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When we got to the hospital, I turned the ring around, facing the diamond into the palht away I knehat Mi I knew she’d be happy for me, but this was still very much about little Mary Jane, and I wanted to ave us the go-ahead to co, she was eating take-out fried chicken while Neil sprawled on the couch, holding Mary Jane close to his chest
"Hi!" Sophia called out, pausing from her chicken frenzy for only aand this hospital food was just not cutting it I just pushed a baby out of ivereal"
Every thought I’d had about Sophia softening into oodness
Mary Jane let out the tiniest gurgle and coo, and four pairs of eyes locked on the bundle in Neil’s arms Sophia bea, Ma her hair back "You look fantastic"
"I do, I really do You should have seen h, I looked dreadful Now I knohy the Kardashians have the glam squad stop by after every birth; otherwise you look half dead in every picture with your newborn"
"You look gorgeous," Neil insisted "Before or after any glaain Si the pink bundle
"Dude, you can totally hold her, just ask" Neil puffed out his chest, causing the bundle to rise up and out
"I guess I could, just for a rinned back, grateful to get another chance to watch Sioing to sit up straight
Sophia and I watched the two guys transfer Mary Jane between the a warhead It took all I could not to giggle out loud, but it was incredibly sweet "So how are you feeling? Like, for real how are you feeling?" I asked Sophia, once the transfer was coroaned, biting back into her chicken "It hurt like acute she is?"
"Pretty freaking cute I’d say," I replied "You up for soh aher child
"Soph! What the hell?" Neil cried out as he and Simon both looked at each other and then at Mary Jane when she started crying
"Let ?" Simon asked, panicked
"Her mother scared her half to death!" Neil yelled, also frantic
"Everyone cal to move over toward the couch, but unable to do so because Sophia had a vicelike grip on my hand I expected her to pull a jeweler’s loupe out of her nightgown
"Hoe make her stop?"
"Just walk her, Simon!"