Life Is Beautiful

Scared

Norman was doing lots of interviews on talk shows and just in general. I missed him having him home but this was our life and I understood it.

Interviewer: So, I heard you just had a baby,girl, recently.

Norman: Yeah. Yeah. She came into our lives back in November. She's perfect. Right now she's almost 4 months old. Seems like just the other day she was born.Interviewer: We think we've got a photo. *shows photo and audience oohs and ahhs and Norman smiles*

Interviewer: So hows it feel to be a dad again. I know you've got a son. Any differences between your son and daughter?

Norman: It feels pretty good. Me and my girlfriend weren't even trying, but we're so blessed to be parents to this little angel. Differences? Umm well personality wise they are different. Thinking back to when my son was her age he was a lot different. He's protective of his sister though. It's a fight between the 3 of us, Myself, My Son, My Girlfriend who gets to hold her. He flipped out when he found out. We were both worried that he'd be jealous at the news, but he took it great.

*shows photo of son and daughter and Norman smiles again*

Interviewer: So I know you've got a bunch of different projects going on now. A few movies. Walking Dead. How do you find the time to do these different projects plus convention appearances and being a father?

Norman: I try to take it one day at a time. Last year hit me, because I knew there was a little person that was going to need me. I did do a lot of cons, but I canceled a lot, I felt bad doing so but complications came up with my daughter, so I felt that if anything happened and I wasn't there how my family would react without me. I did cut a lot of filming because of the same reasons. I made sure that every appointment we had for ultrasounds that I was there for that. I love my fans, and thank them for supporting me with everything.

Interviewer: So, can you tell us anything about Walking Dead S5?

Norman: The finale is a tearjerker. Tissues are needed. All I can really say is each season keeps getting bigger and better.

Interviewer: Sounds exciting!

I was holding Mercy when I heard my phone go off. I leaned down to pick it up to see Norman and Mercy's picture. I smiled. 'Hey!' - 'Hey. How's my favorite girls doing?' - 'We're great. Missing you. Actually Mercy just went to sleep. Hold on a minute.' I went and put the phone next to Mercy's ear and she woke up. 'Hey sweetie. It's daddy. Miss me yet? I'm sure you do. I'll be home soon. ' She had a smile on her face. - 'Hey, I'm back. I wish you could see her right now she's smiling so big.' 'Awwehs. I should be home either tomorrow or the day after. You think you can handle her til I get home?' - 'Yeah, she's been kinda cranky lately but other than that she'd been fine. You think later on tonight maybe you could facetime with her? Just so she gets to see you? Feels kinda weird showing her pictures to try to calm her down.' - 'Yeah babe. I'd honestly like that.' - We talked for a good hour and said our goodbyes. I looked over at Mercy asleep on the bed. I looked over at her and completely forgot that I had one of Norman's shirts using is as a blanket and decided to post it on Instagram. 'Our daughter asleep using Daddy's shirt as a blankly. Can you tell she's missing him?' a few seconds later comments kept flooding in. Norman was the first comment with 'Awweh. I miss her so f'n much. This made my day.' - I smiled and commented back 'Sorry to hear that you're having a bad day. I can for sure say that she makes my days brighter.' - apparently Sean saw it too and said 'OMG she's getting so big. I need to make a trip sometimes soon. Possible vacation?' - I giggled and commented back 'If you say so. We'd love to have you guys visit. We're going to be one member short sadly. Sorry to hear about your loss.' Norman got home and I couldn't be happier. After a few weeks of not seeing him I couldn't wait for the hugs and the random stories he heard while on the road. I had Mercy in my arms and he hugged me and took her and loved all over her. As much as I missed all the attention it makes me happier that he is so in love with her. He kissed my forehead and asked 'What happened while I was gone with you two?' - I shrugged my shoulders 'Eh not really anything. She cried non stop. Seems the only time she didn't cry was when you called or when you face timed with her. She loves you, you know that right?' - Norman shook his head and smiled down at her 'She's my lil girl. I love her with all my heart.' I ended up cooking dinner that night since I wanted Norman to rest a little bit.

