Friends With Extra Benefits (31 page)

After a slightly awkward silent moment, Victoria
added, "This isn't too weird, is it?"

Caroline put her hand over hers. "No, it's
really not."

Jim and Brian returned to the room. Jim and
Victoria's eyes met, and he moved to her. Caroline took a few steps
back in the now-crowded room.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

Victoria nodded. "Did you see her?"

"Yes. She's beautiful."

Caroline narrowed her eyes, watching the new
parents with concern.

Jillian and Brian shared an awkward glance and
then asked, "Caroline, we're going to head up to the cafeteria, did
you want to come?"

Caroline looked confused by the question as her
mind raced. Then the lights came on. "Yeah, sure." She glanced at
Jim and asked, "Do you want anything?"

Jim didn’t respond to the question. Caroline
repeated, "Jim, do you want anything?"

"What?" He turned to look at her while wearing a
faraway smile.

"We're going to the cafeteria."

"Oh, no... thanks."

He returned his attention to Victoria as
Caroline followed Brian and Jillian from the room.

After moving to the chair next to Victoria, Jim
placed his hand atop hers.

She curled her lip. "I want to see her."

"The doctor is with her right now. Let's give
them a couple minutes, and then I'll check."

"Okay." She fought to brighten her expression.
"So, who does she look like?"

He smiled. "You. She's all you. Let's hope,
anyway."

They shared a chuckle.

Victoria took a deep breath with her eyes
closed. When she opened them, she gave him a serious look. "Do you
think Caroline is really okay with all of this?"

After pondering that briefly, he shrugged.
"We're going to make it work somehow."

They shared a silent moment as Jim stroked her
hand.

Victoria smiled and looked up at him. "I can't
believe she's really here."

"Do you have a name picked out yet?"

"No, I wasn't ready for her. I do have a few
ideas, though."

"Like?"

"Elizabeth."

Jim grimaced immediately as a memory flashed
into his brain. He shook his head. "The first girl I ever kissed
was named Beth. After we did, she laughed at me, told me I didn’t
have any lips, and then told everyone how bad of a kisser I
was."

"That bitch." Jim nodded in agreement, and
Victoria continued, "You have lips... They're pretty great lips
too."

"Thanks."

"So, no Elizabeth, then."

"Well, I think I could get over it and move
on."

She gave him a supportive look. "You shouldn't
have to."

"Thanks. That's probably best. What else do you
have?"

"Kaylie."

"I like that." Jim smiled.

"You think?"

"Yeah, it's pretty." He nodded. "That's a good
name."

Victoria nodded along with him as she adjusted
her position in bed. She grimaced in pain.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, it just really freaking hurts when you
deliver a baby. I didn't realize... I mean, I know she was small,
but you try squeezing something even that size out of your vagina,
it's not too much fun."

He chuckled. "What did you expect?"

"I don't know... I just thought with all the sex
I've had, it would be... Like this one time, I had sex with this
guy. He was..." She extended her fingers and put her hands together
forming a huge circular shape. "... this big around and—"

"No way." He looked at her, both shocked and a
little horrified.

Victoria held her fingers in that position as
she added with her eyes wide, "I swear, he was that big, and—"

Putting his hand to hers to break up the show
and tell, he wore a distasteful look. "Please, don't tell me any
more."

She smiled. "I just thought I'd be better
prepared down there."

"Did they give you drugs?"

"Yep, but I think I got them too late."

He shook his head and gave her an incredulous
look. "I think they're taking effect right about now... A guy as
big around as a freaking grapefruit. You're—"

"Okay, maybe he wasn't that big."

They shared a chuckle.

"Do you think I could see her now?"

Jim said, "I'll go check." He headed toward the
door.

"Jim." Victoria called. He turned back, and she
gave him a serious look. "I'm glad you're here."

He gave her a sad nod as if he were again on the
verge of tears. "Me, too."

They stared into each other's eyes for a few
seconds until he covered his mouth with one hand, turned, and got
the hell out of there before he really started to lose it. As the
door closed slowly, Victoria let out a big sigh.

