Callie POV
The alarm clock went off, it was morning. I turned it off and rolled towards Brandon, I kissed his face.
Callie- Brandon.. wake up.
He rolled over and I got out of bed. As I crossed the room to get to the bathroom I stopped in front of the mirror for a minute. I rubbed my hands over my belly.
Brandon- what are you doing?
Callie- I am so.. big.
Brandon got out of bed and came over to me.
Brandon- your supposed to be big.. your pregnant.
Callie- thanks a lot.
Brandon- you still look beautiful though..
Callie- this is the first morning I haven't felt the baby kicking.
Brandon- enjoy it.. he's giving you the morning off.
Callie- yeah I guess so..
Brandon POV
I came into the apartment quietly, setting up my surprise. Callie was taking a nap on the bed. I bent down and gave her a kiss on the forehead, she woke up.
Callie- your back..
Brandon- yeah, I brought you a surprise.
Callie- really? what is it?
Brandon- come over here and I'll show you.
I helped Callie get up and showed her object covered with a sheet across the room. I pulled the sheet off and reveled a wooden crib.
Callie- a crib? where did you get this?
Brandon- the store..
Callie- no I mean, where did you get the money for this?
Brandon- I had some money left over after buying the crib so you can buy some baby clothes or..
Callie- oh my God.. you didn't do anything illegal to get the money for this..
Brandon- I sold my keyboard.
Callie- what? Brandon..
Brandon- don't freak out, I never use it anymore anyways..
Callie- and you never will if you don't even have it.
Brandon- Callie.. we needed a crib for the baby. I don't want my baby sleeping in a cardboard box or dresser drawer.
Callie- I just don't want you to give up piano, if you do your giving up a part of yourself.
Brandon- I promise someday.. I'll have a keyboard again and I'll play again, but right now its about priorities.. and this baby comes first.
Callie- okay, I just don't want you to ever give up on your music.. your way too talented.
Brandon- speaking of that.. I haven't seen you play guitar much lately either.
Callie- oh but I have a good reason for that.
Brandon- oh yeah whats that?
Callie- I can't fit the guitar over my belly anymore.
Callie POV
I sat propped up in bed with Brandon. He ran his hand along my belly.
Brandon- you know we need to start talking names.
Callie- yeah well.. we don't know if its a boy or a girl so..
Brandon- we can still think of some names, even if we arn't going to find out what the baby is until its born.
Callie- can we just talk about it later..
Brandon- Callie, whats wrong?
Callie- the baby hasn't kicked all day, I feel like something might be wrong.
Brandon- it hasn't moved all day?
Callie- no, what if somethings wrong? what if something was wrong all day and I just sat here and did nothing about it.
Brandon- maybe its just getting crowded in there, the baby's getting bigger everyday.
Callie- I want to go to the emergency room.
Brandon- okay, lets go.
We headed to the emergency room, it was late at night. When we got there they made us sit and wait for a long time and fill out paper work before we could see a doctor. Finally we were able to go back to an examine room.
Doctor- we'll do an ultrasound to see how your baby's doing.
Callie- do you think somethings wrong?
Doctor- well the baby definitely should still be moving at this stage, have you had any bleeding?
Callie- um.. I was spotting a little bit yesterday but.. the last time that happened they said it was normal so..
Doctor- lets just do the ultrasound and see what we're dealing with.
The doctor started to preform the ultrasound. I gripped Brandon's hand for comfort. Brandon whispered to me.
Brandon- it's okay.
Callie- what if its not.
We waited for a long time as the doctor moved the instrument along my stomach, searching for a heartbeat.
Callie- whats going on? where's the heartbeat? where is it..
Tears started to fill my eyes, Brandon came closer to comfort me.
Doctor- I can't find the heartbeat, I'm gonna go get another machine to check again.
Callie- Brandon..
I gripped his hand tighter, completely terrified at this point.
Brandon- just stay calm.
Callie- how can I stay calm! the baby..
The doctor came back with a different machine to check again.
Doctor- okay Callie, I know this is stressful but please try to relax.
I tried to stay calm as the doctor checked again. I was able to breathe again when I finally heard the heartbeat.
Doctor- there it is.. a nice strong heartbeat.
Brandon- so everything's okay?
Doctor- the baby must have just been hiding.
Callie- thank God.
