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[41] It's starting

5 months later, June 10th
✱Naima's p.o.v ✱

It's been a while now, and a lot of things have happened. Firstly, I celebrated Christmas with Grayson's family for the first time and it was the best decision I've ever made. While we were in Jersey, we also shopped some things for the our baby girl. Yes, we're having a baby girl. We found out about 4 months ago, and I couldn't be happier. I had a strong feeling that it was gonna be twins, but turns out it's not. Our doctor said something about early development, that's why I was and am big.

Then Jennifer and I watched our boys build the furniture in her room. It may be the funniest thing I've seen in months, they have no idea how to build, yet they managed to do it. While the boys built, Jennifer and I painted the walls light grey.

By the way, our girl is supposed to be born soon, very soon. June 14th to be exact, but I can't wait. I'm so ready to see my baby, but it's so surreal. I mean, she's been inside me these 9 months, been through everything I've been through.
When she was 6 months, she was at Ethan's and Jennifer's movie premiere. She produced a song with avicii, and even did a photo shoot for Elle. Not every unborn baby gets that chance.

At the moment, Grayson and I am laying in our bed, getting ready to sleep. A few months ago we sold my apartment to some guy, and now we live permanently in the house in the hills. It took us a while to get used to it, living together. It was the hardest for me, since I've always lived alone. But I couldn't be happier about it, it's so nice to have Grayson around to help me. Let's just say that my pregnancy hasn't always been the easiest, for me nor Grayson. I've been so moody from times to times, and I've forced him to go shop oranges in the middle of the night. I've had this craving for oranges, which I find very strange since I normally don't eat them.

However, I think it's time for me to sleep now. I'm really trying to get as much sleep as possible these last days before the birth, since it won't be much sleep later. Since I'm free from work, it's not that hard to sleep many hours.

"Goodnight Grayson" I say and put my phone away, laying it on the night stand. I find a comfortable position, which is kinda hard now a days because of the big belly. The most comfortable position is on my back, but that's not good for the baby so I try to stay away from that.

Right when I close my eyes, I feel Grayson's lips on the back of my head. And that's the last thing I remember.

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Suddenly my eyes shoots open. My hands immediately goes to my stomach and I let out a scream, I can't hold it in. The pain is too hard, and it's not going away.

Of course Grayson wakes up with worried eyes, that gets even more worried when he sees me holding my stomach.

"What is it baby?" He says and wraps his arms around me to stop my sobbing.

"My stomach" I let out another scream "is hurting very bad"

"I should take you to the hospital" Grayson says and rushes out of the bed, gathering things on his way around the room.

"That won't be necessary, we should wait" I say confidently, I've read about that stuff like these can happen pre-labor. You have this pain in your stomach like once per 10 minutes or so, but it's not dangerous.

"You completely sure?" Grayson questions skeptically but stops running around.

"Yes, now go to bed. It's 3am" I assure him and tries to go back to sleep but I soon feel more pain in my stomach and I let out another scream. I would say that the pain feels like period cramps but way worse, and yet I have a feeling this isn't the worst pain.

"You know what, screw what I said. I'm going to the hospital"

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While we sit in the car, every 10 minutes or so the pain shoots through my body and I'm starting to get worried. What's happening? But if I'm worried, I'd say that Grayson is worse, his grip on the steering wheel is so hard his knuckles goes white. Every time I let out a scream I can see his eyes getting more wet, he hates seeing me in pain.

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"That's it ms. Watson. You're just 2 centimeters, and your contractions aren't frequent yet" my midwife says and tilt her head to the side, and I let out a scream when another contraction comes and I squeeze Grayson's hand. "What we can do is giving you a shared room with other women who waits to go to labor. Either that or you can head home and come back when it's getting worse"

I look up at Grayson but he just nods towards me, meaning that I can choose.

"I think we'll stay here, in case I need any help or if anything happens" I say and the midwife nods understanding.

"Alright, I'll get that for you. But one more question, when are you expected to give birth?"

"June 14th" I simply answer and she looks in her papers.

"Since it's June 11 now, it's very likely that you give birth very soon. Just needed to check so that the doctors knows what they can expect" with that she leaves the room, leaving me and Grayson alone.

"I can't believe that our baby girl can be born any day now" Grayson says dreamily and I laugh at him.

"I know, it's gonna be so weird to not have her inside me anymore. But I want her in my arms so bad"

"Me too, I can't believe that you're about to give birth to a human. That's amazing" Grayson says and kisses my forehead lightly, just to show me that it's gonna be alright.

"Speaking of amazing, have you called your parents?" I really want them to come down for support, and of course to see their granddaughter.

"Yes I have, they are flying down tomorrow. You should've heard mom's voice, she sounded so excited. And I know that she is, she's so happy that it's you carrying my baby and nobody else" he leans down to kiss me, but I scare him away by screaming out of pain, over and over again.

"Breath baby, breath" I hear him chant lightly beside me and I really try, but it's hard. Soon enough the pain ends and I can talk again.

"Sorry" I smile but he only leans down and plants a kiss on my lips.

Before we could get any further in our conversation, the midwife comes to the room again.

"I've set up a bed for you ms. Watson, if you just sit down in this wheelchair it would be perfect" she says and pushes a wheelchair towards me. I force my body to sit down in the chair, and the midwife wheels me away with Grayson walking beside us. He holds my hand tight and never lets go.

As I'm laying down on the bed it all comes to me. I'm about to give birth, it's just so big that all my emotions comes up from the beneath the surface. I start sobbing uncontrollably bit Grayson is quickly by my side, as he always is.

"What is it baby?" He asks concerned but I just shrug. My hormones are really getting to me.

"It's just that I realized what I'm about to do, and I got a little bit emotional. But it's all happy tears, I swear"

"Good, because I know that you're gonna pull this off like no one else can. Just like you always do"

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Hi guys! Sorry about the big time lapse, I just need to get on with the story. I have some big things planned for the next book that I would love to start writing 😏

You do you 🤙🏼

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