day1 love

Chapter 42* This WASN'T a part of the PLAN

Nik's POV

Morning dawned after I had spent a near sleepless night tossing and turning, counting minutes  between the growing pains I'm having, wondering if these are more of the same Braxton-Hicks contractions I have been having for a few weeks now, or the real thing.

I convince myself they have to be the kind that just hurt like hell,  but don't advance labor into actual delivery. 

NOT now babies, momma got work to do, I silently admonish them, knowing what I have to do, and quite looking forward to it!
If Sam even had the slightest inkling I'm gonna do what I plan, I think he might seriously whup my ass, throw me on restriction, give me the silent treatment, quite possibly, all three!

He's seems to have forgotten, I'm as gangsta as he is, and just as lethal, only my bad girl side has been almost fully domesticated.

 Almost.

Somewhere deep inside me, Nikki yawns, stretches, and awakens with a roar! I rise from the bed where Sam still sleeps, and pack my handbag according to how this will all play out, if Nikki has her way. The things in there would surprise ya, but that's what I'm going for, the element of surprise.

Some noise from behind me alerts me, and I remove just what I really need right now,  put my bag back on the dresser, and turn to see Sam is awake and staring at me with eyes narrowed, and a smirk playing on the corner of his mouth. 

I walk the few steps, climb back in bed and show him the pack of Certs Spearmint breath mints I have in my hand, he raises an eyebrow at me and asks me why I'm wearing my wristwatch.              

 Goddang it, this man of mine, he never misses a thing! 

I pop a breath mint and feel the nauseated feeling I have had all night abate a little. I deadpan keeping my tone light and airy, in exact opposition as how i feel inside, "Cause a gangsta's girl always supposed to know what time it is?"                                                      He's not amused, and I know that he's in a mood, that tells me not to play with him right now, as he laces our fingers together. His eyes darken, and he looks at me and says, " Yeah, you are, so why you hiding secrets from me, don't you know better than that by now"

 My heartbeat trips a lil and it takes everything in me not to give myself away and glance towards my purse instead and let my eyes waver from his. "Secrets!" I squeak at him, just as another pain grips me, I fight to keep the pain from showing, but cant. He scowls and removes his hand from mine, places it on the small of my back, just above our tattoo, and rubs exactly where the pain is, saying nothing until the pain subsides a little,  just telling me to breathe with it, in thru my nose out of the mouth. 

For a split second I think of the Karate Kid and I giggle in spite of myself. I glance at him and he doesn't look mad, just very concerned.

"Yeah" he says, and his voice is like my favorite sound in the world, "When was you gone tell me you're in labor " I immediately deny it, because these are Braxton-Hicks, after all.
He smirks and says, "Yeah, sure, that's why they coming every seven minutes for three or four hours now, huh"

I don't know why I'm surprised that he knows this, or how, since he was sleeping and I express this to him, causing him to chuckle a bit as he says back, "Yeah I'm sleeping through all the changes in your breathing, the constant tossing and turning, Girl, it was like tryna sleep on a  trampoline!"

I whoosh out a breath and get up cause now I have to pee, and as I do, I feel a pop and wetness floods me. Great, now i cant even control my bladder! The look on Sam's face is priceless and he gets up and goes in his dresser drawer and hands me out a pair of sweatpants and tells me to go put them on, as he gets dressed, whistling a jaunty tune while smirking and his eyes smile at me. His smirk is almost too much to bear!                                                                 I ask him, "what's so funny about me pissing myself," and he looks at me and says seriously, "That's because you didn't pee yourself,  your water just broke and we are on the way to the hospital, love!"