𝐀 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞✔

𝙵𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚃𝚈- 𝙾𝙽𝙴

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The plan was get to a bus
Next thing you know, the two of us
Are floating, drifting somewhere new
She said we'd take a shortcut
I'm trying to be a good sport, but
I don't see how we make it through

~Zoe~

I let out a loud yawn. I was tired of getting up to pee; it was the fourth time already in the space of an hour. It was the wee hours of the morning and I was trying to sleep in the sitting room, but it was to no avail. The fetus was always quite active at nights, kicking at everything and anything it could. I don't know whether the kicks had made my bladder sensitive as to peeing close to a dozen times in the last five hours.

It's been getting incredibly difficult to hide my baby bump as I was now 18 weeks gone. But thank God for waist trainers, they've been quite helpful in concealing the growing creature in me. I always make sure to only wear them when I need to be in school. Once I'm home, I take it off ASAP; I fear they may have a negative effect on the growth of the baby.

I'm just glad our next paper was IRK; I wasn't offering the subject, so I needn't be in school. Which means I had the whole day to recover the sleep I lost this night. All I need is to get Chloe out of the house so I could have her room all to myself. My next paper was CRK, which was the next day after IRK. Good thing about CRK is that it doesn't require much reading. What I was more worried about was Math and Further mathematics was in the same week. The former was on Monday and the latter on Friday, with Geography between them.

I inhaled sharply, and hummed in pain, holding my belly as the fetus gave my uterus walls a hard kick. My Mom and I haven't been going for the antenatal checkups as often as we should've. The last time we went, which was a month ago, I could feel the baby hiccup; I remember it like yesterday and I smiled at the memory of that. The baby kicked again. "Hey baby, stop doing that. Mommy is trying to sleep, you know," I said, placing a hand on my stomach talking to the thing growing inside of me.

It was as if it could hear me, because I could feel it stop moving. Perhaps it had gone back to sleep; and so should I. The vibration of my phone ran a jolt through my body. I picked up the phone and stood up to leave the sitting room. "Hello," I spoke into the receiver. The minute the voice on the other end spoke, I didn't need a soothsayer to tell me that was my bestie.

I cleared my throat so I could stop sounding like a drunkard; didn't work though. My voice still sounded coarse. "Jeez Zoe, remind me never to call you this early again. You sound like an elephant ran over you hundred times," Nafeesat said.

I chuckled at her comments, shaking my head slightly as if she could see me. After I had sobered up, I finally responded to her statement. "Good morning to you as well, Nafeesat. Hope you slept good..."