Andrew

"Can you wake Amar up and get him ready? I am really tired." Divya said to me turning off the alarm on the nightstand.

That's the 4th Alarm, and I don't feel like waking up.

"Sure fruit cake! You take rest." I said rubbing my eyes.

I kissed Divya on the head, moved out of the bed quietly and walked to Amar's room.

He is sleeping soundly, clutching on to his pillow. He was pretty pumped up about going to actual school.

After moving into this house, We redesigned Amar's room to his liking, there is a rock climbing wall, a hidden nerf gun wall behind the climbing wall and slide which connects his room to the play room in the basement.

As usual Divya made a fuss, but Amar himself designed it and who wouldn't want a kids dream room come true, not me. I will make every dream of my son's come true.

"Little Man! Wake up, it's time to get ready." I said shaking him up.

"No papa! 5 more minutes please." He groaned with his eyes closed.

People who wake up without saying 5 more minutes are psychopaths and I am glad my son is not that person.

"Okay! Only 5 minutes." I said and joined him on the bed after turning on a timer for 7 minutes. Amar put his hands and legs on me, snuggling closer covering me with his sheets.

I can't believe he is going to school already, today is his first day in first grade. I just hope everything goes good. Thank god! He already has Alex and I don't have to worry much because my cookie, Elena is already in the same school.

I timer rang before I could complete my thought process. I lifted him off the bed, brushed his teeth and put him in the shower. I went downstairs to prepare some breakfast for him, only to find Divya already in the kitchen sitting on the bar stool.

I walked near her and found her eating a chocolate chip cookie with ice cream on top.

"Are you really eating cookie and ice cream for breakfast?" I questioned her and she just glared at me stuffing her mouth with one more spoonful.

"Don't come near me! The minute she senses your touch she uses my bladder as a football and thinks of herself as a kicker." She said and jerked away from me.

Yup! Divya is pregnant and we knew that it is a healthy baby girl 4 months back. Everyone is so excited for the little girl except for Divya, who's having a hard time.

Apparently my little girl is already a brat.

"Why did that not happen when you were acting like a cougar last night?" I smirked questioning her making her choke on the ice cream.

"I was overpowered by my other senses and let me eat the food your daughter wants or else she is gonna make me run to the bathroom again." She immediately responded making me quiet.

She is glowing these days, my brat is making her mom look more beautiful. Man, I fall in love with her every single day.

"And this is all because of you, you called me fruit cake and she wanted to eat that. Amar was such a quiet baby, he never made a sound or gave me cravings..." She started rambling.

"Let me talk to my daughter." I said and kneeled down before her.

I pulled Divya's shirt up and put my hand on her stomach and my little one on the inside pushed her leg out.

"See I told ya!" Divya's shrugged her shoulders.

"Wildcat, This is papa! I love you so much, could you do your papa a favor and take care of Mama? Your mama is a beautiful princess and we don't want to hurt her right. So, listen to Papa and stay put okay." I asked her and the leg went back in like she listened to me.

I am going to have a beautiful time with my daughter and my son and wildcat sounds like a good name for her. I am so excited to have her out.

"Why do all my kids listen to you and ignore me?" Divya asked me with tears in her eyes.

All the pregnancy hormones are making her too emotional now and some days she won't even listen to me.

"Come here!" Saying that I pulled her into a hug and kissed her on the head.

"There is no you and me, it's just us Divya."

"I love you Andrew, and I am sorry for all this emotional mess." She said sniffling her tears away.

"I love you too babe, Why don't you take off from work? I can stay home. And we can have a fun day at home just you and me." I asked her.

I wish I could ask Amy to stay with her but she is busy with Ayan who is just 1 month old.

"I will be bored staying at home and you have lots of work to do Mister. Global Care is the safest place for me, I will at the best hospital in the state. Don't worry I still have 7 more weeks for the due date." She said and grabbed a jar of pickles to eat.

"Mama! Good morning." Amar came down all dressed up, ready for his school and ran towards Divya

"You look so handsome, Are you ready for school?" She asked holding his hand and kissed his fingers.

"How is my little sister doing?" Amar asked touching Divya's stomach.

Amar was really excited when we told him that he could get a new baby brother or sister. He talks to wildcat everyday and calls her princess.

