Pregnancy Series ➝ L.P

• First Ultrasound

Chapter 7

"You nervous?" Liam asks brushing a lock of my hair out of my face whilst i lay on the medical bed next to the ultrasound machine.

"A little bit". He plants a small kiss on my forehead before the nurse walks in.

"Alright, how we feeling today Mrs.Payne? By the way congrats on the marriage, front page of The Sun and it was on Daybreak this morning." The older woman spoke as she walked in. She washed her hands, dried them and snapped on a fresh pair of rubber medical gloves in record time. I looked up at Liam who was flashing one of his infamous smiles that was so big and heartfelt his eyes squinted.

"I'm feeling quite good today, a tad fatigued though and thank you very much." I smiled at her kind soul. She instructed me to lift my shirt and unbutton my jeans. She proceeded to squeeze a pool of gel onto my stomach that was not yet all that noticeable. I was eager for the bump to show but i knew it would take another few weeks for any serious progress to be made.

I shuddered at the cool feeling of the texture that was spread over the rest of my stomach with the ultrasound machine. The sound of my heartbeat came to play in the background but the machine was still showed no sign of our baby. Liam tugged his chair closer to where i lay and takes a hold of my hand. I see the nurse concentrating, and i let her as Liam and i watch the screen carefully.

She zooms in on my uterus and centers it on the screen. She zooms in again and takes some measurements. At this point I'm not even sure what I'm looking at except for a mesh of grey, white and black figures. I feel the nerves start to settle in and my thought process starts to entangle itself worries and negative thoughts. I hear my heartbeat quicken on the machine but no one makes a comment of it. The nurse zooms in once more and we have a view of what i can make out to be our baby's heart.

"Oh my god." I here Liam say in a whisper. He gives my hand a squeeze when he looks down at my face and i feel the warm tears travel down my face. The nurse shoots us a warm smile as she watches our first reactions unfold.

"That's our creation right there." I say, my smile having an effect on my tone.

"Would you like to hear the heartbeat?" The nurse asks.

Liam's head shoots up immediately nodding which makes the nurse chuckle. She presses a button that rids the sound of my heartbeat and not a moment later the room is filled with the tiny and quick heartbeat of our little one. I immediately swing my hand up to cover my mouth and nose as i break out into full tears. Liam is silent for a moment as he takes in the repeated sound and after a few seconds he raises my other hand that he has been gripping throughout the appointment and leaves kisses all over it before combing his hand through my hair.

"That's ours Li, were going to raise it ourselves one day." I said wiping my tears.

"That is mental" he sighs unable to cope with what was happening now, his eyes a tinted red and glossy with tears. I rest my other hand on his cheek as he's leaned, his head almost hovering over me. I brought his head down with a soft grip and connected my lips to his soft ones. This whole experience didn't seem so big until now, until this very moment when my mind opened and my heart melted at the sound of the very creation I'm holding inside my stomach.

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