Family First- A Marina Story

Honeymoon

Mayas POV

I wake up next to my beautiful wife in our bed in a hotel in Hawaii. She is already awake, with her  arms wrapped around me. 

"Good morning bambina," she says in the Italian accent I fell in love with.

"Hey," I say, and I kiss her softly on her lips. "Do you want to go get something to eat on the beach? After, we can swim with dolphins or something, I don't know. All I know is I want you."

"Of course. Just make sure that you cover yourself in sunscreen, because bambina, you are very white," she teases. 

I put my bathing suit on, the same one I wore the first vacation we took together. Carina is wearing a pink bikini, ironically the same color as the scrubs she wears to deliver babies. 

"Ready to go bambina?" Carina says, slipping her fingers through mine. 

I grip her hand. "Yeah, lets go," I say. She gives me a quick kiss on the cheek, and step out of our room right onto the beach. 

We walk to a small building 100 feet away, where there are pastries and coffee available. We get some, and sit in a lounge chair my the ocean. 

Carina's thumb gently caresses my hand, in between my thumb and index finger. I smile at her, and I take a sip of my coffee.

I lean my head on her shoulder after we eat, and she kisses the top of my head.

"Come on, Maya, lets go in the water!" she says. 

I smile and sit up, and we walk into the ocean together. 

"I love you Carina," I say. 

"I love you too bambina," she says, wrapping her arm around my waist, and placing her hand on top of mine.

Carina's POV

We stay in Hawaii for a few more days, and then we go back to Seattle, because Maya insisted on camping in the woods on an island in the sound. 

We already have our car at the airport, packed with all of our supplies, and we just need to go to the grocery store to get some food. 

We are checking out, when we hear a woman scream. I run over, to see a very pregnant woman lying on the ground. 

A few seconds later, Maya rushes over. 

"Are you okay?" I ask her.

"Well, I am in labor, and my boyfriend INSISTED that we needed to get diapers, so we came here. AS I AM IN LABOR. But now I think that this baby is coming out right now." She says.

"Well, luckily for you, I am an OB-GYN, so if you did have to be in this situation, I am the best person to be here as well. And my wife is a firefighter, so she will call her station, and they will send over an ambulance, so we can get you to the hospital as soon as possible." I say. "my name is Dr. Carina DeLuca. Can you tell me your name?"

"Sorry. I'm Harlow," Harlow says. "This is my boyfriend Mike." She says, angrily gesturing to a man behind her, who waves sheepishly. 

Maya hands me a pair of gloves. 

"Harlow do you mind if I give you a quick exam? Just to check on the progression of the labor." I ask.

"Yeah sure, but would you mind clearing the people away? I would prefer it if I had some privacy"  she says, 

"Of course. Maya, could you get them away from here, and find out the ETA of the ambulance?" I ask. 

"Sure. And the ambulance should be here any minute," Maya says.

"Okay, well Harlow, I can feel your baby's head, so I am not sure that we can wait for the ambulance to get here." I say, getting cut off by sirens coming into the parking lot. "Nevermind, we can get your baby out once we get in the ambulance." 

Ben and Andy rush into the store, with a stretcher, and we load her up into the aid car, and she gives a single push, and her baby boy basically shoots out. 

"Congratulations, its a boy," Maya says. Ben cuts the cord, and we hand him to her. 

"Thank you all so much," she says. 

Maya's POV

We decided to put off camping for a few weeks. We were both tired, and just wanted to relax. In our house. Together.

I lay in bed with Carina, my head resting on her chest. "I loved seeing you do what you love to do today." I say. 

"Well, I loved it even more with you there," she says, and I roll over on top and kiss her, my arms wrapped around her back. 

"I want to have kids with you Carina. I want to share all of this love that I have for you with a mini  us." I blurt out.

"Well, you know that I want kids, so of course I would love for there to be a few bambinos running around here, but I do think we should wait for a little while. Our marriage is still so fresh and we don't need more right now. But I do love you and I would love our bambinos too." She says.

I smile, and I curl up next to her, and she wraps her arms and legs around me, and we fall asleep.