Love isn't easy

Chapter 38: Late July 2019

Late July 2019

Twenty-six-year-old Roseanne paces in front of the bed in the pitch-black room while gently running her hand over her forty-week pregnant belly. Roseanne is now officially two days past her due date and has no baby yet. Both Coraline and Annie were born at thirty-eight weeks meaning Roseanne has never been this far along before, and, needless to say, she's not a fan. Roseanne is reaching the point of restlessness, but Suzy repeatedly assuages her and tells her a baby going past its due date is expected. Babies are late on numerous occasions, and moms are by and large prickly about it, but it's all worth it in the end. It's always better for them to take their time than to be too early. Roseanne huffs, annoyed. This baby has taken too much time now.

Roseanne stomps harder and glowers at her thirty-year-old wife. Lisa is at the present moment placidly asleep and faintly snoring, categorically clueless to the scene currently unfolding mere feet away from her.

Roseanne abruptly stops pacing, stares down at her stomach, and admonishes it.

"Seriously? Again? I don't think it's even been five minutes."

Roseanne wobbles to the en suite and barely makes it before her bladder is emptying.

"I'm done. I'm fucking over this."

Roseanne mutters to herself as she flushes the toilet and storms out of the bathroom and subsequently the bedroom.

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Fifteen minutes later, Roseanne galumphs back into the room with a bowl overflowing with freshly cut pineapple in hand. She places it on the dresser, opens the third drawer on the right, digs for the small chest that contains their sex toys, and retrieves the strap-on and harness that lives inside. Once she's secured those, she grabs the bowl and heads for Lisa's side of the mattress.

Roseanne flips the bedside lamp on and melodramatically slams the strap and the bowl of pineapple on Lisa's nightstand. Lisa jolts awake, scrunches her eyes, and looks at Roseanne confused.

"Hmmm?" A second then panicked. "Is it time?!"

"She has overstayed her welcome."

Roseanne and Lisa decided not to find out the gender of the baby during this pregnancy. They have doctors reveal it early on with Coraline and Annie, but they figure having baby number three be a surprise until the birth will be a treat. Despite this, along the way, they also somehow decide that based on the first two, odds are this baby is also presumably a girl, and most of the time, they still refer to it as a "she".

"What?" A lethargic Lisa turns to the bedside table. That's when she notices the fully erect silicone penis and the container of fruit. That certainly snaps her awake. "Roseanne, what the hell?"

Lisa reaches for her phone to look at the time. It's 3:12 AM.

"Your daughter. She needs to come out. Today."

Roseanne yanks the covers off Lisa's legs and initiates the process of endeavoring to put a harness on her lounging wife. Lisa initially makes an attempt to squirm away.

"What? What...Roseanne...wait... what?!"

"Sex and pineapples."

"I don't know what you're saying!"

Lisa continues to do her best to fight Roseanne's progress up her legs until she can get her bearings, but, stubborn as she is, Roseanne successfully manages to get the harness on Lisa. She's too good at this. The next step is getting the actual dildo in place.

"Roseanne, can you please..."

"Sex can trigger labor and pineapple has an enzyme."

"An enzyme?"