"Hello princess! Today is my first day at school, Alex and me planned a lot of things to do today. I will tell you all about it after school. Love you! Bye."saying that Amar kissed Divya's belly and ran away to grab his school bag.

Divya went upstair for a shower and get ready for work.

I whipped up a quick PB&J and gave it to Amar, I've learned my way into the kitchen, I am no expert but I think I can manage a few meals. After making his sandwich, I went in and got ready too.

We all got into the car and are parked outside his school now.

"I don't want you to drop me off at my class, I am a big boy, I will go by myself. And don't cry Mama." He said unbuckling his seatbelt looking at Divya who's ready to cry.

He gave me and Divya a kiss before getting out of the car and yelled a bye at us.

"Bye Mama, Bye Papa, Bye princess."

He didn't even look back, he just ran into the school.

I will miss my little man. He did grow up really fast, I still remember his first word and step like it was yesterday.

"He is becoming a big boy now. Time just flew by." Divya said looking at Amar talking to people enthusiastically.

"That he is! Why don't we wait here in the parking lot for an hour, so we can be right here if  doesn't like school and wants to go home." I told her and she nodded.

"You do know that you pamper him too much right! Please control all that when it comes to this little girl here." She voiced out her opinions clutching her stomach.

She has always been the worry wart when it comes to pampering them.

"What about the wildcat's name? Do you have any in mind?" I questioned her, we have been trying to find a name for my girl but Divya keeps rejecting all of them.

"I don't and I am not going to name her with the letter A, neither am I giving her an American name." She said and crossed her hands.

"Why not Divya? If her name starts with an A,  ACES will take care of her." I tried to reason with her.

"No! She is not going to be a part of your cult. I already gave you my son, I am not giving my daughter too. And She is will be the only girl in there and you all will ruin her for good." She said not agreeing with me at all.

That's true that she will be the only girl but

"We will name our next child whatever you want. And what if Amy has a baby girl next time? She won't be the only girl anymore." I said to convince her.

"I am not having anymore kids. I am not! " She said throwing her hands in the air.

"Why?" I whined at her words.

"What do you mean why? Are we aiming to produce a cricket team or what? We already have a volleyball team ready." She said turning her face away from me.

That's true, Jameson has 4 kids and I have 2. We do have a Volleyball team ready.

"I'm not arguing with you now before my daughter. I am gonna call your dad and complain that his daughter is not listening to me." I said to her and dialed uncle's number and he picked up after a few rings.

"Hello Uncle, Divya is not letting me name our daughter. Can you talk to her and set her straight?" I said to him and placed the phone on speaker.

The relationship between Divya and her dad is at the end of the bumpy road.

"Dad! Don't listen to him. He is being a baby." Divya yelled over me making him laugh.

"Andrew! I am sorry, I am with my daughter on this, whatever she says I agree with her." He said and divya stuck her tongue at me.

"Thank you Nanna(dad). In your face Andrew. Now just listen to me." She said doing a small victory dance in the car.

"How's your honeymoon going on? How's mom taking it?" Divya asked her father while I sat there and enjoyed the broken bond connecting back.

I am glad that he is patiently paying his dues. It took him years to discover that Wife is equal to her husband, so is a daughter to a son.

He really changed so much, now a days he is not even leaving aunty for a second, he is being the perfect husband that he should've been. Uncle was really sorry about all the sexist things he had done to Aunty, so we suggested him to take Aunty to on a honeymoon. Now there are in Paris enjoying their little vacation.

She looks happy talking to her father and mother, this is what I wanted her to have in life, happiness. I could die for her smile. I love her existence in my life

"Why are you staring at me?" She said closing my eyes with her little hands.

"You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." I replied kissing her palms to which she blushed.

"I have the most beautiful and loving husband who takes care of me." She replied looking at me with the same love in her eyes.

"Come give your husband a kiss." I said bending forward and took her over once again.

With her everything feels like it's the first time, the knots in my stomach, the curls in my toes, the tingle passing through my body, every single thing.

"I think your daughter is listening to you, she didn't even move." She said with a smile breaking our kiss.

"Of course she will, she is papa's wildcat." I said and kissed on her stomach.