It was almost the end of March and Norman was gone 90% of this month. I kept saying 'Its his job. You knew this.' and I knew each time he left he felt bad. I held my daughter in my arms and just kept thinking 'What if she starts talking and he's not here? What if she starts walking and he's not here?' all these questions went through my head. This time Norman was going with a few cast members to this festival. I watched him pack his bags as I held our daughter. 'Have fun.' I said as I walked out of the doorway. He looked over his shoulder and said 'We could go together if you want. I have no problem driving if you want to tag along.' - 'Nah I'm okay. I don't feel comfortable with taking her away from home and move her around, plus since people already know I don't want to run into photographers and...' I trailed off. Something in me wanted to just yell at him and tell him to stay and let one thing go. I didn't. I just smiled at him. 'Hey, we might be able to tag along next year.' We both smiled at each other as Mercy was waking up from her nap. Norman reached out his arms for her and I kindly handed her over. He went and got her a bottle and sat down on the couch and I watched him feed her. 'You want to do this?' He offered me the bottle. I shook my head 'Nah, you won't get to see her for a while enjoy it.' She finished her bottle and he went and changed her and went into the bedroom and asked me to come look at something. I walked in and saw that he had her in his backpack. 'I'm packing and I think she wants to go with me.' I just looked at her curled up in his bag going to sleep. Norman took a picture of her and uploaded it with the caption 'I was packing and noticed a stow-away.' - I did the same thing and put the caption 'Daddy is getting ready to leave and I don't think she's ready to say goodbye.' - I felt weird being the only one to stay here, lonely didn't even describe how I was feeling at this moment. It was just going to be me, my best friend, and my daughter and our furbaby. Ever since I got pregnant and became a mom Norman left Eye at home to keep me company.

Norman was gone a few days and I had to go shopping so my best friend offered to tag along and on the ride to the store, I was thinking about something and all of a sudden I started turning up the radio because 'Bad Medicine' by Bon Jovi came on the radio and I turned it up to sing the lyrics horribly. We arrived at the store and I got a buggy and started looking at the shopping list I gathered. I carefully chose what to get and crossed each thing off the list. We got up to the counter and I remembered something. So I gave my friend the money to pay for the stuff and walked slowly to the hygiene aisle and searched the shelves for something. I finally got to where they kept the pregnancy tests and my stomach dropped. I was late and of course I'd been late in the past, but this was longer. I was thinking how in the world would I ever tell Norman? I grabbed the best one in my opinion and hurried to the register and noticed my friend was still in line. I stood behind her and held the test and I was getting inpatient. Finally we got up to the cashier 'Is this all today?' and we both said 'Yes' and I let her put the stuff on the counter and reluctantly put the pregnancy test box on the counter. Me and my friend were chatting away and playing with Mercy. We got all of our items in bags and hurried out of the store and back home. My friend helped me put things away and she came to the bag with the test and opened it and I grabbed the test and hid it behind my back. 