened her eyes and I gasped.

They were a brilliant colorful green, identical to the eyes that I fell in love with: Andrew Beck’s.