"Let's go! Looks like he is having fun at school." Divya said sighing at the school door, so we started to Global Care.

Maybe we are the only parents feeling sad that he is fitting in.

"He might grow up, but he will always be our little man. Take care and call me if you need anything. Love you." I told her after reaching global hospital helping her out of the car.

"I love you too. Don't get completely involved with work and skip lunch. I hate it when you skip meals. Baby, say bye to papa..." She said and gave me a peck.

I stood there watching her leave. I love her more than I did the last second. Isn't she incredible? I am the most luckiest man on the earth.

After she went in I drove to Global Tech. Looking at the office reminded me of all the work, we finally merged my dad's, Harish Uncle's companies with Global and on top of that RR enterprises was given to Amar,  so we had to merge that into Global too.

It was a really hard to maintain all the companies at first but now it feels better, Global is now a multibillion dollar company and is one of the top 5 Companies in the world.

Who knew a drug addicted kid could achieve this much in life?

Life is just unpredictable, but being with Divya makes it reliable, loving and makes me wanna excitingly wait for its next move.

I walked to my office table is filled with pictures of Divya and Amar. I looked around and my eyes fell on the poem Divya wrote me for our first anniversary.

My white knight, not a Lancelot, nor an angel with wings,
Just someone who loves me, and who is not ashamed of me.
My white knight who knows what my heart wants even before me.
Please, dear god, thank you for creating him.

He is a plain man

He is a modest man

A quiet man, a gentle man, A straightforward and honest man

All I want is to spend an eternity with him, a forever in his arms.

And I like how made me believe in myself, how he made me love myself.

And I like how his eye's shine seeing my boy's smile, how he taught my boy to be right man.

And I like how he is more interested in us than in me.

Him I love him more than me.I love him more than me.

My white knight, not a Lancelot, nor an angel with wings.
Just someone who loves me, and who is not ashamed of me.
My white knight who knows what my heart wants even before me.
My white knight, let me walk with him where others ride by
Walk and love him till I die, till I die.

So beautiful! It always warms my heart that she thinks so highly of me. She says I am her white Knight but to be truthful she is her own Knight, I never fought her battles, I just stood by her while she did and sometimes I never was there.

I should really get a concentrate on my work now with that I pushed away all the thoughts and focused on the new bids for the state and contracts. I have a meeting with all the other branches Heads this afternoon.

As I was in a meeting with all the other branches Ms. Abrams barged into the conference room panting catching her breathe.

"Mr.Jones...Your wife....Labor..." She whispered and I froze in shock.

How can she be in Labor, she still has 6 more weeks left. This can't be true right. Did something happen to my wildcat?

"Divya is in Labor now, They are taking her into the surgery room. Nurse Becky called us." Ms.Abrams completed the previous gaps between her words.

"Gentlemen and Ladies! Can we pick up the call later? We have an emergency here." Jameson said and everyone left the call.

"Drew! Do you want me to drive to the hospital?" Jameson asked standing beside me, I couldn't move.

I blindly followed Jameson to Global Care praying for my wife and daughter. I checked the time and it was almost time for us to pickup Amar.

"Can you tell Amy to pick Amar from school?" I asked him, he nodded and dialed her.

I don't want him to know that Divya and the baby this early. I have to go to the hospital, look for it myself and then bring Amar into this. It's not good to put trauma into a child's life about hospitals.

We ran into the hospital OR and found Shaurya, Ana already there waiting for us.

"How is she? What happened?" I asked them looking at their panicked faces.

"We were having a monthly meeting, and she had bad stomach ache. I went into the watching area and checked, they said that the baby is okay. They are performing a C-Section right now." Shaurya explained and my heart started beating erratically and all the negativity started to cloud my mind.

Why me? If my wild cat is okay, How's my Divya?

Please don't let anything happen to her. I stood out there as people ran in and out of the OR making me panic at their every move.

"How long is this gonna take?" I asked Jameson who's with me from the start.

"Don't worry Drew! She is strong. Everyone will be fine." My dad said placing his hand on my shoulder.

My dad, Madeleine and Hannah moved here too. I had everything I wanted in my life for the first time and I am scared that someone will snatch my happiness again.

I looked around everyone except Amaya is here, waiting for Divya. I am glad the Amar is safe with her, only she can push his mind away from all the kids questions.

