Hiiii! I know I haven't written in a while and I was originally writing a chapter but I lost inspiration and deleted it. Anyways this is MY EXPERIENCE AND MY THOUGHTS going into this chapter. The backstory is that Melissa was pregnant but lost the pregnancy. In real life, my own sister was also pregnant with her first child but lost the pregnancy at 27 weeks. Enjoy this chapter and this is just a message that the death of a child/fetus affects other family members besides the parents. Keep that in mind.

"So my baby girl is going to die?"
"I'm sorry, the umbilical cord is slowly dying and since she already has a heart defect the pregnancy had a higher risk of miscarriage. I'm sorry about this, take as long as you need."

5 months ago. In that ultrasound room, we were told baby Molly would die. In that room was my mom and dad, Melissa, her fiancé, and me. My mom and Melissa broke into tears immediately. Dad was holding mom close and comforting her, and Melissa's fiancé was holding Melissa. I was holding it in. I held it in for 10 minutes. Soon Dad hugged me as well as mom and I cried. I was shattered. We had found out it was a girl a week and a half prior and Melissa named her Molly.

"Aaron... hey you doing okay?" Aph knocks on my office door. She found out how the death of Molly was affecting me from my mother and she's been really supportive of me, as well as protective. At night after Melissa gave birth, I started laying on back with my head looking away from her. She now lays on my chest and lays her head on my other shoulder that way she can nuzzle me.

"Yeah I'm okay... but I can't get the fact out of my head that Melissa and Lucinda lost their baby girl... my niece..." I sigh and she walks over to me and grabs my hand and leads me to the living room. She sits me on the couch and stands in front of me. She grabs both my hands and holds them in hers.

"Aaron tell me exactly how you feel about it... I know that after you came home you isolated yourself for days, except for going to work, you barely talked to anyone, and you didn't sleep well. Please... tell me how you're feeling." I pull her in for a hug and a tear goes down my face.

"Nobody asks 'Hey, hows your brother reacting to this?' Nobody. On the day melissa gave birth, I- I cried. So hard. Some days I wish it was me that went instead of baby Molly. I really wish it was. I just want melissa happy again." All of a sudden I hear two pairs of footsteps walk down the stairs.

"Really...? Why didn't you tell me?" I turn around and see Melissa and Lucinda and I break down even more. Aph hugs me tighter.

"B-because you two were already upset a-and..." I trail off not knowing how to finish the sentence.

"You didn't want to be the center of attention because you felt like it didn't involve you?" I nod hesitantly still crying in Aph's arms. "Aaron of course it involves you... you're an amazing brother who has been so supportive of me ever since you and Aph got married. I care about you Aaron. Nobody can take that away from me."

That was hard to write. I never told my sister how I felt about it. I know I should but I don't want to be the center of attention. Up top was a picture of me holding baby Harper. She stopped growing at 24 weeks. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this and I hope I didn't make y'all cry.