'Okay.. what the hell did you buy now?' - I looked at her and she looked into my eyes and said 'Oh...' I looked down at my feet and brought the test out and stared at the box and looked over and Mercy. 'How in the fuck can I be pregnant again?! We used condoms. I went back on birth control.' My friend looked at me and said 'Well things happen.' Norman called me later that night and we talked and he talked to our daughter. He said he would be staying a little longer than expected. He went to Texas with Steven, Melissa, and his son and his own mother. I realized now I was the only one who didn't go. 'My mom wanted to say Hi. She looked at the photos of Mercy and smiled. She said you're an amazing mother. Oh Mingus says Hi also. - I smiled. 'I'm trying my best to send you guys cute pictures, but she's really cranky.' - 'I'm probably going to be gone for a few more days, but if she gets to much to handle call me and I'll head home.' - 'Alright. Take as much time as you need.' 'Hold on someone wants to talk to you.' I held the phone up to Mercy's ear and listened to her coo on the phone while Norman was talking to her. She started going to sleep and I took the phone back. 'She's almost asleep right now. You should see her right now she's so cute.' - Me and Norman talked for a while. I missed having him home. I took a quick picture of Mercy curled up on the couch. I uploaded it to Instagram and tagged Norman and added the comment 'Daddy put her to sleep with his stories. Even thousands of miles away he can still put her to sleep.' - Norman commented back 'Glad I can help out whenever I'm away. Missing you guys like crazy!' Later on that night Norman wanted to see Mercy before she went to bed and Facetimed with me and I was feeding her and picked up the phone and saw Norman smiling. He kept calling Mercy's name but she wouldn't even look at him. I started laughing 'Yeah she's hungry and she's more interested in getting her belly filled than talking to you apparently.' - Norman started laughing and said 'I don't blame her.' I turned so red. 'So, what's going on? Anything exciting happen?' - 'Eh nothing much. You were right about the photographers though. They are EVERYWHERE!' - 'Told ya.' Mercy finished nursing and started squirming around in my arms and I let her turn around and she saw her daddy's face and started smiling and cooing and it was so damn cute. 'HEY SWEETHEART!' I saw Norman smile ear to ear when he saw that smile. I loved the interaction between them. She may have clung to me, but she was a daddy's girl at heart. I loved hearing her laugh and seeing her little smile. We talked until I glanced over at the clock and saw it was almost 12:00 AM. 'I guess I'm going to let you both get some sleep.' - 'Oh okay. If something happens feel free to call. Okay? Miss you bunches!' - I checked all my social media accounts before heading off to bed and came across a photo on Norman's Instagram account with the caption 'I kept trying to get my daughter to notice me, but she was serious about her milk.' I scrolled through the comments and some actually make me almost gag. 'Oh man I'd love to be in your daughter's position.' 'Oh woah. Wouldn't mind a night with her.' There was a long line of comments that were so disgusting. I read a few women saying 'You guys making those comments are the reasons why this is an issue in public. You're the ones that can get off on just a little bit of skin. STFU.' - I smiled atleast some people have decency. I commented on it and said 'Oh my gosh Norman I can't believe you posted this. - As for all you disgusting and sad excuses for men out there who are getting off to this image, you're the reason why this is frowned upon in public places. Take your nasty and disgusting comments somewhere else.'