After what felt like eternity, Divya's doctor opened the door with a smile on her face.

"Mr.Jones! Your wife and daughter are safe. We moved the baby girl to NICU for observation. You can see Divya after we move her into a private room." She said and I smiled in tears.

Everyone is okay! My Divya is okay. Thank you so much good for giving my life back to me.

"Thank so much Ms.Hunt." I said to her and she walked away.

Everyone hugged me and congratulated me for being a father again. After Divya moved to her room, I sat by her holding her hand waiting for her to wake up.

"Hi.." Divya barely whispered holding my hand tighter.

"Does it hurt? Do you want me to call the doctor?"I questioned her while she adjusted the bed.

"I am fine, Don't worry. How's our daughter?" She asked looking at me as I was standing up to get a good look of her.

She looks really tired.

"She is fine, I didn't see her yet. I want us to see her together." I said kissing her on the head.

"Everyone is out waiting for you to wake up."I said to her and she nodded.

"How are you feeling Divya?" Her dad came in with her mom.

Her parents stopped there vacation in the middle as soon as they heard about this.

She gave him a faint smile and nodded. They both went by her bed side and started talking to her. Uncle had tears in her eyes looking at her daughter like that, He has changed a lot. I am glad Divya now has her mom and dad by her side. She is happy with her father's change.

Soon everyone came in and visited Divya. Amy came in spoke to Divya for some time and left Amar with us.

"When can I see my princess, Papa?" My son asked me as Divya is taking rest.

"We will go when Mama wakes up." I said pulling him into my lap.

"I am up! Let's go. I want to see our daughter." She said to us immediately and now we are on the way to the NICU.

I am pushing Divya on her wheel chair while Amar kept entertaining Divya with the details of his first day of fun at school. Looks like he really loved school with Alex.

We all went into through the sanitization process and walked into my wildcat's room. The nurse put the burrito wrapped wildcat in Divya's lap.

There she is so small and red, with her eyes closed and palms fisted, my baby got long black her just like her Mama. She looks so beautiful, my heart is swelling in happiness looking at Divya, Amar and wildcat together.

"She is so small, Mama." He said trying to touch her small fingers with excitement in his eyes.

When he held her fingers she clutched his fingers recognizing him.

"He..He...Princess is holding me Papa, She likes her big brother." Amar said giggling with happiness.

"She looks just like you." I told Divya who's crying looking at her.

"I am ready to name her." She said looking at me and Amar.

I don't care if wildcat's names starts with greek letter as long as she loves me.

"Anya means strength and Dhriti means courageous. Her name is Anya Dhriti Jones."She said holding the baby close to her chest.

"But I wanna call her princess." Amar whined at us.

"You can call her whatever you want little man. She will always be your princess, my wildcat and mama's little girl." I told him and he clapped in excitement.

Divya handed me wildcat carefully as I kneeled beside her.

I am holding my daughter in my hands for the first time in my life, It's like she felt me hold her, she immediately opened her eyes and looked at me with her sea green eyes.

"Divya, she has my eyes. My daughter has my eyes." I said with utmost happiness and Amar came to my side looking at his princess.

I am holding my daughter now, my Anya, my wildcat.

"Hello wildcat, I am your papa, this your brother and that's your mama." I cooed and showed everyone to her and she smiled looking at us.

"Thank you Divya, for coming into my life and Sorry for the pain I put you through today. I love you so much for giving me little man and wildcat."I said and pecked her on the lips with happy tears flowing freely from my eyes.

I placed Anya back while she kept staring at us. I hugged both Amar and Divya and kissed them as they were looking at Anya.

I will always love these people no matter what, they are my solace and my safe haven.

Thank you Navikew for the name Anya.

That poem is not my own creation, it's a song called My White Knight I adopted and tweaked it a bit to match the story line.

I am so sad that I don't have to think about Andrew, Divya and Amar anymore, I will miss them 😭😭😭😭.

Hope you enjoyed the epilogue.

Sorry for the delay in writing this, I had the most beautiful vacation last week. We really do live in a beautiful planet.

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Also I am Planning to publish a new book, but this time an Indian teen fiction, not affiliated with my other works.

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Love,
Sneha