Giving Up

Chapter 12

Lillie was so excited to be married to her soul mate. They went home after the reception had died down, and Kay and Seth had decided to stay elsewhere for the night, because they didn't want to interrupt the newlyweds. Lillie had special lingerie picked out for the night. Once they were home, James went in and started to run a shower. He wanted his wife to join him, but she had refused. He understood that especially with her being pregnant, shower sex didn't exactly work very well. He showered himself quickly and went to join his wife for the night.

When James walked into the bedroom, he saw Lillie sprawled out sleeping on the bed. She was wearing a lacy white nightie that made her look sexier than he remembered. He didn't think he took more than ten minutes in the shower, but there was his wife sound asleep. Part of him knew that he should let her sleep since she was pregnant and had a long day of preparing for the wedding, and then dancing all night. The other part of him, the primal part, wanted to wake her up and have his way with her. He starting kissing her legs, and up her body. She woke up as he started kissing her panties.

Lillie was so glad that her new husband woke her up to celebrate their wedding night. She had been so tired but didn't want to spend their first night as man and wife asleep. She enjoyed Jamie's kisses all up and down her body, and then she returned the favor. They made love to each other in a very slow and sensual manner. Lillie knew that she would love James for the rest of her life, and she was glad to know that she could fall asleep to him at night and wake up to him in the mornings. With Jamie as her husband, she felt her life was complete.

After two hours and driving each other to an incredible pleasure, Jamie fell asleep and Lillie snuck out of the bedroom to sit in the nursery. Lillie had an urge to go through all the baby clothes and organize them in the dresser and closet. She wiped everything down with sanitizing wipes, and made sure that everything was perfect. Then she sat in the rocking chair and sang nursery rhymes while holding her stomach. She still had just less than fourteen weeks to go before she was due to have the baby, but she couldn't help but wonder what her daughter was going to look like. She couldn't wait to hold her and examine her for Jamie's features. She was still very nervous about bringing this baby into their lives and their family after everything that her and James had already been through.

After a couple hours in the nursery, Lillie went and climbed in bed next to James. She laid with him and watched him sleep. For some reason she was having a really hard time falling asleep, and her back was killing her. She looked Jamie over and examined his every feature. She wanted to burn them into her memory so that if she ever went blind, she still knew what her husband looked like. Finally Lillie fell asleep around four in the morning.

James woke up to Lillie screaming. He thought she was having a bad dream again so he grabbed her to pull her close to him and try to ease her fears. She yelled at him to call nine-one-one. She was sweating and gripping her stomach with one hand while holding her back with the other. "I THINK I'M IN LABOR JAMIE! PLEASE CALL AN AMBULANCE!" James jumped up and made the call as he tried to find some clothes for Lillie to slip on. The ambulance arrived quickly and told James he would have to follow behind in his car.

Once at the hospital, they examined Lillie to find that her water hadn't broken. They hoped to give her some medicine that would make her labor subside because the risks were really high if she were to deliver that early. After an hour in the hospital, Lillie's contractions didn't seem to be letting up. The doctors that were there had to call in a specialist. After a few hours, they finally got the contractions to stop, but Lillie was ordered to stay in the hospital for a couple days, then be on bed rest for the rest of her pregnancy.

Jamie felt so bad that Lillie went into labor early, so after she was settled in and sleeping he went and bought her a bunch of flowers, sapphire earrings to match her necklace and ring, and picked up an order of onion rings for her. He was going crazy knowing that she was going to be in the hospital and be on bed rest. He knew that he was going to have to work something out to take care of her while he was working at "JACKSONS". He couldn't take off of work while she was off of work. On his way back to the hospital, he placed a few calls.

"Hey Lilly Pad, how are you feeling?" James sat by her side and held her hand. He had already placed the flowers on her bedside table, and put the onion rings in front of her. She was too busy eating to answer him right away, so he just smiled at her and waited for her to finish her bite.

"I'm feeling better, the contractions have stopped. I just want to go home to my own bed." She sighed loudly and went back to her onion rings. As she reached into the bottom of the bag for the last few onion rings, she felt something. She pulled out a jewelry box and opened it. Tears came to her eyes when she saw the earrings. "Baby, you're too good to me."

The doctors told James that Lillie needed her rest, and that they didn't want him staying with her after visiting hours were over. He kissed her goodbye for about the hundredth time before walking out the door to go home. Once he got home, he realized that his mom was there and had made him dinner. James loved his mom, and thought she was the best cook. She didn't work, so she spent all her time cooking and cleaning and running everything around her in a very organized manner.

After James finished his dinner, he talked to his mom about Lillie being on bed rest and needing help while he was at work. She told him that she would be there every day before he left for work and would take good care of her daughter-in-law and unborn granddaughter. James felt at ease to know that his wife would be in such good hands. He showered and headed to bed. He could barely sleep thinking of Lillie all alone at the hospital. He hated that he wasn't there with her and hoped that she didn't need anything. He had to refrain from texting her, because he didn't want to disturb her rest.