IMAGINE [miniseries]

WORK TO DO

Fuck! Damn baby! Let me finish my work!

You are media designer and your baby goes crazy in your belly. You have stong contractions since two hours and you don't want to pause the project you're working on. You've tried to take pills to get that pain away but it won't leave completely. You lean back on your office chair and the backrest begins to crack. Your right hand goes into your pants to massage your pelvic area. Break will start in a few minutes so you will spend it controlling your breathing. The clock shows 1 pm and you get up to make your way to the kebab shop. The T-shirt stretches tightly over your stomach and the sweatpants look like jeans. You unlock your cell phone and text your boyfriend. Have break now. Buy me a kebab now. My stomach hurts. You stop in front of the shop and you lean forward. Your stomach starts to hurt a lot again and you try to keep your balance. In addition, you try to suppress your pain so that no one sees you. After a few seconds the pain subsides and you enter the shop to order your kebab.

The contractions continue to haunt you until the end of the break. You're eaten up and your stomach is bloated like a balloon. The pain makes you spread your legs because you can hardly sit. You give up and realize that you simply cannot work in peace and so you log off from your boss. You leave the workplace and walk to the train station. At the time there is almost nothing going on there and you look at the clock to see when the next train is coming. 5 minutes. You have 5 minutes until the next train leaves. You can do that, so despite the pain, you hurry up and go straight ahead. In front of you there is a large staircase and no elevator nearby, so you walk step by step while the first passabers come towards you. When you have your head high enough you can see that the train is already standing, so you go up faster. After the last stage, you pull yourself together and start running. You try to minimize the pressure on your stomach a little by holding it with your hands, but just before you get to the door, the train leaves.

You get mad and yell Fuck! and look after the train. There is nobody around you and you start scratching your underpants when you realize that they are completely wet. That can't be true?! You keep feeling around the area and realize that your water broke. That must have happened when you ran to the train. It was definitely the amniotic sac because your contractions are still there and getting extremely painful again. The feeling of liquid between your legs is disgusting and after you have informed your boyfriend, you take the next lane without showing the pain. You have to drive five stations. With each woe which comes in fewer intervals, you clench your teeth. The pain spreads extremely over your entire full stomach. Before your station is reached you are already standing up because you can no longer sit because of the pain. Step by step you go off track and are hugged directly by your boyfriend. You have little time and go straight to your apartment. The baby is coming and you two will be parents in the next hours.