Consumed By The Ocean💙

14. Hello Gorgeous

'Mom....you don't have to worry about me.' I told my Mom for the 100th time.

It was almost night and it was  time for them to go back to 'THEIR' home. Everything was going to be alright from this day forth, I thought. Mom would have what she always wanted- Dad. I would have what I always wanted- My Mom's happiness and everything will be fine.

I had to made up some story about my absence, for my Grandparents and do not ask me what I said! It just worked.

I just told them that Mom found Dad and that don't want to hinder their peace anymore so it would be better if all of us did not try to contact them (I obviously do it!)

Taking over the resort business beside the beach was not difficult at all. It was pretty easy to handle and Grandpa said that he'll soon send somebody to take over the workload and they expected me to be back in a month.

Was I ready to leave?

Every time I looked at the Ocean outside, it felt so welcoming.

Mom and Dad would visit me on the beach after every 2 days, Cassie came to meet me almost everyday. I was having so much fun with my friends, going out and partying.

Everything was back to normal, even better......but something felt off. And every time that feeling of unhappiness crept up my spine....I felt like diving into the ocean and madly search for the piece of my heart that went missing. I wanted that piece so badly that I did not mind going as deep as Depths of Death for it.

And then one day.............I realized the gravity of all that had happened in those past days and especially.....on my last night in Ionia.

The three positive pregnancy tests in my wash basin announced that I carried Ionia's heir in my womb.

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'It's still early. It can be aborted!' I snapped my head at my Mom, her tear stained face was no better than mine.

'Mom!' 

I told my parents that I was carrying Theseus's child and for a moment I saw a flicker of happiness on my Father's face. He probably dreamed of me on the throne as Queen of Ionia. But I shattered it as soon as I told him that the Father of this child must not know it's existence.

He was fine with it but my Mom wasn't. When I told her I would keep the child without the Father, she insisted on getting me aborted.

She kept on insisting me but Dad soon realized I was not talking like their daughter.....I was talking like a Mother. So he silenced Mom by asking her just one question- Did she also had the guts to abort me?

I knew I was putting Dad and Cassie in big trouble. They could be charged of treason by hiding the existence of the heir to the throne. But I made them promise in the name of Mother Goddess, that they won't tell Theseus that I had his child

And soon I realized......I was going to become like my Mom.

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No. I did not become like my Mom, always waiting for some miracle to happen and the love of my life showing up on the shore.

I became the happiest woman on Earth in pregnancy.

I enjoyed everything I could. My Grandparents started visiting me and I promised them I would come back once my baby is born and healthy to travel. Of course they asked me about the Father and I replied without thinking that he's in the ocean and they thought he is probably a Navy officer who is on duty.

Well.....good for them to think like this.

My baby. My baby became my everything. I would wake up for him, eat for him, sleep for him......everything was just about him. I was carrying Theseus's son....and this thought many times, after Cassie would tell me all about what was going on down there and how Theseus was engaged to the daughter of Lord of the Western Court.

But I would still wake up with a smile.....just for my baby.

Sometimes, I would stand in the shallow water, for my baby to feel the energy of Ocean that he needed, something must for his Royal blood. And I would wonder if Theseus could feel my presence in his territory.

Why would he?

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I was still in the middle of my 9th month when my son decided he had had enough and now he wanted to see Mommy face to face.

And unfortunately......there was no one with me that day. It was the only day I had given leave to all the staff in the resort. So it was just me and the bad weather outside, to welcome my baby.

I had honestly no idea that would be that painful.

But I knew what I had to do. I just had to push when I felt the need to. So I waited for my cervix to dilate more and more.

To sooth my pain and agony, I went outside in the rain and sat down in the shallow water. The huge waves were covering me till my breast time to time and then would go back leaving me with just sand surrounding me.

I sat there for almost half an hour and then felt a need to push. I could not get up and go inside now and the pain was so much that I started pushing then and there only.

I tried. I tried hard for an hour and then with water covering me once again, I pushed hard, so now my son's head was out. Then his both shoulders and then with difficulty I reached out for him.

Within no time, he was out of me and I was lying on my back with him on top of me. Both of us were crying. I, out of happiness.

I did not care if lying down meant we both will be underwater time to time, I needed rest and we both could breath.

Soon, placenta came out and it was bleeding with both mine and my son's blood.

I kept lying there. Feeling my world resting on top of me, happiness brimming in my tired eyes.

My eyes started to feel heavy and they started drooping but they opened immediately when I saw a shadow hoovering over me.

I tried to sit up in panic, holding my son to me, but the sat down beside me and gently pushed me back. He then hoovered over me and my son, supporting his weight on his forearm.

With one hand, he caressed the baby's little head and looked at him with pain that I had never seen in his eyes. He lifted his pain filled eyes to meet mine and said in a raspy voice while caressing my head this time.

'Hello, Gorgeous.'