Bold and Beautiful (Nolan/Ky)

It's been such a busy time for me lately. So many close calls with little Mira trying to come early, or at least, trying to make us think she is. That and the fact that I've been trying to help Matthew with the house that he's fixing up for this little one to live in once she's born. I, for one, can't beleive that Jeran is going for it. I mean, he's actually letting me move out and to live with him. Granted, I'm going to severely miss my own home where my mother lived, but it's time to make new memories and new traditions. I can't beleive it's taken me this long to realize that Matthew has really changed this much from the first time we met. He's adapting better than I thought to this 'father' role.

This man in front of me, however, has the father role down pat. He's the perfect role model for Matthew if he wanted to take any sort of words of wisdom from him. In a way, I envy him and his wife. They are nothing like what Matthew and I grew up with. They are still together and loving to each other as if nothing could ever tear them apart from each other. They love their only son to bits. I want that for my daughter, but it has to be taken one day at a time.

"Havn't seen your face for a while. How're you and the little one?" He questions me when he turns around to greet me with a pleasant smile. He's always got a smile to give to someone else and it's infectious as well. A small nod comes from me as I rub the side of my stomach where Mira's deciding to kick today.

"Good. Good. Couple of close calls and hospital visits. Nothing major though. She's a little troublemaker like her dad." I explain, keeping a grin on my face. Though, another concern I have with meeting Nolan is about his son. I hadn't gone to visit him in quite some time, due in part to some complications from Mira and Matthew's forbidding from doing anything too much and walking around in this kind of weather that's actually fairly nice today. Today is nothing but freedom although, it is still a little cold, but that's to be expected.

"That's good that he's almost back to work. I hope you're keeping him busy with stuff to do. Hopefully, he isn't too bored out of his mind?" I quietly wonder how he's holding up, injury wise. If any injury he incurred is too lasting? "Sounds like he's going back to work about the same time that Mira is expecting to be born. Just three more weeks now. Be honest, Nolan. Does this baby make me look fat?"

I tease him and break out with a laugh when I turn slightly to the side and shake my head. "Don't answer that. I'm just kidding." On cue, as if the tease was something she didn't like, a kick is sent straight to my ribs causing me to take a shorter intake of air and put a hand to that spot. "She's going to be one heck of a girl. Do you wanna feel her kick?"

I know it's weird to ask Nolan, or any man, that question, but he's the most respectable man I know and he loves kids and his own son. Asking him if he wants to feel her kick is second nature since I consider him to be family already. It just comes natural. So I point to the spot where the assault on my ribs is taking place on the left side of my stomach, and a little to the center. "Feel her?"

I'm not sure if it's normal for most women to do this, but I want people to feel little Mira's presence. There's this bond that I've got with her already that is everlasting. She has even changed the most woman-hating man to love her as well and he's never even met her; held or soothed her. The idea of becomign a father wasn't easy for him, but he's come so far thanks to this little one. This child of mine will definately be someone to watch out for. She will steal the hearts of many, for sure.

Just as I guide Nolan's hand to my stomach, I feel how tender his touch really is. He's been a father for such a long time. He's gotten that gentleness from his experience. I can't help but admire him so much after seeing the lengths that he went to protect Brody and stay by his bedside, barely leaving even to take me back to my room that night in the hospital. It's weird though. This huge man, tall and muscular with hands to match, is so much more gentle than anyone else I've come in contact with. I've never been lucky enough to be blessed to have this father like figure before. My own father's hands were rough; calloused and hard. The many times he would grip my arm, it felt like it would bruise. When he would try to teach me something by force, it never felt good at all. The one time he actually hit me though...

The touch of a man was something I used to fear and it didn't matter the context.

Nolan is so much different. He gives me the hope to see that not all men are created equal in my own eyes.

"She's strong, She's going to be a terror when she's old enough to date."

"Oh, Nolan... please. Don't even go there. Not yet. Let her reach her first birthday before you start mentioning about her dating. I can't even fathom..." I chuckle slightly and with his statement has me wondering what kind of person she would even meet? Would she want to date? Will I keep her from it or will Matthew shield her from every guy that might want to even talk to her? He's become such a protective person just around me and I'm sure that'll intensify when she is born and he'll do everything in his power to protect her.

"Three weeks isn't long. Do you have a plan for when Mira arrives?"

He asks me and I automatically shrug my shoulders. We have plans, but Mira's not really good at following those plans. I can only hope that she will do what needs to be done at a time that is convientent for everyone else. I can only hope that she will allow us the time to get somewhere safe and with people that can help if something was to happen.

"Mira has proven to not follow plans... but we do have them. If she complies, then we'll all be great!" I tell him and replace my hand to my side and stretch out a bit more. "I'll be glad to get rid of this backache though. What I would give to sleep on my stomach again."

I look up at this burly man and grin at him. "Will you be there when she is born?" I question him and wonder that. "She will need her daddy there to give her everything, but she also needs a grandfather to look up to as well. You know that I look up to you, right Nolan? I know I dont know you as well as Brody or Matthew, but I would like for you to be there for Mira as well. She needs to have these positive role models of what men need to be like in her life. She shouldn't have to have these fears and insecurities that I had growing up. Besides, grandparents are always the best."

I flash him a coy little grin.

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