Victoria and Jim stood beside the isolette on
either side of the baby, wearing proud smiles. She now had both the
breathing and feeding tubes connected to her.

Jim said, "She does look like a Kaylie."

"I think so, too." Victoria leaned in for a
closer look. "I think she has your nose."

"No." He scoffed.

Victoria reached her hand in and let Kaylie wrap
her tiny fingers around her extended finger. "She's strong."

Jim smiled. "Just like her mom." Victoria didn't
feel so strong right at that moment, and she curled her lip as she
stared down at the beautiful baby and wondered how the hell she was
going to pull off being a parent all by herself.

"And now comes the hard part, right?" Jim
said.

"I know," Victoria replied. She grinned up at
him as if he were reading her mind.

"As soon as I graduate, we want to move to Miami
so we can help."

"That would be wonderful. And Jillian told me
she wants to babysit every single day."

"Take her up on that. I read they don't sleep
much for the first couple months."

They shared a smile. Jim gently stroked Kaylie's
head. "Are you going to breastfeed?"

"She needs to be on this high calorie formula
for a few days, but I'm going to try." Victoria looked down to her
swollen breasts and grinned. "They're killing me."

Jim glanced up. "They look huge."

"Thanks, but they're kind of ugly, all full of
veins and everything right now. They also really hurt."

"I don't believe they’re ugly for a second."

"You haven't seen them." Victoria stared up at
him, thinking, I really do want you to see them.

"I'll take your word for it." He gave her a
curious glance, and they shared a smile.

They spent the next hour bonding with the baby,
singing and talking to their little creation until it was time to
let Kaylie sleep. Afterward, Victoria returned to her room and
quickly fell asleep herself.

Jim and Caroline went to Jillian and Brian's
house to spend the night. In the great room, Brian opened a bottle
of wine to celebrate Kaylie's birth, and Caroline drank nearly half
of it. A second bottle was opened, and Caroline's apparently
unquenchable thirst continued.

The four sat around chatting and enjoying the
wine. Caroline said, "The baby is beautiful. I knew it would be.
You both, uh... I mean with, uh, you two, it would have to be."

"She is adorable," Jillian said. She glanced at
Brian, whose eyes were drooping and fighting sleep. "I think we're
going to bed. It's been a long day."

Brian's head jerked up, and his eyes opened
wide. "What?"

"Are you tired?" Jillian asked while rolling her
eyes.

"Yeah." He nodded.

"We're all getting older, some of us before our
time," Jillian quipped.

"Hey!" Brian frowned.

"Oh, just get upstairs." Jillian smiled. She
stood and glanced at Jim. "You guys know where the guest room is,
so just make yourselves at home."

"Goodnight." Jim nodded, and he watched as
Jillian and Brian headed toward the stairs.

Leaning over, Caroline placed her head on Jim's
chest. "I really feel like doing it tonight. Do you want to do
it?"

"Sure."

Jim asked, "Do you feel okay?"

She smiled. "I think I just drank a little too
much."

"Are you okay with everything... you know, the
baby and Victoria and—"

Caroline moved her lips to his and kissed him.
Placing her hand over his groin, she squeezed it softly. Jim kissed
her back. She pulled her lips from his. "Let's not talk about it.
I'm okay, I guess. I just feel like going to bed."

Jim and Caroline retired to the guest room. That
night Caroline was more passionate in bed than he had ever seen her
before. After she gave Jim his third orgasm and started to work on
a fourth, he had to delicately ask her to stop. He claimed he was
exhausted, which he actually was, but in actuality, it felt like
his dick was about to fall off.

A few minutes after that, she passed out, and
Jim watched her sleep. His mind raced with thoughts of Kaylie,
Caroline, and Victoria all swirling in his head.

The next morning Caroline, Jim, Brian, and
Jillian ate breakfast together at the house. Brian prepared his
famous pancakes. Caroline looked a little pale, and after her third
bite, she rushed upstairs, went into the bathroom, and threw up. A
minute later, Jim followed her and found her slumped on the
bathroom floor. She decided to stay behind while the others
returned to the hospital.

