We walk into the room, Adaline looks like she's about to fall asleep. I look down to my little baby bump. I couldn't wait until this baby was out of me. The morning sickness and cravings were driving me crazy. And I'm only 3 months into this whole thing.
Shayla and I sit down, both of us are pregnant. She's 2 weeks ahead of me. We're both due in June. We finally make our way to a seat. Adaline, who looks barely regonizable finally opens her eyes. Her eyes were huge, green, and filled with excitement and surprise.
She opened her mouth to yell at us, but Shayla cut her off and told the news. She sat there for a minute, in surprise and some excitement. Shay and I couldn't tell if she was going to be angry or excited by this news.
"And you're going to be the Godmother," Shayla blurted out to try to possibly make Adalee happier about this. She was stumped on whether or not to be angry or excited. After a moment, I finally said something.
"And Shayla is going to be my child's Godmother," I add to the awkward conversation. When a minutes time reached, Adalee smiled, she didn't say anything. I say it's a win. She grabs a pen and paper, and starts writing something down. I grab the paper from her hand and read aloud the message.
"Boy or girl?" I sat for a minute wondering why Adalee would write that, then I look down. There's a baby bump. Shayla, who has her shit in a line, announces her gender in a proud manner.
"I'm having a little baby boy! His name is going to be Cody Isaac Dravens!" Shayla yells out for the nurse to hear. The nurse gives Shayla and I both a weird look, then realizes what's going on.
"Teen pregnancy is not good for your small bodies," the nurse scorns us while writing on her clipboard. She walks over to the heart monitor and checks whatever's there.
"We're not teenagers, we're actually just out of college," I lied to the nurse as I shot back a look at her. She seems like a bitch.
Adalee, looks at me waiting for her answer. Waiting for me to speak. I don't know what the hell is inside of me. And I really don't care what I'm having. I just want it out of me.
"I don't know what I'm having, by my names are Skylar Anne for a girl, and Jackson James for a boy," I tell Adalee as the nurse leaves the room.
For an hour, Shayla and I spend time with Adalee. We hear the condition of Maxwell and the death of the rest of the family. Mr and Mrs Sanswood were Shayla and my 2nd parents. We were close with them. At the end of the visit, Adalee is asleep, the same nurse came in to see how she was doing. After a minute, she broke the awkward air between the three of us.
"So do you want to know the condition of Maxwell?" The nurse asks as she puts in a new IV. Immediately, we says yes and she continues on.
"Well, unfortunately, Maxwell is,"
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Something Beyond Me
General FictionMs. Sanswood had an okay life, if it hadn't been for her mom controlling her everyday moves, her dad been such an emotional person for a prom, and Ms. Sanswood's younger siblings to try to mess her dress (she would of been okay with it). But, what i...
