Secret Love

Don't take me to the tower, and take my child away...

February 28. 1988 

Stevie was already a couple of days overdue and it was wearing out on her.Her back was aching so bad she swore she heard it creak when she moved the other day, her 'healthy' appetite was enough to feed an army, and it always took her three minutes just to get up off a chair without injuring herself : It was late night, near early morning. Little Sari had been practicing her kick-boxing lessons all day, and seems to think that tonight is the perfect time to practice her somersaults. Stevie woke up due to the excessive energy of her baby, '' ooh, ow'' she quietly croaked as she carefully sat herself up. She fixed up the pillows behind her, and turned her lamp on. She lightly rubbed her eyes, and looked down to her protruding belly, '' I'm so big, It's like I'm carrying a whole solar system in here'' she runs her fingers over the center, Sari's fun spot. Stevie smiles as Sari responds to her touch, greeting Stevie with a double kick, '' I'm not a kick drum, and band practice has to finish now little lady'' she says in a low and stern voice. She hears a knock at her door '' come in?'' it's her mother barbara '' Stevie, Lindsey's here, he came as soon as you asked him too'' which was three hours ago. Stevie was exahausted and just wanted to go back to sleep, but this was Lindsey they were talking about and he hadn't seen Stevie since she was at the end of her first trimester. She wanted him to be here for the birth, and to see their daughter before she's given away.

Stevie nodded '' all right, okay let him in'' Barbara opens the door further open for Lindsey. He slowly comes out of the shadow into the light so Stevie can see him properly '' Hi Stevie'' she squints and in a tone of frustration snaps at him '' Oh hell Buckingham, you know I'm as blind as a bat come closer'' he nearly jumps back. He's seen her have her moods, he's seen and fought with her at her worst, but this moment of Stevie being frustrated was a whole another level. He makes his way over to her, and sits beside her on the bed, although she doesn't move over for him, he doesn't mind it though. And he doesn't expect her to. He looks at her, poor thing she looks absolutely exhausted, her eyes look tired and weary, '' can you see me?'' she tilts her head slightly and smiles '' that's much better''. Lindsey examines Stevie, she's put on weight and her bump is absolutely massive, but there was something about her. Despite her tiredness, and aggravation he found her in a hidden state of happiness he had never seen her in before. Lindsey says something '' you look great'' admiring her beauty, she scoffed and chuckled '' I look like crap, and I feel like a beached whale.'' He takes his eyes down back to her belly, '' that's our baby'' he thought to himself. Stevie noticed his adoration and his fascination with her baby bump, '' you want to feel it?'' . He looks up at her with a look of fright in his eyes, '' haha Lindsey don't be afraid, she doesn't bite''. She takes his hand, places it on the center, Sari kicks her fun spot right where Lindsey's hand is placed. 

He snatches his hand away in excitement, almost feeling an adrenaline rush '' wow'' he says softly, he looks up to Stevie '' that was incredible'', '' indescribable isn't it'' she responds. Lindsey is so moved by the motion, he's tempted to just run his hands all over her belly. Stevie sees the look in his eyes, '' you can have another feel, after all she is your daughter'' he looks up and into her eyes. Oh her eyes, he thinks, her deep ebony brown eyes, they we're the richest shade of brown he had ever seen, a richness that he has not seen on or in any object other than her own eyes. '' She? it's a girl'' with that he places both of his hands, on Stevie's bump. He keeps both of his palms there til he feels another response from Sari, he starts running his hands all over the bump. Fascinated, he was absolutely intrigued by the fact that Stevie was carrying his child, her child, their child...their child...Suddenly he drops his head and remembers what Stevie said to him the last time they met. '' I'm sorry Lindsey, but it's what's best for her. We can't get our crap together, I don't want her to grow up witnessing her parents fighting over everything involved with her life.'' His hands still placed on Stevie's belly, she places her hands on top of his '' but I wouldn't call you, If I didn't want you to meet her. She's amazing Lindsey, and she loves the supremes'' Stevie laughs.'' I was listening to come see about me by the supremes and she went mad, she just wouldn't stop until the song finished'' Stevie adds, '' When are you due?'', '' I was due three days ago, and they said they'll give me another couple of days, if not they'll perform a C-section.''. Stevie pats her hands on her belly and looks down at it as she strokes it '' because she's a very big baby, very long, very heavy'' and Sari's heaviness was taking a toll on Stevie's 5ft1 petite frame.