"Surprise."
He stood there silent.
"Are you happy?"
Still nothing.
"Say something damn it!!"
Why wouldn't he say anything.
"Hussain. Please say something." I whispered starting to get tears in my eyes.
"I'm shocked..how did this happen?"
"What do you mean? Did you not want a child?"
"I hate children!!!"
I stood still.
What? Does he know what he's saying? I thought he loved kids after the way he was with his sister. I was heart broken. How could he say that?
I started walking backwards. I was crying.
"I can't believe you would say that. I surprised you on our anniversary and you say you hate kids. Tumne mujhe Bohot Dukhi kiya hai aaj."
I turned around and ran. I ran to my car and left.
I don't know where but I was going. Away. Away from hussain.
I called up Raneem.
"Hello..?"
"Raneem.." I managed to say crying.
"Babe what happened..?"
"Huss-Huss-hussain-he doesn't want-kids."
"WHAT THAT ASS HOLE."
"Can I stay with you and yara for a while? If you don't mind."
"Of course you can..stay as long as you want.."
"Thanks. Now open the door."
"Ok."
She came down and gave me a hug.
"I'm sorry baby..I'm sure he'll come around..give it time."
"Can we not talk about this?"
"Sure. Come in."
I went in and checked my Phone. I had 27 missed calls from hussain, and 30 text messages. I read them. I was done with his shit.
I replied to all of his texts.
Me- leave me alone for a while hussain. You've hurt me..I am pregnant for gods sake..with your kid..we're married! If you didn't want a child you could've just told me the day we moved in? I'm done with your shit hussain. Just done.
Hussain- please! It was a shocked I wasn't expecting it..I wasn't ready.
Me- your saying it like we aren't married aur yeh najiaz aulad hai...! Just get out of my life!
Hussain- please ashi..I love you.
Me- I don't care..go to hell.
And I didn't reply any of his other messages afterwards.
"what do you want to eat?" Raneem yelled from the kitchen.
"Nothing."
"did you have lunch?"
"No?"
"And your going to skip dinner too?"
"Yup." I said popping the p.
"You're pregnant ashi..you can't just skip meals..you're a doctor..you should know."
"Just an apple than."
"I'm making you a full mean weather you like it or not. And you will eat it."
"Ok mom."
"Good girl."
Raneem made me dinner and we went to bed.
I couldn't sleep.
I get a call at 3am from aena.
"Ashi!!!" She was screaming.
"Come to the hospital! Now!"
"what happened?"
"Hussain..hussain. Just come baba!"
"Pure baat bolo."
"Hussain ka accident ho gaya hai!!"
"Kya?"
"Jaldi aao."
I wrote Raneem a note and ran out.
I was driving and thinking of all sorts of things.
When I reached there I ran to the receptionist.
"Hussain Asif..he was in a car accident."
"Room 206."
"Ok thank you."
I ran to room 206 and saw everyone standing there.
Everyone went out and let me alone with hussain.
I saw him and started to cry. I went and sat next to him and held his hands and kissed them.
"We were perfect..I'm pregnant..we were just going to start a family..and now you're in a hospital bed."
He had an injury on his forehead and bruises all over his face.
His right wrist was broken and he had a broken nose.
"Hussain." I cried and kissed his hand.
I just sobbed in his hands.
"Ashi?"
"G mamma?"
"Beta so jao..you need rest."
"nahi mamma..how can I sleep? Mamma hussains on a hospital bed..I can't leave him."
"But how about baby?"
"How do you know?"
"Hussain told us everything."
I cried even more.
"Please wake up Hussain. Please. For our child."
I felt Hussain tighten his grip.
"Hussain? Please wake up."
"Ashi..ashi..ashi."
He was mumbling.
"Hussain mein yaha hoon."
He slowly opened his eyes.
"Hussain." I kissed his hands.
"Huh..how's our baby?"
Suddenly I remembered how he reacted to the baby.
"My baby...how's my baby."
"Come on...you needed me to make it.."
"But I certainly don't need you to help me raise my baby."
"I'm sorry..please forgive me."
"I have to go."
"Then why'd you come.."
"I forgot what you had done to me yesterday."
"I said im sorry."
"I don't care."
And I left. I didn't go to raneems house. I went back to mine.. I texted Raneem and told her what happened.
Aena texted me and said he'd be discharged tomorrow.
I decided to stay because hussain needed me.
"We're home."
I walked to the living room and saw hussains face. He was shocked.
"Chalo I'll leave now, I have to get to work." Aena hugged me.
"Bye"
"You're not at raneems house."
"How'd you know I went there?"
"You didn't go to mammas house so I figured you went to raneems..considering she's your best friend."
"Why did you react the way you did when I told you about the baby?"
"I was scared. I honestly love kids but I'm scared to have my own. I was scared I wouldn't be a good father. I didn't want my child looking up to a person who's a horrible father."
"Listen to me..it's my first child too. I'm freaked outta my mind. I'm terrified considering I have to be the one carrying around the baby for 9 months and then spending hours in labor to bring the baby in to this world. No man in this world would know how scared a women is when she's pregnant..no man will ever know."
"I'm really sorry ashi. I really am. And to prove that..go look upstairs."
"What's upstairs?"
I went up stairs and saw one of the empty rooms lights on. I went in and was shocked. I had tears in my eyes. Hussain decorated a nursery for the baby. I was crying so much.
Hussain brushed up behind me and kissed me.
"You like?"
"Why'd you do all this?"
"Because I felt like I needed to...I was a jerk."
"I can't believe it..how'd you do this?"
"Aena and nimrah helped me."
"Thank you." I turned around and buried my face in his chest.
"I love you."
"I love you too"
This was all perfect.
~.~ 10 weeks later~.~
It had been 19 weeks since I found out I was pregnant and I was suppose to find out what I'm having. I was so eager to find out and hussain was even more eager to find out.
"What do you think we'll have?" Hussain asked me in the car.
"I think we'll have a baby hussain. I want a baby boy."
"I disagree I think it'll be a girl..I want a baby ayehsa."
"Well I want a boy.."
"I want a girl."
"I guess we'll just see then."
We arrived to the hospital and went and checked in.
"Ayesha Asif?" I heard the nurse.
I walked over to her.
"That's me."
"Ok follow me."
They did the usual..BP, weight, height, etc.
"The doctor will be with you any minute now."
"I can't believe it." I said laughing.
"What?"
"I'm a patient at my own hospital that I work at 5 days a week." I said laughing.
"That's actually pretty funny."
We heard a knock on the door.
"Ashi?"
"yeah we're ready for you."
The gynecologist walked in and it was my cousin.
"SANA?!! You work here?"
"Yeah I do and you're pregnant?!"
"Yeah I am...and I work here too."
"Oh my god!"
"When did you move from Canada?"
"I got married and moved here with my husband.."
"Iqra didn't mention your wedding at mine."
"Yeah she was busy at my wedding and she felt bad that we didn't invite you. So she didn't tell you."
"Oh well it's ok..we went that close anyways. I would've loved to come though."
"I'm sorry."
"I'm lost..can someone buy me a gps."
"Oh sorry babe! Sana this is my husband hussain and hussain this is my cousinish from Canada."
"Nice to meet you Sana."
Sana and I had shit in the past which we sorted out but it has never been the same..
"Ok let's get on with the appointment."
"She started putting blue gel on my Lower abdomen and started moving the wand against it.
"Wanna know the gender?"
"Yeah please."
"Uhh it seems like a...congratulations it's a..."-
-to be continued-
