True Love | Book 2

Chapter 7

Chapter 7
*3 1/2 months later*
(Jennifer)

I get dressed in a white t-shirt and grey sweat pants. I walk down stairs and lay on the couch, turning the tv on. "Have fun playing basketball Joshy?" I ask, hearing the door open. "I always do." He says waiting for me to move so he can sit down. I sit up and let him sit down next to me. "I wish I could play it with you." I say frowning. I'm 8 1/2 months pregnant, now. "You can really soon." He says wrapping his arm around me. "That's not very comforting now." I mumble. "I hate seeing you like this. What can I do to make it better?" He asks picking my feet up in one quick movement and putting them on his lap. "Kiss me." I say laying back on the couch. He positions himself on top of me, with his arms on both sides of me holding himself up. He kisses me and I wrap one arm around his neck. He kissed me harder and I stick my tongue in his mouth. I suddenly feel a strong pain, like kicks but worse and I push Josh off me.

Everything happens so fast I can barely keep up. I try to keep track of the events in my head. My water broke, that's why my pants are wet. Josh is on the phone, Josh picked me up and is now carrying me. I cover my mouth with one hand as I feel more contractions. Josh puts me in the passenger seat of the car and I try to stay calm, I can't have a panic attack now. It'll make things worse. "Yeah, I'm taking her to the hospital now." Josh says into the phone, closing the passenger door.

We arrive at the hospital and Josh carries me in. "She's going into labor." He tells the lady at the front desk. This hospital has blue walls. I can barely think past the pain, it's so much more prominent that anything else.

I hear Josh's voice and I focus on what he's saying as the nurse hooks up my IV. "You're gonna be okay. Jen take my hand." He says holding his hand out. I grab his hand and squeeze it. The pain slowly subsides to a duller ache and I take deep breaths. "The doctors gonna be here soon. Just breath you'll be okay." The nurse says. Her shirt is pink. "Joshy who were you on the phone with?" I ask remembering him talking on the phone. "Your mom, then mine. They're both coming here as soon as they can." He assures me. "When did I take my pants off?" I ask, this medicine they gave me is strong. "The nurse helped me take them off." He says. The doctor walks in and I immediately forget all my questions. "I need you to put your legs up, like this." She says moving my legs up so my knees are bent. I still feel the contractions, just not as much. "When I say push you have to do it, it'll hurt a lot at first but the medicine should help." She says, she's so calm. "Okay." I whisper. Every time I push I squeeze Josh's hand. I hope I don't break his hand. "Oh fuck this hurts!" I scream, I've been trying to keep the swearing under control but it's not working out to good. "Shh jen it's okay just keep squeezing my hand." Josh says soothingly. I push as hard as I can and I squeeze Josh's hand at the same time. I hear a baby cry and I relax. "Holy shit I did it." I say still in pain. "Yeah look." Josh says pointing to the baby. "Congrats it's a girl." The doctor says handing me the baby wrapped in a hospital towel. "Oh my god she's so little." Josh says looking at her with me. "The nurse is gonna clean her up, then she'll bring her right back okay?" The doctor says pointing to the nurse. I nod my head yes and hand the baby to the nurse.

I get cleaned up and they switch me to a bigger room, one where Josh can sleep too. I wait with him for the nurse to come back, with the baby and the birth certificate so I can sign. We never talked about names, since we wanted it to be a surprise. "Josh what are we gonna name her?" I ask. "I like Ava." Josh says. "Ava?" I say testing it out. "Miss Lawrence I need you to sign this, and you need to write the baby's name up here." The nurse says handing me some papers, she brings the baby to Josh and he hold her. She's dressed in a white onesie. "Great, then you put the baby's last name here and middle name here." She says. I write Hutcherson in the corner, and I look at where I wrote Ava. Josh walks over to me and looks at it. "What about Isabelle?" He asks pointing the middle name. "Isabelle." I say, like izzy. "It's perfect." I say smiling at him. I write it down and we both sign at the bottom.

I wake up to Josh whispering to someone. I blink my eyes trying to see who it is in the dark. "Yeah she was born a little early but the doctor said she'd be fine." He whispers, still holding Ava. "Josh you can stop whispering. I'm awake." I say making him turn around. "Your parents are here." He says turning on a dim light, they both walk over to me and stand by my bed. "How ya feeling?" My mom asks smiling at me. "I'm okay, kinda numb did they give me sleeping pills?" I ask. She looks at Josh and he nods. "I told them it was okay." He says still occupied with Ava. "You should go back to sleep, jen. They'll still be here in the morning." Josh says, my parents nod in agreement.

When I wake up everyone is in my room, Josh's mom and dad and brother Conner, my mom and dad. They are all surrounding Josh and Ava. "I'm still here just thought I'd let Ya know." I say making Conner laugh. No one else looks at me, wonderful. I'm all alone in a hospital bed. "Conner do you wanna get breakfast with me?" I ask sitting up. "Yeah." He says, that attracts my dads attention. "I might need some help up, dad." I say holding my hand out. He helps me up and I get in a wheelchair. "Doctors orders." He says starting to push me down the hall toward the food court. Conner follows and I realize how much he looks like Josh. We get breakfast and I stare out the window. "As soon as you get home you'll have her all to yourself." My dad says making me laugh. "Yeah I can't wait." I say. I can't believe I'm taking a baby home today.

A/N: well that just happened.