ANGEL’S HAVING HER BABY! She went into labor a little before midnight!

Sunny Banks hospital - we’re headed there now!

Crap. Looked like he was getting up and going to the hospital with a hangover. Unless he wanted another barrage of text messages, likely not just from his sister but from the rest of their friends.

They wanted to include him in everything now that he was home and he appreciated it. He tried to make it out for the big events - and the first kid entering their group was a big event. On the upside, it was probably going to be funny seeing how Adam handled being a new father. And all of them were dying to find out whether the baby was a boy or girl.

Jake had twenty dollars on a girl. Might as well go find out whether or not he was taking Patrick’s money today.

“Shower,” he muttered, because he needed to clean off if he was going to go face his friends after a night of fucking amazing sex with Sharon. He was pretty sure he still smelled like her perfume. “Then coffee. Then hospital.”

Maybe he’d grab some donuts on the way too. Babies took a while to come right? People would probably be hungry. And he wanted a donut.

Plus, having something to hold would keep him from trying to touch Sharon again...

There were a lot of uncertainties after last night, but one thing he knew for sure was that she was definitely not out of his system. As if to concur, his damned cock twitched.

So much for avoiding Jake.

But there had been no way she was going to miss seeing Angel and Adam’s new arrival. Babies trump awkward morning afters.

At least she got some entertainment from the fact that he didn’t quite seem to know how to deal with her presence either. His blue eyes kept flitting over in her direction, and when she had first arrived he’d practically used the box of donuts he was holding as a shield. Sharon had smirked at him as she’d picked up a pink one with sprinkles, both to hide her own awkwardness and just to get under his skin.

Jumping into their usual routine was not only familiar, it made her feel less awkward.

He’d scowled at her, but there was a little something extra in his eyes that had sent a shiver up her spine. Doing her best to ignore him, she took her donut with her and settled down into a chair next to her bestie, Kate. All of her friends were already there, in varying degrees of sleepiness and hungover - even Lexie and Patrick who were wrapped up in one chair and practically cooing at each other. Lexie had her left hand outstretched and both of them kept looking at the ring on it with expressions of loving awe.