𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 • 𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚎

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Nine months. I had this human....thing....inside me for nine months. I get it, you know. Babies are a wonderful thing. But, I didn't know that carrying it inside of me was going to be this difficult. I mean, yeah, I was excited. I was gonna be a mom.

But, I was probably the only one who was excited, yet miserable about this. Who knew kids were so expensive. I mean, half of the baby furniture was more than my entire rent. Of course, the day that I went into labor, Sam was in L.A. with the show choir that he directed. Finn and Lexie had agreed to stay with me, until he got back, but...I wasn't so sure that he was going to get back in time for the baby.

It all started when I was sitting on the couch in the living room. I thought that I was just having really bad stomach pains, but I forgot that I was pregnant, so I pushed them off. It wasn't until they were really bad, that I had realized. Labor.

"Finn!" I called up the steps. "It's time!" Finn and Lexie came running down the stairs. "Alright! I'll grab the go-bag and we can call Sam from the car." I sighed. "He's never gonna get here in time, Finn. He's gonna miss this." He shook his head. "No, he won't. He's not gonna miss the birth of his child, A.J."

"Son." I grunted through the pain.

"What?"

I looked up. "Oh, yeah. It's a boy. Sam didn't want to know, but I needed to know so I could buy the furniture...and know what the name was gonna be before I got to the hospital." Lexie came running out from the hallway. "Go. You don't want this kid dropping out in the middle of your living room, do you?"

Finn helped me out to the car and Lexie got in the driver's seat. "Someone needs to call Sam." I grunted again. Finn picked up the phone and dialed. "Sam, it's Finn. Yeah, listen, we're going to the hospital. It's time." I could hear him start freaking out on the other line. "Yeah...here." He handed the phone back to me.

"Hey, babe."

"What's going on?"

"Sam....it's time. The baby's coming." I could hear the music from the show choirs in the background. "A.J, I'm in the middle of something. Can you...I don't know....hold 'em in?" I scoffed. "Hold it in? No, Sam, I cannot hold a baby in. You just need to get here." He sighed. 

"A.J, I'm in California, I don't know if I'll be able to get there in time."

"Well...you better damn well try."

I hung up the phone and threw it up towards Finn. "Hey! I know you're in a lot of pain, but that does not give you the right to throw things at people." I just stared at him through the rear view mirror. "You tell me that when the human inside of you is trying to claw their way out."

He just went back to looking out the window. "We're gonna be there soon." I leant forward a little bit, handing Finn my phone. "When we get to the hospital, there's a note in my phone. Everyone that's on the note, call them. It's everyone I had planned on having Sam call, but he decides not to listen to me this one time...anyway, just call them."

He nodded. We soon pulled up to the hospital. I had to waddle inside, but once I got inside, neither Lexie nor Finn knew what to do. "Hi...um...she's...uh..." The woman just stared at both of them. "Labor." I gasped out. The nurse nodded and called a whole bunch of different doctors. "Is there anyone who would like to come with you?" I looked at the nurse then back at Finn and Lexie.

"Lex, you wanna come?" She nodded. "And then, when Sam comes, send him in." Finn nodded. As the nurse started to push the wheelchair I was sitting in, I turned to Finn. "And Finn!" He looked at me. "Call the people in the note!" He nodded.

After this point, the pain was so bad, that I completely blacked out and I don't remember anything that happened after that point. The only thing I remember is the pain.