Jim asked to borrow the car, and after he
dropped Jillian and Brian off at the main entrance, he went to run
an errand.

As Jillian was browsing in the gift shop, she
caught Brian's bored expression and sent him up to the maternity
ward. In Victoria's room, the doctor was in the process of
delivering the good news that Kaylie was progressing well and
informing the new mother that the plan was to remove the baby from
the ventilator and have her breathing on her own by the end of the
day.

When the doctor left, Victoria took a deep
calming breath, and for the first time since she arrived at the
hospital, she was relieved. She finally felt that everything would
be okay. She smiled, thinking, Maybe it's time to stop worrying
about everything and just focus on getting back to living.

Glancing down at her swollen breasts, Victoria
shook her head with a grin. She missed her old ones. She had always
fantasized about having really big ones, but now that she had them,
she really, really wanted to go back.

Sliding her hand down, she touched her belly. It
was still swollen, and she pondered how much work would be involved
in getting some semblance of her old body back. She would need to
exercise twice as hard. She moved her hand lower. She wondered if
sex would feel the same now that she had delivered a baby through
there. Not that she could even really remember what it was like,
because it had been so long since her last time.

Victoria moved her hand down between her legs
just to see if it still felt as she remembered. She carefully ran
her fingers around her parts and began to frown. Something felt
completely different. Pushing the sheets down, she craned her neck
as she lifted up her gown and struggled to get a look at her
vagina. That's exactly the position Brian found her in when he
entered the room.

He caught a glimpse of her and closed his eyes.
"Sorry." He began backing through the door blindly.

Victoria glanced up at him and smiled. "Good.
You're here."

He stopped in his tracks but kept his eyes
closed. "Can I open my eyes now?"

Victoria gave him a look. "It would help."

Brian opened his eyes to find her staring at him
with her legs spread and her gown still pulled up. He turned away
quickly and whined, "I thought you were going to cover up."

"Oh, just get over here."

He shielded his eyes halfway as he smiled at
her. "I'm really afraid to ask what you're doing."

"I need a favor."

"Okay," he replied hesitantly.

Victoria smiled. "Oh, by the way Kaylie will be
coming off the ventilator today."

Brian beamed. "That's great news, but could you
cover up a little?"

Victoria rolled her eyes and pushed down her
gown. "I was kinda hoping I'd have a C-section."

"Jillian told me."

"I need you to look at my... you know... and
tell me if everything looks the same, or am I like some kind of
freak show down there now? Something doesn't feel right. It's like
I have a giant flap now, or something."

"A flap?" Brian asked with a cringe.

"Yes, a flap."

Putting his hand up, he held it in front of her
as he furrowed his brow. "How would I even know what it's supposed
to look like?"

She glared at him. "Have you forgotten when you
tricked me into touching myself in front of you?"

The realization hit his face. "Oh, yeah." His
look morphed into a sexy smile. "That was fun."

"It was, wasn't it?"

"Plus you spent hours looking at it when you
drew it that time."

"Now, that I forgot about."

"How could you?" She smiled.

He wore a serious expression. "You see one pussy
up close, you've seen them all." He smiled. "I'm kidding. Yours was
pretty nice."

"Gee, thanks. I need to know if it still is."
She stared at him hopefully.

Brian moved to her. "But I don’t know if I
should, really."

"I think it'll be okay." She gave him a
wide-eyed look. "Besides, if you don’t do it, I'm going to have to
ask Jim."

"Jim, really?"

"Yeah, you two are the only guys who know what
my pussy is supposed to look like."

"Can't I just get you a hand mirror or
something?"

Victoria rolled her eyes. "Okay, yeah. Go out to
the nurses' station and ask for a hand mirror. Tell them that I'm
so vain that I need to look at my pussy immediately."

Brian stood. "Be right back."

"Uggg. Get over here. I was kidding."

"Sorry."

"Will you do it?"

Glancing out the window, he rubbed his hands
through his hair. "All right."