WHEN DADDY LEFT

Big Fat Elephant

Daniel's POV

Her hair is a bit messy but really beautiful, her breathing is slow and even, her lips slightly apart, her earphones plugged into her ears still playing the soft Latin music I realized she likes listening to of late.

It's kind of sad but she likes it and I can't help taking away the pain she's holding in her that she's trying very hard not to show but I can see it whenever she sits alone or gets nervous whenever anyone starts to comment about the changes in her body.
At one point she almost confessed it to her granny when the old lady asked why she was eating a lot and throwing up and if she was still sick.

I cautiously take out the earphones turning off the playlist. She stirs a little. I rest her head on my shoulder smiling at her cute face and stroking her hair. It started growing back to it's usual length but she cut it again and it's now just below the jawline. She got bangs too. It gives her a look of fierceness. No matter what she does with her hair she is always beautiful.

"Anything else sir?"
The chief flight attendant comes back with her usual office etiquette smile despite the fact that Y'vania has been tormenting her crew since the plane took off. She's been eating non stop and I can tell the crew started sensing something when she ordered two extra plates of pasta and salad then ended up eating mine too. She then went to the bathroom and threw it all up.
She then ordered ice chips in a bowl, a spoon and five wedges of line which she squeezed into the bowl then started chewing it and smiling like it was the most savoury meal. People around us were looking at us like we were strange people. A lady sitting across us with a child just smiled and shook her head.

I had to eat my burger and fries at the back because she complained that the fries looked like they could stand up and fight and the burger smelled too greasy and it was making her nauseous. When I got back to my seat she offered me breath mints saying she was still smelling the burger. She then ordered white bread and a salad, just lettuce and tomatoes; no dressing.

I laughed at her as she was munching on the lettuce like a cute bunny and biting into the bread separately. She didn't touch the tomatoes. She then drank a whole bottle of water non stop. By the time she was done, almost all flight attendants had noticed that she must be pregnant.

"No thank you we're fine."

I kindly answer back resting my gaze on Y'vania whose hand is now draped on my chest.
"What an adorable couple. Just be patient with her. The first trimester is always difficult. Is this your first one?"

She asks widening the smile taking me by surprise. I hadn't realized that she was still staring at us or at me staring at my annoying friend who is making herself more comfortable on my chest.

Couple? Me and Y'vania? We're probably going to break everything or set the house on fire within five minutes of our moving in together.

I stare at her with a smirk on my face.

"Yes. We're expecting our first three angels in six months."

"Wow! That's wonderful. Good luck both of you plus the babies."

She says staring at 'my wife' enviously then scurries forward to attend to the other passengers.
I stare out noticing the change in weather. It's starting to get chilly. I use my jacket to cover her up noticing that she's starting to get cold slightly chuckling as I remember what lead to her plugging in her earphones and saying she won't talk to me for the rest of the flight to LA.
She really has taught me how to deal with her strange mood swings and emotions. Her moods change just with the snap of a finger. Just like how it happened today.