Love in the theater

Chapter 37

She had already been pregnant for 8 months and her due date was approaching, as Roberta's was. They had spend the last few months preparing for the babies, and decorating their rooms.

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Loretta was starting to wake up as she could hear Oliver talking to someone on the phone.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck" he angrily said kicking the door open, making her jump.

"God Oliver, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me like that!" she yelled.

"I'm sorry baby" he sighed and kissed her head. "The jail called me, she's in labor" he said as he looked down.

"Already? Wasn't the due date in like a week?" she was surprised.

"It was but apparently the baby decided to show up early. I don't want to leave you here by yourself." he said, looking at her with a worried look on his face.

"Baby you need to go, it's your child. The baby needs at least one normal parent" she gave him a small smile. "We'll be perfect here, just give me a call when the baby's here, okay?" she took his head in her hands and looked deep in his eyes.

"Of course I will" he slowly kissed her lips. "Okay you, be careful and you" he bent down to kiss her stomach where their baby was "be easy on your mommy" he looked up at her and picked up his coat. "I'll try to be as quick as possible, I promise".

"We'll be okay baby, don't hurry, just take your time to meet your baby" she smiled.

"But you're still okay with adopting it if she signs the papers" he was starting to worry, she had said that she wanted to adopt him but the fact that she was calling it "his baby" was placing doubt in his head.

"Of course! Why would I change my mind? " she asked as if he was crazy.

"Oh well I thought maybe you did, I would have understood" he almost whispered as he looked down again.

She stood up, went over to where he was and took his hands in hers.
"I want our two babies more than anything, I just hope she'll sign" she sighed. "But let's not talk about it now, go meet the baby" she gave him a last kiss on his lips.

"Yeah I should probably go, see you later baby bye" he grabbed his car keys and headed out.

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On his way to the hospital, he couldn't help but think. He was so excited for this baby but felt bad for Loretta, it wasn't right for her to raise this baby as hers because he made a stupid mistake. He knew that Loretta wanted it or she never would have proposed to adopt it but he couldn't stop thinking about it. And 'what if she doesn't want to sign, okay I need to stop thinking about the what ifs' he said to himself. He immediately stopped thinking about it as it was intoxicating his thoughts.

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Once he arrived at the hospital, a tall jail security guy was waiting for him, checked his identity card and showed him the way to Roberta's room.
He could already hear her scream from outside the room. He slowly opened the door and saw her on the bed holding the nurse's hand tightly.

"Could you ease up your hold on my hand? You're going to break it. " the nurse softly asked.

"Fuck you!" she screamed back. At the same time she saw Oliver standing at the door. "Oliver, Darling! You're here! Come closer."

Without a word he came closer, walking past the nurse as she whispered 'goodluck' in his ear.

"I'm here, no need to yell at that poor nurse would did nothing to you except trying to help you." he said as he sat on the chair that was next to her bed.