maiimitchell:
Plus One* | Kaia
Maia was both excited and nervous as she put her positive pregnancy test inside of a gift box and placed it next to Lilah in her crib. Before Maia had put their daughter down for her nap she’d changed her into a onesie that said Big Sister. Her whole plan was to send KJ in to get their daughter and have him find the onesie and pregnancy test, giving him the ultimate surprise for his birthday!! While the two hadn’t exactly been trying to expand their little family, they had found themselves expecting baby number two in a matter of months. While Maia was freaking out inside over having two babies under the age of one, she was also beyond excited. Delilah was their daughter, there was no question about that. But she knew how much it’d mean to KJ to have a baby that shared his DNA. Someone that might grow up and look like him and carry on his fathers family history. Maia was happy to get to be the one to give him all of that.. even if she knew their house was about to become a bad house!
“Babe, I think the babies up. Can you grab her?” Maia called out from the bathroom. Making it look like she was fixing up her hair. Meanwhile she was just waiting for KJ to walk into their daughters room so she could follow him in and see the look on his face when saw the onesie. Leaning in the doorway as KJ made is way over to the crib, Maia couldn’t hide the bright smile on her face.
His birthday had never been a day that KJ got all that excited about. Sure, it was fun to get calls and texts from friends and family he didn’t often hear from and doing something fun with the boys was always a good time. But this birthday went down in the books as one of the best...and it wasn’t even half over yet. Maia had made sure to spoil him rotten from the second the clock struck midnight on the 17th; from his favorite breakfast to a seemingly endless parade of gifts, his wife had made him feel like the only guy on Earth. Delilah, tuckered out from all the festivities, was crashed out hard for her afternoon nap...giving Maia a chance to shower and get ready for the dinner reservations they had and for KJ to play around on his new guitar. Maia’s voice drifted from the bathroom to their bed where he sat, playing a quick paced melody absentmindedly. “I don’t hear her,” he called, looking over only to be met with a stern look from his wife. “Yeah, no, I got her.” Swinging out of bed, the actor padded down the hall and quietly cracked open the nursery door.
Delilah was still fast asleep, lying on her back with her arms and legs sprawled every direction. The sight brought a smile to his face and he neared her only to brush some hair away that had gotten matted down to her forehead; the onesie didn’t even register. He was thinking about how he would get to cash in on an ‘I told you so’ with Maia when his eye caught a small box balanced precariously on the side of the crib. Curious, KJ opened it only to find a pregnancy test. A positive one. He exhaled one short, forced breath as his smile doubled and he spun around only to find Maia leaning against the doorframe, her smiling mirroring his. “Are you serious?” Three words and a tiny nod of confirmation from the woman he loved more than anything was all it took to bring tears to his eyes. “Holy shit,” he said softly, rushing across the room to kiss his wife. Yep, best birthday ever.
