"Yeah mom. I dont know what to do...Laur fainted and...I just...it's all crazy." I could hear Ross speaking from somewhere close. His voice was laced with stress.

My head was aching as my eyes snapped open. a groan escaping my lips.

"She just woke up. I'll call you back." I heard Ross say. My eyes zoomed in on him coming towards me.

I was lying on our living room sofa with a blanket over me. Sun coming though the opened windows. "Hey" he said sitting next to me.

"I had the most weirdest shittiest dream ever last night" I groaned sitting up. Rubbing my eyes. "Someone left baby at our doorstep. But weirdly the baby was ours." I said looking at him.

He tensed for a moment. His hands dropped to my legs covered by the blanket before rubbing it.

Why's he so weird.

"Hey what's wrong?" I asked taking his hands.

He looked back at me "Lou, that wasn't a dream." He said calling me by the nickname he'd given me since childhood.

I was about to ask what he meant when my eyes caught something on our carpeted flood. I turned to see a small baby sprawled on some blankets sleeping peacefully.

It all came back to me. And I remember that I had actually fainted. "Holy..." I said getting up looking down at the infant.

"I know." Ross said from the sofa.

"Thats a baby!" I said hands on my head still looking at the small child sleep.

" I know." Ross answered again.

I was freaking out right now. It all came crashing down on me be the was me responding.

"Thats a freaking baby Ross!" I said pointing. Eyes wide.

Ross sighed "I know, Lou."

Um, hello. A damn baby was left at our doorsteps with our names as the birth parents. Uh, why the hell aren't you freaking out!

" Laur, calm down you'll wake him." Ross said calmly getting up.
Why the hell isn't he freaking out!

In our friendship Ross was always the easy going one. The one who could take stress better than me. He was usually the one I would turn to, to calm me down.

Okay,okay. I began pacing the room trying to breath. My anxiety was coming on and I really couldn't deal with her now.

"Try to breathe Laur." Ross said knowing how I would get.

He knelt to pick Malik up and when he stood my heart rate increased.

Come on Laura you've got this under control jut breathe.

" I barely caught you both when you fainted." Ross said walking up to me.

I stood pacing and stood looking up at Ross and Malik. Malik's tiny gram was wrapped up by Ross' strong arms.

Ross place Malik into my hands and I my hands trembled as I held him. Its been years since I held a new born and t think that this child was apparently ours was nerve racking .

"What are we going to do Ross?" I asked. My eyes connecting with my best friend's.

He lifted his rubbing it over Malik's head. " I our parents. They're on their way. They'll know what to do " Ross said with a sigh.

I looked back at the sleeping baby.

Malik moves about in my hands. He had a lot of hair on his head and they were light brown and curly. His small mouth was pouting like he was dreaming and I couldn't help but fill his palm causing him to hold unto my finger with his entire hand. My heart warmed at the feeling and tears flood my eyes.

And it was from that exact moment that I fell in love with the tiny soul that would change my life forever.