Days passed. I never took that test. All of a sudden I heard a knock on the door, and I got up and opened the door. I wasn't expecting Norman home, because he always calls first. I saw Mingus standing there 'Uh.. where's your dad?' - 'Oh, he's doing this random stuff, convention and possibly coming home. I don't really know. Sorry.' I let him in and he found his sister in her swing. I could tell he missed her, just the way he acted. I let him interact with her for a while and I started cooking dinner since it was about that time. We talked over things that happened while he and his dad were taking their trip. He told me a few things and said that his dad is really sad he can't be at home as much as he'd like. I looked over at our daughter in her swing asleep, and looked Mingus and said 'Yeah I couldn't imagine what he's dealing with having to travel and know that he's missing out on important parts of her life.' We finished our dinner and started to head to bed. I let Mingus say goodnight to his sister, and he hugged her tight. I went into the bedroom and put Mercy in her crib, which I had Norman bring back into the bedroom while he was gone. My friend said 'You seriously need to talk to Norman about this.'

We both sat there talking about different things and laughing. He looked at me and asked 'What do you think my dad would honestly say if you were pregnant again? Would you think he'd be mad? Because he probably wouldn't. He loves you and I'm sure he'd support you.' I smiled at him and said 'I don't think he'd just leave me just because I got pregnant so quickly. I just.. I don't know. I know he wouldn't leave me just for that. It's a stupid reason, and I don't think your dad would do that get me pregnant and then leave.' - 'No he wouldn't. He's not like that. I've heard some of the stuff you guys have talked about and how all your ex's treated you badly and now you don't think you deserve to be happy just because of how some idiots treated you.' - 'I treated some of them crappy too, but you know what you're right. I deserve to be happy. You know you're wiser than most kids your age. I'll say it again, your dad raised you right most of these so called gentlemen out there could learn a thing from you.' He looked at my hand and saw the ring on my finger 'You know my dad has never done that for anybody else.' as he motioned to the ring. 'You're special to him.' I knew that this was true. Norman came home a few days later, and I knew I had to tell him. He got in sometime in the afternoon and I was so happy he was home. He leaned down and kissed me and then kissed Mercy's forehead. 'So how are my girls?' I laughed and said 'We're alright. Missed you.' I watched as he went and put his bags in the bedroom. He came out with a bag and handed it to me and I looked at him with a puzzled look and tried my best to hold my daughter and open the bag. Norman took her from me and started aweing over her. Inside the bag were all kinds of random goodies. 'Thanks...' was all I could utter. He smiled at me and I looked at the clock and saw what time it was and went and started making dinner. Norman stopped me and said 'Hey lets just enjoy tonight. What do you want? Pizza? Chinese?' - I looked at him and spit out 'Anything really. I haven't had anything to eat at all today.' We got some Chinese food and I started eating it and had Mercy in my lap. 'So anything exciting happen while I was gone?' My stomach flip-flopped and I said 'Nothing really. Mercy cried the whole time you were gone, and I'm not kidding. Nothing helped.' He looked over at her and said 'Its okay sweetie Daddy's home.' I smiled. - Later on that night we were getting ready for bed and I was fixing the bed and Norman came out of Mercy's room and walked up behind me. I knew exactly what he wanted. I turned around and our mouths met and his hands wondered to my waist. He pushed me onto the bed and started pulling off my pajamas. I smiled at him, and he started kissing on my neck and mumbled 'I missed this...' I laughed. He started trailing down from my neck and ended up at my breasts. I let out a low moan, as that talented tongue of his glided along my skin. He looked up at me with a devilish smile. He kept getting lower and lower, until I felt his hands on my thighs. I knew exactly what he intended to do, and I welcomed it. I started running my fingers through his hair and all of a sudden I let out a loud gasp. His tongue entered into me and danced along and trying to reach every hidden corner. I moaned louder and louder. I looked down at him going to town. I arched my back, and felt the sensation in my core. My orgasm hit me and Norman just looked at me with a smirk on his face. I blushed at him. 'Ready for Round 2?' he asked. - I bit my lip and shook my head. Norman took me in his arms and positioned himself between my thighs and eased into me. All of a sudden he started thrusting into me with more force than the previous one. I heard him grunting and looked at his face as it was tightening with each thrust '...Take your time.' I uttered before I started moaning again. I motioned to Norman that I wanted to be the dominate one before this was over. He let me on top and I started grinding my hips and he put his hands on my waist and held me in place while I did my own thing. Both of our orgasms hit us and we probably ended up waking half the people up in the apartments next to us. I crawled off and laid next to him and just panted. He looked over at me and said 'God I missed that.' I looked at him smiling and said 'Me...Me.. too.'

The following day I remembered that I needed to tell Norman about the scare. I looked at Norman putting his clothes back up and I was nursing Mercy and sat down on the bed and blinked. 'Norm..can I talk to you?' and he stopped putting his stuff away and looked at me and said 'Yeah. What's up?' - I looked at him and didn't know how to even bring up the conversation. 'What's wrong? Last time you acted like this it was when you were telling me about her.' He motioned to Mercy. I looked down at the floor and back up at him. 'Wait. Let me guess. You're pregnant again.' I looked at him and said 'I'm not believe me. Please don't be mad. I..' - 'Why would I be mad?' - I shrugged my shoulders... 'Just its.. not a good time we just had a daughter and what would we do with another child?' - 'I could never be mad at you, even if you ended up having kids back to back. I love you and hell you and I both are old enough to know that protection isn't 100% reliable. It would take something else to make me leave you.' I couldn't believe I was this lucky, to have this great guy who tries to make me happy before himself. I fell asleep at night wondering how I got so lucky, since I wasn't like his ex's, I was heavier and I certainly didn't have their looks. Norman touched my shoulder and brought me out of my haze. 'You okay?' - 'Yeah. I'm good.' I looked down at Mercy asleep in my arms. 'Hey, you wanna hold her for a while?' I said with a smile 'Of course.'