Chapter 210. Something Just Happened

Athena

Six months.

Six months since Adrian and Arianna had come home from the NICU, and I still sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to check that they were breathing. 

The monitors helped, their steady beeping had become the soundtrack of our lives, but the fear never completely went away.

Though it had gotten better. Much better.

Now, instead of constant terror, I felt mostly joy. Joy watching them grow and change every single day. 

Joy hearing their coos and gurgles turn into something that might become words someday. Joy seeing their personalities emerge, Adrian serious and observant, Arianna social and expressive.

They were sitting up now, had been for about three weeks. And just yesterday, Arianna